We were busy last weekend.

We really enjoyed talking to Lindsey Dolich, even though we had to speak ill of her employer in the same breath.  We marked the scourge of Barry Bonds, enjoyed a basketball game greatly, and wondered aloud about Jessica Simpson.  We also indulged ourselves more than a bit.  

In the interest of full disclosure, we also were kind of an idiot.

Then we closed out with Allan Sherman, which all good weekends should.

Thanks to all of you that checked in with tips, comments, and encouraging words.  We’ll take that every weekend and twice on Sundays.  We’ll check in later this week with news about our next liveblog.  Excelsior!

We just dropped a four-spot on SPORTSbyBROOKS and will return tomorrow for more tasty tidbits about Beijing bound to give you the revenge of Confucius.  Also, we did a drop (radio term!) for the Treehouse Fort last week and snuggled a piece or two into the Big Tilde family of posts during our absence. All of this can be spotted on the right, as per the norm.

We may try to post a few items during the next week, but that’s to be determined.  We’re a fair blogger, but this fucking heat is making us absolutely crazy.

Finally, we don’t think we’re giving too much away at this point to note that next weekend will involve posting for our new gig.  You may have heard something about it.

Thanks to all for your patience; we’ll get this fridge chilled to the appropriate extremity-threatening temperature shortly.

Sorry about the Ice Machine’s disappearance; we had to take it back to the store.  Apparently, you have to feed it water to make the ice.  That seems an awful lot like work to us.

Also, we’re undergoing a few changes around these parts.  For example, these aren’t going to be our parts for long.  We’re taking a new job and moving across the country in the next few days.  Therefore, we’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging.  However, we’ll be back soon enough.  (After all, we’ve got Deadspin duty in August.)  

What will this mean for your friendly neighborhood blog-slinger?  More weekends, probably, and fewer weekday gigs.  It also probably means a different focus for this here blog.  The Ice Machine came about from leftover links from daily SPORTSbyBROOKS searches.  We won’t have as many of those anymore, so no more Ice Machine.  (Told you it sounded like work.)

That’s all TBD, though.  We’re still sorting all of this out (not to mention the cross-country caravan et al).  Until then, you can still find us in a few watering holes.  We’ll be posting to The Big Tilde soon enough.  We’ve been doing podcasts; there’s one more tonight before we take a couple weeks off from that as well.  We also did another Voodoo Sabermetrics for Babes Love Baseball today.  (Please check this out; this feature is one of our favorite writing tasks.)  Our Twitter gets the occasional quick hit as well.

Thank you for your patience; we’ll be back up and snarking soon enough.  Stay tuned, true believers!

P.S. We love videos.

Ice Machine’s busted.  (Not the site, just the feature.)  Moose out front should’ve told ya.

No word on when it will return.  Until then, we posted a lot on SPORTSbyBROOKS over the weekend (and did two very silly pieces today) and will have a very special treat or two tomorrow, including actually showing up for a podcast.

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (where the heat lamp is on):

• We can’t wait to see what The Blowtorch does with this.
• Hanley Ramirez probably doesn’t need to work on a second career, but there he is.
• SHHHHHHHHHHHH.
• Oh, THOSE steroids!
• Sad panda.
• We won’t miss the parkland soon; we’ll play all our sports indoors.
• And we used this video elsewhere today, but we couldn’t resist playing it again:

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (wherein you share a corned beef sammich with the dog):

• We hate when Greg Wyshynski makes sense.  We’re coming ’round on this Sean Avery thing, slowly but slowly.
• We’re not here to mock Vin Baker for his latest foreclosure.  Instead, we’re just glad to hear there is still a Vin Baker.
• Nerd salute.
• We believe this article about the Pixar spin machine is entirely accurate and yet don’t hold it against them.  That’s how good the Pixar spin machine is.  (We’re off to write this down in our new Wall-E journal.)
• And here we have a point/counterpoint.  First, the original:

• And now… just on so many levels, missing the point with the counterpoint (don’t listen for long; we need you back tomorrow):

• In other news, we’re old.  We’re so very, very old.

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (mutualism with brown sugar):

• We were busy Sunday at SPORTSbyBROOKS.  If you aren’t convinced it’s worth a look, consider that we thought this was a good idea:

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes):

• Best Buy will provide instant replay for the American Association All-Star Game.  (It’s an indie league dominated by the St. Paul Saints of “hey, you used to be famous; put on this tutu and get out to first base” fame).  We love that it’s basically a Slingbox (not likely to be a TiVo, as the article says) hooked up to a cell phone in the umpire’s pocket.  Yes, that should clear it all up.  Why didn’t Stern think of giving one of these to Bavetta in 2002 to let him know when to call a charge?
• “Kobe Bryant says he won’t play GM this summer” - ahahahahahahahahahahahah.
• Thank goodness: kung pao chicken finally arrives in China!  This decision by the Beijing authorities couldn’t say “ugly Americans with weak dollars” more clearly.
• We’re workin’ the Brooksin’ on Sunday.  We have a rather explosive notion in mind for one of our pieces.  Drop by.
• And now settle in for a long lunch with this classic:

Our Question of the Day (blasphemy edition): Is it permissible for us to not care too much about the White Sox/Cubs OMGOMGOMGSHOWDOWN4EVA!!?!?!  We just… y’know, it’s not even a National League game, so it couldn’t have less to do with the Cubs’ ability to make the playoffs.  And who will punch A.J. now that Carlos is hurt and Barrett’s… well, who cares where Barrett is?