Dowbrigade.com Returns

After
a lapse of over two months, one it took me to become aware of the problem
and another it took me to do something about it, our own personal domain,
dowbrigade.com, is back up and running.

As well as using this server space to host the shortcut to the Dowbrigade
News via dowbrigade.com, we store images, slide shows, subsidiary pages
(see Hire the Dowbrigade) there and it processes several emails, including
contact@dowbrigade.com and kvetch@dowbrigade.com.

Apropos to nothing, but too trivial to merit it’s own posting, an anecdote
from the Real Life (such as it is) of the Dowbrigade.

This is why we love sports talk radio (WEEI).
While watching the 8th
inning confrontation between New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield
and a Boston Red Sox fan who may or may not have slugged him in the jaw
as Sheff went to pick up a live ball near the wall live on TV last night,
we were immediately relishing the low-rent trash-talking radio theater
which we knew would blanket the airwaves in Boston today.  As it
has.

The only time we listen to sports talk radio is in our car, the White
Whale.  Well, we were just out there, checking on something in the
ashtray, and we got to listen to an irate female caller from Braintree:

"Gentlemen, if I could please make on point that I haven’t heard anyone
else make and that I think is highly prutinent."

Many guffaws ensued among the ex-jock hosts over the nervous caller’s
melding of prudent and pertinent. Finally she caught on they were laughing
at her and got hot.

"Are you going to let me make my point?"

They told her to go ahead.

"Well, I just got the local paper here in Braintree, the Braintree & Witham
Times, and it says right on the front sports page that "Sheffield’s confrontation
with the philistine fan".  What I want to know is this: if
these people want to come to our country, don’t you think they should
learn the proper rules of behavior at sporting events?"

"Ma’am, what do you think a philistine is?"

"Well, someone from Philistinia."

We swear to God……