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The original plan was to do Sting/Hogan in the spring (Slamboree maybe?). Once they realized that Sting was getting more over by not doing anything but sit in the rafters, they decided to push the match back to Starrcade.

Hey VX, you gotta make sure you head over to the Horse Brass Pub (if you haven't been). I think there are over 100 beers on tap there, mostly local favorites. They are constantly changing what they have available (and beers come in Imperial Pints). In my worldly travels, I have never encountered a better city for beer drinking than Portland. It truly is remarkable.

Doesn't matter what the cost is, I will be there.

That's a nice summary of what led to the current problem, but you haven't explained what this all means to our future economy. So... 5) The financial institutions are all heavily invested in mortgage-backed securities that are failing left and right. Without a place to dump their bad loans and not knowing how much worse things can get, lenders have become increasingly tight with their money. Since banks can no longer borrow easily from each other, the availability of credit has dried up. What this means is that the banks don't have any money to loan to anyone. This affects every every credit purchase, from the new couple looking to buy a home, a child seeking a loan for college or a construction company building a new office complex. Without these funds, our economy stalls out, people start hoarding money and we fall into a downward spiral. Essentially we are left with a non-functioning economy; some economists call this a "depression." Here's a decent article that sort of recaps what I just said: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business...amp;_r=1&em

Hey X, where did you find the 120 Minute? I didn't see it at Whole Foods last time I was there. I saw the 120 minute at Whole Foods, funny enough. I had to look for it for a bit then I was like OH SHIT SCORE. If worse comes to worse though, I have Belmont Station here (ironically not located on Belmont anymore) which is the greatest beer store known to man. I always do my beer shopping at the Whole Foods out by Bridgeport Village. I've never seen the 120 Min there, so the selection must vary by store.. Where's Belmont Station? I'm going to be in P-town on Sunday and figured I could pick up a few things.

Hey X, where did you find the 120 Minute? I didn't see it at Whole Foods last time I was there.

According to an interview I heard with Brian Johnson and Angus Young, it is nearly impossible to make any money off of CD sales unless you release them as an exclusive deal with one of the major chain stores. I don't really care if it comes out now. I have the nine tracks that were illegally released on CD. The songs are great. I probably listen to it at least once a week.

Last week I introduced my new idea for a weekly music thread. The first choice, Rocks, proved to be something of a let down. For this week's installment I have chosen a critically acclaimed but commercially forgotten powerhouse of an album from one of rock's legends. Neil Young - On the Beach On the Beach is the final release of Young's doom trilogy (Tonight's the Night, Time Fades Away, On the Beach), the post-Harvest output characterized by muddy production and bleak subject matter. Although critically regarded as one of Young's best, On the Beach was out of print for close to twenty years before its CD release in 2003, resulting in the album being largely forgotten. Side 1 "Walk On" "See the Sky About to Rain" "Revolution Blues" "For the Turnstiles" "Vampire Blues" Despite the despair and doom connotations thrown out in regards to the album, Side 1 starts out on something of a high note. "Walk On" is a nice fuck you response to the negative press Young was receiving at the time, delivered over some good riffs. "See the Sky..." is a beautiful melodic piece that came from the Harvest era. The album picks up steam over the last three tracks, featuring Young's views of Charles Manson, overblown rock tours and the oil industry, respectively. Side 2 "On the Beach" "Motion Pictures" "Ambulance Blues" Muddled, distorted and moody, Side 2 features three brilliant tracks. Reportedly recorded while Young and his band consumed a honey-weed mixture described as "much worse than heroin", the side feels very bleak. The tracks here are dark, but in a way sound cathartic for Young. Young essentially confronts all the issues that are making him miserable, saying goodbye to the despair that nearly wrecked his life post-Harvest. I can't really do this stuff justice in a paragraph. It's brilliant work. On the Neil Young spectrum of great albums, I'd slot this one just behind Tonight's the Night, but still ahead of Rust Never Sleeps and the early classics. It's slightly more accessible that the aforementioned album, but casual fans familiar with Young's radio hits might still be turned off.

Perhaps this is true, but most of them don't advertise it.

What was even more baffling is that they never once mentioned that it was non-title in the build-up. I don't even remember when they finally acknowledged it as such. Was it after Piper won?

Mazeroski's home run is the definitive World Series moment. Classic ending to one of the best games ever played. Not only is it an egregious error to leave it off the list, it should win. Game 7 from 2001 is probably the best from my lifetime. That or Joe Carter's walk-off.

It's times like these that I really miss Socksquatch. FART.

Huckabee's email is filled with a bunch of empty rhetoric about the fat cats getting fatter and the common man getting screwed, which only shows that he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the current economic crisis. Guess what? I don't give a flying fuck about saving the "big banks." But I, the middle class employee of a small firm, will probably lose my job unless this bailout (or something similar) goes through. Our country's economy is built on credit and the availability of credit. If that goes away, we're screwed and no stupid fair tax will bring it back.

Banks > Foreclosed "homeowners" First of all, until the entire mortgage is paid off, the bank that issued the mortgage is the "homeowner". The "homeowner" in your case is merely the "resident". The economic impact of a few people getting their homes foreclosed is trumped by a couple of major banks going bankrupt. We're talking about a complete shutdown of the economy if the a couple of the key important banks fail. Everyone always mentions that the FDIC insures everyones money (up to a certain point) but the cold hard truth is the FDIC doesn't have enough money to cover the collapse of more than a handful of large banks at once. Past that point, all hell will break loose. No one wants that to happen, which is why the banks have to be helped out. I dont like it anymore than the next person, but at least Im informed enough to know that we can't just say no to a bailout/rescue effort of the banks unless we want a complete crash of the US economy within the next couple of weeks. You can blame anyone and everyone for the events that led up to today, but you have got to help out the banks somehow. Holy shit, I actually agree with Marvin. This has to be his most coherent post ever.

NL Cy Young: Tim Lincecum, Johan Santana, or other? Defend your pick.

And the food is cooked by convicts! Can't beat that.

I've seen some extremely smart people get burned by bad mortgages they got during the recent housing boom. It's not as cut and dry as the media is making it out to be. The assertion that people were buying more than they could afford is technically true, but it wasn't exactly presented that way to them in the first place. Blame should fall at the hands of the mortgage brokers first, not the uninformed buyers. I don't quite get the analogy to gambling.

All political rhetoric aside, going back to Washington to help fix our economy is a hell of a lot more important than some debate.

People think the Steelers have a chance because they are the better football team.

Yeah, I got it.

Unless you lose them in an old thread, I'm not sure that he will be much help.

And if they don't?

Matt Millen, Isiah Thomas and Bill Bavasi all get canned in the same year. Is the era of horrible front office decisions coming to a close... Probably not, but still, this is fantastic news. Detroit deserves so much better.

ESPN reporting that Omar Minaya is getting a contract extension. Four more years of bad bullpens on the way EDIT: Sry, didn't see Strummer's post

TSM, naturally