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Re: Being A Sad Sack About Week 1

Scott C (SHC1970) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:55:34 -0000

I'd give the special teams a 7. As sickened as I was watching the opening kickoff TD-return (and I did squirm a little on a later return), Scifres' performance automatically puts them at a 6, and I'll give them an extra point for being able to adapt to Keading not being there. (snap, hold, etc.,)

I do think the run defense is a concern, both against mobile QBs and running backs. I definitely am anxious about the Oakland games at this point, and it's going to take a few solid games to get this expectation that opposing QBs will be able to scramble for 1st downs in long pass situations.

I'm not sure what to think about the running game. Going into a third season with no reliable run game, I guess it's time to take a little of the blame off LT for his poor final season rushing for San Diego. We just don't seem to have lanes for guys to run through the way some other teams do. Is it 'cause we have too much of a protect the QB and pass protect mindset? Are we overvaluing chemistry over talent with the O-Line? Are we too predictable? Probably a little of all three.

Still, I think this a Super Bowl season.

Re: I Still Believe in Daniel Faraday

Scott C (SHC1970) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:47:44 -0000

I'm of the mindset that the Losties really haven't changed anything. I'll propose two (related) interpretations that what happened may be what always happened....

1) The incident always was what we saw in the Season 5 finale, Jack and crew's actions were always going to be that route, and they splintered off into the other timeline. AND in that time line, they will do something else in an effort to reverse that (as they become aware of something not being as it should be) and their actions there will jump them to where Season 6 started back on the island. So what we saw in LA X is actually the result of events to come.

2) The actions of Faraday, Jack, and crew were always going to be what they were (prophecized, perhaps?) and Eloise Hawking knew that as she raised Faraday. She groomed Daniel for to become the Man who would time travel and eventualy die by her hand. But, why? What great thing did she know he would accomplish by doing so? I suspect she is aware of the events which lie ahead in Season 6 and knew that he had to go back and motivate Jack and Juliet to do what they did (and die by her hand) so whatever happened did and still will happen.

Just a thought (or 2)....

Scott, cohost of ReThinking LOST
http://rethinkinglost.podbe...

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - THE GRILLED CHEESE TRUCK VERDICT I need a redo. I...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:42:20 -0000

Those silver insulation bags definitely suck. They keep steam in better than they keep heat. So you get a soggy, lukewarm product when you finally take the time to eat it.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - I saw this video on a new blog a friend...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:48:49 -0000

Cool, but you would think there are better places to test it out than in the city.

I was hoping to see him barrell rolling in it, like he kind of does at the 38 sec mark.

Still, it beats the pants off anything I've built.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - I onlylike to eat food that can be represented by...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:26:18 -0000

who wins in a fight between Super Tortas and Twinkie the Kid? What if Twinkie got to bring his whole Hostess posse (King Don and Fruit Pie the Magician)?

I think Super Tortas would get his butt handed to him. (Does he have a butt?)

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - BABCOCKS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! #24 I passed this...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:22:36 -0000

In the mid 80's I lived a few doors down the street from Heather Babcock and her family in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

But that was back in the Freaks & Geeks era, and I was the unable to drive, friends with Neal Schweiber, freshman kid. She was the cute, perky upperclassman who always drove to school and would wave one of those sincerely friendly but neighborly waves me as she and her friends would drive past the bus stop each morning. And who all my friends would tell me I was so lucky to live near.

And given that she's a Babcock, I guess I was.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - In honor of the last post and puns in general.

Scott C (SHC1970) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:10:31 -0000

Geez, and all this time I thought the song was about Joanie Cunningham.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - thehoulywoodreporter: (via my cool uncle) Google...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:35:01 -0000

So at least I know I'm not alone in seeing this and rushing to google "white people stole my car" and see what happens.

http://www.inquisitr.com/34...

I'm going to try to make myself feel smarter and less gullible and say (as intelligently as I can make myself sound) I think I see some pixelation (? if that's a word) on the word "white" and I suspect it's been photoshopped.

They have that kind of techonology?

Why, yes! It's been around for quite some time now.

Ugh, I hate beeing fooled.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - I loved this commercial as a kid.

Scott C (SHC1970) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:46:59 -0000

Yes, one of the classics.

And, Mr. Owl made a nice douche-y foil to the more affable Woodsy the Owl.

I always envisioned the deleted scenes of the commercial would go something like this:

"1... 2.... 3... *crunch*... 3" Gee, thanks a lot, prick! You know, Mr. Turtle was honest and said he'd never made it without biting. He even stuck his neck out (quite literally, actually) and suggestd I come and talk to you. Ha, ha, ha... let's bite the kids lollipop. Real funny, bird. I spent a week's allowance on that piece of candy. I hope you choke on a six-pack ring,

*sigh*... childhood memories are the best, aren't they?

