Reverberations
Is anyone confused by the sudden complete mutation of the writings of Jerry Sullivan? He's been like a new man the past few weeks. Here are a few examples from last week's paper:
1. "Flutie probably got too much credit for the turn around that year." 10/10
2. "Travis Henry is a good value, but he can't gain a yard when it really matters." 10/10
3. On McGahee - "Who knows what might have happened if they'd used him near the goal line early in the year? The Bills might not be winless." 10/11
Are you kidding? Are we in the Twilight Zone? Are we hearing this from the same Sullivan we've always read? The same "conservative, never throw the ball, Henry is Jesus, and Flutie is God" Sullivan that has been degrading our sports page for years? Well, frankly, I'm not surprised. Go back a few blogs - I said it then and I've said it for years. Sullivan has no position on sports. He just likes to stir up controversy any way he can. Last year he wanted to run the ball constantly because we were throwing it. Now we're a conservative offense. A control-the-ball offense. A smash mouth, run first ask questions later offense - and we're still losing! So Jerry Sullivan has undergone what appears to be a massive philosophy shift. He bemoans Henry's faults. He backs off from his assertions about Flutie. If you read his columns for the past few weeks - he wants to go down field! He wants to open it up! (Coincidentally, so does Ralph Wilson. He had some fascinating things to say about being 0-4 with a "smashmouth" football team. He's fuckin pissed).
But here's the deal with the Bills. (Yes, they need to open it up. Yes they need to throw more. Yes, they need to not be so fucking boring.) But here's what I said last year, and here's what I say this year. OUR DEFENSE IS OVERRATED!!! They put up huge numbers against mediocre offenses. But where were they against Jacksonville at the end when we needed them? Where were they last week against the Jets when we needed them? They allowed a mediocre Jets offense to drive 60 yards in less than a minute for the game winning field goal. Top five? Haha. No. I hardly think so. Top five defenses do not fold under pressure. Top five defenses do not give up nearly 400 yards against the Jets. Mediocre defense? Definitely. Good defense? Perhaps. But top 5? Fuck no. Not even close.
Wilson's comments, by the way - (since I brought it up) - "The fans have to be bored." And later ... "I was hoping we'd come down here and really open it up...I've had enough of this smash-mouth football. Hey, where we are is 0-3. If Drew throws an interception and it's run back for a TD, OK. Then we're 0-4. But I don't like to go 0-4 the way we did." I agree. If you're going to be a losing team, be a losing team with style. Give the fans SOMETHING. Winning with smashmouth football is boring enough. Losing with it is torture!!
Ralph Wilson is 80. The fact he is still concerned about football is fucking awesome. His parents must be proud of him.
Moving away from football ...
Just some very brief politics in this blog:
1. The high point of Friday night's debate came after Kerry's baffling, incoherent, irrelevant, and confused assertion that GW owns a timber company and that "George Bush is a small business!" Bush opens with "I own a timber company? That's news to me!" He then pauses, gets serious, and appears to prepare his response. After several moments he looks at Charlie Gibson and says in a low voice ... "You need any wood?"
2. Bush and Kerry should both be asking some very serious questions about their speechwriters, editors, and public relations personnel at this point. First, Bush says "They never stop thinking of new ways to harm our country and neither do we." Then Kerry trumpets the need for a "global test" and later says he wants to reduce terrorism to a nuisance like prostitution or illegal gambling. How - with the army of writers, editors, and public relation personell these men have - do these types of things creep into the realm of public delivery? Doesn't anyone throw up a red flag and say "Hey, uh, Bush, ya might not want to say we're thinking of ways to harm the country," or "Listen, Kerry ... now, you know I respect you right? But, um, you might want to think about not comparing terrorism to illegal gambling." I don't know. This is just a thought from your average blogger.
The paper does not come until after four oclock at my house. Every fucking day. Is this just me, or is this bullshit? By the way, its not delivered by a middle school kid who has to wait til after school, in case that's what you're thinking. Yet, day after day I walk my astronimically sexy ass out to the mailbox two or three times before the paper finally arrives. Am I asking too much? All I want to do is read the sports. See whats being said about the Bills. See if anything new happened with the NHL. See what the latest Buffalo spin on politics is. But I am unable to do this until almost supper time. BULLSHIT!!
Did anyone see the movie Butterfly Affect? Apparently some DVD rentals of this flick inexplicably show a different ending than the theatre ending. In this baffling alternate conclusion Ashtun Kutcher elects to go back in time to the point where he was in the womb and he strangles himself to death with his umbillical chord! Is that not insane? It was probably for the better that they went with the theatre ending that most people have seen. Besides - if the whole idea is that he gets to these other time periods by reading a memory or watching a video, then what does he use to go back to his mother's womb? I don't know. Very strange, this development.
