2009-02-17 15:35
I'm just gonna throw it out there. Gran Torino is the best movie of the 2008 season. It's better than Slumdog, better than the Dark Knight or Ironman, better than Benjamin Button, and it's… Read More
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2009-02-03 10:34
This is a drink for when you want to just cut out, and get blasted in a hurry. Perfect for trying to forget the Steelers winning the Super Bowl. It tastes good, goes down easy, and is easy t… Read More
2009-02-03 01:35
I hate the Steelers. Let's just get that out of the way now. We won't get into the reasons for that, but it's just the way it is. As such, I really hated the outcome of Super Bowl XLIII. I'm… Read More
2009-02-01 21:28
I was browsing Youtube the other day, and I accidently discovered there is no god.If there is a just and loving god in the heavens, this movie will be buried, and whoever came up with this i… Read More
2009-01-29 08:15
Teams in Mid Major conferences have no realistic chance at winning the national title. Their only real hope is to be the top team in the mid majors for an extended stretch, then pray that a… Read More
2009-01-29 00:15
I own a ridiculous amount of movies. Some are good, some are bad, some are classics, and some are cult films. In an effort to jump start a more regular blogging pattern, I'm going to pull o… Read More
2009-01-20 20:12
For those of you who have been following my grand scheme, you know that the Pac 10 is, in my opinion, the model for conference configuration. A true round robin every season and every team… Read More
2009-01-20 18:14
Congratulations, President Barack Hussein Obama! May your term be prosperous and successful.But your work has just begun. Ultimately, the measure of a president is what he does during his t… Read More
2008-12-30 07:31
Well, my laptop went tits up a couple weeks ago. Thankfully, it was still under warranty. Two motherboards, one CPU, and one Video Card later, we are up and running today. So, I would just l… Read More
2008-12-12 04:17
Now we visit up north. It's time to realign the Big Ten conference. We've already sent Penn State to the Big East, and the Big Ten pretty much shakes itself out once the Nittany Lions are ou… Read More
2008-12-11 23:02
The greatest individual trophy in sports, the Heisman Memorial Trophy, will be awarded in a little less than two days. The three finalists are already in New York. Sam Bradford, the quarterb… Read More
2008-12-02 08:50
While dropping my sister of at the U in Seattle after her Thanksgiving visit, we stopped for an early dinner at Blue C Sushi in the University Village. What ensued was a rather unique dinin… Read More
2008-11-30 04:59
Goddammit. Oregon State dropped the first Civil War game in Corvallis since 1996, and it happened to be when the Rose Bowl was on the line. My frustration knows no bounds right now. So many… Read More
2008-11-18 00:15
For those of you who don't know, Brad Edwards is a columnist for ESPN.com. He recently wrote an article on ESPN.com trying to justify allowing a team that did not win their conference to com… Read More
2008-11-16 23:03
"Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large, thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?"If there'… Read More
2008-11-16 22:03
Quantum - [kwon-tuhm] -(physics) the smallest discrete quantity of somephysical property that a system can possess.Quantum of Solace is the latest James Bond film, and once you watch it, the… Read More
2008-11-16 20:34
This is going to be fucking fantastic! Read More
2008-11-15 04:41
Earlier this week, I rented a few movies. Amonst them was Martin McDonagh's In Bruges.Colin Farrell plays Ray, a young aspiring hitman who accidently kills a young boy on his first assignmen… Read More
2008-11-02 21:51
It's been a while, but as Bender once said... "I'M BACK, BABY!" Let's take a look at how we would realign the Big XII conference.The University of TexasTexas A&MThe University of Oklaho… Read More
2008-10-14 07:20
Clemson's the new hot topic, seeing as they just fired/resigned their head coach Tommy Bowden after a 3-3 start to a season that saw them ranked in the top ten in preseason polls. Many peopl… Read More
2008-10-02 07:07
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last week or so, the hot topic now days is the proposed $700 Billion bailout of the lending institutions that overextended themselv… Read More
2008-10-02 06:18
With the new Watchmen film looming large, I think it's a good time to introduce my readers to the source material.Watchmen was originally published as a 12 episode series in 1986 and 1987… Read More
2008-09-27 18:35
PANIC! At least according to the media.Mark Schlabach says that now other conference champions can afford to lose a game, because there's no way USC can leapfrog them.Ted Miller says that e… Read More
2008-09-26 06:56
But MAN is it fun to be the one to pull the trigger! Oregon State has upset the number one ranked team in the nation, and suddenly restored hope to what looked to be a very looong season. T… Read More
2008-09-25 07:33
Ah, the Kamikaze, the signature drink of Corvallis' Crowbar. Great drink. Rumor has it that the drink was first poured on a US military base in occupied Japan. I doubt it, but it's a good s… Read More
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