What kind of person is the master?

I just got this email from my sister. Its from a Japanese guy who stayed with my family in 1994 on an exchange program.


From: Marissa Chaet <----@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Subject: Congratulations on marriage! !
To: Aaron Chaet <----@gmail.com>

Remember Akio? He was one of the Japanese foreign exchange students! I think we have that picture on the fridge actually. Anyway...apparently he saw me in the Chronicle
online and emailed them! Chronicle then forwarded me his message and
I emailed him. So funny!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: AKIO MIKUCHI <----@mx1.ttcn.ne.jp>
Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Subject: Congratulations on marriage! !
To: Marissa Chaet <-----@gmail.com>


Hello. It is AKIO.
Are all the families in good health?

Though I cannot do it very much, the English is all right because I
can understand with the interpreter of the PC.
Because it converts this sentence by an interpreter, it may be a
slightly strange sentence.

Because I found Marissa in chronicle accidentally, I was surprised at the truth.
Because I wanted to send an email by all means, I e-mailed chronicle.

Congratulations on marriage! ! What kind of person is the master?
Where does the honeymoon go to? ?
I married two years ago, too. I send a photograph. The wedding
ceremony was Hawaii.
The daughter was born in April of this year, too. I send the
photograph of the daughter this time!
I live in Kanagawa and work as a skiagrapher now at a hospital.
In fact, I buy a house, and it will be moving tomorrow. In addition, I
e-mail it.

Goosebumps and Tears

Well this is some crazy shit indeed.  In fact, this was a wacky sports weekend that was largely a failure...of course this one success easily eclipses any of the disgust many of us felt, particularly on Saturday.  I could go on for awhile about this, but instead I'm gonna point you in the direction of the notable pieces of evidence that prove this actually took place.  If nothing else, this will be nice to come back to years from now and recall this spectacular moment.  Who knows what will come next, but this point and time is forever, so let's enjoy:


9/28/08 Bob Uecker Game Wrap

If you pay attention to nothing else I post on here, please at least take a listen to this.  I'd encourage you to listen to the whole thing, but if you are looking for the key moments:

• 1:10 - Craig Counsell's game-tying walk
• 2:18 - Braun's game-winning HR...this would probably be my all-time favorite call, an emotional Uecker at his best
• 3:34 - bottom of the 9th...the double play call is also a crazy thing, particularly the crowd.

9/28/08 Jim Powell's Brewers Rewind

While this doesn't include Sunday's game, it's a great recap of the week that was, including some huge HR's by Prince and of course Braun's grand slam to beat the Pirates on Thursday.

• Braun's HR call by Brian Anderson on FSN, as well as the game-ending double play
• Crowd reaction at Miller Park when wildcard is clinched
• Clubhouse celebration
• Crowd Shot of Braun's grand slam

• Michael Hunt at JSOnline and his reaction to the historic win
• Andy Baggot from the WSJ on Attasnasio's celebration with the team
• How most of the state was feeling about the weekend
• Some historical perspective on Braun's HR from the Cap Times
• Memorable quotes from after the game
• Bud Selig's reaction
• A photo gallery from during and after the game

There is plenty more where this came from, most of which you can find in some form at my two favorite Brewers blogs...Brew Crew Ball and Al's Ramblings.

What happens when you title your songs on mushrooms...

From Pitchfork:

Christmas on Mars CD tracklist (Flaming Lips):

01 Once Beyond Hopelessness
02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One
03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed
04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic
05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within
06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes
07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two
08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World
09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia
10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects
11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps
12 Once Beyond Hopelessness

Bukkake?

Worth Every Penny?

Does anyone still think the Brewers shouldn't do whatever it takes to re-sign C.C. next season? For 2008 they paid over $27.5 million to Sheets, Gagne, and Sabathia combined. It seems to me they can easily afford to let Sheets and Gagne go, sign Sabathia for $23 million or so, sign a young starting pitcher for $5 million a year or so to replace Sheets, and sign a beer vendor to fill in for Gagne. Even if the Brewers have to increase their payroll a bit, Sabathia will more than compensate for it through increased ticket and merch sales. Plus signing Sabathia to a giant contract would really prove to us fans that the team intends to compete for years to come. The only risk is that he suffers a severe injury and becomes untradable, but the Yankees or Red Sox would probably still take him.

Please discuss.

Plan Accordingly, acloholics.

GOT 'EM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sidethought to Brewers playoff hopes

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett told congressional negotiators that if they can't agree on a proposed financial bailout, the nation will face "its biggest financial meltdown in American history."

full article

Wooohooo. McCain takes it in the negative first round.

Lil Wang gets his blog on.

"I was a great blocker. I knew how to block real good and the other kids didn't."

Weezy has stepped into the blogosphere for ESPN, where he confesses his love of the Packers. His writing is about as good as you would expect.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3607474&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos2