"Satan wants your soul, not your car, Lady."

That is fantastic. My mother was unhappy with my SS# but I don't think she tried to argue with anyone about it.

What a game that was. Inning after inning of littleball and that troll David Eckstein. Nothing even smelling like a home run till the 7th, and then one for each team out into that short porch in left. Pujols was standing there at the plate just watching it fly, it was so pretty.

Pujols is a nice guy and possibly the best player in all of baseball (or at least the NL).

I am sure he is (in the NL anyway). Also, where would he hide a tail in those tight white trousers? But you all were talking Satan, and Satan does not hit home runs in the 9th with 2 out against Light Out Lidge in an elimination game during the postseason. What is more important here, a pennant race, or your immortal soul??

You want Satanic, you want Pay-Rod.

The New York back pages are muttering that he should be traded. He just doesn't have the magnetism, and can't compete with, and I do quote, "Derek Jeter, the girl next door."

Sometimes, the comedy routine writes itself.

What a game that was.

The hardest part for me was watching Craig Biggio's eyes welling up before they lost the game when they had the Cards down to their last strike and 18 years of baseball were about to finally take him to the World Series.

But Pujols was the MFM.

It doesn't make them Satanists any more than it makes me one.

I think considering yourself a Satanist pretty much means you are one, though of course in practice that can mean a lot of different things, just as being a Christian can. La Vey's church doesn't hold a patent or anything.

Pujols' career numbers: .332/.416/.621, 201 HRs. And that's a 5-year career. And he's TWENTY-FIVE.

"Derek Jeter, the girl next door."

BWAH!!!

Also, timelies. It's a cold female rain here and I am making beef stew.

I'm quite sure I could find more than a few serial rapists who turned up at Church every Sunday and were quite good and singing the hymns
Well, the BTK killer was a minister at his church. \

It does frustrate me when people hold a double standard about religions - for example, any crime in which someone mentions Satan was obviously the work of every Satanist and witch in the world, yet David Koresh somehow isn't a Christian, even though he often talked about Jesus. Then again, according to many Christian religions, myself being raised by Papists already makes me a handmaiden to the dark ones.

If "by their enemies ye shall know them," then what does it say about an organization or religion if by and large, those enemies are largely imaginary?

It is 48F/9C here. I demand summer back forthwith.

It does not help that I spent the weekend helping my mother dispense with 55 years worth of basement storage, so I was off yesterday. I must turn my brain back into a business brain....

You want Satanic, you want Pay-Rod.

You mean the guy who pulled a child out of the path of an oncoming truck to save his life last spring? Yeah, he's evil all right.

If the Yankees want to jettison him, I'd be happy to see him in Dodger blue, but it won't happen because even Steinbrenner isn't that stupid.

It's 19C here. That means that everyone is dressed for an entirely different sort of weather, though for most it means combinations like thick corduroy jackets and huge wool scarves worn over mini-skirts and flip-flop sandals.

I just found out that my grandmother bought a condo and is moving out of the house she's been in for nearly forty years. I can understand why since she's living alone in a two-bedroom split-level that so far requires several of her children's help to maintain. But still....over the years I've managed to bleed or faint or vomit or loose in tooth in every one of those rooms. I don't want to have to start over with a new place.