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AJ Price is trying to give this !@#$ game away. Dude is ice cold and Calhoun keeps him in. Our inability to make FTs is going to kill us in the tourney, mark my words. Christ... double OT.

Not as impressive as Ko Simpson, who is worth millions --- plural! --- don't you know?

Was probably made a hell of a lot easier by the election result. This entire thing with the Palins has been a train wreck in trailer park. Repubs have become the party of 'Proud To Be Stupid,' who cannot speak in intelligible sentences. They really need someone who can wrest control and bring us back to intelligent discourse.

But, as it works in this world, by this time next year he'll be drinking mojitos with Ken Lay (Oh, sorry. "Jerry Burns") in a tropical East Nowhere country.

Revisiting that Locke ep from last season with the visits from Richard... We know that Richard went to the hospital right after Locke was born (at Locke's urging in the 1954 time flash) and saw that despite the many problems, Locke survived. I originally thought that Richard had done something to help baby Locke, but it's now clear that Richard witnessed that the universe/island wouldn't let Locke die. Forward to LaFleur, in 1973, Sawyer mentions Locke again. This seems to be about the time Mittelos tried to get Locke through the high school science program. In a leadership search, Richard is essentially fishing. Or rather, he knows the identity of his mark, he just doesn't know about the timing.

Didn't mean to direct that at you, Dean. Your post was just a starting point to general musings. 'Graph 2: Point conceded. I kind of tried to get that term to cover it when I shouldn't have, but add in "gentleman" to my thoughts and I stand by what I wrote. And still.... there are times when I think DJ's being such a gentleman detracts from his effectiveness as a coach. He doesn't order tit-for-tats if/when the other side plays dirty (see: Wilfork. If I were HC in those games, Wilfork and/or Brady would have left the field on the John Deere cart wondering if they still had a career. Instead, DJ got bent over the barrel and he liked it.) and as a true measure of how old-school he is, I think the pre-halftime kneeldowns with less than 1 minute left are as much an indication of his stupid notion that this is still a gentleman's-game as it is his ultra-ultra-ultra-conservative coaching style. This is a league when a TD can be (and has been) scored in ~ 5 seconds. It happened to us how many times in the past decade? Anyone remember that Jets game we were feeling so high and mighty with a few seconds to kill before halftime... and then Vinny Testaverde decides to be ungentlemanlike and throws a TD and we were totally screwed from that point on (Tho, I believe we still had the lead at that point, even)? This is no longer a gentleman's game; hasn't been for a while. You win games that actually mean something by being shrewder, sneakier, smarter, quicker to react, and tougher than the other guys. Fer chrissake, we had the biggest OL in football and our blocking schemes emphasize technique and finesse. It's like we're afraid of making the other team sore, bruised, and hurt to the point where they don't want to be on that field anymore. DJ being a gentleman's gentleman and his extension of this in how he schemes and coaches on Sundays plays right in with the failure this franchise has witnessed. You can run rough-shod over us, and DJ is a soft touch.

Just wanted to again give some props to Josh Holloway on this ep. Glad that the producers/writers pulled the Sawyer character out of the "Son of a B word!" rut that he had been in up to this point in S5. Literally, I think there were a couple of eps where a string of those were his only lines. Finally, Sawyer had to be the leader and make decisions. And he did. Kept people from leaving, kept them from giving up hope of Locke/O6 coming back, kept the con going for the 3 years. I'm thinking back to the ep where Hurley conned him into acting as a leader rather than a hoarding a-hole by threatening him with word of the secret banishment vote. Kind of came into fruition here. But, he's also kind of fallen back into the con himself, to an extent.

Bold the First... I see DJ is following his strategy for the offense's 2-minute drill (aka "Kneel and to the locker room, boys!"), throwing out red flags, and replacing fading previous-DJ-regime guys (see: A-Train, Daimon Shelton) with people who can actually play football competitively, and you know, that whole 'scoring points' thingy. 'No hurry, guys' just about sums it up for him. Bold the Second... AVP is gonna suit up this season? Sweet! That's never really been the issue. He can be everyone's best buddy but that doesn't matter on Sundays. When Dude can't manage a game, gilbrides into the play-calling, and his biggest response when the other team is shellacing us is the sound of two skeleton hands clapping, well, that's not enough. But the sh-- of it is, I get the sickening feeling that being "a gentleman" was mostly enough for the only guy whose opinion matters at OBD... (Add in Old-Man Syndrome for the rest of the reason). ... or you're trying to hide a massive pimple. Then again, I don't think people with such necrotic skin get pimples.

