The "I'm tired of waiting for 1000 comments to load" OT
by msb on Sep 13, 2009 8:38 AM PDT
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Someday I will replace the rickety laptop that is my home link to the outside world -- perhaps even have access to that WiFi thing of which I have heard, thus freeing myself from the tyranny of puny bandwidth -- but until that day?
New OT.
Perhaps odd after a weekend with 80-degree days, but ... Fall comfort foods?
How many Vampire-themed books, films and television programs will it take to kill the genre for another couple of decades? And why can't they agree on a single mythos/canon?
Just how many "American" characters will be played by Aussies, Kiwis & Brits THIS season, and who surprised you the first time you heard them use their natural accent?
How horrifying is it that Giambi is still wearing the Golden thong ... and still sharing it?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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Ooooh, fall comfort foods.
Grilled cheese & creamy tomato soup, chili, homemade baguettes, roast chicken, mashed potatoes, turkey pot pie, that wonderfully classic turkey/mashed potato/cranberry/gravy/stuffing sandwich.
Was there anything in between Buffy/Angel and Twilight? I can’t remember. But boy am I getting over it. That being said, I heard True Blood was pretty good and am willing to give it a watch.
Which segues right into…. accents! If I hadn’t known of Hugh Laurie before, I’d have been astonished that he wasn’t American. Goes both ways, too. James Marsters and Alexis Denisof from Buffy/Angel both had pretty damn fantastic English accents. I cannot bear to hear their natural voices.
"Was there anything in between Buffy/Angel and Twilight?"
TV stuff? I just looked it up— Moonlight, Forever Knight, Blood Ties, Blade, Kindred
I only remember Blade
and even that only by reputation; I never actually saw it.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Sep 13, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Squash is the best answer
Acorn squash cut in half and roasted with a lake of butter and brown sugar in the middle. Butternut squash is great, too.
Roast chicken is great, too, especially if you turn the leftovers into a hot chicken sandwich. Or if you roast it with potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, onion, etc.
Football!
What an awesome weekend, haven’t been to such an exciting and controversial match in a long time. Forgetting Adebayor raking RVP face, I am interested to hear an American perspective on him goading the Arsenal fans after his goal. Did you find it amusing [like I obviously did] or disgraceful as 90% of the country seems to feel? It was obviously a silly thing for him to do, but if I was in his shoes, I’d like to think I’d do the same thing…
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Sep 13, 2009 11:20 AM PDT reply actions
It's gonna be awesome to follow a League Ine team next year.
4-0 at home to Scunthorpe? REALLY?
by James F'n X on Sep 13, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I am not a neutral party at all
But I thought it was awesome.
I can't forget Adebayor raking RVP's face
I don’t care about him winding up the fans – doesn’t matter in the slightest, and I would say that even if it weren’t Arsenal involved in the thing. I care that he intentionally stepped on another player’s face. He needs to be banned for a while – intent to injure is a serious thing, and a few centimeters another direction would have taken out RVP’s eyeball.
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I find it amusing mostly because
people think footballers (and athletes in general) are the dumb ones – but Adebayor knew exactly what to do to wind up the crowd, and knew that if he did the outrage would be loud and predictable. I’m much more upset with the attempted stamp on Fabregas, the stamp on Van Persie, and the (alleged) slap of Song. Classless.
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The way the crowd reacted, it appeard that Adebayor had just slapped all of their grandmothers in the mouth.
They weren’t just booing. I saw murder in their eyes.
Football supporters are annoyingly predictable.
In a way it’s quaint – it’s like most of the harder-core supporters haven’t realized that players have more of a loyalty to a paycheck than to a club and think the Adebayors of the world are the exception – but it also leads to stupidity like that. A steward got knocked unconscious by something thrown from the crowd during that whole thing, and it’s ridiculous.
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by pdb on Sep 14, 2009 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I really don't care about the fan taunting--thought that was amusing.
But from what I saw it sure looked like the face kick was intentional.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Sep 14, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
As far as goal celebrations go it didn't even rate
It was nowhere near one of my favorite ones: Robbie Fowler, you magnificent cokeheaded bastard you.
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Regarding accents,
pretty much the whole cast of The Wire.
Hearing Idris Elba speak with his natural accent was crazy.
Yet another reason I so love the Stringer Bell character.
I only saw him in The Office.
It’s amazing how well he can change accents.
by Mariner John on Sep 14, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Bwhahaha!
All the evil geniuses are British. Stringer Bell is the black Grand Moff Tarkin.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
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by EnglishMariner on Sep 14, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
The Vampire Diaries started this week!
(no, I did not watch)
Accents.
Yvonne Strahovski who plays Sarah Walker in Chuck, is an Aussie. She has a great American accent, I would never have known she was Australian. She’s also gorgeous, so that works too. Too bad Chuck doesn’t start up again till next year…
"I feel like we are sending Danny Haren for Mulder all over again." - Cardinal fan on the Matt Holliday trade
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
Another "Aussie?!?" is Anthony LaPaglia
that missing persons show of his also has Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who is British …
The best cartoon on television right now is "Phineas and Ferb" on the Disney Channel.
I was watching it the other day and they broke out into a Bollywood-style dance number about how the Indian character felt familial pressure to get A-plus-pluses.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Sep 13, 2009 4:27 PM PDT reply actions
I just read last night that the guys behind that show also did "Rocko's Modern Life," another good cartoon.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Sep 17, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Vampire TV will reign
as long as women find “bad boys” fascinating.
It also helps that they look like Tom Cruise and kiss/bite the gals on the neck in a sensuous embrace.
I still can't believe I sat through Twilight and read the entire series.
By my own will.
You got slurved!
Thanks for the heads up!
(No plot, but I bet a lot of juicy content, eh? wink)
And in the mean time a bunch of older men in the book are lusting after waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay younger girls.
You got slurved!
Otaku is probably not the right word here, but whatever.
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by JY on Sep 14, 2009 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
This is exactly why
I prefer things like 30 Days of Night, where there is no sex – they’re just monsters, and you’re fucked if you go outside.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
I liked that movie until the end.
Worst. Ending. Ever.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Agreed.
But I’ll take a crap ending for the rest of it, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
About Aussies and accents, I like Nicole Kidman's cultured (nonAussie, nonCockney) delivery.
I thought she was awesome in the Golden Compass. Too bad that critics etc. seemed to be pre-inclined to not to like this movie.
I had no expectations (also have not read the book) and saw it in a hotel where it was showing for free every 3 hours or something, and thought it was pretty good. “Saw” it four times while doing some work on the computer.
I thought it was on the same level as the Harrie Potter stuff.
WHO'S LAUGHING NOOOOWWWWW?????????
as he chainsaws off his own hand.
by waldo rojas on Sep 14, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Followed by...
putting said hand under metal pail, weighted down by A Farewell to Arms.
Splatstick.
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I'm trying to come up with something not from the Evil Dead series.
I keep going back to “Shut up, Linda!”, the laughing room, “well, aren’t you mister fancypants?”, “you’re goody little two shoes!”, and “klaatu barada… necktie”
Bubba Ho-Tep, I enjoyed, but can’t remember much of. Roles too brief in Congo and Fargo and all the Spider Man movies, I remember him being some badass lady’s man in McHale’s Navy but that’s the only thing I remember about that movie and I doubt I’m missing much.
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'Gimme some sugar' does leap so quickly to mind ...
Briscoe County has some fine moments, as do his various episodes of Xena/Herc as Autolycus, the King of Thieves ..“I’m not just leering at scantily clad women, you know— I’m working.”
That's my problem.
I’m entirely unfamiliar with his TV work.
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Were there a lot of non-calls by the ref in yesterday's Sounders game?
Seems like players were getting away with all sorts of stuff that usually gets carded.
Yes. He almost seemed oblivious to some of the fouls. But it occured on both sides of the ball.
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Sep 14, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I really need to make more Indian food this winter
Though with school, not sure if there will be a lot of time for that…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Hello!
Great questions…
1: I look forward to lentil soup, to squash soup (both of which are nice with lots of curry powder), roast dinners. Also football, and anything that goes with football. Mostly beer… oktoberfests, winter ales, etc.
2: 12. I’m sort of agnostic on vampires; I think there are decent vampire series/movies/whatever and lots of shitty ones – same as anything else. Personally though, I love the fact that vampire stuff comes back every 10-20 years without sticking to a single mythos/canon. I find it odd that people would insist on dogma in what are, at heart, monster stories. Take bits and pieces of the backstory, mix ’em around and see if you can tell a good story.
3: Huh. Ryan Kwanten, who plays a Louisiana guy in True Blood, and also played a marine or army officer in some Law and Order episode. I knew him from those two things, and I watched some behind the scenes deal of True Blood and it turns out he’s australian. And the guy who plays Bill is English. Weird. I knew Hugh Laurie’s real accent well before House came out, and so House still sounds to me like an English person overdoing an American accent.
4: Very.
5: 1578 board feet.
Anna Pacquin is also Australian I believe
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Born in Canada, but lived as a Kiwi.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 8:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow I couldn't have gotten that any more wrong
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Canada : US :: New Zealand : Australia?
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by JY on Sep 14, 2009 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
No
There’s a pretty fierce rivalry over, well, everything between the two countries that doesn’t exist in Canada v US.
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Okies
I am fairly competent around the kitchen, but the only thing I feel like I make better than most others is chili. Chili is no galantine of turkey, but know what you do and do it well is what I say.
As far as I am concerned, Let The Right One In killed vampire movies by virtue of its brilliance. No one ever needs to make another vampire movie and it is going to go down in history as one of the finest horror movies ever made. Perhaps one of the most underrated movies of the decade.
