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Winner.

The storms (so far) have skirted the CT-MA border, just to our north by about 10 miles.

OK, just watched the trailer. Gotta say that this looks similarly good. Definitely lots of comedy value there, but it's a different sort of comedy --- a wittier, dry humor --- that lives inside a drama, as opposed to being entirely comedic real estate where it's anything for a laugh. Based on what I've seen, Ferrell's better movies are ones in which he had no part in the ideation/pre-production/writing. "Everything Must Go" is based on a short story by Raymond Carver.

The Thanksgiving weekend games are typically (and maybe officially?) throwback uni games. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case for that weekend --- we've had the '64-'65 throwbacks, but they would now probably be considered too close to the upcoming current set; and with the Donahoe atrocities just dumped, the only substantially different unis are the Super Bowl era set.

I'm also wondering about "Everything Must Go." Ferrell really surprised me in "Stranger Than Fiction." The whole concept was great, totally absorbed me, and a big part of it was him breaking away from from his usual comedy stuff. I haven't watched the trailer yet, but sight unseen, this new one has a lot of potential.

Ramius quite obviously meant that as the "red [helmet with] charging buffalo."

I'm not one for Woody Allen movies, but the mention and some clips on "Ebert Presents..." sparked my interest in "Midnight in Paris." Even if it is Owen Wilson.

If it were in America, they would be drafting 18- to 30-year-olds to do it. Not a doubt in my mind.

Eric isn't wrong. The last uniform unveiling event was for the throwbacks, in 2005. Link.

This date was mentioned by someone on the Chris Creamer site a few weeks ago, actually. ON EDIT: that person said June 25th. Guess they might've nixed it as a Saturday event in favor of a Friday night.... And from all the things they're promoting, it looks like they're only hoping that there to be a CBA deal in place by then. Well, you're sure to be disappointed then. The switch to a white helmet was confirmed in the Bills press release back in Feb.

As I've written in a movie thread, I watched all of the SW movies in order over a few days this past winter, after not having seen the prequels when they came out. You know, it's like one of those bucket list things that in crossing it off, closes a chapter in life. I believe it was "Revenge of the Sith" and yeah, besides Hayden Christensen being a block of wood with a pulse, the prequels weren't as bad as I had heard.

Having this region lose the Hartford Whalers back in the late '90s really sucked. The owner was just hellbent on moving to the South, and many believe that Gary Bettman was no less a part in it. In a ticket drive, they got up to over 15K that last year in Hartford as a sign of good faith that people would come out to save the franchise. Instead, they moved to a barn in North Carolina and drew less than 5K (and many of those were complimentary tickets) the first several seasons. So, I can commiserate with Thrashers fans. But I also commiserate with Winnipeg fans who had their team ripped out from under them too. And, with Winnipeg being a town that supports hockey with a fervor Atlanta will never come close to, I have to say that I'm happy for W-Jets fans. Maybe, just maybe, (especially with a guy here who's pumping money into the Hartford AHL team and putting on an NHL-affiliated hockey-fest back in February at an outdoor stadium) there's some hope at resurrecting the Whale.

I've gotta go with the first, "Sorcerer's Stone" that introduced everything. "The Empire Strikes Back" is everyone's favorite. I don't care what they say. Also, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was the best Indiana Jones. And to consider it was done in '81.... Oh, and it's not a franchise as such, but David Tennant is the best of the 11 regenerated Doctors on "Doctor Who."

Just to clarify a couple of things... there isn't just one strain of Lyme disease or similar afflictions. There are over 300 strains, from hardly any effects to debilitation and death. There's a SERIOUSLY bad strain that centers around the Westover Air Reserve base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, where probably a couple dozen people in a close relative's unit have been infected. It attacks the CNS and everything goes to hell. Especially if you're in the woods or the leaves, use sprays (there are actually some natural lemon ones that work better than DEET and the heavy chemical ones), check yourself over, and give your dog a thorough petting for bumps. Lyme vaccine at the vet is useful for only a few strains. And I'm uncertain that length of time it's been on you increases the possibility of infection. Lyme is bacterial. I guess it makes sense, but it's cold comfort to say 'It's only been there for a day...' when we still know so relatively little about it all. And the medical community and the government haven't helped, because they know full well where this came from (Plum Island) and how much they'd be in the **** both from a compensation and public outrage standpoint if they admit this while they can't treat it. Like Agent Orange, they might come clean one day if/when there's only a statistically acceptable number of patients alive.

I don't know anyone who is nearing or of age who's actually planning on retiring here. That's an entirely untenable prospect. CT's a beautiful place (well, here in the more rural part) and it's the land of all my sins, but it's getting harder and harder to justify living here. If our home hadn't been bought so cheaply and paid off in the '70s, there'd be no way we could afford it. Even at that, it's difficult. This town does next to nothing for services and yet they get very creative with their taxes. We live on a lake and now have a "view tax." A !@#$ing tax because we have a nice view. Holy ****! And it's tyranny of the majority here. I shouldn't have to move just because these !@#$s vote to spend and spend and spend.

Call me what you will, but there's a part of me that thinks O would absolutely love to see this happen just so he could get his fingers on that. To the tune of being willing to sacrifice a second term. Here in CT, the governor, after raising taxes on "the rich" and actually increasing the budget by $1.5B over two years --- this is after we've been $3.5B in the red and high-interest borrowing to meet payments --- got some good news that tax receipts had gone over expectations by $400M so far this year. What do you think he did with it? Spent it like it's going outta of style. I used to pick among candidates that I thought were best, among the parties (I once even voted for a local-ticket Board of Educ. Greenie who appeared not to have his head up his ass). Nevermore will I vote for a Democrat. !@#$ing NEVER. You hear it so often it's almost cliche. But it's true. It's just tax and spend with them and they don't give a ****.

No, Tom has a copyright on the more artful "!@#$ing idiot ."

They don't care about that. They are content to conduct a slow war of attrition. Because the Israelis can't win that.

Wow. That was addictive. "Single Father." Just puttin' it out there for anyone looking for something. It's just 4 hour-long eps. Along with "Doctor Who" and a GREAT turn as Hamlet, Tennant has really become one of my favorite actors.

As Satre said so eloquently, "Hell is other people."

Well, I don't have a spouse, but... I was told that I should try "Single Father" (a U.K. series starring David Tennant). I finally got around to watching the first episode. Pretty good, actually.

If it didn't come when the father was bleeding with an arrow stuck in his torso, I somehow doubt they will. Trying to imagine a repatriation into the home after the legal stuff is sorted out.... How do you interact with a near-adult child who has made a conscious decision that could easily have killed you, and then refused to call for help? Do you try to arrange for bail? Provide for a lawyer? Do you accept her back into your home?

Another is "Petit family killings in Bristol, Connecticut." I understand that SWAT has a purpose. But these situations can get really bad, really quick when there's mutual misunderstanding. AT THE VERY LEAST, they need to be 100% sure they have the right target. Even if they had gotten the correct house, to be using it for relatively low-level crap like that....

Well, in that case... I take your morals, throw them to ground, pile-drive them, spit on them, shame them by saying 'How dare you!', have my dog drop a deuce on them and then take Gallager's big hammer and embed it into the very fibers so you'll never get it out. So. There's your demorals right there.

It's not sad, Buftex. It's blood-boiling. What have we let this country's governments become?