Edwin MacPhisto

Sure, why not? They haven't played yet this season and it's the last football any of us will see for 8 months. It would take an awful situation to skip that. I'd be more likely to skip the game on account of Fox broadcasting it than any teams involved. The bigger the game, the worse Joe Buck is.

Belichick and Manning. Sweatshirt's the better tactical coach. I'm not sure how much of the Colts fantastic retention from the draft can be attributed to Dungy or to ownership. Manning and Brady are 1a and 1b and the distinction's almost irrelevant. Question: What's the most consistently entertaining and worthy-of-its-hype recurring sporting event?

Not for us. Alas.

Attention span and style of the game. It goes beyond low scoring; every accepted pro game outside basketball can be low scoring, but soccer's 45 minute unbroken halves make a 1-0 or 2-1 game seem infinite. Too many patches of build-up without release; in football, a non-scoring drive at least ends with the finality of a punt or a turnover or a big sack on third down. The best athletes in the country are also heading where the money is--no one who's enough of an athlete to perhaps excel in several sports is going to choose soccer, or at least not soccer in a U.S. league. Question #4: What active, regular player has the worst contract out of the Big 3 + hockey? I don't mean a Darius Miles who never plays kind of guy, but a person who plays regularly for his team, gets his name called by the announcers, and is still insanely overpaid by any reasonable criteria.

I was incredibly impressed with what the Giants did in terms of pass rush in the second half. Either they made some fantastic adjustments, or they were coming with that much power and precision the whole time and the wear only showed on Dallas' big boys come the third quarter. I don't think Strahan or Umeniyora got a sack, but they were all over Romo 2 out of 3 plays. Justin Tuck had a really good game too. The change between 1st half Romo and 2nd half Romo--throwing off his back foot, bombing floppy passes, panicky intentional grounding--was one of the most noticeable in-game alterations I've seen all year. Judging by how the Packers offensive line played Saturday--I don't think Kerney's neon green gloves touched Favre once--the NFC championship should be a nice collision of strength vs. strength on the lines. I'm actually eager for this one.

Depends on your need. There really aren't too many teams near the top of the draft who desperately need an RB, but McFadden's such an insane talent that somebody's going to just do the "best player available" thing and take him before too long. Teams may be thinking about how holy-shit-well Adrian Peterson lived up to his college rep, and that potential in McFadden will be hard to overlook.

I had the connection interrupted thing happen in fits and starts, but for the most part it's been pretty solid this week. I guess that's what they traded for actually maintaining people's data properly.

I'm more of a frittata guy. But, that's basically just the cast-iron Italian version of a quiche, so your point holds.

He's good, though 2007 was his first season of substantial work. He didn't reach 100 touches his two previous years. I think he'll work out, though. Good running back name, too. Should be seasoned and prominent running backs deep into the 2nd and 3rd rounds this year.

Apparently the XBL servers responsible for Call of Duty are overloaded, and people are getting their ranks reset to data from as far back as a week and a half ago. This wouldn't matter in most games, except for the fact that you only get certain guns, attachments, and abilities for customizing the game as you go on. I think my roommate and I are close to done with the game if they can't restore ours, because I really don't want to go through another 500 kills just so I can use scopes on the 3 guns I like.

And that's why you tackle instead of hit. Awesome tightrope walk by Gonzalez.

Big bail out for the Colts there after a great INT return by Cromartie. Right on cue, too, as he was getting all the praise in the world just before that.

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Something you have to experience to understand, I suppose. I can't imagine anything killing a mood faster than, "Oh, this penis in your mouth is really nice, but I'm going to go the bathroom. See you in 3." It's like cheating. The erection you get when you return to your wang-mouthifying mistress isn't even the same erection you had when you left. It's like you were wearing a blue striped sweater, but now you're wearing something green and cable-knit.

I'm confused about the leaving to take a piss in the middle of oral sex part.

