The Swamp

DaveInSeattle

That held ball call was particularly atrocious. It should have been a reach in or a no-call.

DaveInSeattle

Doing the color commentary on the overseas TV coverage of the Final Four? DICK FUCKING VITALE! Gah....this is beyond awful.

DaveInSeattle

"I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy...

or "Stigmata" by Ministry

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There was nothing quite so delightful as an Ebert review of a really bad movie. I think he got a perverse kick out of dreaming up new ways to say "this movie sucks". For example, from his review of the movie "North": "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this mo...

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There's a big comedy festival going on this week here in town. Lots of performers. I got taken last weekend to see an Aussie guy by some mates. It was ok...not sidesplitting funny, but decent. I think I missed about 1/4 of the jokes, due to them being rather Aussie-centric. Last night I went to a &q...

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I just watched the first half of "Survive and Advance" with my kids. Man, it's great. I had forgotten just how many games that team fell behind and won in the final seconds. It's staggering. And the characters - Valvano especially - are so compelling that it makes for great storytelling. ...

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There must be a few other GoT watchers out there. What was the reaction to the first episode last night? Mine: 1-The scene with Tyrion and Tywan was brutal. 2-Joffrey is still the sniveling simp. Lady Margery is the "Princess Diana" type. 3-I would watch a spin-off starring the Pirate dude...

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Hamm was on the "You Made It Weird" podcast last week. Every time I hear him interviewed I think "What a normal guy".

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Got home, googled it. Looked, covered my eyes. It's like his calf had a joint and could bend. WTF? I saw a .gif that was just the reaction of the Louisville bench (with Ware cropped out), and even that was too much for me. I can't believe those players were able to regroup and play like that for th...

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howard wrote:Don't look at that replay, fellas. Clean breaks; looks much worse than it is. He'll be ok.

According to reporters there (posting on twitter), guys on the Louisville bench vomited at the sight of the injury.

DaveInSeattle

For the love of god, please NEVER show that replay again.

DaveInSeattle

Is it just me.....or does anyone else thing that UCLA could have done better? I mean....I think that Alford is a decent enough coach, but was anyone else thinking "wow....we really need to hire Alford away from UNM"? And yeah, it totally sucks that he does this a week after signing a big e...

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howard wrote:Hail, Hail!
They ain't dead yet

Kansas 74 Michigan 69, KU ball, 1:12 in regulation remaining.

Ain't over yet! Burke with the three to tie it with 4 seconds left.

DaveInSeattle

I like the oval better...

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Rex wrote:This tournament just refuses to have close games.

....that don't have Ohio State involved in them.

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Johnson got it in the Johnson!

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Nope. Never really had the opportunity. I would've been interested in going just for the experience, but not for the music. I'm the opposite....I went to a lot of Dead shows, and liked the music (except for Space, and the dirge songs like "Black Peter" and "Stella Bllue"), but I...

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I've liked these guys for quite a while. I've been listening to a lot of them along with Of Monsters and Men and Imagine Dragons. It is nice to hear some good solid rock music coming back into the mainstream. Doesn't surprise me that The Lumineers put on a great live show either. I've gotten that v...

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Just home from seeing the Lumineers. A great show. I was impressed. In addition to their own stuff, they did a couple of great covers....Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and Talking Heads "This must be the place". At one point the whole band made their way into the center of...

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rass wrote:So, Doug Gottlieb, huh?

Keeping it real....representing for the oppressed white male!

DaveInSeattle

well...that sucked...

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Wow...IU looks awful....like they had no idea Syracuse was going to play zone...

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I should have probably ranted about this here instead of boring people with it on Facebook, but the venue hosting Depeche Mode in Las Vegas for their fall tour wants $160 for the cheapest seats. Cheapest seats in San Diego and LA (granted for larger venues) are $40 and $50 respectively. Gotta be fu...

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Kinda funny that Dave just dropped Tom Morello in there at the end of the list like he's some regular session guitarist. Is he touring with Bruce or is that just a few shows? I would guess his alpha dog guitar style would kinda clash with that huge band, but maybe not. Did Bruce cover Killing in th...

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Scottie wrote:Gak. I always thought Buzz was a bit of horse's ass.

If you'd ever had the misfortune of reading one of his Twitter tirades, you'd change that judgement and remove the "Bit of" qualifier.

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I know we had a Concerts thread back at the old old place...so I'll start a new one... Been seeing lots of shows here in the last month or so. Seems like all the touring acts come to Australia in Feb/March/April. So far I've seen: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: Funny to see these guys after they've made...

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There's a special level of lunacy in the Minnesota AD department. Remember they fired Glen Mason after going to bowl games for like 7 or 8 straight years. How'd that work out for them? One of the sports radio guys in Seattle used to say "Don't get tired of winning". Exactly what are the e...

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Keg wrote:His wardrobe is disgusting...

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The second picture in that gallery falls into the "Things you can't unsee" category...

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At what point does Mark Few say "fuck this" and take millions to go coach in a power conference? They won't be offering millions if he waits too long. I think if he was going to leave, he would have done it a long time ago. Have we considered that maybe, just maybe, Mark Few really isn't ...

DaveInSeattle

I bought a 40" inch Teac when I got here to Australia...1080p 120Hz....with a built in blu-ray player, and I like it. Great picture, lots of inputs (3 HDMI inputs). Works great.

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Yep... Bestselling Nigerian novelist, essayist, poet and professor Chinua Achebe is dead. Achebe died on Thursday at a hospital in Boston following a prolonged illness. He was 82. Achebe’s 1958 debut novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ told the story of British colonialism from an African perspective and wen...

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Caught a few minutes of that '81 final (Indiana with Isiah Thomas beating North Carolina with James Worthy and Sam Perkins) on ESPN Classic a few days ago. Great stuff. That game was played the same day that Reagan was shot. They postponed the Oscars, also scheduled for that night, but played the g...

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Ah, that's it. Thanks Slolz. Lehigh knocking off Duke remains my favorite of the long-range upsets but the one I remember seeing, because the entire game was televised, first game of the day maybe, was Richmond knocking off Syracuse 20-some-odd years ago. Don't remember Cleveland State(14) beating ...

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I just finished this: http://cache0.bdcdn.net/assets/images/book/medium/9780/6796/9780679644880.jpg written by the guy who has the BaoHaus resturant in New York. The book got great writeups, but it pissed me off. The guy spents 75% of the book talking about how hard his life was growing up as the ki...

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Smash....smash....SMASH!

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rass wrote:That was great.

Assuming you mean that dunk in the FGCU/Georgetown game, that was sick. I thought for sure the lob was too high, and it was going to go off his finger tips.

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Georgetown is in DEEEEEP trouble...

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In the words of Krusty the Klown, "If this is anyone but Steve Allen, you're stealing my bit!

Grantland did a "Made Me Giggle" style breakdown of this picture of the Harvard band.

DaveInSeattle

I'm doing the bike commute here in Melbourne, and have been putting serious km's on my bike, about 200 a week or so. I have a Ridley (aluminum frame, with a carbon fork and carbon rear triangle) and Campy Centaur drive train and Campy Daytona brakes. I love it...stiff frame, and nice and responsive....

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admin wrote:
AussieDave wrote:How do we set up an avatar? I couldn't find it in the UCP...
User Control Panel > Profile > Edit Avatar.

That ought to get you there, mate.

Thanks...found it...

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