The Zambonis Talk Their Beloved Hartford Whalers. No Q-and-A necessary.

Do ya think that maybe. just maybe, it's because the Chevy SS looks so damned BORING? I mean, it looks like every other damned generic four-door sedan on the road — the queen of the supermarket parking lot, or church, or the "Reserved for the Principal" space at school. GM has done such a wonderful job of shrinking…

I miss the old-school days of flying ...

That crash happened a few minutes from where I live. Connecticut (aside from I-95 in Fairfield County, where doing such douchey things can get you killed) is full of idiot drivers who either camp out in the fast lane, cut off people, or both.

Coughlin has the team right where he wants it — three frustrating, sometimes-mediocre, sometimes-downright shitty years, then every fourth year, they come out of nowhere to win the Super Bowl. He's on the third year of the four-year plan — be patient. Go cheer for some other team (and I do have a co-fave, the Saints)…

One of my all-time favorite baseball moments was the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway. Ted Williams was carted out to the mound for the first pitch. And as all the current-stars-turned-12-year-old-fanboys gathered around him, you could hear Ted, whose eyes had failed him by that point, calling out, "Where's Tony…

Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the ballgame?

There are three actors I think of when I think of total character immersion: Daniel Day-Lewis (the undisputed, retire-the-belt heavyweight champ), Hoffman and the young De Niro. And speaking of, I'm surprised you didn't mention Rusty, the trans female impersonator to De Niro's ex-cop stroke victim, in "Flawless," one…

I think it simply means some bastard stole his Moby Grape collection.

Obviously written by someone who lives on the Connecticut shoreline, where I believe it's illegal to show any sort of Christmas color ...

Just because it's illegal in some states (well, maybe Connecticut, maybe not) to mention a former Whaler without this:

Nice writeup, but you, no doubt, meant Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's, who did let the Phillies share his ballpark not long after ... And I swear I remember from childhood, at the time of Parker's HOF induction, seeing footage of him jump-passing. It was the first time, aside from Roger Staubach, I had ever seen…

And here's the song they recorded about Lou — with the Captain himself tearing it up! A bitch on ball bearings, a motherfucker on wheels, indeed!

To people who know the Secret History of Rock'n'Roll, Captain Lou will always be known (pre-Cyndi Lauper) as being the (at least nominal) manager of one of the best rock'n'roll bands of all time: NRBQ. Here's a commercial he did for them in the early '80s:

Really, Albert? New Haven is one of the country's holy grails of pizza (Pepe's, Sally's, Modern, Abate's, Bar), a city where the pizza chains stopped trying to penetrate the market years ago, the type of place where people stand in line an hour or two to get a seat, the city most pizza joints in Connecticut try to…

Eric Idle: "Coventry City last won the FA cup in what year? In what year?"