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January 17, 2013: The Beginning

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Today I have a meeting that could end with me making a large sum of money from CBS or Apple. It's hard to explain and I can't say more than this, but hereby ask for your support anyway.

133 thoughts on “January 17, 2013: The Beginning”

    1. Oh is that it? Spooky's stolen a pallet full of iPads and either Apple will buy them back or CBS wants them for their on-air news talent.

  4. If I'm gonna hafta buy an Apple TV just to watch a show with Jason Priestly... fine, arm twisted.
    Go take a bite of that fruit hanging there. Steal the rhythm while you can, Spoonman.

    (As an aside you possibly only you, even after typing "rhythm" 20 times in the last ten hours, I still can't get it right the first try.)

  5. Best of luck, Spoons, knock em dead. (And considering CBS's primetime lineups, I mean this literally.)

        1. There was a murder next door to my dad last year. It was about the fifth murder there in the history of the town, but hey, it's something.

          I once read that if the number of murders in LA lined up with the number there were on all the Law & Order shows in any given season, the murder rate would be about ten times what it actually is.

          1. Looks like yesterday was the wrong day to make a CSI: Blue Earth County joak. (Assugreying that this actually occurred in Blue Earth County.)

            1. That occurred in Nicollet county. About a block from an elementary school. About half mile from my apartment. I couldn't take the route home that I was planning on yesterday.

              1. When I saw it was North Mankato, I figured as much. If there's one thing about which I'm absolutely certain, it is that the Nicollet County Sheriff's surely handled things completely legally and profesionally.

                1. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, and have little experience with that particular office to direct me in either direction.

                  Oh wait, you're the guy who gets pulled over in St. Peter every time, aren't you? Ok... sarcasm detected.

                    2. Just drive through a few more times.
                      My mom got pulled over in St. Peter.
                      I got pulled over in St. Peter (coming home from a Cypress Hill/Pharcyde concert at Roy Wilkins).
                      Basically everyone in my HS class got pulled over in St. Peter.

                      I wonder if back in 1995 they got a brand new shiny Simmons radar gun...
                      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFoLmfiktGM
                      50 down to 30 oh man oh man.
                      (That's where they got me.)

                    3. I got pulled over in Winnebago. I remember the cop saying he clocked me at 35. I proudly agreed with him. Then he informed me it was a 25 mph limit. I was shocked.

                    5. MN.

                      The two sleeping girls in the backseat got him to just give me a warning.

                      If I get pulled over, I usually get a ticket. I am really bad at pleading. And I usually just shrug and say, "Yes, I was speeding." I need to get better at faking being upset.

  8. Apple has been losing/shedding executive recently and clearly they need to be replaced. spoons is an obvious candidate with his Werewolf manipulation skills.

          1. I would cringe every time butters would come to bat, but at least the dude never slid head first into first base trying to beat out a weak ground out.

            2. How do you know that Punto didn't teach that to the Italian coaches, who will now expect it of all the players?

          2. Who else does Italy have for the team? Paul Lo Duca (ret)?
            If I were an Italy Baseball fan, I'd rather have Butters.

    1. He's shooting the pilot for a new reality show: Strange Bedfellows. Two random multinational conglomerates are locked in a house until they create synergy or something. Strange Bedfellows!

      Good luck!

      2. You forgot, "this is what happens when multinational coglomerates stop being polite and start getting real"

    1. I was pretty disappointed when I saw this. I'll try to walk a fine line here: I find a good conspiracy as interesting as the next person, but there are certain times where Occam's Razor most definitely applies.

      1. A bunch of local sports media folks jumped in to say what's the big deal, which just kind of underlines how dumb a lot of local sports media folks are. There a charitable reading to what he wrote, but he didn't exactly defend himself. "Hey I just said it makes you think" is pretty weak.

        I'm beginning to think that pro athletes maybe aren't that bright.

