Kinetic

As a suburban stoner, this news excites me. I think I'm gonna grab my acoustic and go loiter around somewhere until at long last this reunited Sublime come to perform in my town.

Jenn, 9th grade. We wandered around the mall for a couple of hours, presumably because this gave me the opportunity to show off my trademark wit by making snarky comments about the people and products there. I don't remember much about this particular date, but there was a subsequent kissing debacle with this girl that was so excruciatingly awkward that every detail is permanently etched in my mind.

That's more like it. Still, I can't imagine that they'd trade him at this point. Who could they possibly replace him with? Unless...

Bobby McBarron what now?

I don't know how you get that out of the story you linked to there. It seems more like Denver was approached about the possibility of trading Cutler, the briefly entertained the idea, and then the whole thing became moot when New England decided to send Cassell to KC. Cutler saying that he'd like to stay in Denver but understands that it's a business hardly sounds like he's demanding a trade to me.

That's a 2nd rounder for Cassell. Seems a little low, but bear in mind that that's the 35th overall pick, and they just got it for trading away a guy that I don't think they ever had any intention of keeping around.

To the extent that there is a meaning to life, that meaning is simply to be happy. That's it. Some look for that happiness in money, possessions, career, family, friends, or casual sexual encounters. Some look for it in knowledge. Others are enlightened enough to know that true happiness can only be found at the bottom of a bottle and then in the subsequent opening of another bottle.

Matt Cassell traded to the Chiefs. I actually think that's a pretty good fit, and he'll immediately have a few decent targets to throw to in Bowe and Gonzalez. No reason to think that the Chiefs couldn't improve by six games or so next year, which would put them right in the thick of things in the AFC West.

I think my confusion came from the fact that I actually do sort of find Rush amusing. Were this to be genuine article Kinetic humor rather than an homage, I would have gone for something that no one could possibly consider lighthearted or funny, like Robert Johnson or the New Cars.

Rush? While I still hate this band and consider "One Week" to be the most grating Top 40 single ever, my hatred for them has subsided somewhat since I no longer have to hear them every day at work.

The Jets have made Scott an offer, but I guess that the Ravens are now making a big last-second push to hold onto him. Mike Vrabel to the Chiefs? I guess he'll help in the transition to the 3-4 and there's the whole Pioli connection, but isn't Mike Vrabel getting up there in years? Seems like he's been in New England forever.

Groomer has it that the Bucs are trying to swing another trade for Oakland RB Michael Bush. I'd be fucking thrilled with that, as I've always liked the guy and was witness to him repeatedly gashing Tampa's defense in week 17 last year. Bringing him in would eliminate the need to draft a RB, and we'd have a corp of Bush, Graham/Cadillac, and Clifton Smith. Not bad at all.

No, the tag is lifted when he signs the long-term deal. The reason guys bitch about getting tagged is that they want the relative stability and increased guaranteed money that comes with a long-term deal. I'd like to see Tampa make a few more moves here in the couple of days, but it looks like they've perhaps wisely decided not to mortgage their future on a high-priced FA. Names I'm seeing that could possibly end up Bucs are Jonathan Vilma, Kevin Jones, and Michael Boley. So they're not letting that $61 million in cap room burn a hole in their pocket, but that's probably for the best.

Tight end is certainly not our biggest need, but I still like the move. If he can keep his head on straight and stay off the motorcycles, Winslow has the talent to be a top 5 TE. I'd say he's definitely worth the picks I'm hearing we gave up for him, which is a 2nd or a 3rd and 5th. If we only had a quarterback to throw it to him...

I'm not going to say one word about the 1985 Kansas City Royals, Hardcastle and McCormick, or the conflict in the Falkland Islands. You have my word.

Yes! I love it when we post baby pictures.

I don't want to ruin the surprise, but I hear that Mickey Rourke plays a wrestler in this movie. I haven't actually seen it. I hear that he talks to Jack Nicholson and is all "your time is up, my time is now." And he makes a hand gesture which would seem to indicate that his fellow combatant cannot see him. And I guess Marisa Tomei is in the movie, although I must confess that I have not seen the film. I hear that for all the kudos Rourke is getting, Vladimir Kozlov really carries the movie. Discuss.