Apparently a lawsuit has been brought by Disgruntled Song Writer against Tom Petty, claiming Petty based his song "The Last DJ" on a recording given to him by some radio DJ featuring the Disgruntled's own version. Petty's response - "I do not take kindly to such accusations, as the plaintiff and his attorney for hire will find out.” Sounds like Petty is planning something awful for Disgruntled. Frankly, I hope he slices and dices him. Petty's been writing music for thirty plus years with astonishing success. Witness the Greatest Hits - seventeen songs that even non-fans can sing every word to. But apparently he needed to swipe Disgruntled's tune for some reason. The facts just don't add up - Petty has written hundreds of songs - not just for the albums he's made since the 70's, but hundreds upon hundreds more that have surfaced as B-sides, live extras, and throw-aways. Petty has written songs for other artists. Petty is a songwriter as much as he is an artist and a performer. Disgruntled is nothing. He and his asenine lawyer with dollar signs for pupils don't deserve to lick dog shit off of Petty's boots (I do not mean to imply that Petty walks through dogshit). But this will all come to naught for Disgruntled. Petty is a seasoned Vet when it comes having his way. Witness:
- In the 70's, before the HB's truly hit it big, their label was bought out by MCA who changed aspects of their contract. All of the artists under the label fell right into line...except Petty and the HB's. They refused to "play ball" and even declared bankruptcy so that the company had little to fight them with. When the band was court ordered to hand over their music to MCA, the HB's answered honestly that they did not know where their music was. They were not lying - they had given all of their studio recordeded material to an HB roadie to keep in the trunk of his car and drive around the country with! Ultimately, MCA was forced to create "Backstreet Records," a subsidiary that catered specifically to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty, not yet of national fame, had risked his entire career to mantain the integrity of his band and their music against the imposition of a major corporation.
- In 1981, Petty's follow up to "Damn The Torpedoes" was to be released at $9.98. The going price for records at the time was $8.98, but Petty's album was to be used to initiate the higher price for big name artists. Petty withheld the album and organized massive fan protests. When the contract deadline approached and Petty was ordered to release the album, he renamed it $8.98. To avoid the embarrassment, MCA caved again and the album was released at $8.98 under the name "Hard Promises."
- Petty has historically demanded that prices for his concerts be kept astonishingly low. Seats that sell for over a hundred dollars go for less than $75 at a Petty concert - or he won't play! He's actually cancelled gigs before because they charged the fans too much. Ultimately, they always give in and drop the prices and the show goes on. Its been observed many times of Petty - bands make a lot more money off of a lot less tickets than Petty does off of a lot more, but hats off to one of the only true rockstars of the past few decades for remembering the fans and saying "fuck the money." Lets not forget Petty as a member of "The Travelling Wilburry's" (Petty, Dylan, Orbison, Harrison, and Lynn). The band famously turned down millions of dollars worth of touring money because it violated the spirit of their "grassroots rock and roll" effort.
....... so, in conclusion ........ FUCK DISGRUNTLED SONGWRITER!!!!! FUCK HIM RIGHT UP HIS HAIRY, SHITSTAINED, SCABBED-OVER, PUSSING, PIMPLY, OOZING-LIKE-TOOTHPASTE ASS!!
Sponge Candy is gross. So is white chocolate and orange chocolate.
RIP Rodney Dangerfield. I said in a previous blog....2004 seems to be the year of celebrity deaths. Another hero falls.
Johnny Depp will supposedly be playing the role of Willy Wonka in an upcoming release of "The Chocolate Factory." I'd like to see Depp knock off the kids-play of late and go back to something "Fear and Loathing-ish," but I have to admit - if any modern actor is more cut out to play a Gene Wilder role than Johnny Depp, I'd like to know who it is. It should be a good flick. And rumor has it - Depp beat out Jim Carrey for the part.
The Funny Papers are no longer funny. They have not been since they got rid of "The Far Side" and "Haggar the Horrible" and since the creator of Peanuts died (Chuck something? - AHH! MIND BLANK!) Anyway, all thats left worth reading is Dilbert, and even that is getting slightly old. Especially since it reminds me of Keybank now and makes me shudder in terrible ways.
Leave comments, chums. Take a second and write a line or two, or the Dominion of Cool will fall into shadow and be forgotten by time. Write me! Write furiously!!
A Presto ...
