I have been thinking about you since last week, when Favre had a truly awesome week in what is already an awesome season. Does the ambivalence chafe much?
5.
Punchy
Said this in a dead thread, but it needs repeating:
Mah Hawkeyes are in the Orange Bowl!
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debit
Those red uniforms are really…red.
Seriously. They look like jammies.
Eeeeee! Vikes recover! You can’t play in your jammies, kids.
@Steeplejack: Yes. Very much. I still want his bell rung.
debit, I like them. Blood won’t show.
VIKES BALL!
8.
Omnes Omnibus
It still looks wrong to see Favre in anything but Green and Gold. Go Cards.
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Zam
Praying for Favre to break his arm
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Uncle Glenny
OT sort of, but since I’m only rarely around, and the topic of Palin and the rapture has come up, it sounds like she’s a different type of kook. see for instance
Steeplejack – Kudos for last night’s post alerting folks to check out Visions of Light. In the same vein, No Subtitles Necessary: Lazlo and Vilmos is worth watching.
I feel the ambivalence a bit myself. They had an interview on earlier where Cris Collingsworth was commiserating with Favre about how the mean ol’ Packers wouldn’t let him go directly to the Vikes in ’08 and he had to spend a year in Jets purgatory. Completely overlooking the fact that Favre created the whole crisis himself about 10 minutes before the season started with all his retire/un-retire bullshit. What team in its right mind would be okay with not only losing your starting quarterback but also having that QB go to your main divisional rival?! Serenity now.
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debit
@asiangrrlMN: Why a roof in that climate? Unless it’s for the AC in the summer, I guess.
Nothing personal against the Colts; they field a fine team, play well, and are fun to watch.
But I am sick to Gaia-damned death of Peyton Mannings’ mug on my teevee. I can only wince when I think of his eventual retirement being the starting kickoff of his commentator career.
Go Saints!
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Zam
@Steeplejack: It wasn’t just Favre and his waffling, we invested some money and time into Rodgers and kinda wanted him to start playing before we lose him.
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Bucky
Go Vikings
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Josh Huaco
Experiencing delicious schadenfreude at USC having to play in (shudder) the Emerald Bowl.
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Corner Stone
I just bought a Nintendo Wii. Pray for me.
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Dork
I hear “Farve has that gunslinger mentality” one more time, I’m going to reach into my TV and punch Collinsworth in the face.
It’s what you say when you want to gloss over bad decisions and interceptions of a player you like… so I guess maybe in the Wild West there were guys who hit lots of innocent bystanders when they were robbing stagecoaches or whatever?
@Punchy: I promise not to wear my Hawkeyes sweatshirt during the game. It always jinxes them.
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debit
Hmmm. I hope this punt return works better for us than the last one.
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jwb
Now why the heck didn’t he fair catch that?
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Dork
@asiangrrlMN: I’m picturing John Madden saying that on air, while trying to quietly clean up his creamed pants and sticky hand with spare handkerchief from his pocket.
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Corner Stone
@debit: I just told somebody I’m going to find a Super Mario Bro’s Classic game and they’ll never hear from me again.
Right now we’re playing the “Sports Resort” suite of games and I am bugging out.
@Corner Stone: I keep going back to Super Mario World and Earthworm Jim. Cannot catch the damn puppies!
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Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: Any old timers have a suggestion for the Nintendo brand classics?
I love my PS2 but I’ve been dying to get my Mario on.
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jwb
Nice tackling guys!
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debit
Guys, you gotta stop the guy with the ball.
Yeah, like that!
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jwb
@debit: Seriously, the Vikes’ tackling tonight has been horrible.
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Svensker
The Patsies got beat today by the Dolphins. No Jetties on the gridiron, but my day is a happy one. I’m hoping Bellicheck broke a tooth while he was grinding his choppers in agony.
And did ya notice all the typos so I could practice edit? Yippee!
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You Don't Say
@ John Cole: Are we ever going to see pics of Lily and her weekend guest, with Tunch hissing at them in the background?
Not NFL (my Giants saved their season today, woo hoo!), but the fucking fuckers of the BCS can go fuck themselves after putting TCU and Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl.
Everyone in the country wanted to see if TCU and Boise matched up against the traditional powers, but those fuckers are so scared that they are going to blow out teams like Iowa and Georgia Tech that made the BCS by virtue of being in the two worst BCS conferences. So they protected themselves by making them play each other.
Hopefully, this increases the call for a playoff. Of course, having that dipshit Ari Fleischer as the spokesperson for the BCS makes me feel good about the prospects.
I gotta wonder what the strategy is supposed to be. Why are they hung up on the run game when it’s just not working?
I mean, unless the strategy is to lose. In that case, carry on.
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planetjanet
I have finally thawed out from the Redskins/Saints game. Although the final result was as expected, the game was anything but. It seemed like the best game I have seen them play all year. I must admit that I left in the second half of the fourth quarter as my niece was an icicle. I checked the tv just as we got to the gate to see the Saints tie it. Part of me is glad that I didn’t have to watch the overtime, adding pain to pain. They did give me a good share of things to cheer for.
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Morbo
Bah, I guess it turns out that Boldin against the Vikings D is in fact better than Sims-Walker against the Texans D. I wouldn’t have guessed…
I’ll tell you why. Because the fucking McDonald’s hashbrown will blow the GD doors off every other piece of food you could order from McD’s at breakfast.
That’s why it’s separate from everything else you little punk.
ETA – Do not fucking fuck with me. The hashbrown will destroy your shit. It will burn your cities and prune your fucking hedges.
Now shut the F up and eat your damn breakfast.
Smartass little bitch.
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debit
I swear, if they hand it off and for three downs and punt again, I’m turning my PS3 on and will watch the sparkles instead.
See, passing sometimes gets you a first down.
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ploeg
Michaels: “I bet that Warner retires before Favre.”
Born in Arizona, so there’s pressure from the family to root for them.
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scarshapedstar
WHO DAT!
Also, GOOOOOOOOOOOO CARDINALS!
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You Don't Say
Oooh, oooh, oooh. USC relegated to the lowly Emerald Bowl, versus BC.
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scarshapedstar
but those fuckers are so scared that they are going to blow out teams like Iowa and Georgia Tech that made the BCS by virtue of being in the two worst BCS conferences.
OK, I just got home a little while ago. I don’t know what I saw today, but it was touched by His noodly appendage for sure. My Saints, bless you boys. RRRRAAAAAAAAWWWWRRRR!
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valdivia
totally OT but our first lady looking smoking at the Kennedy Honors. Can I haz that dress?
I know, isn’t she amazing? sorry for the girly talk the rest of you but one of the nice things of Having her in the WH is that one can actually appreciate her style, she is so cool.
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Corner Stone
@BruceFromOhio: We pruned the hedges…of many small villages…
“Who the hell are you?”
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Steeplejack
I really don’t like Al Michaels.
I like Cris Collingsworth as a game commenter, not so much as an interviewer. (He did a suck-up one with Favre before this one.)
That is all.
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Steeplejack
I really don’t like Al Michaels.
I like Cris Collingsworth as a game commenter, not so much as an interviewer. (He did a suck-up one with Favre before this one.)
@valdivia: I also like the fact that with very few missteps, she has held firm to HER style, the critics be damned. No frumpy outfits for her, thank you very much. I like that a great deal.
This game, not so much.
@Steeplejack: Agreed. I dislike most announcing, though.
Yes, the SEC folks and ESPN are already preparing their “well the SEC championship was their bowl game, they had nothing to play for” excuses when Cincy hands them their asses.
I wonder if axing Olbermann from the SNF halftime show was a condition of the Cox deal.
Favorite tailgating traditions: eat too much, drink too much, stagger around and curse.
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Corner Stone
@Ben Richards: Mmmm…Whataburger.
Makes me a little sad I’m having sushi tonight. Well, not so much when I think about it.
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Ben Richards
@Ed in NJ: Ed – I think after the locked in games are slotted, the BCS bowls choose the teams on a rotation basis. The Fiesta could have taken Boise and Iowa for example, but opted for TCU instead.