Truth be told, I can't remember the last time I measured my dick. An old girlfriend of mine once opined that if she had a penis, she'd measure it all the time. I told her that she didn't know the first thing about having a penis, and then belittled her until tears streamed down her face. But I'd say probably in the area of 6 1/2 inches in length, with the width falling somewhere between that of a pencil and that of a can of soup. Pretty unexceptional. I have a standard military cut in my pubic area, but generally leave the hair on my balls untouched. I am circumcised.

My genital area (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001) was an American race car driver, best known for its career driving stock cars in NASCAR's top division. My genital area had four children, Kerry, Kelley, Genital Area Jr., and Taylor. Its widow, Teresa (whom it married in 1982) was the owner of Genital Area, Inc., the race team and merchandising corporation my genital area founded with her in February 1980. The team has since merged with Chip Ganassi and is now known as Genital Area Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. My genital area is known for its success in the Winston Cup Series, now known as the Sprint Cup Series. It won seventy-six races (including its only Daytona 500 victory in 1998), and its seven championships are tied for most all-time with Richard Petty. Its highly aggressive driving style made it a fan favorite and earned it the nicknames "Ironhead", "Mr. Restrictor Plate", "The Genital Area in Black" and most famously, "The Intimidator."

I may be in the minority on this, but I tend to find these overt expressions of beer-soaked, college aged "bi-curiousity" far more annoying than arousing. It seems to invariably be done for the benefit of some guy; it's usually preceded by hooting, and followed by vomiting on a curb. And then Katy Perry goes and writes an anthem for these people. Despicable. Another thing: I was once at this Vagina Monologues post-party with the cast and crew of a production of that thing at the university in Asheville. At some point in the night, the party turned into this big lesbian make-out session, but the whole thing seemed to have this air of "hey, I guess we better dyke out now." It felt really forced to me. I'm willing to bet that at least half of those girls ended up being straight.

Christian's appearance with Michael just as he was about to get blown up on the freighter ("you can go now, Michael") would seem to lend creedence to the idea that Christian is some sort of ghost, or perhaps a physical manifestation of some supernatural element on the island. What I don't understand is why Jack, Kate, and Hurley would flash to the 70s/Dharma period with the other left behinders, but Sun, Lapidus, Ben, and Locke would not. Although I guess we don't actually know that yet.

Sooo...Widmore was somehow tricked into leaving the island by Ben, and it would currently appear that Ben and not Widmore is the villain in all of this. Locke needs to return the O6 to the island because there's a war coming, and he's important to the whole thing. The extent to which the rest of the group is needed as anything other than proxies on the plane is unknown. And the plane is on the island, along with a whole new group of survivors. Jack, Hurley, and Kate don't remember the crash because they were sucked out of the plane prior to it occuring. It's possible that the same happened to Sayid, Sun, and Ben. Did I miss anything?

Well. The Bucs have released Derrick Brooks, Joey Galloway, Ike Hilliard, Cato June, and Warrick Dunn. The only one that's a little bit of a head-scratcher on that list is June, as I thought the idea behind signing him in the first place was for him to eventually replace Brooks. In any event, fuck yes, and god bless you, Raheem Morris. I admire that he has the balls to finally start clearing out all the deadwood that Gruden had let accumulate on the roster. I only wish that Brooks had been honest enough with himself to see that his skills were seriously deteriorating, and had left of his own accord. Sucks to have another unamicable parting with one of the key cogs of our Super Bowl team, but whatever. This team should look completely different next year, and frankly it's about fucking time. That said, this team now has a hell of a lot of holes to fill. QB, HB, WR, DT, DE, and LB are all areas of need. My previous suggestion that the team will trade out of the first round to get more picks is looking more likely than ever.

The homosexuals have always been perfectly nice to me. If I go out to a few bars at night, there's probably a 75% chance that I'm going to get hit on by a homosexual guy at some point. My chances of being aggressively hit on by a girl are not nearly as good. And so I like the homosexuals for their directness, and also for buying me drinks and accompanying me to the bathroom and stuff like that. edit: motherfucking word filters.

Yeah, tonight's episode should be really helpful for answering a lot of the questions posed in season 4 and thus far in season 5. Plus, I'm pretty sure we'll get our first Walt appearance in an awfully long time.