Steve J. Rogers

With the Russian from Pine Barrens!

-Ally McBeal Sex & The City kind of took over the mantle as THE hour-comedy of the era when David Kelly's legal dram-comedy went straight to hell. It was supposed to usher in a "new era" for network TV, guess what, not SO MUCH! -M*A*S*H* Yeah it still ranks as one of the greats, but it became much more preachy and watered down as it dragged on, and on, and on, and on, and on... -The West Wing May be unfair to do this but this past season had been so dismal fans actually WANTED the show to be put out of its misery. Maybe it just goes to show you, lose the head (Aaron Sorkin) and the body dies -Will & Grace Kind of started like it would take over Friends' title as THE sitcom of the era for NBC following Cheers, Seinfeld and Friends. Has gotten too cliched and unfunny More to come... Steve

Notice no one remembers who won the damn thing...we remember the losers more... Ironically the trainer is a New York horse racing favorite, Nick Zito who FINALLY won a Belmont Stakes after 5 runner-ups and a legendary career. So the one time his horse gets the job done everyone hates it! To quote Nelson, "HA-HA!"

Last time he was on camera was during Steph's attempt to get back on TV one night to meet with Flair after he had just bought the company. She wheels in Dudley, tells security that he is a family friend and she is helping him for the evening. (interestingly enough, there was speculation on thye Net because of his name that he was being re-introduced as another realitive of Devon, Bubba and Spike) Well the guy saw Dudley's name on the list and let him in, but kept Steph out Steve

Speaking of "Golden Childs" like Kelly and Sorkin, what about David Lynch's Twin Peaks This was new, hip, edgy, cool, whatever, it went all strange and to hell Speaking of talk shows, how about Arsenio "I'm going to kick Leno's ass" Hall I was surprised to A) see Hall pop up on Leno's 10th anniversary show and B) no mention was made of that infamous line

A "worked shoot" uniting the Luchadores after a supposed incident where Eric Bischoff threw coffee at Eddy. Eddy came out at "quit" to form the LWO Somewhere along the lines, before making the jump, the LWO became the Filthy Animals (this time Rey Misterio was a full fledged member)

Lets see if I can set the format for the Angel timeline... In The Beginning... (Note, this is just for Angel, nothingelse in the Buffyverse unless it has to do with Liam/Angelus/Angel 1609 Virgina Colony, "The New World" (Not going to look up the year "America" was christened) A blond whore, dying of syphills is visted by a figure, dressed as a monk, who is reveled to be The Master, one of the oldest known vampires in recorded history. Taking a liking to the dying wretch he makes her into a vampire in order to achieve immortaility. At some point the reborn creature will re-christen herself as Darla. (Angel, Season 2 Episode 7 "Darla" )

Lets see if I can set the format for the Angel timeline... In The Beginning... (Note, this is just for Angel, nothingelse in the Buffyverse unless it has to do with Liam/Angelus/Angel 1609 Virgina Colony, "The New World" (Not going to look up the year "America" was christened) A blond whore, dying of syphills is visted by a figure, dressed as a monk, who is reveled to be The Master, one of the oldest known vampires in recorded history. Taking a liking to the dying wretch he makes her into a vampire in order to achieve immortaility. At some point the reborn creature will re-christen herself as Darla. (Angel, Season 2 Episode 7 "Darla" )

How long untill this thread gets moved to "Classics" Buffy's last year lasted for 142 pages and wasn't moved untill October! Steve

Well yeah, but considering the Sopranos wouldn't start filming again untill next spring would have given her time to do both Fans may have seen it as a HUGE spoiler (especially with NBC running promos with footage of her in the pilot) but I don't think it could have been interpereted as such Steve

Heard some sports radio hosts in NY say they jumped the ship after last week, wonder what they thought of tonight's episode

