This Morning I Mutter These Babe Ruthian Mutterings...

Normally I just have to type something here. I can't just put up mutterings without an intro. No, no, no, I just can't.

But at the moment I can't think of anything to type. Nothing to mention. The fact that it finally got above freezing today (now yesterday) for the first time in about two weeks? Nah, I won't mention that.

Baseball season starts tonight ... sort of ... there were already two regular season games played in Japan but the Washington Nationals and the loser Atlanta Jerkwads play their first game tonight, in the brand spankin' shiny new stadium in Washington, D.C. ... should I mention that? Nah. Nothing to mention there especially no comment on the fact that the stadium is temporarily called Nationals Park. That's a great name because it doesn't have some stoopid corporate moniker attached to it ... yet. But it will. And then in a few years the name will undoubtedly have to be changed just like so many stadiums and arenas and summertime music venues in North America nowadays. Pretty sad situation when an arena that's only ten years old is now on its 3rd name. Come on, give me a break. Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Lambeau Field, Soldier Field ... ahhh, at least some organizations have class.

Anyway... here's what Nationals Park looked like around Spring of 2005... (if you're confused, that's looking straight down from space... I should also add that construction had not yet even started at the time of this satellite imagery.)

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A lot different than today... actually this was yesterday, the real first game at the new stadium. borrowed from -- Nats320 ...many more great pics of the opening of the ballpark so go check 'em out!

Alright, well enough with not mentioning anything for the beginning of this morning's post...

on with:

Unconscious Mutterings

a free association game -- I say... and you think ... ?

1. Stuffed :: oysters

2. Gills :: fish

3. Distance :: runner ... Long distance runner
what you standing there for?
Get up, get off, get out of the door
You're playing cold music on the bar room floor,
drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
There's a dragon with matches loose on the town
Take a whole pale of water just to cool him down

Fire - Fire on the mountain
Fire - Fire on the mountain

4. Panties :: seriously? Ohhh-kay. String bikini, cute, sexy, mine are red.

5. Checkered :: past ... surely mine's completely on the up and up, not checkered at all ... more like plaid.

6. Fill in :: the blank

7. Taunting :: picking on

8. Diner :: New Jersey! When you grow up in New Jersey/the northeast U.S., you know diners! I grew up in a (relatively) small town with a population of about 12,000 and we had 3 diners ... and within a 20 minute drive another 3 dozen ... and I've been to 'em all! The further you travel away from the area, the harder it is to find a real diner. Denny's doesn't count.

9. Pizza :: We also had as many as 5 pizza places and pizza place absolutely does not refer to pizza hut or dominoes. We didn't have any chains, we just had real NJ pizza places. (I didn't even have a pizza hut or dominoes pizza until i moved out of NJ when I was 18.) What is real NJ pizza? Brother and best friend to a NY pie, that's what ... and if ya don't know what a NY pie is, please, hop the next plane for NYC and have one!!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!?!

10. Best friend :: Man's best friend -- dog

Bendix Diner
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
about 15-20 minutes from where I lived...
one of the most famous diners in the world,
on Route 17 kinda close to the Meadowlands