| hi everyone.
i'm moving my blog. all my entries from now on will be at www.howardkamil.com.
it really isn't going to be about work very much, so if you're just interested in hot calls and hot girls you're probably better off hanging out here. the blog's going to be about me. it links to a new internet radio station i'm trying to set up. i'll talk about beer and cars and sports and books and stamps (and yeah probably girls too) and some geeky computer stuff and it'll link to sites i like and blogs i read.
come visit. i'll leave this up so that the archives are here in case anyone wants to see them. but look for new stuff at my new site.
i'll change the link on the front page and the site map in a week or so (so that people don't just get tossed to the new site without any explanation), but for now, just click the link above!
howard
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| http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/07a0430p-06.pdf
RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION
Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206
File Name: 07a0430p.06
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
_________________
CONNECTION DISTRIBUTING CO.; RONDEE KAMINS;
JANE DOE; JOHN DOE,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
PETER D. KEISLER,* Acting Attorney General of the
United States,
Defendant-Appellee.
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No. 06-3822
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Ohio at Cleveland.
No. 95-01993—John M. Manos, District Judge.
Argued: April 26, 2007
Decided and Filed: October 23, 2007
Before: KENNEDY, MOORE, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.
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COUNSEL
ARGUED: J. Michael Murray, BERKMAN, GORDON, MURRAY & DEVAN, Cleveland, Ohio,
for Appellants. Anne Murphy, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington,
D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: J. Michael Murray, Lorraine R. Baumgardner, BERKMAN,
GORDON, MURRAY & DEVAN, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant. Anne Murphy, Thomas M.
Bondy, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.
KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the court. MOORE, J. (pp. 18-22), delivered a
separate concurring opinion. McKEAGUE, J. (pp. 23-27), delivered a separate opinion concurring
in part and dissenting in part.
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*Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(2), Acting Attorney General Peter D. Keisler is
automatically substituted for former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
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No. 06-3822 Connection Distributing Co., et al. v. Keisler Page 2
_________________
OPINION
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KENNEDY, Circuit Judge. Connection Distributing, Rondee Kamins, Jane Doe, and John
Doe (“Plaintiffs”) appeal the judgment of the district court granting summary judgment to the
government. Plaintiffs had challenged the recordkeeping requirements 18 U.S.C. § 2257 placed
upon producers of images of “actual sexually explicit conduct” as violative of the First Amendment.
We conclude that the statute is overbroad and therefore violates the First Amendment, and
accordingly we reverse the district court’s judgment and remand with instructions to enter summary
judgment for the plaintiffs.
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| first off sorry i haven't written more. actually more accurate is sorry i haven't felt like writing more. sometimes i get carried away with myself and i seem to have done it with writing. i decided it's so enjoyable (and it usually is) to write this blog, that i should write "seriously" or some such thing. so i sat and tried to...hell i don't know what...write the great american novel or short story or some crap and i got myself so worked up i didn't want to write anything.
so i stopped writing that and waited for it to go away and now i have a few things to go on about.
i want to go out for a while this afternoon because it's actually like a sunny day with blue skies and it's really nice outside. as far as i can tell this may happen for a week or so and then the sun will come back in april or may. i'm not complaining (not a lot anyway). it's way better than the weather is in new jersey. and the rain isn't quite as annoying somehow.
i'm so relieved that i was able so quickly to come to terms with having made a mistake and able to grok how i feel about our standards. the fact that Tonya agrees only emphasizes how lucky i am. i'm a damn sight happier with work now and i can see that our callers are too. (and i turned off those horrid ads that yahoo marketing wrote for me. i mean, i don't blame them. i DO appreciate their work. and they DO get clicks. more clicks than mine do. but it isn't the kind of traffic that we want and it isn't the type of caller who wants what we offer either). i just refuse to run ads like that anymore. if you didn't see them, good.
yesterday we went to see the Portland Center Stage's production of Cabaret. Tonya hadn't ever seen it, but I've seen the movie and two other productions of it. the one thing i remembered going in was that it's LONG. but i enjoyed this production immensely and really wasn't bothered by the length at all (even though i'm not sure they chose the best chairs possible when the built this theater). someone i didn't really know, though apparently everyone else in Portland does, named Storm Large. she (or maybe more accurately, the people who cast and produced the play), seem to have gotten a whole bunch of crap because she isn't somehow a real enough artist for them. or she was (GASP) a rock singer with an attitude. or maybe because she's good looking and tattooed. i'm not really sure. but i thought she did a hell of a job.
