theres two more busblog yahoo fantasy leagues forming and drafting this weekend.

these will be the final two leagues that i will be rocking.

and yes im the commish so you know all will be kosher.

we have one draft Saturday at noon, and one on Sunday at noon.

so if you like baseball, wanna play fantasy, and want to be in a league (or two) get your ish together

League ID#: 457247
League Name: busblog2010
Password: blogger
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: Sat Mar 27 12:00pm PDT
Max Teams: 16

League ID#: 457293
League Name: busblogleague2
Password: blogger
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: Sun Mar 28 12:00pm PDT
Max Teams: 16
New Players Become Available: Wait until called up to Majors
Max Moves: 50
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: August 15, 2010
Waiver Time: 2 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can’t Cut List Provider: None
Trade Review: Commissioner
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Acquisitions per Week: No maximum
Min Innings Pitched: 25

what music have you been listening to?

according to my last FM lots of matthew good, kanye, beasties, and the donnas

but recently ive been listening to a lot of Titus Andronicus and Surfer Blood.

and you?

and im glad that no one talks about him

not crazy about Andy Samberg either because hes just a slightly better ripoff of fallon

but i gotta say, this version of Lazy Sunday with the Roots

who start off by playing N.W.A and RUN DMC and include the Beastie Boys is so good

as in SO

video game expert, heavy metal surfer rosa,

and all around good girl, ali-san de la valley got sent to nyc

yes The new york city.

three ladies took three hours to put her in a $15,000 get up

and then she took the stage and MC’ed some event attended by big wigs from both sides of the globe

and did so in japanese

and a smile.

and now shes back. with pics, which proves it happened.

so domo arigato

if its true i will be particularily happy for the publisher jake dobkin and the executive editor jen chung because during an extremely important part of my life they were the best bosses i could have dreamed for.

they gave me unreal freedom, tons of patience, and rock solid tips they embodied themselves.

i was the first LA editor they ever gave full time money to. they took a big risk on me. i was a solo blogger who had most recently been booted by a startup. how did that qualify me to lead a large group of bloggers in a group blog?

but they hung in there while i combatted negative commentors as if they were roaches, they endured all forms of my weird and sometimes childish blogger experimentation (including drunken semi political rants in the wee hours), and stuck by me as i tried everything i possibly could to push the envelope and be different than everyone from the Times to… Gothamist.

the partnership – shortlived in retrospect – a mere year and a half – was hugely successful. LAist was the 2nd most popular Ist compared to the mothership for most of my tenure and contributor after contributor was plucked off into paying gigs in journalism or blogging, last of all me to my dream job.

no way could i have made the leap to where i am now without them. simply put, they know what theyre doing, theyre rarely wrong with who they hire, and they work their butts off.

although i did most of my dealings with jake, i wonder about the future of jen. to me shes the worlds greatest blogger. she effortlessly doles out 7-10 posts a day, every day, with links, and insight, and typos (its blogging, chill), and speed, and timeliness. i can totally understand the passion when its your baby, but how on earth can that continue when youre working for the man?

if i was cablevision id buy the company for the millions, but id also make jake and jen vps of digital media of some sort. if youre interested in a blog network, double down and retain those brains to do more than just hand over the keys.

with the ipad right around the corner, blogs are just going to be more vital to the daily/hourly/minute-by-minute quest for More Information. who better than these two to help guide cablevision down the right path in delivering news and creating community with little overhead?

too many times have we seen companies like microsoft buy webtv and do nothing with that technological head start. likewise how much better is blogger many years after google purchased it? the $5 million pricetag for the Gothamist sites is a good start and gets a nice foothold in several important cities around the world, but that investment dies on the vine without the minds that made it happen.

others are also talking about this good news for the Gothamist leaders

Laura Rich – Buying the Company for the Blogger

Reuters – Blogonomics: The Gothamist sale

Business Insider – Nick Denton Is An Out-Of-Touch Scrooge For Downplaying Gothamist’s Big Sale

The Awl – Gawker Kingpin Explains Gothamist Sale

NY Times: Cablevision Unit Is Said to Be Interested in Acquiring Gothamist

so many people this month told me they want to kill themselves.

and i hope each and every one of them saw tonights Lost

because in it we are reminded that things are often not what they appear to be

and even concrete perceptions of simple concepts like good and bad

love and hate

and life and death

can often be jumbled inside the temporary turmoil of our circumstance.

Lost was my favorite show for so long and yet this year I nearly gave up on it.

like a fool.

today showed me that i am not even close to being the patient man i need to be.

in this instant gratification world where feedback comes quickly and steadily,

we forget that nature doesnt give a g damn about our pithy beliefs regarding control and time.

sometimes you have to just sit there and take it.

because the sun will rise tomorrow.

and a new day will dawn.

a better one than today.

Tony, I luv you but no way did Karissa run that marathon. Pics or it didn’t happen.

there you go, Anon, now get a gmail addy like the rest of the world.

and start trusting the blog where nothing in it is true.

especially our pal karisa who finished it in just Four Hours and Seven Minutes

which placed her 2,963 out of 25,000 runners.

amazing.

i get uncomfortable sitting in a movie for two hours

i cant imagine running through the streets of LA for twice that time.

bravo to all.