Why the hell did Fred Flintstone order a piece of meat so heavy it made his car fall over? What an idiot.

Can you trust this man’s judgement?Clerks and associates who have worked with him paint a picture of a polite, modest, quietly humorous man who enjoys baseball?he’s a Phillies fan?and who enjoys exploring the ethnic restaurants that surround his office in Newark.The emphasis is all mine.

Drop 250,000 super balls into San Francisco and you get this. (19 MB download)

You know what’s the worst feeling? When you go to print out your will call confirmation number “just to be on the safe side” and you look at the email and it says, “Delivery: US Mail.” Shit And it’s an hour before the show starts. Shit. Shit. So stupid ass nexttix.com never sent me my…

Man Arrested For Sprinkling Fecal Matter On Pastries When I saw this headline I thought to myself, “How can you sprinkle fecal matter?” and to my surprise the reporter totally answered my question.

I am getting pretty damn old. At least I have tickets for tonight’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at the TLA.

So Time Magazine put together a list of the best 100 novels since 1923 and blogger Matt Baldwin came up with the genius idea of finding bad Amazon reviews for the list. The results are hilarious.Lord of the Flies (1955) Author: William Golding ?I am obsessed with Survivor, so I thought it would be fun.…

Attention Odd Man In players who are thinking of donating: Today is your last day to get double tokens! Head here for details.

According to this site, it’s worth $12,984. Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, I’ve created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

Check out XPN’s top 885 albums of all time. Of course, no mention of the list would be complete without some blasphemy. 126 ALANIS MORISSETTE JAGGED LITTLE PILL 1995 127 MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER 1982 or how about 25 COUNTING CROWS AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER 1993 118 BECK ODELAY 1996

You have to love any spam that starts out like this.Link exchange request Hello, I have found your website bengarvey.com by searching Yahoo for “chipotle mexican grill identity theft”. I think our websites has a similar theme, so I have already added your link to my website.

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on and testing a system that allows Odd Man In players to donate money to the development and expansion of the game and get something back in return. I added a section to the Odd Man In FAQ explaining what donations are for, how to do it,…

1. My face. That photo is at least 3 years old and it needs to be replaced with something more current. 2. The clutter. There is entirely too much text on the front page. In the next redesign I’m going to eliminate everything but the essentials. 3. Not having anonymous comments anymore. Spam forced me…

I like Franz Ferdinand, but I’m not a huge fanatic. That said, I’ve seen them live twice and they are really tight in person. My ears are still ringing, too. They played just about every song from their first CD and a bunch from the new one. Sons and Daughters opened up and I didn’t…

Wow, what a great t-shirt for a record store. Robot Johnson.

Wow, those new iPods look awesome. They’re thinner, have bigger screens, play video and have a video output jack for a TV. You can also buy TV shows from iTunes 6 for $1.99. Oh well, here’s an MP3 link to the new Cardigans song.

About a week ago I finished Neal Stephensen’s Cryptonomicon and I thought it was great, although a bit long. I felt like I was reading it for a year, but the pacing picked up by the end. It’s the story of three people, two set in World War II and a third in the present…

Thankfully Congress has woken up to the fact that our interrogation policies have been unclear and that they’re hurting opinions of us around the world. Torture doesn’t work anyway since the person being tortured will just tell you want you want to hear. In a sharp bipartisan rebuff to President George Bush, Republican and Democratic…

Did I seriously hear a Stephen Malkmus song in a Sears commercial?

When I left for the Bamboo Bernies open mic last night the flyers were tied 3-3. It was 5-3 by the time I got there. What the hell? Anyway, I had a good showing at their open mic. Justin has been requesting my cover of Gomez’s “Get Miles” for a while so I finally gave…