Don’t watch much TV. Not really in the spirit of the question, but it took me three years to realize that Hugh Laurie was that Hugh Laurie, and I still feel dumb because of that.
These are the things about sports that I try to ignore because it makes me realize what giant douchenozzles my heroes are.
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Agreed on Let the Right One In, and possibly challenge you to chili cookoff….though salsa is where I truly excel. Also, guacamole.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
It is!
I would eat it all the time, if avocados weren’t normally so pricey, and it didn’t rather interfere with my love of Thai, Vietnamese, and Korean food….
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
"Let The Right One In killed vampire movies by virtue of its brilliance"
Yes, goddamnit, yes.
I mean, I’ll still entertain the genre now and then, just to see what new and interesting ways they’ve opted to screw things up, but that movie was particularly special in terms of its atmosphere. I wish there was an available DVD that didn’t have horrible subtitling.
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by JY on Sep 14, 2009 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
There is!
Due to the uproar, all publisher started releasing all new DVDs with the theatrical subtitles included.
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by Eyebrows on Sep 14, 2009 9:57 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Wow, when did this happen?
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Pretty quickly after the complaints started rolling in
the disc now offers Swedish or dubbed English soundtracks, with optional English (dvd), English (theatrical) or Spanish subtitles, plus closed-captioning. Supposedly they have “English narrative subtitles” (ie English SDH subtitles) as well, but they don’t really …
I watched mine on Netflix via X Box Live
It had subtitles that were fine.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
As did I.
But I don’t have an X box and would prefer to own the movie rather than rent it because it is awesome.
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That sounds...gross.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Only if they're "rad chilies"
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*eyeroll
It was pretty good. I can honestly say that I had a lot more fun gawking at the ridiculousness of the teenagers in Twilight than I did looking at the purty Scandinavian landscapes and admiring the weird little children in Let The Right One In. I’m also sheepishly looking forward to Daybreakers.
Calling Let the RIght One In pretty good is the most massive understatement I have heard in a long time.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I think we've had this conversation.
It’s pretty and well made, but it’s not Bergman or anything (which is more or less what it aspires to be). And in terms of “good” vampire movies, Near Dark blows Let the Right One In out of the water.
I think it's a better movie than a lot of Bergman's catalog.
I love Bergman and all, but he is overrated. He’s like the Swedish Altman.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking of Hour of the Wolf, in particular.
I just find it odd that a lot of people (not just you) seem to want to induct Let the Right One In immediately into the canon. I don’t see it, and I don’t think the film is going to age particularly well either.
And re: Altman.
I used to think the same thing (that he’s way overrated), but I think I’m starting to come around. Forget everything he did post 1980. McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, California Split, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, Nashville… These are really really good movies.
Aside from McCabe and Mrs. Miller, I just have never seen the greatness.
Altman made a whole bunch of really good movies, but he’s treated as some sort of God and I think that’s really weird.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he's treated that way mostly by actors,
because as an actor’s director, his style is an incredibly attractive mode of working. You don’t think Nashville’s a great movie?
And re: Altman as actor's director;
I think that’s a big part of why I don’t especially care for his style. Everything is so methodical and so polished and it often just bores me to death. I prefer the Herzog method of going after the cast with knives and starving them to death, frankly.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't see Altman as polished at all.
Methodical in how he goes about getting his results, yes, but the movies are often chaotic, jumbled and messy, which is a large part of his appeal (and of some people’s distaste for him).
Saying you prefer the Herzog 'method' to the Altman 'method'
is really neither here nor there. Both methods are unique to their directors. No one makes movies like those two do.
Better movies made in 2008:
The Hurt Locker
Revanche
Aruitemo, Aruitemo
Sugar
Wall*E
Entre les Murs
Frost/Nixon
Gomorrah
Granted, none of these are horror, but thinking of all the horror movies I liked better than Let the Right One In would take me more time than I care to spend.
Answers!
1. Pumpkin based treats. I love pumpkin things so very much.
2. No idea, but it feels like we’re getting to the saturation point.
3. Mentioned by others but good god Hugh Laurie is good. I stumbled onto House before I found A Bit of Frye and Laurie. I didn’t realize he was British until he hosted an episode of SNL.
4. Really? He’s still wearing it?
5. Twelve 2×4s.
I have a hard time taking Laurie seriously as House because of the Stuart Little movies.
I know it makes no sense, but I can’t make it through an episode of House without thinking of him talking to a Michael J Fox voiced mouse.
Go find A Bit Of Fry And Laurie
either on YouTube or on DVD. It will erase that Stuart Little association right quick.
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A few musical Hugh moments
Fry & Laurie’s Piano Class , Jeeves & Wooster’s Minnie the Moocher, and the best thing about Peter’s friends, The way you look tonight
Re: pumpkin spice donuts
I believe that Top Pot has one, and it’s amazing, if I am remembering correctly. At least that’s a little closer to you.
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by Eyebrows on Sep 14, 2009 10:00 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The only place I can get Top Pot in PDX is at Starbucks
and as of this morning they didn’t have the pumpkin spice one, but I’m holding out hope.
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I can't get into House...
The cool thing is if I ever do decide to watch an episode I know it will promise to be the most shocking, amazing, limit pushing episode ever!
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Sep 14, 2009 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
You have questions, I have answers
1. Agreed with most re: pumpkin based treats. I wish I lived where there were Dunkin Donuts, because their Pumpkin Spice donuts are AMAZING.
2. As much as I love True Blood, I’m really kinda getting sick of the vampire thing. I can only hope that the zombie genre stays at its current level and that zombies don’t become the new vampires.
3. I think it’s plateauing. My current favorite is Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck, an Aussie.
4. Baseball players in a masculine culture should be applauded for being pro-gay.
5. One sheet of plywood and then it’s off to the woodchuck bar.
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The Japanese will develop synthetic brains that allow zombies to integrate into society.
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by JY on Sep 14, 2009 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm excited for the zombie equivalent of Twilight where the protagonist can't decide if he should kill or reanimate his human girlfriend
or better yet, it’s a Twilight-TwlightZombie crossover about forbidden love between a zombie and a vampire!
by seattlebruin on Sep 14, 2009 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Return of the Living Dead 3?
I don’t know, I only saw the first two.
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SEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWKKKSSSSSSSSS!!!!
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 8:16 AM PDT reply actions
excuse me
The SEACAT!
NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!
by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
I know the rule here is no politics
but this is SHOCKING. I now have to reevaluate my heroes.
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Taylor Swift sucks and the VMAs are as meaningless as awards get, but Jesus Christ what a fucking dick.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 14, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure who's more embarassed.
Taylor Swift of Beyonce?
WHAT A DOUCHE HOW COULD HE DO THAT TO TAYLOR?!?!?!
by Mariner John on Sep 14, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions
If Taylor needs comforting, I'm nearby and available!
by seattlebruin on Sep 14, 2009 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Isn't she, like, 12?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Hmmm...older than I thought.
She looks 12.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't think so ...
because my eldest nephew has declared their engagement.
oh, and also the dickiness of Kanye.
But....
but Kanye is the genius of a generation?
and he is not a gay fish!
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Sep 14, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
But he does like fishsticks!
In his mouth!
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
yeah
but he is not a gay fish.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Sep 14, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
But he likes fishsticks...
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
I'll get it
I just need to break it down.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Sep 14, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
It's because you're an aquatic genius!
Or something about fashion.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
This seems appropriate
Jonathan Coulton – Soft Rocked By Me
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I would struggle to find one artist in the whole show that I cared about.
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by JY on Sep 14, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll say one thing for Kanye West
The man likes fishsticks.
Fuck Anaheim.
by Eyeball Kid on Sep 14, 2009 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That was awful. I didn't watch it, but I looked up the Taylor/Kanye and Beyonce/Kanye clips afterwards.
Kanye should be banned from the awards for that.
I wish I was rich so I could hire 50 people to jump on his stage grab the mic from him and say something stupid at every single one of his shows for his next tour.
He acted like a child demanding attention even if it meant hurting someone else.
FOX is bringing the western/sci-fi genre to their network
brought to you by the producers of Chuck.
I could have sworn this network had a western/sci-fi themed show in the past…
I bought said western/sci-fi on DVD the other day
I’m only halfway through but I’m baffled as to why FOX canceled it, it’s fucking great.
Fuck Anaheim.
by Eyeball Kid on Sep 14, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Because it's FOX?
The same station that canceled Family Guy and Futurama, which both later revived (yay to the latter, meh to the former).
They aired episodes out of order, airing the pilot last, inexplicably, skipped three episodes entirely, and preempted episodes for sports. What? It couldn’t find an audience? What do you mean? (presses the red button)
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HOMEBOYS IN OUTER SPACE!
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by Eyebrows on Sep 14, 2009 11:45 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Their computer lady was named Loquatia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboys_in_Outer_Space
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by Eyebrows on Sep 14, 2009 3:09 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Opening credits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9CzPH17ySA
[Open this in a new tab on your own, mobile LL doesn’t have the handy link button]
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by Eyebrows on Sep 14, 2009 3:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Little known fact -
If you just put a hyperlink in w/o using the button, it target=_blanks it for you.
Doesn’t work if you are looking to embed, but just copy and paste it works wonders.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I just started watching the DVD last night.
NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!
by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate myself for having put off watching it for so long.
Although I am somewhat proud of myself for having my first ever “I love you and hate you all at the same time, Joss Whedon” moments while watching Serenity.
He's good for that.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
I've seen most of that.
There were some episodes my friend insisted on skipping. The unaired pilot was better, the special finale probably should have been aired. It has some things going for it, but it doesn’t grab me, and it may be difficult given its self-imposed limitations at the moment. It seems too easy to get mired in one-offs and I respect that he doesn’t intend to, but I feel like something more should be there that isn’t.
