JamesSavik

Manning is one of the leagues great QBs but doesn't tackle people or score when he's on the side line. Their running back Addai had a great game. The Saints did to Indy what they did to everybody else: wore them out with ball control. When you are facing a high powered offense the best defense is to keep them off the field and the Saints offense did a great job of that. The Colts didn't have too do anything. The press told them they were going to win going away. That's why we play the games. Something the Saints did all year to make opponents keep guessing was to break tendencies: going on fourth downs, fake punts- the onside kick was part of their strategy of keeping the defense off balance.

It's always good strategy to have a fall back position. Even better if it involves rapid mobility over backing into a corner.

Mike, Joey, Doug, Tom, Jeff and Bill and Brad are all fine. Wait until your try to spell Sebastian, Eugene or Tristan eight hundred times. Besides- don't they sound like people that you would shake down for their lunch money? I know I sure would. *Smack* Why do you hurt me? Because I can't spell your friggin' name! You've never, ever heard of a bad ass named Eugene.

The Zombie Apocalypse is at hand. Zombie outbreaks have been reported in numerous cities and chaos reigns! They want to eat your brains. What do you do???

When I saw the towers fall, it pissed me off because I knew what was going to happen. I knew that for six months that Americans would scream for blood and then change the channel, the Tin Hat Brigade (otherwise known as "truthers" or dumb-shits depending on who you ask) would never leave it alone and that it would become the biggest political circle jerk of all times. It turned out that my first impressions were right.

I stand by my assessment of Moon. It sucked raw, smelly BALLS. It wasn't even interesting enough for me to finish. It was just another evil corporation cliche. This one was just set in space and wasn't even well done. I am a very harsh critic and you can be sure that if I give it a passing grade, it's worth your time.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 978-0-307-47212-0 The Road is a post apocalyptic story of a father and son trying to survive in a radiation seared world under the deadly chill of nuclear winter. The unspeakable has happened. It is several years after humanity's final war has killed most of the worlds population. The balance of that population has fallen into barbarism and cannibalism. The world is dead and covered with the ash of its atomic funeral pyre. The trees are dead. The grass is dead. Animals are dead. Hope is dead. All that is left is the shattered, ruined and melted monuments of a dead world sparsely populated with the last humans who are dying slowly of radiation, cancer and starvation. I offer no spoilers to this book. It is a traumatic experience. It is as if Faulkner had written a epitaph for the damned: a masterpiece terrible and magnificent in its horror. If fantasy monsters don't scare you, this will. Vampires, werewolves and even aliens are merely the boogieman under the bed of children. The Road will and should scare the hell out of you because you know that it could happen. It is a horror story for our time; a slap in the face for those in denial. My only criticism is scientific: if the nuclear war had been severe enough for the radiation to take out all of the plants and animals, humans would also be gone in short order. Besides for that minor quibble, the book is absolutely authentic in every other detail. The Road is bleak, stark, heartbreaking and miserable. You will taste the blood. You feel the cold. You smell the decay and mouldering death. There is no later. This is later. The end of all things. This is a book that requires some courage because through it you will gaze into the maw of the abyss and you will see it staring back at you. ________________________ The Road wikipedia page. Cormac McCarthy homepage NY Times Book Review

You seek meaning? Then listen to the music and not the song.

Growth only comes through chaos and conflict. Only stagnation can come from the the Vorlon's obsessive introspection.

I thought Lewis Black was doing the weather there for a minute.

Neutrinos are charge-less inoffensive anti-social particles that don't usually interact with ordinary matter- so much so that they are hard as hell to detect. The idea that solar neutrinos could cause the earths core to heat up is ludicrous in the extreme. In 1987 a supernova went off in the Large Magellanic cloud. It was named Supernova 1987a. It became a huge scientific gold mine since its the closest supernova in modern times and the only one that we could closely observe with modern instruments. One of the most important scientific achievements surrounding SN1987A was the detection of its neutrino surge. According to neutrino detectors at several locations around the world the neutrinos arrived at just the right time. In one pulse we received more neutrinos than the sun could dish out in centuries. No "microwave effect" on the earths core was caused and those neutrinos were at a much higher energy state than solar neutrinos will ever reach. Solar neutrinos are created as a byproduct of the slow fusion reaction at the core of our sun. A B type blue supergiant star imploding and blowing itself into smithereens is in a whole different weight class.

Zombieland - is a movie I was all set to hate. A redneck, a geek and two female grifters turn out to be much deeper and more engaging characters than you would think at first glance. It turns out that the very skills that made these characters only marginally functional in ordinary society made them excel at survival after the zombie apocalypse. This ain't Shakespeare but it's good for a few laughs. A great bros & brews action movie. A- Pandorum - Hated it. I'm not sure whether it was the boredom, non-acting or the unintelligible rubbish that rubbed me wrong way. All these factors taken together, I am bitter about the 90 minutes of my consciousness wasted. At my age I keep track. Hard core tin-hat wearing sci-fi junkies might get off on it until something better comes along. D- 9 is an animated post-apocalyptic tale of animated sock puppets out to save the world from evil machine-brain which had slaughtered humanity in a genocidal war. You have to suspend disbelief considerably to think that nine sock-puppets are going to have any better luck than the whole of humanity. Somehow the sock-puppets prevail which leaves me thinking that humanity deserved what they got if nine sock puppets can succeed where they failed. I'm not sure what the sock puppets are saving the day for. Humanity is gone and they are only nine sock puppets to start with and less when its over. Maybe you'll enjoy this movie on acid. It did nothing for me clean & sober. It was entirely too animated. C- Moon M-o-o-n apparently spells boring, clich

Good thing it's superbowl weekend because not much else is going to get done. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Pour yourself a strong one.

Good point Jamie.

Since the dawn of time two aggrieved gentlemen could chose to meet on the field of honor and exact satisfaction. For some inexplicable reason, this long and venerable custom has been made illegal. Should dueling be illegal? Why or why not? What's your choice of weapon?

*worries that Billy might find himself in a bad situation off camera Proud that he's standing up to make a difference *

One thing I find ironic/funny/slightly disturbing about Caprica: it is the monotheists that are the terrorists.

Regenesis is a Canadian sci-fi show that focused on the cutting edge of biotechnology. It had the guts to go dark but it's writers politicized EVERYTHING to the point to where every episode went like this: drunk idealist genius doctor has a great idea Washington might object to his methods and pull his funding drunk idealistic doctor thinks of another ingenious way to work around Washington Problem solved By season II the formula was so well established and the America bashing so loud and pronounced, I lost any and all interest. Hint: If you are writing a show and you want it to score in a big market, don't talk shit about that market every 5 minutes. Piss them off bad enough and even the tin hat brigade will give you the finger.

This is Boxey and Muffit from the original Battlestar Galactica which embody the entire cute kid, smart dog and dumb robot paradigm. The sad part is that these elements were in place by the third episode. After a spectacular beginning, BSG morphed into the wretched garbage that was BSG 1980 and died like a dog after six episodes. Don't get me wrong. Everybody loved Boxey. The problem was that focusing on him was inappropriate and idiotic in telling such a dark story. It also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the story. Here we have the networks trying to make a kids show out of a nuclear Pearl Harbor scenario which had wiped out human civilization with the exception of the few people on the ships of the fleet. That dog won't hunt. It didn't work the shows writing deteriorated with every episode. By BSG 1980 it was clear that the writers and the network had no idea what they were doing. When BSG was remade in 2003, it worked because the story was as dark as it needed to be. The villains were complex with confusing motives and not merely malfunctioning toasters.

I know what makes it suck balls. Any sci-fi story/film with a cute kid, dumb robot or a smart dog is doomed to be a shitty sci-fi channel B-movie. Sci-fi fans want a plausible scenario. If you can go faster than light, they want to know how. If the earth is falling apart they want to know why. (Hint- heating the earth's core with solar neutrinos will get you beaten to death by geeks wielding heavy physics books). The best sci-fi has half its roots in science and the other half in the human condition. Ignore either one at your peril.

Way to stick it too the man Matty!

Wretched, bogus, implausible, horrible, badly written, plastic characters, a circle jerk of chicles, really, really bad science and the worst ending in the history of movies. Neutrinos that heat up the earths core? The writer should be beaten to death with a physics book. Fails the science, barely pases for fiction. Skip it or watch it for computer generated graphics- the best part of the movie. The CGI is all this crappy, craptacular crapfest has to offer. Don't be a fool and buy it at retail. Wait till it's on the $5 rack in Walmart before you add this turd to your collection. Better yet, flush it.

Let's see... if it's like American Idol, it's rigged and the gay guy with real talent gets screwed over by some hick from Arkansas in the end. As much as this reminds me of Las Vegas and the Bill Clinton years, you might want to rethink it.

In Mississippi the biggest winter sports are basketball and deer hunting.