I think this will be good. Let’s say the title game is an ugly one and it is close. If TCU rolls Boise, the AP could vote them #1. I read that the Fiesta wanted their own match up of undefeateds and choose accordingly.
@asiangrrlMN: Entirely, totally, WAY off topic, but asiangrrl, I’ve been lurking the threads since Thursday night to tell JUST HOW AWESOME THE SWELL SEASON SHOW WAS!!
“How awesome?”, you say?
SO AWESOME THAT THE WORD “AWESOME” NOW NEEDS TO BE RETIRED!!
Oh girl (or, indeed, grrl), when next they come through anywhere near you, you must go. I came away wanting to be Margeta Irglova.
/returns to lurking, for football is entirely not her thing….
Awesome. Glad to know they’re still around. Gives me a reason to live. One of my resolutions for ’10 is to get to the beach. (Preferred location: St. George Island and lower Florida panhandle.)
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Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: I would’ve never guessed you for a thin skin.
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Ben Richards
@Steeplejack: I had two trips to the beach this year. Corolla in NC and Edisto Island in SC. The beaches in Texas sort of suck (at least the ones by Houston), so we had to go back East!
@ellaesther: I am overwhelmed by and consumed with jealousy. If/when they come to my area, I am THERE. And, yes, I have wanted to be her ever since I saw Once (though I am actually more like him in the movie). Day-um. Lovely review, too. I especially like the exchange between you and your hubby.
Seriously. Top five movie for me.
VIKES–now’s the time to bring it! And, by bring it, I don’t mean Favre gunslinging an interception!
That interception was well overdue on this drive. Jeez. There’s the Brett Favre who’s going to be leading the Vikings straight out of the first round of the playoffs.
The only trip I made this year–and the first in several years–was to Rehoboth Beach, DE, for a weekend in October, and that just served to inflame my beach lust even more.
@jwb: Oh, you fair-weather fan! (I am with you, though).
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Omnes Omnibus
@jwb: I am a Packer fan. You guys can go ahead and suffer through this aspect of Favre. Plus, I don’t want him injured. I want him to retire, wait a few years and come back to GB for the retiring of number 4.
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Yutsano
The old man ain’t on tonight. Bah. I will not get Leinart poutage unless the Cards fold like an accordion in the fourth quarter. At least the Seachickens won.
I see there shall be much BJ smack talk regarding the upcoming bowl season. I am suddenly very very happy I shall have New Year’s Day off. I was gonna volunteer but now maybe I just want to sit back and watch football all day.
@asiangrrlMN: I’ve been teasing your other hubby, although the teases might turn into promises if all goes well. :)
You mean plastic trash, tar balls, dead sea birds and diesel fumes don’t appeal to you?
South Padre ain’t too bad, so long as it isn’t Spring Break. Bit of a hike from H-town, though.
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jwb
@asiangrrlMN: Oh, not fair-weather at all. All season long, I’ve been consistently in the break Favre in a million pieces while nevertheless cheering for the Vikes.
I don’t really follow the interviews and tangential hoopla. I have enough trouble just following the actual games. But I happened to hear the Favre-Collinsworth interview in the background while I was dutifully reading Balloon Juice threads. It was excessively suck-up even by the standards of the genre.
I understand that there is a pick order, but since Texas went to the NC game, it freed up the Fiesta, with the second pick, to take Iowa and pair them with Boise St., leaving Georgia Tech to face TCU in the Orange Bowl, and Florida and Cincy in the Sugar. That was the prediction all along, until someone at the BCS got the idea to put TCU-Boise in the Fiesta.
You can’t convince me there isn’t collusion involved with this matchup. TCU doesn’t even sell out their home games, so even if they manage to sell their allotment of 17500, and Boise does the same, are they going to get 40000 locals to buy tickets for this game? This is a way to prevent TCU and Boise from claiming a share of the national championship by beating a BCS power.
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debit
Every time they show that “sizzle” commercial, I think of Jerry Sizzler and his sister, Jerry Sizzler. Oh, Kids in the Hall, how I miss your comedy stylings.
And ETA the Vikes are done for tonight. I’m probably going to bed soonish. Yeah, 2nd interception. They are done.
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Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: You don’t have to be so sensitive about it.
@asiangrrlMN: I’m threatening to surf on his couch for two weeks. He’s already tickled pink, he already has plans if I manage to get on and get off the plane two days later. I actually spent a good part of last night trying to figure out how exactly I lose two days going to Australia. It makes sense but it still kinda bites.
Old man got picked again. Game is pretty much over unless the Birds completely blow it in the fourth.
@BruceFromOhio: SP is ok as long as the jellyfish (man-o-war) aren’t in season.
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Steeplejack
Yikes. Another Favre pick. This could be the dark side of his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hekyll personality coming out. And isn’t it a little early? I thought it was supposed to happen in the first round of the playoffs.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Since about 2002ish December has not been good for him.
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debit
@Steeplejack: Well, my prediction was against the Bears on Monday night, but this works as well.
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Mr. Poppinfresh
Someone please refresh my memory as to which TV journalist first used “So-and-so, + X number of drinks”, which our esteemed host uses from time to time to signify his current level of drunk bloggitude. It is vitally important to an e-mail I am writing at the moment.
Yep, I remember that guy. We’ve been seeing one version of Favre all year. I think it is time to see the other one.
Mmm hmm. There it is again. Really, we are a good 2-3 weeks past the window where this sort of thing should be happening on a regular basis. Sorry, Vikings fans. But most likely, your season is going to end like a more hopeful, yet equally gut-wrenching and brutal version of last season for Benny Favre and the Jets. Get used to these 1 TD, 3 INTs performances being the norm the next few weeks.
@asiangrrlMN: I think it’s my absolute favorite. There are a couple of others that I like nearly as much, and then I hear that one, and I’m like: Nope. This is it. This is the one. It sounds like the inside of my heart at certain times in my life. (I hate that the sound on that clip is so crap, but it was the only one I could find where you could see some of the intensity that he brings to performance [despite the fact that he couldn’t hear himself!] — the others were all crappy cell phone videos, etc).
And also! Inspired by your comment that Once is one of your top five movies, the other day, as I drove along somewhere, I came up with my own top five list — except that it was only top 4, until I got here to write about it and thought of #5. I was mocked (as I knew I would be…. I believe Corner Stone’s [hi CS!] entire response was “Mock! Mock mock mock mock!”), but my test was simple: Could I watch this movie over and over again? And for each of these, the answer was yes (in no particular order):
1) LOTR (it’s really just one very long movie!)
2) Once
3) Bend it Like Beckham
4) It’s a Wonderful Life
5) Brokeback Mountain (though this was a bit of a cheat because I realized that it’ll never stop breaking my heart, so I can’t really watch it over and over!)
Someone please refresh my memory as to which TV journalist first used “So-and-so, + X number of drinks”, which our esteemed host uses from time to time to signify his current level of drunk bloggitude. It is vitally important to an e-mail I am writing at the moment.
@Steeplejack: Actually, the defense hasn’t been playing very well and the offensive line has not been great either, so the suckage has actually been very much a team effort—though if we want to pile on Favre, I’m all for it.
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Yutsano
@Ed in NJ: I wouldn’t necessarily underestimate the Boise State fan base. They’re not as huge as the big big schools but they’re fiercely loyal and trust me ANY excuse to get out of Boise/Idaho in the winter is a godsend. Not that the alumni base is all stuck in those areas, a lot emigrate to Seattle and Portland and Salt Lake City for better job opportunities. I’d bet BSU (yeah I went there and still get a kick out of it) sells or gets really close to selling their allotment. TCU is probably ungestuppt though.
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Corner Stone
@ellaesther: I actually didn’t read your post, just saw your ending where you said, “Go ahead and mock me if you must”
And I had no choice but to mock you.
I’m a simple man Ella. A very simple man.
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jwb
@Midnight Marauder: Actually, this is pretty much the way of the Vikes, so I’m afraid we’re used to it.
It was excessively suck-up even by the standards of the genre.
When the Washington Press Corps grows a pair and stops being a bunch of sycophants and stenographers for people and institutions they report on, then maybe I’ll care about sports reporters conducting soft interviews.
