has the bs hit the fan?

A couple weeks ago, Adam Carolla was explaining how he had to stand up for the creative future of his show at the end of last year, and ended up calling in "sick" for a few days. He mentioned that he recently had a discussion with one of his buddies that is going through a similar situation. At the time I wondered if he was talking about Bill Simmons, as he often sites being handcuffed by his editors and ESPN. The last month or so I've noticed there have been a lack of columns lately, but that's nothing new to those who have followed his work for years. Plus, if I'm being 100% honest (and lets face it, when aren't I? Abe Lincoln what?) lately I've been enjoying his podcasts more than his columns anyhow.

Well, I might have been onto something. (or it may be purely coincidental) (Screw it, I was on to something like Nancy Drew Scooby Doo!) I stumbled across this article over at Deadspin:

We're not the only ones who noticed that Bill Simmons hasn't written a column in two weeks — until today, anyway — and hasn't been featured much on the home page of ESPN.com. We figured it was nothing; the man has taken extended breaks before. But, just to be thorough, we emailed him and asked if anything was up. His response, on the record, surprised us. Here's Simmons' complete remarks on his (relative)
absence from ESPN.com over the last month or so.

Yes, I still work for ESPN. No, I'm not writing for ESPN.com as much — my choice, not theirs. That's just the way it will be from now on, unfortunately. I'd have more to say, but I'd end up being profane and I don't want to offend Buzz Bissinger.

When we inquired further, Simmons went on:

I still love writing my column and only re-signed last year because I really did believe that we had hashed out all the behind the scenes bullshit and come to some sort of agreement on creative lines, media criticism rules, the promotion of the column and everything else on ESPN.com. Within a few months, all of those things changed and certain promises were not kept. It's as simple as that.

So yeah, that's pretty interesting. (for those who follow this stuff...not so much for MLW) The article then goes on to share that Simmons has been posting some old stuff here on his own site here: http://sportsguy.blogspot.com/

Hmmm...so are we seeing some sort of throw down between the Sports Guy and ESPN? I believe he has enough of an audience that people would follow him if he went someplace else...there's just the problem of finding him.

Maybe he should ask Dan whatshisface how that's working out for him?

got a gun, fact I got two...

My head just exploded with joke overload after reading this story.

Man uses gun for backscratcher, shoots himself

A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself. Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean. “He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off." Mr. Espinal went back and told his buddies that he shot himself. “They didn’t believe him until they saw the blood coming down his back,” Lt. Dean said. Mr. Espinal was taken to an area hospital, where he was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.

Texan + beer + poker + 3 a.m. + back itch + revolver = Comedy Gold. Frankly I can't believe this never happened to our Commander and Chief back in the day last weekend.

Also, I love how his friends didn't believe that he shot himself. What did they think the thunderous gun shot like noise was that they heard shortly after 3 a.m. when Jorge went to go scratch his back? "OH MAN, Jorge you gotta lay off the bean burritos esse!!"

(sorry, that was the best typed Hispanic accent I could do)

space

balls.

hehehe..

Space. It has always fascinated me as much as it terrifies MLW. Which is a little confusing, since say we're watching Apollo 13 or Muppet's in Space and she'll be like, "This is so scurry, I hate space!". But say in the rare occasion that there's not thirty-seven dogs in between us in bed and I accidentally roll into her, I'll hear, "I need my space!" So I try to argue, that you either like and need space, or you hate it. But then she's like, "I loves me some John Mayer, and he sings about gravity, and space has no gravity fool!". I can't really argue with that logic can I?

Enough fluff. Why an article on space? I always enjoy looking at these great space photos. It looks nothing we have here on Earth and I'm always been enamoured with the unknown.

Plus this one caught my eye. It appears that Cousin Eddie's sewer gas is still circling the Earth!

So yeah...this was the real reason for the post. Not science. Toilet humor. Shocker.

a picture is worth a thousand somethings...

Anyone who saw Idol last night will know why Simon looked this baffled. And no, it wasn't because of one of the final three's performances, or because he "accidentally" left his shirt unbuttoned to his naval.

Phi Theta Crank

When did San Diego State turn into an episode of The Wire? Unbelievable.

SAN DIEGO — Dozens of San Diego State University students were arrested after a sweeping drug investigation found that some fraternity members openly dealt drugs and one even sent a mass text message advertising cocaine, authorities said Tuesday.

Two kilograms of cocaine were seized, along with 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash, authorities said.

Of the 96 people arrested, 75 were students. Eighteen of the students were arrested Tuesday when nine search warrants were executed at various locations including fraternities, said Jesse Rodriguez, San Diego County assistant district attorney.

Wow. I suppose I should feel fortunate that my roommate only tried to sell me Cutco.

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