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Re: "The latest trailer for Interstellar just came...

Leee — Mon, 19 May 2014 18:15:40 -0000

She is so pretty... *_*

Re: A Random Thread About Ice Cream

Leee — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:00:11 -0000

If you don't mind a late comment, my gods but this looks like a decadent way to a heart attack: http://www.npr.org/blogs/wa...

Re: Understanding Jordyn Wieber

Leee — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:00:40 -0000

I've always liked the Romanians, not simply for Nadia, but for how their gymnasts often roll up the sleeves on their leotards in a "Let's get down to bizness" kind of way.

Re: I've got your missing links right here (13 August 2011)

Leee — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:50:32 -0000

I didn't read anything after the spoiler warning up top.

Re: Aflockalypse: The Media Goes on Apocalyptic Overdrive

Leee — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:06:36 -0000

So if I'm reading this post right, the answer is "monsters"?

Re: Aflockalypse: The Media Goes on Apocalyptic Overdrive

Leee — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:06:36 -0000

So if I'm reading this post right, the answer is "monsters"?

Re: Aflockalypse: The Media Goes on Apocalyptic Overdrive

Leee — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:06:36 -0000

So if I'm reading this post right, the answer is "monsters"?

Re: Captain America To The Big Screen - Culture - The Atlantic

Leee — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:04:28 -0000

B-b-but Idris is ENGLISH. He'd be all "leftenant" this and "Her Majesty's" that.

Re: 516/517: Top 14 East Coast Live-Blog and Recap!

Leee — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:33:58 -0000

RE: I can't remember past seasons quite moving this fast.

Are you saying that time itself was slower in past seasons? Let's leave Einsteinian physics out of this thread, cos it always takes 4 weeks to reach Top 14. ;)

Re: 512/513: Top 18 Performance Show Open Thread and Recap

Leee — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:13:06 -0000

Can you explain what you mean about Ashley's hips + HH?

Re: 507/508: So You Think You Can Dance Viva Las Vegas Open Thread & Recap

Leee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:05:51 -0000

Pretty sure that was Nina.

Re: Now That's A Trekkie

Leee — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:36:45 -0000

Well, I confess I have a liking for Col. Kira Nerys--love a woman who could break me in two and turn me into a grease spot on the ground without breaking a sweat (And given Nana Visitor was a Broadway dancer type....I definitely have a weakness for that).

Mirror Universe Kira. You know, leather pants.

Re: The Travel Advisory - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:01:23 -0000

re: anxiety over lack of female artists, I haven't seen anyone mention Missy. I'm an indie douchebag, so I don't know where she stands in terms of hip-hop canons, but Supa Dupa Fly made SPIN's top 100 albums of the '90s, which has to count for something, right? Right?

Re: Zionism in Palestine - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:56:31 -0000

C'mon, comparing Callie to an ice-cold soldier like Wee-Bey is harsh. You want someone done right on Galactica, you get Starbuck or Apollo -- you can't expect a deckhand greasemonkey to manage that.

But YES, MY GOD, that episode of GI Joe. Full of awesome. I probably had nightmares after I saw that the first time. Man, those were some awesome Joe episodes: the Shipwreck mindfrak, the Serpentor ep, the GI JOE MOVIE WITH BURGESS MEREDTIH AND JINX, the Viper episode... What do you guys think of the later relaunched version of the show, where Cobra tried to infiltrate GI Joe with a double agent whose gimmick was a video camera?

Oh, and the Baroness? YES.

Re: Smith and the Church - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:39:12 -0000

You get to keep Lawrence Philips, though.

Re: Smith and the Church - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:38:35 -0000

CitizenE, I'm personally kicking you out of 49ers fandom for saying that Faver is better than Young. From now on, you lose all claims on Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, and 5 SBs.

Re: Black Saturday - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:51:20 -0000

As I've been scolded before on this very issue, "frack" is the preferred spelling on the '70s series, "frak" the preferred spelling on the re-imagined series. See en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/...

So TNC is clearly and deliberately kicking it old-school.

Re: Think of the children

Leee — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:03:41 -0000

without puking when he remembers saluting the Maris family after he hit the 62nd. Likewise, I don't know how Bonds didn't implode with guilt as Henry Aaron saluted him

See, the reason that there's a strong counter-reaction to the anti-steroid hysteria is that the latter usually relies on some pastoral and mythological vision of a pristine past to supply the moral outrage. In fact, organized baseball, from its start, has been dirty. Segregation, gambling, greenies, player's coffee, etc. form a straight line of equivocal morality through MLB's history, even through the hallowed Mays-Aaron era, all of which compromises the alleged purity of the game.