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debit
Huh. Well, we’re moving the chains. I was ready to turn it off, but now maybe I’ll give it another couple of minutes.
Actually, this is pretty much the way of the Vikes, so I’m afraid we’re used to it.
True enough. I was a Vikings fan for a period of time between the Oilers leaving to become the Titans and the Texans arriving in town. During the Randall Cunningham/Daunte Culpepper/Cris Carter/Randy Moss era. I was around for that utterly demoralizing shellacking in the NFC Championship game against the Giants, 41-0 (to Kerry Collins no less!). So I know the history of things up north. That being said, again, it’s a whole new universe of hurt when you throw the Favre Factor into the mix. Let us not forget that this is the same dude who threw an interception 50 yards downfield–while looking the other way–in overtime of the NFC Championship Game against the Eagles a few years back. Favre not only knows how to crush your hopes and dreams, he knows how to do it in the most brtual, mind-bogglingly frustrating fashion possible.
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, The Spanish Prisoner, and The Daytrippers only get better with age.
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Corner Stone
@John O: I only sing in the shower/and when it ticks my son off.
Usually it goes like this, “Baby it’s cold outsiiiiidde. And I forgot the rest of this sooooonnnnggg.”
“Daddy, will you stop.”
“Si Senor”
“Daddy, will you please stop speaking Spanish?”
“Si.”
“Daddy! Please stop speaking Spanish Senyoh.”
“Si Senor.”
“Daddy!”
Used to go there every May. Quiet, warm, isolated, clean. My first time there I was shocked that there was a beach in Texas where one could be chest deep in water and actually be able to see one’s own toes. You can’t see them knee deep at Galveston, sheeesh.
One of the all-time great sports calls, btw. Cosell was a dick, but he was good at what he did, and we’d be better off with more like him these days.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I’m seriously considering skipping the cookies and sending chicken soup. In fact I might even have a fresh chicken (unless he got ate already) I could make it out of, then can it and ship it off. You seriously need to do some recovering.
Next time you see Sly Stallone, ask him how much he enjoyed that boarding school in Switzerland where he hid from the draft board during the Vietnam War.
It’s like a singularity of suck, so strong that even light cannot escape.
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ploeg
@asiangrrlMN: I can say the same about Iowa State. Granted, they beat Nebraska at Lincoln, but Nebraska sucked this year.
But yes, and it’s even someplace warm (and without blue artificial turf).
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: You are NOT allowed to repeat the bronchitis experience. I will get Sydney in on this to back me up. Well this weekend maybe. Oh and he promised pictures of the depraved debauchery he called a wedding. I’m psyched for those. The cookie materials get purchased on my next day off for sure. So if all goes well they should arrive next week.
Ok serious OMFG moment, (help any cat owners here) kittens are playing on the piano (they just discovered it, it is the step up to the bookcase on which the dry cat food feeder is located so I am assuming mum was leading them up there), anyway they are all playing up there messing with the plastic cover (to keep the dirt and sand from kittehs feets from getting into the keys) and one kitten was wrestling with a sibling and totally threw its shoulder out of its joint, it was HORRIBLE, the entire leg was pointing in the other direction, I about had a cow, the kitteh however, just sort of shook itself and leg went right back into joint. Is this normal? Or am I going to have to keep an eye on this kitteh cause his leg might go out of joint? Damn it about freaked me out.
@Yutsano: Question, isn’t that turf illegal? I mean come on, you have blue uniforms and blue turf? How the hell can the opposition see where the hell you are?
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Corner Stone
@JK: My guess is he enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than getting his ass shot off in some godfersaken paddy that no one gave a fuck about.
But that may be just me.
Sylvester Stallone is another distinguished member of the chicken hawk brigade.
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Yutsano
@Litlebritdifrnt: Main issue with the dislocation of a joint is if there is any accompanying bleeding associated with the dislocation. Check kitteh for any swelling or tenderness. If you’re really concerned about it have a vet check the poor dear out just to make sure there’s no underlying damage. But cats are really funny like that.
Oh, and thank you, Vikings for reminding me why I don’t get too excited about strong early play.
That’s it. I’m outie for the night!
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ploeg
@Josh Huaco: “Now son, we drove them back 75 yards and got a safety on them in the first half of the overtime. All you need to do is sit on the ball, hell, you can fumble it to the other team, they can’t advance it, and we win ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?”
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Yutsano
@freelancer: OMG yes it does. We actually got into trouble with the local environmentalists because too many ducks/seagulls were hurting or killing themselves on the turf. Not to mention that they come in pretty much full speed so it leaves quite a mess for the field maintenance crew. Couple that with the fact that the stadium is right next to a river and yeah it should have occured to someone that this MIGHT not be the smartest idea. But it really is hella cool to stand on.
@Litlebritdifrnt: The unis according to the NCAA must be distinctively shaded to prevent confusion. But it’s just close enough.
EDIT NOTE: I had crew typoed as screw. I almost left it in.
@Yutsano: I am sort of paranoid about the whole thing seeing as Arnamade (aka the great orange satan) broke his leg and his tail as a kitten (albeit a teenage kitten) and it cost me a boat load of money to have his leg wired to his hip and his tail amputated (for which he never forgave me until I drove to a complete strangers house to recover him after he had either been abducted or had gone “walkabout” for a year but I digress)
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Morbo
Woohoo, 10 minutes until Venture Brothers with Cthulhu! I’ve been waiting all week for this.
I feel sorry for those of you who live in parts of the country where there is no Del Taco. Y’all are deprived of the best fast-food breakfast there is, the Steak and Egg Burrito.
Agree that the dress is all that, but I’d say Michelle needs a little more time in the weight room. She should get Reggie to hook her up with Alana Beard’s personal trainer.
Damn! Another reminder of a favorite fast-food chain that I don’t have around here. Arby’s, Whataburger, Del Taco. I may have to make a pilgrimage to Taco Bell this week (one in the area but not convenient) to console myself.
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Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I will confess that when we went to the Holiday Bowl one of the places I just had to try was Del Taco. Pretty good shtuff, although getting franchises in the Northwest can be a bit tough because our minimum wage is so high here.
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Brick Oven Bill
Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic are all very important in a democracy.
The only Logical reason for the Steelers to have lost to the Raiders today was the existence of a higher power’s anger at Balloon Juice’s censorship of an honest exchange of ideas earlier in the year.
This is because the Raiders suck, and we must all answer to somebody. Be it windmills, Mohammed, or Jesus.
Last year Balloon Juice documented the Super Bowl. In contrast, the Raiders are really bad this year. The Jets beat them 38-0.
John’s Stillers lost b/c he banned BOB once. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Amen.
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Yutsano
@handy: You would think he could have just clearly stated so without degenerating into word salad. Then again it is BoB so I don’t know why I expected any different.
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scarshapedstar
do{
cout << “WHO DAT!”; // And one to grow on!
}while (Saints.win && Vikings.lose);
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MBSS
vikingz haz a sad?
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mcd410x
You just have to love The Boondocks.
In that vein … from Wikipedia …
Following the Parliamentarian victory over Charles I during the English Civil War, England’s Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647.Protests followed as pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans. The book, The Vindication of Christmas (London, 1652), argued against the Puritans, and makes note of Old English Christmas traditions, dinner, roast apples on the fire, card playing, dances with “plow-boys” and “maidservants”, and carol singing. The Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 ended the ban, but many clergymen still disapproved of Christmas celebration. In Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland also discouraged observance of Christmas. James VI commanded its celebration in 1618, however attendance at church was scant.
In Colonial America, the Puritans of New England shared radical Protestant disapproval of Christmas. Celebration was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681. The ban by the Pilgrims was revoked in 1681 by English governor Sir Edmund Andros, however it wasn’t until the mid 1800’s that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.
The 1800s? Bloody liberal N’east.
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r€nato
Go Cards! They were who we thought they were!!!
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debit
I’m so glad I went to bed at the start of the fourth quarter. After all these years, it’s easy to read the writing on the wall and know when to get out.
