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Happy Birthday Charlie!!! Perfect weather for Kendo and perhaps standing in front of a bbq grill.

Cheers!

And for the record: Two is a piece of cake. When that third child comes around then it gets interesting.

Thanks Mark. I'm off to the library for my weekly music fix. I've seen a couple of Son Volt albums, just haven't grabbed em yet. I'm grabbing stuff for a folk mix tape.

Lou, you almost made coca-cola run out my nose and on to my keyboard!!!

Here's to us, the easily amused!!!

I've only heard a couple of tracks, which Son Volt record do you guys recommend?

Uncle Tupelo WAS a really good band. I think Tweedy has become a more dimensional songwriter since then. He's angular and poetic on one tune and soulful and heartfelt on another. I do miss the twang, but they bust it out for live performances.

Yeah!!! I hate paying for a six ish series that should have been three. I gotta get my ass back into the comic shop.

We've got to hold on to what we got

It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not!

We got each other, and that's a lot!

For love....We'll give it a shot!

 

er, I mean, how about no.

Whoooaaaa were half way there!!!

I wish I could lauch 99 red balloons and trick the US Gov't into thinking that an invasion was under way. hilarity would ensue. Cue the Benny Hill music.

I can see it now GWB doing the slap slap slap thing on Cheney's bald head.

Wilco homepage

Wilco has a partial show from their current tour up on their web site. I just caught them last weekend in London, Ontario and they were fantastic. Definitely my favorite current band.

My folks took me and my sister to see it at the dollar show when we were kids. It was a monthly family ritual: dinner at Kay's Kitchen on Gratiot Ave. and then down to the Eastown Theatre. Airplane and The Bad News Bears were a couple of my faves.

krokus - screamin in the night

SCREAMING in the night

fighting for my life

I'd die for you

I knew it all along

headin for the sun

our love was true

They really don't write em like that anymore.

And they most certainly don't make videos of this artistic quality and vision anymore!!!

I'll second Planetary.

And add for non-superhero stuff the work of Adrian Tomine (even though it's kinda angst ridden and whiny), Joe Sacco (brilliant journalism in comics form), Joe Matt, Dave Collier, (both funny and poignant) and Finder by Carla Speed McNeil (really well realized sci-fi fantasy)

No Flaming Lips?!? So I vote Coldplay.

 

Wouldn't the Pistols have had to have sold more albums to qualify as overrated?

 

As for those saying the Clash are overrated...I will hunt you down and feast on your entrails! :D

Hey Bil save some entrails for me!!!

WoW!!! I thought this thread was dead for the season, but...what the FUCK. I check out the local paper this morning and two nonsurprises that still sting. The captain Stevie Y retires from the wings and $12 million isn't enough to keep Big Ben. A sad sad day for Detroit sports. :icon_cry:

I obviously erred in my triumphant pronouncement along the way. Oh, well...at least I can change my fucking avatar now. I guess we all lost our bets? How fortunate for us all. I can't even afford to get drunk and drown my losing the championship blues. Ah, me...

Ah yes, the changing of the avatar. How depressing. We're all feeling for you brother. At least we lost last year to a team I liked. I hate those Miami fucks worse than ever now. A pox on their house!!!! :icon_evil:

And I'm $20 poorer to boot. I hope that pizza gives you indigestion Kondek!!!

It's amazing the announcers can call the game with all that Heat cock in their mouths. Poor Dirk is getting mugged and they're only calling 1 out of every 4 fouls. I guess Stern likes rough defense as long as it's not Detroit playing it.

The Mavs have the Eye of the Tiger, no doubt. Coach of the Year, 10 man rotation, the 7 foot phenom, role players like Stackhouse lightin' it up...pretty unstoppable. I'm even warming up to that loudmouth douchebag cuban, if only because there's no other owner as dedicated to his team.

No doubt. I really like the 10 man rotation. That is how you win in the playoffs. None of the 6 maybe 7 guys we were seeing in the D. Avery has got his team pumped up and believin. The only consolation I take will be when David Stern has to don his fake-ass smile as he hands the biggest thorn in his ass, MarkCuban, the championship trophy.

