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Colum

Drink Deeply. Live in serenity and joy. - Buddha

About Me

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My Interests

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If Tavarez is unflappable about nearly everything baseball, there is one thing that bothers him -- when teammate Manny Ramírez rubs the top of his head, which he did in the dugout last week."Manny's always been a guy who is like 12 years old whenever he feels like it," said Tavarez, who has known Ramírez for 15 years. "I told him, 'Listen, we are on TV, so stop playing around.' I told him to stop rubbing my head. He knows I fall asleep easily when somebody does that to my head, but he [kept] doing it. Manny's a great guy and a great player."

Music:

ABC - Anything but Country: Bob, Ziggy and Damian Marley, Steel Pulse, Elephant Man, Fugees - and Wyclef and Lauryn solo stuff, most anything by most any Wu-Tang member, Outkast, Beastie Boys, most classis rock: Floyd, Zeppelin, etc, U2, Peter Gabriel, Coldplay, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Putumayo...

Movies:

Best in Show, Pecker, Old School, Better off Dead, Maniac Cop, Waiting for Guffman, Anchorman, Shawshank Redemption, Bourne Identity, Breakfast Club, Cool Hand Luke, Memento, Legally Blonde, The Shining, Bowling for Columbine, Citizen Kane, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite....

Television:

Family Guy, SportsCenter, The Daily Show, Matlock, Simpsons, Weeds, Da Ali G Show, MacGyver!, Arrested Development, Red Sox, Lost (SOMEONE got me hooked:), Little House on the Prairie (just kidding), Get a Life (for the 6 months it lasted)

Books:

SAM ADAMS UNVEILS ULTIMATE BEER GLASSBoston Beer Co. unveiled a special glass today so customers can savor its Samuel Adams brand beer.Wine lovers have long used crystal stemware to help experience the exquisite nose of a French merlot or a frisky Australian vin ordinaire, and now the Boston brewer thinks beer connoisseurs have achieved a similar level of discernment when it comes to appreciating state-of-the-art advances in lager delivery-systems.According to the company, the new Samuel Adams Boston Lager Pint Glass is the first glass specifically designed to showcase beer as brewers intended.Sparing no effort, Boston Beer said it recruited "world-renowned sensory experts" to work on the design of a glass that beginning in March, will be sold in packages of four for $30 at www.samueladams.com.One feature of the new glass is a neck-and-lip design that "helps sustain the head of the beer, which enhances the release of signature Noble hop aromas found in Samuel Adams Boston Lager," the company said."It's a personal passion of mine to develop a beer glass that elevates the craft-beer drinking experience," Jim Koch, company chairman and founder of the Samuel Adams beer brand, said in a statement. "We wanted to create a glass that offers beer lovers a full sensory experience by fully showcasing Samuel Adams Boston Lager's complex balance of malt and hop flavors." (By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)

Heroes:

King

My Blog

April's end and May's daze

Wow.  It feels like a month or so since I wrote anything down& like a vacation from my comfortable routine of the spring& I can tell I've been AWOL when the bartenders and regulars at BOTH of my ...
Posted by Colum on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:43:00 PST

Firsts.. and seconds.. and thirds...

On Sunday, the Red Sox hit back to back to back to back home runs for the first time in team history.  It was absolutely amazing, and even though it's only April one of the most exciting Sox/Yank...
Posted by Colum on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:19:00 PST

Lord I Was Born A Ramblin' Man

Alright. I've been identified as having slacked on maintaining an adequate dosage of all things pertaining to the life of Riley.  The last three weeks have been a whirlwind of various activities,...
Posted by Colum on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:02:00 PST

Plan B

    I just finished reading Lester Brown's Plan B 2.0 : Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble for my Environmental Strategy course.  The book is a painstakin...
Posted by Colum on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:36:00 PST

Red Sox Nation West

Calling all members of the Nation!  And if you're not a fan yet, prepare to be infected and indoctrinated! This year, the Sox don't play the Dodgers unfortunately, and the three-game series in An...
Posted by Colum on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:22:00 PST

The Pub Attorneys

Many if not most of us are familiar with the Nigerian bank scam, in which a wealthy Nigerian prince vows to transfer us $2 million in exchange for a few thousand up front to help move the money. ...
Posted by Colum on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:58:00 PST

Green Daze

6:00am. Saturday morning. The city slowly awakens, birds are singing their songs, early risers are taking their sunrise strolls, and Colum is hitting his snooze button. Somehow, through the sleep-indu...
Posted by Colum on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:18:00 PST

"I'm a Hummer"

My 11 yr. old nephew Donovan's rap (I can't duplicate his beat-boxing between verses though, but he's got it down: the rap, the beats, the dance moves).  I'm proud to be the first to 'publish' th...
Posted by Colum on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:09:00 PST

Bobby Kim Stole My Backpack! Or How I Spent My Spring Break

Just south of the famed surfing mecca Huntington Beach, past the State Park and over a culver begins the City of Newport Beach. For the first ten blocks or so there aren't many homes, and beach traffi...
Posted by Colum on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:19:00 PST

Beached

Current position: barely sitting up, in a chair, feet in sand, laptop in lap... at a beachfront condo.. been here since monday.. all by myself... on spring break.. no classes till Tuesday.. Captain &a...
Posted by Colum on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:55:00 PST