UConn James

I thought you were going to write, "Helluva player, but... he's got a face only a mother can love. And even she used to make him wear a Richard Nixon mask when he went out in public."

Oooo. Nice usage of "re-sign"!

No, it's just that the Dems, with their Super-Duper-Callafragilistic-Majority in both houses of Congress can quash any move against them by the ethics committees.

I picked up Buckley's "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk" last year. At first, I was really put off by some of the songs and was like, "What were you thinking, Jeff? And why did I plunk down 19 bucks for this?" But in listening to it more, I've come to really enjoy Goldshot Glitter, You and I and some of the other tracks (but I can definitely see how he wanted to erase it all and start over with his producer from the 'Grace' CD). I think what really gets me with any artist is if they've got the stones to do something different and to experiment. And that can include going back and revisiting some of the classics. I wish someone would try to cover some Buddy Holly tunes, but maybe that's asking too much. If it's storytellers you're looking for, look up Stan Rogers, "Fogarty's Cove." As for Krall, I went with her competition b/c of the curls. And ajzepp, as for a new computer, Micro$oft is releasing Vista next year; I'm still running '98SE and in kind of the same boat, but I'm just going to wait. 'Course, if you bag on another os....

Ray LaMontagne -- "Trouble"

With the inclusion of 'lazy and inept,' most people who post here on PPP daily say that for any public-sector employee, (and for a lot of private-sector employees as well). O' course, they write many of said musings on their company's time.

Wow. Someone put a lot of time into that. At the bottom, in green, it lists three sets of numbers, likely dates, i.e. 01.06.06 would be 6 January 2006, and it says "Complete lockdown in effect." Don't know how long exactly the Lostaways have been on the island, but if it crashed in October, it's gotta be close, no? Also, did anyone notice the jet that flew over the motel as Locke was in the parking lot? Was that an Oceanic plane? Kind of looked like it had the light blue belly.

...unless they're not.

On one of those Inside Edition or whatever shows before I turned the TV off after the news, they were saying the 'racial tensions' this has caused at highbrow Duke and in the surrounding poor Raleigh were escalating. They played a 911 tape where a girl calls in to say that (mimiced in her rat-a-tat voice: she and her "black girl friend" were driving by somewhere and heard the N-word shouted, and that she was just calling 911 to report this, and she was so angry about it and didn't know whether calling 911 was the proper thing to do in this situation but she was just sooooooo angry. Guess that hearing the N-word is now a 911-worthy, life-threatening event. Raleigh PD will be forming a Thought Police division soon, honey. Let's lock up all the people who use bad words.

Desmond kept the pantries well stocked, and the Others generally occupy the other side of the island, so it would stand to reason that he got the food drops. It's not that he didn't go outside (in fact, he was moving pretty well when he was running away); simply that he couldn't go outside for very long.

Tgreg, merci beaucoup for the rundown. I saw the part where Locke tells 'Henry' the numbers, and the curiosity about and memorization was a little too much to expect. Do the Others want or need the number sequence for their own uses? The countdown did run out, and nothing really happened. Unanswerable for now I know, but could Henry have used the computer to talk to Walt or whoever's at the other terminal? Did Henry type in a different number sequence? As I was reading your description, I was thinking the same thing about Locke's father being Frank Sawyer. The timing would be w/in reason given James Ford/Saywer's age; i.e. that 25-30 years ago, Frank Sawyer wouldn't've been a white-haired colostomy-bag carrier, and would have been dashing enough to lure in a naive woman.. And also, the shrimp guy James Ford shot in Australia looked to be older too, so that tells us he knew the guy was older. I'd say this is a solid theory. Something that's a little disappointing about Locke's backstories is that as they've gone deeper back, they skipped over how Locke was paralyzed. But that is, generally speaking, how this season has been going into deeper flashbacks, as last season's were mostly what happened w/in a few days/hours of the flight. From what I saw, and what I'm reading, the creativity of the plot and the really good dialogue shows that this was a Lindelof/Cuse script, and not one of the absolutely horrible writers from last week.

