Don't, no. So, how'd the blueberry BBQ sauce on beef go? Did you do that last night?

I have to admit, from the write-up, I thought a Marlin just spontaneously jumped into the boat. I wouldn't have realized that they had, in fact, hooked the thing and reeled him in within a few yards of the boat.

Was Bill Hicks really that much into psychedelic drugs? Yes, he was:

"He sang it between the darkness and the light, behind a sheath of smoke that, in the single spotlight, turned the blue of a cataract..."

OK, I'm watching it now, and it's amazing. I've never heard a rock star talk about drugs this plainly. There's even a (too) short confessional section—"This is what drugs did to me."

I don't like to embed long vids, but I'm going to toss this out there, in case it intrigues somebody else as much as it does me. I was trying to find the studio version of John Cale's Gun on YouTube—it's not posted, dammit—and came across this instead. It's a documentary about heroin in Wales, with John Cale hosting…

I was wondering if someone would put this up. Thumbs way up.

The Ali Farka Toure track is excellent, my first encounter with his music. Good shit.

Electric football gif brought me here.

Very well said. I'd über-recommend that if there were a button for it.

Don't think this particular someone was looking for a white messiah.

You beat me to it. Tom Ley's going to lose his credentials, daring to send a word of criticism Wiley's way.

It's a "joke of itself", apparently.

Yes, I think I understand why sports-watching America is so fixated on the Jets—we weren't in years past, exactly as you say. But when they reached those two consecutive conference championships, they legitimately became one of the teams to focus on, and then when they fell off, they just morphed into a train wreck to…

It's an established coinage from the last few years. It's meant to be humorous. If you listen to sports broadcasts, it's a little weird that you haven't heard it.

How can you call him a douche, when he shared his extensive expertise and generously offered a diagnosis? Given the information he had from the tweet, I give a lot of credibility to his analysis of a mild "heartache." Mdubbs has made a real contribution tonight.

"'Conscious' is probably an overstatement at the best of times."

Just now heard them say that they've talked with him, he's fine, and that he was suffering the effects of dehydration. People scoff at dehydration in stories like this, assuming that it's a lame cover story for what really happened, but I've experienced fever and other symptoms of dehydration, and it can be a little…

If there is a good thing about preseason games, which there probably isn't, it's that you get to hear these local guys do the broadcasts, rough edges and all. I tuned into this game a little late—didn't even know this play had happened until now—and it was my first time to hear Ron Wolfley. I kind of enjoyed it,…

In one day, this post picked up over 130 comments. Other posts from the same day got, like, 11 and 9. This post, in one day, picked up almost as many comments as the Foodspin bivalve post, which was great and took a lot of real work on the part of the writer, got in two days.