It's all fun an games until Bill Simmons brings this up and asks podcast guest Carolyn Moos "Where do you stand on beards in 2013, though?"

Though it was very, very far from knowing the man personally, I used to frequent his long-since-gone stats blog on the KC Star website. I commented frequently there, and subsequently got replies from Martin often; he was very engaging and liked to be challenged. I didn't go nearly as often to his personal blog after…

Boy, The Lakers are going to be disappointed when they find out that their hashtag is already being used by Lisa Loeb re: her short-lived affair with Eminem.

Sunday May 11th, 1980 6:55am.

Yeah, Tommy's the last one standing of the originals. Which reminds me, Dee Dee has the greatest gravestone. "O.K...I gotta go now"

Thirty-seven years ago today, this shit dropped, and the music world, quite literally, has never been the same. I shudder to think of what would be coming out of my speakers today were it not for these weirdos from Queens.

Oh damn, these guys were in my town last night. Shoot, I could have seen them. Like what I hear.

Certainly not one of the best back nine shots, but certainly one of the most memorable. (1:08 of the video)

I subscribe to four:

Summer Festival DUAN!!

My Aunt, who lived in England, bought me Now! 33 UK when I was in middle school. It included Live Forever by Oasis and Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead among tunes by Blue, Pulp and The Levellers. It was in my rotation for quite a while.

PASSOVER DUAN!!

Stumbled across this when looking for the guy. Yup. Pure Douche.

RASTLLIN' DUAN!!

What's it's rep as you see it? I've always loved that movie.

One of the bands I'm in gets to play with Jaill this Wednesday which is fucking awesome because fucking Jaill fucking kicks fucking ass:

Look at her feet. You can almost see the neural impulses traveling down: flotate, flotate, flotate. - Robert Wagner, November 28, 1981

I haven't seen anybody get this much notoriety for throwing metal in the trash since Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ was released.

SHARKTANK DUAN!!