UConn James

Someone should tell Keith to avoid the double entendres! Haven't seen many of his games of late as he mainly covers the Left Coast, but college football will not have the same feel w/o him in the booth. So much of what creates the rich tradition and the aura of crisp Saturday afternoons is the consistency, goodwill and respect that an announcer has b/c of long experience and taht they're just good. I've talked with a guy who covered mostly int'l soccer, NBA, Olympics, etc. for 40+ years who was heading into semi-retirement and he also said it's the traveling that's the biggest drain. Your 'favorite rivalry' question elicited a great answer. That provincialism is something that's starting to go away here in the Northeast with the breakup of the Big East, and it's sad that it was all about a little bit of money. Miami and VT, maybe they do fit better in the ACC. But BC-UConn would have been a great rivalry in a few years; their admin told us they were committed, we built a 40,000-seat stadium... and they bolted. Hope he enjoys his retirement. Thanks for sharing that.

The Rhinos are everything like what the MLS needs. Established fan support, a mid-major city, new stadium. I was surprised when the last expansion happened that Rochester didn't get a spot. Tho, I guess MLS was trying to show they are major league by going after bigger cities, even if that sacrificed some stability. Maybe now they'll get smart and expand to cities that have a better chance at success/viability.

Hey, I know where that is! Didn't hear about this. Could be good for the Hartford area, but with the NE Revs right there....

I think it was last year that the New York Times said 'The Joke is Dead.' Screw 'em, I say! But, it has been a while since I've heard a really good, new one. --- A woman comes home from playing golf and tells her husband that she got stung by a bee. "Where did he sting you?" "Between the second and third hole" "Your stance is too wide"

Ditto. Maybe it's the glasses, but it looks like Leonard, the guy Hurley kind of hung out with in the psych ward. But wow, does bear a striking resemblence to Jack in those screen captures. Which is now leading me into a train of thought.... We've seen resemblences like this before. Jason, the guy Ana-Lucia murdered, looked quite similar to Sawyer. People said they thought they saw Desmond in a scene last year when Michael was saying goodbye to a baby Walt. Still a question around the whole Libby thing. Then you look at the title of the tie-in book, "Bad Twin".... Or, maybe Christian Shepherd really got around.

There's a really good run-down on the finale and a macrocosm of the characters here. (You just have to one-click through a Visa ad to read the whole thing). I'm hinged in thought about the fourth paragraph. She's especially right on the part about Kate. It's exactly like Locke told Walt in S1 about "finding the 'tell'"... There's some people you can't read at all.

The UConn library has microfiche of every edition of Playboy. Was up there trying to get a Rolling Stone article from the '70s and I had to do a doubletake. Then again, back in the day, some people actually did read Playboy for the articles....

Tom Cruise.

To be sure, it was a Lesson Learned.

So, a starving college student is supposed to buy how many of those $15 disks, just to be safe that one of them will actually work? I used Zip on my own computer to transfer and be able to access large files b/w home and school (I commuted), and the theory of it was great. But it only needs to not work that one time, and come to find out that Iomega was aware there were many incidents and they did nothing. Our tech person tried SpinRite and some other stuff to no avail. I can somewhat laugh about it now, but at the time it really effed my life over for a while. Their listing is well deserved, in my mind.

I have firsthand knowledge of the Iomega Zip Drive Click of Death. Had nearly completed a three-week Quark layout project that counted as our final. Went to save the file at the end of the class (two days before it was due).... Click. Click. Click.

I knew a girl who could suck a golf ball through 50' of garden hose....

Uhhm, I see both versions. For one, they pared it down so they could fit some new graphic/voiceover stuff at the end (I think it's some Stanley Cup promo). So, 1) It's time constraints, not content 2) The clothes go from tough-guy black to yuppie/preppy polo shirt; I don't think that's a universal sign for "homosexual" yet. You're laboring under misapprehension.

I was thinking that the guy on the left looked like Leonard, the one who kept mumbling the numbers over and over while playing that checkers game. And another observation, for the second time in the season finales, there's some question of whether that bird screeched out Hurley's name. Sawyer's line afterward was great.

Ditto. I can see how some people consider it stupidity to stay for pets, but then I can certainly understand why some people wouldn't leave w/o them. It's the same reason why someone wouldn't leave w/o their children. Haven't you ever seen "Tinkles the Driving Cat" on SNL?

Rectified.

(* Warning --- this post will be full of convuluted thought patterns, observations out of apparent grouping and questions w/o answers.) Well, it answered the question they had promised to answer last year. 815 crashed b/c Desmond let the button expire; It's right there in the record. Boone died so Locke could 'save' Desmond (from offing himself, after having read "Our Mutual Friend," apparently) so Desmond could save Locke and perhaps the island, or who knows theoretically, the world. Why did the Others seem to casually dismiss the blinding violet light after Desmond turned the key? Are Locke, Desmond & Eko all right? Was it an explosion that sent the 'Quarantine' hatch door to the beach.... or could something like a powerful magnetic postive-positive reaction send it that far? We did get some answers, so let's not all go down that route; we watch for a reason. I really liked that Desmond's backstory was highlighted. What the chick said to him at the stadium about if someone has enough money, you can find anyone.... came around again to her apparently having employed people to sit in some snowbarren place --- but what was the signal exactly that was sent from the boat(?) that they picked up? His story ended tonight with him finding his hope again. Screen said "Electromagnetic anomaly detected." Could the pulse have kindled something in the boat that'd been damaged? (We also found out that Desmond killed Kelvin, the CIA officer who let Sayid go in Gulf War I, and that Kelvin is apparently the last one to have voluntarily signed up with the Dharma people. But if it wasn't all just a big mindf--k, the Hanso Foundation --- or whoever --- certainly made it rational to think it was just a mindf--k. The pneumatic tube led to nowhere (and more importantly, who wrote all of those, especially since the observers were only to have been down there for 3 weeks then leave). 'Henry Gale' is the head man himself, which didn't entirely surprise me. Michael got what he wanted at the end of S1. 325 must be the only direction which the island doesn't lure things back, so the Others know how to get off the island yet they choose not to. And yeah, duey, what was up with the statue of the foot? Looked like it'd been there for a loooong time. Jack, Sawyer, and Kate still tied and gagged. Sayid, Jin and Sun are offshore with guns.... To Be Continued next season.

My Second Annual effort. Enjoy.

B/c jail cells don't have mirrors in them.

Wouldn't surprise me either. But hey, Calvinball is fun.

Doesn't make him less of an *.

Or, considering the ball's worth to anyone who respects the game, he could use it to play fetch with his slobbering St. Bernard. Didn't see the interview. Nothing wrong with disrespecting what Bonds did, but I say --- Do it with creativity!

What about the polar bears (includes the one that attacked Walt through the banyan tree)? Lots of the Lostaways saw them. Sayid also heard the whispers. Also, the black smoke contained the likenesses of people Eko knew before the crash, and then his brother last week. I would count that as having seen 'things.'

You don't have to tell this to three Duke LAX players who are now F---ed. For. Life. b/c an allegedly intoxicated stripper (who isn't herself publicly named) had a million-dollar lawsuit in mind after she showed up for a gig. There, I just did what you said, thing is, she isn't charged with anything. Or the assassinations of Ron Brown and Vince Foster, the downing of TWA Flight 800 (BTW, while we're on topic for unsubstantiated rumor/conspiracy theory -- has anyone revisited that since 9/11, what with the claims that yells of "Allah" were on the flight recorder?) or ....

I bet this whole thing is just a big orchestration in Ray Nagin's re-election campaign to preserve New Orleans as a "Chocolate City."