Mr. Benjamin: Your boa and shoulder pads are waiting…………….Andre 3000, through blazing guest spots, returns

“All aboard! Or all y’all bored?” yells Andre Benjamin on the ninth track of last year’s underwhelming record Idlewild. For the first time in OutKast’s career, yes; we were bored. Fine, second. “The Land of One Million Drums” from the Scooby Doo soundtrack was the first.
The record capped off a sharp [...]

Alright, I’ve been slacking the past week, but this bear is always funny….

But the next week will have several posts, and a blog of the Brewers-Twins games last weekend (I’m waiting for people to send me the pictures from sitting front row). In the meantime, watch the trampoline bear and tell me your life isn’t great.
Yes, I went to the ol’ standby. (There WILL be decent posts [...]

It’s pronounced “mill-e-wah-que” which is Algonquin for “the good land.”

That’s right. Racing Sausages, High Life at the ballpark, Bill Hall and tailgating. What a great weekend coming up. I figured Randall Simon deserved to be memorialized.
Today we embark on Milwaukee, in the search of watching Scott Baker pitch. (Wait….what?? Last year we at least saw Liriano.)
Okay, so Scott Baker sucks. Hopefully by the [...]

He’s not a machine! He’s a man!

Joe Mauer is the greatest catcher and baseball player ever to grace a baseball diamond. Joe Mauer’s seeing-eye singles make men cheer, women faint and children weep. He sees through walls. He can jump 10 feet in the air, flat footed. He runs the 40-yard dash in two seconds flat. He’s from St. Paul, too.
Joe [...]

The Cable Guy could not be reached for comment

After the years of AAU basketball, I can’t believe we never did this. The sad thing is realizing that I would have been the poor sap who ended up as the human stool. There’s some of you who still coach grade school teams - I expect to see this brought out along with the “bark [...]