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Italian Hour Podcast 2-17-2012

Written by on February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Italian Hour’s new podcast is available starring Nicolette Tropiano, Karen Ciasca Zeltman, and Anthony Campeggio. Italian Hour covers the world of entertainment, dining and wine, and Philadelphia sports.

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Categories: Celebrity Gossip, Entertainment, Flippin Out Radio, Italian Hour, Movies, Music, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Television, Writer - Nicolette Tropiano

Setting the Mahmud

Written by on February 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

RSBS Special Correspondent and 10-time Tebowing champion, Mr. Johanna Mahmud reports:

For the Love of the Game/Slaying the Dragon

I don’t know tidily snot.

For as much as I don’t know about stats, player history, and some of the marquee moments, I do have the love. Even with my rampant stupidity of baseball knowledge, I have the love.

When I’m not sitting with my friend Jeffy at a game or on his couch, him schooling me, I have the love.

It’s been said many times here at Setting the Mahmud that the NBA is my true sport, but even I admit: there is nothing like baseball. I reminded myself of this the other night while watching For the Love of the Game. The pain of Kevin Costner’s character is so real and true to life it’s uncanny. The pain of ending a career. The pain of romance gone bad. Pain of failed goals. But despite all that, you might still have a friend who believes in you, which summons the strength to get your mojo back.

These are trying times in Chicago. Both ball clubs will probably be bad this year. It’s January. It’s cold. Sometimes, like a ballplayer, you wish you could just be traded to another team, in another (warmer) city. But that’s not how life works. You have to take what you have and make it great. Baseball life can be like a swinging bass line or a blistering hot trumpet solo. We swing high and we swing low. Players leave, lovers leave, and sometimes you’ll get your heart broken. Being a fan can be turmoil.

And sometimes just maybe you’ll play life well enough to win it all. It’s a noble game. A pureness that wraps around you like a warm embrace holding you tight, one that doesn’t let go. It’s a timeless art that makes you feel like you’re wearing wings.

Beware of the darkness that lies in the cave of your life. Slay the dragon. It can make you feel weak. It can break you if you let it. It can make you feel like a sucker. Accept that pain is part of the process of baseball, part of LIFE.

And let’s heal together. The Cubs will be great someday. The White Sox will be great again too. It will be cathartic and it will be grand.

–Johanna Mahmud
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Categories: Chicago, Entertainment, MLB, MLB - Cubs, MLB - White Sox, Movies, Red State Blue State, Sports, Writer - Jeffery Lung - Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Hooray for Hollywood! Some actors stay in minds forever, but for most part, who are they?

Written by on January 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Clark Gable in “Gone With the Wind.” Julia Roberts in “Pretty Women.” Thomas Lennon in “17 Again”?’ Some actors remain in our collective minds forever, while a large part of them, we recognize, but while some of us know the actors’ name, many of us say, who is this actor? Do you know this attractive [...] Read more »

Categories: Entertainment, Movies, Writer - Scott Eisenlohr

NFL Rivals Disney’s Wonderful World as Super Bowl Week Approaches!

Written by on January 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment

DATELINE: HUMOR! The Super Bowl is vastly overrated in terms of football, but better fits the bill as a Walt Disney movie. Most of the games played are hardly close, or even interesting unless you like TV commercials that are insipid and witless—like movies such as The World’s Greatest Athlete and the Love Bug. It’s [...] Read more »

Categories: Entertainment, Featured, Featured Columns, Featured Main Page, Movies, Writer - William Russo

Best Picture

Written by on January 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

THIS has the potential to knock Field of Dreams from its perch. Don’t hate me. ‘Cuz I’m right. Peace Jeff Bookmark It Hide Sites Read more »

Categories: Comedy, Entertainment, MLB, MLB - Yankees, Movies, New York, Red State Blue State, Sports, Writer - Jeffery Lung

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse Oscar Snub

Written by on January 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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Looks like the Director’s Guild of America snubbed Spielberg’s War Horse movie.  This could have a major impact for this year’s Oscar awards which will be held in next month.  Why they snubbed this big budget film is hard to say but it is clear that viewers do not think that War Horse did not [...] Read more »

Categories: Celebrity Gossip, Entertainment, Movies, Television, Theatre, Writer - Richard Price

Setting the Mahmud

Written by on January 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

RSBS Special Correspondent and Kerry Wood Loyalist, Mr. Johanna Mahmud reports: “Some places are like people: some shine and some don’t.” Those who know me know I like to do odd things, like throw myself off bridges, eat cuttlefish or play H.O.R.S.E. … with myself. But that’s not why I called. In the spirit of [...] Read more »

Categories: Cincinnati, Entertainment, Michigan, MLB, MLB - Reds, Montreal, Movies, Red State Blue State, Sports, Writer - Jeffery Lung - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Before There Was RSBS, There Was Free Pudding

Written by on January 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

That’s right. In a galaxy far, far away… before the interns, before the Digests, before I was “always right”, there was… FREE PUDDING. The above picture is one of the remaining relics from that year 2000 sketch production extraordinaire staged at Kalamazoo College that brought its fans FUN, LAUGHS and FREE PUDDING. (Not kidding, we [...] Read more »

Categories: Chicago, Comedy, Entertainment, MLB, MLB - Cubs, MLB - Mets, Movies, New York, Red State Blue State, Sports, Writer - Jeffery Lung - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Setting the Mahmud

Written by on January 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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RSBS Special Correspondent and founder of Epsteinism, Mr. Johanna Mahmud reports: “ No one in Russia believes in god.” You know why? Because it’s cold! It’s cold there like it’s cold in Chicago right now!! I know it’s not manly to act depressed while living in a wonderful place like this but, it’s cold. AND [...] Read more »

Categories: Chicago, Entertainment, MLB, MLB - Cubs, Movies, Red State Blue State, Sports, Writer - Jeffery Lung - Tags: , , , , , , ,

Happy New Year…or Die Hard

Written by on January 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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If, like Jeff, you spent your Christmas like this: Hopefully this will help you forget the indignity as you start your 2012: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4goSUHt1E8] Happy New Year…or Die Hard!! -A Bookmark It Hide Sites Read more »

Categories: Comedy, Entertainment, Featured Columns, Movies, Multimedia, Red State Blue State, Writer - Allen Krause - Tags: , , ,

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