Was helping my brother install some Pergo-type flooring and by the time I got home I missed the first half... Came in as Locke was getting Henry to climb through the vent and he fell from the shelf. Could someone describe a little of what happened in the first half? Need to see a screen capture of the design illuminated by the blue light(?). Was that over the mural that Desmond or whoever had made? What was the deal with Locke's backstory? His father got him to do a life insurance scam? So, it's settled that "Henry Gale" is an Other, or was at least sent by them? Said in the preview for next week that "He'll kill me." Could we take that to be Mr. Friendly/Zeke?

To be fair to KVO, as he was going down toward the turf, he was blocked right into Palmer by one of their OL.

Hmm. Royal, Tripplett and especially Reed have contracts that are really cap-friendly this year and then require a serious appraisal of "Do we keep this guy?" next offseason.

Some good stuff there. It's the little things of the campaign trail and on-the-road political life that are amusing. Lots of people don't like celery. Stringy and gets caught in the teeth. This would be especially bad for someone whose appearance matters. Me, I love 'Ants on a Log.' My 5-y.o. nephew doesn't like any of the three ingredients by themselves, but when you put them together.... Darin, we can only assume that he was against celery before he was for it? What the hell is Peanut Power Butter? I could only guess it's been blessed by George Washington Carver. Someone can't spell. "Beens"? "Prefereably organinc"? The 'No tomato products' bit is good for a chuckle, considering.

Kind of like arresting people at the wedding altar, b/c being married is one half of the problem of "spousal abuse." It's not enough that cops can sit outside of the bars and cherry-pick the drunks as they pull out of the lot?

I don't know about all of that, but Lieberman has seemed more and more cuckoo since the 2000 run (specifically an interview he did in the 2004 run when he got a basement apartment in NH. The very definition of senility right there on the teevee). Has gotten little to nothing done for Connecticut and representing what we want and need (Along with most of CT, I could really give a sh-- if you stray from the Dems as long as you make sense); almost always in Washington --- his own words --- and goes off on tangents. Yet he gets elected b/c of the incumbent advantage. If he's getting some heat, he deserves it. We've been getting back 60 cents on the dollar in federal taxes for the last 15-20 years. Maybe he could do something about that? No, 'course not. We need to save the children by putting 'MA' ratings on video games.

I don't know, but has a team with as much talent as UConn ever played as bad a game as against Washington, but still win? Half-court passes, 3/4-court passes that KEPT GETTING INTERCEPTED and Williams et al kept doing them all the more. Sloppiest game I've seen on offense in a while. I think the formula for beating UConn is right there. Move like banshees on the court, disrupt the passing (b/c it's like no one wants to take the shot. 'Here, you take it.' ' No, you take it...'). Foul Boone and Armstrong early and often, to put them on the line instead of letting our position guys get shots, and hope that your guys don't foul out by the end. Almost worked for UW. A UConn-LSU matchup would be interesting.

Under the couch? .... Or did that good-for-nothing Daniel Danielson put it up in the attic? Except that the comparison wasn't so spot-on and absolute four years ago? Newsflash, Mr. Merhi! The only reason that the Palestinean 'suicide bombers' don't kill 3,000 people at a clip is that they lack the means, not the motive. Better that he's not on a legislative floor, and the state party leaders did the common-sense vetting they should do.

You guys are going to have to stop making fun of Moulds for his projectile drooling problem. Otherwise, someone who's been registered here for 3 weeks is going to say you'll all be removed from the forum, and you won't ever earn any money again, b/c you don't join his EM fellation. Tsk, tsk. I believe the next argument in this line is, "Think of the children!!! Dear God, won't ANYONE think of the children?!!?!?"

Especially in those outfits.

If Travis Henry got us a 3rd....

Buried? It was on the news here. And notice that it was well after press time for most newspapers. Maybe the reason why people bash the media for not having any "positive news stories" is that they don't read (or watch) it in any depth. The past several "good news that's not reported" threads, I *have* read and seen it reported. And I'm less well-read than the average bus driver. Good news for sure, after all the sabre-rattling that's gone on there in the past. Thing is that when Musharraf eats one too many double-cheese hamburgers or the next assassination attempt is successful, all hell's gonna break loose.

In French, that last name is pronounced 'Twat.' No comment.