* – a belated humorous tribute to the SEAL snipers that resolved the Somali pirate incident a while back:

* – I’d say this is a fairly accurate representation of our apparent foriegn policy doctrine at the moment (assuming we even actually have one…):

* – OK, perhaps Ann Coulter went a little too far on this one…

* – gee, what a shocker – men can find a consensus where women can’t.

* – apparently John Kerry didn’t learn David Letterman’s lesson.

* – the Vatican thinks they’ve found the remains of an Apostle.

* – oh, good! More taxes!

* – an Indy V and MI IV?!

* – headlines like this just make me snort with derision. Sure you want to be to camp on time, kid. Sure you do. If you really did, you’d remember that your agent works for you, not the other way around, and you’d just sign your damn contract!

* – hey, all you aspiring pro athletes, take eight-and-a-half minutes and watch the video that accompanies this article.

* – um, if this is real, it is definitely not how I would recommend fishing for marlin!

* – not bad for an unemployed chicken catcher from Kentucky.

* – ok, this dying celebrity thing is starting to get a little scary.

* – see what I mean?

* – why does it seem like whenever a pro athlete meets an untimely end, it’s always one of the good guys? Not that I wish death on anyone, but it can’t be somebody like A-Rod or Allen Iverson or Plaxico Burress, can it? No, it’s gotta be somebody like this guy.

* – here’s an interesting take on Obama’s “we need to shut down Gitmo” speech.

* – it’s baaaaaack!

* – these fuckers just don’t get it, do they?

(of course, the fact that we don’t even bother with the symbolic “slap on the wrist” doesn’t help…)

* – wanna design an iPhone app? Talk to this guy.

* – think the Obama administration’s claim that nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured is just a tad inflated? You’re not the only one.

* – ok, Mr. Letterman, who you gonna pick on now?

* – hmmm, I wonder how Hitler would have reacted to Michael Jackson’s death…

* – I got a new cell phone. Check it out! I like to think of it as a poor man’s (and that would be me! ) iPhone. Guess how much it cost me?

Wait for it…

Nothing! That’s right – free! I got it from Best Buy on July 3rd. Absolutely free! The receipt from Best Buy read $0.00.

“But, Falcon,” you say, “there must be a catch.”

Well, yes, but imho they are very tiny catches: 1) I had to make a 2-year committment to AT&T. OK, fine, whatever. I’ve been using them for a long time and am perfectly happy with them, anyway. 2) Because I’m already using AT&T, they (not Best Buy) going to charge me a one-time $18 upgrade fee.

What-ev-er. Even I can handle $18. No other fees. No change to my calling plan. $18 to upgrade to this phone.

* – believe it or not , while in Best Buy getting the phone, for the first time in my life I saw a live demonstration of a Sony Bravia LCD HDTV playing a Blu-Ray disc.

OH. MY. GOD!!!

That picture is F#*KING incredible!!!

Guess what just went on my wish list?

* – I finally got around to seeing Hancock the other night. Eh. It was ok. I think my biggest issue with it was the fact that I remember being pitched as a comedy and, while it certainly had some funny moments, it really didn’t strike me as such.

* – huh. I didn’t think pink boxers were standard U.S. military issue…

You may remember that I told you all about a new page on my blog called “The Price of Our Blood.”

You may also notice that both that page and the post notifying you of it have been deleted.

That is because I have decided that it would make more sense to make it a new blog all by itself.

You can see it and comment on it here.

Then this post will not help you.

It might amuse you, though…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This last one isn’t amusing – it IS inspirational…

* – remember my adventure with StubHub? Well, I was so incensed over the whole $400 thing that I forgot to mention something comparitively anecdotal…

As I tracked the progress of the package via FedEx’s website, I noticed something very strange. I live in northern New England (not that far away from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow territory, actually). The buyer lives in Rhode Island. You’d think the tickets would have gone from Point A to Point B, right? Nope. They went from my town all the way to Memphis, TN, then to RI.

Can somebody please explain to me a) how that makes any sense, and b) how that could possible be fiscally beneficial to FedEx?

* – so I drove by the jewelry store I used to work at the other day. You remember? The one that fired me? Seems they’ve gone out of business.

I had a good long laugh when I saw that.

Yes, it was small and petty.

