"Bye-weeks. Bronco Nagurski didn't get no bye-weeks! And now he's dead! Well, maybe they're a good thing." - Moe, The Simpsons These are the times that try fan's souls. The cavalcade of ridiculousness that is Media Day is long over, but the actual game is still three looooooong days away. But with 564,000 media members stomping around Greater Phoenix, stories will be filed even if there's no story there. And we have to talk about......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

Just to make things clear, right out of the gate: you're not voting for which Springfield is the Simpson's Springfield, just who gets to host the "hometown premiere" of The Simpsons Movie. Fifteen out of the couple dozen Springfields around the country are hoping to play host to the premiere and have created videos to help convince voters to check their box. Springfield, the fictional town, has been home to the Simpsons and overseen......

Even though the Devern Hansack experiment went horribly wrong Saturday night, the Sox had no choice but to go to the Pawtucket well again Sunday. So they brought up lefty Kason Gabbard to start Sunday's rain-delayed tilt with the Braves. And it went as well as we possibly could have hoped. Gabbard cooled off the Atlanta bats, which were still steaming from Saturday's 14-run nightcap, to the tune of five innings pitched, six hits, two......

It was a tense time at Fenway Saturday. Curt Schilling looked human (or worse). The Sox were suffering from a chronic case of "hitting the ball right at Miguel Tejada". Losing two in a row to the Orioles looked like a distinct possibility. But then came the Orioles bullpen, who helped the Red Sox turn a nailbiter into a 13-4 rout. A 5-4 lead turned to 8-4, on a Crisp fielder's choice and a 2-run......

Twins ace Johan Santana only made it five innings, but that was more than enough to send the Red Sox bats into a tizzy from which they never recovered. The Minnesota bullpen, if anything, was sharper than the starter, and the result was a 2-1 loss and the waste of a very good outing from Sox starter Julian Tavarez. Tavarez went six, giving up only four hits and two runs, while striking out seven. But......

This Japanese Word of the Day will, we hope, be brought to you by Daisuke Matsuzaka, who will try to use his houri to send the Yankees packing tonight. The Red Sox took game two of the latest Ultimate Regular Season Series yesterday; Josh Beckett recovered from a couple shaky innings to hold New York in check. David Ortiz provided the big hit, as he is wont to do, with a two-run homer around......

Renaissance man Harry Shearer will read from Not Enough Indians at the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 6pm on Monday, December 11. The event is cheap at 2 bucks, and you can stay for a discounted screening of For Your Consideration. Comedian / writer / actor / director / Le Show host Harry Shearer has a knack of either soaring to the heights or plummeting to earth. His multiple achievements include his work voicing Ned Flanders,......

Bostonist loves it when a cartoon show will animate a real life Bostonian and weave them into their plot line. Tom Brady has already been featured on “The Simpsons” and most recently, “The Family Guy." Besides that awful episode of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”, the Red Sox haven’t been featured on many non-sports related television shows. Well, this morning WGBH changed all that by having a few Sox players from past and present......

We’ve got no business showing you this video. It is certainly not Boston-related, but we really got a kick out of it and thought it worth sharing. It may not be as contagious as Lazy Sunday (or Brokeback Sunday?), or the latest Portman rap (at least she went to school here). What we have here is simply a British, live-action version of the Simpsons intro. We’re going to justify giving this a spot on Bostonist......

Just yesterday, Bostonist shared an interesting tract about world history, the mafia, the domestication of zebras, and the Simpsons, which was posted as a comment to our site. No sooner had we finished sharing that enlightening tidbit, than we received in our inbox what purports to be a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (or Gomzales, as his name is written elsewhere in the letter), complaining about some complicated, fraudulent scheme involving body doubles......

The way things work here at Bostonist headquarters, when one of our beloved readers has an important observation about something we've written and posts it in the form of a clever comment, Moveable Type quickly sends a copy of that missive to the e-mail account of the person who wrote the post. Sadly, there are those selfish individuals roaming the wide open spaces of the internet who take advantage of this simple system to get......

Sure, so the New England Patriots will not be suiting up for next week’s Super Bowl, but that doesn’t mean you have to be all depressed or anything. The Pats will keep showing up on the television without stepping foot on the field. You might recall last year’s Simpsons episode when Tom Brady lent his voice and cartoon-likeness to the show. Well, it seems Brady is also a fan of another Fox show, “The......

Bleeding Gums Murphy testified for the Simpsons showing the children of Springfield and the comical ignorance of Homer the light of Jazz. Tonight and tomorrow Dave Holland will be Bleeding Gums for Boston. Bringing on the new wave of the big band song Dave Holland and his big band will perform at the Regatta Bar in Cambridge. When Bostonist checked out the Bjorkestra last month we knew big band was coming back and this time......

While we all in Boston have another 6 days until our beloved Patriots take on the Eagles in Superbowl XXXIX, Bostonist almost forgot about the other aspects of the big game which have nothing to do with football—the commercials, the half-time show, the snacks, the betting, and the post-game sitcom. Sure, Bostonist wants to watch the game just as badly as you all do, but we must remember that our boy Brady will also appear......