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Those games were horrible tonight. I hope the UF - OSU matchup proves to be a bit more entertaining for those of us without any vested interest in the game. That just wasn't a whole lotta fun to watch tonight.

Saw a couple of so-so reviews for Babel on here. I really liked this film a lot. I know it can be a difficult movie to get in to, but I think it's a very rewarding flick if you can just sort of give in to it on a very basic level. That sounds like psyco-babble bullshit but I think it's a pretty good picture all in all.

I get more and more jealous of you guys every year. I'm going to have start networking a little bit more around here.

And that poster is just incredible! Good work!

Like a cloud his fingers explode

On the typewriter ribbon

the shadow grows

I've always loved the way those words sounded together. What they mean, I have no idea

Great show. Very mellow as the others have reportedly been. I'd guess 40 people or so. Nothing new to report as far as songs. I didn't see anyone taping.

There was one great exchange between Pat and an audience member. Pat had mentioned something about it snowing in Texas and made a remark something along the lines of " I didn't know it snowed in Texas. Did anybody know that?"

Someone replies with " It's albino bullshit! "

Pat with kind of a confused look says " What does that mean? Is that some sort of Texas-Arizona rivalry thing?" I think pretty much everybody in the place was thinking, "What in the hell does that mean?"

All in all a pretty good Thursday.

This is a travesty. I read about this on MSN ( I think ) and there is a link to a petition that can be signed for anyone that is interested.

Sorry to hear about your buddy. I had almost the exact same scenario play out almost 10 years ago (has it been that long?) We had to put my dog from my childhood down at age 17. I had also had her since I was 8 and was the first dog we ever had that was deemed "mine". I moved to a lot of different places over the years and she was one of the few constants in my life. She was absolutely the sweetest dog any of dogs that my family has ever had. It was one of the saddest days of my life when we finally had to put her down. I picked her out at the pet store and I was there in the vet's office when they gave her the injection. I don't think I've ever cried more in my life.

All good vibes to you.

I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with Eddie's gob for years now. Looks like a 12 year-old's set of teeth in a 50 year-old's-mouth.

Lacrosse is the national (summer) sport of Canada.

Canadians definitely have good taste in sports. Hockey and lacrosse are both awesome IMO.

Look out for our Coyotes. Gretzky seems to have this thing on the right track. We're bouncing back from injury and the Yanic Pearreault and Mikael Tellqvist signings have been huge.

Joey! That's great! I totally forgot about that.

Along those same lines, I think we should remove Roger McGuinn from the RRHOF for changing his name from Jim.

still I say that's less the issue than it's not a home grown sport

Makes you wonder how popular lacrosse would be if we hadn't wiped out most of its' early participants.

Exactly. In all of my rambling, I forgot to mention the scoring (or lack thereof) aspect of soccer.

I actually played baseball up until first grade... I hated standing in the outfield doing nothing all day. So I switched to soccer where I at least got to run around all day. Youd make a much better argument with a sport like baseball...or tennis...or golf... I always saw soccer as the sport that actually got kids to do something, not just sit around and do nothing.

Read above post regarding baseball, but tennis? Tennis players are extremely well conditioned.

I was with you up until that.

If soccer's so boring, why is it the world's most popular sport? Personally, there's nothing I'd rather watch. I take time off work during the World Cup.

I was kinda just kidding with that, hence the . Maybe I chose the wrong smilie. I enjoy the World Cup as well, but I think for me it has more to do with the fact that it does involve the whole world and contains so much human drama, national pride, etc.. The nature of boring is all about perception. For some reason, Americans do not equate soccer with "action", even though there is far more going on in a soccer game than in a baseball game at any given time.

I also think that a lot of soccer's inherent popularity has to do with the economic nature of the sport. You need virtually no equipment other than a ball, and kids can make a ball out of anything.

We've been hearing the argument about how many kids growing up now are playing soccer and they'll change the perception in this country for over 20 years now. Yes, it is the most paricipated in sport in the country for children but that's because it doesn't take any athletic ability to stand around for an hour and then maybe chase the ball when it comes near you. Now before you flame me, hear me out. I'm not saying that soccer is easy. It's not. It's very difficult to become good at soccer, but it is the easiest sport to get children who are not athletically gifted, involved in playing. Gets them out in the fresh air and gets them some excercise. The best athletes in this country are never going to play soccer. They will continue to play the sports that were invented in this country (baseball, hoops, American football), and those sports are played using hand-eye coordination, not foot-eye coordination.

Also...soccer is really boring.

Dane Cook takes off, or at least has taken off his shirt during a stand up performance. That alone makes him a dickbag. You're a comedian dude, not a women's soccer player.

Jeff - So sorry to hear about your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Mike

Chandler, AZ

John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany

Probably my favorite book

I'll definitely check those out.

Cheers!

Anyone have any suggestions as to which album(s) to pick up first? I've seen them a couple of times and loved them but for some reason have never followed through and bought their stuff.

"Beer?"

"It's 8 O'Clock in the morning!!"

"Scotch?"

That whole scene is gold.

" You doing the whole thing 220? "

" Yeah..220..221..whatever it takes "

spree > sweettarts

Damn, I wish I'd stopped in Prescott on my way through AZ. I could've ended up in "Prescott Girls Gone Wild" or something.

You don't know how true that is. I was in a bar on Whiskey Row one night when a biker and his mama started gettin' more than a little frisky on the dance floor. It was getting close to full on porn when security had to throw some water on them. Thank God because that was not an attractive couple.

I was being serious, so there or something.

I'd actually like to see that list. The only hiking I've done in Prescott is up and down Whiskey Row

Makes sense that a Rutgers post would kill a thread .

 

Ok, so I haven't had to deal with extreme hardship as a Yankee fan, but I've had a lifetime of suffering being a lifetime Rutgers fanatic. Was going to drive down to Chapel Hill for tomorrow's game, but Ernesto changed my mind. PLEASE BEAT THE TAR HEELS!!!!

That guy ran all over my Sun Devils in the Insight Bowl last year. Granted, ASU is not exactly renowned for its defense, but he was piling up yards all night.

Speaking of ASU, went to the game last night and didn't come away very inspired. Terribly lackluster effort and once again it looks like the defense sucks. Looks like I can look forward to another year of 4 hour games track meets.