Archive for December 19th, 2006

adios, brad

Baseball Wade A

unless something catastrophic happens in the next two hours (like johan santana, carlos silva, and boof bonser get hit my a meteor), brad radke will be announcing his retirement from baseball today. it’s been a pretty good run for brad. consider:

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Jeff Daniels: You’re shittin’ me…

Music wadE

So I was listening to the Powertrip morning show locally here on KFAN and as I arrived at work they started an interview with Jeff Daniels to discuss his new CD “Grandfather’s Hat”.

They were playing a little bit of one of the songs as they came in from the intro, and it sounded very familiar.  Kind of a folksy, talk to the audience and have a lot of bittersweet and/or black humor in your songs, type of music.  I know there are others who write in this vein, but they aren’t coming to mind; perhaps my more musically in tune colleagues have some insight.

At any rate, they’re about to start the interview and I think to myself, “how unfortunate this guy is that he’s got the same name as Jeff Daniels the actor”; you know, the guy in Dumb & Dumber who takes the memoriable bowel movement? Read the rest of this entry »