Wow, ramble.
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It has all the Whedon with none of the humor
That’s what’s not there for me. Even at its tensest, Buffy always had an undercurrent of humor, and so did Firefly – just little throw-away one liners or whatever, that were tangential to the plot but really smart and funny. Firefly seems to be taking itself waaaaaaaaay too seriously, and that’s to the show’s detriment.
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I got stuck Whedon out the mix-up in shows there.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Sep 14, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I'm going to look like more of a horse's ass when it turns out not to be pronounced that way.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Nah, you're golden.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
And yeah, I meant Dollhouse is taking itself waaaaaay too seriously.
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I'm hoping that as the show becomes more settled and established on the network
the humor will make an appearance. I just worry that FOX is meddling too much with the structure of the show based on past “failures”.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked Dollhouse. But compare Angel and Buffy season one vs Angel season 4 and Buffy season 5.
Honestly, Dollhouse season 1 was better than the Angel/Buffy season 1’s. If Dollhouse can have a 5 year run, I bet season 4, and 5 will kick so much ass suicidal teens will be qouting Dollhouse in their high school journals.
I have seen season 5 of Buffy at least 30 times. I believe in Joss Whedon to make Dollhouse as cool as that.
You are making me sad :(
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Heh.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I only watched that show twice but I really liked what I saw.
I need to track it down.
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And it was fucking awesome.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
by James F'n X on Sep 14, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate FOX so much.
Firefly is hard to watch because there is just so much promise in it. I can’t even image were the show would have been after a 5 year run.
Might not be SFW - Its animation and its not actually nudity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW17DpaJz40
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 10:53 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
On zombie movies
I found American Zombie to be a very different take on the genre. The first few minutes of it sucked me in, because the zombies aren’t like standard zombies, but that’s kind of what makes it good. It’s done documentary-style. I recommend it, if you’re looking for something different.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Ooo!
Also, Subject 2 is a fabulous movie, along the same lines as Reanimator, but without all the cheesy dialogue and shocker special effects. And the cast is like…..4 people? Think the atmosphere of The Shining with a plotline vaguely resembling Reanimator. VERY highly recommended, and found by complete accident.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Neither of these have Wikipedia pages.
I have forgotten how to look up information any other way.
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I know that >:(
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Sep 14, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
So many questions- so little answers
favorite fall comfort food: Wild Turkey and I’m not talking about the bird.
Ausie actor: Eric Bana- I watched Chopper and thought god damn Hulk does a great Ausie accent. Then I saw funny people and thought, shit he does an Ausie accent so well people are just going to start making him do all his movies that way. Now I realized nooooo. He does a great American accent.
I wish someone would drive a wooden stake through the Twilight series.
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
So is the end of summer!
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Sep 14, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Why the hell am I watching Cribs?
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Additionally
Who the fuck are these people, and why do they own more real estate than I do?! They’ve shown two segments now, and I have no clue who these people are, or why they’re famous enough to have some camera crew going through their closets. Granted, I’m not a beacon of current pop culture, but I can at least recognize some people, and I got nothin’.
I should probably stop watching UPN. Yuck.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
I know
All rental crap. If I had that much money, I’d get a decent 3-BR somewhere, pay it off, and save the rest of it. Why rent? Dumb. I know a lot of people travel, and that is fine, but why rent something THAT SIZE? You’re just throwing away money at that point. Then again, we’re talking about people who hang up both jeans and bras in their closets, so I’m thinking maybe not the brightest bulbs in the socket. Ugh. Stupid usage of excessive wealth just gives me the hives.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
I hate when people think this way.
I think when people have money they can spend it in whatever way they want just as long as they know it may run up someday.
That’s just my opinion though.
They can do whatever the hell they want but I am entitled to think they are wasteful asshats for doing so.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 14, 2009 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly.
Just don’t let it bother you too much because rich people often do silly things. It comes full circle eventually.
They're going to have to pay it back at some point.
When you’re making good money like some top athletes (or musicians or whatever) do, you can probably afford to buy a mansion for a million or two. But throw in all the cars and jets that you’re making payments on, and you’re going to get burned when your income dries up. Particularly if you’re in an industry (NFL, music) where the money isn’t guaranteed to keep flowing in.
I usually defend athletes in situations like this. No one who’s surrounded by other millionaires is going to be as frugal with his money as I am. It’s a different world. But at the same time, a lot of these guys need some advice when it comes to investing and projection. Stop listening to your friends, and stop pretending that you’re going to be a Pro Bowler for the next 10 years. It’s sad.
Actually
That was pretty much what I was trying to say.
But whatever. You took it how you took it, no harm no foul.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Mondays don't mean much to someone who is unemployed.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Muse
Musemusemusemusemusemusemuse. Muse. Muse.
by Graham MacAree on Sep 14, 2009 12:32 PM PDT reply actions
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Wherever I go, that's where I am.
by Rich Langford on Sep 14, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't believe I just spent $65 on crappy bleacher seats for the game on Sunday.
I’ve avoided the Yankees games this year on purpose, but this one I am obligated to go to. BLARG
♥
Nostalgic video of the day:
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 14, 2009 1:01 PM PDT reply actions
I have an idea for a vampire movie.
Two vampires go to the drive-in and watch a good movie.
by Teej on Sep 14, 2009 2:22 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I have an idea for a vampire movie.
A vampire realizes that he has no money, and also that all his faux-Gothic accoutrements and dozens of candles in every room cost a lot of money; he then has to take a night shift job at Jack In The Box. With hilarious consequences.
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If I killed people at random and drank their blood, you'd then have any money they had on them.
Of course, nowadays that wouldn’t be much with the rise of credit cards.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
That could be the premise!
After his 45th victim in a row that didn’t carry cash, only cards, a vampire realizes that he has no money etc.
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That sounds like From Dusk Til Dawn 2.
No wait, better.
Robert Patrick asking the question on all of our minds, “why are vampires robbing a bank anyway?”
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by JY on Sep 14, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I have an idea for a vampire movie
so this hundred year old vampire who has trouble with girls tries to blend in with humans, and meets a nice, average, human girl and falls in love.
Then they date, but it’s terrifyingly dangerous for her to be exposed to the vampire world, so he marries her, knocks her up, and then turns her into a vampire after she gives birth to his half-human, half-vampire spawn in a bloody mess in his three million dollar house.
Also, werewolves are there somewhere.
by seattlebruin on Sep 14, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
That sounds like the gayest, most fabulous vampire story ever
can I get a piece of the merchandising of this inevitable blockbuster?
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If there are sequins on his outfits, I'm one thousand percent behind it. Or maybe we can make his skin sparkly.
As long as there are sparkles in there somewhere.
♥
Oh jesus, Vampires! The Musical!
Why has no one ever thought of this, someone alert sb.
There were showtunes? I missed that part, my bad.
Vampires and show tunes just seem destined for each other.
I would make a Twilight-themed musical
it would be awesome
by seattlebruin on Sep 14, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
There should probably be a female lead in here, but go for house hold name or someone new and not so familiar?
Sounds like a decision for the producer
There's a double meaning in there that I'm not sure I approve of.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I can't stand her after all those "Scary Movie" movies.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Caroline Wozniacki!
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I've got a theory...
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions
answers
Hot Chocolate
Someone pay me to make one and I’ll end it.
Christian Bale actually
Sexy?
At least 3.50
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Don't tell Scruffy
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I don't believe it.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Uh, oh.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
No Canadian fights that hard for freedom.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Jamie Bamber from the new Galactica series, and Damian Lewis from HBO Band of Brothers mini-series.
First time I heard either in an interview it blew my mind. Creates a bit of a disconnect, like knowing someone for years and they suddenly ask you to call them by a different name.
I'm going to be so happy the day that Graham figures out how to delete all Twilight-related comments
I give it two snaps.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Fall foods
Pumpkin anything, chai latte, mulled cider, butternut squash soup, slow roasted meats.
I got nothing else…
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Sep 14, 2009 3:19 PM PDT reply actions
That'll be news to Lennon/McCartney
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by pdb on Sep 14, 2009 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nobody ever remembers Ringo.
Or that other one.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I only namechecked Lennon/McCartney because they wrote the song
I think the other one’s name was Harrison Ford or Boy George or some such – who can keep all these skiffle groups straight?
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A few names that came to mind in Accent Wars
Linus Roache, Anna Friel, Simon Baker, Jonny Lee Miller, Natascha McElhone,
Rufus Sewell, Jason O’Mara, Poppy Montgomery, Jamie Bamber, Matthew Rhys, Kevin McKidd, Ian McShane, Michelle Ryan, Alex O’Laughlin, Sophia Myles, Lena Headley, Dominic Purcell, Louise Lombard, Mark Addy, Rachel Griffiths, Charlie Hunnam…
oh, and for pure schizophrenia? John Barrowman, who speaks with an American accent in real life, unless he is talking with his parents and he reverts to his childhood Scots. Damned weird.
I have a friend who does this too.
But he is Korean and speaks with an English with and American accent to everyone but his parents. He then switches to half English with a Korean accent and half straight Korean. Its bizarre.
Also, his parents speak English without any noticeable Korean accent too.
The parents speaking English without any Korean accent is the crazy part of this story.
I’ve never met a Korean-American 50+ with no noticeable accent.
Facebook Ads
My status on Friday was related to my trip to the barbers for my awesome traditional shave, but ever since I have had loads of adverts relating to hair removal, with some really, truly horrendous images.
So, if my status is something like “HOT NAKED EBONY 21 YEAR OLD CUM SLUTS” in the next few days, you know why.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Sep 14, 2009 3:26 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Hey, how cool was it to see Pedro get the results he did last night?