Actually, repeat of "Lafleur" from 9-10 pm.

Especially if you're on a team with Charles Haley.

I'm pretty sure the NFLPA (or is it in the CBA?) doesn't allow contracts to be "restructured" for anything more than -10%. Wouldn't be surprised to see us draft a DE 1 or 2 and cut Mr. High Motor in June.

If Hartenger(?) craps the bed as a center in camp or preseason, at this point, we will have no one to plug in there as a viable alternative. This dude has been a back-up that they let go. Remember Tutan Reyes? My mind is far from comforted with him as the best and only option at the most important position on the OL (and possibly, the most important on the whole offense, when you think about it). The Bills scouts (Linda Bogdan, Ralph's daughter is chief OL scout) need to determine who the best C in the draft/for our offense is and then, hell or high water, GET HIM as insurance and actually develop the OL rather than relying on signing BIG-$ guys in UFA. The ghost of Mike Williams just seems to haunt OBD in the worst way. Everything I've seen and read tells me it's Mack. Dude is smart, huge, can handle the 3-4 NT, plays determined and could anchor this line for 10 years. For far too long, we've not drafted OL early when it matters and the Mangolds, etc. have flown by as we draft smurf WRs and DBs. If he's going to go in the late 1st/early 2nd I think we should either trade down from 11 or if we do pick at 11, trade up from the 2nd round b/c he won't last until our 2nd.

That's a violation of copyright law ("right to publicity" iirc) if I ever saw it. Dude should expect a cease-and-desist order right soon. You can't use someone's likeness, especially in a money-generating way, unless you have permission. Sports apparel companies pay big-time for that permission; any Tom, Dick or Harry printing T-shirts and then advertising them in such a manner is breaking the law. EDIT: Anyone who orders one is asking to have their $ tied up for a while or pay for it and never get it after legal action is taken. It's one thing to do that for Obama et al. who are public figures paid from the public till, or such fame or notoriety that they essentially forfeit their right to publicity (tho, they could well argue it in court if they wanted).

For the past several years, I can't wait for DST. Losing the hour starts such a general funk that I can't shake. Tired, lethargic, moody.... A couple of years back when they changed the date from Oct into Nov, this onset again happened with the clock change, which suggests to me that it's not the variable of the temp/climate change of autumn that does it. People around me have noticed the change too. I won't speak for anybody else, but screwing with the clocks messes up my brain's/body's internal functioning. Bush the Younger pushed for lengthening DST from April-Oct, and now it's March - Nov. In my opinion, that may be the best thing he did as president, slightly ahead of adding that huge area of coral reef to the national preserve.

So, does that include resigning as head coach? I mean... he can still be our head sideline hand-clapper if he wants. Wouldn't want to take that away from him. Seriously, this is a last-ditch effort for a dude who's done the best he can for the Bills (and "the best he can" sucks). Unless DJ totally turns around his mannerism of offense in the NFL as not much more than getting good field position for the defense, gets some testicular fortitude and smarts re: play-calling, challenge flags, believing in/challenging his players on 4th & 1 rather than demurring, and demanding his players perform better or else, then at best, this is just going to be a lot of money pocketed by an aging receiver. At worst, it's going to get really ugly, really fast and DJ will have signed his own pink slip right c'here.

This is about the best link I'm coming up with for the Temple glyphs. Doesn't appear to be anything really definitive on what goes on in there, just some nebulous terms. But among the translations, the one by "breasts malone" is interesting... With the "lift up" phrase similar to what Desmond said to Jack at their meeting in the stadium: Des: You have to lift it up Jack: What? Des: Your foot. You have to lift it up. ... I'll see you in another life, brother. Des's ubiquitous phrase is not for nothing. And neither are certain other phrases that have resonance to the main characters. Many times it's kind of like Des after he turned the key; it's their first time either in replay or having a 'constant'-like experience of knowing in the past what happens in the future... but they just don't realize that it is a replay or a memory (of something that hasn't happened yet). And BTW.... I had three discrete-event nosebleeds today. Would anybody here mind being my constant?

