@UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen: I just finished a Roth kick; read Ghost Writer, The Anatomy Lesson, and My Life as A Man and I'd recommend them all. I've been meaning to read Goodbye Columbus because anything he's written is genius.
@Slothrop: personally I'm afraid of it BECAUSE of Viggo, I'm not very high on him (mainly because A History of Violence was atrocious). I'm not sure if he can keep the movie going, I think it'll depend on how goof of an actor the kid is. Also, word is they're featuring a lot more of the mother (Charlize Theron) so I'm afraid it's going to lose too much.
and as for the ending, I don't see how one could have much hope, the survival rate is eventually going to zero but hopefully his father taught him enough to make it.
@Jerkwheat: if you have the time, and an appreciation for postmodern fiction, I just read Underworld by DeLillo and would categorically recommend it.
@Slothrop: I just re-read The Road for further effect because it's so extremely well-done; I read 2/3rds of his Border trilogy in the meantime but just didn't connect with it very much (though All the Pretty Horses is a hell of a novel itself).
@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: the smallest potatoes are the passive-aggressive ones.
@PQ Crash: no, you have put your attention on it to ensure it didn't move to Oklahoma while you slept.
@Signal to Noise: McNabb is now prepared to perform the operation, only for some reason he keeps throwing the scalpel at the patient's feet.
@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Denton must make incompetence a requirement in hiring for IT positions.
what applies to steroid use also applies here: small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
@Signal to Noise: they're in serious need of an operation, just don't let McNabb see the blood.
@Signal to Noise: he's rapidly spread from the line of scrimmage to their secondary
@Fawn Liebowitz: I would pay a large sum of money to watch any of the presidential debates re-created, question by question, with Emmit Smith and John Madden.
@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: ouch. the only thing I have going for me is that somehow I've been counter-programmed so that when I'm REALLY drunk, every thing just shuts off and I become silent and emotion-less, and usually leave the bar through a side-door without telling anyone. Unfortunately, this comes right after the "talk negatively about a person currently in the room at such a decibel level you're certain they heard you, but keep worrying to yourself and asking your friends if they think they heard you" phase.
@UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen: keep an eye on your nephews.
@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: have you ever been completely sure that you weren't really as drunk as people were accusing you to be, only to realize in the course of your rambling, incoherent, Emmit-esque defense that you, in fact, are?
me either.
@ClintonPortishead: i don't why that was just put here. i must be drunker than i thought.
@undefined: did Madden just say Shockey is a much better blocker than Kevin Boss? that would be some insightful analysis, if it weren't the exact opposite of the truth
this is somehow Ed Hochuli's fault
so if you're Oklahoma St, you're Walken and DeNiro in the POW camp in Deer Hunter right now, because don't you have to just start kicking onsides after every score? sure there's time left but the only possible way to win is to ensure Tech doesn't get the ball again, but you have to keep putting bullets into the revolver, because even though there's only a small chance of it working and you getting out of here alive, it's better than the zero chance you have at winning if you give Harrell the ball again.
@UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen: yes, but only until Obama becomes President, confiscates all the guns, and melts them down into a giant statue of Osama Bin Laden.