Il Pazzo
1. "Flutie probably got too much credit for the turn around that year." 10/10
2. "Travis Henry is a good value, but he can't gain a yard when it really matters." 10/10
3. On McGahee - "Who knows what might have happened if they'd used him near the goal line early in the year? The Bills might not be winless." 10/11
Are you kidding? Are we in the Twilight Zone? Are we hearing this from the same Sullivan we've always read? The same "conservative, never throw the ball, Henry is Jesus, and Flutie is God" Sullivan that has been degrading our sports page for years? Well, frankly, I'm not surprised. Go back a few blogs - I said it then and I've said it for years. Sullivan has no position on sports. He just likes to stir up controversy any way he can. Last year he wanted to run the ball constantly because we were throwing it. Now we're a conservative offense. A control-the-ball offense. A smash mouth, run first ask questions later offense - and we're still losing! So Jerry Sullivan has undergone what appears to be a massive philosophy shift. He bemoans Henry's faults. He backs off from his assertions about Flutie. If you read his columns for the past few weeks - he wants to go down field! He wants to open it up! (Coincidentally, so does Ralph Wilson. He had some fascinating things to say about being 0-4 with a "smashmouth" football team. He's fuckin pissed).
But here's the deal with the Bills. (Yes, they need to open it up. Yes they need to throw more. Yes, they need to not be so fucking boring.) But here's what I said last year, and here's what I say this year. OUR DEFENSE IS OVERRATED!!! They put up huge numbers against mediocre offenses. But where were they against Jacksonville at the end when we needed them? Where were they last week against the Jets when we needed them? They allowed a mediocre Jets offense to drive 60 yards in less than a minute for the game winning field goal. Top five? Haha. No. I hardly think so. Top five defenses do not fold under pressure. Top five defenses do not give up nearly 400 yards against the Jets. Mediocre defense? Definitely. Good defense? Perhaps. But top 5? Fuck no. Not even close.
Wilson's comments, by the way - (since I brought it up) - "The fans have to be bored." And later ... "I was hoping we'd come down here and really open it up...I've had enough of this smash-mouth football. Hey, where we are is 0-3. If Drew throws an interception and it's run back for a TD, OK. Then we're 0-4. But I don't like to go 0-4 the way we did." I agree. If you're going to be a losing team, be a losing team with style. Give the fans SOMETHING. Winning with smashmouth football is boring enough. Losing with it is torture!!
Ralph Wilson is 80. The fact he is still concerned about football is fucking awesome. His parents must be proud of him.
Moving away from football ...
Just some very brief politics in this blog:
1. The high point of Friday night's debate came after Kerry's baffling, incoherent, irrelevant, and confused assertion that GW owns a timber company and that "George Bush is a small business!" Bush opens with "I own a timber company? That's news to me!" He then pauses, gets serious, and appears to prepare his response. After several moments he looks at Charlie Gibson and says in a low voice ... "You need any wood?"
2. Bush and Kerry should both be asking some very serious questions about their speechwriters, editors, and public relations personnel at this point. First, Bush says "They never stop thinking of new ways to harm our country and neither do we." Then Kerry trumpets the need for a "global test" and later says he wants to reduce terrorism to a nuisance like prostitution or illegal gambling. How - with the army of writers, editors, and public relation personell these men have - do these types of things creep into the realm of public delivery? Doesn't anyone throw up a red flag and say "Hey, uh, Bush, ya might not want to say we're thinking of ways to harm the country," or "Listen, Kerry ... now, you know I respect you right? But, um, you might want to think about not comparing terrorism to illegal gambling." I don't know. This is just a thought from your average blogger.
The paper does not come until after four oclock at my house. Every fucking day. Is this just me, or is this bullshit? By the way, its not delivered by a middle school kid who has to wait til after school, in case that's what you're thinking. Yet, day after day I walk my astronimically sexy ass out to the mailbox two or three times before the paper finally arrives. Am I asking too much? All I want to do is read the sports. See whats being said about the Bills. See if anything new happened with the NHL. See what the latest Buffalo spin on politics is. But I am unable to do this until almost supper time. BULLSHIT!!
Did anyone see the movie Butterfly Affect? Apparently some DVD rentals of this flick inexplicably show a different ending than the theatre ending. In this baffling alternate conclusion Ashtun Kutcher elects to go back in time to the point where he was in the womb and he strangles himself to death with his umbillical chord! Is that not insane? It was probably for the better that they went with the theatre ending that most people have seen. Besides - if the whole idea is that he gets to these other time periods by reading a memory or watching a video, then what does he use to go back to his mother's womb? I don't know. Very strange, this development.