interesting side note was that we saw Woody Harrelson at the play. Tonya told me that he's filming around here somewhere. i felt kind of sad for him in a way. he's trying to avoid getting beset by assholes, which i can certainly understand (dispatch on a friday and saturday night and you'll get it. and those guys at least aren't showing up in person). but the first act is over an hour and a half, and like i said, i wasn't so certain about the chairs, so you want to stretch your legs at the break. but he's a celebrity and people are going to recognize him. so he comes outside with the smokers (proudly exiled to stand directly in front of the door and smoke in everyone's face with no ashtray in sight), even though he doesn't smoke. then he pulls up the collar of his jacket and pulls his hood down over his head. by now, of course, everyone standing outside smoking knows exactly who the hell he is and everyone backs five feet away. he's facing the street and the max train goes past and the people on it stare at him. so he turns around and so does everyone else outside, and he just stands there alone in an empty circle for ten minutes. weird and sad in a way.
Tonya had her first read through and met the other actors in her play and seems real happy with all (well almost all) of them. i think i'm as excited about it as she is. i can't wait until they start rehearsals and put tickets on sale and have links for me to push on all of you. i feel like a stage mom. i keep going "so what do you have to do to get an equity card?" sigh. she didn't just get a stage mom, she got a jewish one.
i don't remember how much i told you about the last batch of beer but it came out good enough that i am going to really have to watch myself now. the ocd part of my personality could show itself here. it was brewed as an attempt to knock off (and here's some hubris) a Rochefort beer, specifically a Rochefort 8. yes i know. and no it doesn't taste quite like theirs. they've only been doing it since 1595. but why not shoot high. i think mine is too sweet. i think there's no way to make that beer anyway, though i guess if you're good enough you can come close. mine is nice and people seem to like it but there's no way it's a Rochefort. it ended up strong at about 9.2% abv. i brewed it as a partial grain brew but that's being generous to myself, as it's a small amount of grain and a non fermentable one (carapils) at that.
i used munton's amber and some light dme. also a pound of candi sugar. Wyeast 1388 (i used two activator packs). i used styrian goldings for 60 and 30 and finished with czech saaz for 10. two weeks primary, two weeks secondary. the best ones spent four weeks warm and at least a week cold for bottle conditioning. they tasted more...blended...than the ones that spent two weeks warm and two weeks cold. that's why you try both ways. so you learn.
we're going to have people over for thanksgiving and i'm very much looking forward to that. our last thanksgiving we made enough food for 12 people even though it was only the two of us. with a lot of people we'll probably end up making three turkeys and a pot roast or something. i wanted to brew a beer for thanksgiving, but i couldn't brew some crazed high gravity beer again. it just wouldn't be ready on time. so i brewed a stout from a recipe in Charlie Papazian's book The Complete Joy of Home Brewing. It's also a (barely) partial grain, using a little bit of roasted barley, but it uses a lot less malt extract and uses dark dme. Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale. Cascade hops in the boil and Saaz (i wanted Willamette but they were out. and i keep thinking maybe i should have gotten Fuggles instead. i'll find out soon enough) to finish. Papazian said it would be ready to drink in 21 days and i think he's right. tomorrow will be a week in the primary, and it looks to me as if visible fermentation is basically done. we'll move it to the secondary for a week, then bottle, and it will have a couple weeks in the bottle before thanksgiving. i'm expecting (aiming? hoping?) for approximately 5% abv (the og was 1.054). i did a much better job of cooling down the wort this time than i had the first couple of brews. i had the sink prepared with ice and water and had plenty of extra ice at hand. but this is where i have to watch.
see, i'd love to get into whole grain brewing. but this means i need a mash tun and a lauter tun and this is either super expensive or hobbyist made for the most part. for example, a lot of people use converted gott or rubbermaid or even igloo coolers for which they build a false bottom and drill holes and make strainers and a whole bunch of other stuff i'm not qualified to do. or you could go completely insane and buy this little beauty, the Brew-Magic System by Sabco. you'll note they hide the price on the next page. that's so your wife or girlfriend won't look over your shoulder and see you ogling something useless that costs $5070. but it's nice, huh? hehe. i think i'm going to set something up with polarware brewpots and a conical fermentor, though i don't think i can justify The Fermenator! it's also nice though isn't it?
i also have been looking at setting up an internet radio station. i'm not really certain if i want to do it as part of Bay City Blues or if i want it to be my own. i've bought my own name as a domain name and have been considering doing the station there as a hobby (at least to start) rather than having it be part of work. i've been considering moving the whole blog in fact. i've also been considering changing it to wordpress (i am SOOOO sorry i didn't start with wordpress), so with any luck i can have myself doing all kinds of crap that won't make any money. hehe. guess i should rethink some of this. i'd probably use www.live365.com, mostly because it looks to me to be by far the easiest way to set a station up. and if i do want it to be part of work (or even if i get into it as a serious hobby), they have some arrangement where your monthly fee to them covers ALL licensing and royalty fees. that's a big deal to me because it takes one huge headache away.