What’s your point?

* – June 25th, 2009, 2:30PM, somewhere in northern New England… what is this strange yellow orb I see hanging in sky? It seems to me I should remember it for some strange reason. From a dream? My childhood? A movie? Whatever it is, all I know is that it makes me feel unwell, much like how I feel when I encounter garlic or a Christian cross…

* – I’m trying to read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Oof!

For those of you who are not familiar with this work, allow me to explain: I’m trying to read the English translation of a 19th-Century French guy trying to observe the American political system of the time.

Light bulb coming on now?

I’ll say it again – oof!

* – pull over, Bumper Sticker Police!

* – this goes WAY beyond “Are You F#*king Kidding Me?!”

* – this is just “Are You F#*king Kidding Me?!”

* – I’m pretty sure men have more than just seven myths about sex.

* – seriously? Do we not have more important things to get in a tizzy about than an upcoming Disney flick?

* – this is not helping those of us who think English should be the official language of the United States.

* – this ain’t your mommy and daddy’s Alice in Wonderland, folks.

* – do you have any idea how long I’ve waited for somebody to do this to Terrell Owens? Now if if only similar things would happen to Chad “I Refuse to Call You OchoCinco” Johnson. And Plaxico Burress. And Brandon Marshall. And Matt Jones.

And those are just the prima donna wide receivers…

* – I’ve gotta agree with Eric Dickerson on this one. I fail to see why the NFL insists on trying to get a team back in Los Angeles. Yes, it’s the second-biggest TV market in country, smaller only than New York City, but it’s not a football town. The Rams left for a reason. So did the Raiders. LA doesn’t care about football. It’s a basketball town first. Then a baseball town. Then a soccer town. Hell, even hockey is a bigger draw in LA than football. And if the football fans in LA want football, they can go to a UCLA game.

Mark my words, if the NFL gets a team back into LA, it’ll be gone within five years.

* – if you’re for evolutionism over creationism, you’ve gotta read The Sensuous Curmudgeon.

* – why am I getting a bad feeling that we’re going to have to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan not because it’s what we want to do, but because we’ll need the firepower to deal with not just North Korea, but Iran, too?

* – actually, Mr. Prime Minister, yes, you have.

Oh, I don’t have any proof or anything that Mr. Berlusconi gave money directly to a woman for the express purpose of sex (not that I’d have a problem with him if he did). It’s just that I’m cynical enough to have the attitude that every man has at least indirectly paid for sex in his lifetime. You took her out to dinner, right? For drinks? To a concert or a club or a movie? Who picked up the tab? Did you get laid after?

Then you paid for sex.

* – here’s to remembering the first woman many men from my generation put up on their bedroom wall.

* – no disrespect meant to the dead, here, but I really don’t have a problem with there being one less public-crotch-grabbing guy in the world.

* – this celebrity death thing really does happen in threes, doesn’t it?

* – again, all due respect, but at least the world will be a little quieter now.

* – wow! This is a first-generation black woman writing this, folks.

* – well, here’s a reason for Obama to get truly pissed at Ahmadinejad.

* – this is the healthcare plan you want?

* – this is the commercial you didn’t see on ABC (the All Barack Channel) during the healthcare infomercial the other night.

* – you wanna know what “Cap & Trade” is, folks? A “cap” on your spending power and a “trade” of your hard-earned money to somebody else in the form of energy taxes.

Don’t believe me? Check this out. Yes, it’s a transcript from the Rush Limbaugh program, which I’m sure just makes some of you want to roll your eyes and tune out, but this is important because he’s quoting directly from the “Cap & Trade” bill itself.

The people who wrote this bill know it’s going to raise energy prices. They know it’s going to cost jobs (not “create” or “save” them). They know it’s going to raise taxes. So they built into the bill programs that allow the poor people they’re going to create with the bill to pay for their energy with your taxes!

Wanna know what else it is? Hypocrisy. So Obama and his cronies make a big stink about wanting to clean up the planet leading up to the election, right? Well, if I understand “Cap & Trade” correctly (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong), Obama & Co. are now basically saying with C&T, “Actually, it’s ok if you pollute out your ass – just so long as you pay us for it.” These companies are not being made to stop polluting, gang. They’re simply being finanacially penalized for doing so. Big whoop-de-doo. They can handle those penalties without batting an eye. It’s like Major League Baseball hitting the Yankees with a luxury tax every year for having such a ginormous payroll – doesn’t stop them from being the highest-paying team every single year.