:icon_evil: Why can't the NBA be reasonable with game start times? The first quarter is over and it's nearly 10:00. I'm a fan, but I can't stay up til midnight to watch a game. Yesterday was Sunday, did we have had a nice afternoon game to enjoy a few bevvies, grill up some meat, and watch a little b-ball? Nooooo, the fuckin NBA is too greedy and/or too stupid. You have to figure more average fans would tune in on Sunday afternoon, than Sunday at 9:00. :icon_evil:

I think I could get into the idea of a season, or a majority of a season, of Vic trying to survive in prison. Maybe see him try to stake a claim and run things Vic Mackey style.

He won't last long if his fight with Kavanaugh is indicative of Vic's current fighting style.

bets are placed (I got $20 on Dallas)

 

i got a Loui's pizza on Miami.

We're a couple of high stakes mother fuckahs!!!

So, Marty says, "We'll be down by 3 at the half and have them right where we want them." Down by 11 at the half. "We're a great 3rd quarter team.", I say. We all sit, staring at the big screen, waiting for the run that never comes. By the end of the quarter we had all retired to the patio to enjoy the night air, smokes, and fine bourbon (really the only thing that can cure the ache of stinging defeat (oh, besides the love of a good woman)) Many toasts to our fallen Pistons ensued and Clint disappears, only to reappear wearing a t-shirt on which he has scrawled, "I heart Dirk!!!" Many jokes about that r really being a c, many more beers drank, a bottle of whiskey from our fine neighbors to the north is found, more toasts, James Brown is popped in the cd player, bets are placed (I got $20 on Dallas), a bonfire is lit, a tool for making nice neat holes near the bottom of beer cans is procured, a round of beers are shotgunned, toasts are made for the quick and painful defeat of the heat are made, to Gary Payton never gettin a ring, to Alonzo Mourning never gettin a ring, to Antoine "man breasts" Walker never gettin a ring, to Dwayne Wayne cryin we he loses, To Shaq missin his chance at a fourth ring, another round of beers are shotgunned, I hear Bushmills is good for mourning the end of the season, toasts are made to not having the Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, or Toronto Raptors as our team.beers a sipped, bushes are peed on, much stumbling to couches, pillows are found. 7:30 A.M. the doorbell rings. Clints house, so Clint answers the door (what a trooper). It's the local church collecting for their can drive. "Sure I'll check the pantry and see what we've got.", says Clint (a super trooper). "No, it's not that kind of can drive. We're collecting returnable cans and bottles to raise money for our youth group", says the church guy. Clint smiles and opens the garage and hands the guy two garbage bags full of beer cans and bottles (many with holes punched in the bottom). "Thanks", says the church guy, "and by the way, who's DIRK?"

Congrats Spidey!!! Enjoy the feeling!!!

Game 6. Must win.

DEEE-TROIT BASKET-BALL

Where as Louis is a geek who camoflages it well (until you see his room full of dolls (I mean action figures (in their pristine original packaging)). You my friend are a geek wearing hunter orange. But hey we're all discussing your nerdiness on a comic book forum, so it's a little like the pot calling the kettle black.

Shaq vs. Nash? David vs. Goliath? It's a bit early but I can already see the headlines.

Whoa there Andy. I believe a team in Dallas and a team in Deetroit may have a thing or two to say about that.

Have faith, Motown!

 

None of my predictions thus far have failed!

 

Put your faith in Suspect Palmer: there will be a Detroit/Dallas NBA Finals!

It's easy to have faith when your team looks like an "unstoppable juggernaut". I am in total agreement with my esteemed colleague, Mr. Kondek. I figured we would win last night, win at home, lose at Miami, home for game 7. Alas Deetroit Basket-ball means always doin it the hard way.

Speaking of gay...

Seriously, the worst part is I'll be forced to root for the Mavs. It may kill me to see Cuban hoist that trophy he covets so badly.

Poor Flip he is takin blows like Rocky from Clubber Lang. He was a genius all season long, now when the wheels come off everybody wants his head on a pike. I think we traded some offense for defense and it's coming back to bite us. Flip also did the same thing LB did last year: rode his starters too hard and too long. The only Pistons playing consistently well are Lindsey Hunter and Tay Prince.

Enjoy this moment Spidey!!! You never know how long it will be between championship runs (if the drought lasts too long they may inexplicably change your team colors to teal and black)