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Oh, right: Cole Hamels was on Life After Top Chef

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I went away for a few days and got so buried in nonsense this morning that I almost forgot: Cole Hamels continued his mission to bring back the old school baseball by learning to rissole scallops on Bravo’s Life After Top Chef on Wednesday. You can check out video from Hamels’ appearance here.

Predictably, Hamels embarrassed himself in his own lovably goofy way, but the show didn’t produce many overwhelmingly embarrassing images of Cole Hamels. This one, after he stumbled over chef Jen Carroll’s name for the second time, was pretty good:

And there’s this, a closeup of an apron-clad Cole Hamels smelling some cheese:

To Hamels’ credit, cheese is delicious and often smells so. And there’s nothing really embarrassing about cooking.

Plus, no screengrab I snatched of Hamels could possibly live up to the image of Jonathan Papelbon presented within the first few seconds of the above-linked clip. He appears absolutely terrified to be seen on Bravo, and it looks like his wife is consoling him. This is a dark day in the Papelbon household:

Anyway, what say you:

R.A. Dickey has pet rabbits named for Star Wars characters

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You know by now that R.A. Dickey is pretty awesome, what with his being the knuckleballer that led the league in strikeouts this year, a guy inspired by Hemingway to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity, a former doughnut-store employee, a dedicated and capable beard man, and a distinguishing sandwich-eater. He’s also a Star Wars fan and, apparently, the owner of a growing family of pet rabbits.

Last night, Dickey tweeted a photo of his one-month-old rabbit Luke, brother of Leia, son of Vader and Amidala. And damned if it isn’t about the cutest thing you’ll ever see in your entire life. For my wife, fan of both R.A. Dickey and rabbits:

Via Cut 4.

The longer the NHL lockout lasts, the more beautiful, unidentifiable animals die by crossbow

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I know I don’t talk hockey here much, and as a dedicated carnivore I’m certainly in no position to open up any ethical debate over hunting. But I did find this Tweet from Canucks winger David Booth a bit upsetting, because he spent time he would presumably be playing hockey killing some massive, amazing looking animal that I honestly cannot identify. And I watch a fair share of Animal Planet. Is that a mountain goat?

Via Adam Rotter.

Brian Wilson’s beard now too large to be captured in still photographs

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Spotted this on the AP wire today. The photo ends, but the beard keeps going. At some point you have figure that would become unwieldy, no? How do you eat without accidentally dipping that thing in barbecue sauce? How long does it take to dry after you shower?

Wilson has been accused here and elsewhere of being something of an attention whore. But I’ll say this much for him: He’s dedicated.

Subway prank signs

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Check out this gallery of prank signs from the London Underground. Many of them crack me up, none more so than this:

A) More people should put up signs like this on the New York subway. I demand entertainment.

B) My high-school friends and I did something similar in our school’s library. For whatever reason, the librarians had handwritten signs in various spots on the library outlining library rules. They were just black ink on printer paper held up with Scotch tape, so they were really easy to duplicate. Most of ours were so outlandish that the librarians would notice them and immediately pull them down. But at the end of every semester when they did their inventory and cleaned up, they’d always wheel out a rolling cart of books with a sign attached that said, “USED BOOKS! Take them if you want — they’re free!” At some point, one of my friends replaced the sign with a nearly identical one that said, “USED BOOKS! Take them if you want — they suck!” And it stayed there through graduation.

I’m sorry, librarians and former librarians of South Side High School. I was such a jackass.