Sweet Papa Crimbo

Still the most obvious one:

In these times of instant information, I think the boom and bust cycles are going to occur with much greater freqency.

It's now official... I suck at NCAA tournament brackets.

While there is no real National Real Estate Market (all real estate is neighborhood oriented at its fundamental base), this is very interesting news. As a 25 year observer of Real Estate Markets and the incumbent shenanigans that are/were inherent therein (remember those 80/20 jumbo loans that looked so appealing 24 months ago), I have a feeling that when the 'money' senses the market has bottomed out, the recovery will be breathtaking in its speed. And, subsequently, all the hard lessons of the last 24-30 months will be just as quickly forgotten. February Existing Home Sales Rise by 5.1

Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 'Cause you're fast asleep But I love you now Colors inside your head go spinning around Like a ferris wheel Exploding and falling to the ground Oh, people are screaming, people are screaming My baby, she's dreaming Oh, people are shouting, people are freaking I'm just staring at the ceiling Waiting for the feeling Oh, oh but when she calls, I know she's the one Makes me want her harder Makes me want to be a little stronger Still I see monsters Still I see monsters Baby, I know you cannot hear me now 'Cause you're flying around At the spe

Ellipsis...Printing. a mark or marks as

I will take whatever brickbats are necessary for this... Hall and Oates --- These guys were really, REALLY good. Saw them before they got big (on the Beauty on a Backstreet Tour which had a really punk rock attitude) and after they got really big (about the time of Private Eyes which was much more R&B than pop fluf). MTV made a lot of bands popular and gave them images they couldn't overcome. Hall and Oates were certainly victims of that backlash. They could bring it and they had a great band (G. E. Smith , Charles DeChant and T. Bone Wolk were at the top of their game).

I would disagree on the bad part simply because Jackie Earl Haley OWNED the Rorschach role. I went into the movie knowing virtually nothing about the Watchmen. I wasn't lost at all, and I even bought in to the alternative history conceit. But the acting of Malin Akerman was so bad that it almost overshadows the glory that was Jackie Earl Haley. Plus, how often do you get to hear a Leonard Cohen song played in such an odd context with the killer movie sound?

That scar on the right side of his face is real...a scary motherfucker

Rationalization is more important than masturbation.

What I fear is government by polling numbers. I know this is a real off kilter analogy and it is a violation of Godwin's law, but the appeal to base emotions, grandstanding and sensationalizing issues would be very well understood in the Germany of the Third Reich. It is an ugly situation and there will be a lot of blood (metaphoric) and ink (literal) spilled over this economic crisis. I just hope that we don't start reaction in an overly emotional manner as a country seeking retribution for any perceived wrong doing that violates the principles that this country has followed for the en

Me I say... Sheeeeeeeeiiiiiiitttttt

Something about this is troubling to me. I have no vested interest in anything AIG, and I don't care about the worries about the possible Congressional complicity, but I find this getting dangerously close to EX POST FACTO penalites. I don't need any lectures about how slimy the bonuses were...that is not really debatable. But I find grandstanding and scape goating leading in a dangerous direction. What's next? Bills of Attainder? Are we going to put Ken Lay's and Bernie Madoff's family in jail, even if they are innocent? Hell, let's dig up old Ken and stick his head on a pike on Wall Street

The live version from Live Aid is one of the most emotionally moving moments I have heard and seen. It seems so da$m genuine. Even the oddball placement in THE WATCHMEN didn't ruin this one...

Familiar with the concept of Milf...

Fixed it

Well...gratuitous breastage also makes an appearance.

But how do you feeeeel about the blue dong...

Although the question wasn't directed at me...I will answer. Uncomfortable in all the uncomfortable spots.

Let me go on the record here (so to speak) I like the new album...a lot I wasn't crazy about HtDaAB at first...but now listen to it rather regularly. I loved ATYCLB from the get go I didn't appreciate Pop until recently I thought Zooropa was a mess at first, but get it a bit better now These guys do what they do very well...and they do what they do.

Does it make me a bad person that I acutally laughed out loud at this photo?

I like getting duded. Anyway...saw the movie today. Some observations from someone who never read the GN: 1) Malin Akerman may have given the worst performance in a major motion picture that I have ever seen. 2) Jackie Earl Haley was wonderful 3) too much blue dong

We live and die like we dream...alone (to paraphrase Josef Conrad) I started attending shows alone in the 90's due to downtown's unhappiness with the fact that I go to concerts to listen and watch the band and not to pay attention to her. Now I have a concert going buddy in D-man.

Springsteen --- 14 times A lot of other shows...but not a lot of repititions