        1. Yeah. The Twitter thing seems to just... cause trouble for athletes. Sometimes I find it interesting to see these guys so candid. I can only hear a string of cliches from someone's mouth so many times. On the other hand you've got situations like this. If you wouldn't say it to a reporter, don't post it on Twitter.

          1. I like D-Span, and his Twitter is one of the reasons for that, since he seems like a pretty down to earth kind of guy, but this is...not the first time he's said something on there that made me go "huh??"

          2. to be honest, that is my absolute favorite thing about twitter. i'm not saying that i love to see celebrities make asses of themselves, i mean that i enjoy the candor of the thoughts of people i'm interested in untouched by the various levels of gatekeepers insuring the final message comes out benign and nicely polished.

            of course, there are plenty of pitfalls that come with that.

          3. If you wouldn't say it to a reporter, don't post it on Twitter.

            Which is roughly what the Hardball Times guy said, which apparently got the local AP guy bent out of shape for whatever reason. Sigh. Not a good day for the journalistic standards of sports reporters.

        2. I'm beginning to think that pro athletes maybe aren't that bright

          Yeah, unfortunately I think most people aren't that bright.

    2. Perhaps he meant it makes u think and wonder that people will have lots of conspiracy theories about just about anything.

  13. JazzFest Lineup announced. Sheenie and I are going for the first time the first weekend and our three headlines are... John Mayer, Billy Joel, and Dave Matthews. Guess I'll be hanging around the side-stages. That May 5th lineup is killer.

    1. Two visits to the crescent city in the near future, eh? I may be staging a gorilla exhibition from the back of a uhaul near the jazz fest lot.

      1. Yes, very unusual this Spring, but we're coming down twice. Our neighbors are joining us for JazzFest because they've been a few times (while visiting a sibling at Tulane). I'll keep you posted as my visits get closer.

        1. Is your old man riding this year? Which Krewe? I've already been hung over too many days and carnival really hasn't started yet.

            1. Awesome. They make the turn onto St. Charles four blocks from my house so I'm pretty sure I'll be there.

              1. You should hold up a sign telling him you know me. If he's sober enough to read it (not particularly likely), then you'll probably get bombarded with beads from him, Sheenie's father, Sheenie's cousin, and a few others on their float.

                1. Always depends on what side of the street I'm on in relation to the side of the float they're on.

                    1. I've yet to go to a carnival parade, but my experience at St. Paddy's day tells me that there'll be no standing in the road.

    1. The whole channel was centered around the Premier League. Without that come August, they really have next to nothing.

  15. To: Hungry Joe
    re: Stick and Puck Guys

    I didn't renew last year's team, I created a new one. I don't know if that affects things at all, but I thought I'd alert you in case it was clogging the league or something.

  16. Dustin Morse ‏@Twins_morsecode
    The #MNTwins avoided arbitration with Drew Butera & agreed to a 1-year $700,000 contract for 2013.

    what is Butera worth on the open market?

      1. he would have to take a minor league deal
        Corky Miller is still floating around and he cant be any better than Butera.

        1. Back in cinci, iirc.
          Behind "Former Twins Lefty Relievers" and "Former Twins Righty Relievers not named LaTroy", is "Former and current Twins Backup catchers" in the "people I'm likely to follow on Twitter."

      2. I guarantee someone would sign him to a minor league deal. Isn't $220,000 small enough insurance to ensure he remains a Twin??

    3. Call me crazy, but I would have offered him the league minimum and let the case go to arbitration. Well, actually, I would never tendered him an offer to begin with.

      2. Found out MLBTR did a series on projected arbitration salaries for every team. The Twins projections have Butera at $500k. So yeah, I would have given him that and gone to arbitration if he refused. On the plus side, Burton was estimated at $2.1 million and he's signed for $2 million now, plus next year.

    4. Let's see. First year of arb, so his salary should be roughly 40% of the open market value. He was worth 0.2 rWAR and -0.1 fWAR in 2012. Let's call it estimated of 0.1 WAR for 2013. That means the $/win would be $17.5 million. Roughly.