If I were a tree-hugger, I’d be pissed at “Cap & Trade” cuz it’s all talk and no walk!

* – at least today there was a little justice in the world.

A little justice, I have to add, despite the wishes of one Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Did you catch that quote? “But they had no vested right to promotion.” Excuse me?! They passed the fucking test, didn’t they? Wasn’t that how the whole thing was supposed to work? Isn’t that why they took the test in the first place? If you take the test and pass it by a high enough score, you’ll get promoted. They did. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

“But they were almost all white and no blacks passed…”

Grrrr. Don’t get me started.

* – so one of the liberals I was working with this past Thursday was gloating over Gov. Sanford (R – SC) getting caught cheating on his wife in Argentina for five days, calling him a RWH (Republican White Hypocrite). I quickly responded, “Hey, he’s just following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton and JFK.”

My co-worker gave a little half-hearted chuckle and then shut up.

Here’s the bottom line – infidelity in politics has nothing to do with political parties. For every Sanford there’s an Elliott Spitzer. For every FDR, Gary Hart, and John Edwards left-wingers could rattle off a “who’s who” of conservatives who failed to hide the fact that their political beliefs weren’t the only things of theirs that hung to the right without batting an eye.

It has to do with money, power, and fame. Look at politics. Look at pro sports. Look at music (please, look at music! Being a rock star is the only possible explanation for Slash ever getting laid. If that guy wasn’t famous blind chicks wouldn’t touch him with a ten-foot pole, much less let him touch them with his dick). There are some women out there who are willing to do anything to be associated with that money, power, and fame, and there are some men who cannot resist their temptations.

* – out of this list, I’d have to say I wouldn’t mind seeing #s 4, 6, 9, 17,18, & 19.

* – whaddaya think Mrs. C. – would this be a good birthday or Xmas present for Bowyer?

* – contrary to what I’m sure is popular belief, I did not design this ad.

OK, so here’s the deal – I won a pair of tickets to see Jimmy Buffett this weekend, but I can’t go because of work and family committments, so I signed up with StubHub to sell the them. The tickets say “Section 1.” However, there was no “Section 1″ option on StubHub, only “Box 1″ or “Covered Pavillion 1.” I didn’t know which was which, so I assumed (I know, I know…) that Box 1 was the lesser-valued of the two options and listed them as such. They were purchased very quickly, for $100 a piece (face value $136, but I decided, seeing as I got them for free, that I could give the buyer a deal). When the buyer got them, however, he didn’t care that he was getting a deal – he was pissed that he wasn’t getting box seats, so he cancelled the order. In this instance, StubHub, by their own rules, is required to give him what he wanted.

They’re also required to ding the seller – that’s me – for the difference.

What’s the difference? Oh, not much – just 400 freaking bucks!!!

That’s right, because this guy couldn’t accept a deal (I was saving him $72) I’m getting fucked for $400. Nothing I can do about it. I tried bitching at a customer service rep. I tried bitching to her supervisor. I told them I’d never use them again and that I’d tell every one I could (hence this post) not to use them. I asked them to at least break the charge up into smaller pieces so it’d be easier to swallow – nada. I even tried calling my bank to stop the charge – no luck (because the charge is to a debit card, by law the bank has to release the funds).

Look, I realise that I have an obligation to read the fine print. I realise that I signed off on the user agreement. I realise that when the options on the site didn’t match the words on the tickets that I should’ve checked the venue’s website to try to get some further clarification, or maybe even called StubHub’s Customer Service department for clarification, but $400?!?!?! Gimme a break! You’re talking about a pretty successful corporation here. I think they can spare $400 for a first-time user making an honest mistake. Me? I’m living with my mother-in-law so I don’t have to pay rent so I can make ends meet – barely.

I’m not denying that I made mistakes here. But charging me $400 for those mistakes is bullshit.

FUCK STUBHUB!!!

* – I challenge you to watch this and not get a little misty…

Makes me proud to be a Red Sox fan, a New Englander, and an American.

