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Re: Hodor
He ran the table!
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:16 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: If you could do college all over, what would you study?
- Replies: 89
- Views: 4426
Re: If you could do college all over, what would you study?
I don't know if I could have done the pharmacy thing...I worked at a drug store my senior year of high school, and it always seemed to me like the pharmacists mostly counted pills and typed up labels for pill bottles. I always joke when I go to my kid's orthodontic appointments that I wish I had stu...
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:01 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2013 Final Four
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3053
Re: 2013 Final Four
Dick Vitale was back for the Final. Despite that, it was a fun game to watch. Both Siva and Burke are fun guys to watch.
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:28 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Game of Thrones....
- Replies: 981
- Views: 45791
Re: Game of Thrones....
Perfect....More characters! I need a scorecard to remind me who all these guys with beards are.
Re: Mad Men
WTF Betty? (and Ginsberg's 'stache is awesome.) Stan's beard is better. That's some Grizzly Adams stuff working there.... And Betty is all kinds of twisted. That stuff about holding that girl's arms down while Henry rapes her? Who the fuck thinks like that? And were we supposed to know who the Viol...
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2013 Final Four
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3053
Re: 2013 Final Four
At least they only let Vitale only do the first game. Jay Bilas on the second.
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2013 Final Four
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3053
Re: 2013 Final Four
That held ball call was particularly atrocious. It should have been a reach in or a no-call.
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2013 Final Four
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3053
Re: 2013 Final Four
Doing the color commentary on the overseas TV coverage of the Final Four? DICK FUCKING VITALE! Gah....this is beyond awful.
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:35 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: What's your intro song?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3380
Re: What's your intro song?
"I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy...
or "Stigmata" by Ministry
or "Stigmata" by Ministry
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:04 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Roger Ebert
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1546
Re: Roger Ebert
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...
- Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:09 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Comedy...stand-up and otherwise...
- Replies: 1309
- Views: 196269
Comedy...stand-up and otherwise...
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...
Re: 30 For 30
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. ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Game of Thrones....
- Replies: 981
- Views: 45791
Game of Thrones....
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...
Re: Mad Men
Hamm was on the "You Made It Weird" podcast last week. Every time I hear him interviewed I think "What a normal guy".
- Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
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...
- Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
According to reporters there (posting on twitter), guys on the Louisville bench vomited at the sight of the injury.howard wrote:Don't look at that replay, fellas. Clean breaks; looks much worse than it is. He'll be ok.
- Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
For the love of god, please NEVER show that replay again.
- Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Ben Howland (era at Westwood)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2885
Re: Ben Howland (era at Westwood)
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: Sweet 16
Ain't over yet! Burke with the three to tie it with 4 seconds left.howard wrote:Hail, Hail!
They ain't dead yet
Kansas 74 Michigan 69, KU ball, 1:12 in regulation remaining.
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampsource > crowdsource
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2021
Re: Swampsource > crowdsource
I like the oval better...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:02 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
....that don't have Ohio State involved in them.Rex wrote:This tournament just refuses to have close games.
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
Johnson got it in the Johnson!
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2122
- Views: 183440
Re: The Live Music thread...
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2122
- Views: 183440
Re: The Live Music thread...
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:30 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2122
- Views: 183440
Re: The Live Music thread...
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...
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:23 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
Keeping it real....representing for the oppressed white male!rass wrote:So, Doug Gottlieb, huh?
- Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
well...that sucked...
- Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:37 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
- Replies: 104
- Views: 5665
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Sweet 16
Wow...IU looks awful....like they had no idea Syracuse was going to play zone...
- Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2122
- Views: 183440
Re: The Live Music thread...
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...
- Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:10 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2122
- Views: 183440
Re: The Live Music thread...
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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:41 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Buzz Bissinger: What the hell?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2197
Re: Buzz Bissinger: What the hell?
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.Scottie wrote:Gak. I always thought Buzz was a bit of horse's ass.
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:39 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Live Music thread...
- Replies: 2122
- Views: 183440
The Live Music thread...
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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:32 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Tubby era in Gopherland
- Replies: 11
- Views: 831
Re: Tubby era in Gopherland
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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:29 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Buzz Bissinger: What the hell?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2197
Re: Buzz Bissinger: What the hell?
The second picture in that gallery falls into the "Things you can't unsee" category...Keg wrote:His wardrobe is disgusting...
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- Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:49 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Play-In games and Round of 64
- Replies: 278
- Views: 16573
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Play-In games and Round of 64
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 ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Old is New Again HDTV Buying Thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 7766
Re: Old is New Again HDTV Buying Thread
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.
- Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:24 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Chinua Achebe
- Replies: 0
- Views: 723
Chinua Achebe
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...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Play-In games and Round of 64
- Replies: 278
- Views: 16573
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Play-In games and Round of 64
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...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:53 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NCAA Tournament thread - Play-In games and Round of 64
- Replies: 278
- Views: 16573
Re: NCAA Tournament thread - Play-In games and Round of 64
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 ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Spring Thaw Reading Thread
- Replies: 228
- Views: 15919
Re: Spring Thaw Reading Thread
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...