I have a soft spot for Pedro, I remember him being awesome when I first started watching baseball seriously in 2003, and that wasn’t even his peak. I thought we had lost him for good, but I hope now that he can stick around for a few more years and maybe put together some nice seasons, maybe in the NL Central or something like that beating up on the Reds and Pirates.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
Why is TMZ on television?!
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Because a lot of the potential TMZ audience is illiterate and likes pictures
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Some of us just don't have any other channels.
sigh
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
There are books. And magazines.
No need to rot your brain with that crap. TV’s have off switches.
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That is true
But we usually have it on for background noise while working online. I don’t always pay attention to it, and oftentimes we switch to the news; but today was not like other days, and now I know I’m not missing anything.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
More musical moments-- best faux videos?
Pop! goes my heart ? Let’s go to the mall and it’s follow-up Sandcastles in the sand?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 14, 2009 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Scene at the end of Red Dawn, Charlie Sheen dying in his arms.
“Hold on Manny”. Gets me every time
Whats not alive can't die.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 15, 2009 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I mentioned them.
Link.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 7:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Football transcends petty labels.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Things not to say during a conference keynote
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Edition
[Kotick] described tailoring developer bonuses to “really [reward] profit and nothing else” and how an air of “skepticism, pessimism, and fear” is promoted within the company with the goal of “keeping people focused on the deep depression.” You know, so they focus on profit and nothing else. It’s all to plan, though, seeing as Kotick confided that, “The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.”
Wow.
Heaven forbid people that make games have fun doing so.
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I thought initially that he was joking
but according to Kotaku and Joystiq, Kotick was completely straight-faced while saying all this.
....this sounds really familiar.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 15, 2009 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I know it's being totally overshadowed by that band from Liverpool
but is anybody else as excited about the Big Star reissues/box set as I am? I’ve been listening to “Back Of A Car” pretty much non-stop for the last 20 minutes. If you like pop music and don’t own #1 Record or Radio City or Third/Sister Lovers, there’s something missing from your collection.
- Record is probably my favorite power pop record of all time – even if you’ve never heard Big Star, you’ll know In The Street as the covered-by-Cheap-Trick theme from “That 70’s Show”, but it also contains the absolutely brilliant Thirteen, When My Baby’s Beside Me, Way Out West, and the aforementioned Back Of A Car. And if that weren’t enough, it inspired Paul Westerberg to write this song. This video of which gets bonus points for being from a show I was at.
So yeah, go get yourself some Big Star.
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Wow that was gimped up formatting
That second paragraph should read “Number One Record is probably my favorite….” etc. Thanks SBN.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I like one item lists.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I never liked Leno when he was on the Tonight Show.
How bad was it?
I ask this without snark
but was that really a surprise? Jay Leno hasn’t been funny in years.
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Has anyone picked up Scribblenauts yet?
It actually has me excited to play my DS for the first time in a while.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 11:30 AM PDT reply actions
Been playing it on-and-off since Saturday.
Not something that keeps you gripped for hours, but it’s fun and easy to play in short stints.
If you’ve seen the videos, you know exactly what it’s about and what to expect.
What you can’t tell from the video immediately:
-The level design is good.
-The control scheme (everything but the camera is controlled with the stylus) is awful and can make the longer levels frustrating because you kill yourself on accident.
Yeah, I've heard bad things about the control scheme.
It has me a little wary of actually buying the game. I’ll probably just rent it instead.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm partial to the flying carpet when I need to go a short distance.
Also the usefulness of ramps and girders cannot be overstated. And Kraken.
Has anybody used the Keyboard Cat yet?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
2010 MLB schedule announced
Main article: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?content_id=6975230
Mariners: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090914&content_id=6963510
angels fan in seattle
by Eyebrows on Sep 15, 2009 11:34 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Cards, Cubs, Brewers, and Reds.
But no Pirates!? I’m disappointed because…
1. Easy wins (but then again, our “natural rival” is the Padres which is already a gift, every year).
2. Don’t get to see McCutchen in person. If the Pirates came to Seattle I would buy a Pirates cap just to get it signed by him.
I'm annoyed the Cards aren't playing here.
I’d love to watch Pujols in person, especially in BP.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 15, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah its too bad Eli Marrero isn't on the team anymore
I would have really loved to see him play center field again
Let me fix this for you
Junior plays watches his old teams play! Ratings Bonanza!
If I were Bucky Katt, this picture would make me hungry.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 15, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
This year the prize for winning a LLemmie - your choice of being modded for a day* or cockpunching Robert!
*terms and conditions apply, main screenname not guaranteed to be modded, alternate may be password-bombed by regular moderators
by seattlebruin on Sep 15, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well abender20 is also theoretically a rookie for the 2009 season
by seattlebruin on Sep 18, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
If I don't get nominated for something.
Your head is gonna roll.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Nominations are done by the community
but I find it difficult to believe that you wouldn’t get nominated for Best Comment (images and .gifs permitted)
by seattlebruin on Sep 18, 2009 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Flipping through the Stranger at lunch, I came across an ad for Iceland tourism with the slogan: Pure. Untouched.
Um, except that the flora and fauna of the island has been wholly changed by humans over the last ~millenium. Most of the island is an ecological wasteland.
My two favorite things about this monstrosity:
The somewhat ominous name, Double Down. Lets you know that this is not for casual eaters. Also, that it comes with fries.
The caption of the picture is
Matt Holliday and Colby Rasmus collide or something like that
WELCOME TO THE ZONE.
I have a friend that just made tortellini but forgot to wash out the bowl after he soaped it up
Is he at any immediate health risk if he ate the tortellini that look oh so delicious?
Just rinse the tortellinis off, it'll be fine.
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HOTTEST woman vampire ever
Kate Beckinsale in black leather
(Underworld movies, I like the second one especially)
Discussion related to the relative attractiveness of women is generally discouraged here.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 15, 2009 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions
That doesn't happen all that often unless someone brings up Twilight or vampires first
by seattlebruin on Sep 16, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, wrong,
Ashley Greene in every Twilight movie
by seattlebruin on Sep 15, 2009 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
So the FJM crew is back guest-editing Deadspin today.
And here’s my dilemma. FJM started (or at least widely popularized) the whole “let’s respond snarkily to bad sportswriting” genre, and since FJM has gone off the air, so to speak, so many other people do it that I read the first few FJM posts this morning and went…..eh. It all has a sort of perfunctory feel to it. Is it just me? Are they still funny and is it me who’s been jaded?
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And the funny thing is that I never read KSK
It just seems like the FJM style has been co-opted by pretty much anyone with an internet connection so while I know FJM were the biggest/best at it, I read it now and think “really? still doing that, eh? Well, OK”.
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Comedy has a very short shelf life, in general.
I’d expect this to go the way of ruminations on airplane food, moar, and Yakov Smirnov comedy.
by waldo rojas on Sep 16, 2009 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I just hope nobody kills my unique brand of pie-chart-with-Gerard-Butler's-face-on-them based humour
by Graham MacAree on Sep 16, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Start calling it an internet meme and it'll be a dessicated corpse within 48 hours
Just ask Kanye.
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I think it's because thye're attacking Jeter and Ecksten
just like with Mariner fans and Willie Bloomquist, they need new targets to keep it fresh.
I'm all about frequent repeated attacks on Derek Jeter, don't get me wrong
but yeah, the whole thing smacks of “hey look what we used to do!”
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I think they're hilarious.
But that’s because I think they’re great humor writers. The topic matter is repetitive — and the impostors aren’t really up to snuff — but there was always something about FJM that kept me coming back. And it was the writing.
I’m not shedding tears over FJM’s demise, but I’m enjoying today’s reunion. Particularly the one with MLB’s reactions to the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. They’re definitely better when they find material outside the JoeChat/Jeter/Eckstein realm.
What films are you ashamed of enjoying? For me:
Freddie Got Fingered
Rambo (the newer one)
Blair Witch Project
Hot Rod
"ashamed" implies that I seek validation in or approval from others when I watch a movie, which is not true.
If you don’t like what I watch, that’s not my problem, it’s yours. That said, I catch a lot of crap for liking all three of the Ocean’s movies.
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I like them because they're breezy throwaways
there’s nothing even remotely plausible about any one of them, there’s a lot that’s ridiculous, but damned if it isn’t fun watching George Clooney and Brad Pitt shoot the shit for 90 minutes. They’re basically cartoons, but they’re entertaining cartoons.
Plus, Casey Affleck is awesome in all of them.
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I generally agree but I feel bad for liking movies that are bad artistically.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
There's no one standard for good or bad though
if you enjoy it, why does it matter if it’s “art” or not?
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There is a standard for good and bad, though.
I can enjoy something that I know is artistically bad, but when I do I feel somewhat embarrassed.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
But that standard is defined by you and is entirely subjective
I’m not trying to pick a fight, just saying that the binary choice of “good” v “bad” is very tough to apply to any artistic endeavor. Answering the whole “what is art” question is a fool’s errand – who’s to say that the director of Dude, Where’s My Car didn’t pour as much passion and feeling into his work as Herzog did when he made Fitzcarraldo? – and it really shuts off enjoyment of a lot of things for a lot of people.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I don't find it especially difficult to apply those terms to an artistic endeavor.
It’s clearly subjective, but I’m still coming to a conclusion based on my own criteria. And I’m not talking about fluff films; I love PCU, which is total and utter garbage, and I am in no way ashamed or embarrassed by this fact.
I’m talking more about movies that are clearly intended to be artistic and by dong so open themselves up to more critical examination. It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I will know that a film is sub-par on an analytical level and still find myself entertained by it. It bugs me because generally I won’t have any proper defense for the film on technical or artistic grounds.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Can you blow me where the Pampers is?
