Edwin MacPhisto

Ghostface Killah - Ironman The Velvet Underground - Loaded Double-shot of excellence.

If it's an actual problem that you really truly care about and think merits consideration, just PM the mods and let them do their thing. Otherwise you shouldn't complain so actively about how much it bothers you or even bother responding - you'll just be giving the jump-down-throat crowd more ammunition every day. It's the kid getting picked on at lunch and people keeping it up because he yells and throws his juice box. Sip that juice box gently and the world shall open up before you. Yep.

I don't think affirmative action is the best policy either - essentially all it does in its current form is help out a limited number of minority individuals on the way to becoming professionals while still leaving behind a vast majority of the "groups" it aims to help. We'd be better off with expanded government subsidies and benefits for teachers willing to work in disadvantaged minority-heavy districts, in order to bring people up at an earlier level - Teach for America does this and deserves to be ten times as large as it currently is. The problem I have is with your line of thought: it overexaggerates the "I'd better hire an unqualified black man!" problem to the point of farce. Quotas in the workplace are so minimal at this point that you would be much better pointing your ire towards the growing trend of outsourcing jobs to India, which costs whites AND blacks living in America thousands more jobs than any Affirmative Action program. Tangential thought: what the hell is the problem with a blacks-only scholarship or a Puerto Ricans-only scholarship? They're usually funded by individuals or private organizations who have every right to designate who they'd like to be the recipient of their donations. I barely even consider that affirmative action. I'm a middle-class white guy and there were still dozens of Italian ancestry and Scottish ancestry scholarships available to me, many on the local level.

Hush ya mouth, fool. The first week, at least, was awesome - c'mon, Edwin coming out of nowhere to falcon arrow Fallout off the top and give Jayson the win via scoop slam? You loved it, and if you didn't, I'll pee in your nose. I even cost Raynor a first blood match and cut some smarmy-ass promos. So, uh, I will always maintain that the heel turn was pretty good for about 8 or 9 days. After that point it became pretty clear that I was just eager to get to the WF after everybody good but me had been drafted out of the ML. I was also always a fan of Thugg killing the shit out of Chris Storm over and over again. I maintain that he eventually just ended up in a coma due to persistent bludgeoning, and that's why he sorta mysteriously disappeared. Poor guy probably had 150 or so of his bones broken by the end of his run...

And that means you're cool? Well, at least he was thorough.

Well, you did win the tag titles. Regrettably. ::shakes head::

I don't think you'll find too many people interested in offering their takes on Mrs. Dalloway, but some popular books get a 10-post thread or so. I'm on a Hemingway kick lately, but again, I doubt anyone's particularly interested in hearing about it.

You asshole, you made me spit pink lemonade ALL OVER MY DESK. I remember the eXodus storyline. I had a match against X and his first horseman ("Reason," aka Harbinger, the, uh, big guy who...hit things). I also punched Reason in the nuts at least 3 times in that match, which was sweet. I was actually going to be a part of the storyline, if it got that far. I'll be damned if I can remember what it was - X was going have a bunch of horseman, Reason and Apostle being the only two I think he ever got. Then there were going to be four *other* guys...X's designated Apocalypse, or something, that he would designate as having...somethingorother. It's a big blur. However, it did feature X's metal mask, which led to a good two months of CLANG! spots. It also led to the whipback kick, which I promptly stole.

I like the Kanye parts of "Slow Jamz" a lot more than the Twista parts. Twista reminds me of a loveable, fast-talking marshmallow, however, so I like him too. Jamie Foxx on the hook is still really weird to me, but mostly because he looks like he's trying very hard to take a shit in the video. All this adds up to one great song.

I've never seen Besus post in the non-wrestling folders before this. He should do it more often.

But he wasn't reeeeally killed. It was all a ruse, with the help of his old friend...the Exploding Chicken. Who, oddly enough, was neither exploding nor a chicken. I'm just glad I never decided to go through with my "Edwin wanders into the desert, gets terrifically stoned, and comes back riding a donkey and wearing a Zorro mask" idea.

I saw Sparta open for Weezer. They were all right, and that's about it. Felt kinda hopelessly dull. It didn't really help that the crowd wasn't exactly skewed their way, but they were pretty unimpressive any way you look at it.

Run for cover, motherfuckers. That rap on "Secret" butters my muffin every time.

My Valentine's day was awesome. A night of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em and Sam Adams, and I'm $20 richer and full of delicious grains. Remember, kids. When you're feeling lonely, gambling is the answer.

You, my friend, have never seen AWK live. Whatever you think of his music (which rules, duh), the man puts on the ultimate show. $30 is a bit steep though - I've seen him in a club for $10, and I think that environment lends itself to the experience a bit better. Reliant K, however, is mortally bad. I saw them open for Billy Idol, which was...really weird. The twelve-year old girls were there for them, the 40-year old men for Billy. I think a lot of 40-year old men went home with love on their minds that night.

The only group on there really worth anything is AWK. I am somewhat unimpressed, but then again, I'm not into the supercool fiddle-stylings of Yellowcard.

I bet they're happy to hear that.

I vote for Cosby. I'll leave it to someone else to drag up the picture.

Joss posted at the Bronze Beta. I copied the text from here since it hasn't made it into the VIP archives yet.

The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York are the best. Yeah, They Live and The Thing are probably my two favorites of his. Halloween, of course, has its charms as well. I'd put them a good step above the other two.

Oh, it's very impressive, and I of course signed it too. It's just that the WB knows full well that 2 million people watch Angel every week - the ratings tell them that. Apparently it's not enough. If this were to keep up at a pace of 12,000 signatures a day for a month, then yeah, maybe they'd realize how committed the fan following is. But you have to think it's going to drop off. Additionally, it's so easy to set up a petition on the internet, and it takes very little effort to sign your name to one - you can do it in less than a minute. This is why the Roswell campaign worked: when thousands of bottles of tobasco sauce showed up at the studio doorstep, execs realized that people had to leave their house, buy a unique item, package it, and pay money to ship it, all for the sake of a mere TV show. It's a much more visceral committment to a show's well-being than typing your name from your bedroom and clicking "Sign." I expect some kind of idea to come out of the Angel internet community in a few days - I've already heard bottles of hair gel bandied about, with notes akin to "We'll help you defray the costs of producing Angel and keeping David's hair standing."

You get a cookie.

A conventional petition like this won't do anything - people who are really interested in saving the show should think about some sort of in-your-face petition that can't be ignored, like when fans of Roswell sent in those thousands of bottles of tobasco sauce to protest its cancellation. The tobasco actually had something to do with the show, though. Angel...uh...coffee mugs loaded up with warm blood, I guess.

It's a great movie. One of Carpenter's best - for cheap cheese, I like it better than his Kurt Russell movies. The first time I saw the fight scene, I couldn't stop laughing for its entirety. It's perfect.

I think this just means she looks like a dead Audrey Hepburn. Admittedly, I would still hit it.