UConn James

Nice video is being streamed online at Comcast. They'll probably have more of the fight highlights in postgame.

You mean a 7 on 3, don't you? ing refs.

Wow. How 'bout that? Thought Lindy was going to bogart the Sens coach.

That is a dead-on analysis for their needs. Really. Except for the Maroney part, and only b/c after seeing him this season, barring injury o' course, he's going to give the rest of the league nightmares for a long time.... (dammit! )

1 - Why does anyone get beat up when they haven't really done anything? There was something about being 'marked' that made people formerly nice to him, kick his ass. I guess it goes with not quite fitting in... or by being the 'great man' others despise that. You could also look back to S1 when he was beat up in the schoolyard flashback. 2 - They weren't watching Jack. They were there for Juliet's trial and surefire execution(?). 3 - Not sure what's meant by this. I think it was Tom who said they don't like coming over to this other jail island. I would guess that most of the time, the Others live in the community that we saw in the first ep this season. That's probably what Carl meant by mentioning the backyard. 4 - Nah. To anyone threatening to quit watching.... hey, it's a free country. Anyone afflicted with the pandemic of our American impatience and who doesn't want to use the gray matter is free to watch Idol.

1) Sawyer told it to Carl exactly how I would. 'If you like the chick, get it on!' Then there was the issue b/w him and Kate... that the sex didn't really mean much/anything. 2) Correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the same woman behind the ring counter in the Desmond ep. Hair is a slightly different color.... And watching that again, I got a whole "12 Monkeys"-type flashback, if anyone saw that.... with a connection/continuation of timetravel-nudity started in the Terminator. And I haven't had time yet to look back at the Claire-centric ep from S1, but the more I think about it, the more similar her boyfriend's speech is to Desmond's breaking up with Penny. 3) Yep, she was flat on the beach, then gi-normous in the bed and flat again in the parlor. But note that this is another Lostaway's contact with a pyschic/seer/mystic. Something I did pick up on watching the re-air and this is the continuation of the 'great man' stuff. Penny's father said it about Desmond... Achura said it about Jack. And the tattoo that says, in Chinese "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." I'm wondering about what Achura's tramp stamp says (the camera made sure to see that, but it's also in Chinese, I guess). Things changed seriously for Jack once he became a 'marked man.' Thinking about it now, was there any similarity to Juliet's 'mark' and Ben's scar? Hers was like an upside-down cross with an X through the intersection....

Actually, it's several persons' statements versus one's (PM). He 'mooned' her in front of a small crowd of athletes who were in the training room. Why are you assuming that PM had the most to lose in this situation? The woman was/is a high-acheiving medical doctor. Do doctors not make a lot of money? When faced with the reality that even minor celebrities are not found guilty of anything in this country, she moved and started over. And then the book came out w/ PM's 'It weren't nuthin'' version, her name is in the news and she gets introduced to the second concept of American blind justice, which is Blame the Victim. What ing dream world are you living in? You read the USA Today stories and never saw mention? Did you read only the first few paragraphs? (You don't have to respond to that one; I know the answer). You read the Smoking Gun report and b/c all of the names of the people who said they saw these things happen were blanked out in the university report, they don't exist to you? You provided all of ZERO links and never said anything more than "mooning" which is just how Peyton, UT, and the NFL want it to be framed. Testament to the power of language and who gets to pick the words to describe what happened --- "mooning" now includes c*ck and b@lls --- the MSM will run with what PM says, b/c he sells their product. And they count that most people will say "Big deal" and turn the page.

I see. We're supposed to believe the lesser confession of the two versions. And the statement of Mr. Saxon is inadmissible in this court of law.... Resolved before the court of Don Quixote, then, that if someone fondles and dry-humps your sister and then says it was just good-natured wrestling, you'll be perfectly content to conclude it never happened. BTW --- way to go in not even bothering to look up the story before you post your high opinions of it; and I fully expect you'll now entrench yourself in defending that blah blah blah PM wasn't found guilty by any court. He wasn't. UT took care of that for him and mouthbreathers like yourself only care about Wikipedia Reality. I find it proper for you to now go yourself.... but only after you do your English homework.

Link-thingy.

If by "good" you mean 'undersized and continually pushed backward toward his ultra-pressure-sensitive QB' and 'Actually stood around with his hands on his hips while members of the opposing defense pounded his QB into the turf well after the whistle (Atlanta, 2 seasons ago, now)' then yes, he was good.

Yours and PM's definition of "mooning" is pretty liberal. Also convenient how the famous person gets to frame how things happened and the mere plebian doesn't matter. In the version that isn't sanitized, he put his ass and his testicles on a trainer's face during an exam where she was bent over checking for an injury. Hence the infamous "teabag" which has been corroborated by the teammates who were there. A pressed ham, you know... that can be shrugged off as a stunt. What he did was an unlitigated lesser-degree sexual assault. And also, bear in mind that he chose to muckrake the incident in his book. It could have remained a UT locker-room lore, as the woman involved got a settlement from the U, I believe, and moved and wanted to never hear of it again. When the book came out, you can imagine what happened at her job, to all of the people who looked at her differently.... But what am I thinking of? You know it all.

Rumors that get more credence when Jimbo was disinvited to be a candidate for congress in WNY and instead they ran the guy who was basically Mark Foley's pimp? The man who would've been running as a 'family man' candidate wrt Hunter would have been shown to be a hypocrite in about 12 hours (8, if an involved party sprung for coffee at the BN). I bet the intern who did the initial vetting on him walked around with a facial expression combining for two months. Who knows about any open arrangement Jim & his wife have, but.... As for Peyton, google his name with "teabag." 'Nuff said.