How about this, it may be the first ever documented "Closer Tneme" but Sparky Lyle of the Yankees used to come from the bullpen to the playing of "Pomp and Circumstance" Also John Franco uses the old Chuck Berry song "Johnny B. Goode" which may be the oldest song still in current usage amongst ANY closer/batter themes Actually true story, first time out the Mets played the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson when Franco pitched, Franco HATED it and told them to use Johnny B Goode Steve

No they didn't...he did follow Charlotte to Chicago and he is in Chicago for the moment. Or the info they got wrong is that Fraiser would NEVER, EVER be seen in a "dive" like Wrigley Field! No offense but thats how Frasier and Niles would have seen Wrigley as, especially with thousands of slouched Cubs fans roaming around If he ever went to Fenway I'm sure it was ONLY as a guest of Sam, Norm or Cliff Ditto with Kingdome/Safeco only it would be with Martin Steve

Plus: A) Even though NBC jumped in bed with Don Trump and have exhausted every last Fear Factor/Law & Order/New Dateline night possibility they can think of, I would think sci-fi would be the LAST resort with them. First they got to worry about two GAPING holes in their comedy lineups, neither one can be fixed by plugging in an extra Dateline or something B) NBC has never been the sci-fi/horror/fantasy place that CBS, ABC and FOX have been, call it the curse of Star Trek and Manimal C) Guarantee they will place Angel in a place where the target audience won't be able to watch it, either Friday or Saturday nights, essentially the nights TV networks just "give up" with the exception of family themed programing (hence ABC's TGIF lineup and CBS' "wholesome lineups" with Walker, ect...) which Angel is definalty NOT It would be a bad move IMO Steve

She was mentioned, she was going to Paris a few days later with Rachel's mom

Kind of taking a "comic book" look at the current WWE lineup adding "life and death" to actual kayfabe: SETUP: Vince McMahon has decided to hit the ultimate reset button. Summoning the entire roster (as of today 5/4/04) to an empty arena in Stamford, CT he announces that as of today he is restarting the entire promotion. On a big Titantron Vince talks to the roster in the ring "And we are doing so with just 5 of you. Well the 5 survivors. Because tonight, it won't be YOUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRR FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRED! Tonight its YOUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRR DEAD!" Everyone looks around wondering what the hell Vince is saying when Vince finishes with "Thats right, all of you will fight each other TO THE DEATH! Untill there are 5 left! And you have this entire empty arena to combat in. Starting right now!" To Be Continued...

Part One After the stunning announcement most of the jobbers started dukeing it out, the women started their own brawl but several factions slipped out of the ring. One group consisted of Evolution and the other group consisted of Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Edge and Chris Jericho. The last grouping headed straight towards an empty office in the arena where Shane McMahon was waiting for them "Its started." Shane said "Okay, here is the plan, we wait this out a while, then we strike. And we are taking out Pops! Then we call an end to this blood sport and whomever is still standing, that is the WWE!" "There might be a problem" Benoit said. "We saw Evolution heading for the hills as well." "Damn. Looks like Plan B will have to be executed as well" Shane said. "Triple H must NOT MAKE IT PAST THE NIGHT!" Evolution made its way towards an office of their own, only Stephanie McMahon-Helmsely was waiting. "Hunter you know what you have to do." Was all that Steph said as she handed her husband a sledge hammer. Meanwhile, in the brawls, chaos was regining. As the women were fighing, with Jazz dominating, Kane, Taker and The Big Show decided to do their best Lenny imitations and started snapping necks of the entire women's divison. Matt Hardy saw Kane do this to Lita. With a big "NOOOOOOOOOO" he rushed over to this scrum with Shane Helms and several crusierweights in tow. Breaking up the devestation, with chairs and other items of weapons in hand they attacked Kane, Taker and Show, all of whom left no women alive. The cruisers were making headway, and had the three big guys on the run To Be Continued...

