I'm Interested

Red Sox Not Interested In Pedro: MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
I miss Pedro.

the Last Hustler

The Last Hustler

Over his long and, more importantly, profitable career, John "Fast Jack" Farrell has lived by two rules: Get the money and get out alive.

The first has always been a cinch, easy as breathing for a knock-around kid from Manchester [CT] who became, arguably, the best card and dice hustler on two continents.

And he's still around. That proves he hasn't missed yet on the second rule, even if there have been close moments.

He's been chased by a mob of bat-swinging highway workers. He has been gouged, slashed, stripped, beaten, drugged, dumped in the snow and shot at. He once was warned, as he prepared to beat a mob dice game in Queens, that a "leak" — a slip of his crooked dice — could leave him hanging from a hook in a meat locker. He walked away four hours later, buzzed on adrenaline and thousands of dollars ahead.

There's a movie in the works.

Top 6 Most Played Songs on My iPod

1. "Save it for Later," English Beat (28)
2. "Beat Surrender," the Jam (27) - My kids love this song. I'm afraid the "bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names" line is going to be a problem soon.
   
3. "Someday I Suppose," the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (27)
4. "Come on Eileen," Dexy's Midnight Runners (26)
   
5. "I Confess," English Beat (25)
6. "Last Nite," the Strokes (23)

Not exactly a 2008 list since some of these songs have been on the 'pod since I got it a couple years ago.

6 Movies I Watched From Beginning to End This Year

Because I didn't see enough to make a Best Of List. In no particular order:

1. Iron Man
2. Indiana Jones 4
3. The Incredible Hulk
4. Doubt
5. The Forbidden Kingdom
6. W.

If I get to see 6 more 2008 movies in 2009, they'll be:

1. Pineapple Express
2. Burn After Reading
   
3. Quantum of Solace
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Harold & Kumar 2

I think I read enough this year to make a slightly decent Best of the Books I Read 2008 list. "The Chicago Way" will not be on it. "The Secret History" might make it if I finish it tonight.

Rattle Off Another Meme: 20 Fave Actresses

via Tom the Dog

• Helen Mirren -- Prime Suspect
• Jewel Staite -- Firefly
• Kim Dickens -- Zero Effect
• Robin Weigert -- Deadwood
• Michelle Yeoh -- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Hilary Swank -- Boys Don't Cry
• Minnie Driver -- Grosse Pointe Blank
• Mary Astor -- The Maltese Falcon
  
• Jodie Foster -- The Silence of the Lambs
  
• Gillian Anderson -- X-Files
• Elisabeth Sladen -- Doctor Who
• Freema Agyeman -- Doctor Who
• Billie Piper -- Doctor Who
• Myrna Loy -- The Thin Man
• Angela Bassett -- Strange Days
• Julianne Moore -- The Big Lebowski
• Allison Janney -- The West Wing
• Sigourney Weaver -- Alien
• Emma Thompson -- Howard's End
• Kate Winslet -- Sense & Sensibility