Retro Links - 3/27/2008

In honor of Ja-Bay being traded whilst I was on vacation. Regular links up this Thursday.


"Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach."

Theme Song
Dead Milkmen - Life is Shit

Here is your precious baseball, Where is your God now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely loved this FN book

Goddamn mini-golf

LOLCat of the week
ahhhh they are so cute I forgot about my murderous rage for a moment

I am glad the Rooney's cleared this up for me

Your MLS season preview

You too can now know who yo baby daddy is

Pirates season preview - This is the year they win 70, I can feel it

From the NL Central Season preview on Deadspin, no link, just quote:
"I hate being a Pirates fan. At least when the Cubs suck people still give them a sideways glance.

Shit, the Pirates wouldn't make national news unless Jason Bay ripped off his human mask, exposed himself as one of the aliens from "V", hit a grand slam that went into the river, consumed a live rat as he rounded the bases, and then jumped into the mothership, cackling manically about stealing all of Earth's water, and took off into the sky.
Well....
They still wouldn't make it into the top ten plays on ESPN, because I'm sure Jack Wilson would fuck it all up somehow. "

KSK Mock Draft
I choose "Chasing Amy." I always thought the ending with him and her not talking again then meeting again a year later and being cool with each other to show that each has grown was unnneccesary. They should break up, then Amy goes on some batshit crazy lezbian and blow bender, shoots smack into her eye and winds up dead in an alley.

Link of the Week
Big Daddy Drew is Balls Deep and in the Zone