Bologina and cheese No it was some stupid shit like peanut butter, bananas and marshmellows. (my cousin was really into that movie so he made me watch it multiple times, it was okay but nothing that I'd see more than once) I guess something inocuous yet quirky enough to remeber in case of some dopey trivia contest. Still is a rather dumb question though in the "Wha? Who cares" sort of way Steve

Whats even more gayer is the trivia game that they came up with for the movie where you won free games or a trip somewhere. Some dumb ass questions that unless you are anal retentive about EVERY little thing about the movie (i.e. What kind of sandwich did Fred Savage's character make as a midnight snack) Then again my sister remebers the way a character buttered his bread in War Games as something unique so maybe they were on to something Steve

Can't be Goonies obviously, Anne Ramsey had half a tonuge, not missing fingers (yes I know prostheics, I'm rambling brainstorms) Not much in Savage's IMBD listing fits the profile (The Wizard and Little Monsters are the only ones that seem to fit) Maybe somewhere more along the lines of "Stand By Me"/"White Water Summer" than Goonies Steve

Not that gay tie-in with the Nintendo game one... Little Monsters maybe?

Thats not what I was saying at all. Just that you will get more of that minded person joining the school newspaper or literary journals, ect I was explaining why it can be so bad at times, because you get these people writing regular columns thinking they are now on the level of a Mike Barnicle or a William Safire when in reality they are no more relavant than a blogger with some of their "opinions" and how they lay them out And I know you can certaintly "learn on the job" in the biz so I'm not knocking those who decide to jump head first into a gig like that hoping to get more out of it than a good line on their resume

Nope. I think this, and my examples kind of proves that its more of an outlet for "wanna-be" opinonists who wouldn't know the first thing about journalism to throw their opinions on paper when in actuality their drivel is more appropriate in the "Letters To The Editor" section rather than an actual column or article in the paper. Its something that looks good on a resume, but the bottom line is, mostly its a voluntary gig that sometimes is based on "who you know" rather than actual talent or actual thought of having a career in the field Steve

BTW, couple of examples of knuckleheads who write columns for college papers from the same guy who wrote for my ala mater, Fairfield Universty (in CT) 1) One year the school was reconstructing the gym so for a time period there was no access to rec basketball courts. So the guy rants about how the school was depriving students the rights to play some hoops, seemingly forever, all for the price of improving the facilities for the school's team Being curious I actually called the athletic department to see what was up and they said that the courts would be reopened soon, i.e. a month or two (and they were) Now, I can see if you wait out whatever you were told, and then a month or two more passed and you wanted to write a scathing report about why delays are happening and broken promises and such but this chucklehead saw that his court was being taken away and BOOM "I'm gonna write a nasty column!" without doing, you know, ACTUAL RESEARCH ON THE MATTER! 2) It was announced that LL Cool J was coming to do a show at the college (this is sometime in the late 1990's) so the guy writes a scathing opinion piece that Fairfield was "behind the times" and "no one here gives a damn about LL Cool J anymore" and such, never mind that they had Billy Joel come up during his "An Evening of Questions and Music" tour Well, everyone IS entitled to their opinions, but the LL Cool J concert turned out to be one of the most successfull concert Fairfield U ever put on. Don't know if it says much but it should have shut the guy up about the "with it-ness" of whoever selected LL Cool J, and again the guy ranted half cocked without doing a little research to see who else was available to do a show at the venue and at the price range Fairfield was committed to spending, instead it came off just as an anti-LL Cool J/80's rap article and seemed like the guy was just ranting off the top of his head Steve

1) I hope this little fucker realizes that anyone in ANY Armed Forces training for the wrong reasons (Rambo-esque adventures) would be weeded out before being shipped anywhere. You get to where Tillman got, you have to be in it for more than just adolecent, Hollywood fantasy 2) I don't know if this is dead on, but a sports show host in NYC figured that this little fucker was probably someone without much of a family structure and didn't know anything about what it means to serve to protect freedom. What it means to fight for ANY cause (just or unjust) and the actual meaning of the word, Patriot. Steve