Edwin MacPhisto

The big problem with this drive: it lasted about 9 minutes. Got the score, but the all-White show takes too much time when you're down this much. They need Slaton or they're going to run out of time.

4 plays! 3 fumbles! The lights go out! Ridiculous stuff. West Virginia's coughing it up anytime they get hit or stood up, and Louisville's guys have already fallen over in the open field at least twice. Sloppy indeed.

Boise wouldn't get close. In that case, a 1-loss team--probably Auburn, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, USC, or Cal--would slide in.

THURSDAY Louisville FRIDAY Air Force SATURDAY Indiana Wisconsin Texas Tech Nebraska Kansas Houston Tennessee Arizona State Boston College Arkansas Oklahoma Virginia Tech Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the LSU/Tennessee game? 34 Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will Arkansas' Darren McFadden have against South Carolina? 170

Just started reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being on my lunch break. I should be done with this before the weekend's over at this rate. It's the kind of book that makes me want to do nothing but hunker over a keyboard and write myself.

I don't think the creators had any conception of what was governing Lostzilla or what its motivations were at the outset of the series. It was a Mysterious Force that illustrated the survivors were neither alone nor safe on the island. I think the viewing audience at large is starting to get fed up with the molasses-slow burn and inconsistencies and bail on the show. Ratings have been dropping all season, to the point that Criminal Minds has started coming in ahead of Lost. Yuck. Makes sense, though. It's not even the simple mysteries that are getting left unanswered--it's plain, simple things. Do the people on the beach not care that Michael and Walt got a boat and escaped the island? Does no one care that Michael killed Ana Lucia and Libby? I mean, these are huge things, and they haven't been mentioned once. The writers are working so hard to get away from everything they did that it's just leaving huge gaps, labyrinthan mysteries, and a terribly dull "love triangle" as the main focus of the show. Blech. And Spicy, you seriously manage to blow my mind, no matter what thread or folder you're in.

Cuse & Lindelof spin is that Adebisi didn't want to make a long term committment to the show and they all agreed to end his committment early this season. General word is that Adebisi didn't get along with Terry O'Quinn at all and it was causing trouble, so it was basically get rid of one of them time. Either way, I can't get over how retarded the big smoke hand looked.

That was retarded on like 8 different levels. You kill off one of the few interesting characters the show has left, you painfully give us "new" characters, and you show me a tool in an eyepatch. Oh, and Lostzilla is still totally inexplicable, and with the destruction and ignoring of the hatch, its consequences, and now, all the significant tailies, you acknowledge the pointlessness of season 2. How did something that was the best thing on TV for a whole year get this bad? I'm done with this show.

I wouldn't, because it was last season. You just can't use season-to-season stuff in college football. But I still think WVU would be an okay contender, as long as they beat everybody.

A $500 Walmart giftcard is a very strange concept to me.

That's pretty good. And I'm fond of those eggplant blinds.

Isn't it wild? Sea of tiny children running around columns. Fear them.

Those numbers don't back you up--they just make Iggy's point. They haven't played the toughest teams on their schedules yet.

Someone's still grumpy about USC getting Beaver'd. I'm super-psyched for the Thursday game. Who cares if they maybe don't deserve to be in the championship game? It's not like it's two really shitty teams playing each other.

I'm very disappointed in the shitty horror movies on TV tonight. Right now I've got Halloween 5 or Jeepers Creepers, or some special on Bravo. I was jonesing for some Hellraiser.

I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I don't expect anybody. I did see a flood of cute kids when I went out to get dinner, though. And a beagle dressed as a really fat pumpkin.

I'm hoping at least 7 people try it.

The password is balls.

That was the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time. All of Minnesota seems to agree.

My god, my tense agreement in that sentence. I'm leaving it as a reminder of my shame.

I enjoy some of his short stories and all, and The Stand was awesome in 6th grade, but that's a really hugely massive stretch in a 50-year-period that includes dozens of other incredible authors and works, several of whom have been noted in this thread. How could you not expect to catch a bunch of shit? King's commercial success is impressive and I do remember liking some of his short stories, but his bloated plotting and his obsession with incredibly cheesy horror elements will always hold him back. I can't read most of his stuff without getting that warm embarrassed feeling you get when you see something awkward and humiliating taking place.

Highlights seen at this weekend's round of parties: -Jewbacca: Nerdy Jewish guy in a bear suit and a bandolier, plus a skullcap. -Team Zissou, which would have only been average if not for the fact that the 6 guys in the blue outfits/red beanies got a girl to dress up in a giant foam Jaguar Shark costume. She had a hard time fitting through doors with that on. -8 drunk guys dressed as the Cobra Kai, who would show up at a given party, shouted "STRIKE HARD, NO MERCY, SWEEP THE LEG" swept somebody's leg, and then run down the street to the next party.

Maybe you shouldn't go to English grad school after all. They'll filet you for caring about Stephen King.

Yeowch. Texas Tech has other ideas early.