IIRC, those ones said, "Death." Which would seem to go along with Charlotte's "This place is death!" don't you know. The glyphs on the Temple were scattered around, not in any real order. I'll have to check into it again, tho.

Nope. If I had to pick someone out as an arbitrator, I'd go with Eloise Hawking. As I wrote upthread, her role in the lighthouse seems to be to get everyone to where they need to be. Widmore knows her / has her address and some speculate that she is Penny's mother, in addition to Daniel (whom Widmore financed). At the same time, she worked with Ben to set him and the O6 up with a ride back to the island (tho, she did make some commentary on his character). She's kind of like a Time Cop, if you will. The glyphs we have seen (on the Temple wall) don't say much of anything.

That's sh--. They should be suing any of the participants in the brawl... but seeing as they probably can't be ID'ed the ambulance-chaser is going after the team. The same way they couldn't find security, security couldn't find them. And unless teams are supposed to spend huge dollars employing 6,000 guards per game just for outside of the stadium.... Very slippery slope to make the team accountable for all the collective actions of its fans. If some dude pissed on my suit in the bathroom at the stadium during the blackout, do I get to sue the concessions? The electric company? The makers of the mylan balloons? If my house gets robbed, do I get to sue the police or the store that's across the street? I mean, they obviously didn't do enough for me. They need to spend $400M to hire everyone in town as officers 24/7 to make sure I don't get robbed ever again! Yeah, that sounds good. And they should pay for my ADT... and a personal bodyguard... pepper spray and one of those big Maglites. I'm sorry that this dude and his wife were subjected to this and if I were there, I would've tried to help them. (And this incident is just another example of how personal security is self-help. If this guy was carrying (if NYS had concealed-carry laws, this likely would've been over in about 10 seconds with the great equalizer). But I just fail to see how the Bills should have to pay for the actions of a few sh--head people who were in the lots after the game. Find those people. Sue those people. They are responsible for your beat-down. Billy the Buffalo didn't punch you, and Ralph didn't drive over you with his Taurus. Instead, the lawyer goes after the faceless easily-identifiable organization that has money. B/c in this country, they have nothing to lose for filing this crap.

I've seen a few people posit guesses which it is based on traditional depictions in drawings/statues/etc.... We haven't seen the front yet, but that looks to be the closest fit. The others either had staffs where the statue seemed to be holding two ankhs, different hats / headresses, or slightly off physical appearance with ears or hair. In addition to the "full frontal" view, we have also to learn what destroyed it and when (and to what effect). My thoughts with 'conception and delivery on the island' (we have seen Claire and Sun who've done one or the other, but not both parts of pregnancy) are that something with the Lostaways-turned-DIs may do (see: Juliet) will cause the problem that she will later be brought in by the Others to solve. I don't specifically remember a quote like that either. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened, (if it did, it was likely in S3), but I don't remember hearing anything about how Jack is not 'supposed' to be on the island. And even if this has been said, by logic, you could say that Jack isn't on Jacob's list b/c he is Jacob.