That movie was awesome!
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Hot Rod is awesome.
Freddie Got Fingered is actually on my list as well.
I like a lot of Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler-related movies. I just watched Grandma’s Boy for the fourth or fifth time.
I feel dirty for enjoying Little Nicky sometimes.
It is such a dreadful movie.
by waldo rojas on Sep 16, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't stand Adam Sandler flicks
and I mostly feel the same way about Will Ferrell, but “Stranger than Fiction” was Ferrell’s redeeming film.
Was “50 first dates” good enough to redeem Sandler?
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Sep 16, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I couldn't get past how annoying Drew Barrymore is in that movie
but Funny People does a great job with Sandler.
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I liked Funny People for the first hour and a half or so, and Sandler was great for that.
But the last hour just dragged for me and the payoff was okay but it wasn’t good enough.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Sep 16, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked the soundtrack to 50 First Dates
And Sean Astin was hilarious.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
I'm not ashamed for enjoying Hot Rod.
Hot Rod is the greatest comedy the last 10 years.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 17, 2009 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions
He's a genius compared with his commenters. Jesus.
Mauer doesn’t count.Injured, missed too many games, non-playoff team!
i agree mauer doesn’t deserve it but jeter doesnt either tex deserves where is he on this list?
I take nothing away from Joe Mauer, he is a great talent. However, he does not bring the intensity and will to win every day that these guys do.
If they can lose with [Mauer], they can lose without him.
first of all, MVP doesn’t mean who has the best hitting average…..Mauer…does have that….MVP should help the TEAM in many categories, not just 1 like Mauer
OK, my brain hurts. Why do I do this?
So Muse's new album....
I wouldn’t call it terrible but it’s definitely strange and not as good as any of their past offerings.
I enjoy it in an odd way
I get the feeling it’ll grow on me too
by Graham MacAree on Sep 16, 2009 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
If the song of theirs they keep replaying at my workplace is off their new album I may actually enjoy a Muse album.
Which is really odd for me. I enjoy a few songs maybe but not a whole album.
It bored me
Which is something Muse have never done before.
Exogenesis really redeemed the album for me. Like Graham said, I’m sure it’ll grow on me but they’ve gone the way I hoped they wouldn’t after Black Holes.
Fuck Anaheim.
Fucking hell Arsenal, took you long enough to show up.
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For Wenger, opportunity does not equal likelihood
as much as I love Wenger and what he’s done at Arsenal and for football in England, his complete and utter refusal to even consider buying more than one player a year is really getting tedious. I don’t want him to go the Man City route and just buy buy buy, but the fact that he doesn’t even consider spending even a little bit is frustrating.
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Both computers I use regularly have Adblock Plus and Flashblock and the ads are still effing things up.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That's very strange.
Are you using the latest Firefox/Adblock/Flashblock? I have no problem with ads at all with those three things…
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Less intrusive than some of the other stuff, but still annoying, this is what the nav bar up top looks like at the moment:
Everything is updated and I’m fairly certain it’s not a virus or the like because LL is the only site where things like this happen and my AVG scans are clean.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 16, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Right-click on the F one at the top left and say "allow Flash from this site", F5, and see what happens
(if that doesn’t clear it up you can go into Flashblock and re-add LL to the flash blocklist).
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PayPal question
if I remember correctly, you can cancel a payment through PayPal if it’s done through a credit card in a certain amount of time. Is this still true? I’m trying to sell a laptop via craigslist and trying to avoid being scammed (ugh).
Craigslist = CASH ONLY
CASH ONLY CASH ONLY. You know this.
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by Eyebrows on Sep 16, 2009 4:28 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Why would you be using Paypal?
Sounds like you’re falling for the most basic CL scam out there. Never ship anything, always meet in person and get CASH.
Boo, SB. I expected better from you.
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by Eyebrows on Sep 16, 2009 4:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
To echo Eyebrows
if you’re using Craigslist, you need to make exchanges in person and for cash.
Last year, after becoming the first person ever to strike out 200 times in a season(and finishing with 205),
Mark Reynolds has became the 2nd first ever to strike out 200 times in a season.
Awesome.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
They were giving away vinyl copies via Twitter, but you had to be in the store
Apparently there were only about 20 stores involved. I didn’t get all the details of how it worked or if they’ll do something like this again.
They had a 45 (I think) of one of their singles at Target.
That was surprising and pretty cool.
by Mariner John on Sep 16, 2009 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't actually like Raekwon that much
but will probably get the album for the production and general Wu camraderie.
I consider him to be about average on the Wu Spectrum.
Ghostface is on nearly half the tracks (as with the first Cuban Linx album*), and Method Man and Inspectah Deck are on a few, too. The production list looks good, too.
*Jesus, it’s been 14 years.
SOCCER GIF
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by Eyebrows on Sep 17, 2009 9:45 AM PDT via mobile reply actions 4 recs
Not quite as important as the one Anelka missed
Besides, I don’t capitalise Offensive Holding, now do I?
by Graham MacAree on Sep 17, 2009 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
what's that you say?
Sweaty Nipples? Haven’t thought of them in years.
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Is that guy wearing only his underwear on stage?
By the way, I see your Sweaty Nipples, and raise you Fudge Tunnel.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I see your Fudge Tunnel
And raise you Anal Solvent.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Heh.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I was just stunned to realize they played at some point this decade
I thought they were long since extinct.
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I remember that, that was awesome
and the fact that it was Steven Gerrard he did it to was even better.
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Turns out not every Philly sports fan is a douche
Be honest. You expected this guy to throw his daughter after the ball or feed her to the Phanatic one piece at a time or something, because you’ve heard all about how obnoxious Philadelphia sports fans can be, didn’t you?
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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 17, 2009 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
But yes, I did expect something dickish.
Good on him. The story’s better than any baseball. It’s better than telling your grandkids you once caught a foul ball off the bat of a pretty good player who most people didn’t really know much about but Fangraphs liked him.
I don't get why
Why is it so great(?) that this little girl threw a ball off the third deck upon receiving it?
by Graham MacAree on Sep 17, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I think the point is that it is nice to see he didn't freak out on his kid.
Sort of the whole you should never reprimand someone for doing something that they did not know was wrong. Or am I missing it?
That's what I took from it, yeah.
Especially considering the guy’s been going to games since he was three and has never caught a foul ball before, it would not have been at all surprising – although it would have been pretty messed up – if he wigged out on his kid. For a (presumably) hardcore sports fan he displayed a pretty good dose of “I’m normal” right there and that’s kind of refreshing.
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I might argue that not reprimanding children for doing things they didn't know was wrong is a big part of the reason I dislike children so much.
Although in this case it wasn’t a big deal.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 17, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't you use such moments as an opportunity to teach though rather
than jumping straight to discipline? If you yell at a child for doing something and they did not know it was incorrect behavior you will create fear which will lead to an unwillingness to do new things. Such inactivity leads to becoming just another part of the masses that never think for themselves because they hate being told they are wrong.
I guess reprimand is too strong a word.
But a lot of the time it’s a “Oh you didn’t know, sweetie, it’s okay” without any sort of teaching taking place.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 17, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Well then I totally agree.
Failing to teach when the opportunity is there is the biggest mistake most parents make.
Shouldn't that lead you to dislike the parent though?
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That said, I was pretty amazed when I saw a local TV station give the story more than 2 minutes.
That’s a lot of time. It would be a harmless little bright at the end of a newscast, but they treated it like breaking news, and it cracked me up. It’s Philadelphia! Isn’t there some news?
There's only so many crack house busts the local news can cover.
In a somewhat-media-related tangent, at the gym yesterday one of the TV’s over the treadmills was showing ESPN, so I was kinda half-watching and half-running-and-sweating. This big “BREAKING NEWS” bumper showed up on the screen, followed by nearly two minutes’ coverage of…the fact that Donovan McNabb was at practice, watching. Not participating, just STANDING THERE WATCHING.
Analysis of what that meant followed. And then more semi-breathless coverage of him doing the sporting equivalent of standing at the office water cooler shooting the shit with his coworkers. WHY BOTHER? He was at practice. Big damn deal. Did he knife someone? Did he show up drunk and puke all over his coach? Did he boldly predict that the Eagles would win the Super Bowl? Nope, he just stood there and watched people run drills. Apparently this is BREAKING NEWS.
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The "breaking news" tag has been so watered down by cable networks that I don't think it has much of an effect anymore.
Crying wolf and all that.
I don't even think twice when I see it anymore.
And during big events like 9/11 or Katrina, they just leave it on the screen for a week. It becomes ingrained in the viewer’s eye.
BREAKING NEWS - BRETT FAVRE GOES TO THE BATHROOM
Sources state it was a dark #1, fueling speculation that he is dehydrated.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Did an NFL spokesperson decline to comment?
by seattlebruin on Sep 17, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
No, but they did add on to Mangini's fine for refusing to disclose the dehydration.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Well,
he was going to go to the bathroom. Then he decided not to. Then, a while later, he thought he should again. And then he realized he didn’t want to. After that he got the urge again, so that’s why he did what he did when he did.
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Immortalised on one of the blooper reels is another bit of footage from a few years back where the dad hands the ball to toddler, who then tosses it back
that is why I was so surprised by the vast amount of coverage this has rec’d….
They started this week, yep
You were talking about the WNBA, right?
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You will note that I had to look up whether the WNBA was still a thing in order to make that joke.
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by pdb on Sep 17, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Turns out PT Barnum was right.
There’s a sucker born every minute. Just ask the Geek Squad.
