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The Commish of the Potomac Wiffleball League asked me to do the “6 Innings” (6 innings for wiffleball vs 9 innings for baseball) interview for this week’s issue of “This Week in Wiffleball”. Here’s the result: 6 Innings with Lindsay Fincher Fresh off her birthday before Week 4, which was celebrated with cupcakes in between [...]

“Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.” – General John A. Logan

In a little over a month we are heading off to Kiev, which is currently embroiled in a political crisis of sorts: MOSCOW, May 26 — Thousands of Interior Ministry troops were ordered to the Ukrainian capital by President Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday as a power struggle with his rival Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych ballooned [...]

About a month ago, Salon’s Cary Tennis ran a letter from “Big East-Coast Jerk” entitled “I left New York for San Diego and now I don’t know where I am.” As expected, the reader responses devolved into a bitchfest between offended San Diegans telling Big East Coast Jerk that he is a rude asshole who [...]

Well, I’m sure there are scarier, but dudes, ya couldn’t pay me enough to do this. No…effin’…way.

I came to this realization while watching 28 Weeks Later, the much anticipated sequel to 28 Days Later. Unfortunately, my UK visa’s been expired for quite awhile. Dammit. 28 Weeks later is a rather mindless film filled with blood (lots and lots of blood), gore, suspense, and audience members screaming “Oh no she didn’t!” In [...]

I’ve never seen them do this before. Maybe you have to go with exactly three people (after all, won’t the fourth person feel a little left out if the good people at Ben’s didn’t write something with ketchup on his or her hotdog?) Nevertheless, after seeing 28 Weeks Later (more on that in another post) [...]

Quite a brilliant question to ask someone after they’ve had a few drinks, although to be fair I would have given a smart-ass response sans alcohol. They said, “How are you working to save the earth?” (Although I remember it as “What are you doing for Earth Day?”) and I said, “Drive my SUV.” For [...]

This is by far the best footage I have come across of RATM’s performance at Coachella. I have no idea who shot it, but it looks like a rough cut of some professional footage. This video includes “Testify”, “Bulls On Parade”, and “People Of The Sun”. click here to see more videos like this Tom [...]

The reason I never write about concerts is because, in general, I suck at reviewing them. I have to write about Coachella, though, so forgive me if this totally sucks or if I use the word “awesome” way too much. Pictures will be up later. I’m liberally sprinkling YouTube and professional photos throughout this post [...]