Happy Xmas

War is over.



If you want it.

I will learn this song in 2009. I promise.

Happy Xmas

YouTube Wednesday

Vinyl Monday begets YouTube Wednesday.



via clusterflock

YouTube Wednesday

New Feature

A new feature from your from the Editor/Writer/Purveyor of Shrill:

Fox Personality That Makes Me Drop The F-bomb Today

First recipient: Bill O'Reilly.



What is wrong with these people? I'd like to have a word with his man on the street. Seriously, I know Obama's all about civility but these Fox people REALLY make it difficult, because they're well such....arrogant assholes.

New Feature

What Atrios Said

Genius.

What Atrios Said

Lyrics of the Day

Some things you lose.
Some things you give away.

-Good Things, Sleater-Kinney

Lyrics of the Day

Ankle Breaker

In case you missed this sick crossover dribble by D. Rose, a sure cure for Chicago sport mediocrity.



via Chris Hayes

Ankle Breaker

What Kanye Said.

Sia.



Love the music, album artwork, and album title. If her voice sounds familiar, Sia was part of Zero 7 which had a song on the Garden State soundtrack.

Have to find a spot for this on my best of 2008 mix.

What Kanye Said.

Lyrics of the Day

See this needle...a see my hand...
Drop, drop, dropping it down...oh, so gently...
Well here it comes...I touch the plane...
Turn me up...won't turn you away...

Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...spin the black, spin the black...
Spin, spin...spin the black circle
Spin, spin...whoa...

Pull it out...a paper sleeve...
Oh, my joy...only you deserve conceit...
I'm so big...a-my whole world...
I'd rather you...rather you...than her...

You're so warm...oh, the ritual...when I lay down your crooked arm...

-Spin the Black Circle, Pearl Jam

Lyrics of the Day

Ummm, what about Thanksgiving?

Isn't it nice when someone can express exactly how you're (in this case, me) feeling?

Thank you, Andrew.

Makes you feel a little less disconnected.

Ummm, what about Thanksgiving?

6 Words I Never Want to Say

I felt my eyeball pop out.

The most frightening injury came in 2003, during a game against Brazil. McBride dove over the top of a defender hoping to head a corner kick into the net. The defender threw his head back and caught McBride flush on the left cheek.

"I knew it was a hard hit. I ran with the trainer into the locker room." After some hasty repairs, the coach and the medical staff were ready to send McBride back into battle. And McBride was ready to go until he sneezed.

"I felt my eyeball pop out," he recalls. "I'm not saying it popped out like you see in a cartoon, but I could feel it move forward. So I told coach this might be serious." It was another fractured orbital floor. In all, McBride's still-handsome face contains seven titanium plates and the fading scars of more stitches than he can count. The injuries have deadened the feeling in his face, so much so that he says he scarcely felt the famous elbow in the Italy game.

Despite these injuries, McBride never shows fear or hesitation in going after balls with his oft-damaged skull. "He was, and still is, incredibly brave playing with the injuries he's had," said Moyes, the Everton manager.

In the U.S., soccer is viewed as a kids' game, a tame, mild-mannered sport. MLS thinks McBride can change the image.

"Hopefully, they'll see Brian and they'll see it's a sport for rough-tough competitive athletes," says Don Garber, a former NFL executive who is now the MLS commissioner. "In Chicago, people think of Dick Butkus and Mike Ditka and Mike Singletary when they think of tough guys. But those guys had helmets and shoulder pads. Brian is out there, same as them, in a very physical sport, but he has no protection. He's a true warrior."

6 Words I Never Want to Say