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If you are the kind of person that has a computer, CDs and an mp3 player,
Wouldn’t you be able to figure this out on your own?
by waldo rojas on Sep 17, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
In my youth (not so long ago, I guess)
I would turn people’s tapes into CDs for 2$ each. It made me some good money for not that much work while I was doing something else.
Why Best Buy would be getting into something like it is beyond me, though. Can’t kids have any summer jobs anymore?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
But turning tapes into CDs actually requires some (limited) technical know-how and equipment
the computer automatically turns a CD into digital tracks for you.
by seattlebruin on Sep 17, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
But the motivation is similar.
I paid a kid in my complex to go through my boxes of books in my garage and sort and label them.
The fact that it was possible for him to do something that would give him some extra spending cash was something that he hadn’t really thought about doing before. This has to be a new thing, right?
When I was a kid (jesus now I know I’m getting old when I use that phrase), there was another couple of kids down the street that would weed yards or mow lawns in competition with me over summers. Now, you can’t even find one to shovel out your car when you don’t feel like doing it yourself.
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My knees agree with me, at least.
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Working on Geek Squad would depress me too much
since I would know how much Best Buy is getting paid for doing completely menial tasks
by seattlebruin on Sep 17, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember going over to my father in laws house and he asked me to look at his tv.
I went behind and saw everything just completely wrong. And asked him who did hooked it up. His answer….
Geek Squad.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 17, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a "Geek Squad optimized" laptop that cost $50 extra than the regular model.
I only bought it because it was a doorbuster sale and the laptop was already $100+ off and they didn’t have the non-Geek Squad models left.
They did some stuff to it that I wouldn’t have been able to do myself (registry tweaks and the like) but mainly they just uninstalled the bloatware, which saved me an hour or two. I can’t imagine how boring that job would be.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 17, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
If I've learned anything from TV*
it’s that the reason that Geek Squad people are so bad at Geek Squadding is because they’re all secretly government agents, which is anything but boring I would think.
*it could be argued that I have not learned anything from TV
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I am sure the rest of you must be as alarmed as I am....
Erik Bedard, in a shot of the dugout the other day, appears to have…. gulp… shaved his head. Now, I know the man was balding, but this is unacceptable.
♥
Hey! I'm right here, hello I can read these comments.
Maybe you can interrupt your non-stop Bedard lust and think about other peoples self esteem for just a teensy weensy second.
As in razor tight, not clipper? That's always awkward
He had enough hair left he’s probably sporting the white scalp look then? He had plenty of hair left, baseball players and the head shaving deal is strange.
Telly Savalas was so ugly it kind of worked though, hair would have looked weird on him.
Yul Brenner might be the all time best looking bald guy.
Hey if I had my druthers it would be a full head of hair every time
Otherwise, not so many choices to be found here.
Better looking than Yul Brenner? This is a tough sell my friend.
He kind of has a buzzard neck in the gizzard regions.
Speaking of shaved heads
Batista has left the Krusty the Clown look behind…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Best thing KJR does every year -- their charity fundraiser auction.
this year it supports the Central Area Youth Association, NW Literacy Foundation & Food Lifeline, and has some swell Mariner-related items, including :
SPEND AN EVENING TALKING BASEBALL WITH M’S GM JACK ZDURIENCIK
SPEND THE DAY FISHING AND TALKING BASEBALL WITH M’S MANAGER DON WAKAMATSU
WATCH a game (for 4) in the Owners Suite with Howard Lincoln
and a bunch of autographed stuff
I know.
I bet if I went fishing with Don he wouldn’t make me clean all the fish and carry the poles & tackle, the way my brother did.
There's some pretty cool stuff up for auction
Is it bad that I don’t know who Tracy Taylor is?
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Nah-- perky morning traffic gal
I gather there will be more “little stuff” up for silent auction when they set up shop at Anthony’s mid-day …
If you're out there, 108, I think my wife hijacked your account.
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by pdb on Sep 18, 2009 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
So here's a question;
how many listens (all the way through) is it fair to give an album by a band that you would consider to be one of your favorites before openly declaring that you do not like it all that much?
I got the newest Big Business album about a month ago. I think I’ve listened to it in its entirety five or six times now and while some songs have definitely grown on me, I’m still not really feeling it. It’s not bad, per se, and there are a few moments of brilliance, but I don’t like it nearly as much as there first two. I really want to like it, and I do like parts of it a great deal, but when people ask me what I think I still say “I’m not really sure yet.” How long should I wait until I give up listening to the songs I’m not into and skip around to the songs I like?
I usually give a new album about five listens all the way through myself.
But the other thing to do at this point is put it aside for a week or two, then come back to it. The more you listen to it now the more you’ll focus on what you don’t like instead of enjoying what you do like – if you revisit it in a couple weeks you might find that the rough edges have smoothed out a bit.
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I agree with this
I tend to listen to an album a couple weeks after I first listen to it just to see:
a) if any of the songs get stuck in my head
b) How the music sounds now that I’ve got some sort of impression of it
I gave the new Pearl Jam about three listens yesterday, and it still hasn't caught my ear.
I might be finished trying to like it.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
The first half of the album caught my ear instantly
The thing that guts what would otherwise be a classic album is that Force of Nature is a pretty vanilla penultimate song, so nearly all the excitement on the album is in the first 15 minutes of the record, and rarely is that energy captured on the second side. At least it doesn’t have any flat out awful songs like Inside Job, Army Reserve, or Marker in the Sand.
Bad writing is awesome
Especially when it’s this guy’s writing. I’ve never read any of his stuff, but now I think I might just because it looks so spectacularly awful.
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He needs to hurry up and write a book about 2012 and how it relates to Jesus and the Knights Templar because stupid people aren't already stupid enough.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm hoping that'll be the next thing in the pipeline
because that’d make an awesome Tom Hanks movie.
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I would rather people not read than read total garbage and believe it to be true.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions
I get why people do not like Dan Brown, but I am officially bored with the nitpicking of his work.
It is not his fault people believe his works of fiction. It is his fault he writes with an incredibly simplistic style, but just as I have defended many simple sell out artists and bands over the years I will defend him too. He is actually making money in a field of work where it is incredibly difficult to make a living so good for him. If people did not enjoy it then it wouldn’t sell.
To be honest I've never really seen much nitpicking of his work
it’s not a genre that I’m particularly interested in so I generally avoid it entirely, this is probably the first exposure I’ve ever had to his stuff and it made me laugh. I wish I could write something that millions of people would buy.
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I'm in this boat.
I’ve never read anything of Brown’s, but I had heard some chatter about his cringe-inducing writing. Read the Guardian piece was my first real exposure to it, so I got a good laugh out of it.
It isn't an LL specific gripe for me.
I hear him getting bashed by most of my friends and for various reasons. I read two of his books mostly because people were asking me about his work since they knew I had a degree in western religions. They are written at the same intelligence level as Harry Potter or Twilight, so I guess I have never understood why people accept those books for what they are but not his. They are fluff mystery stories.
I think one difference is Harry Potter and Twilight are written for a younger audience.
That’s not to say that adults don’t read those books — they obviously do — but Brown’s work doesn’t seem aimed at children, which makes it more open to criticism for elementary-level writing.
For me
and again, I’ve never read any of his stuff, but it seems to have tapped a vein of conspiracy-theory thinking that already existed in the world; it’s like people read his books and said “SEE I TOLD YOU THE ILLUMINATI WAS REAL IT SAYS SO RIGHT HERE” when the books are quite clearly fiction. And I hold his fans responsible for that, not him.
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I think he has totally taken advantage of those people to make money.
He also has used the negative publicity perfectly.
I think the reaction stems from the fact that people take the shit he writes about seriously.
I don’t have a problem with drawing upon conspiracy theories for inspiration, but because of the fact that his books are bad and people have bought into them as being something more than fluff mystery stories (and people have,) there’s been a major backlash.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Like I said, I get the backlash from both sides of the aisle.
You just won’t see me ripping on him for making it into a profitable venture.
To answer the essential point, Twilight and HP are true fantasy stories
no one really believes that Forks is populated with animal-eating vampires who SPARKLE! in the sun, or that the world is filled with wizards and witches bound to secrecy by their own moral code.
However, a story like Brown’s where you have so many real-world locales and events could easily be misconstrued as partially non-fiction – especially given the lack of knowledge and mystery to the general public surrounding groups like the Knights Templar and the Freemasons.
by seattlebruin on Sep 18, 2009 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Should I feel guilty about enjoying Harry Potter?
by Mariner John on Sep 18, 2009 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Good god no.
Read whatever you want to read and don’t worry about it. Just don’t start thinking that it’s a biography and that Hogwarts is a real place.
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Robert, I think it's time we have a chat about certain things...
Harry Potter, hobbits, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus.
I've found that JK Rowling is a much, much better writer than Dan Brown.
And she writes for a younger audience.
Brown dumbs down.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Sep 21, 2009 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
I can deal with Brown's prose
It’s generally pointless and simplistic but it keeps your eyes moving. When dialogue happens, though… ugh.
by Graham MacAree on Sep 21, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I was actually 75% serious.
I would love it if he wrote that book. I got nothin’ against the guy, really; he writes crap, but like you said, he writes crap people want to read so good for him.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Reminds me of the Colbert Report.
“So we’ve clarified the monkey rule. It take 1000 monkeys 1000 years to write a Hemingway, 10000 monkeys 10000 years to write a Shakespeare, and 3 monkeys Columbus Day weekend to write a Dan Brown.”
50!
I loved sealab.
So when I saw this I was just cracking up the whole time.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I really like H. John Benjamin.
He did the voice of Mothmonsterman in ATHF, and he had roles on Michael and Michael and Demitri Martin’s show. Funny dude.