Ben certainly has reasons to go after Jack, but from the looks of it Juliet is Public Enemy No. 1 on the Others' island. This would be in re: to her killing Pickett to ensure Kate & Sawyer's escape and planning a way to bump Ben off during surgery. She was being led in handcuffs during the preview.... Maybe it's her demise that they're being 'forced to watch'? Then, there's a reason why Ben wanted Jack, Kate and Sawyer specifically. To him, Rousseau is a nutjob on another island; Walt and Michael will never be back (he surmises) b/c the truth would come out that he murdered two people. The story isn't different b/c of the DUIs. Their contracts were for one season (note that they worked for a few months afterward) and were fulfilled.

The crown on the old AstroTurf at the Ralph was ~9 inches from midfield to each sideline. I don't think there's one on the new field. Drainage is done via the subsurfaces rather/more than physically directing water away from the playing area.

Crossing my fingers that it is uniform-related. It might also be a coach leaving or retiring (McNally?). Or something involving buftex's Jim Kelly rumor?

A daughter named Alex.

Actually, I think it was her in the preview for next week's ep.... in the Others jail cell thingy where they're holding Jack.

Complex doesn't even begin to describe this particular episode. And like I've read others say, it's probably one that's going to be referred to a lot in the future as to what is happening on the island. Your read would make sense. If Charlie dies in the lightning strike, he can't also have died swimming in that same Desmond-life. I would just have to submit whether this could be/was delivered in a dream-state (as the island has done) as opposed to actual reality.... But that phrase "See you in another life, brother!" does deliver a new gravitas. Likewise, I will say again that I don't think Desmond is the only one to be going through (or be around other people who have) this phenomenon, tho he may be the only one who is cognizant of it beyond simple deja vu. I'm referring specifically to Claire's painter boyfriend... and Nadia (whose line is "I will see you in the next life, if not this one"). Perhaps the Lostaways are simply in the first go-round of being 'slightly unstuck in time.'

Not a bad decision by the Chargers owner. I wouldn't want to keep around or hire anyone who engages in these types of squabbles. B/c when you get rid of one of the squabblers, the other will simply find a new target when they don't get their way, and that new target might be you.

Just expounded/extrapolated on your statement that perhaps TH doth protest too much.... The list grows long of people who preach fire and brimstone about the evils of homosexuality and then get caught sucking c---. And absolutely he has a right to his opinion. Doesn't mean that everyone needs to hear it, that the media will harp on it literally into the next millenia. Long after people forget who won which NBA championship, TH will go down in history as being a grade-A bigot. And he's never going to work again. Remember how our mothers said 'If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing.' LOTS of people in this world would be better off if more people followed DCTom/CTM/BJ's advice in my sig line.

People hate most about others what they hate most about themselves. Just sayin'.

In terms of extra-textual similarities, I was thinking more like Vonnegut's relation of Billy Pilgrim's becoming "slightly unstuck in time" in Slaughterhouse Five. Haven't seen FD. I watch fewer Hollywood movies than solitary-confinement prisoners.

Wow, I'm going to have a monster headache tomorrow as I try to put all of this together.... Right about this being an 'old-school' LOST. Deep rumination on the nature of Time, Fate.... Questions now arise of everything we've seen, how it fits in. If Charlie was meant to die, we have seen several instances where it has been averted, i.e. in the airplane, dodging the crashing rack, on the beehive, in the cave-in, being hanged by Ethan..... But I'm just getting the sense that everyone on the plane/island is going/has gone/will go through a similar thing to what happened to Desmond in this ep. Knowing the future and being unable to avoid it sooner or later, then just acquiesing to it (Fate). Charlie, if you remember, tried to "Change Everything" when he went out with the girl with the Winston Churchhill thing. The Others are trying to Change Everything with their experiments. Jack fights back against Fate while his father gave in. Claire's breakup fight with Aaron's father was AMAZINGLY similar to Desmond's breakup w/ Penny, even the wording, iirc. Walt, of course.... Lots of similaities we've seen before. As I maintained last week, I think there's going to be a whole 'Sixth Sense'-like thing, where for those of you who B word, piss and moan about having to endure a mystery and not being explicitly told what the answers are when you want them.... they will have been right there the whole time. And next week promises to answer three of the biggest mysteries. So STFU and enjoy the ride. Also, Desmond near the end said that if he could go back again he would change things. Didn't he miss the point of his flashback/flashforward? You can't change things. I'm also wondering which version of Desmond it was.... was it island-Desmond actually living through the actual past, island-Desmond living through a re-created past, pre-island Desmond with glimpses of the future in the actual past? But if it were what really happened in the past.... the lady in the jewelry shop just blew my mind (and was that her in the preview for next week's ep?). Lastly, I have to say I'm a firm believer in Fate/deja vu. It's happened to me several times where I've seen things in dreams that weeks... months...years later I remember happening. Things that happen that I have a weird feeling I've seen before. One event in particular where thing after thing was happening like it did in my dream.

True, that! Rather than asking a bunch of crap questions, he gets right to the nuggets that matter. And he could get a great interview out of a homeless guy on the corner as much as heads of state, writers, actors, businesspeople.

Just one question, EII.... On special days like this, do they let you make it flow forward? HFB, all!