i smell lunch cooking so i'm going to go now. everyone enter the football competition and everyone make a phone sex call!!
later.
howard
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| Getting close to halfway through the season now, and while the standings are starting to string out a little bit in the middle of the pack, the top half dozen or so are still extremely close. The standings are:
Red Sox Fan....................60
Joisey...........................59
Tonya...........................59
Pamela's Pal....................58
Me...............................57
Cool Canada....................55
Sydney..........................52
Westchester....................49
Duke of Windsor...............48
Erin..............................45
Kira..............................44
Eve..............................43
Pamela..........................42
Wendy...........................39
Melody...........................37
VIP in the 613...................35
Graphics Whiz..................34
Penelope.........................32
Down East.......................31
Marilyn...........................30
Mr. Vibrator.....................25
Erika.............................21
Heart of Texas...................8
Keep playing and keep entering!!
howard
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| i don't wanna be schlock i don't wanna sell schlock i only want to be the best.
i brewed the strong belgian ale and while it might not be the best (yet) it's pretty damn good and when i'm done i will make the best.
i made the fondue last night and no you can't have the recipe and it's the best.
i love my honey and she's the best.
and the phone sex we have here is the best. only the best. that's all we have here. i'd put them up against any group anywhere anytime.
i'm damn proud of the people here and i'm keeping it that way. stupid of me to have ever done anything else.
howard
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| Football Season Standings after Week 6 are:
Joisey..................50
Red Sox Fan...........50
Tonya...................50
Pamela's Pal...........49
Me......................49
Cool Canada...........48
Westchester...........41
Duke of Windsor......41
Sydney.................41
Kira.....................38
Erin.....................37
Melody..................37
Eve......................36
Pamela..................34
Wendy..................34
Down East..............31
Graphics Whiz..........30
VIP in The 613..........29
Marilyn..................27
Penelope................26
Mr. Vibrator............25
Erika....................21
Heart of Texas..........8
Have fun and keep entering!!
howard
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| cincinnati bengals
houston texans
cleveland browns
green bay packers
baltimore ravens
chicago bears
philadelphia eagles
tennessee titans
arizona cardinals
new england patriots
san diego chargers
seattle seahawks 37 points
and as long as i'm in here i'd like to say that this great bullpen the red sox are supposed to have is one guy who hasn't pitched a full two innings all regular season and a parade of nobodies on either side of him.
and i really wish they would stop calling Ortiz the greatest clutch hitter ever. there's no such thing as a clutch hitter. nobody is going to convince me that there is. no stat shows it. none nothing zip zero nada. and last night CERTAINLY didn't change my mind on that point.
howard
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| i wouldn't fire joe torre just because the yankees lost (again) in the alds. any short series is subject to a whole lot of statistical noise and small sample size. i'm not sure how much a manager adds to a team anyway. but i might fire him anyway.
i subscribe to www.baseballprospectus.com. if you play fantasy baseball or if you really want to understand the game i recommend it to you as well. real life baseball executives deal with these guys and with good reason. they really do see what's going on.
and if you want to find a reason to fire joe torre just take a look at this snippet from a chat with baseball prospectus founder gary huckabay:
Drew (New Jersey): Should Joe Torre be playing Doug or Giambi at first base? Giambi was in a slump at the end of the season and Doug was hot? Do you go with Doug because he's on a hot streak or because of his glove? If they were about the same defensively, would you go with the bad guy on a hot streak or the good hitter in a slump?
Gary Huckabay: I'm trying to envision the circumstance where I would start Mientkiewicz over Giambi. Perhaps if I were paid by the letter.
later all.
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| sorry i haven't written anything in a few days but we've been busy and i have this horrid cold. it's finally getting better but the last two days were just complete ick.
the beer has been in the refrigerator for over a week now. this comes on the heels of two full weeks of warm conditioning. we tasted a couple and it's actually pretty decent though i think that more conditioning is only going to help. it should have more of a head than it did when we first tasted it, and it should be a little less sweet. i THINK that the carbonation is not quite finished and i'm still tasting a little bit of the priming solution. i have to remember that everything seems to take longer with the high gravity beer. but we're pleased with it already and actually let visitors taste it. visitors who liked it too!! yay for buffy brew.
obviously we've been busy as well with the new girls. sadly, it looks like some of them don't have the necessary oomph to be here on a long term basis. Tonya and I have talked a little bit about how to handle this as we go forward, and it looks to me as if we're coming to the same conclusion, which is nice. i think we're going to end up focusing on quality and not worrying too much about anything else. seems to me that quality is the most important consideration we can have. and so...watch this space for more...
and now a recap of the football for week 5.
