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You know what I just noticed? NBA officiating is a little suspicious sometimes. No, really, hear me out on this one. There have been some calls in the last two games that...I don't know, they just didn't seem right to me. I'll be monitoring this situation closely tonight, and I'll be sure to promptly report back to the message board with my findings.

Is there any chance that either road team wins tomorrow, or are we looking at two more uncompetitive games that are over midway through the 4th?

I don't see it used much anymore, but "Intelligent Dance Music" was a sub-genre label that always irked me. Ditto "post-rock."

I'm a little surprised Marvin hasn't chimed in here.

In 9th grade, I was permanently ejected from my English class for writing some fairly sexually suggestive things about the teacher in my class journal. To this day, I have no idea why I did it. I mean, she was probably about 25 and not unattractive, but the idea that I was attempting to seduce her never entered my mind. I just thought it was funny, I guess. I was really into Howard Stern at the time. In any event, I was moved to a Reading class, which was some sort of remedial thing that I breezed through. But word got around about the whole thing, and I was well into 10th grade before any girl would have anything to do with me.

Spaceman Spiff turns 33 today! I Google image-searched you a tacky gift basket, buddy: Enjoy!

It's safe to say that the remaining three series will go to 7 and ultimately be won by the teams with home court advantage. We're at, what, 19-1 for home teams this round?

I remember having the option of signing up for a Music Theory class in, like, 7th grade. I honestly believed that this would entail discussion such as "My music theory is that I like to rock." When I discovered that it wasn't so, I opted out. I've come to regard this as a mistake.

It's nicer than West Virginia, I can tell you that much. People are pretty passionate about football. I mean, you're going to see the occasional lynching, sure, but so what? There are days in the winter when it's 65 degrees outside!

No surprises there, and the idea that Cook/Archuleta might "split" the vote was laughable. You realize that you can vote as many times as you'd like, right?

I'm just a glutton for punishment, I guess.

Speaking of which, I frequently saw the phrase "Dad rock" attached to their most recent album. I still don't know what that means.

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I think the Dawgs got off pretty easy here.

Every word of this applies to me, as well. I shave about once a month

My all-time most hated Top 40 single:

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Or a Pilk or a Prick or something. I don't know! Who can remember? Fuck it! Fucking thing sucks!

"Angsty" would be the adjective, as in "The latest Sadsack platter, Surplus of Pain, is a particularly angsty addition to their well-established canon of crap."

"American Idol-worthy" "prepubescent"

It might have been my mood going into the show, but I wasn't crazy about anyone tonight. I'm still convinced that the Archuleta-Cook showdown is inevitable.

I saw that on the news tonight! What's the big deal? Man in the Yellow Hat for VP!

I'm in the process of sorting through the 3-disc Bob Dylan Bootleg Series box set. It's a little disappointing that the whole "amphetamine" portion of his career is represented by a slim six or seven songs, most of which are false starts. Stephen Thomas Erlewine's contention that everything on here is as good as the best song on anyone else's album is laughable. An instrumental version of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" that's interrupted by Dylan collapsing into a coughing fit is the equal of anything else in the canon? Come on. There's some good stuff here, though. The severely abbreviated piano-and-harmonica only version of "Like A Rolling Stone" is pretty neat. Etc.

No, the conclusion the commisioner came to after speaking to Walsh is that the extent of the taping was already known, so there will be no additional punishment. Story over, for now.