Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
I don’t usually care for this comic strip, but I felt I had to share today’s comic. Kinda says something on how absolutely colossally stupid the whole retaliatory brushback thing is in the game of baseball nowadays.
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
I’ve purposely stayed away from the SJ-R.com message boards lately, for several reasons.
It’s all the posts full of nothing but run-on sentences, misspelled words, punctuation errors and omissions, and other mistakes in grammar and spelling th...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
I hope I’m not overstepping any bounds, stepping on any toes, or violating any copyrights, but I wanted to put this notice out to anyone in the Springpatch area who isn’t already aware.
Courtesy of Unpainted Huffhines, the inside source for al...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
The “R” of “BR” has died.
Irvine Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins ice cream along with brother-in-law Burton Baskin, died on Monday in Rancho Mirage, CA. He was 90. (In case you’re wondering, Burton Baskin died in 196...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
Okay, so I don’t have an encyclopaedia’s worth of knowledge, but in my 40 years on this planet I have learned that there are some things that are simply fact (some, I don’t even know why they are, they just are) and can’t be disput...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
A lot of those twinky little touchy-feely sappy bullshit email forwards that I, you, and all of us receive ad nauseum every day in our emailboxes (because women people think they’re just so goddamned sweet, and have it in their heads that everyone t...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
A few days ago, Dan at BFS raised an interesting debate based on a Jim Leach broadcast.
I only noticed it this morning (sorry, Dan, I’ve been busy), so I figured it was pretty much after the fact for me to add my two Lincolns, so I’ll just do ...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 3 months ago.
Mrs. Johann has been stuck with married to me 10 years today.
If you see her, give her your condolences. She deserves ‘em.
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
With apologies to Carole King:
I feel da urf move under my feets.
Did everyone feel it Stupid earthquake; I couldn’t get back to sleep afterward.
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
Glancing at the SJ-R dot-com comment boards- always a source of humor and irritation- I see that people are still bitching about Tony Libri and the other guys on the Sanitary Board giving themselves pay raises. Senator Bomke even chimed in in this mornin...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
I mentioned a few months back how semi-pro baseball once again returns to our fine Capital City this summer for another go-round in the form of the Springfield Sliders.
I just want to bring it up again and request to anyone and everyone reading this that ...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
Ah, once again, the “intelligent” folks that post their views on the SJ-R.com message boards have shown what complete idiots they all are.
First of all, there is self-proclaimed know-it-all, nothing better to do with his time, frequent Letter ...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
I’m guessing I’ve seen in the neighborhood of about 1,000 movies. Note I say “movies”- there is a difference between a “movie” and a “film”. “Movies”, to me, are the widespread, “mainstre...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
Being on WordPress allows you the “privilege” () of scanning some of the more popular WordPress blogs while tending to your own.
There appears to be this sudden glut of blogs with nice little stereotype-perpetuating ideologies; some are deeme...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
What a great time of year we’re looking at right now. The weather might actually start getting consistently warmer. You seem to notice more birds. Flowers are slowly creeping out of the ground. Leaves are budding on the trees. There is a gene...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
I’ve been out of town for a few days.
Apparently, Springfield’s very own tabloid (and by “tabloid” I mean a periodical that is essentially nothing more than a gossip magazine that never lets the facts get in the way of an article),...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 4 months ago.
That could easily be considered a pretty good tip. It’s short and sweet, it’s sound advice, and it’s common sense.
It could also be considered a pretty shitty tip, if you’re a waiter or waitress. I have left that as a tip before. ...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 5 months ago.
I desperately need to start renting movies.
I just can’t bring myself to go to a movie in the theaters. Paying $10 a ticket is idiotic, IMHO. Plus, it would wind up costing me way more, due to the bail money necessary when I get arrested for punch...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 5 months ago.
Several blogs, both from around Springfield and elsewhere, that I fairly routinely read {and scavenge for post ideas like the carp of the blog world that I am} have had posts in the past in which they have “adopted” an actor and/or actress. I...
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