once again, the competition came down to the final game, and was decided by the tiebreaker. the winner, Pamela's Pal, had 10 points (out of a possible 13), and a prediction of 44 points, which was damn close to the actual 47 scored in the Green Bay/Chicago game. i also had 10, but had picked a low number (34) and got cleanly beat.
four people had 9 points. Tonya, Cool Canada, The Duke of Windsor, and Joisey. However, they had all been eliminated by the time the last game began. Tonya, Cool Canada, and Joisey all picked Green Bay to win the Sunday night game, as did both Pamela's Pal and me. So they couldn't catch us. The Duke had only 8 points going into the last game, so his pick of Chicago brought him up to 9 but didn't allow him to catch up enough to win. still, it was another extremely close week, and it really made the Season Standings close at the top of the board.
Season standings can be seen at 2007 Season Standings in City Hall. next week's games are now posted at The Promos Page.
i have a fair amount of stuff to do today ranging from errands to (ick yuck) bookkeeping so i'm off for now. i'll catch everyone later. enter the football and call a hot girl!!
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| before i get to the playoffs i want to mention a couple of things. but i'll try and be quick about it.
Tonya and I and she who shall remain nameless have been busting our butts working on the site. it's all set up nicely now and i think you're going to be very pleased.
we've brought in a group of new girls (and more are on their way), and tried to make it easy, simple, and affordable for all of you to meet them. i'm going to take this opportunity to welcome them and introduce them to you as well. i hope they all have fun and enjoy themselves here. i'm sure you'll enjoy meeting them. they include Angelica, Desiree, Kylie Ann, Leslie, Lyndsey, Lia, Melanie, Reagan, Stacey, and Trixie.
we've set it up so that you can call these girls at easy flat rates. 10 minutes for $20, 20 minutes for $40, 30 minutes for $60. one of the things we're proud of is that we sell CALLS and not minutes. we think it's the fairest way to do things, and it lets the caller know what he's going to spend before the call even begins. we applaud those other companies that do the same. we also think that when you compare this to some of the prices out there, we're offering good value.
i want to also invite everyone to our new free gallery section. whether you're a friend of ours already or a friend we haven't met yet, i'm sure you'll enjoy the hot photos. and we have a lot of them up and a lot more to follow. you can see them (as long as you're old enough) at www.baycityblues.com/galleries.html, where there is a list and a link to each and every gallery posted so far.
ok enough with work. i got a small grumble about my new glasses. i wear progressive lenses (no line bifocals), which change strength gradually from the top/distance section to the bottom/reading section. the intermediate part is perfect for me when i'm at the computer. unfortunately, the new ones (which Tonya says make me look like Elvis Costello, and i've yet to determine if that's good or bad) had the intermediate and lower sections set too low, and though i tried to use them, it gave me an almost instant headache at the computer. i went back to the optician and they're actually going to have the lab remake the lenses from scratch. but i want them and now i have to wait another week probably.
waiting sucks. it's all i can do to wait for the beer and not put some in the refrigerator today. but i am going to force myself to wait the full two weeks (day after tomorrow). even though the baseball being on only makes it worse.
i love october baseball. though i will say that living on pacific time now really throws me off with the time games start. the first game is just starting as i type this. a noon start. (even weirder is football starting at 10 am on sundays). we get three games today. the yankees/indians series doesn't start until tomorrow.
the yankees are apparently big favorites in that series. i don't really get it. to me it's probably close to even. the yankees probably have a little better offense, and rivera has been an excellent closer once again (he's not the same as he was but he's still better than almost anyone else). but the indians are probably going to have the best pitcher on the mound at the start of every game. and they'll start Sabathia twice, and i wouldn't argue much if you wanted to say he was the best pitcher in all of baseball this year.
the game that just started and is taking my focus away from writing this is the rockies at the phillies. this series is going to have a ton of scoring and be a lot of fun to watch i think. both teams have excellent hitting, and both ballparks are super friendly to hitters. the scoring may all start in game 2, however. right now i recommend turning the tv on if you like pitching. it's jeff francis against cole hamels, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better matchup of two excellent young left handers. though there's francis giving up a triple just as i type this. this could be a really enjoyable series to watch. i wouldn't want to place a bet on it though. i think they're very close teams. the phillies MIGHT have a little better bullpen. the rockies MIGHT have a little better starting rotation. both teams can hit. Utley and Howard are pretty good players so MAYBE i would give the phillies an edge. but as i said, i wouldn't want to bet on this one.
later we get the angels and the red sox. this one i might be willing to bet on. even with really only three starters, the sox look to me like they just outclass the angels. the sox bullpen is terrific. if the starters get the team to the 6th inning, they should win in three. and i think Beckett is an excellent pitcher, and if they need him later in the series, he'll be ready again. i'm a stat guy but he's also got serious big game experience. the sox bullpen throws strikes. the angels hit ground ball singles. the sox have power scattered through the lineup. i hope the angels enjoy their experience, but i think it's going to be a short one.
