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I got a bunch of chicken breasts that are chillin in my fridger. Any suggestions on how to cook em? Marinades?

"Anthony Johnson, a really explosive athlete, much like a Kevin Randleman or a Josh Koscheck, against John Howard, a guy who is really athletically explosive much like a... Kevin Randleman... or a... Josh... Koscheck..." "And Maurice Smith, don't forget him Goldie" "Leg kicks like a baseball bat on fire swinging towards his opponents' meaty part of the leg at 88 mph, Joe" "Melvin Guillard!" "Rampage Jackson!"

Opie is a bad motherfucker. (EFA) Lenny looked like he got beaten with a bat to the face. How many seconds did he last?

"That didn't happen. He didn't just kick him there."

Victor is god. "We're still alive" You sure are. You managed to survive going the wrong way and up a hill. It was close, you were dangling by a thread, but by god you're still alive. It's always sad to see a team, in the dark, clearly last, no chance in winning, still busting ass to get to the finish line. For a team that has no athletic ability, School of Rock are doing really well. Jaime is ridiculously hot. Why wasn't she doing the gymnastic task?

Damacio's right hand is a fucking bomb dropped.

I wanted to see more of Aldo. Fucker is FAST. White dude did not look comfortable being in there. Also, Mexican ref is tops.

I <3 Jens' commentary. I was hopin they'd use him in the booth.

Completely random thing, but... I don't have Vs. so I can't watch it on teevee.

Miss Chanandler Bong.

"Zero" by Charles Seife. Basically about the 'number' and more the concept of Zero. He calls it "infinity's cousin". It starts with a US Battleship stopping dead in the water because computer programmers forgot about a zero they were supposed to take out.

It's more like Blade Runner meets Fifth Element.

Rory is Jewish?!

Ben probably thought he needed Locke to get Sun back on the island, what with Sun wanting to kill Ben and all. When Locke brought up the ring and the fact that Jin was alive, Ben saw all the leverage he needed and didn't need Locke any more. I'm sure Ben will weasel his way out of it by saying he knew John would come back and all that bulljive. The dude who plays Ben really needs to get some award recognition, given the fact that he clearly is evil, but plays it so well that you can't help but go "Aaaw, he doesn't really MEAN it". Him talking Locke down just to murder him was pure pwnage. Locke is to Ben as Kenny is to Parker and Stone. Thought the episode was a bit rushed, though. I guess we're supposed to see Locke get rejected by all in short order, but the Walt scene was so forced. Though "Have you seen my dad" was kind of a heart-breaker. I had forgotten that Michael blew himself. Also, Daniels getting got like that sucked.

Altered Carbon. First person narrative, noirish cyber-punk. Basically a detective story, but it explores it's concept well. The concept being: In the future your soul is digitized and can be uploaded, stored, and transferred. A former special ops soldier is taken out of prison/storage to solve a murder of a wealthy man. Thing is, the soul of the guy who died (the employer) is still intact, he's brought back, and can't remember the last few hours of his life. It's up to the detective/soldier to piece together what happened. The books best feature is its dialogue. The pacing is good and there are a fair amount of plot twists.

The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond starts off good enough, explaining the differences and similarities between humans and their closest relative in two types of chimps (common and pygmy). Relates stories of birds and new guinea which are typical from Diamond at this point, but the book sorta veered off course in the last third. It got more into cautionary tales and became more of an environmentalist book. So it's like two different books, and I think you could find a better book on each topic elsewhere. Not as good as Guns... but still a fairly easy read and you pick up some good science/biology along the way. Right now I'm reading Emergency Sex which I am absolutely loving. It's hard for me to get a book done in a week, but I think I'll polish this one off by Sunday. Great three person narrative; they do a good, quick, job established the three UN workers before meeting them up (which is cool reading the different perspectives of the same situation) and from there they convey a lot of the atmosphere of their host countries and the political climate they've entered in to. Only a third of the way through, but I couldn't recommend it more. *Edit* Absolutely adored Emergency Sex. Couldn't recommend a book more. Very telling indictment of the bureaucracy and politics of the UN, which has certainly shed them in a new light for me. Incredibly readable, informal in it's approach to subject matter that is often presented very formally. The book changed dramatically from when I first wrote about it a week ago to now. Dark, graphic, descriptions of Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia, Haiti, and Bosnia. It is difficult to believe things like that not only happened, but happened in my lifetime and are still happening today.