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r€nato
Now both ESPN and Sports Illustrated are climbing on the Cards’ bandwagon. Oh well, better late than never.
Cards back in the Super Bowl and Steelers staying home for Christmas? It could happen. Sorry, JC.
Cardinals are nearly as good any team this year, they just also have the millstone around their necks, and that is being the Cardinals, which will occasionally defy logic and lead them into senseless losses. Mainly there can be a lot of quit in the D if they get their backs broken early.
Thanks Peter for a great and informative book.
I did the 10 day cleanse and found the book to help inform me of what to expect each day during the cleanse and specific things to do during the cleanse to make it easier. I felt so good on this new cleanse that I honestly thought several times during the 10 days that “I could live this way!” I had NO brain fog and could think clearly, I was focused and had tons of energy AND lost 10 pounds and alot of inches. I will do this cleanse again come Januaury 1 to start my year off on the right foot!
Sheri
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debit
Go Vikes!!
jwb
Go Vikes! Thanks, John!
asiangrrlMN
@jwb: You rock!
Thanks, Cole!
GO VIKES!
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
I have been thinking about you since last week, when Favre had a truly awesome week in what is already an awesome season. Does the ambivalence chafe much?
Punchy
Said this in a dead thread, but it needs repeating:
Mah Hawkeyes are in the Orange Bowl!
debit
Those red uniforms are really…red.
Seriously. They look like jammies.
Eeeeee! Vikes recover! You can’t play in your jammies, kids.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Yes. Very much. I still want his bell rung.
debit, I like them. Blood won’t show.
VIKES BALL!
Omnes Omnibus
It still looks wrong to see Favre in anything but Green and Gold. Go Cards.
Zam
Praying for Favre to break his arm
Uncle Glenny
OT sort of, but since I’m only rarely around, and the topic of Palin and the rapture has come up, it sounds like she’s a different type of kook. see for instance
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/11/25/171232/34
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/11/25/153354/21
Zam
@Omnes Omnibus: I like this.
jwb
@Punchy: I saw that Iowa was going to the Orange Bowl!!!
jwb
@asiangrrlMN: Yes, every play I’m rooting for the Vikes to do well and Favre to be knocked senseless.
debit
@Zam: I tsk in your general direction.
Omnes Omnibus
I am hoping for the patented late season collapse that Favre has shown in the second half of his career. Unfortunately, it hasn’t happened yet.
asiangrrlMN
@Punchy: YAY! I like them. I gotta say, that I would not want to play in the Papajohns.com bowl. That just sounds wrong.
jwb, it is really weird to feel like this, though.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Go Colts!
Heh.
debit
God, I love Percy Harvin.
asiangrrlMN
@debit: Babies. Many of them.
jwb
@asiangrrlMN: Definitely. You wouldn’t believe the Facebook hate I get over it too.
debit
@asiangrrlMN: Yes. And I’m willing to work at it for as long as it takes.
Oh man, that was a TD. Yes! Challenge.
asiangrrlMN
@jwb: Oh, I would believe it. Passions run deep.
@debit: Yes. Even though he is young enough to be my son.
That was a touchdown!
Shiancoe! I would have his babies, too.
7-0, Vikes.
arguing, I would be fine with that.
arguingwithsignposts
evening all. I’m rooting for 200 yards and 5 touchdowns from AP.
martha
@Omnes Omnibus: It will happen.
debit
The crowd noise in this stadium is going to confuse me. Too many Minnesota snowbirds living in AZ I guess.
Damn, there are some good looking guys on our team.
asiangrrlMN
@debit: Plus, it’s a dome. I thought it was the Metrodome for the first few minutes.
JK
Cool site for football fans, chile fans, or Mark Schlereth fans
Mark Schlereth’s Stinkin Good Green Chile
http://www.stinkingood.com
Steeplejack – Kudos for last night’s post alerting folks to check out Visions of Light. In the same vein, No Subtitles Necessary: Lazlo and Vilmos is worth watching.
asiangrrlMN – Great to see you back.
burnspbesq
@Punchy:
Be careful what you wish for. Even with a month to prepare, GaTech is going to have your defense wondering WTF is going on.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
I feel the ambivalence a bit myself. They had an interview on earlier where Cris Collingsworth was commiserating with Favre about how the mean ol’ Packers wouldn’t let him go directly to the Vikes in ’08 and he had to spend a year in Jets purgatory. Completely overlooking the fact that Favre created the whole crisis himself about 10 minutes before the season started with all his retire/un-retire bullshit. What team in its right mind would be okay with not only losing your starting quarterback but also having that QB go to your main divisional rival?! Serenity now.
debit
@asiangrrlMN: Why a roof in that climate? Unless it’s for the AC in the summer, I guess.
3rd and 17. And held to 10.
BruceFromOhio
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
Nothing personal against the Colts; they field a fine team, play well, and are fun to watch.
But I am sick to Gaia-damned death of Peyton Mannings’ mug on my teevee. I can only wince when I think of his eventual retirement being the starting kickoff of his commentator career.
Go Saints!
Zam
@Steeplejack: It wasn’t just Favre and his waffling, we invested some money and time into Rodgers and kinda wanted him to start playing before we lose him.
Bucky
Go Vikings
Josh Huaco
Experiencing delicious schadenfreude at USC having to play in (shudder) the Emerald Bowl.
Corner Stone
I just bought a Nintendo Wii. Pray for me.
Dork
I hear “Farve has that gunslinger mentality” one more time, I’m going to reach into my TV and punch Collinsworth in the face.
Just what the hell is a gunslinger, anyway?
Steeplejack
@debit:
Yeah. It’s the matching pants and jerseys. Ouch. Should’ve color-coördinated with different pants.
martha
@Zam: You mean you don’t want to relive the post-Bart Starr decade? Can’t imagine why.
Corner Stone
Punter just tried to sweep him. Sweet.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Had to come back for the game.
@Steeplejack: No kidding.
@Zam: Totally agree here.
Gah! ‘Zona on the one-yard line (punt return).
Feh. 7-7.
debit
@Corner Stone: You’re gonna love it, especially if you like playing classic games.
Oh god, 1st and goal Cards. Who the hell missed their assignment on that one?
And TD.
asiangrrlMN
@Dork: Throw it wherever the hell you want and hope your guy catches it, but if he doesn’t, it’s ok because he loves the game.
Josh Huaco
They’re not red, they’re Christmas-positive.
J.W. Hamner
@Dork:
It’s what you say when you want to gloss over bad decisions and interceptions of a player you like… so I guess maybe in the Wild West there were guys who hit lots of innocent bystanders when they were robbing stagecoaches or whatever?
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
True dat.
jwb
@Josh Huaco: All they need is logo of a creche.
You Don't Say
@Punchy: I promise not to wear my Hawkeyes sweatshirt during the game. It always jinxes them.
debit
Hmmm. I hope this punt return works better for us than the last one.
jwb
Now why the heck didn’t he fair catch that?
Dork
@asiangrrlMN: I’m picturing John Madden saying that on air, while trying to quietly clean up his creamed pants and sticky hand with spare handkerchief from his pocket.
Corner Stone
@debit: I just told somebody I’m going to find a Super Mario Bro’s Classic game and they’ll never hear from me again.
Right now we’re playing the “Sports Resort” suite of games and I am bugging out.
debit
@Dork: Spew!
debit
@Corner Stone: I keep going back to Super Mario World and Earthworm Jim. Cannot catch the damn puppies!
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: Any old timers have a suggestion for the Nintendo brand classics?
I love my PS2 but I’ve been dying to get my Mario on.
jwb
Nice tackling guys!
debit
Guys, you gotta stop the guy with the ball.
Yeah, like that!
jwb
@debit: Seriously, the Vikes’ tackling tonight has been horrible.
Svensker
The Patsies got beat today by the Dolphins. No Jetties on the gridiron, but my day is a happy one. I’m hoping Bellicheck broke a tooth while he was grinding his choppers in agony.
And did ya notice all the typos so I could practice edit? Yippee!
You Don't Say
@ John Cole: Are we ever going to see pics of Lily and her weekend guest, with Tunch hissing at them in the background?