the final series and tonight's game is the cubbies at the diamondbacks. i may have made fun of Carlos Zambrano and Ted Lilly, but arizona is going to have Livan Hernandez and Doug Davis in their rotation. that's no choice at all. the only decent starter the d'backs have is Brandon Webb (who'll go against Zambrano tonight). they had better win tonight or i think they're in big trouble in this series. and arizona is full of freeswinging righty batters, which could really help Zambrano. lot of power in both teams lineup, but i think the pitching wins this series for the cubs.
everyone have fun and see if there isn't time to squeeze in a phone sex call between games. or between innings. or make it your seventh inning stretch ritual.
later all!
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| actually i don't know if i'll write MUCH more here today since i have about a thousand things to do today. but let's get started.
first i have to say that you no longer gotta believe in the mets. i've already received my first smart ass email joke about them. a joke i've now heard for years.
what's the difference between a ny yankee hot dog and a ny mets hot dog?
you can eat a ny yankee hot dog in october.
ok time to move on.
football.
this was probably the closest and most suspenseful week so far. going into the final game there were 4 entrants tied at 7 points each. ALL of them picked Philly to win the evening game. since it's tough to win when your quarterback ties the all time NFL record for times being unceremoniously dumped on your ass, that choice didn't work out real well. there were three entrants who had 6 points going into the evening game who had picked the giants. this gave us SEVEN entrants tied with 7 points each at day's end.
the winner was Kira, who chose philly in the evening game but won anyway with a tiebreaker prediction of 37. this was the lowest score chosen by any entrant and made her an easy winner as the final score of the game was 16-3.
updated season standings can be found at Season Standings in City Hall.
for those of you worried about the earth spinning off of its axis, you can relax now. i've returned to my expected score with an extremely impressive total of 3 this week. out of a possible 13. sigh.
i need the beer to be ready. it's been in the bottles for 10 days now undergoing warm conditioning. we'll leave it until friday and then put some in the refrigerator. ideally it should condition cold for another two weeks, but some of it is going to last only as long as it takes to get cold. this beer should actually continue to condition for months, but considering my exceptional lack of patience (in almost every part of my life), there's no possible way i'm waiting that long to try it.
our new arrangement will be set up (crossing fingers here) on the site sometime late tomorrow afternoon or early evening. i'll get the prices and faq rewritten for everyone later today or early tomorrow. i think everyone will be happy with the new setup. we're looking forward to it.
ok i'm going to post the next week's games shortly on The Promos Page. all of you have a great day and call a hot phone sex girl.
later all.
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| for those of you who know tim mcgraw but aren't old enough to remember his father tug mcgraw, here's a picture. for those of you who ARE old enough to remember, don't give up just yet. the phillies are losing 2 - 0 after five innings as i write this.
tug is the fourth from the left in the second row, number 45, (two over from Willie Mays) and was an excellent relief pitcher for that Mets team which won their division with only 82 wins. they went on to the world series that year and lost in 7 (and probably should have won).
he's the one who coined the phrase in the title of this post. and you Mets fans who are ready to give up should remember it.
ya gotta believe.
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he's also known for a response he gave to a reporter who asked him whether he preferred grass or astroturf. he told the reporter, "I don't know. I've never smoked Astroturf."
howard
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| the cubs clinched the national league central division title today.
the last year they were in a world series was 1945.
the last year they won a world series was 1907.
they have the lowest winning percentage of any team that's going to be in the playoffs this year. their hitting is horrendous for a playoff team. you can keep alfonso soriano and his 130 strikeouts and lousy .334 on base percentage. the only hitter on their team i would even want on my team is maybe derrek lee and considering he's a first baseman his stats don't knock me out either.
their pitching impresses me even less. having a rotation anchored by carlos zambrano (whose best attribute is that he keeps showing up) and ted lilly (jeez) is nothing i'd want to take into the playoffs. and as far as i can tell the bullpen is ryan dempster and whomever they yank out of the stands. but i'm going to root for them anyway.
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(talking blues)
By the shores of old Lake Michigan
Where the "hawk wind" blows so cold
An old Cub fan lay dying
In his midnight hour that tolled
'Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
They knew his time was short
And on his head they put this bright blue cap
From his all-time favorite sport
He told them "it's late and it's getting dark in here"
And I know it's time to go
But before I leave the line-up
There's just one thing I'd like to know
(Chorus, sung)
Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around?
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy covered burial ground?
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League.
...