For instance, any good baseball fan knows about how the '51 Giants chased down the Dodgers in the last weeks of the season, which culminated in the one-game playoff and Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" and Russ Hodges berserking, "The Giants win the pennant!"; good Giants fan know the team managed that feat by hiring a spotter to sit in center field with binoculars to spy on the opponents' signs and relay them back to the Giants. Outside of mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Dodgers fans, where's the outrage over the truth about one of MLB's most sanctified primal scenes?

Re: Musharraf Moves On - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:43:40 -0000

I was going to post something about the final 5 cylons, but is that a spoiler since TNC hasn't watched that far?

Well I think that given the fact that there are season 2 spoilers, and spoilers for something that happened in the latest episode, I hope that TNC has left the premises. But even so, I have to take issue with this:

The show is probably better than any interation of Star Trek (save maybe TNG) because it doesn't really ooze with sentimentalism.

Of all the good iterations of Trek, TNG is probably the most sentimental! I mean, DS9 is the dark one, and it also happens to be both the spiritual and genetic precursor to BSG.

About Heroes, I agree w/ jayBLU605, it's at its best since the end of the first season, but talking about it in a BSG thread is stretching things. Heroes is fundamentally a frothy cheesefest with arresting action setpieces where characters, honestly, don't matter so much as the explosions, regenerative ross-outs, and the splashiest violations of decorum and physics you can try to imagine. BSG is a political/military thriller spiced with millennialism and prolonged melodrama, and, oh yeah, set in space. The only thing that ties the two is that they're both classified under sci fi, which is, I needn't remind, a wide umbrella.

It just seemed so ham-handed.

Hey, let's explore moral ambiguity by having a bunch of the hero's in the series act villainous and a bunch of the villains act heroic! Isn't that clever of us!

I don't think that anyone had illusions that this plot development was novel, as its an old staple of superhero stories. In fact, I don't think that the premise of Heroes is all that novel in the first place -- it's a very conventional show, notable for its goofiness and how it borrows the spirit and energy of '60s Silver Age comics, and expecting it to throw some philosophical weight around is a red herring.

Re: Think of the children

Leee — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:21:28 -0000

If you look at Hornsby's power numbers, though, it looks like he was juicing. He went from 9 home runs to 21 home runs to 42 home runs in three consecutive seasons.

That's just the end of the dead ball era.

Accepting for some delay and slippage, the HR total for the NL in 1921, the year when Hornsby hit 42, was 460. Over the 8 NL teams, that's ~58 dingers per team. (How big were rosters at the time? 25?) So Hornsby's 42 still represents a huge percentage, and I'm sure it's a few standard devs to the right of the mean.

Anyway, it'd be interesting to see just how the current crop of players age, health-wise, both on the field and after retirement. Used to be players would have to get low-grade and possibly tainted steroids, but I presume that the PEDs are of better quality now, and thus, in a narrow sense, "healthier."

Re: Four Months with Charles Dickens - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:23:22 -0000

Saying that Beyonce isn't a great singer/vocalist/whatever is like saying Usain Bolt isn't a great sprinter because he hot-dogged it in the 100m final.

Re: The Novels of Mrs. Wharton - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:35:36 -0000

BSG threads will be our chance to talk behind TNC's back with total impunity!

True scifi nerd credibility lies with Doctor Who, though.

Re: The Nude in Museums - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:53:33 -0000

my biggest beef with the TV show...: the shaky, hand-held camera that is omnipresent on this show, and in movies and TV in general.

Tom, FWIW, FNL mostly abandoned this style of editing midway through the first season. But on a more aesthetic level, there's plenty "real" about it, if we understand fiction and style of all kinds to be a constructed formal device. IOW, shaky cam + abrupt edits signify a mode of contemporary Realism (note big-R) that reads, legitimately, as a transparent/verisimilar style for a certain segment of viewers. Let's also not forget that Lean and Coppola both have their directorial styles/flourishes that abrogate reality, as all mediated media are wont to od.

Re: The Nude in Museums - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:56:50 -0000

TNC,

Just adding my voice to the chorus wanting you to give the third season of FNL a chance. If you could hack the first season, you'll enjoy the third -- season 2 is essentially disavowed, both in terms of tone and storyline. (The only real plot point that carries over from last season is the Tyra/Landry 'ship.)

I'd be wary of big-upping Keith Law, he's the type that doesn't think the New Deal did much to salve the Great Depression.

Re: Street Life - Magazine - The Atlantic

Leee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:44:14 -0000

Dennis, I took TNC to mean the animated JLU stoyrline.