Now I can't wait till January!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Sealab was the best cartoon ever before Murphy died.
How is Archer similar?
Created by the same guy.
Same animation style and same humor.
Here is a promo for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBw-mpnuLm0
My wrist is all sorts of messed up by the way.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I think it was the first game when I jumped for the ball and wasn't quite tall enough.
The line drive didn’t help though.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I watched the first five minutes or so, and hated it.
Then again, I didn’t enjoy the Philadelphia premier that much.
What the fuck was up with Dee? Her character has gone completely over the top now.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Same here.
Only difference is she had a independent storyline.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Dunno, I just got the sense that she was acting too much like Dennis and Mac.
It seems out of line with the way her character has been in the past.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
She seemed the same for me.
But my dog was sick last night and I wasn’t really paying attention.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree, actually. Every main character has continued to get more extreme as the seasons have gone on.
Dee used to be the sensible one that could get talked into bad ideas, and she was completely over the top and almost maniacal. I like the way Charlie has evolved (watch the pilot episode again), and Mac and Dennis have kept it somewhat reasonable.
Well the first season isn't a good gauge for Dee's character.
Cause they even admitted they had no idea how to include her at that point.
I’m just going with they struggle with Season openers. Like ManHunters last year.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Exactly.
She’s always been a psycho. This was just the first time she was by herself so it came out more.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
They're all physco's.
The best part of the show is how they just go out and completely ruin people’s lives. The shit they’ve done to
Cricket is some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen on tv in a while.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
Poor Poor Cricket.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
The funniest part is that her character takes flak for not being a good actress,
and she sort of showed that in this episode. When Mac and Charlie get nuts, they do a fantastic job. Dee just starts shrieking.
Yep. The level of screaming in that episode was a little too much for me.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Nothing can ruin Charlie.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Possibly my favorite It's Always Sunny moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-Bk0F5be8
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
And "Sunnys" premieres always seem to be a let down.
Because I hype them up so much.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah. It was a good episode, but nowhere near their best.
I wanted to see more of what happened with the dueling lawyers thing.
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Agreed.
But then again I’m Charlie biased. I think he needs his own spinoff.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Dude, Charlie was still awesome in that episode.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Dude You can't keep a hummingbird as a pet.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
What do you mean? You're going to carry someone's baby to somewhere?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you enjoy Sealab?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Never watched it.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
This could be why you hated it.
Its really a love/hate type humor.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
The dirtiest trick the MLB Network can do
Is advertise Game 5 of the 2005 NLCs, and then show game 6 instead
Assholes
I bet it was ole frowntown for you when the game started.
by Robert on Sep 18, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I need help figuring out what to do tonight.
It’s Music Fest Northwest tonight, again, and after recovering from Wednesday night’s WIll Sheff show – and by “recovering” I mean “going to bed goddamn early Thursday night because I’m too old to be out until 1.30AM on a weeknight GOD I HATE GETTING OLD – I’m ready to hit ”http://www.wweek.com/editorial/2009/09/16/friday-listings/" target="new">a show or two tonight. I’m starting with the Early Bird Special, going to try to get into the free Arctic Monkeys show at 7, but after that should I go to:
Bad Brains – never seen them, always wanted to, was all set to see them but a couple friends whose opinions I trust have said that they’re really hit-and-miss
The Zeros/Mudhoney – Never seen the Zeros. Mudhoney are one of my favorite live bands of all time but I’ve seen them eleventy billion times. Has the advantage of being at one venue so no busting my ass walking to a different club.
Japanther – always been curious but might be too hipsterish for my tastes
The Shaky Hands – the review had me until “first two Kings Of Leon albums”. But still, sounds interesting.
Monotonix – heard legendary things about their live show but never seen them
On a normal night, Bad Brains would be a slam dunk but there are so many other good shows I don’t quite know if I want to take the chance that I see an off night for Bad Brains and miss something else good.
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Go see Monotonix.
Do not see Japanther. I saw them at Total Fest and they were awful. To recap:
Supposed to start at 1:00 AM since last call is at 1:30 and everyone has to be out of the venue by 2:00. Missoula is a fairly mellow town, but this is one of those things the cops there are pretty damned anal about. The stage is ready and sound check is done by 12:45. They yammer on and on and on about how awesome making their own juice is for about 20 minutes. Then they talk about how they are from New York City for ten minutes. They now have fifteen minutes of their scheduled set left and forty-five minutes at the very most. They play two songs. They’re okay; the crowd is really into it because they’re fun and dance-y. Then their tape player breaks. They’re a two piece and they use their tape player pretty extensively, to good effect, so naturally they are a bit perturbed; however, despite being a fairly well known band, signed to Vice Records, touring constantly and having pretty much all of Williamsburg slobbering all over their proverbial knob at any given time, they do not have a backup tape player. At all. For Japanther, this is kind of like going on tour without backup guitar strings or an extra set of amp tubes.
They dick around with the tape player for ten minutes or so, despite the fact that it’s obviously busted. It is now 1:45. They half-ass their way through another song. Between songs, the sound guy tells them through the monitors that they’ve got, at most, three songs left. The singer guy just rips into him, telling him he isn’t allowed to speak while they are playing, they will play for as long as they want, who the fuck does he think he is, etc. For anyone that has never been in a band, the only people that talk that way (publicly) to sound engineers are total fucking douchebags. I left.
Seriously, fuck that band. I cannot believe how overrated they are. Again, go see Monotonix. Not even a question in my mind.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Somehow I'm not surprised
from the things I’ve read about Japanther your account sounds like what I would have expected from Williamsburg’s Next Hot Shit Thing. And that would really piss me off if I went to see it. Thanks for the tip and sorry you had to deal with that.
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I was more bummed for the people in Missoula.
Apparently their show at last year’s Total Fest was fucking epic, so people were really, really excited for them. Missoula gets decent touring bands, but never bands as big as Japanther, except for Total Fest. They were given the headlining slot, the room was absolutely packed, and then…that. Just totally a dick move.
As a caveat, I have heard that when they are on their game they are flat-out incredible, but their performance, lack of any semblance of professionalism and just absolutely piss-poor attitude was such a turn-off that I don’t even want to see them when they’re good, because I want to remember them as being total dicks.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, that sort of thing puts me off a band no matter what their music is like
There’s no need to treat people like that.
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And a further look at the schedule reveals that monotonix are in fact opening for Bad Brains
so that’s settled then.
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And yet tomorrow they are playing at seperate venues in Seattle.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
which is probably fine
because I’m sure you’ll be at Sha Na Na anyway, right?
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that comment sounded a lot funnier in my head, on the screen it seems way too accusatory.
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And as if on cue "Summer Nights" comes on my iPod
(I know they weren’t on that song but they were the house band in the movie…)
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EVEN MORE AWESOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxN8sCIOOE
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
I just watched this!
Hilarious!
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
This is also awesome.
If video games were more realistic…
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I only got some of those
(I don’t play video games), but the ones I got were funny.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
Anyone else here going to the Great American Beer Fest Next week?
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
That's kind of funny.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
There's a sausage fest in Verboort in November, you know
Nothing better than standing around in a field under a tent horking down homemade sausage. And waiting for the shuttle to the beer garden.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Sausage fest?
There’s a locker room joke in there somewhere. I’m just not smart enough to make it.
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
well that struck a sauer note.
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by pdb on Sep 18, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Andouille have to go through this again?
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Good news!
Pedro updated Mariners Revolution!
Questions come into play now that a collective review of Zduriencik’s player acquisitions can be further studied. For example, Ronny Cedeno and Garrett Olson were lousy for the Mariners. Jason Vargas, Endy Chavez, Jack Wilson, Bill Hall, Ryan Langerhans, Lucas French, Ian Snell, and Josh Wilson, were poor talent acquisitions.
How long can Branyan, Gutierrez, and Aardsma, keep a GM out of the hot seat if Zduriencik has another third place finish in 2010?
Josh Wilson, Langerhans, Hall?
Weren’t they basically free?
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
This is a retarded fellow we are speaking about here.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Whee!
Here lies the problem with Zduriencik’s philosophy on roster building. In order to replicate landing a Fielder and Braun a team must have outstanding success in the June drafts. This is much harder than most fans think. Especially in light of the disaster of a draft that occurred back in June by the club.
This is the most awesome blog entry I’ve read all week.
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And this one from Part I of that series
Zduriencik has saved the wealthy ownership group money, no doubt about it. More importantly, fans need to understand saving ownership money does not equate to on-the-field success (as the typical saberhead believes). The reality remains GM’s are hired to win games, not to become All-Star accountants.
I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. Thanks, Pedro.
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This is awesome
from Pedro’s blog’s About page:
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¡Bienvenido!
I started analyzing the Seattle Mariners back in 2004 creating the blog "Mariners Revolution." I warned fans Bill Bavasi was an incompetent General Manager who would destroy the Seattle Mariners franchise by mortgaging the farm system. Fans, media, and local blogs, became apologists for what became one the worst reigns of terror by a general manager in M’s history.
I believe Sabermetrics are flawed tools that should not be used for the majority of player evaluations. Furthermore, I have decided to return for 2009 and add my voice from a scouting perspective among a sabermetrics elitist community that has taken over control of the Seattle news media and blogosphere.
Enjoy!
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So Bavasi ruined the M’s by decimating the farm, but Z is ruining the M’s by not signing expensive aging veterans?
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Good point
Also, the tinfoil hats easily prevent saberheads asserting control. Just a friendly FYIY.
I would say that nobody was really a Bavasi apologist
My other question is
I believe Sabermetrics are flawed tools that should not be used for the majority of player evaluations.
In what small minority of players are sabermetrics acceptable to be used to evaluate a player?