(talking blues)
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
I'll read you my last request
Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the National Anthem
And then a little "na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye"
Make six bullpen pitchers carry my coffin
And six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
And conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
And I'll be ready to die
Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in the beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind
When my last remains go flying over the left field wall
We'll bid the bleacher bums adieu
I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue
From "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" by Steve Goodman
howard
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| hi everyone. sorry i haven't written in a couple of days but i think all our friends will be happy with the results.
we're going to be starting our new system this coming week. if everything continues to go right, it should start on Tuesday evening, October 2. we have a good new group of hotties starting with us and i'm certain you're going to like them. additionally, they'll be more accessible to you...which you should read as more affordable. :-)
if you don't get as much time on IM or if they neglect to answer an email...well, that's because they are MUCH better at phone sex than they are at emails. and Tonya and I are pretty sure that's the way most of you want it.
our girls who are still with us are a special group. they do a lot and they are exceptional in several ways...not to mention the fact that they're the hottest, sexiest group of ladies you're ever going to meet. they deserve to be paid in the fashion they deserve, and so they're going to have their prices raised a little bit.
all the prices will be very clearly laid out on each page. both the new girls and our present group will be available through the same phone number. i'd like to stress the point that we sell CALLS and not MINUTES. we let YOU choose the length of the call. there's no holding you on the phone, using scripts, techniques to keep you holding, or anything like that. we do it that way so that everyone is aware that there's NO incentive for our ladies to do anything but share the best calls available anywhere with you.
to make things simpler and cleaner we're changing the length of calls which can be purchased as well. our new girls will be available for 10, 20, and 30 minute calls. this will give everyone a chance to meet them all and to experiment without destroying your budget. and should you want a longer call...well it's certainly easy enough to call us back. :-)
our present girls will have different call lengths as well. some of you will be thrilled with the fact that we finally have a 45 minute call available. we're making the longest call available an hour. i'm aware that a few of you make longer calls. but we really don't want anyone to get partway through a very long call and feel that they've overspent. this way nobody will get ahead of themselves (and we watch for it BECAUSE we know our girls are so sexy) and nobody will have cause to be uncomfortable. and, again, we're easy enough to call back.
i do have some other things to write about (baseball always catches me this time of year. my brother the Mets fan may disagree right now however. hahaha. man what a dive.) but we think this is important enough to merit its own post. i'll be back later and catch up with you on some nonsense. and send in your football entries!!!
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| well we've gone back to reality. reality being the place where i don't win.
i do however think it's about time some caller actually won. that didn't happen this week either though it was down to the last game (which made it close for about one quarter). sorry chicago people. hope the cubs don't end up the same way. though that could NEVER happen. right? right? helloooooo?
anyway this week's winner is Marilyn with 11 points out of a possible 15. this is her first week entering which puts her a little bit behind in the season standings, but if she keeps this up she can make it up. she just beat out our Graphics Whiz, who ended with 10 points and would have won had the bears been anywhere near as good as everyone kept saying they were BEFORE they actually had to play football. he's also a first time entrant, which should tell all of you to ENTER! there's a free call up for grabs every week and you can win even if you haven't ever entered before.
several other people ended with 10 points also, though all of them got the 10th point in the dallas win and didn't have any chance to catch marilyn going into the game. this group includes Wendy, our Cool Canadian, and Pamela's Pal (who was looking REALLY good after the early games with 7 of 9 (woohoo like Jeri Ryan), but struggled in the later games).
the biggest game here was probably Cleveland against Oakland. the field goal being blocked at the end was gigantic for Marilyn, who wouldn't have won had cleveland won. i'm not really sure who would have won in that case. i think it would have come down to the tiebreaker. the stupid jets actually winning a game made a big difference too i think. several people were close behind at 9 points including me, Tonya, me, Mr. Vibrator, Joisey, Down East, and Jenny. this puts 10 people within 2 points of the weekly win and just goes to show you that you should ENTER.
sorry i'll stop yelling. hehe. right behind, at 8 points, were Pamela and the Red Sox Fan. a larger group was at 7.
i'll try to get the next week's games posted tonight. if i get too lazy i'll post them tomorrow. the season standings are posted here.
later everyone.
