Every single Kramer entrance from Seinfeld, in chronological order, in a little over six minutes. Enjoy!
I went over to Baton Rouge this past Saturday with my friend John Stevenson and his family to visit my old friend Dan McCarney — who is now the Assistant Head Coach of the Florida Gators — and to attend the SEC showdown between the 4th-ranked LSU Tigers and the no. 1 ranked Gators. The Gators won 13-3 in a defensive slugfest.
Gameday Saturday in Baton Rouge is a special cultural event. The entire state of Louisiana — which produces more NFL players per capita than any state in the U.S. — takes special pride in its flagship university and its football team. A record Tiger Stadium crowd of over 93,000 attended the game, but tens of thousands more milled around outside the stadium in hundreds of tailgating parties (which feature splendid Cajun and New Orleans-inspired cuisine) spread throughout the campus.
The atmosphere for a big Saturday night football game is so intimidating for the opposition that the stadium was nicknamed "Death Valley" years ago. The Florida win on Saturday night snapped a 32-game winning streak for LSU in Saturday night games at Death Valley.
Here is slideshow that will give you a glimpse of Gameday Saturday in Baton Rouge. It is one the special experiences in college football. Enjoy!
The legendary Roy Orbison, the Boss and James Burton collaborate on one of the best.
Larry Ribstein, who has written extensively about filmmakers’ generally negative views toward business — zeroes in on the irony of Michael Moore’s new reductionist documentary on the evils of capitalism:
The irony is that many of these films could not reach a wide audience if not for their backing by – yes, capitalists. [. . .]
Capitalism is easy to knock because it produces losers that artists can juxtapose with winners. It gets bad press compared to alternatives like socialism that produces less social wealth but also less envy and resentment. The irony is that some of the biggest winners are also the biggest whiners. Only capitalism enables the dissemination of any ideas that anybody wants to hear. Capitalism gives Michael Moore his megaphone.
It’s almost enough to make me an anti-capitalist.
The incomparable Les McCann and Eddie Harris perform one of their signature hits from their great live album of the early 1970’s.
The best local restaurant evaluation guide — Fearless Critic Houston Restaurant Guide 2010 — is now available. The brutally honest restaurant guide is put together by a group of undercover local critics who "dine incognito, don’t accept freebies, and don’t pull punches" in rating a cross-section of 450 restaurants in the Houston metropolitan area.
Da Marco, Tony’s and Catalan take the top three spots this time around (the guide is published every other year), but one of the aspects about Fearless Critic that I most enjoy is that it rates restaurants based upon the quality of the food relative to cost, so many not-so-high-priced restaurants rate far better than many expensive restaurants. For example, Huynh, a relatively inexpensive Vietnamese restaurant in downtown, comes in at 7th in the rankings.
You won’t always agree with their evaluations, but the Fearless Critics make their case well. It’s definitely worth the eleven buck cost currently on Amazon. Check it out.