PaulW
I’m just rooting for the Bucs over here. thas all.
BTW, why the hell is there a college bowl game in Toronto?!
Corner Stone
@You Don’t Say:
You mean “Carson” hissing?
Ed in NJ
Not NFL (my Giants saved their season today, woo hoo!), but the fucking fuckers of the BCS can go fuck themselves after putting TCU and Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl.
Everyone in the country wanted to see if TCU and Boise matched up against the traditional powers, but those fuckers are so scared that they are going to blow out teams like Iowa and Georgia Tech that made the BCS by virtue of being in the two worst BCS conferences. So they protected themselves by making them play each other.
Hopefully, this increases the call for a playoff. Of course, having that dipshit Ari Fleischer as the spokesperson for the BCS makes me feel good about the prospects.
debit
@jwb: No shit.
I gotta wonder what the strategy is supposed to be. Why are they hung up on the run game when it’s just not working?
I mean, unless the strategy is to lose. In that case, carry on.
planetjanet
I have finally thawed out from the Redskins/Saints game. Although the final result was as expected, the game was anything but. It seemed like the best game I have seen them play all year. I must admit that I left in the second half of the fourth quarter as my niece was an icicle. I checked the tv just as we got to the gate to see the Saints tie it. Part of me is glad that I didn’t have to watch the overtime, adding pain to pain. They did give me a good share of things to cheer for.
Morbo
Bah, I guess it turns out that Boldin against the Vikings D is in fact better than Sims-Walker against the Texans D. I wouldn’t have guessed…
Make that double.
jwb
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
asiangrrlMN
@Dork: Ew. No, seriously. Ew.
Same can be said for the Vikings’ D. EW!
7-14.
Corner Stone
I’ll tell you why. Because the fucking McDonald’s hashbrown will blow the GD doors off every other piece of food you could order from McD’s at breakfast.
That’s why it’s separate from everything else you little punk.
ETA – Do not fucking fuck with me. The hashbrown will destroy your shit. It will burn your cities and prune your fucking hedges.
Now shut the F up and eat your damn breakfast.
Smartass little bitch.
debit
I swear, if they hand it off and for three downs and punt again, I’m turning my PS3 on and will watch the sparkles instead.
See, passing sometimes gets you a first down.
ploeg
Michaels: “I bet that Warner retires before Favre.”
You lose. Favre already retired. Twice.
asiangrrlMN
@ploeg: You win. Twice! Swear to god the Favre hagiography is harshing my game mood.
You Don't Say
Ooooh, oooh. Florida v. Cinn in Sugar Bowl!
JK
@Corner Stone:
are a weapon of mass destruction.
BruceFromOhio
@Corner Stone:
Excite Truck!
And Mario Kart. Gotta have Mario Kart.
And rechargeable batteries, several sets.
gwangung
Um, woot.
Born in Arizona, so there’s pressure from the family to root for them.
scarshapedstar
WHO DAT!
Also, GOOOOOOOOOOOO CARDINALS!
You Don't Say
Oooh, oooh, oooh. USC relegated to the lowly Emerald Bowl, versus BC.
scarshapedstar
Whatever, Tech could beat Texas.
jwb
@scarshapedstar: “Whatever, Tech could beat Texas.”
In your dreams. Texas will beat Alabama.
debit
Oh, I was excited for a second. I love the demoralizing interception.
Corner Stone
@BruceFromOhio: I bought the rechargeable battery set, and will prolly pick up another set shortly.
Thanks for the REC’s.
asiangrrlMN
@debit: Yes. Preceded by the demoralizing offsides.
@gwangung: You suck, mah brutha.
Aw, crap.
7-21
Kiril
OK, I just got home a little while ago. I don’t know what I saw today, but it was touched by His noodly appendage for sure. My Saints, bless you boys. RRRRAAAAAAAAWWWWRRRR!
valdivia
totally OT but our first lady looking smoking at the Kennedy Honors. Can I haz that dress?
BruceFromOhio
@Corner Stone:
So much for playing the Wii?
That ad made me reach for the remote.
bago
Uhm, call me old fashioned, but I’m a Mass Effect kind of fanboy.
jwb
GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Another TD for the Cards.
Midnight Marauder
The Cardinals are just bombing away on these fools right now. If the Vikings keep playing coverage like that, this thing is going to be a laugher.
Edit: Well done, NBC, with the “You Dropped A Bomb On Me” music selection going into the break. Well done indeed.
Corner Stone
Man to man w/ no one over the top? Does the Viking’s D Coord want a job in AZ?
asiangrrlMN
@valdivia: Wow. She is so hot. I wouldn’t do justice to that dress.
Pardonnez-moi.
10-21.
I missed a Vikes’ FG.
Corner Stone
@BruceFromOhio: My boy is destroying worlds on the plane sim.
Hey!~ Unlike the Obama Admin, I can multitask!~
valdivia
@asiangrrlMN:
I know, isn’t she amazing? sorry for the girly talk the rest of you but one of the nice things of Having her in the WH is that one can actually appreciate her style, she is so cool.
Corner Stone
@BruceFromOhio: We pruned the hedges…of many small villages…
“Who the hell are you?”
Steeplejack
I really don’t like Al Michaels.
I like Cris Collingsworth as a game commenter, not so much as an interviewer. (He did a suck-up one with Favre before this one.)
That is all.
Steeplejack
I really don’t like Al Michaels.
I like Cris Collingsworth as a game commenter, not so much as an interviewer. (He did a suck-up one with Favre before this one.)
That is all.
BruceFromOhio
@Midnight Marauder:
Its been a fun playlist tonight – Gabriels’ ‘Sledghehammer,’ with some Evanescence and Green Day thrown in.
Vikes better step it up or it’ll be an early night.
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: Are gringos falling from the sky?
Yes, El Guapo.
jwb
Well, that was one very unimpressive half by the Vikes.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
Who the hell is that?
/pedant
rob!
Coming from a Philly native, I say FUCK MICHAEL VICK, FUCK THE EAGLES, AND FUCK EAGLE FANS.
IN PERPETUITY.
asiangrrlMN
@valdivia: I also like the fact that with very few missteps, she has held firm to HER style, the critics be damned. No frumpy outfits for her, thank you very much. I like that a great deal.
This game, not so much.
@Steeplejack: Agreed. I dislike most announcing, though.
rob!, agreed. That is all.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Collinsworth. Excuse me all to hell. Better make sure you don’t make a typo now.
Corner Stone
Brandon Jacobs is not supposed to be that fast.
Ed in NJ
@You Don’t Say:
Yes, the SEC folks and ESPN are already preparing their “well the SEC championship was their bowl game, they had nothing to play for” excuses when Cincy hands them their asses.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Mabye I will, and maybbe I won’t.
Ben Richards
@Steeplejack: It was a whataburger.
Paul (Jvstin)
I’ve got to wonder if the clock has struck 11 on Favre and the Vikings. Just like it did with the Jets last year.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: I just enjoy being lame because I know you’re a real man and can totally take the shenanigans from pedant losers like myself.
BruceFromOhio
I wonder if axing Olbermann from the SNF halftime show was a condition of the Cox deal.
Favorite tailgating traditions: eat too much, drink too much, stagger around and curse.
Corner Stone
@Ben Richards: Mmmm…Whataburger.
Makes me a little sad I’m having sushi tonight. Well, not so much when I think about it.
Ben Richards
@Ed in NJ: Ed – I think after the locked in games are slotted, the BCS bowls choose the teams on a rotation basis. The Fiesta could have taken Boise and Iowa for example, but opted for TCU instead.
I think this will be good. Let’s say the title game is an ugly one and it is close. If TCU rolls Boise, the AP could vote them #1. I read that the Fiesta wanted their own match up of undefeateds and choose accordingly.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Oh, that was hi-lar-ious. I am laughing so hard. Not.
ellaesther
@asiangrrlMN: Entirely, totally, WAY off topic, but asiangrrl, I’ve been lurking the threads since Thursday night to tell JUST HOW AWESOME THE SWELL SEASON SHOW WAS!!
“How awesome?”, you say?
