UConn James

Yet another example of why it needs to be sung in the Key of G. Fully 96 percent of people just can't get their voices to hit those high notes. At least he didn't have all that fluff, draw-out stutter-style crap that most 'singers' now use. I hate that. It was meant to be a simple anthem.

That look! A cross b/w Innocent choirboy, "Hey, you said it!" and "I hope the censors don't axe us." Gumbo. We're the Fucawi! --- The funniest thing was the screen just went black a second after he said it. All it took in any show after that was him raising his hand to his brow. The NBC censors made that joke into so much more than it ever would have been otherwise. You were the best, Johnny.

The Senior Bowl is next week, don't forget.

This was probably a big part of the reason the blog feature was added. And which few people have paid any mind to. The main Bills board is a lot like Grapenuts sometimes, to borrow from Seinfeld. The BB forum is categorized/compartmentalized better in this regard. PPP here is a nice example of how to divide things up in their own place.

Umm... ESPN was not created to cover UConn. Even back when it was really about showing sports rather than opinions on pro sports and highlights of Kobe they had such things as bowling, darts, and get this, the national spelling bee (which I think they still have). BTW, UConn bball didn't really start getting dominant until the late 80s/early 90s.

They're now saying 15-24" here with wind chill temps in the negative double digits. Bah. We get one or two of these things a year. Stay inside and feed the wood stove if you're smart enough to have one. For afterwards, a 4x4 Jeep. But yes, that's good advice to stay safe and drive carefully if you have to. People here pretty much know how to drive in it. Until you get some schmuck with N.C. license plates. In '78, when I was a gleam in my pop's eye, the snow was actually over the roofline. There's pictures to prove it. I'll still take a little snow any day over hurricanes, floods, and mudslides.

The phrase "biting the hand that feeds them" doesn't wholely apply to canines. 'Desertion' mentality is a powerful motivator toward desperate acts. With Americans' 15-minute attention span to critical problems, it's unwise for us to get involved in other countries' affairs. That's what got us where we are today.

They'd apparently been on the island for 16 days on this week's show. I don't know about you guys, and maybe it's just my bird diet, but it'll take more time until they start losing mad weight. The folks on Survivor lose about 10-15 pounds in 43 days (except for Dirk, the Bible-thumper in the first or second season; he was a twig in the third week) and that's with a lot of physical exertion in challenges etc., which you don't really see them doing in Lost. I don't know, I kind of like Hurley for some of his comic relief on the show (and per above in real life). Can't wait for his backstory. Still have some ?s about him.

Have you listened to anything Dean spoke except "YAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" (BTW--His Yahoo! commercial was funny as all get out)? I watched him on Charlie Rose a while back and thought, Is this the guy they said was the ultra-liberal? A-rating from the NRA is a good starting point with me. Follow that up with his message of going grass-roots for donations and then backing it up with how his campaign raised $. Kick out the special interests who buy access and make it about what the people want. It'd be a good thing for him to get the DNC chair.

I'm looking around for a brown suit for the time coming when I have to get a respectable (read: desk) job. Neckties are an important part. Still have to bone up on the Full Windsor (Half-Windsor looks like crap!). I might get a purple tie, or a nice blue-red mesh just to give Falwell the bird. For all his airs, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he's got a boyfriend on the side. Men's clothing isn't entirely boring. I've got some awesome high-brown Snake boots from Cabela's a while ago, almost to the knees. People laugh if you wear them in the summer, but break 'em out in the winter and then see who's laughing!

C'mon, JSP, you couldn't just wait for your fix? JC's is one of the best I've read.

I wouldn't get so worked up about Fate, man. It's not like everyone else has a clean slate in their lives. The plane crash just happened to these people. And it's not necessarily an "end point" for them.

I don't know. There's things that work differently with any complexion. I actually don't think that ensemble would look half bad, even on a white boy. Would probably go better with dark hair as a balance with the dark shirt. Why might you get fired for wearing that tho? And it all depends on how you wear it, and who you are. Clothes do not, contrary to what Shakespeare's Polonius says, make the man. And then there's the away jerseys, which white guys, black guys, green guys, red guys or blue guys look bad in. Racist? Jebus Flubbing Krist! Watching the inauguration today, I've seen quite a few. And lots of people mixing vivid blues and reds. Baraba Bush, the elder, for example. When exactly did purple become an un-manly color?