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - sitko: Ron & I have been cleaning out my parent’s...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:44:43 -0000

I turn 39 in two weeks, so I think it's safe to finally share this story. Ha, and lucky you, I'll do it here.

When I was 19 (and oh so cool), I hosted a party at my house while my parents were out of town. It was the first party at my place instead of Dan's or the golf course or Rico's or somewhere else... my younger brother was 16 and finally "cool enough" to not tell on me. My friends and I were home from college. They'd pay for beer, I provide the safe haven.

So I invited my inner circle... allowed them to invite a few of their peripheral friends. Soon 16 turned into 60 which exploded to some ungodly number of people I'd never seen before.

Much damage was done that night, made worse by the fact that I went to bed at about 4 AM with my closest friends and people I didn't know still awake and in my house.

The next day, it was time for damage control and clean up. Dan fixed the ping pong table and somehow repaired the broken bench in the kitchen. Mike and his girlfriend spent about 8 hours cleaning floors and cabinets. Kevin found some magic stuff that cleaned up the carpets (probably not, but it looked good enough to me at the time).

By mid-afternoon, all that was left was to restock the liquor cabinet. Mom and Dad weren't big drinkers, but they had all the standard booze. We'd bought bottles of our own before hand, but had underestimated the number of people who'd show up. Desperate for more alcohol, we'd taken what we needed. My friends had been careful to protect anything obscure in the cabinet. In fact, Dan told me a long story about how he had gotten into a near brawl with someone no one knew to protect a bottle of something no one had ever seen before.

Was that how Andy chipped his tooth? No, that had happened outside, this was different. Oh.

So, Joe and I headed out to the liquor store with the empty bottles to replace what was drank... bottle of this, bottle of that... Joe had a fake ID, he'd take care of me. I just had to act like I wasn't doing anything wrong while we shopped.

We went to Abners (the liquor store on the town line, our town was dry... really), and got all we needed except for the 1 quart bottle of Seagrams Seven that we needed. There were plenty of 1 liter bottles but no quart bottles.

So we went to another liquor store... only metric measures. Four more liquor stores. No quart bottles. We studied the bottle a little closer and read that it was from the late 60's. It was over 20 years old, and they don't make no 1 Quart bottles of Seagrams anymore. At least not that you buy in southwestern Connecticut.

5 hours and 16 liquor stores later, I resigned myself to being caught and simply bought a 1 liter bottle. In fact, of all the bottles we'd seen it looked the least like the dusty antique we'd drank from. There was nothing I could do.

I returned home, paid my little brother his hush money, restocked the liquor cabinet with the bottle of Seagrams placed in the back and steeled myself for the questions which I was sure would come upon my parents return.

But my parents never acknowledged the bottle. In all likelihood they had no idea the original bottle wasn't a metric measure. So, I'd gotten away with it all, right? Scott free, as they say...

Um, no... because someone at the party had decided to use my parents camera to take a few photos... and didn't tell any of us (or we'd forgotten.)

And about two months after the party, my parents finished their roll of 35 mm film, took it to be developed, and found a picture just like the one you have posted above. If I remember correctly, it was almost identical, right down to the brunette holding a bottle. Except in my picture, she was holding a Corona.

And that was pretty much the last party I hosted until I moved into my own place.

Good times, good times.

So thanks for posting that picture. It brought up some good memories (and some not so good, but mostly good ones) from 20 years ago.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - (via keggersofyore) I’m scared that I can forsee...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:15:02 -0000

I keep thinking "David Cross in a fat suit"... ewww... (and I'm a David Cross fan, it's more the overall image that's getting to me)

which then animates the picture and has him doing the "My Milkshake" song that Ben Stiller did at the end of Dodgeball.

*shudder*

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - jonahray: A girl breaks up with her boyfriend...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:13:51 -0000

Wow.

The panic in that last email was palpable ("palpable?" yeah, I guess that's the right word.)

Here's the funny (or sad, depending on how you look at it) thing... I find myself wanting to know more about the story. It's so compelling. Why didn't she go and check his job or house? She went to the moms, and she stalked him via email, why not just check his place?

Exactly what did he tell her when he left? She may not be a great listener, but didn't he know that ahead of time? Why wasn't he sending her postcards?

