Mastodon is a Grammy Award-nominated heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of the most notable bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. They were formed in 1999 by Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher, Troy Sanders, Brent Hinds and original vocalist Eric Saner. They have released four full-length albums and have toured worldwide, achieving increased album sales and an ever expanding fan base with each new release.

Today, mosh your brains out to Blood and Thunder off their 2004 release, Leviathan. Warning! This video contains clowns. Scary clowns.

Jonathon Sanchez has just thrown the first no-hitter for the Giants since John "The Count" Montefusco had his on September 29th, 1976. The only thing preventing a perfect game was an error in the eighth inning.

What makes this more amazing? Sanchez has never before thrown a complete game at any professional level. This was his first start after a demotion to the bullpen after several very bad starts, he was 2-8 going into this game. The best part? His father was in the stands. He had never seen his son pitch as the starter in a live game before.

9 IP 0 H 0 BB 0 R 11 K

San Francisco Giants: 8
San Diego Padres: 0

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/09/sports/s215315D83.DTL

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Via con Dios, mi amigo. Déjeme saber la cerveza está abajo allí.

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Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says Earth is 6,000 years old.



The entire 42 second clip is just chock full of fundie fail.

Due to the fallout of the Sarah Palin resignation (makes about as much sense as any other explanation) I had to drive the San Francisco route today. Now, I love San Francisco, but pushing a 34-foot truck through it? Not so much. Luckily it was a fairly easy day.

But there was one oddity. I had two deliveries for one site. One went fine, but when I called the other? He's in Berkeley. Across the bay. I call da Boss and ask him what he wants me to do. Four and half hours later as I'm finishing up in Burlingame, I get called and asked if I'd gone to Berkeley yet. No, since no one had ever called me with the correct address or even told me it was going today!

But it had to go, so across the Bay Bridge I went. Yet another nine hour day. Yay me. thud

But I did bring my camera along, and got some really nice shots of my City by the Bay.

Please, let me know what you think of the shots.

I want this house!!!!

Of course, we'd need another couple of million to properly furnish it. And to fill the 1600 bottle wine cellar. And build my Throne of Skulls

I need to buy lottery tickets.

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

MAKES PERFECT SENSE TO ME!

...one nation, indivisible, with liberty AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

San Francisco Giants: 9
Houston Astros: 0

Timmy!

Great day at the ballpark. Perfect weather, a really good game, good company. Bit of a bother getting up there. You really don't want to hear that your train has lost all its air, but we made it eventually. I bought myself a present. A black Giants home jersey. Because I look good in black.



Stopped at Chili's for dinner. More beer, and fajitas. Yum.

I think, after the amount of beer consumed today, that an early bedtime is called for.

As birthdays go, this was a good one. Thanks to everyone for the happy birthday wishes.

After a great day.

• We went to see Public Enemies. Kirsten liked it more than me. I thought is was a well acted film with a strong script, but the director called too much attention to the fact it was a movie through the use of hand-held camera, odd cuts, and lens flare.


• Had an excellent dinner at my mom's with my sister and her family. The Emergency Back Up Niece and the Niece of Last Resort are getting big! Tacos were excellent, cake was excellent.


• Learned that Sarah Palin is quitting as Governor of Alaska. Word is there's a major criminal case coming in the next few weeks.


• Giants: 13, Astros: 0.

Tomorrow, baseball on the Fourth of July!

Tomorrow is my birthday.

See you in Montreal!

Two deliveries today. See the map.

A is the warehouse I work out of.

B is our 7th St. warehouse. I had to drop some material for the machine and structural shops.

C is a site in Milpitas. For the locals, it's where the old library was.

D is my regular job site in Stockton. So, what justified the 70+ mile trip?

This.

That is the total order.

Holiday weeks a freaking weird.

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Which reminds me, I need to make a little dinner. I was thinking dead cow, dead turkey, and rotten milk on wheat bread. With a nice, cold, mug of yeast-infested barley water.

I just spent the last two hours or so watching Threads. Best described as the British counter to The Day After (and being produced at the same time) Threads follows the events leading up to and the effects of a general strategic nuclear exchange in the English city of Sheffield in May of 1983. The main plot follows two families about to be joined by the marriage of their children, with a subplot following the terribly unprepared local authorities trying to handle the situation.

The entire thing is up on YouTube. The transfer is pretty good, although the sound gets a little out of synch in a few places. But you won't really notice. If you're of a certain age, you remember when we expected something like this to happen. And Threads pulls no punches. Well acted, and it brutally depicts the effects of a nuclear war out to a decade plus. The ending is not happy, holds little hope for the human race, and is quite fitting.

Not really sure if I can recommend this. It's not that it's bad, it's just that some of the images and ideas are very disturbing. For sheer quality of film making, it gets 4 penguins out of 5. And, if like me, you grew under the shadow of Armageddon, you might find this film interesting.

Bit of a warning. Nigh-impenetrable English accents abound.