Another good link: EW: 'Lost' recap: Settling into a groove

Some pretty good links... (esp. the first two) 'Lost' Aftergasm: The Many Faces of James Ford 'Lost': Brush up on your Egyptian Last night's 'Lost': Dharmistice From the first link, something that's tossed in at the end as an afterthought... For both of them, waking up on the couch is tantamount to coming to their senses after a spell of dumb behavior. For Sawyer, it's as Miles said, running b/w the Orchid, the beach camp, etc and waiting for something to happen was their only 'plan.' When Sawyer wakes up on the couch (and I was saying to myself, "Hey! My parents had curtains in the basement windows with almost that same corduroy-ish pattern!) he has a plan... unfortunately, the plan is to wait rather than run. Conduct searches for the other few remaining lostaways (e.g. Bernard & Rose --- my theory, as it's been since early on, is that they are "Adam and Eve" in the caves.... Explained that when Daniel goes into the DI construction site for the Orchid to presumably send them back to 2004, B&R get left behind either by choice or b/c they can't be found, which, also is a choice, per Bernard's promise to her not to leave.) and wait for Locke to return, if he's even going to come back. On the other side, Horace waking to his senses on the couch is a little less loaded. He got drunk and threw around some dynamite b/c he found the Paul's ankh necklace in Amy's drawer, got jealous and fought with her. But this awakening mostly reflected on Sawyer and him coming to terms with the Kate --> Juliet romances. Some touches in the Horace extrapolation and elsewhere.... Horace denied any knowledge of the Black Rock (connection with the dynamite?) and I'm pretty sure he was lying. We also learned that the sonar fence doesn't necessarily kill; in fact, it creates a sensation similar to the time flashes --- could it be tapped into the Orchid/donkey wheel to create a limited field of the temporal displacement (remember how Mickhal was bleeding from the nose and ears)? But we also learned from Richard that the sonar fence has no effect on the Others, and the obvious question of why not? As one of the links suggests, the Others/Richard taking Paul's body as reparation for Sawyer and Juliet killing the two men... it dmacks of something more than Richard presenting a body to his group and saying, 'We are revenged. Truce is back on.' No, Richard's word sh/would be enough. They want Paul's body for some other reason.

Hurley was also doing an Egyptian-themed watercolor painting (the Sphinx) at the mental hospital as Locke wheeled up to him in the repeat. Locke 'discovered' the mass grave prior to that. Ben showed it to him, then shot him. The above dream sequence came when Locke was trying to figure out what to do next / how to find Jacob's cabin. Locke went back to the pit and got a map and/or blueprints from Horace's pocket. For all his hippie-hug-a-tree appearance, Horace really seems to not like our xylem and phloem friends! Chopping them down, exploding them with dynamite... the monster seems to share this arbor-hate.

A-yep. We'll see if it sticks. So we find out that it looks like the Ajira plane crashed in 2007 on the smaller Hydra island, while at least some of the O6 (Kate, Jack, Sun) were transported to 1974 in a time flash right before the crash. Daniel was muttering at the start of the ep that he wouldn't tell, no matter what, he won't tell...? That he won't tell Charlotte not to come back. Which is why she disappears in the last flash; b/c when Daniel changes things, "whatever happens" didn't happen. But. Where did she go is the question. Is it her who was at Oxford, or in the bed in England? I also caught in the repeat that Locke's Helen died in 2006 of a "brain aneurysm." Abaddon was a little cryptic; with more of the 'what happens happens' stuff. That's gotta have something to do with the island. But I'm starting to get hip to the time stuff. And if you've read "Slaughterhouse Five" it probably makes a little more sense. As the Lostaways/O6 go back in time and act, these actions have already happened, so they're going to happen. Everyone just needs to play their parts, and wait until the right time comes. E.g. Richard --- that's gotta suck knowing that something's going to take 50 years to happen but in the meantime, you just need to live it all out. I mean, Desmond's time having to relive was nothing compared to Richard. But, I guess he is a 'long-term' kinda guy. Got a flash of the statue tonight. Who built it and when the hell was that? Have we seen Amy --- Horace's wife --- before? Or am I remembering her face from a different show? Was she in the car that came upon Ben being born? I've been thinking about it today, and the more I come to it, with the "Whatever happens happened" the more I'm thinking that Jack is Jacob. Similarity in name... the "Great man" descriptions for both of them... Christian's connection with Jacob... and the dramatic impact of the 'man of science' actually becoming the man/ghost who inspires such faith; the man who wanted to get off the island so badly, to be done with it all, being the one who lingers through death to 'save' it. The other stuff is working its way into tying up the ends. I'm just going to say it will really suck if the last scene of this season is Daniel going into the Orchid's construction. They really should not be following the same pattern as last season with the initial premiere scene being the same as the final finale scene. I hope things move a little faster than that.

If the Bills sign Vick, I will boycott this franchise for as long as whoever is involved with the signing is out of the organizational hierarchy. It's bad enough that that POS is going to breathe free air. I don't ordinarily wish harm on others, but I sincerely hope he gets his in a future "When Animals Attack [Humans]" video.