Edwin MacPhisto

Weezer wins because you can't pump your fist to "Brick" when drunk. Pussy-ass Ben Folds.

I just find Ben Folds way too precious and/or musically uninteresting. Most of my exposure consists of hearing his music in the background at friends' houses or in friends' cars, but it's never grabbed me. I'm not sure I've had enough exposure to click on Inc's self-important point, but I definitely got the feeling that he thinks he's a lot funnier than he actually is.

Horn Rimmed Glasses. I think it got its start over on the Television Without Pity boards, though I could be wrong.

Everything that ever happens when they go to a presidential bunker--be it this season or other seasons--looks so cheap. What a shitty set. I too will be pissed if Assad is gone, even if he's been written pretty dully since his return. I'm not sure this season is at any point going to live up to the potential of that first 4-hour chunk.

I'm not sure why you can't take Virginia and Virginia Tech seriously. I agreed it was presumptuous to label them as big-time players when both were sitting at 6-2 and a few weeks ago, but they've both held up very well throughout ACC play. Each team has crappy losses, but the vast majority of them are in the past (UVA's Puerto Rico disaster at Christmas, VT's questionable early-season out-of-conference drops). The only bad losses either team has recently are UVA losing at Miami and VT losing to NC State at home. Both teams have improved tremendously as the season has progressed, and both of them have shown the ability to win on the road and in streaks, which is exactly what you need to progress through the post-season. If we're going by your standard of players and squads improving throughout the year, then both these teams fit that profile very well. I'm not saying either are darkhorse title contenders, but I wouldn't be surprised to see one or both team ride their excellent guards to the Sweet 16. I'm looking forward to the MVC tourney so I can actually see Southern Illinois play. I've missed most of my chances this year to see both them and Butler, who seem to be the big mid-major hustlers this season.

This was the episode that took this show from being really good to being one of the best things on TV. One of the best hours of TV I can remember.

Jack looks like a mechanic trying to get a car loan to help support his family. I just wanna see my kid!

No, that's embarrassing. There's no way to justify rushing the court when you're 22-7 and the guys you beat are 24-5. Not as retarded as Ohio State fans rushing the court, but still pretty dumb.

I'm glad we swept Maryland before they got on this run. Looks very good on the resume. I don't want any part of them in the ACC tourney now that Strawberry has finally started to play up to his potential. At Duke is still going to be a chore, but I was impressed by the win today.

Nirvana's a lot better than all those other bands, though. So we would have just gotten the same shitty derivatives without the great original.

Florida loses another, this time to a not-so-great LSU team. Ohio State can start to challenge for a 1 if they beat Wisconsin tonight. Georgetown is wreaking utter havoc at this point and are definitely the class of the Big East. They'll end up a strong 2 at this rate. In the ACC: poor, poor Clemson. They're hopeless now, but BC really needed that one too. Georgia Tech let one they really should have had slip away in crunch time, much to my delight. Also: 10-4 Virginia Tech at 10-4 Virginia this Thursday. I'm psyched for vengeance.

Maryland a 4 is definitely what I disagree with the most. I expect Maryland, UVA, VT, and BC to populate the 6-8 range (and deserve to be around there, too) when all is said done. If one of them gets hot and wins out the rest of the year, then makes some noise in the ACC tourney, then you can talk 3 or 4. Right now all are a bit too inconsistent, though Maryland certainly has a nice run going. I think they drop to UNC and Duke and finish 8-8, though.

I saw a ton of people with the ash yesterday. Goofy little ritual. I thought it was cool when I was 8, but I was 8.

No, I totally agree with you. I like the character interaction too, but none of the terribly-executed love triangle stuff. Fucking around in hatches and exploring the island, trying to figure out what's going on there--that's really the only time there's been any sort of inquisitive spirit among any of the characters on this show.

The Ethan thing was mind-bogglingly dumb. You send your surgeon to go infiltrate--and then kill--the new guys? You send probably the most essential member of your community? The Others aren't just boring--they're also retarded. And they shake bunnies. And wait, you had a surgeon in the first place? WTF is "the day after I found I had a tumor, a surgeon fell out of the sky" about, then? I guess Ethan wasn't a good enough surgeon. He didn't have tattoos.

Put this on in the background like others have said, out of some weird attachment to this disastrously spiraling show. So bad, so goddamn funny, so tremendously far from what the show once was (i.e., good). I think they'll still top it, though. In a few weeks, Sawyer supposedly plays ping-pong to get back some stolen stuff.

The greatest thing you accomplished was learning to wear pants that fit you.

There's really not enough information there, but if decisions had to be made in a vacuum based on just those factors: Team A: Seeya. SOS and Top-50 record is unimpressive. Team B: 7. High ranking and over .500 against Top-50--plus playing half your total games against Top-50 makes them the best team listed. Team C: 8. Almost as good as B Team D: 9. Tough schedule and decent Top-50 performance is good enough. You can make much more sense of it by looking at conference records and road wins, their recent games ( ), and certain x-factors/intangibles (the biggest of which is probably ). I don't think you can make decisions based on stats and rankings unless you have a whole lot more of them, but it's fun to see what it looks like using certain components. Knowing more, I'd rank them B, A, D, C.

I like the perspective coincidence has afforded me on Nirvana. Being born in 1983, I was at just the right age to be a few years too young to really connect with the music while they were blowing up. I had little to no awareness of them outside of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Heart-Shaped Box" until 1995 or so, and I don't think I actually listened to any of their albums in full until I got to college. Great band, and the fact that (merely by disastrous occurrence) they have such a tight body of excellent work makes me look on them fondly even though I don't have any of the nostalgia.

I love this with all of my being.

I've included scattered songs on mix discs for female friends. "Corduroy" went over all right, but I never heard a whole lot of praise for most of the tracks. Even though they're desperate love songs, Gedge's lyrics are pretty base at times, in that "Well, I'm still in love with you, and I'm fucking this other girl, but I promise it doesn't mean anything...maybe" kind of way. Such a naked show of both obsession and contempt; in my experience, most women don't handle those things too well, especially when they go together. I think I'll listen to this on the metro tomorrow morning and have a nice cheery day at work.

Mike Novick switches sides again!

Seamonsters is one of the albums I actually entirely credit this board's various denizens for bringing me. And it is superb. It's so sleazy and weepy and demented all at once.

I've got XM in my car and like it very much. I'm not sure I'd pay the regular price for it, but my dad flies planes and has a subscription to XM weather, so I get it for $7/month as an add-on to his plan. At that price, really just catching an unexpected bit of the DBs or OMD ("Enola Gay," motherfuckers!) on the 80s alternative station makes it worthwhile.

I read a chapter of that in a class my 3rd year. Seemed very enjoyable, but it was just the first overview chapter, so it didn't really get into the repetition yet.