* – see? Every so often a good story does come out of the NFL!

* – want to give to a good cause and eat like a Hobbit? Live near Orlando? Go here.

* – oh, the things you can do with an iPhone!

* – farewell, Belgarath.

* – look out, it’s the Night of the Living Government! AIIIEEEE!!!!

* – hey, Al Gore, how’s that global warming working out for ya?

* – I’ll probably get more angry responses for linking to this, but the article offers the possibility that the Holocaust Museum shooter actually hates the GOP! 

* – is this the first time Obama’s been booed and it’s been reported?

* – wow, “The One” is even getting criticized by the gay community!

* – hey, Mr. President, cry me a river. It’s part of your job to not be liked by some people. Suck it up.

* – after all, isn’t it enough that you basically own at least one entire major network? One that won’t even allow an opposing viewpoint to buy advertising time?

* – another politician, another criminal.

* – just in case you haven’t figured it out yet, PETA’s nuts!

* – this week’s “Are You F#*king Kidding Me?!” involves $134 billion in US treasury bonds.

* – did you know that if you live in Ohio you can get fined for parking in your own driveway?!

* – “… the fact of the matter is Gitmo is a country club compared to what the Democrats want to do…” – Julian Epstein, Democrat strategist.

I have a slightly different take on this than Rush. What I hear is blatant hypocrisy. Members of the left want a witch hunt for conservatives for waterboarding, but now one of their own is basically saying, “Waterboarding?! Pfft – that ain’t nuthin’! Wait ’till we get a hold of ‘em!” Well, which is it? Are you tolerant and empathetic, or are you badasses?

* - I can’t believe some people are still hung up about 2000, Florida, and hanging chads.

Let it go. You’re never gonna get those eight years back, so just move on. Christ, the right didn’t bitch this much when the newspaper headlines had to be changed for Truman, did they? “Truman won? OK, fine, let’s move on, then…”

Bush won the original count. He won three recounts. He won the absentee ballot count. Hell, the New York Times had a Harvard expert use statistical models to see who would have won if all the unpostmarked absentee ballots had been discarded and Bush still won.

There comes a point where you’re no longer demanding recounts because you want justice; you’re demanding recounts because you’re a sore loser.

Granted, in retrospect, those eight years weren’t exactly the greatest…

* –

Actually, no, MA’AM, you didn’t work hard to get to where you are. You are an elected official, which means you got to where you are by conniving people into liking you.

The man you publicly derided is a Brigadier General in the United States Army – HE worked hard to get where he is today. He EARNED his title (which you never used when speaking to him), and he earned it by defending the country that allowed you to rise above yourself and become such an arrogant C-U-Next-Tuesday.

Moreover, he called you “ma’am” out of respect, not contempt or sexism or a combination of the two. Members of the United States military are taught from Day One to address their (assumed) superiors as either “Sir” or “Ma’am,” so stop looking for excuses to cry out “Discrimination!” or “Disrespect!” every chance you can.

* – don’t get to worked up over the corruption of the elections in Iran, folks. It really didn’t matter whether Ahmadinejad or Moussavi won. Sure Moussavi sounded nicer, but the bottom line is that his policies and attitudes are pretty much the same as Ahmadinejad’s. More importantly, either guy is just going to be a puppet for the true power brokers in Iran – the mullahs and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Until they’re overthrown, nothing’s going to change over there.

* – for what it’s worth, here’s my take on the whole David Letterman – Sarah Palin thing: get over it. It wasn’t worth this much attention. Was it a tasteless joke? Yes. And I don’t care whether he meant the 14-year old daughter or the 18-year-old daughter. The age isn’t the point. You should leave the kids out of it. Christ, even Glenn Beck said it could have been Keith Olbermann’s daughter and it still would have been a tasteless joke. The politicians know they’re going to get ripped by comedians – it’s part of the job. But, the families – and especially the children – should be off limits. Let’s put this scenario back 15 years ago or so and imagine Letterman’s target had been Chelsea Clinton. Don’t you think there would have been outrage then? Of course there would have been, and there should have been. Leave the kids out of it.

Should Letterman be fired or suspended or something? No. He’s admitted the joke was tasteless and he’s apologized for it (though it took him long enough to deliver a serious and sincere apology) and the Palins have accepted the apology, so let’s just move on, ok?