Man, if he listens to the Wu-Tang Clan, you might have to join his campaign! This isn't so much a "Hey, Barack Obama likes this 'urban' thing that I, an upper middle-class white college student, also like! Awesome" thing so much as a "Hey, Barack Obama likes this really smart TV show about the myraids way [sic] America has failed its underclass. That's pretty sweet" thing. What I was getting is that I don't care about any candidate's entertainment preferences at all. Lots of idiots love The Wire too. Check out our TV folder for evidence. If his favorite show was The Office, I wouldn't say that he cares about the increasing plight of the middle class professional. You're assigning too much to an offhand remark. I'm sorry. This folder brings out the worst in me. Yeah, I think you're assigning way too much to Byron's offhand remark, too. I'm going to vote for whatever Democrat gets the nomination, I think. I'm fine with the three real contenders at this point.

15. Roommate undertakes a massive project to construct a cheesy canvas screen for an HD movie projector, along with a sizable wooden shelving unit to hold the projector. Although this setup is designed for his bedroom, he spends consecutive weekends using bandsaws, drills, and hammers to construct it in the living room. When, on the first Sunday morning of this project, you emerge from your room at 9 am wondering what's going on, he asks "Oh, sorry. Is this bothering you?" You respond, "actually, yeah," kind of look at each other for a while, and then he sheepishly resumes sawing. 16. Roommate and roommate's chubby girlfriend undertake a sushi-making project, and decide to leave a bottle of rice wine vinegar lying sideways on top of some cans and boxes in the pantry. You discover this when, at 1 in the morning, you open the pantry to get some tea and sugar, and the bottle of vinegar immediately rolls out (as round things are known to do) and breaks on the tile floor, sending shards of glass into your hand and foot. You spend the next 20 minutes mopping up vinegar, glass, and small rivulets of blood. The next night, roommate and chubbette come home from her place to make sushi. When they can't find the vinegar, you tell them what happened and show them your bandaged hand. An awkward silence of about 15 seconds commences. They buy a new bottle, store it the same way, and you catch it this time, a few days later. You then throw the bottle of vinegar off your balcony.

Czechmate.

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My charge for the bowl season died along with my team on New Year's day. This is the first time in the past 7 years I haven't watched any of the BCS games. I'll probably watch tonight, but I'm kind of checked out on it too. I agree that none of the big BCS matchups felt particularly interesting, as selection fuck-ups (Kansas over Missouri?) and some obvious mismatches (USC/Illinois, Georgia/Hawaii) made them more like third-week-of-September games than postseason epics. It definitely will feel weird watching an LSU game without Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson. They must have done about half a dozen of them this season.

My roommate looked so broken and beaten yesterday as he tried to get a game of Call of Duty going for about an hour. Poor fella. I'm just glad I have Mass Effect to weather this dark period.

You should go see it. I actually think you'll find it refreshingly not-that. It's really good. The idea that there are right-wing people who would bother to write for an indie rock rag boggles my mind.

Cast-iron skillet. You can get a decent one for $15. Heat to 500 and that thing will rock a steak like a motherfucker.

For starters, Obama probably won't fill his administration with vindictive hacks like Dick Cheney and Richard Perle or do dumb, divisive shit like invade Iraq or authorize torture/illegal wiretapping. But it's the same old shit that everyone says. Why do people buy it time after time? Well, George Bush has done a pretty good job of making it easier to buy. Really, he's fucked up so many things that I--and many others--will absolutely swallow anything the opposition party wants to pour for me. It works out nicely here since the opposition happens to like most of the same things I do, but "unity!" works really well these dayys since most recent history has been of the "one-sided mania and national embarrassment!" variety.

I'd never use a Foreman grill to cook a steak. Too little precision. For something like a chicken breast, where you're more going for "it's done!" than a certain temperature, it works pretty well. Foremans also do a lot better with dry seasonings than wet ones or marinades; on lazy winter nights, a chicken breast covered in jerk seasoning makes a good-ass meal.