friday on my mind

Looking forward to softball this weekend, although for some reason I'm all sore already. Perhaps my offseason workout program has been too intense.

It has lots of sugar and fat, but I hereby recommend the following delicious product anyway: Bear Naked Banana Nut Granola. Incredible. Don't spend another pointless day of your life without trying it.

We have a new edition of "High Socks and Short Shorts" for you. In it I decide whether Larry Bird was actually any good.

I've been hearing some good snippets lately but I'm not on the PC anymore so I am unable to easily update the ol' snippets page. I'll get around to it, but in the meantime I offer you:

"Dude, I'm at 23rd and Lex, I'm about to hit the 7-11. They got a Dr. Pepper flavored slurpee, man. No, seriously. I'm about to get one."

-man on cellphone, 23rd and Lex, Sunday April 2nd, 2006, 3:17 pm

Whether you like Bruce Springsteen or not, you must now face the following genius challenge:

Sometimes artists have hits with songs that they write for other artists but end up keeping for themselves instead. For eight points each, what artists did Springsteen intend to give the songs "Hungry Heart" and "Cover Me" to, respectively? We are looking for two different artists here, one for each song. No googling please.

For ten more points, there is a word I am thinking of, a word so bad that I could never type it on the internet. It is not a racial slur, not even necessarily offensive. But it would be very embarrassing for me to type it and you too would feel embarrassed for me after you read it. What is this word?