Is that still a thing? The ice cream MLB helmet? Because goddamnit, it should be.

and I got to see the Donald Pleasance episode of Twllight Zone!

also, I'm going to a demolition derby tonight!

*yawn*
I won more concert tickets.
*yawn*

Went to a Yankee game last month. Have that mini ice cream helmet hanging off a bottle of wine on my counter as we speak.

are you the perpetual 9th caller?

Yeah, the baseball ice cream helmet is still a reality. I remember as a kid, there was this restaurant that used to sell them on their kids' meal. I had a whole collection. Wish I still had them.

How much did it set you back? $10-15?

Had to know the year that a song was released.
This morning they played "Glamor Boys" by Living Colour.
I saw them on tour that year -- my freshman year in college -- and knew that it was 1988.

Plus, it was 5:45 a.m., which meant that the listening audience was significantly smaller than it would be at normal drive time.

You'd think, but it was a steal at $6.

I received an email forward this morning from someone telling me about how the new dollar coins for the US have removed In God We Trust and that the gov't is attempting to push God out of the culture.

I replied with the link to snopes.com about how that's not true and then posted a bunch of quotes on the value of education/avoidance of ignorance.

I replied to all, of course, because this shit is so fucking annoying.

i keep waiting for a In Rod We Trust coin.

^ I'd prefer that to the current setup.

wasn't this friendly's?

up until the marlins/rockies expansion in '93, i think i had every team's mini-helmet. i saw a lot of minor league baseball in the early 90s.

Dairy Queen had 'em in the 80's. I had like 10.

DQ did it and Baskin Robbins as well.

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That's a good price for that.

Three thoughts on Tim Pawlenty:

1. He looks stoned
2. And a bit like a hayseed Paul McCartney
3. With just a little bit of "party in the back" on that hairstyle.

I predict this guy will be a human gaff machine on the trail.

Maybe. The one I'm thinking of was The Ground Round.

Interesting read. It almost sounds like with his vague, bland resume, he could be made to fit with the majority of that sides voter cases. The article points out that he doesn't have as strong a pull as Huckabee or Palin to specific subsets, but it strikes me that he also doesn't piss any of them off.

oh man...perfect description.

Vin Weber's involvement is the one thing that has me shitting pants. While he's an hardline GOP -- privatize Social Security, reform the tax-code all flat-like -- he has the reputation within the journalist trade as something of a "post-partisan" & "maverick". (With his maverick streak predating Johnny Walnuts's same by about an half-dozen years.) Would play well with the non-affiliated &/or low-information voters.

The same Vin Weber who was basically the Wind Beneath Newt's Wing's?

I don't really welcome the republicans having anything approaching a "blank canvas." I prefer them painting themselves one-by-one into various crazy corners (Mormon, Baptist, Palin, etc.)

I would imagine so. But I'll find the "bipartisan" bona fides to which I referred... Prolly under David Broder's jizz-rag.

Why I cannot take Nascar too seriously:

One lap of the historic Isle Of Mann TT race with commentary by the driver... 160 mph through tiny villiages on two wheels.