Tony Stewart wins again.

Tony Stewart won the Tums Fast Relief 500 today at Martinsville, VA (thanks saucy girl, I love you!) This is Tony's third win in the Chase, yet due to NASCAR's arcane scoring system, he is still 8 points behind Carl Edwards who has yet to win a race during the championship finals.

I am not a fan of short track racing per se, but I have to admit this was quite an entertaining race to watch. And watching Tony fight back three times from over 20 places down was a treat. His brawl with Denny Hamlin to keep from being lapped at one point, was some of the toughest door-to-door racing I've seen in years.

In the post race interviews, Jimmie Johnson, who Stewart passed for the win, tried to take the high road, saying he wasn't going to try and push Tony out of the way or bang and bump for the win. Like he "let" Stewart have the win out of gentlemanly honor or some such.

B.S.! Tony simply out gutted him for the win, daring Johnson to get physical for the win. Jimmie backed down, Tony won. It was a matter of who had the biggest pair, and at that moment, it was Smoke.

Three races left -- Texas, Phoenix, and Homestead, all places Tony runs well at. There's a solid possibility that Tony Stewart could be the first owner/driver to win a Championship in heaven only knows how long. If it has ever happened.

I'll be rooting for him.

---

Other bits of interest to me:

Dale Jr. talking about how if they raced more short tracks, he might get a rep as a "dirty" driver, because he liked the banging and bumping on the track. He also made a late race comment over the team radio about having "no mercy" for whoever was in front of him. Heh

Unmentioned by the announcers specifically, was Brian Vickers coming across the track to wreck Matt Kenseth in retaliation for an earlier bump/wreck in the race.

A pre-race interview with Brad Keselowski, who I've admired since he came into Cup racing, admitting that a lot of drivers, like Tony Stewart (surprisingly), refuse to interact with him in the garage area. Kid's got a chip on his shoulder, but he's winning races and looking a lot more racey than grumpy teammate Kurt Busch.

Animal house?

I don't live in a woodsy area by any means. But for some reason, my house seems to get singled out for the wild animal habitat.

I had squirrels go in through the dryer vent and make a nest in some storage boxes above the floor. Oh, they're so cute right? Yeah. Little buggers then decided to try and dig into my house through the ceiling in the add-on family room/bedroom.

Then it's rabbits. I've got a nice screened in wood deck with a hot tub. And those lovely furry little sweethearts decide, "Oh, look at that nice place to tunnel under." Now the problem with these living Easter ornaments is that they weaken the foundation with their series of tunnels. And something else you never hear people talk about. Rabbits have fleas. And my deck was a flea explosion for several months. Go out the back door, and you are literally covered in fleas up to your knees in seconds.

Now I've got a mouse or perhaps a rat in the garage. Does this ever end? I used my pistolero skills to deal with the squirrels and rabbits, but the mouse is a little too shifty. So I guess it'll be poison or traps or something. sheesh

I'm totally down with nature. I love animals and even tolerate bugs and stuff (except roaches, which should be wiped off the face of the earth immediately) . . . as long as they stay out of my house!

Go live your lives, do your thing outside in the big world. I'll live in my home without all the creepiness and ickiness and not try to kill you. It's a fair contract. But no . . .

*sigh*

So Lindsay's doing Playboy now?

I see Lindsay Lohan has worked out a deal to appear in the January issue of Playboy. They're going to pay her somewhere between $750K (their price) and $1M (Lindsay's price) to appear in a non-nude pictorial.

*groan*

Another non-nude pictorial in Playboy. Did someone there forget what that magazine is all about? And how about the absurdity of paying Lindsay that kind of money for not showing anything when she's already done stuff like this:

And when she isn't showing the goods in a modeling shoot, she's falling out of her clothes in public, where there always just happens to be a photographer handy:

Or she's simply going around town wearing outfits that leave all her stuff hangin' out there for any passerby to check out:

Look, I get that Hugh Hefner's getting a little foggy in his old age, by why pay that kind of money for a chick who's givin' it away for free almost every day?! And do we really need another ridiculously promoted show nothing photoshop extravaganza let down like this again:

Umm . . . no!