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| it just occurred to me that SOMEONE might be interested in just what i'm trying to make with this beer.
then again, you might just think i'm being pedantic. if so, please skip the rest of this entry and go look at porn or something.
there's an outfit called the "beer judge certification program." like just about everything else involved with making and drinking beer, there are people who hate it and sneer at it and people who think it's an excellent plan and organization.
my concern has to do with the fact that, IMO, they have a nice breakdown for different styles of beer. you can see the full list at www.bjcp.org/styles04/.
i'm attempting to make what they call #18E Belgian Strong Ale. and lest anybody get the wrong idea, there's no way i think i can come within a planet of making Rochefort or Westvleteren (which i used to be able to get regularly and it's one of the sad parts of my life that it's not possible to get it here any more). should i ever think i could make them i'm certain the very thought would ensure (in case there's any doubt remaining) that i'm going to hell.
but i will say that so far it's falling within the mathematical guidelines. It had an OG of 1.090, an FG of 1.020. i THINK i'm on the high side of "IBU" or International Bittering Units. that's a factor of how much bitterness you have from hops. but i'm guessing at the "utilization" of the hops so it's not possible to get the formula exactly right. i don't know how the hell you're supposed to figure how much of the hop bitterness is utilized. they have charts but they look like guesses to me. anyway, by their charts i'm probably somewhere between 25 and 30 as far as i can tell. SRM is a measure of how dark the beer is. i would say i'm right around 20. according to the beer judge certification program, "For example, an American light lager would be around 2-4 SRM, a Pilsner between 3-5, an Oktoberfest in the 5-14 range, and a Doppelbock in the 20-30 range." next time i'll use a little spanish moss as a clarifier (or buy a wort chiller and get a real cold break).
anyway just tossing this in to show my obsessive nature.
later.
howard
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| happy sunday everyone.
my picks for this week are:
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Philadelphia Eagles
Indianapolis Colts
Miami Dolphins
Baltimore Ravens
New England Patriots
Pittsburgh Steelers
Denver Broncos
Seattle Seahawks
Cleveland Browns
Carolina Panthers
Washington Redskins
Chicago Bears and the tiebreaker total is 47.
Also a report on the Buffy Brew. Tonya and I racked and bottled the batch yesterday. It spent 15 days in the secondary fermenter for a total of about 27 days total fermenting. The final gravity was 1.020 giving us an alcohol by volume of 9.17% (woohoo). The original gravity was 1.090. This also put my mind to rest on a couple of things. There was no crud and absolutely no funny smells coming from the beer. Plus this gives a 77% apparent attenuation (efficiency of fermentation or basically how much of the available sugar was converted to alcohol. 77% is right at the very top of what Wyeast says this yeast...1388 Belgian Strong Ale...should give). So I'm very pleased and have high hopes for this batch.
I'm going to let it sit for two weeks conditioning warm (approx 75 degrees) and then put some in the refrigerator. It would be nice to let it sit for two weeks cold but obviously we're going to taste some before that.
Anyone who's applied to us recently and who might be reading this please note that we are going to start contacting people tomorrow. We have a gorgeous new page for your profiles which we're going to approve and we're very excited about going forward.
everyone enjoy the football and make a phone sex call today!!
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com
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| it's been soooo difficult to find time when i can write something. the last week (and next week too) have been are are going to be WAY busy. i float between too busy to write and exhausted.
the web designer is just about done. we have a page for the new girls that would DO what we want it to, but i don't think we're happy with the style and i think we're going to fuss with him a little bit.
this is a good time to let friends and callers know a little bit about what we're implementing. we're going to have a two tiered structure. our operators (and you may have noticed that the number of people here has pared down a bit) who are here now will be one tier and new operators joining us will start on a second tier. those girls who are here will continue to write journals, visit chat, answer IMs, use email, and so on. they will be billed (and paid) at a higher rate than they are now.
and i personally think that's way fair. any of you who call those numbers in the back of the stroke magazines (and those are the businesses that REALLY make money in this industry) know that even though they say stuff like starting at 69c a minute or nonsense like that, if you want to actually speak one on one with a single girl you're being billed at $4.99 or $5.99 a minute. and good luck if you like a girl and actually want to speak with the same girl again. (and don't get me going on hold times and stuff like that).
we are in the business of selling CALLS not minutes. i think it's important for people to be aware of that. it seems somehow fairer to me. it's not open ended and it gives no incentive to operators to do ANYTHING but have a good call with you. and i think that's exactly what those girls who remain here DO attempt. their focus is on a quality experience.
so the girls who are here now and who are staying with us will get paid what they deserve. new girls have had an extremely high turnover rate. those of you who have been friends of ours for any length of time know that. so what we're going to do is give new people a chance without it costing us or you a fortune. they will join us and their calls will be billed at a lower rate. they will NOT be expected to IM with you or go into chat or make personal websites or keep live journals. however, many of you know that such things make for a richer experience. i imagine that those who take to this will end up doing much of that of their own volition. and we're certainly going to make it POSSIBLE for them to do so.
we intend to give new girls a good opportunity to show both you and us how good they are and how seriously they take this. but since they're not going to be expected to invest the same amount of time, we will all meet them at a reduced rate. so we will have a two tiered series of prices. new girls will actually be less expensive to speak with than the girls here now are. but the girls here who are remaining with us are a special group, as anyone who has called them knows, and they will be a little bit more costly to speak with.
