NFL TV Rant
 

Similar to Ty's point, except different, it could also be worse because this week you just might've been subjected to some of the most mediocre games in recent history.

I've said elsewhere that the LA media grows its sports columnists in the mold of the NY barracudas. They probably keep covers of the NY Post on the walls for inspiration to become wiseasses, and the absence of any NFL teams in this market probably just makes them meaner this time of year. This week's installment shows that they're coming along. Money quote:

• The Jets moved into scoring position by keeping the ball on the ground. Curtis Martin ran four times for 28 yards. Carter ran once for nine more, producing a first-and-goal situation at the Baltimore four with 50 seconds remaining and two timeouts left.
  
  Cool, calm leadership, that's what the Jets needed at this point.
  
  Instead, confusion broke out all over. The Jets let the clock run down to 18 seconds before running a play, a one-yard run by Jordan. After a timeout with 14 seconds left, Carter threw incomplete. Eight seconds left. Still time for one more shot into the end zone, except Carter was so slow breaking the huddle, Edwards had to burn his last timeout and send in Doug Brien for the tying field goal, serenaded by booing home fans.
  
  On to overtime … and you know what they say: Never give Boller a chance to win a sudden-death game on the road.

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

These Beavers know it's not just luck but also hard work.

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

Tearing apart a beaver dam is a mess of hard work. Unless you use a lot of explosives (may be void where prohibited). Shooting a beaver is hard work, too, if laying around in the cold of an early morning waiting for the beaver to show himself is hard work, which I think it is, unless you find one of them beavers that builds a dam close to a Starbucks.

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

I'd never shoot a beaver. I like beavers.

800-FLOWERS
 

Anyone have a cheaper, better (perhaps web-based) alternative to 1 (800)-FLOWERS? Future SIL's birthday today (hi Elisa!).

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

Well, sure. But just wait until they come across your money and build a dam with it.

800-FLOWERS
 

After this, if it's truly the thought that counts, query whether the flowers are still necessary.

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

A bunch of good beavers are worth a lot of dam money, IMHO.

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

And yet sometimes they flood things that would best not be submerged.

Their uniforms, while not particularly attractive, are not as bad as the Ducks.

Beavers:
http://media.scout.com/Media/Image/18/182662.jpg

Ducks:
http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2003/11.../oregonfby.jpg

I wish my beaver was this lucky
 

I sense an anti-beaver tone in here. Seems downright misogynistic to me.

NFL TV Rant
 

You didn't want to see the Giants game anyway. Trust me on this.

[Fuckers cost me my otherwise winning Parlay because Giants and Arizona offenses are so completely incompetent that they couldn't score 39 points between them. Bastards.]

This has absolutely nothing to do with those dam beavers
 

I've read that in many cultures speaking these words aloud in select public venues* works as a spell virtually guaranteeing that one would not be plagued** with spinsteritis.

Likely cureholders have been known to utter the responsive verse from 3rd Madden, verse 16, namely "that is so hot!".***

Yours,
My Eyes Are Still Bleeding From The End of the GB-Minn Game


* i.e. a sports bar or similar drinking establishment
** plaguing not implied if speaker happens to be a lesbian or is happy being a spinster
*** Hi, PLF!

This has absolutely nothing to do with those dam beavers
 

Sadly, your culture is not my culture.

Even more sadly, I saw the game I wanted to see on Sunday. It did not end well. Come to think of it, it did not begin or middle well either.

of relationships and movies
 

First, I have wondered the same thing, and I am sorry for everyone who is having trouble.

If it makes you feel any better, Adder, my "marriage" is going quite well. I must admit, I never really thought I would enjoy spending my time with one person so much.

Of course, I cannot actually get married, unless we move to Canada.

Go figure.

GWNC any advice on moving to your old stomping grounds?

To change the subject for no particular reason, we saw the Incredibles last night, what a fun movie. As we were leaving a little boy decided he would be Dash, and he ran in front of us as we were walking out of the theater, his mother and father running behind. It was adorable.


We're going to see Polar Express on IMAX later this week. I saw my first IMAX on a proper IMAX screen last week, Forces of Nature. I highly recommend it.

Football didn't ruin MY weekend
 

But probably only because I don't follow it.

Taping is really, really tedious. On the other hand, it's incredibly satisfying to pull it off and see the finished* product.

My wrists hurt, my fingers hurt, and I still have paint on me. And on the stepstool I borrowed.

Back to the paint mines tonight . . .

*not entirely finished, but pretty much