So much for that.

I was planning on running a few errands today, but the smoke is so bad that I can hardly breathe. They've called another bad air warning.

So I'm hunkering down in place. I have beer, I will not surrender.

"Real fans", huh?

The A's have been running ads for this weekend's series against the Giants with the tag line "come see baseball with real fans."

This has pissed Giants Nation right the fuck off. We're the ones who used to fill Candlestick on summer nights where hypothermia was a real possibility. We're the ones who realize that enjoyment of a baseball game does not require beach balls, horns, or excessive amounts of really bad beer.

They just announced that this is just the third sell-out of McAfee Coliseum this season. Judging from the noise and the amount of orange in the crowd shots, a good 65% of these people are Giants fans. Over at AT&T Park, we've had over a dozen sellouts with a worse team.

"Real fans." Hmph.

Massively legal penguin dances!

Welcome to adulthood, madelineusher!!!!!

OK, this is funny if you're a metalhead

I'm watching VH1 Classics' Metal Mania. Some fun stuff tonight, Queensrÿche's Empire and some newer stuff, but we just got Ozzy's Shot in the Dark. One of my favorite of his catalog, and the only song I have ever been recorded singing.

But there's a moment in the video that someone should have caught. In the early concert shots there's the obligatory shot of kids on the rail banging head. One of them is clearly wearing a Metallica t-shirt.