Update:
So rumor has it that Linds is actually going full monty in the pictorial. Uh hmm. Color me dubious. We heard the same nonsense from Heidi Montag's shoot and see the above pictures to see how that turned out. I wouldn't put it past either the magazine or Linds (via proxy Dina) to be ginning up publicity for this issue to increase sales. We'll see.

So pumpkin patches are ruined now too

Every year, you can set your watch by it, as Halloween approaches, we get deluged with "candid" shots of celebs cavorting in local pumpking patches as they shop for their jack-o-lantern material.

And of course, every year, its the same old tired cliched images -- some female celeb holds up two pumpkins in front of her boobs and makes a funny face. And also, there are the usual amusing wardrobe choices for these chicks as they, and some have children with them, make a real production out of this once innocent holiday tradition.

So far this year, we've had Christina Aguilera in a set of leggings stretched to the see-thru max as she bent over to pick out a pumpkin. Shauna Sand, who usually shows up in something made out of a lace doily, actually wore a fairly demure short white dress. And she only did the single pumpkin pose, trend setter that she is. But she also managed to squat down to give the paps a nice upskirt shot.

But the "please make them stop" winner this year was supposedly 16 year old Courtney Stodden and her creepy husband, Doug Hutchinson. Court brought the hooker look dialed up to eleven with this little number:

She then really broke things open by getting so frisky (yeah, I just threw up in my mouth a little there) with her aged husband, that they both got thrown out of the pumpkin patch.

Honestly, can't we have one holiday these celeb chicks don't slut up and ruin? I don't mind the hoochie costumes for the parties. And I always look forward to whatever Heidi Klum puts on, 'cause she goes all out with her bizarre costumes. But come on, man! Who wants to take their little kid out to get a pumpkin and be bombarded by some slutty 16 year old being groped by an old man?

eesh

What does it say . . .

. . . when a someone who has won the Nobel Prize for Peace, Liberty Medal, and Presidential Medal of Freedom refuses to attend your bogus protest movement?

Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, has backtracked on a possible trip to New York to support the whining babies, I mean #OWS, protest there. After getting some information on the groups supporting and funding this so-called grassroots protest -- Code Pink, George Soros, the American Communist orgainization, etc., Walesa quickly realized the protesters were not fighting for actual freedom, but rather a larger, more intrusive and controlling government.

I'm sure after getting idealogical stalwarts like Alec Baldwin, Kanye West, and Russell Brand, the #OWS whimpering parasites won't be missing a lightweight like Walesa, who dragged an entire country out of from the shackles of murdering communists.

You have to wonder at the gross stupidity of the movement and its supporters, both celebrity and political, when you look around the world at socialist governments going broke, one after another, and yet these assclowns want everything in this country to be free and handed out by our government.

Free college education! Free unlimited healthcare! Free housing! And on and on. Where is the money supposed to come from? Suppose they strip all the million and billionaires of the entirity of their wealth, then what? All that cash would not even remove the massive debt saddling this country. So where do these whining babies go next for their bottle? Do they even think about that?

Of course not. They're too busy getting their 60s moment. Getting feted by the President and congressional douchebags like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Btw, why are people surprised about the President's support of this movement? What was his background in Chicago after all? Community organizer! Remember? What does that entail? Organizing protests and shakedowns of local governments and businesses to get free money and handouts for those who refuse to be educated, who refuse to work, and demand everything be given to them for free based on some sort of class/racial guilt trip.

Also btw, it is telling that when Obama went to Poland, Walesa refused to meet with him. Guess the actual, deserving Nobel Prize winner saw something, that the electorate in this country closed their eyes to.

Maybe next election . . .

So Theo's gone

Theo Epstein resigned as GM of the Red Sox to become head of baseball operations for the Cubs yesterday, I think.

It's the end of an era in Boston, one that brought two World Series titles, but has perhaps left a few gaping holes in the organization. Can you become complacent as a sports executive in Boston? It is supposedly one of the toughest placest to work in management because the fans, of all sports there, are so rabid.

