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tomorrow we officially welcome to our team the most popular dodgers blog in the world

Dodger Thoughts by Jon Weisman

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today was the best monday ive had since my first monday.

then i realized that you all must be in as much shock as i am that Jack was hit by a bus

obviously it saddens us here at the busblog that such a legendary character went down because of public transportation.

looking for scott sterling’s cell phone number. apparently prince was about to have a special gig at his crib

here is part of scott’s report from the bowels of prince’s pad in the 90210

But in the wee hours of Feb. 1 in the opulent basement of his Beverly Hills mansion — a rec room that boasts a Prince-emblazoned pool table and and an encased “Purple Rain” motorcycle — Prince played an equally wide-ranging and mind-boggling set for a far more intimate gathering of fewer than 50 people, all of it designed to celebrate the launch of his Website lotusflow3r.com.

After a presentation of the new site, which looks to be an all-encompassing portal to Prince’s history as well as a direct line to the three albums he has slated for 2009 (the first being “Lotus Flow3r”, the electro-charged ’80s flashback “MLPSound” and the debut of his latest protégé Bria Valente), Prince emerged for post-press conference concert with a blistering rendition of the Cars’ 1979 new wave hit “Let’s Go.”

Prince led his lethal band, including the amazingly hard-hitting female drummer Cora Dunham, through a nearly two-hour set. It was a rollicking, celebratory affair, and it included takes on the Rolling Stones (“Miss You”), the Doobie Brothers (“Long Train Running”), Mary J. Blige (“Be Happy”) and a Sly & the Family Stone medley.

read the whole thing here and prepared to be as jealous as i am.

thats old news. did you know that layne and sk smith (not real sure who that redhead in the middle is) has brought wonkette back to prominence – they are now #64 on technorati!

nice job kids.

but whats more important is they are fighting to win another popularity contest, this one is the Weblog Awards – aka the Bloggies.

as you might recall, the busblog won a Bloggy way back in the dark ages, but now Wonkette is up for multiple B’s, and since they are friends of ours, i urge you to vote right now, and help Ken and Sara and i think even Fat is contributing over there too, not sure thought. doesnt matter. Vote for Wonkette while you can!

now that i have had time to see the game and the commercials and have it all settle in, this is what i think. i think i need to go on vacation next super bowl weekend. i think i need to go to vegas and take monday off, maybe tuesday too. dont get me wrong, its nice to be in the office and its nice to chat with people about the game and the commercials and the half time show and all that, but super bowl really oughtta be a national holiday where everyone gets monday off to clean up the bbq and recycle the beer cans.

— as good as last night’s game was, ratings-wise it was going to be hard to beat the matchup between the undefeated patriots attempt at perfection against the new york giants. huge markets with dogs in the fight have an advantage over a pittsburgh/phoenix battle, so its good to see that the drop off in viewership was just 6%

— yes the cardinals lost the game, but it looks like michael phelps lost the month.

— that damn groundhog saw its shadow. six more weeks of 80 degree temps in LA i guess.

— jerry brown is running for governor again. lets hope gary coleman runs against him.

— i know if you wanna shed some pounds you should step away from the guacamole dip, but can fasting help you lose weight?