You know what? I'm starting to think maybe he's in the wrong here. Come on, JD, why weren't you checking in on her to make sure Em was all right? Clearly she was someone who would've benefitted from some extra attention and supervision, and it sounds like you kind of knew that ahead of time.

And, JD, she asked you not to read the emails. She said "if you love me, don't read the emails" (why she didn't pull a Hollywood move and meet him at the airport or when he got home and get to his PC before he did, I'll never know), and yet you read the damn emails, JD, didn't you? Didn't you!?!?

I guess you never really loved, Em. You never cared about her at all. And yet, you led her on to believe that you loved her that much.

Bastard.

Oh sorry, not you, Ron, I kind of lost myself there... I was kind of talking to JD.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - purns: Mya - Ghetto Superstar SUMMERJAM. I...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:36:58 -0000

That post is like a giant mad lib:

I worked at Camp _____ in ______, _____ the summer after my ______ year in college and this song was my fucking jam. We would buy 40’s of _______ and head to the “_______.” I learned to love cheap beer that summer. We’d drunkenly sing songs and then stumble back to our bunks trying not to wake up the campers. Some nights you’d get up the courage to talk to that cute girl and you end up making out my the _____. Other nights you’d just lie in the middle of the ______ looking at the stars and bullshitting the night away. Fuck that summer was fun.

my own responses would be:
Canadensis; East Stroudsburg; PA; Junior; Red, White, & Blue; shack; pool;basketball courts... and the song would be Depeche Mode's "But Not Tonight"

Good times... good times.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - SONGS I LISTEN TO OVER AND OVER #24 “Please...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:10:48 -0000

One of the worst (?) things about this song being only 1:53 is that you end up playing it again... and again... and the sad mood just builds like dark clouds approaching before a storm.

Another Smiths song I like with the same sad vibe is Asleep.
http://listen.grooveshark.c...

(thanks for the link, gorjoo)

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - If I didn't stop juggling...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:00:14 -0000

If you had continued juggling and DID turn into that guy, would there have been a Highlander-style "There can be only one!!!" battle to see who truly was THE Master of Variety?

(Sadly, I must admit to never having actually seen Highlander, although I am familiar with the premise. I am actually basing this comment on the Highlander parody on Robot Chicken where they have Lindsay Lohan battling Hillary Duff and being trained by Sean Connery.)

Re: Inappropriate Facebook Status Updates During MJ's Memorial

Scott C (SHC1970) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:33:16 -0000

I dunno, I'm thinking #5 is both the funniest and the saddest of the list.

The person who said #1 pretty much needs to be smacked.

And, #4, well, I think #4 is kind of like the guy who goes to the Indy 500 and says out loud "I really hope someone crashes." Inappropriate? Yes. Is he alone is thinking it? Definitely not.

Re: Magic said...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:31:09 -0000

So might Genevieve Copperman.

I'm thinking a Grandma/Nan Battle Royale might be necessary to settle this. Sadly, we'd have to do like in Rocky Balboa and use computers to simulate my grandmother - but I should warn anyone who doubts her, she was a Nan-imal. She could out armwrestle any of my friends back in the 7th grade.

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo (via...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:11:26 -0000

Pretty cool.

Is it a bad thing that it reminded me of the "Your Testicles and You" educational video in Johnny Dangerously? (great movie)

Re: Hey Look I Just Dropped A Blog! - THE LETTER W I don’t like letter W, because it...

Scott C (SHC1970) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:09:32 -0000

My daughter (she's in first grade) informed me on Saturday:

"Daddy, you know what's weird? I always used to think "double-you-ex" was one letter."

As we talked about that a little more, we decided it was all W's fault (the letter, not the ex-president). And the non-conformance you noted in your post is where we felt the problems all started. Stupid letter W, confusing little girls and causing mischief the world over (? 'the world over'? Let's go ahead and say it does - even if it's not entirely true, it strengthens my point).

"Why," we wondered, "couldn't W have have gotten a different, one-syllable name like 'uck' or 'zep' or if you wanted to go with the sound it makes, 'wha?'"

My daughter liked "zep."

What's more, she asked why it's "double-u" and not "double-v." She's a child of the twenty first century, so most of the words she sees are typed. Her idea of well formed letters is what she sees in a computer font. Thus, her Ws (like the one I just typed) are sharply angled not curved.

Sadly, this great discussion was interrupted by our arrival at Mc Donalds and a sign announcing the happy meals contained Monsters vs. Aliens toys.

I'll assume it's simply tabled until she learns cursive and asks my why Q is written as a number 2.

It seemed comment-worthy that that very point you post about had come up on the other side of the country a few days ago.