Both Epstein and Francona seemed to be operating on auto-pilot this last year. With a dismal winless streak to start the season and then the historic collapse, I'm still perplexed at Tito's epic fail with a team most projected to run away with the Series this year.

One of Theo's biggest upside as a GM, to me at least, was his promise to improve and rebuild the Sox's farm system. And yet that has fallen into disrepair as well. I haven't seen anyone coming up who has the potential to be game changers when they hit the bigs. Which one can contrast directly with the low budget Rays, who have a wealth of talent maturing in the minors. With all the money in the Sox organization, how did this happen?

Though the Lackey trade seems to be a loser at this point, I'm not ready to hate on Epstein for the last couple of transactions he made. A-Gon was a great pick up, even if he doesn't have Manny's power numbers. He a solid, reliable bat in the line-up. And someone who loves playing in Boston, and is a great presence in the locker room. The Crawford trade may still prove to be a good one. I don't understand Carl's awful year. I'm going to chalk it up to nerves and playing out of Tampa, and hence his comfort zone, for the first time in his career. Down here, he could easily be the best player on a team where nothing was expected. In Boston, he's expected to play like the star they are paying him to be. That's the most pressure he's ever faced. Hopefully, he'll use this last year as a learning one and become the player I think he still is.

I'm uninspired by the promotion of Ben Cherrington to GM for the Sox. He's been banging around the organization for years. If he was so capable, why wasn't he moved up before? I think he was a player personel guy at one point. If he signed off on the Lackey trade, that's a dinger for me right there. This move has the aroma of a team not having any idea who to put in the job, so they put a familiar face there to maintain continuity. I think a shake up would be more in order since even Theo and Tito said the team needed new voices in charge.

The measuring stick for Cherrington will be who he brings in as head coach. If it's some aged re-tread or unknown who has labored in the minors for decades, this team is in big trouble.

The Sox website is touting unbridled hope for next year, saying the talent is there for an immediate bounce back. I'm not optimistic. I think with all the hyper-attentive press in Boston and some gaping holes in the team -- pitching, power hitting -- the potential is there for another third place or worst finish for the Sox in '12.

I hope not, but as a life-long fan, I won't be jumping ship. But it could be some tough sailing next year.

I swear, some days . . .

. . . just doesn't pay to get out of bed, you know?

I get up on time today, get a nice work out in before leaving for work. Not a bad drive. Days lookin' pretty good.

Then right off the bat at work, our interim boss decides to put his stamp on the place by hammering down with a bunch of worthless nit-picky rules he says are needed so we can "get back to basics." Yeah. We've been kicking ass and taking names in the city by being number one in all the productivity catagories for the last two years. But this bozo thinks we need to be whipped into shape.

fabulous

Then, even though we're slammed with mail (yeah, that still happens even with the volume down, funny huh?), I have to put two routes up. No biggie, I do that every day anyway. Oh, but I have to do the collection tour as well.

So that's -- do the work of two employees, plus race around the city emptying blue collection boxes and get back to the office before the truck from the plant gets there. 'Cause god help ya if the boss has to drive the collection mail down to the plant . . .

Then, this gal who's been flirting with me like crazy the last couple of weeks, to the point of giving me the "Hey, we should make plans to get together..." and you know what I mean by "get together" right?
*nudge nudge, wink wink*

Bear in mind here that I haven't had a date this millenium! Look in the dictionary next to the phrase "lonely & desperate" and you'll see my picture.

Well, today she hits me with the bit about how we have to stop all this, and it's all wrong, and yeah she wants it, but we can't . . . yada yada, blah blah blah.
So here's me -- I guess I won't be needing this . . . *rips out heart, throws it on the ground and stomps on it*

So I spend the rest of the day doing my job feeling like I've got a stake rammed through my chest. Have a crappy drive home. And when I get there . . . I've got a letter from the IRS. Guess who made a mistake on their taxes and owes more money?

Yuck! What a day!

---

So here's a pic of Megan Fox v2.0 - Rosie Huntington-Whitely throwing a little nsfw action at ya so if you're one of the three people that read this blog, at least your day won't be a total loss: