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Well, you might have seen Brady at one of those games, the little kid staring at you in warpaint Tom Brady was a 49ers fan as a kid too, Joe cool would be proud that he inspired his successor Personaly though, I want Mattie Ice to come to Boston, he's too good of a QB to be stuck in Atlanta

Thank you, now I need to convert the rest of you guys to accept Brady's Dominance

Thank you, now this bear shall solve another mystery

This was going to be a review of James Franco's movie I am Michael, a biopic about Michael Glatze, the former gay youth advocate turned Ex-gay poster boy with a wife turned Fundamentalist anti-homosexual christian pastor, and now deeply lost as both his far right allies abandoned him and he abandoned his old LGBT friends. I know I am gay, I tried dating girls when I was younger who were more masculine in reflection now (high school basketball forward), but not everyone is universally aligned on the spectrum, perhaps Michael never was and had the same distinction as many young bi or fluid kids that never found their own definitions beyond the label that society gave them as "Gay". I like movies that test my thought process and test my views on the world and people in it. He's a tragic man, a man you can empathize with on some levels and detest on others, yet there is a sort of reality to his plight that our community needs to reflect on. Being gay is not what defines you though, nor does turning into an anti-gay crusader defining for you either. In the end, you are still using one piece of your life to extract meaning to the rest of it. Sexuality is neither the validation for your life nor the reason to fight against it. We can all easily fall into the trap of being defined by our sexual orientation and become self-destructive as Michael Glatze slowly evolved into. Seeking your "meaning" is a personal process, not something others can do for you. As a gay author, I write a lot of stories, I engage in a lot of debates, but above all, I love experiencing everything. I went through my Christian fundamentalist phase early in life, I can still quote biblical phrases in KJV and international version of the bible. The need to seek God is a strong thing, no one should deny. However, over time you will realize the means to the Kingdom of Heaven are not in the hands of religion or its leaders, but the faith and truth that God instill in each person holds within them. I do not believe God would put 7 billion people on this earth only to judge them as evil for more than 6 billion of them eventually for not being a certain kind of Christian. God is love; people's interpretations and our own need for exclusive rights to God is not his will. For readers of this blog entry and fellow writers who stumble here, try to remember that our lives exist beyond just being gay, our meaning exist beyond what other tells us it should be, and you are yourself and only yourself.

Wow the vote is tightening, we just need 1 more to win Come on Pats fans, let's win the GA Poll first!

Well, Bradshaw doesn't seem to have much of a fan base If you think running back ball sharing in the modern league is nuts (Falcons got Tevin Coleman and Devonte Freeman, both good RBs but it's hard to share screen time), try quarterback ball sharing: Steve Young and Joe Montana were bitter rivals and best friends:

I know I've heard about "the Catch": https://youtu.be/14CKs0rY0jE

Well, look at it the other way, you are both better than Philly Eagles or Cleveland Browns

That reminds me of a scene from a locker room.... Deflategate is overblown mess, like spygate, and all the other stuff people have been blaming us for over the last 10 years. This season, we got handicapped and still made it to the Super Bowl, what does that say about Brady's abilities? It's time people respect greatness, but as a famous TV show would say: The resident Shadow kitty knows what I mean

My avatar answered it I actually like Matt Ryan, he would be a great trade for my team after we win the Super Bowl and Brady retires or does the Manning thing and goes into semi-retirement for a new QB. Plus, Matt Ryan used to play for Boston College,

This topic can get heated and vitriolic as a topic from the Pit, but for diehard fans of the sport of American Football, it's a long debate. Personally being a Bostonian, I would vote Tom Brady No surprise there He has just got his 7th AFC title today, 7 appearance in Super Bowl (winning 4, hopeful this is his 5th and he will beat the others), and finally he's surpassed touchdown records to the nearest contender, late Joe Montana, by double digits. Yeah, I know many people hate my home team, because we keep winning and you blame us for everything from an electrical problem to a taped recording (uh don't all players and coaches watch those anyway nowadays) to the air within a football but honestly even when you put a million limitations and even suspend Brady for 4 games, we sill made it to the Super Bowl. Let's have a fun sports debate, I am more than willing to throw down with other people on QB's from Rodgers to Manning (either brother) and we can have fun duels on their abilities and stats. Here's my top 5 rankings: 1. Tom Brady 2. Joe Montana 3. John Elway 4. Brett Favre 5. Peyton Manning I know I am missing Terry Bradshaw, but I never saw him play.

Too Obvious which team I root for

One more old favorite show that some of you might remember: 2000-2001 Witchblade A show with a great myth/fantasy premise, super powered female hero, and was LGBT friendly for its time. I still wish to know what happened to Sara and the mysterious witchblade, the weapon that has descended through the ages from female heroine to female heroine. Joan D'arc is a famous weilder.

Really long cold war with a few flare ups and border wars. It was supposed to be a reference to 20th Century US/Soviet cold war. As for Dax and McCoy, I wouldn't mind seeing a young McCoy on Discovery, it would make a lot of sense to see him as a junior doctor in training around this period just like our doctors work in the field before they practice. Also around this time, McCoy had a pretty steamy relationship with Dax and with Dax you could imagine the interesting menage a trois and poly-relationships she'd get involved in, we could finally know why Kirk calls him "Bones"

. (P.S. @Hunter Thomson - Tobin Dax would make a high-larious guest character, at least!!) The episode must be written and directed by Woody Allen Based on the show and books, Tobin would have been a relatively older guy and near death at this point, if not already. It would likely be Emony Dax, the same Dax who had an affair at Ole Miss with Doctor Leonard McCoy, while he was still in Med school (I imagine a young McCoy to be a futuristic Southern Rogue). Remember, Dax said in DS9 episode Trials and tribbulations that she was around as a Gymnast in the early to mid 23rd century, Curzon was late 23rd to early 24th century.

Well, just be glad they didn't go Chris Carter's route with the X-Files: 1. End the show by killing or possibly killing (cigarette smoking man) from helicopter attack, FBI agents get hauled off, Mulder and scully on the run, and the X-Files locked away. 2. Then rehash it with a Monster of the Week movie that alienated most of your fan base in 2008. X-Files: I want to believe made me not want to watch. 3. Then, redo a short lived "zero answer" series on Fox in 2015 Basically, some shows deserve to die without real answers if what we get in trying to answer them is garbage. Some shows had really good ideas that were too ambitious for their own time, like Battlestar Galactica, which got a revamp in 2000's with Ron Moore of Star Trek, actually giving fans an ending (we're all actually Cylons it turns out, by your command). Or for those that remember 90's TV, Alien nation was an awesome series featuring alien culture in contemporary America with the Aliens being multi-sexual and openly displaying homosexuality (probably was too out there for 1990's senses as protest fired against Fox, but hey I'd do a reboot now) Other shows had great writing and high concept, but in the end they got bounced by some exec looking for more after the initial ratings, like Firefly. Joss Whedon could have done so much with that show. Or, a more recent show, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles was a great show with promise, but again got killed. Lastly, The 4400, was shot down with s many open questions, who were the uture factions manipulating our present with superpowered humans, what's going to happen to Maya, did the guy teleport downtown (for non-geeks The 4400 preceded Heroes, so Hiro actually was not the first live action teleporter). Scifi shows on my list that got ended too soon: Original Battlestar Galactica Alien Nation Frefly Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles The 4400 Non-Sci fi shows also possess interesting mysteries too that never got resolved. My favorite 1990's show with a sinister mystery plot was the Pretender, great show and ended with a runaway train of unanswered questions: Who is Jarod? Who Killed Miss Parker's Mother? Is Mr Parker hiding a deeper secret? Why did he shoot Raines? How many more pretenders are there? Why is the Triumvirate an African illuminati-esque figure? How many more paternity, fraternity, or whatever you call it plot can they keep up? Were they entering Sci-fi territory by introducing psi abilities? The followup movies just made it worse and added yet another layer of story with a Raider of Lost Ark storyline that made me wonder if Jarod is even really supposed to be something else entirely. Fan's of that old series have speculated for years on those and other mysteries from the show. Personally, I rationalized the answer simply as Jarod is actually the reincarnation of a certain carpenter, teacher, savior guy I am not naming due to religious context. It makes sense with why he seeks to help people, his inhuman intellect, and the mysterious prophecy that is protected by Monks about him.

There are many shows with mysteries left with their abrupt cancellation, which show mystery still holds your interest even today?

