Thursday, February 08, 2007 - Posts

And he was playing licks, too!

Sorry to bring up the Super Bowl again, but the controversy over Prince's halftime performance genuinely surprises me.

Not because some people have seen a phallus where others see a guitar, but because, if it was indeed intentional, then Prince blatantly ripped off Mel Brooks in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."  That's where the outrage should lie.
posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:48 PM by Jim with 3 Comments

A non-walking contradiction

While browsing Google News, this Juan Uribe package amused me immensely:



Juan's going to be late.  Juan's going to be on time. 

Uribe also said he might not play at all in 2007.  He reversed course shortly after. 

His defense expected him to be cleared any day now.  Two months later, Kenny Williams said Uribe was just about in the clear.

We do know, like that third headline states, that Uribe is going to court.  Everything else has been said, retracted or contradicted, yet somehow remains within the realm of possibility.

This being said, it makes me wonder why there hasn't been one big Juan Uribe takeout piece.  Chicago papers should actually have some newshole now that football season's over. 

At the very least, it'd be nice to have a story explaining the Dominican judicial system, and why a case that would've been thrown out five times over in the United States has managed to live for months after it became evident the plaintiff had nothing resembling evidence.
posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:30 PM by Jim with 0 Comments