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Touch Football

With all the  controversy of late regarding Thierry Henry's handball that assisted in a goal which helped France gain a seat in the next World Cup at the expense of Ireland, I'm reminded of Diego Maradona, a soccer legend with an infamous handball goal against England. Here are some of his quotes referencing that incident.

ON HIS HANDBALL GOAL AGAINST ENGLAND IN 1986 At the time I called it the Hand of God. Bollocks was it the Hand of God, it was the Hand of Diego (2004)

ON JULIA ROBERTS I would do anything to see her come across the Croisette. I would cut off my hand – even the hand with which I scored against England (2008)

ON PUNCHING IN THE WINDOW OF A PHOTOGRAPHER'S CAR I did it with the Hand of Reason (2000)

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Round Table Dinner

One of the gifts in this year's Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the "Algonquin Round Table Experience" which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs.

Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George Stephanopoulos Ali Wentworth

This can be all yours for just $200,000 guilt free, because Neiman Marcus is donating the proceeds from this sale to a book charity.

My ideal table of 12 would be, in no particular order: Richard Dawkins, Haruki Murakami, Bill Clinton, Jared Diamond, Andrew Sullivan, Anthony Bourdain, Chris Rock, Bill Simmons,  Assata Shakur, George W. Bush, Kristin Kreuk, and Salman Rushdie.

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Andre Agassi "TMI" Book Tour

Andre Agassi has been making the PR rounds promoting his new tell-all autobiography and people are making quite a "racket" over the revelation that he was once addicted to meth. The Wall Street Journal read the book so we don't have to and in addition to his drug use, they share some of the other highlights and by highlight we don't just mean his blond streaked hair which also turned out to be a weave.

*When Agassi loses to Thomas Muster in the 1994 French Open, he becomes angry at Muster not because he beat him but because the Austrian mussed Agassi’s hair when they met at the net post-match. “I stare at him with pure hatred. Big mistake, Muster. Don’t touch the hair. Don’t ever touch the hair.” (Pg. 192)

*In preparation for her wedding to Agassi, Shields embarks on an exercise regimen and hangs an inspiration photo on the refrigerator door. The photo is of the woman who Shields thinks has perfect legs. The woman is Agassi’s future second wife, Steffi Graf. (Pg. 244)

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White House Visitor Records

In the interest of transparency, the Obama administration is providing online the records of White House visitors. Is the Shawn Carter that's listed in the visitor database the same Shawn Carter who goes by the nom de plume Jay-Z aka Jigga aka Hova? And was George Clooney his plus one?

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Scene in New York

At a showing of the documentary "Good Hair" I ran into the executive producer and comedy genius hisself, Chris Rock at the theater! For all the celebrities and public figures I've seen in my lifetime, this is the only time I've been compelled to ask for a photo.

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An Interview with John Mayer

Christianna Ablahad gets mildly traumatized in her interview with John Mayer for New York Magazine.

What do you think about health care? Would you take the public option? Have you ever heard me play guitar? I'm really fucking good. You know what I'm bad at? Answering questions about public health care. This is not in my wheelhouse. Do you have any questions about music? I almost got a mad need to lighten up. You need to lighten up, because the questions you asked me were all troublemaking questions. If someone gave me the Nobel Peace Prize, and I didn't deserve it, I would just shut my mouth and enjoy the hell out of it.

Hilarious.

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Star Studded High School

The starting quarterback at Oaks Christian, a high school in Southern California, is Nick Montana, the son of Joe Montana. The backup quarterback is Trevor Gretzky, the son of Wayne Gretzky. One of the top receivers on the football team is Trey Smith, the son of Captain Steven Hiller aka Will Smith. The PTA meetings must be a red carpet affair.

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7 Successful High School Dropouts

I don't recommend this path for everyone, but for these people the whole not-needing a high school education thing kind of worked out.

  • Dave Thomas - Founded Wendy's and SQUARE burgers. SQUARE!
  • George Bernard Shaw - Playwright and curmudgeon.
  • George Eastman - Founded Kodak, anonymously donated a crapload of money to universities, left a suicide note saying, "My work is done. Why wait?"
  • Quentin Tarantino - Director and foot fetishist.
  • Richard Pryor - Funniest man ever.
  • Peter Jennings - Anchorman
  • Peter Jackson - Director and God to geeks everywhere.

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You hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY and they meet at the bar.

- Drew Carey

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