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Happy Birthday.

Nonetheless, Carnahan was a cadaver.

It was a shame he stabbed himself in the heart...twice....

Did you even watch the Wisconsin-Purdue game? Purdue didnt have a lead until 2 minutes into the Fourth Quarter! Purdue led the game for about ten minutes, then Wisconsin forced a fumble and ran it back to reclaim the lead. The Badgers won on their own, by leading nearly the entire game, and the fumble at the end. The missed field goal only prevented a tie, not necessarily a Purdue win.

Wow.

Finally.

Please, just let this be true...

Christ, does it ever end?

Well Washington will be coming off their bye week for the Packers game(@FedEx) Washington's defense will be ranked #2 in the league after today, and that as without Phillip Daniels on the line and Lavar Arrington playing too. Portis had 171 rushing yards today and I don't think Green Bay's run defense is that good, but I think it will be a good hard fought, close game. (Go Skins). Anytime Green Bay is in a game that theyre 'supposed to win'...they usually get destroyed. And theyll probably be the favorites in that one...

Any Elliot Smith fans here? New posthumous (I hate typing that word) cd out next Tuesday...'from a basement on a hill'. Ive been looking forward to this release for quite a while...definitly picking it up later this week. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=music&n=507846 Rolling Stone Review - For many fans, Elliott Smith's greatest gift to the world was his sadness. He was thirty-four when he died on October 21st, 2003, from two stab wounds to the chest. But the more we learned about his death, the less we knew. For a while, everybody (including the police) assumed it was suicide; then others started to suggest, ominously, that it wasn't, and a coroner's report, issued last December, said the evidence was inconclusive. So bereaved fans were left with nothing but their own dull grief, which came to seem like an echo of Smith's own implacable melancholy. Their sadness was his. But sadness was never what set Smith apart from the other rumpled punky strummers. By 1994, when he started branching out from his post-punk band Heatmiser to record solo albums, the real surprise was Smith's sweetness. He was a punk who cleaned up good, who could turn an excruciating song about dope addiction into something whistle-able and Beatlesque. When he ambled onstage at the 1998 Oscars, fluorescent in an all-white suit, singing an expurgated "Miss Misery" (from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack), it somehow made sense. With songs like that, why shouldn't he have been serenading millions of listeners? The crossover started and ended that night, and not just because he lost the Oscar to Celine Dion. His appealing 1998 album, XO, had grander production but slighter songs than 1997's marvelous Either/Or, and after 2000's Figure 8, he more or less disappeared. Now, days before the one-year anniversary of his death, comes From a Basement on the Hill, the album he was still tinkering with when he died. It starts thick and hazy, with "Coast to Coast" slowly fading in; atop an elegant jumble of guitars, he sings, "I've got no new act to amuse you/I've got no desire to use you." Like most of the fifteen songs here, this one hints at drugs and death, wasted nights and wasted lives. This is an album about the seductions of oblivion, and a few of the more densely arranged songs mimic the characters in the lyrics, stumbling around without quite connecting. More often, though, Smith teases extraordinary wit and warmth from songs that float lazily toward happiness. Despite the foreboding title, "Strung Out Again" is a lilting, slyly persuasive ode to a pleasure that comes and goes like the ocean: "The tide's coming in/And I'm strung out again." Then there's "Memory Lane," a bitter two-and-a-half-minute cautionary tale, sung and fingerpicked so gently that it sounds like a lark. And the woozy "Don't Go Down" begins with something resembling a joke: "I met a girl, snowball in hell/She was as hard and as cracked as the Liberty Bell." Yes, there's plenty of sadness here. On "Pretty (Ugly Before)," Smith and his former Heatmiser bandmate Sam Coomes sing, "I felt so ugly before/I didn't know what to do." But the harmony tells a different story, and the two repeat the complaint until it sounds like a blissful affirmation. The album's centerpiece is "A Fond Farewell," which is exactly what Smith fans need: an upbeat but ambivalent song with a contagious chorus that sticks in your head after the rest of the CD is over. When he murmurs, "This is not my life/It's just a fond farewell to a friend," you can't tell what, exactly, he's eulogizing: A bad habit? A good lover? Himself? But you can tell it will be missed. KELEFA SANNEH http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/...eregion=triple1

This game has been painfully long.

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Always Changing Probably

OO OO OO but they have, as was so hilariously stated by a disgruntled Charger fan on Bruce Jacobs' show back in August, RICOCHET CALDWELL!!!!~ And they also have Nate Kaeding, who can kick the ball off to the 20-yard line Translator?

Lambeau Field will be absolutely Insane next weekend for Dallas.

Cards/Astros

They should be 0-6.

God Damn

Peter Gabriel - Biko

How do you know his 'midseason form' if you joined here this summer?

It was such an important realization that it required three threads.

Janes Addiction - Strays

Perhaps the book will intrigue enough to listen to more Dylan... Because you should.

I wonder what greatone thinks about all of this...

And do you have a reason why Wisconsin should be top five? They needed a missed field goal to beat Arizona, and a missed field goal and a fumble to beat Purdue. Yes, they're undefeated, but they haven't been as impressive as Utah thus far, and they haven't been anywhere near as impressive as Cal, last-second loss on the road to USC or no. And Damaramu, do you care to elaborate on what's wrong with my rankings? The only real difference between those and the AP/Coaches is that I focus more on how the teams have actually played than I do on their reputations. Wisconsin won both of those games...thats what matters - winning. Since when did defense (such as fumble returns for tds) stop counting? Purdue was ranked 5th...you say in this thread that they were on pace for a possible Orange Bowl run. Wisconsin beats them (Purdue only had the lead for like a quarter, it wasnt like it ended with some desperate effort by Wisconsin), yet they can rank no higher than 7? How can Purdue have been in position for an Orange Bowl run, and Wisconsin still isnt top 5? They also beat then #12 OhioState quite handily last weekend. Why is the close win over Arizona a deterrant? The weather that day was so bad it caused a three-hour delay, and Wisconsin's Anthony Davis was injured.

Both are HOF coaches... Holgren turned around Seattle, and now theyre finally a contender...Parcells is working miracles in Dallas. Both teams are now interesting and important in their divisions. Im willing to predict that game will get good ratings...and probably be a fairly entertaining game.