SO AWESOME THAT THE WORD “AWESOME” NOW NEEDS TO BE RETIRED!!
Oh girl (or, indeed, grrl), when next they come through anywhere near you, you must go. I came away wanting to be Margeta Irglova.
/returns to lurking, for football is entirely not her thing….
Steeplejack
@Ben Richards:
Awesome. Glad to know they’re still around. Gives me a reason to live. One of my resolutions for ’10 is to get to the beach. (Preferred location: St. George Island and lower Florida panhandle.)
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: I would’ve never guessed you for a thin skin.
Ben Richards
@Steeplejack: I had two trips to the beach this year. Corolla in NC and Edisto Island in SC. The beaches in Texas sort of suck (at least the ones by Houston), so we had to go back East!
asiangrrlMN
@ellaesther: I am overwhelmed by and consumed with jealousy. If/when they come to my area, I am THERE. And, yes, I have wanted to be her ever since I saw Once (though I am actually more like him in the movie). Day-um. Lovely review, too. I especially like the exchange between you and your hubby.
Seriously. Top five movie for me.
VIKES–now’s the time to bring it! And, by bring it, I don’t mean Favre gunslinging an interception!
Corner Stone
@Ben Richards:
They don’t “sorta” suck. They just suck.
Omnes Omnibus
I see why Wilson is a d-back. He cannot catch.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Jeez, so any response constitutes “thin skin”?
Midnight Marauder
That interception was well overdue on this drive. Jeez. There’s the Brett Favre who’s going to be leading the Vikings straight out of the first round of the playoffs.
jwb
Interception. Gah.
BruceFromOhio
Is that a touch of panic I’m seeing in Favre’s eyes?
Picked – I guess so! Sorry, asiangrrlMN!
asiangrrlMN
@ellaesther: P.S. When Your Mind’s Made Up is one of my fave songs by them.
BruceFromOhio, that was just Brett lovin’ the game and bein’ a gunslinger! AAaaaaaargh!
debit
Well, that sure was a demoralizing interception.
Omnes Omnibus
@Midnight Marauder: Yep, I remember that guy. We’ve been seeing one version of Favre all year. I think it is time to see the other one.
leinie
Fuck. This is not going well here. Favre throwing picks.
Steeplejack
@Ben Richards:
The only trip I made this year–and the first in several years–was to Rehoboth Beach, DE, for a weekend in October, and that just served to inflame my beach lust even more.
JK
@Steeplejack:
Name a sports analyst or color commentator who doesn’t conduct suck-up interviews. It’s a prerequisite for the job.
jwb
@Omnes Omnibus: How about we just injury Favre and skip this version?
asiangrrlMN
@jwb: Oh, you fair-weather fan! (I am with you, though).
Omnes Omnibus
@jwb: I am a Packer fan. You guys can go ahead and suffer through this aspect of Favre. Plus, I don’t want him injured. I want him to retire, wait a few years and come back to GB for the retiring of number 4.
Yutsano
The old man ain’t on tonight. Bah. I will not get Leinart poutage unless the Cards fold like an accordion in the fourth quarter. At least the Seachickens won.
I see there shall be much BJ smack talk regarding the upcoming bowl season. I am suddenly very very happy I shall have New Year’s Day off. I was gonna volunteer but now maybe I just want to sit back and watch football all day.
@asiangrrlMN: I’ve been teasing your other hubby, although the teases might turn into promises if all goes well. :)
BruceFromOhio
@Corner Stone:
You mean plastic trash, tar balls, dead sea birds and diesel fumes don’t appeal to you?
South Padre ain’t too bad, so long as it isn’t Spring Break. Bit of a hike from H-town, though.
jwb
@asiangrrlMN: Oh, not fair-weather at all. All season long, I’ve been consistently in the break Favre in a million pieces while nevertheless cheering for the Vikes.
John O
2 TD’s down if the Vikes are lucky.
AZ is pretty good if everyone is healthy.
Yutsano
@jwb: You keep that up she’s gonna espouse you. Well if Tunch turns her down. She’s going for a collection, it’s kinda awesome.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: What have you been teasing him about/with? In which thread, please? And, if there is hawt sex, you have to include me.
@jwb: Right there with you. I’ve gotten grief for it, too, but it’s how I feel.
Steeplejack
@JK:
Bob Costas?
I don’t really follow the interviews and tangential hoopla. I have enough trouble just following the actual games. But I happened to hear the Favre-Collinsworth interview in the background while I was dutifully reading Balloon Juice threads. It was excessively suck-up even by the standards of the genre.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yes. I’m still waiting for an answer from Cole’s soon-to-be-nameless kitteh. And, General Winfield Stuck turned me down.
Ed in NJ
@Ben Richards:
I understand that there is a pick order, but since Texas went to the NC game, it freed up the Fiesta, with the second pick, to take Iowa and pair them with Boise St., leaving Georgia Tech to face TCU in the Orange Bowl, and Florida and Cincy in the Sugar. That was the prediction all along, until someone at the BCS got the idea to put TCU-Boise in the Fiesta.
You can’t convince me there isn’t collusion involved with this matchup. TCU doesn’t even sell out their home games, so even if they manage to sell their allotment of 17500, and Boise does the same, are they going to get 40000 locals to buy tickets for this game? This is a way to prevent TCU and Boise from claiming a share of the national championship by beating a BCS power.
debit
Every time they show that “sizzle” commercial, I think of Jerry Sizzler and his sister, Jerry Sizzler. Oh, Kids in the Hall, how I miss your comedy stylings.
And ETA the Vikes are done for tonight. I’m probably going to bed soonish. Yeah, 2nd interception. They are done.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: You don’t have to be so sensitive about it.
asiangrrlMN
Well, when the bad Brett Favre comes out, he does it quickly, doesn’t he?
BruceFromOhio
That’s a wrap, fans. Cards D is just relentless.
Zam
There is the Brett Favre I know
jwb
Another interception. Yikes. I think we are witnessing the Favre end-of-season collapse.
Omnes Omnibus
@Zam: This.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I’m threatening to surf on his couch for two weeks. He’s already tickled pink, he already has plans if I manage to get on and get off the plane two days later. I actually spent a good part of last night trying to figure out how exactly I lose two days going to Australia. It makes sense but it still kinda bites.
Old man got picked again. Game is pretty much over unless the Birds completely blow it in the fourth.
ploeg
Pick two.
“I think I missed again, oh whoa-oh.”
jwb
@asiangrrlMN: And on national TV.
Corner Stone
@BruceFromOhio: SP is ok as long as the jellyfish (man-o-war) aren’t in season.
Steeplejack
Yikes. Another Favre pick. This could be the dark side of his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hekyll personality coming out. And isn’t it a little early? I thought it was supposed to happen in the first round of the playoffs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Since about 2002ish December has not been good for him.
debit
@Steeplejack: Well, my prediction was against the Bears on Monday night, but this works as well.
Mr. Poppinfresh
Someone please refresh my memory as to which TV journalist first used “So-and-so, + X number of drinks”, which our esteemed host uses from time to time to signify his current level of drunk bloggitude. It is vitally important to an e-mail I am writing at the moment.
Midnight Marauder
@Omnes Omnibus:
Mmm hmm. There it is again. Really, we are a good 2-3 weeks past the window where this sort of thing should be happening on a regular basis. Sorry, Vikings fans. But most likely, your season is going to end like a more hopeful, yet equally gut-wrenching and brutal version of last season for
BennyFavre and the Jets. Get used to these 1 TD, 3 INTs performances being the norm the next few weeks.@asiangrrlMN:
You have no idea the world of hurt you are in for.
Corner Stone
ICE CREAM SANDWHICH FOR THE WIN!
ellaesther
@asiangrrlMN: I think it’s my absolute favorite. There are a couple of others that I like nearly as much, and then I hear that one, and I’m like: Nope. This is it. This is the one. It sounds like the inside of my heart at certain times in my life. (I hate that the sound on that clip is so crap, but it was the only one I could find where you could see some of the intensity that he brings to performance [despite the fact that he couldn’t hear himself!] — the others were all crappy cell phone videos, etc).
