Upon picking up Connie Willis’s The Doomsday Book I couldn’t help noticing the text above the title: “Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards” and thinking that’s pretty impressive. You want impressive? If I had an award-winning record like Willis, I’d be tempted to rest on my laurels. Thankfully she is emphatically not doing that; …
Blurb: Sun and Jin continue to search for each other; Locke confronts his enemy. Er, which one of his many enemies does Locke (presumably unLocke) confront? Ryan Alan Sepinwall EW pre-game blather EW Recap
When I was growing up we had some form of chicken as the main course every Sunday evening. Fried, baked, roasted; you name it, we had it. I got really really tired of chicken, although it may have been as much because of the uniformity of the Sunday menu as because of the entr?e itself. …
What’s basketball doing on so early? This is Week Two! Well, okay. A 70 – 69 game is worth waking up for. Now if Baylor beats Duke it would mean 3/4 of the Final Four would be virtual newbies to that exalted level. That would be kinda fun.
I went down the hill to the store with 10 minutes left in the Butler-Kansas State game and got back home when there were still 3 minutes left. Considering it took me 25 minutes in real time, that says something about television timeouts. I had the game on the radio in the car; I was …
Basketball or Wait Wait? Basketball or Wait Wait? T’ain’t funny, McGee!
K-State over Xavier in double-overtime. (Caution: audio. More caution: it includes Dick Vitale’s blather.) I delayed serving dinner to see the end of that. How about that kid calmly draining three free throws to tie the game at the end of regulation? “Go ahead, young man, nothing riding on these shots but keeping your team …
Okay, I admit I have Syracuse over Butler today, but I had New Mexico getting past Washington and then beating WVU, too. Obviously I don’t know what the heck I’m talking about. I’m really hoping Cornell beats Kentucky and Northern Iowa gets past Michigan State. Since my bracket got smashed, why shouldn’t everyone else’s?
“Lost” fans, remember two weeks ago the Sideways script had Miles and Sawyer as partners in the LAPD? From Losties with Jed & Cara comes this wonderful title sequence of a short-lived TV show featuring our two heroes: (Note: Turn your speakers on but low)
NYT: At least two Congressional district offices were vandalized and Representative Louise M. Slaughter, a senior Democrat from New York, received a phone message threatening sniper attacks against lawmakers and their families. Ms. Slaughter also reported that a brick was thrown through a window of her office in Niagara Falls, and Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat …