1st Ever F2DR Poll: Insert Sponsor Here _________

Remember back in the early to mid 90's at the peak of the Braves run of dominance when Super Cuts offered to shave a Braves Tomahawk into the side of your head and charged roughly $12 to do so? Well I do, and I did a couple summers ago... The Braves sucked then, but I feel that now the entire fanbase has been rejuvenated by this years team and its time to bring back the Tomahawk hair cut!

F2DR Nation you be the judge. Should I once again rock this do?

(Tomahawk Hair Do Pictured Above. Cerca Summer 2008)

I vote yes. What say you? I believe that all of Braves Country should band together with a unified look.

F2DR Movie Review: The Expendables

Plot: A band of brothers (the Expendables) save a chick's life on an island overthrown by corruption.

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone mindfreaks the audience into believing that this isn't the most recent installment in the Rambo Franchise by adding an all star cast of action stars to the mix. This movie has it all except for full on penetration (requires Hulu Regestration...worth it), which as most of us know is the key ingredient for a film to be considered great. I digress. Guns go boom! Shit gets blown up, and the good guys win. A wonderful cinematic experience that you need not miss unless you are a baby...no seriously do not under any circumstances take a small child to this movie. Loud Noises! and if that's not reason enough for you to subject a baby to this flick then try this on for size. Gore! Enough to satisfy the blood lust of Rob Zombie in cinema for the next 5 years.

F2DR Final Score 9/10

Babies Not Welcome!

Ever Take A Bad Trip...On Drugs?

Latest music video from electronic rock duo, Ratatat, is just as fun as being left in a room with a whole bunch of strangers while your tripping. Also, Santa.

Fresh4Morning: Why The Mets' Step-Parents Suck

Everyone worth knowing, knows the Mets suck. What many fail to realize is that this level of suck rubs off even on people who are only affiliated with the organization by banging K-Rod's mom. Francisco Rodriguez (4-2, 2.24 ERA, 25 SV, 1 RfD (Responsibility for Divorce)) got into an altercation with his father-in-law in the Mets' clubhouse after yet another loss. Details are hard to find, but the end result is K-Rod punched his New Dad in the kisser, hopefully a strong right, who ended up being the biggest bitch and widest gaping pussy about the whole thing. Not only did the guy press charges and have him arrested for assault, he also had to go to the hospital. Going to the hospital for "facial bruises" is weak sauce. I hope the guy catches one of those nosocomial superbugs and ends up pissing blood for the rest of his life. Justified.

K-Rod clearly has issues with this guy and may have been hitting him for a good reason, but c'mon. He's a professional athlete and all one of his right crosses can inflict are "facial bruises". Pop-in-law should have been chewing on incisors or digging his eyeball out with a spoon and a sponge. At the very least having to hold his head back and apply pressure to his nose. I bet Billy Wagner could throw a punch like a man. Hopefully he hit himself last night for trying to lose another game.

The best part of the article covering the altercation is the accompanying poll.

Let's hope so.

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The Atlanta Braves: A Microcosm of the Human Experience

Me: It was good seeing you, what do you have going on later tonight?

Athens Townie that used to/maybe still does work in the basement of Grady College at UGA: I'm either going bowling, or I'm about to go kill myself...one of the two

Me: Well you take care and good luck

It wasn't until about six fateful minutes later when the magnitude of this conversation actually hit me (the normal amount of time it takes for something important to get to you when drinking tequila). Chipper Jones had just made the best defensive play I'd seen him make in over five years, and for that he was rolling around in the grass holding his knee. Visions of being at the Ted for this years Fall Classic and partying throughout the night in Buckhead when the Braves win the World Series in 6 games over the Chicago White Sox started vanishing from my memory. Suddenly it all made sense...In one way or another we are all about to go bowling (living for a purpose) or are about to kill ourselves (worrying about Chippers knee instead of taking Cox chapter 23 to heart***). These are the kinds of things that one ponders after a three day bender in Athens. For me, it is time to go bowling. I'll keep you posted on how I score.

*** Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Defeat, I will fear not the Phillies, for thy Conrad and Hudson they comfort me

Cox 23

(Shout out to Craig for winning the Dream Theater Challenge and for this quotation from the Book of Cox)

I Have So Many Problems With This, I'm Going to Use Dum-Dum Bullet Points

Social Political blog we are not. But we are social creatures and politics are happening right now. So when a nationally covered distasteful, ignorant, fundamentalist viewpoint touches my serious internet business, I get perturbed. Ole Newt doesn't want there to be a mosque and community center built a couple blocks from the site of the WTC and Brent agrees with him. I'm sure a lot of Americans do. But, I'm also sure a lot of Americans are idiots.
When political and TV leaders are espousing an idea that a mosque (and, diligently mentioned by proponents, community center) being built within a few blocks of one the greatest tragedies and acts of violence in American history, represents a "victory" for Islam its not hard to understand the resistance and outrage many are feeling. I'm only going to dissect Brent's admittedly short and quick take on the matter. He presumably was picturing this as he wrote it.

Here are the promised bullets, marvel at my HTML powers!

1. ...radical Muslims flew planes into the Twin Towers killing 2,976 American Citizens.

   • Over 300 foreign nationals are included in this number along with an equal number of actual regular Muslims who were just as victimized as non-Muslims



2. I'm so happy that I live in the South where at least we still have some semblance of morals and ethics

   • If the South had any real morals and ethics left, Tennessee would have elected Basil Marceaux.Also, take a look at the AJC's homepage for insights into morals and ethics.



3. Between government hand outs and this crap I'm not sure what to think.

   • The government has been giving out handouts since the creation of the First Bank of the U.S. in 1791. The other crap is presumably, the threatening of the 1st Amendment by forbidding the construction of a building based upon the religious practices of the owners. That's American.



4. America used to be a proud Nation that had a fear of God and an un-paralelled work ethic.

   • America is a proud nation, fuck you for the past-tense. Our fear of God has largely been more of a fear of running out of money and getting caught doing bad things, I still have that fear. As for un-paralleled work ethic, I think that went out in the 60s man, also the Mexicans, Japanese, ah hell, all the other Orientals, would like a word on work ethic.



5. Not sure when we became a nation of pussies that roll over to appease extremist.

   • I hope we haven't. Because if this community center and mosque, which will be open to the public, somehow is intimidated and yelled at enough that it isn't built, then the extremist have won. America is patchwork quilt of fucked-up, crazy, hard-working, flag-loving, hipster, sexy, farming, werewolf-kids, ghost-riding the whip, yuppie Bad-asses, and some of these people are Muslims. Wouldn't it be a good idea to keep our Muslims feeling at home and not treating them as if they do not belong in America?



6. Bonus From Commenter Colin: Sounds like a couple of 24/7 BBQ joints need to open upwind of that Mosque. Have that sweet smokey smell of BBQ pig waft down to the mosque constantly.

   • Absolutely, I will gladly run this place. Slow Paul's Whole Hawg. Full of deliciousness and infidels!

Great article covering the topic.

Take-Out with F2DR: Burying the Lede at Mark's City Grille

Mark's City Grille is less than a year old but its done big things. Restaurant thought-baby from one of Columbus' few patrician restaurateur families it was bound to happen. Getting past the oddity of using the name 'City' in a "high-class diner" that is stuck in a gas-station parking lot in a low density area of suburban Columbus, once inside, it is the kind of place that you might find in a downtown city-block. High, open ceilings, open kitchen, and decent enough food. Typical smörgåsbord of generic menu items like burgers, steak, grilled chicken, meatloaf, Mark's manages to raise the bar by freaking the fuck out of Columbusites by throwing in little items like buffalo meat burgers, delicious bacon wrapped quail parts, and Pres. FDR's fav, Country Captain.

But I digress, the relevant story is what happened at Mark's City Grille this past Saturday night. Awesome shit. Things that only happen in movies or in Jake's dreams. Gunpoint. Robbery.

You:

What's the big deal? Black men rob people all the time?

Let me finish. Gunpoint. Robbery. Foiled.
One of the three employees who was being held up after Mark's had closed, decided not to be fucked with and fought back against the armed robber with the only weapon he had at hand. His beer. The dish-washing hero hit the guy over the head with the bottle, forcing the master of crime into running away while shooting his gun aimlessly. After a police sketch artist was able to produce a likeness of the would-be robber... one Deron Thomas was found nearby, matching the description and was arrested.

When asked what he was thinking as he attacked the dude holding the gun, Tshaka Nelson said,

I wasn’t scared because I’ve had guns pointed at me before. I used to be a cab driver.

Well, damn. I've been demeaning and drunk to cabbies before, but now that I know having guns pulled on them is happening on the reg, I don't feel nearly as bad for not tipping.