And also! Inspired by your comment that Once is one of your top five movies, the other day, as I drove along somewhere, I came up with my own top five list — except that it was only top 4, until I got here to write about it and thought of #5. I was mocked (as I knew I would be…. I believe Corner Stone’s [hi CS!] entire response was “Mock! Mock mock mock mock!”), but my test was simple: Could I watch this movie over and over again? And for each of these, the answer was yes (in no particular order):
1) LOTR (it’s really just one very long movie!)
2) Once
3) Bend it Like Beckham
4) It’s a Wonderful Life
5) Brokeback Mountain (though this was a bit of a cheat because I realized that it’ll never stop breaking my heart, so I can’t really watch it over and over!)
/will not bother the football fans anymore!
Corner Stone
Lot of football left people. Lot of football.
Midnight Marauder
@Mr. Poppinfresh:
Dan Rather.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: So fucking cool. But, alas, no hawt sex, so I will not be there.
@jwb: Juuuust like debit predicted last week.
@Mr. Poppinfresh: Dan Rather.
jwb
@Steeplejack: Actually, the defense hasn’t been playing very well and the offensive line has not been great either, so the suckage has actually been very much a team effort—though if we want to pile on Favre, I’m all for it.
Yutsano
@Ed in NJ: I wouldn’t necessarily underestimate the Boise State fan base. They’re not as huge as the big big schools but they’re fiercely loyal and trust me ANY excuse to get out of Boise/Idaho in the winter is a godsend. Not that the alumni base is all stuck in those areas, a lot emigrate to Seattle and Portland and Salt Lake City for better job opportunities. I’d bet BSU (yeah I went there and still get a kick out of it) sells or gets really close to selling their allotment. TCU is probably ungestuppt though.
Corner Stone
@ellaesther: I actually didn’t read your post, just saw your ending where you said, “Go ahead and mock me if you must”
And I had no choice but to mock you.
I’m a simple man Ella. A very simple man.
jwb
@Midnight Marauder: Actually, this is pretty much the way of the Vikes, so I’m afraid we’re used to it.
BruceFromOhio
@Corner Stone:
Hmm. 3:13 in the 3rd, MN has to score on each possession AND hold off Cards offense. AND quit drawing so many Gaia-damned penalties.
If they can score on this possession, perhaps.
JK
@Steeplejack:
When the Washington Press Corps grows a pair and stops being a bunch of sycophants and stenographers for people and institutions they report on, then maybe I’ll care about sports reporters conducting soft interviews.
debit
Huh. Well, we’re moving the chains. I was ready to turn it off, but now maybe I’ll give it another couple of minutes.
ellaesther
@Corner Stone: In only the best possible sense, my friend.
asiangrrlMN
@Midnight Marauder: Believe me, I know. I was surprised it took this long.
@ellaesther: I loved it when he performed it in the movie. My fave is All the Way Down and then Leave.
My movies (no particular order):
1. Once
2. The Station Agent
3. Japanese Story
4. Charlotte Sometimes
5. Snow Cake
They are not the best movies ever, but the movies I would watch more than once or twice. Except, Japanese Story because it’s just heartbreaking.
Bonus two:
1. Big Eden
2. On the Edge, by the same guy who wrote/directed Once.
jwb, yup. Vikes do the late swoon all the fucking time.
John O
You “game over” people are most likely right, but I was surprised to learn I was in the company of so many fat singers.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
True dat.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Whether there may or may not be hawt sex has yet to be determined. It could get possibly interesting…
Nah just teasing. Dawg sugar is definitely more than enough for me. Infrequent, but enough.
ellaesther
@ellaesther: Holy crap! The edit function just appeared for me!!
I’m sorry, BUT THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FOOTBALL!
Steeplejack
@Mr. Poppinfresh:
I think it was Dan Rather, but I’m too lazy to Google/check right now.
Steep +4
JK
Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Midnight Marauder
@jwb:
True enough. I was a Vikings fan for a period of time between the Oilers leaving to become the Titans and the Texans arriving in town. During the Randall Cunningham/Daunte Culpepper/Cris Carter/Randy Moss era. I was around for that utterly demoralizing shellacking in the NFC Championship game against the Giants, 41-0 (to Kerry Collins no less!). So I know the history of things up north. That being said, again, it’s a whole new universe of hurt when you throw the Favre Factor into the mix. Let us not forget that this is the same dude who threw an interception 50 yards downfield–while looking the other way–in overtime of the NFC Championship Game against the Eagles a few years back. Favre not only knows how to crush your hopes and dreams, he knows how to do it in the most brtual, mind-bogglingly frustrating fashion possible.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Well, thanks for piquing my interest during an otherwise painful game.
By the way, I am losing my voice again. It’s a good thing I can still type.
JK, that was funny (the ‘over’ bit). Thanks for the chuckle.
Steeplejack
@ellaesther:
No problemo. We can skip as necessary. Or we may need the distraction as the game disintegrates in front of our very eyes.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, The Spanish Prisoner, and The Daytrippers only get better with age.
Corner Stone
@John O: I only sing in the shower/and when it ticks my son off.
Usually it goes like this, “Baby it’s cold outsiiiiidde. And I forgot the rest of this sooooonnnnggg.”
“Daddy, will you stop.”
“Si Senor”
“Daddy, will you please stop speaking Spanish?”
“Si.”
“Daddy! Please stop speaking Spanish Senyoh.”
“Si Senor.”
“Daddy!”
Steeplejack
@jwb:
Well, part of “loving the game” and “being a gunslinger” is that you get to take the blame for everything.
ellaesther
@Steeplejack: I do like to be helpful!
John O
Uh, I will concede the Vikings might have wanted to be more effective on that last series.
Still, I’ve seen bigger deals. 14:00 left in the 4th?
asiangrrlMN
@JK: The first and last look intriguing. I do not like Mamet at all, so I am not interested in the second.
Keith G
@Corner Stone: Nah, neighbor.
Malaquite Beach is a great place.
http://www.nps.gov/pais/planyourvisit/map1.htm
Used to go there every May. Quiet, warm, isolated, clean. My first time there I was shocked that there was a beach in Texas where one could be chest deep in water and actually be able to see one’s own toes. You can’t see them knee deep at Galveston, sheeesh.
John O
Vikes go 4-down, hurry-up. Brett does OK with that.
You’d take the Cards 10-1 right now, and it would be a fun bet to lose unless you’re a Cards fan.
Corner Stone
@JK: Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don’t turn it off! It wasn’t my war! You asked me, I didn’t ask you! And I did what I had to do to win!
ploeg
Well, well, Iowa State and Minnesota meet in the Insight Bowl this year.
John O
Favre knows. A patient 6 here tightens sphincters on the other team.
He needs 6 minutes if they score here…which the sack makes a little less likely.
OK, AZ wins.
Corner Stone
Down goes Frazshuh! Down goes Frazshu!!
jwb
Can’t even do proper punt coverage. That one should have been downed inside the five.
John O
@Corner Stone:
Yep.
One of the all-time great sports calls, btw. Cosell was a dick, but he was good at what he did, and we’d be better off with more like him these days.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I’m seriously considering skipping the cookies and sending chicken soup. In fact I might even have a fresh chicken (unless he got ate already) I could make it out of, then can it and ship it off. You seriously need to do some recovering.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: I had bronchitis for six months once. And, you can send both, you know!
@ploeg: WTF? U of M made a bowl this year?
JK
@Corner Stone:
Next time you see Sly Stallone, ask him how much he enjoyed that boarding school in Switzerland where he hid from the draft board during the Vietnam War.
BruceFromOhio
I believe the time has come to closely scrutinize the insides of each eyelid.
Josh Huaco
@ploeg:
It’s like a singularity of suck, so strong that even light cannot escape.
ploeg
@asiangrrlMN: I can say the same about Iowa State. Granted, they beat Nebraska at Lincoln, but Nebraska sucked this year.
But yes, and it’s even someplace warm (and without blue artificial turf).