(I do have to say, though, that I find it curious that there was far more outrage over Imus’ “Nappy-haired ho’s” comment than there was over Letterman’s, and that Imus did get fired for his remark)

* –  we really are just going to have to bitch-slap North Korea, aren’t we?

* – let’s take a jump in the Way-Back Machine for a second, shall we? I’m re-reading Pete Blaber’s “The Mission, the Men, and Me” and at one point he addresses the $600 toilet seats that had everybody all pissed off way back when. Do you know why those toilet seats were $600? Because they weren’t “hey-I-think-I’ll-run-over-to-Home-Depot” toilet seats. According to Blaber “(t)he onboard toilets on the planes required a uniquely shaped fiberglass form… that also had to satisfy strict military design specifications for vibration resistance, fire retardance, weight, and even durability… Additionally, the molds for the seats had to be specially made because the production process for these particular seats had been closed down for more than two decades.”

Huh. I don’t remember the press reporting any of that back then, do you?

(go about  2:10 in to get to the relevant quote in the clip)

* – I mentioned a while back that while the state of Maine has approved gay marriage, there are still those in the state who want to overturn the law. In order to do so, they have to get at least 55,000 signatures on a petition by a certain deadline. If they do so, the issue will become an item to vote on in the next statewide referendum election. Then, of course, they’ll have to win the election.

I bring this up because the other day I had one of the anti-gay marriage people ask me to sign their petition. I declined, of course, saying that I was for gay marriage. To my surprise, the petitioner let it go at that. “Oh, ok. Well, thank you for your time.” I was fully prepared to have to fight the guy off, which I really wasn’t looking forward to, as I had Little Man with me at the time.

That’s only the second tim in my entire life that I’ve been asked to sign a petition. The other time was while I was getting my bachelor’s degree, and the person wanted me to sign off on protesting our goverment’s support of the Contra’s at the time.

I declined to sign that one, too. 

* – seriously? Is any real fisherman gonna use this thing?

* – hey, all you non-liberals – shut up.

* – I’m afraid it’s getting dangerously close to the time when we realize that sanctions just aren’t enough.

* – well, it’s a start.

Isn’t it?

* – another way to look at the recent tobacco legislation.

* – this sounds like a pretty good approach to health care.

* – bet you didn’t know these things about the Civil War.

* – anybody want him? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller… ?

* – a former Patriot Super Bowl-er has left us at a shockingly young age.

* – yeah, but did she push him in?

* – Jesus, talk about being everything I wasn’t when I was in high school!

* – why couldn’t I have been even a shitty professional athlete?  

* – cuz there’s nothing funnier than sex.

* – if I’d known I could study sex by becoming a scientist, I would’ve paid more attention in school.

* – the truth behind some sex myths.

* – hopefully the third movie will be a hell of a lot better than the second!

* – some casting news on “The Hobbit” movie.

* – Wow! Hermione has grown up!

* – Cookiemaker, Little Man, and I went to see Up Saturday night. Good flick. Worth the expenditure. But, it was somehow… different. This wasn’t your typical Pixar fare, at least not to me. We’re not talking about Toy Story or A Bug’s Life or Finding Nemo, here. It didn’t strike me as a kids’ comedy. There were funny parts, to be sure, but nothing gut-busting, more like just chuckle- or smile-inducing. I wouldn’t call Up a drama, by any stretch, but it was certainly more emotional and deeper than any previous Pixar offering, in my opinion.

* – thought you were gonna get away from “Are You F#*king Me?!” this week, didn’t you? Actually, you kinda are. This qualifies only as an “Are You Kidding Me?”

There’s no “F#*king” and no exclamation point only because, sadly, I’m used to this sort of B.S. from Washington, regardless of who’s in charge.

I think I’ll give a go at making “Just Another Random Monday” a (at least semi-) regular thing…

* – I’m willing to bet few (if any) of you had any intention of watching Punisher: War Zone, but if you did, I’m here to tell you: DON’T!!!

* – unfortunately, I’d have to say don’t bother with Body of Lies, either. It was better than P:WZ (not that that’s saying much), but I found it disappointing, to say the least.

* – this looks like it is going to be a kickass game!

* – this one looks good, too.