I realize this more than you know. Advertisers want to see that the program could possibly be watched by 8 million people at any given time. Whew, that alone is gonna sell your products.... Advertising/marketing people always left me with the impression that they should be digging ditches somewhere. I don't think it would survive as a 24/7 network like Empire. No, absolutely not. (Doubt the 'Boys or 'Skins channels will either). And it can't be over-reaching. If the NFL Network produced, what, a 1- or 2-hour segment/day for local providers in a team's area, that would probably work.

Really? I predict I'll wear blue jeans next week. Opposing values wasn't a foresight back then and it ain't a new concept to the 2000s either. It's a book of fiction, history, rebel politics, love, war, archaeology, big-issue morality, rape, murder, prostitution, death, death, death, death, death. Part of the Islamics' problem is that they have a really good system, via religion, of bringing up past time-out-of-mind political abuses against themselves.

The Cowpukes and Chesapeake Drainage Basin Indiginous Persons are starting their own networks. They've got a larger population/fanbase, sure. But they're not as loyal. Nowhere near as loyal.

Walt was walking the dog. The polar bear (he seemed to be a VERY BIG polar bear in the CGI images) attacks him in the circular reed enclosures. Locke and his father save him from above. Locke and Boone go out to try to find the dog. Locke has a jury-rigged dog whistle. Rustling in the bushes. Locke grips his knife. Claire walks out. Her face looked pretty nasty w/ bruising and such. Others here say it looks like the baby is out. I don't know. I didn't see this, I saw the belly as the first thing. But I was a little tired last night....

That's exactly what I was thinking. He said this a few weeks ago. Even tho he is in no position to be making such statements.

Boone's zinger has been long in coming (he did have some put-downs previously in the Why-aren't-you-helping milieu). I don't think it was funny or was meant to be funny. More like cold. I reiterate --- there seems to be a "Lord of the Flies" turn ahead. First it's this, then they're breaking Piggy's glasses. That scene w/ Charlie was one of the funniest I've seen on Teevee in a while. Kind of sad considering that this ain't exactly a sit-com....

Sometimes, especially late at night, that seems a whole hell of a lot more intelligent than someone who chimes in to say 1,300 of our soldiers have died to get the Ding-Dong out of the Do-Da..... <shrug>

When I read this last week, I flashed on "Cast Away" with Tom Hanks flopping around in the rubber raft when he was hearing things that first night. I actually 'ed at that the first time I saw it. I don't know, when I've had experience with "The Mind's Eye" it was always for visualizing something that you desire. Not making up something you fear. And maybe this fits in with the earlier discussion but I think it might just be an explanation goose chase. I think all the people who are looking to figure out the meaning and who think they really do know it, are going to be very surprised. (Just noticed I had 'necessarily' twice in two consecutive sentences. )

I don't now about this theory. It's the Obvious Path the writers are leading everyone down to think more into it than there really is. Then when it is real, people will be surprised maybe? Surprised and confused is something they obviously want us viewers to be. Don't bring any expectations like 'The over-arching experience will turn out not to be real' b/c you're going to be duped by Abrams when he does a quadruple-bluff. The point about the initial focus on the eyes of that week's highlighted character is interesting. Introducing point-of-view? I don't think it's necessarily a case that each person is seeing what they want, etc. I mean, they are, that's what POV is all about, but there's not necessarily some mystical/philosophical explanation of it.

I give Reed one more year. The TEs are much maligned and they're better than many people here think; plus, you're not going to get anything better in the draft or that will ultimately be available in FA. Bradford won't be a cheap vet. McKenzie was a cheap vet who wasn't even allowed to play. Those FAs need to be targeted for specific need areas and not to be plugged ahead in the roster just b/c the current occupant is younger, or older for that matter. That wasn't the suggestion by this poster and I didn't say it was, bro.

See it more among the media types, but a lot of the pols have taken to wearing purple. 50% blue, 50% red Do you own a purple tie? Would you admit to owning a purple tie? Would you wear a purple tie? Sorry. Just trying to shake the peaches.

They're not in Buffalo until 2009. Which will be the first time ever. In 30+ years of existence. Those schedule-makers really are fair and balanced, aren't they?