I would like to see Diego vs. any fighter that will work his wrestling/bjj. The best parts of Stevenson/Sanchez were during the scrambles, and that usually is where Diego is most entertaining. Diego vs. Nate would work on several levels - both TUF winners, Diego already beat Nates brother, and stylistically they could make for a good ground battle.

If any of us get laid tonight, it's because of Eric Bana in "Munich."

Diego didn't look bad, but he didn't look good enough to take on the divisions top 3 (Sherk, Kenny, BJ). He was getting hit with straight rights the whole night, and while Joe's stand up doesn't suck, it's not as good as the top 3. Plus it looked like Diego didn't have any power in his strikes. I am loving the fight nights. They are essentially WWF Superstars, meant to highlight certain fighters. Cept you get the odd upset or two, and a few competitive matches as well. Marquardts Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo combo at the end was hilarious. Damian Maia. I really have nothing to say besides that triangle set up was damn near pornographic. Struve got worked by JDS. The sounds of JDS's punches landing were enough to make me wince.

If Widmore already knew where the place to find the island was, he surely would have controlled it by now. So it's not like he needs to follow them. Well, at least he shouldn't have to.

What the fuck is going on?

Also, there has to be someone on the side, that's not ben, putting things in motion - telling Kate to give up Aaron (and my bet is go to Jack and fuck him - maybe she needs to be pregnant ala Claire), finding Hurley and giving him Charlies guitar, getting Sayid on the plane as well. The thing is, if it's just a matter of getting something someone owns on the plane (Charlies guitar, Jacks dads' shoes), then why not just do that with all the folk? I also wonder if Hurley was buying up those tickets to save lives, or because he was told to. It was obvious that he didn't want people on the plane and they made it sentimental, but he probably could have saved more lives if he wanted to. Maybe it was a number thing as well. Anyways, thought it was an episode that dragged a bit but in the end was good. Jack used to be one of my favourite characters, but now I groan when ever he is on screen. Jin, OTOH, was a high point. Ditto Frank. I wonder if Whitmore had someone shadowing Desmond and Penny and they were the ones who beat up Ben before Ben could make good on that promise.

Yeah, imagine what it's like for people who didn't see the preview but read about it on a message board.

1. I almost lost it when the deaf guy broke down after winning. Clearly it meant a lot to him - probably more than the vast majority of racers to have raced. 2. Dude from School of Rock! 3. One of the red heads is definitely the choice cut of the show. Though... 4. The blonde with the dude is smoking. 5. The bungee jump was fairly visceral. Probably one of the few race tasks that would give me hesitation. The asian guy is hilarious in his crackerdom. 6. How hard could that cheese task have possibly been? Cheers to the hick who took 3 at a time and leaped over a few teams. Jeers to everyone else who ate a bag of dicks on that one. 7. Midgets! For the first time in a while, I have a few teams I am cheering for. The midgets, team marlee matlin, white asia (actually, add the asian chick to the list), the hicks, school of rock... and a lot of the other teams have hot chicks on em. This is gonna be a good season. 8. How slow could that blonde chick have been to be lagging behind that bad when coming in last? 9. All nicknames are temporary. Just waiting for Starv to get on this.

I think that goes for pretty much most places in the world. If you want to succeed, at least in the UFC, you have to train in the states (or at least how athletes in the US train). There is something to be said for American work ethic, ingenuity, and synergy. The way most camps stateside have made a science out of training is state of the art right now in fighting. You now have people outside the fighting disciplines getting involved (nutritionists, strength and conditioning coaches, psychologists). There's a reason why so many top fighters come out of so few teams. For one, once a team has a certain amount of high level athletes, they all push the others to get better. Add to that different coaches (strength and conditioning, BJJ, boxing, wrestling, etc) under one roof, being organized by a head trainer. The way fighters are training now is different from when they trained 5 years ago. If you are a fighter still training by those antiquated methods, you are not going to get as far as you should. It's not just about who trains hardest and longest. It's not just about who can get beat up the most in the gym. It's a lot more micro than that now.