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Uh, Langerhans was not free at all
HE COST US MIKE MORSE
by seattlebruin on Sep 18, 2009 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I could love him about three times.
zing!
Thanks, I’ll be here all night. Tip your waitress!
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
From the comments section on Neyer's blog:
Sabermagicians are the fellows who tell you to believe their numbers rather than your own eyes. Fellows like them said the World Trade Center could not be knocked down by planes. When the Towers fell they said their methods were correct only their assumptions were wrong. I will have no complaint if Mauer wins the MVP. However, how do these Sabermagicians factor in the difficulty of playing on the New York stage vs. homey hospitable Minnesota? How do they differentiate between players on winning teams vs. players on teams that do not make the playoffs? It is an MVP contest, not best player. These sabermetrics guys will soon make a mathematical model of sex and tell you they are the best judge of whether or not you have had a good time.
At least he didn’t say that the mathematical model of sex would be conceived in a sabermagician’s mom’s basement.
So wait a minute here.
If I’m reading this right, is that commenter saying that Bill James is responsible for 9/11?
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Are you saying he wasn't?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought Billy Beane was and that he talked about it in Moneyball
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
Well, he did write Moneyball...
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 18, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
It's best not to look.
The last bit from Posnanski about writers having held sway over public opinion for so long. Not a fan of that bit, there have always been a few smart writers out there and people that have had a good grasp of the game. The tools to define it just didn’t exist.
There will always be people that just don’t understand the game. They don’t understand the old fashioned cliches and how and why some of them make sense, and they won’t understand sabermetrics and how the information is being organized and presented in logical and coherent fashion. They won’t like sabermetrics because they won’t take the time or are completely unable to grasp the concepts. You don’t have to be able to create this shit, just understand what the numbers are telling you, that part is not overly complicated.
I was just about to post this.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 18, 2009 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
This comment aside, I'm quite surprised by the level of civility in the comments on Neyer's story.
I guess Neyer tends to attract a different kind of reader than the front-page stories, but it’s still kind of shocking to see ESPN comments that don’t make my eyes bleed.
Sabermagicians?
Watch me pull a WAR out of my hat!
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
God the people there just don't know about any of the sabermetrics.
UZR does count for arm and range and errors….
We’re just not credible because we look at spreadsheets not games evidently.
You got slurved!
It counts errors
that’s the ErrR component of the stat =)
by seattlebruin on Sep 19, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Even though most of us watch more games then other fans.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 21, 2009 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
I like him fine when he's reporting on transaction rumors.
I could do without him actually talking about baseball.
I mean, could you sound anymore like a petulant 8 year old, when you say
“Last time I checked, its a free country”
I defended him until he went on MLB Network heaving his chest and calling for the beheading of that kid who wrote the Ibanez-steroids story.
He’s good at breaking news. That’s about where I stop giving him credit.
The cool thing about Joe is he knows about FIP and things like that.
But he’s taking his time — he’s a newspaperman after all. I compare it to Baker somewhat: They both know that the + stats aren’t perfect, but with their audiences, they can’t just jump right into linear weights, so they try to ride that fence between being accurate and being accessible to a common fan. Introducing the idea of park, league and era adjustments, and you’ve got the ball at least rolling.
And Poz has even gone so far as to enlist Tom Tango to help him create a common man's sabermetric stat.
I haven’t checked in on it much, but from what I understand it’s rooted in linear weights but in a more simple manner.
My take on Pos is he's usinga his popularity and reach as a platform to educate.
And that he’s trying to keep the frogs from jumping out of the pot by slowly raising the temperature. Seriously, if he tries to do it all at once the very people he’s trying to reach will jump ship.
If that's the case, I respect him even more.
I still get the feeling that he just hasn’t embraced the newest stuff yet (like FJM’s one day reprisal still banging exclusively on stuff like VORP). He’ll get there soon, I hope.
Perhaps he truly respects his audience. He doesn't preach, he's not condescending.
Sometimes he talks as if he’s on the side of his audience, “we’re in this together”. Something like that, this has been on my mind for a couple days and that’s the best I’ve got. I’ve only been reading him for a year now, but he’s good. Kind of like a modern day Will Rogers, or Ernie Pyle.
I've perused his website for a few minutes, but other than that I don't know much.
I don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed that my mother introduced me to Tucker Max.
No, you're totally right.
But I’m just slightly proud of my mom for being young enough at heart to branch out like that, even if I think she absolutely blew it on the choice she made.
I can't picture you boning a girls pooper while having Jeff filming in the closet and when you pull out you see pooh you throw up and that causes Jeff to throw up too and then that causes her to throw up and run out of your bach pad naked and crying
by Robert on Sep 18, 2009 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
I know better than to say anything bad about a man's mother but I'll just say I'm glad my mo sticks with Jeff Foxworthy.
by Aaron Campeau on Sep 18, 2009 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Thing is, my mom IS that person.
Loves country and country humor. “Real Americans!”
This came out of NOWHERE.
OK, I just re-read this thread and realized I didn't make it plainly obvious that I absolutely fucking hate Tucker Max.
Re-reading through my comments, I’m now laughing even harder.
Yep.
I read a few of his stories back when he was still somewhat relevant purely because of the shock value but then they started to get boring because it was more of the same formula.
1.Get drunk/stoned/both
2.Pick up slut(s)/midget(s)/tranny(s)/ect.
3.Fuck said above
4.Puke/shit/escrete other bodily fluids
5.Degrade above figures
6.Optional:Fight somebody
7.Break multiple laws during above activites
8.Somehow not end up in jail and/or die.
9.Write story on website.
10.Profit!
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
A book is to much.
Some of his stories are funny on a lazy Wednesday when you’ve reached the end of the internet.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 21, 2009 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Heh.
Shannon: “What were you thinking as you came back to the dugout in the 9th, and your offense went out?”
Felix: “I can’t lose this game, c’mon guys c’mon guys c’mon guys”
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by seattlebruin on Sep 19, 2009 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Seahawks. :-(
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 20, 2009 4:14 PM PDT reply actions
Wow.
Angel Villalona main suspect in shooting death in the Dominican Republic
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
He'll still be good in 20 years.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 21, 2009 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I just messaged a Giants fan friend and said "did you see Villalona?"
his only response was “fuck the Giants”
by seattlebruin on Sep 21, 2009 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions
More from BA...
The next big thing out of Cuba, left-hander Aroldis Chapman, has established residency…. in Andorra.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
I guess it was convenient...
he supposedly defected in France, right?
by seattlebruin on Sep 21, 2009 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
He's gonna be a straight free agent?
Holy crap imagine the contract offers he’s going to get.
FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS! FUCK THE ANGELS!
I was most surprised to find out that Damian Lewis was British.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507073/
Band of Brothers, Dreamcatcher, Life…pretty much flawless American accents.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 21, 2009 12:59 PM PDT reply actions
It depends whether you catch your hos in a net or with a dragging line.
Trolling is a method of fishing where one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, are drawn through the water. This may be behind a moving boat, or by slowly winding the line in when fishing from a static position, or even sweeping the line from side-to-side, eg when fishing from a jetty. Trolling is used to catch pelagic fish such as salmon, mackerel and kingfish.
by abender20 on Sep 21, 2009 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm pretty sure that Jeff solved that problem.
by Robert on Sep 21, 2009 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hey SB and NOLA!
Forks, WA gets a travel writeup in the NYT
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/travel/27culture.html?pagewanted=1
angels fan in seattle
by Eyebrows on Sep 22, 2009 9:25 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Why is it in the "Cultured Traveler" section?
And why do the two correctional facilities never get a mention in the books?
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Sep 22, 2009 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Twihards?
This saddens me more than anything else about that article.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
that ranks right up there
with ‘fashionista’ and ‘foodie’ on the list of words that make me want to seet thins on fire.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I've always wanted to set the thins on fire.
It’s my own “Don’t you hate pants!?” issue.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Burned Wheat Thins aren't very good.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 22, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I should drive to Forks and pick up chicks next time I'm home
by seattlebruin on Sep 22, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
has any one seen this?
Fan-made trailer to fulfil the dream of Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern
Fuck Ryan Reynolds.
Nathan Fillion should have this role.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 22, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
He should have every role.
I wish I could pull off Captain Hammer for Halloween. My gender reduces me to Penny though. Which isn’t really a costume. I could ride the Felicia Day train over to The Guild though, and be Codex.
♥
If by "dance on command" you mean
chew something to pieces, then yes.
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by Eyebrows on Sep 22, 2009 2:15 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I will eventually, but be forewarned that I am a lousy Halo player compared to CoD
by seattlebruin on Sep 22, 2009 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
You must REALLY suck at Halo, then.
OH SNAP!
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 22, 2009 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I just want to play firefight.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 22, 2009 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll probably get it soon
Comcast finally realized I was getting free internet and shut us off yesterday, so now I have to call and order some service
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Sep 22, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Well I picked it up this morning.
You people just let me know.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 22, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Futile question
I know the gmail keyboard shortcuts, and i use them all the time. I currently find myself unable to use the tab-enter keyboard shortcut to send an email; is there another keyboard-based ‘send’ command?
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
(since you're going to have a blinking cursor in the text field, so any letter you push is going to type that character)
I tried some Alt+ and Ctrl+ stuff, and no luck.
On a somewhat related subject...
How do you search within a website or block of text on a MacBook using Safari or (preferably) Firefox?
Control F
Actually seems to work on Firefox.
Weird, I would have never tried that…
"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz
HOLY GOD 12 MIL FOR MILLWOOD!!!!!!!?????
What the fuck were those people thinking?
Oh, wait, we have Silva still…
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It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
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