I blame Pagey for this one: Declan Galbraith does danny boy

Happy Birthday Matt! :D

Happy Birthday Krista :D

Well, A-Tracks went away when people realized CD's were cheap and plentiful, then the CD got killed with MP3 players and Napster, and now we are in the age of Streaming. Technically, those websites are not the dark web, it's still part of the Light side of the Web, sort of like Han Solo shooting first or Luke kissing his own sister (I love Star Wars too, but since this is a Trek thread, someone has to make a few digs at Star Wars) The story outline looks decent and I like Fuller's work (Hannibal was awesome for a sociopathic homoerotic cannibal, glad he went off the cliff with his beloved Try binge-ing that show you will be pleasantly surprised and hungry at the end of Season 1) Borg + Time Travel = Dead plot after First Contact and Star Trek Voyager, plus "cough" Enterprise "cough" ST: Discovery is a good new beginning, maybe we will get to meet old friends again, I wouldn't mind seeing a cameo from Michael Dorn aka Worf as his ancestor and even a little more backstory on the Forehead ridges. I only consider Enterprise Star Trek under Manny Coto, he at least gave us in-universe explanation for the Klingon problem and it opens up some deep wounds for Federation and Klingons that would escalate to full scale war in TOS. There's some good complex story lines there, not to mention Romulans are still skulking around trying to do re-unification, Big Lizards called the Gorn (please do prosethetics no CGI, I'd even accept another Godzilla suit), and of course we still have new intros for species like the Omni-sexual Trill (Dax had girlfriends, boyfriends, and everything else in between, I'd love to see the 23rd century incarnation prior to Curzon). Yes, I know I am geek or a Gayk, but still, I love Science fiction.

Well, international member of Netflix will get for free with their subscription, only US viewers hve to "Pay Per View". I'd rather CBS license it completely and make this a Netflix exclusive series like Daredevil or House of Cards, I like both shows and it works on a streaming platform. Basic channels and Cable are limited due to commercials and ads, streaming video let's show-runner's explore their stories without "a word from Peyton Manning about his chicken Parm sandwich and Nationwide " I guess I am part of the Binge-ing generation, we absorb pop culture and TV shows like sponges over a weekend from Vikings to American horror story (I stopped after Freak show) through Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu, if Tivo doesn't have it recorded.

I think you are fine Greg: Technically, you made the resolution not to make a resolution before you made the resolution. Thus, you have not broken your resolution Now, I am off to solve the question of the Chicken or the Egg, (the answer is the dinosaur with feathers)

Get Ready for the Final Frontier Star Trek is coming back on streaming video in 2017 and it's bringing in new characters, a new story arc set in the Klingon War prior to TOS. It's a vaguely referenced piece of Canon, but it is Canon, Fuller picked a good starting point for a 5 year mission. This period was referenced in Trouble With Tribbles on the disputed K-7 stations being a battle for Fed/Klingons in 2240's, in Star Trek VI the undiscovered country Spock referenced "an end to nearly 70 years of conflict" which was in late 23rd century so I'd estimate around this period as well. I'd prefer the lost era of the late 23rd and early 24th Centuries with the Cardassian war and Tomad Incident with the Romulans, but I will settle for early/mid 23rd century. Yes, I am Trekkie. What I hope for this series: 1. Wohoo, we have a main gay character! "Please CBS don't make him too campy " I know he's supposed to be a scientist, but I don't want Dr. Smith clone. 2. Black Female Lead, Wohoo! It's about time, Kate Mulgrew was an okay Captain Janeway, but she was bland as the Idaho farm she lived on. I hope this character has a bit more aggression like Sisko and complex personality like Kira with some tact of Riker and just a pinch of Spock's cold hand. 3. An Arc based story, wohoo! I love this kind of storytelling, I employ it as well and I know mainstream Science fiction has seen its use rise along with conventional mediums. It worked well for Babylon 5 to set up a multi-year storyline like this. DS9 also had a good run of episodes during its war arcs. 4. Please for Trek's Sake, less Time Travel if you can manage it, Star Trek Fans love the storyline, but hate how gimmicky Time Travel imploded on Enterprise as a bad anachronistic concept. If it is needed, make it appropriate for the show. 5. No Borg = smartest move you can make