* – it’s pretty sad when the Russians think we’re sinking into Marxism.

* – as much as I hate to say it, I’m willing to bet I’m going to have at least one “Are You F#*king Kidding Me?!” entry each time I do this.

* – yes, Pat Buchanan wrote this, so consider the source’s motivation, but he does raise some pertinent questions.

* – now, obviously, a doctor getting murdered is far more tragic, but exactly what kind of a-hole goes around setting fire to a place of business (and a residence, too, I might add), just because he/she has an issue with nudity?

* – um, at exactly what point do we say “enough is enough” and put a scumbag out of our misery?

* – we will miss you, Grasshopper.

* – sorry, doc, but I think sexting is a little more serious than spin-the-bottle!

* – Senator Kerry! I am shocked and apalled! Is that how a politically-correct, tolerant, empathetic, enlightened liberal looks at women?! For shame!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(and here I thought I was the only male pig in the universe… )

* – Damn! Just when I thought I’d start watching women’s tennis again, too.

* – so, I just finished reading ”Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right” by Ann Coulter. Given the title and the author, I’m sure you’re aware what the book is trying to say, and I knew there’d be an agenda behind it from the get-go. However, I have to say Coulter did her homework when she wrote it. This book is exhaustively researched. Every single one of the nine main chapters has anywhere from 35 to 145 cited sources to back up her assertions. Even the nine-page Conclusion has nine citations. She uses magazine and newspaper articles, books, websites, LexisNexis searches, television and radio clips – you name it, she uses it to prove her point.

In the interest of being fair, however, I’d now like to read something similar from the Left’s point of view. Does anybody have any recommendations for a liberal book that is also similarly well-researched?

* – hey, yeah – just why are conservatives so mean?

… oh-whoa-oh, I wish it were Sunday / My I don’t-have-to-run-day…

Sorry – channeling Susanna Hoffs there for a second…

* – surprisingly, this has never happened to me.

(warning, the above is from an adult site. The primary purpose for me directing you there is humor (or at least what I would call humor), and the humor does involve  nudity, but there are some ads and stuff around the featured item)

* – fortunately for all involved, this has never happened to me, either.

* – anybody wanna buy the house Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off lived in?

* – who cares?! Look, I acknowledge to historical implications of her nomination, but honestly – how many of us had actually heard of Sotomayor before Obama brought her name up? How about they make a movie about somebody truly significant (like who? Oh, I don’t know, how about MLK – seen a major motion picture about him lately?) before they make one about her, huh?

* – well, if I’d known, I would have offered to help!

* – this would be another “Are You F#*king Kidding Me?!” entry.

(and, yes, the guy’s legit)

* – as would this.

* – you may not like Mike Tyson, but I think you do have to feel a bit sorry for him right about now.

* – I know Mickey Mouse has been around for a while, but long enough to go through three voices?!

* – this dvd rental thing that Hannaford Bros uses now, RedBox, is pretty damn good. A buck per movie per night? Can’t beat that with a stick, and where is there not a Hannaford Bros in New England?

* – thanx to RedBox, I’ve continued to catch up on my movie watching:

          * – Quantum of Solace, which I actually borrowed from a friend at work, was pretty good. Not quite as good as Casino Royale, but good nonetheless. I like the gritty, more realistic feel they’ve given the Daniel Craig Bond flicks. Unortunately, we’ll have to wait until 2011 to see the next one.

          * – Taken was shorter than I’d hoped for, but otherwise lived up to my expectations.

          * – I’m going to have to disagree with Mrs. Chili about Traitor. I found it to be a very good movie. The length was about right, it kept the tension up, kept me guessing for a bit, and kept my attention. Sure, it could have had more action, but not all of these movies have to go BOOM!!! every five minutes to be good, do they?* I wouldn’t put Traitor up there with Shooter or The Bourne Identity, but it was good.

(* – I would like to emphasize that how many times something goes “BOOM!!!” in a movie is not Mrs. C.’s sole basis for deciding whether or not that movie is good)

* – want a movie to look forward to? I stumbled upon this trailer purely by chance. Another reason to not be able to wait until Christmas!

* – is the curveball just an illusion?

* – did you know May 31st was Big Ben’s 150th birthday?

* – the last one has let go, Jack.