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Michigan's defense actually looked pretty good today. Too bad their receivers couldn't catch a fucking pass.

If people are going to talk about the ending, it might be a good idea to warn about possible spoilers in the thread subtitle. I don't want this one ruined for me.

We went to see Seamus Heaney give a reading a few years ago. We expected to be part of a small crowd, but they filled Rackham Auditorium on the U-M campus, and people were standing all around the back. That was pretty cool.

Today is the day. I woke up this morning remembering that back in the '70s, my parents had an official State of Michigan map that included two fictitious towns in the bit of Ohio that showed along the southeastern border: "Goblu" and "Beatosu." I googled that but didn't come up with any particularly good images ... apparently no one knows how to scan a nearly 30-year-old map at high quality. There's a bit about it here (PDF; image and caption at the top of page 5). There's another reference and image here, and a Wikipedia mention here. Best. Interstate rivalry prank. Ever.

Not in its truncated version, and in its full glory it doesn't fit the category (even truncated it's still nearly four minutes).

I've seen that kid somewhere before...

Mistake/typo?

This thread seemed like the most appropriate place to post this: Pasta monster gets academic attention By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer Fri Nov 16, 7:36 AM ET When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion. The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion's annual mee

I'll give that a listen. The instrumentation on the album version is most of what bugs me. Her voice is pretty well suited to the song.

I first heard of it from him.

I'm not real fond of what she did to that Ron Sexsmith song. They play that on the radio here pretty often.

I like turkey way better than both duck and chicken, so this holds no fascination for me whatsoever. Besides, I'd have the image of John Madden in my head the whole time I was eating it, and that's not a good thing.

I try not to eat anything with the word "turd" in it. My mom really rolls out the feast, without fail, every Thanksgiving. She does a massive turkey, makes fantastic homemade stuffing and gravy, and surrounds that with an endless supply of delicious side dishes, some of which reappear (due to popular demand) but many of which are test-drives (she's never been shy about using us as guinea pigs). There's a great dish she makes involving broccoli and cashews (kind of a casserole) that we request every year. The turkey is always done using a lower-temperature method that requires it to be c

I live with one, and she doesn't eat much fake meat stuff any more, but when we first met she ate a lot of it. I think it has a lot to do with being accustomed to old ways of eating and trying to maintain those ways without actual meat. To that end, you start using stuff like veggie sausage, fake ground beef, or fake bacon, so you can cook some of the same recipes you liked before and have a somewhat similar experience. Eventually Melissa decided that she wanted to make a wholesale change in what she ate, rather than trying to adapt old favorites, and she pretty much dropped faux meats from

Pastitsio is one of my favorite things. I doubt we'll ever have it at Thanksgiving, however (and I don't think my parents have ever tried to make it -- I've only ever had it at restaurants).

There are two each from Meat Puppets and Pavement.

Agreed on that Byrds tune. Here's a list of some of my personal favorites ... some are well-known, some are not. "Yesterday's Love" - Any Trouble "Rock & Roll Woman" - Buffalo Springfield "Cry to Me" - Solomon Burke "Fall At Your Feet" - Crowded House (also "Better Be Home Soon") "Losing Myself Too" - John Cunningham "Runaround Sue" - Dion "The Big Lie" - Gigolo Aunts "Rain Hail Shine" - Ice Cream Hands (EP version) "One More Time" - Joe Jackson "Down About It" - Lemonheads "I Don't Want To Know" - Nils Lofgren "Everybody's Talkin'" - Fred Neil "Hellbent" - Superdrag "I've Been Waitin

Much of the Marshall Crenshaw catalog qualifies. The best-known examples are "Someday Someway" and "Whenever You're On My Mind."

The most perfect song ever recorded was Hendrix's original "Little Wing," but it's less than 2:30 if I recall correctly. The chord progression is amazing.

I think we're all Bozos on this bus.

Listening to my first Sharon Jones stuff now (the new one) ... wow, this is good.

This?

I think he deserves to be in the HOF for his pre-steroids play alone. However, if they put him in the Hall now, they also need to put Rose in. I'm not sure you can give Bonds a pass without finally reinstating Rose.

Yup, that was more or less my thought.

I'm just dorky enough to have read this article and known what the heck they're talking about.