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Straight outta Bridgeport.

And by the way, the black one says "Chicago", not Chicano, as some smartasses have pointed out. Sing-a-long after the jump...

"We're the Windy City Irish-where craic is always best
Where every day is Paddy's Day and everyone's a guest
If you're Irish on the North Side or Irish on the West
Welcome to the South Side come join our Irish Fest!

Chorus We're the South Side Irish as our fathers were before
We come from the Windy City and we're Irish to the core
From Bridgeport to Beverly from Midway to South Shore
We're the South Side Irish-Let's sing it out once more!

Our parents came from Mayo, from Cork and Donegal.
We come from Sabina, St. Kilian's and St. Gall
St. Leo, Visitation, Little Flower and the rest.
The South Side parishes are mighty-they're the best!
Chorus

We live on the South Side-Mayor Daley lived here too
The Greatest Irish Leader that Chicago ever knew
and he was always so proud of his South Side Irish roots!
So here's to His Honor to his memory we'll be true.
Chorus

We sing the songs our fathers sang when they were growing up
Rebel songs of Erin's Isle in the South Side Irish Pubs
and when it comes to baseball-we have two favorite clubs
The Go-Go White Sox... and whoever plays the Cubs!"

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New York City has joined the National Lacrosse League, or NLL.

Apparently the league has been around for awhile, but who knew. Now NYC steps it up by enrolling the Titans. I went to the first ever game at MSG, as one of just over 13,000 in attendance. I sprung a bit more for a good seat mid field, and I guess it was worth it. There were lots of little kids and bridge-an-tunnel familes. Also, I was pitfully hung over.

Lacrosse is an awesome sport, and did you know that it is the only original American sport.

The natives called it dehuntshigwa'es meaning, "men hit a rounded object". Supposedly Native North American tribes used to play marathon games, often to the death of the last remaining team member. I guess back then they used a human skull for the ball, and gameplay was incredibly brutal. Since Wiki is the be-all-end-all of modern knowledge you can research it for yourself here.

Anywho, they've made some hockey-style modifications to pro LAX. Most noticably, the goalie is now super-padded and larger than a hockey goalie. It's almost laughable. These goalies also execute splaying hockey-style saves. In "standard" Lacrosse, the goalie basically wears the same sort of padding that the regular players wear, but they use a much larger stick head to make saves. Often, standard goalies (college, high school, etc...) don't wear lower body padding, except for a cup and maybe shin guards.

Also, pro Lacrosse utilizes line changes on every possession, much like hockey. Accordingly, they've changed the position names from "Attack" to "Offense", and "Middie" to "Transition".

I saw alot of checking into the glass, and penalty calls for roughing, slashing, etc... Fortunately, I also saw some fights, but I'm wondering if they weren't encouraged to lure back customers for the next game.

In the end, the NY Titans beat the Chicago Shamroxx (gay "XX" suffix) 11 to 9. If you dig Lacrosse, or are curious, why not go see a game? If nothing else, it will be a relatively affordable way to see something at The Garden.

PS. If you're the announcer for these games, please shut the fuck up until you can take notes and learn how to correctly call a game like pro announcers. We don't need you to narrate everything happening on the field and embarrass you're self by saying things like, "Here come the Titans" on a possession, or "Ohhh, too bad Titans, you'll get them next time." (Said in nasally, dorky white guy voice...)

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Don't try this at home:

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Recently, the excellent band Pinebender came thru NYC to play a few shows. They are a Chicago band, and they had a "big" show at Mercury a couple weeks ago. Thing is, the The Future Superbowl XLI Champions were playing on that Sunday. Luckily I was able to catch the band the next day at Northsix where they played in the basement.

And this was a good thing, because they played to about 25 people in an all-concrete, cold, dark and damp basement. It brought me back to my Emo roots.

A 3 piece, Pinebender's guitars are big and fisty. One guy plays an ubercool baritone guitar, for that extra ball wiggling low end. Their style is slow and pensive, and they know when to kick it in or make it clean and pretty. The drummer holds up his end of the deal, keeping rock-steady time, although he plays a bit dry for my taste. They're noisy, but not sloppy. Think more like early Soundgarden rather than early Bardo Pond. The guitars hit their chords cleanly and with purpose, before the notes get blown to hell through ample distortion. And it makes a difference. If you're, well, old like me, and like old-skool "grunge" and emo, then this is for you. In fact, check it.

Btw, Northsix is "closing" and their last show is tonite. I guess the guy that owns Bowery, Irving, etc... bought it up and is re-opening it under the gay-ass name "Rock Club of Williamsburg". Whoof.

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There is a "new" 3D modeling program called Modo.

You can see it here: Modo 202

Mercifully, the interface is pretty cool and more or less intuitive to someone like me, who is not a modeler. Like, you can do stuff in layers. Also, the interface itself is extremely customizable, maybe too much so, but at least you have the option to build it from the "ground up" if you like. The different interfaces you contruct can be saved and tabbed so that you change environments quick-like.

So, I'm tring to learn it, and as such, I purchased this book: Modo Book

It's well put together. I'll keep you posted if I make any progress.

Also, if you care, you can download a 30 day demo of Modo here: Modo demo

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Hello, please excuse my growing pains as I begin to design this blog.

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