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Pawsox game summarized

Jul 27, 2009
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Here I had a chance to do a kind of photomontage that I've wanted to try for a while, where I can sit in the same spot for a few hours and capture snippets of things that happened over time. In this case, the opportunity was a minor league baseball game at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, RI, where the "Pawsox" played the Columbus Clippers.

Here, we have everything from Bill Littlefield of WBUR's Only a Game sports news show having thrown the ceremonial first pitch, to the field attendants "painting" the word "Pawsox" in the dirt behind home plate, to the Pawsox replacing their pitcher, to a pitch, the delivery, and a batter about to swing at the ball. I then have the Red Sox team walking off the field after the game, and the pitcher being interviewed by a reporter about his victory.

Meanwhile, the same day, former Boston/Pawtucket star Jim Rice was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame up in Cooperstown, NY. For obvious reasons, this was unable to be included here, but believe me I tried to think of a way.

Annoyingly, the one thing I didn't think to get a picture of was the final scoreboard. Oh well, suffice to say the Pawtucket Red Sox defeated the Columbus Clippers 3-2, which is nice, because it sounds like they had been on a losing streak recently.

It was also my son's first baseball game, and he seemed to have a good time :-)

First Draft Movie Lines

Jul 10, 2009
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Target kids DVD section

Bringing this over from Twitter, to taunt a [marginally] broader audience...

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES MORTIMER A DULL BOY.
Aw man, I shot Marvin in the finger. Sorry about that, Marvin, let's get that stitched up, okay pal?
Badges? We don't have any badges!
Badges? We forgot the badges!
Carte diem. Table the day, boys. Kick it back to committee to talk it over and build a concensus for tomorrow.
Entire script of 2001, A Space Odyssey: "Ook."
Frankly my dear, I'm not terribly concerned.
Frickin sharks! With frickin tasers on their heads!
Go ahead, /usr/bin/make my day.
"Good grief, the comedian's a lion." "No he's a'not, he's a'tellin' the truth! Also Kermit, I'm a bear, not a lion."
I love the smell of nachos in the morning.
I'm going to make him an offer that he should prove to find terribly compelling.
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and goddamnit I'm a motherfucking United States Senator. STEP.
It's good to be the Queen.
Jim, I have been, and always will be, your bottom. Live long, or prosper.
Keep your friends close, and keep your enemies the hell away. Enemas you can keep close if you want.
Life's a piece of shit, when you look for that. Wait, that doesn't quite rhyme, does it? What pronoun rhymes with shit?
Luke, I am your third cousin twice removed. Hey, it's a big galaxy, it's a bigger deal than it sounds like.
Meesa-think I've got a bad feeling about this.(George Lucas didn't need second drafts. Or so he believed.)
Nobody puts Baby in a blender.
"PC LOAD LETTER"? Hm, let me Google that. Ah, it just means "out of paper." Man HP are a bunch of idiots. Anyway, fixed.
So said she all. Heh heh heh.
Soylent Green is PH2Cu3NSO4!
That's no moon, that's -- wait maybe it is a moon. Hm, just the one big crater seems kind of weird. Probably not a moon.
"That's no moon, it's a space station!" "You think? I dunno, Chewie, maybe it is a moon, what do you think?" "Woooooof!"
The Italian Job, Michael Caine's closing line: "Wait a minute, chaps, I've got... no, sorry, I got nothing. We're dead."
The force may be with you, sometimes.
The spice ought to flow!
There must be some kinda way out of here. In-a-gadda-da-vida-baybee!
They can stop us. We're on a mission from god.
We're gonna have to nuke the site from Orbitz. It's the only way to be sure. Orbitz: For all your nuking needs™.
Martha's Vineyard, 2005: "Vineyard Gazette" newspaper cover about Bruce, the mechanical shark from t

We're gonna need a Uighur goat.
What we have here are open lines of communication & mutual understanding. I'm glad we had this talk.
"Which wallet is yours?" "Its the one with Elmo on it. Don't ask, my kids got it for me last Xmas. I'm sentimental OK?"
With great power comes great utility bills. Stay in school, and get a job.
Yo soy Adrian!
Yo soy Spartacus!
[All of Jack Sparrow's lines unchanged, but channelled via Boy George instead of Keith Richards.]
[All of R2-D2's lines in English, spoken in the voice of Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit".]
[All of Yoda's dialogue as we know it now, but in standard subject/verb/object order.]
[All of the Look Who's Talking baby's lines unchanged, but with voiceovers by Michael Jackson instead of John Travolta.]