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: You are NOT allowed to repeat the bronchitis experience. I will get Sydney in on this to back me up. Well this weekend maybe. Oh and he promised pictures of the depraved debauchery he called a wedding. I’m psyched for those. The cookie materials get purchased on my next day off for sure. So if all goes well they should arrive next week.
Yutsano
@ploeg:
My dear sir, art thou dissing the beloved Smurf Turf? I mean, does YOUR field coax ducks into dive-bombing into it?
ploeg
@Josh Huaco: The score will likely be 9-3 or 3-2, one way or the other. In other words, a good prelude for your New Year’s Eve party!
freelancer
@Yutsano:
Does that happen? I would pay to see that.
ploeg
@Yutsano: No, and you can’t project weather maps onto it either. It’s a cross I have to bear.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Coooool! On all fronts. I get bronchitis a lot. A LOT. Never lost my voice before, though. Can’t wait to see the pics…and cookies!
@ploeg: Seriously. Really. I can’t fathom it.
Oh, and, noooo! Not EJ Henderson!
Litlebritdifrnt
Ok serious OMFG moment, (help any cat owners here) kittens are playing on the piano (they just discovered it, it is the step up to the bookcase on which the dry cat food feeder is located so I am assuming mum was leading them up there), anyway they are all playing up there messing with the plastic cover (to keep the dirt and sand from kittehs feets from getting into the keys) and one kitten was wrestling with a sibling and totally threw its shoulder out of its joint, it was HORRIBLE, the entire leg was pointing in the other direction, I about had a cow, the kitteh however, just sort of shook itself and leg went right back into joint. Is this normal? Or am I going to have to keep an eye on this kitteh cause his leg might go out of joint? Damn it about freaked me out.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Yutsano: Question, isn’t that turf illegal? I mean come on, you have blue uniforms and blue turf? How the hell can the opposition see where the hell you are?
Corner Stone
@JK: My guess is he enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than getting his ass shot off in some godfersaken paddy that no one gave a fuck about.
But that may be just me.
asiangrrlMN
@Litlebritdifrnt: Crap. I have never seen that happen, but humans can do that, so I guess cats, might be able to as well. I hope kitteh is ok!
Corner Stone
Steeple?…Steeple?
Josh Huaco
@ploeg:
Heh. I was thinking 5-5 after three overtimes.
ploeg
@Josh Huaco: Probably with the safeties coming in the second overtime.
JK
@Corner Stone:
Sylvester Stallone is another distinguished member of the chicken hawk brigade.
Yutsano
@Litlebritdifrnt: Main issue with the dislocation of a joint is if there is any accompanying bleeding associated with the dislocation. Check kitteh for any swelling or tenderness. If you’re really concerned about it have a vet check the poor dear out just to make sure there’s no underlying damage. But cats are really funny like that.
asiangrrlMN
Oh, and thank you, Vikings for reminding me why I don’t get too excited about strong early play.
That’s it. I’m outie for the night!
ploeg
@Josh Huaco: “Now son, we drove them back 75 yards and got a safety on them in the first half of the overtime. All you need to do is sit on the ball, hell, you can fumble it to the other team, they can’t advance it, and we win ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?”
Yutsano
@freelancer: OMG yes it does. We actually got into trouble with the local environmentalists because too many ducks/seagulls were hurting or killing themselves on the turf. Not to mention that they come in pretty much full speed so it leaves quite a mess for the field maintenance crew. Couple that with the fact that the stadium is right next to a river and yeah it should have occured to someone that this MIGHT not be the smartest idea. But it really is hella cool to stand on.
@Litlebritdifrnt: The unis according to the NCAA must be distinctively shaded to prevent confusion. But it’s just close enough.
EDIT NOTE: I had crew typoed as screw. I almost left it in.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Yutsano: I am sort of paranoid about the whole thing seeing as Arnamade (aka the great orange satan) broke his leg and his tail as a kitten (albeit a teenage kitten) and it cost me a boat load of money to have his leg wired to his hip and his tail amputated (for which he never forgave me until I drove to a complete strangers house to recover him after he had either been abducted or had gone “walkabout” for a year but I digress)
Morbo
Woohoo, 10 minutes until Venture Brothers with Cthulhu! I’ve been waiting all week for this.
burnspbesq
@JK:
I feel sorry for those of you who live in parts of the country where there is no Del Taco. Y’all are deprived of the best fast-food breakfast there is, the Steak and Egg Burrito.
burnspbesq
@valdivia:
Agree that the dress is all that, but I’d say Michelle needs a little more time in the weight room. She should get Reggie to hook her up with Alana Beard’s personal trainer.
http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics11/400/LH/LHEGDHUYQLSPVMK.20090605151428.jpg
(Alana is the one on the right in this picture)
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
Damn! Another reminder of a favorite fast-food chain that I don’t have around here. Arby’s, Whataburger, Del Taco. I may have to make a pilgrimage to Taco Bell this week (one in the area but not convenient) to console myself.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I will confess that when we went to the Holiday Bowl one of the places I just had to try was Del Taco. Pretty good shtuff, although getting franchises in the Northwest can be a bit tough because our minimum wage is so high here.
Brick Oven Bill
Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic are all very important in a democracy.
The only Logical reason for the Steelers to have lost to the Raiders today was the existence of a higher power’s anger at Balloon Juice’s censorship of an honest exchange of ideas earlier in the year.
This is because the Raiders suck, and we must all answer to somebody. Be it windmills, Mohammed, or Jesus.
Last year Balloon Juice documented the Super Bowl. In contrast, the Raiders are really bad this year. The Jets beat them 38-0.
The Jets.
Yutsano
@Brick Oven Bill: ¿que?
Ryan Cunningham
Next week, Vikings vs. Bengals. It’s going to be AWESOME!
Yutsano
@Ryan Cunningham: Brett Favre vs. Carson Palmer, should be quite entertaining.
Fern
@Corner Stone:
I was afraid of that.
Ranger 3
Just got back from Ft. Bliss. According to Army doctors, or rather, the doctors contracted out by the Army… I am neither crazy nor diseased.
So I’m sorry I’m a bit late. But better late than never, so for the Steelers fans out there…
O-VER-RAT-ED! (clap — clap — clapclapclap)
O-VER-RAT-ED! (clap — clap — clapclapclap)
O-VER-RAT-ED! (clap — clap — clapclapclap)
HAHA losers!
Steelers suck balls.
Commitment to Excellence, bitches!
handy
@Yutsano:
John’s Stillers lost b/c he banned BOB once. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Amen.
Yutsano
@handy: You would think he could have just clearly stated so without degenerating into word salad. Then again it is BoB so I don’t know why I expected any different.
scarshapedstar
do{
cout << “WHO DAT!”; // And one to grow on!
}while (Saints.win && Vikings.lose);
MBSS
vikingz haz a sad?
mcd410x
You just have to love The Boondocks.
In that vein … from Wikipedia …
The 1800s? Bloody liberal N’east.
r€nato
Go Cards! They were who we thought they were!!!
debit
I’m so glad I went to bed at the start of the fourth quarter. After all these years, it’s easy to read the writing on the wall and know when to get out.
r€nato
Now both ESPN and Sports Illustrated are climbing on the Cards’ bandwagon. Oh well, better late than never.
Cards back in the Super Bowl and Steelers staying home for Christmas? It could happen. Sorry, JC.
r€nato
HEY edit works in Firefox!
edited!
woody
Is it redundant to say “SAINTS! 12-0!
Toute la manière, au Super Bowl!
Derek
Cardinals are nearly as good any team this year, they just also have the millstone around their necks, and that is being the Cardinals, which will occasionally defy logic and lead them into senseless losses. Mainly there can be a lot of quit in the D if they get their backs broken early.
James yi jyi
Thanks Peter for a great and informative book.
I did the 10 day cleanse and found the book to help inform me of what to expect each day during the cleanse and specific things to do during the cleanse to make it easier. I felt so good on this new cleanse that I honestly thought several times during the 10 days that “I could live this way!” I had NO brain fog and could think clearly, I was focused and had tons of energy AND lost 10 pounds and alot of inches. I will do this cleanse again come Januaury 1 to start my year off on the right foot!
Sheri