Ahem. shrift (and Jilli when you get here): MySpace is streaming a 6-hour concert of Projekt Revolution today, starting at 1:30 Pacific, 4:30 Eastern. Which I'm sure you already knew about, but I'd though I'd alert you to the imminence of Gerard Way. And Brian Molko. Basically, a bunch of cute, short, eyelinered guys will be jumping around on your internets today.

PAUL GROSS ARMS AND FRANK TONGUE!!!!!!!!!

(I don't have a little symbol for that combination. Yet.)

Oh, and b.org isn't a chat room, as I define it. Chat rooms aren't static like our posts are. Communication is happening much closer to real time. No meara there.

Interesting. And good to know.

Yeah, we're definitely not a chat room.

Which reminds me of something I was thinking about the other day.... you know the internet is full of pervs who want to steal your daughters and etc., right? When I was in high school, and friend of mine and I wrote letters to guys in prison who had put personal ads in the National Enquirer. Seriously?!?!? Yes, and of course they had to have an address to write us back. Were we nuts? Possibly. Did anything bad actually happen? No.

How the heck can you malign a whole group of people loquacious while using the word obfuscation!?!

Good question.

I... guess I wasn't aware that football looked as far askance on gambling as baseball does. Because, I mean, everybody does bet on football games. I don't know a thing about gambling and I have a general idea what a point spread is.

On the acceptance of murderers in the NFL, wasn't there that guy who murdered his pregnant girlfriend and stuffed her body in the trunk of his car? As I recall it, he didn't just go to prison, they banned him for life and destroyed all the jerseys for sale with his name on them. If they could have salted the earth where he'd walked, they might have done it.

PAUL GROSS ARMS AND FRANK TONGUE!!!!!!!!!

(I don't have a little symbol for that combination. Yet.)

BWAH!

ita, I hope your head backs off of you today.

Everybody is commenting on the Vick thing. Even Cuteoverload.

Which I'm sure you already knew about, but I'd though I'd alert you to the imminence of Gerard Way.

I might actually have to go to MySpace for those sweet little nerds.

They also only seem to be looking at this year, because Dallas with a 0 nuh uh.

PAUL GROSS ARMS AND FRANK TONGUE!!!!!!!!!

Gerard's a ballerina cartoonist! Frank's a lesbian punk! Together THEY SAVE LIVES.

I can see why the NFL would consider gambling a very grave sin. Gambling poses more of a threat to the integrity of the game with the risk that a player may tailor a performance to win a bet.

Running a dogfighting ring is certainly despicable. But barring blackmail threats from someone threatening to expose the ring (and that's a risk with any criminal activity -- or even anything legal but embarrassing), it isn't likely to affect a player's performance.