Well, I'm back. I was at the Tribe game on Tuesday. This is the third game I've been to this year. I have seen 3 wins and no losses. Two of those were against first-place Chicago, the other against the Yankees. But it was damn cold that night. Thank God, we were in club seats. Speaking of cold, the burgers were served cold that night. Not sure what was happening, but there were only a few vendors carrying stuff around, which is typically popcorn and Cracker Jack and the sirloin was as tough as shoe leather. Kind of disappointing, but hey, it's still the clubs.

Then it was birthday day on Wednesday. I get to share that day with "The Logo" Jerry West, Jim Thorpe, Ian Fleming, Kylie Minogue and her butt, John Fogerty, Jason Belser (for the football fans), MTV's Kari Wuhrer, Christa Miller (from "The Drew Carey Show"), Glen Rice from U of M, Armon Gilliam from UNLV, Kirk Gibson ("Here comes Gibson..."), Eddie from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", Gladys Knight, Rudy Giuliani, Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, all of those Dionne Quints, "Papa" Don't Preach I mean, "Papa" John Creach, William Pitt (the Younger), and dear God, Jack Kevorkian.

Last night, Drew and I headed over to O's. Unfortunately, I still gotta lay off the suds. But Jim Beam visited for a pop. We were lucky in that the menu had some of my favorites on it, so I jumped on the Andouille Florentine soup and had a Po Boy. And we probably watched more of the Women's College World Series than was necessary.

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OK, let's play catch up.

In case you wanna start watching "The Wire", there will be recaps, from the beginning. These are very good primers from one of the best critics out there.

Rolling Stone has the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. Let the debate begin. Not enough John Fogerty and only one Red Hot Chili Peppers. Lots of Jeff Beck, though.

This Ohio lawmaker wants to ban pit bulls in our state. Well, we've run the gays out, so now we are starting on the animals.

Iggy Pop has a really funny concert rider. Beer that "...starts with a letter "B" and end with "udweiser" probably won't cut it and "Somebody dressed as Bob Hope" made me laugh.

Our President is now like the Browns during the first round of this year's NFL draft. Off the clock.

The schedule is up for Bonnaroo. I am sure the AT&T Blue Room will have video.

Bourdain talks about the latest episode of "Top Chef". He also admits the worst thing he ever ate as judge was in this episode.

Bono got an honorary law degree the other day. In Japan.

A whole bunch of stuff about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I did not know 25% of their tour profits goes to charity.

Kajagoogoo lives!

Scarlett Johansson's record is selling worse than K-Fed. Ouch.

"The Big Lebowski" is in the news. In "Mutts". NPR shows some love. for "The Dude". Double feature in December.

Milwaukee is erecting a statue of "The Fonz". I wish Andy Kaufmann was around for his impersonation of "The Fonzie".

Drew and I were talking about old-time Saturday night television (Roy Clark was mentioned and that morphed into "Hee Haw"), and I brought up "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell". Yes, that actually happened.

The Incredible Hulk fought a lot of things. Here are his 10 Best Brawls.

What's on the tube this summer?

This has been a long fight. The People vs. Metallica.

Exercise Yard

May as well catch up on some old Tribe players, as well. Last night, home runs were hit by Jody Gerut and Russell Branyan. In the major leagues. Jeff Kent and Brandon Phillips also homered, but they've been doing that for a while.

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