          1. its a tongue-in-cheek blog post to rile up Packers fans. RandBallsStu has been doing it most of this season.

  18. My wife just called me on her break. Apparently, someone was calling the New York offices of her company, trying to get personnel information, claiming to be my wife. Something must have seemed off about this, because the caller was challenged to name her boss, and she didn't even get the gender correct. So, immediately we can probably rule out a career move by someone in the store (it sounds like it's extremely cutthroat in that building, but anyone in the building would know who the Milkmaid reports to). It's probably a vendor looking for some inside info, and at this point, after failing the boss question, is unlikely to call back.

    I realize this isn't personal in any way, more than likely, but it seriously ticks me off that some unscrupulous b*^ch would invoke my wife's name for fraudulent purposes.

      1. I just figure the person running this con should maybe have been able to answer a few of these questions.

        We know more now; the woman had called a bunch of different locations looking for information about personnel in the inventory department, which is the one department the Milkmaid has no affiliation with. Oops!

        Lawyers in the hizzouse: what happens to this person, if caught, assuming (as I do) that it isn't an employee? Is there legal recourse, or is she just considered a harmless slug?

        1. With the giant caveat that I don't practice this type of law at all: it probably depends on a number of things.

    2. Maybe if she played football, the president could squirt out a few tears for her.

      The world makes me want to curl into a ball and cry almost daily.

      "In other words, it’s not just the players who are banding together around their brothers whether they’re rapists or not; it’s the adults around them who are turning a blind eye because they consider other things are more important. And they’re willing to believe anything except that these nice boys can be rapists."

      Unfortunately this applies to most guys, athlete or not. The culture around sexual assault in this country is completely busted.

      1. I see these references online to girls complaining about being raped and told that they're at fault. My first thoughts are usually "That's stupid, who would ever say that?". Stories like this prove how wrong that is and it's pretty horrifying.

    3. Thanks for the link. Stuff like this is just too common - the school's response, or lack thereof, is total B.S.

  22. Gophers on ESPN, (whats left of the) Timberwolves play on TNT

    Im going out on a limb here and saying that is a probably the first time ever the two teams have played on national tv on the same night.

  23. Hardaway goes off and Andre Hollins in foul trouble early and yet the Gophers only down 6 at the half. Plus the Gophers have been a better second-half team for the most part.

  24. Heads up to Citizens, especially hj, sean, spoons, and the rest of the brain trust. Should we be considering Amazon Affiliate status? We already are doing a book post per month. I have no doubt that a substantial number of us buy things from Amazon. Why not find a way to help finance the site from our own purchasing behavior?

    1. Interesting. I buy stuff from Amazon all the time- this seems like a great tie-in to me, but it wouldn't surprise me if some people have grounds for objections due to things I'm not thinking of.

  25. Well, it's all happening, it seems. A game I created, currently titled "Cutthroat Junction," has been greenlighted to become an iPad app (for starters). I wish I could just explode and talk about everything, but for now this is what I'm bound to.

    I've been cautioned to keep in mind that the only way you can get rich by creating apps is to create at least ten of them, but then I was filled with (unrealistic, I imagine) hopes that the structure of my app might actually allow me to retire. I'm sure that's not going to get anywhere near the truth, but I'm thrilled that I finally get to see if this thing can make it.

    1. I almost made a joke this morning wondering if Spookymilk Survivor is going to be turned into an app. I guess I should've went with my gut.

    2. Cutthroat Junction is soundin lika somethin Miss Cleo woulda been playin awhile back. Or maybe it is soundin like somethin that Miss Cleo woulda been datin and messin aroun with before leavin it one night without splainin where she was goin as she is sneakin out thout makin much noise.

      1. And if not, at this point, I've decided that another failure wouldn't be tragic, but merely funny. The entertainment business has completely beaten me down.

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