we think this is a fair way to treat both callers and our girls. we can give a lot of opportunity both to new girls and to callers who have a smaller budget, while still fairly compensating those girls who are special and different from those you can find at any number of generic places.
and for those of you curious about some of my major concerns (though god only knows why you would be), you might be surprised to hear that my MAJOR BIGGEST MOST SERIOUS concern without any doubt is making the new prices SUPER SUPER NO WAY TO MISS THEM clear on the website. because i personally thought we had done so already, but the absolute most common question on dispatch is "How much does a call cost?" so the designer is going to incorporate it in such a way that there is NO question (i hope).
i've been busy with other stuff too. i finally went for an eye exam. the scrip didn't change much but i MUST get new glasses. i wear progressive lenses and this pair is two years old and kind of...uh...lopsided. and any of you who wear them know what that means. it means you literally can't see straight. hehe. sad but true. so it's time to deal with it.
i got a referral to a new accountant and have an appointment with him next week. i've always had the same accountant and have NO idea how difficult it's going to be to adapt to a new one. but every state is different and i think you really need one that's familiar with the area you live/work in.
i finally have all the 2257 (that's the dirty picture record keeping requirement statute for those of you who aren't familiar with it) stuff in the new program. it will make it much easier for me as we add new pictures, new operators, new websites (with new galleries wooohoo) and such. the record keeping is actually more difficult than having the records required. sigh. it's because you aren't just supposed to HAVE an id but also a date of production, a local copy of every image, a list of each set with name, a list of url's (and i can continue cause there's more) but they all have to be cross referenceable to each other. the new proposed regulations actually say something about having a hard copy of people's ID. the free speech coalition reads that the same way i did, which is to say you're like supposed to take the model's driver's license and keep it or some nonsense like that. but now that the attorney general who proposed them has quit over other stuff, who knows what new regulations they'll look for. i just know i needed to make it easier for me both now and whenever they do come up with new stuff. so it's easier now (now that i lived through days of the world's most tedious data entry work).
the beer!! the beer has been in the secondary fermenter for 14 days now (actually if we bottle it this afternoon it will have been 15 days). this makes about 28 days total it's been in the two fermenters. i finally see just about no more bubbles in the airlock (maybe like one every three minutes as of yesterday. MAYBE that many). so i think it's time to bottle. it's going to get another 10 days or two weeks in the bottle warm and then maybe some time cold as well so conditioning isn't nearly finished anyway. man i hope i didn't screw anything up. this high gravity beer does NOT work the same as the lower gravity one did at ALL. one of the reasons i'm so ready to bottle it is because i want to run a hydrometer reading and see how big a change in gravity there is. what i really want to know how successful the fermentation was. yeah the reading will tell me the percentage of alcohol in the beer but more important to me is what percentage of sugars i've actually converted to alcohol. this is how i'm going to learn for the future.
and i can see i'm aimed for trouble. i've started looking at brewing setups in magazines the way other guys look at girlie pics. i'm looking at pics of tanks welded together and fancy fittings and hoses that run beer through supercoolers and fermenters that have false bottoms where you can catch the trub (settled out yeast residue) and hops if you don't use a bag and take that material out and not have to move the beer into a secondary. it just becomes a clean secondary and you have less sanitation problems and...damn. sorry. but you get the idea. i'm gonna end up turning some room into a brewery i can fuckin' see it. i need a more powerful heater and some better way to aerate the wort and oh i want a cooler bad and if i want to do all grain i need. stop. sorry. but you probably get the idea.
i also want to toss out a pffft to all those people who didn't yell at me when i made this blog and used nucleus instead of wordpress. now that i've done a little work with Tonya's Wordpress Blog i want wordpress instead of nucleus. and it's going to be one giant pain in the ass to do it. especially since i like want to do it NOW and i have to instead get a large new group of people put to work. i'll just toss it on the list.
i'll talk to everyone a little later on. send in your football picks (another thing on my list). have a great weekend and make phone sex calls.
:-)
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| Fashion designer Marc Ecko is the man who bought the baseball hit by Barry Bonds for record setting home run number 756.
He's made a website called www.vote756.com, where you can vote for one of three choices for what should be done with the baseball. You can vote to have it given to the hall of fame, to have it branded with an asterisk and then sent to the hall of fame, or to have it blasted into outer space on a rocket and be banished from earth forever. (similar to throwing it out but with MUCH more style.)
I voted to send it to the hall of fame. You should all vote whatever you like. But damn that's a cool idea.
howard
Bay City Blues Phone Sex and TonyaJoneMiller.com (though nobody should EVER assume i speak for her or anything like that. )
:-)
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