Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

An interesting brew I had up in Chelsea, MI. Also a Sam Adams in the background, but I do not endorse it! Not a big fan..

Ah, and here it is! I had forgotten about the site onegoodmove, which I used to visit quite regularly. It has been a while, and so as I now see, it is my loss. You can see great clips like this one, or Al Franken kicking ass, or any number of things. Larry David = Genius.

I don’t have HBO so I’ll have to wait for this one, but it sounds pretty sweet:

At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus; he doesn’t clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer. When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, “every erection is a miracle.”

That’s Catholic League sourpuss Bill Donahue commenting on the show. Man, I would love to have seen his face as he took that episode in!

Home of Jiffy mix!

Ahh…Scientology. Nutty cult of the stars. Look, I can’t claim to understand why anyone needs this stuff but this Scientology certainly has to be one of the wackiest available to waste your time (and money) with. So this letter that “Crash” director Paul Haggis wrote is a real doozy, a real insight into the cult mentality, and it’s a lot of fun too.

In Scientology, I guess, you have to “disconnect” with people who leave the church, or something. It’s like, fine, go ahead and leave, but your parents can never talk to you again or vice versa. They deny this, of course, but it seems to be quite true. So… Haggis’ wife disconnected from her own parents because of Scientology and…sorry, this is just so wacky and confusing, I don’t really understand it. But it appears to be like Catholic guilt, except with added vindictiveness or something.

The craziest thing though, is that Haggis was a member for 35 years and it wasn’t his wife’s traumatic situation with her parents that got him to thinking, it was the church’s lack of support for gay rights. Good reason to leave the church, no doubt, but…what about all that other shit that came before?

“I was left feeling outraged, and frankly, more than a little stupid,” says Haggis in the letter. Um, yeah? They say that cults prey on the weak of mind and the weak of soul, but man, I think Haggis is dead on. You gotta be just plain dumb to fall for this stuff.

Hmm, an interesting story:

Former President George W. Bush told more than 11,000 people at the Fort Worth Convention Center that he was confident he made the right decisions as president…

And I am confident he didn’t. Next!

Alright, Libras, we did it. Off to MI for the weekend. Have a coupla Newcastles on me.

This may be one of the saddest headlines I have ever seen: “Arlington Heights approves warm-beer law”

What kind of a sick world is this? That’s what you get for living in Arlington Heights, I guess, wherever that is. Oh, suburbs, you amuse and befuddle me.

I wouldn’t normally call this to attention but one of the first messages I received for my birthday (today) came late last night from Thax Douglas, the famously not-dead poet, who sent me this bizarre youtube. I don’t know how he finds these things or why, but I thought it was nice anyway.

My two gals hanging out on the bed.

So this is what happens here. The Bears get rid of Kyle Orton and he becomes the undefeated QB of the Broncos. They get rid of Cedric Benson and he suddenly becomes a real running back for the Bengals. Thomas Jones to the Jets, Bernard Berrian to the Vikings…is it not obvious that there is something wrong with the offensive philosophy on the Bears?

These are good players who are unable to perform well because the team insists on this conservative mindset (yes, I am against conservatism in football too!). Devin Hester would be a star on any other team, but here he gets a few passes and lights up when he gets to return a kick. He can outrun anyone in the league! But hey, slow down, we don’t want to get him integrated into our system too quickly. The Bears are a running team that can’t run! And now they have a QB who can really throw but for some reason looks pretty shaky at times, like Rex Grossman did before him.

What a system. Where good players come to die. I wouldn’t bet against Grossman coming back one day and lighting it up for another team. This is what happens here.

UPDATE:

Just saw this article about Orton and Favre-haters. I’ve never had much good to say about Favre but right now he looks as good as I ever remember seeing him. There is and was only one real reason I didn’t like him: he played for the Packers. For whatever reason, Favre as a Viking is not the same. Maybe it’s because they haven’t beat the Bears yet. I mean, they haven’t played the Bears yet. I’ll update my feelings after that happens.

As for Orton, I am rooting for him. I want him and the Broncos to go undefeated. I am pro-Orton! His success only makes me angry at the Bears, for not realizing it, or tapping into it. And when I say “angry” I mean not really mad but sports-talk mad, which is just silly and not real, and merely an escape from reality. Like booze.

Glenn Greenwald reads a poll on Iran:

In the last ten years, the U.S. and Israel collectively have bombed at least six Muslim countries (including Gaza).  Despite that, 40% of Americans want to attack yet another one, and 1/3 want to invade.  Those are the same people who, if there is another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, will be walking around, eyebrows earnestly raised, innocent, self-righteous and confused, and asking:  ”why do they hate us??”  And their friends and neighbors and leaders will assure them:  ”they hate us for our freedoms.”

Reminds me of the David Cross bit:

I don’t think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think he did it because of our support for Israel, our ties with the Saudi family and our military bases in Saudi Arabia. You know why I think that? Because that’s what he fucking said!

Executive decision: I kinda like this one better. It’s less bright and harsh. Ignore the previous post.

This is a watery Lite beer from Miller hidden in a very cool coozi that my buddy Denver Jim got me in Sturgis. It didn’t improve the taste but it made me feel better.