Apparently a lawsuit has been brought by Disgruntled Song Writer against Tom Petty, claiming Petty based his song "The Last DJ" on a recording given to him by some radio DJ featuring the Disgruntled's own version. Petty's response - "I do not take kindly to such accusations, as the plaintiff and his attorney for hire will find out.” Sounds like Petty is planning something awful for Disgruntled. Frankly, I hope he slices and dices him. Petty's been writing music for thirty plus years with astonishing success. Witness the Greatest Hits - seventeen songs that even non-fans can sing every word to. But apparently he needed to swipe Disgruntled's tune for some reason. The facts just don't add up - Petty has written hundreds of songs - not just for the albums he's made since the 70's, but hundreds upon hundreds more that have surfaced as B-sides, live extras, and throw-aways. Petty has written songs for other artists. Petty is a songwriter as much as he is an artist and a performer. Disgruntled is nothing. He and his asenine lawyer with dollar signs for pupils don't deserve to lick dog shit off of Petty's boots (I do not mean to imply that Petty walks through dogshit). But this will all come to naught for Disgruntled. Petty is a seasoned Vet when it comes having his way. Witness:
- In the 70's, before the HB's truly hit it big, their label was bought out by MCA who changed aspects of their contract. All of the artists under the label fell right into line...except Petty and the HB's. They refused to "play ball" and even declared bankruptcy so that the company had little to fight them with. When the band was court ordered to hand over their music to MCA, the HB's answered honestly that they did not know where their music was. They were not lying - they had given all of their studio recordeded material to an HB roadie to keep in the trunk of his car and drive around the country with! Ultimately, MCA was forced to create "Backstreet Records," a subsidiary that catered specifically to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty, not yet of national fame, had risked his entire career to mantain the integrity of his band and their music against the imposition of a major corporation.
- In 1981, Petty's follow up to "Damn The Torpedoes" was to be released at $9.98. The going price for records at the time was $8.98, but Petty's album was to be used to initiate the higher price for big name artists. Petty withheld the album and organized massive fan protests. When the contract deadline approached and Petty was ordered to release the album, he renamed it $8.98. To avoid the embarrassment, MCA caved again and the album was released at $8.98 under the name "Hard Promises."
- Petty has historically demanded that prices for his concerts be kept astonishingly low. Seats that sell for over a hundred dollars go for less than $75 at a Petty concert - or he won't play! He's actually cancelled gigs before because they charged the fans too much. Ultimately, they always give in and drop the prices and the show goes on. Its been observed many times of Petty - bands make a lot more money off of a lot less tickets than Petty does off of a lot more, but hats off to one of the only true rockstars of the past few decades for remembering the fans and saying "fuck the money." Lets not forget Petty as a member of "The Travelling Wilburry's" (Petty, Dylan, Orbison, Harrison, and Lynn). The band famously turned down millions of dollars worth of touring money because it violated the spirit of their "grassroots rock and roll" effort.
....... so, in conclusion ........ FUCK DISGRUNTLED SONGWRITER!!!!! FUCK HIM RIGHT UP HIS HAIRY, SHITSTAINED, SCABBED-OVER, PUSSING, PIMPLY, OOZING-LIKE-TOOTHPASTE ASS!!
Sponge Candy is gross. So is white chocolate and orange chocolate.
RIP Rodney Dangerfield. I said in a previous blog....2004 seems to be the year of celebrity deaths. Another hero falls.
Johnny Depp will supposedly be playing the role of Willy Wonka in an upcoming release of "The Chocolate Factory." I'd like to see Depp knock off the kids-play of late and go back to something "Fear and Loathing-ish," but I have to admit - if any modern actor is more cut out to play a Gene Wilder role than Johnny Depp, I'd like to know who it is. It should be a good flick. And rumor has it - Depp beat out Jim Carrey for the part.
The Funny Papers are no longer funny. They have not been since they got rid of "The Far Side" and "Haggar the Horrible" and since the creator of Peanuts died (Chuck something? - AHH! MIND BLANK!) Anyway, all thats left worth reading is Dilbert, and even that is getting slightly old. Especially since it reminds me of Keybank now and makes me shudder in terrible ways.
Leave comments, chums. Take a second and write a line or two, or the Dominion of Cool will fall into shadow and be forgotten by time. Write me! Write furiously!!
A Presto ...
Il Pazzo
posted by Il Pazzo @ 3:41 PM
1 Comments:
At 3:03 PM,
Anonymous said…
greeting fellow patriots, i would like to comment on Mr. Sherrys acute knowledge of football as well as the Tom Petty scandal. First, i hope Doug FLutie gets AIDS and dies. Second, i hope this DJ fellow gets herpes and gives them to Mr. Flutie if he is not dead already. Thank you
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