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Controlled Chaos

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  1. Two year old human child?? As opposed to all the alien 2 year olds running around??
  2. QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 04:11 PM) this is the wall in my room most of my other stuff is hanging around the apartment.....the scotty SI i got him to sign Where did you get the magazines frames and how much was it??
  3. QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 9, 2006 -> 03:21 PM) So why aren't the 100's of killed every day IN THIS COUNTRY from violence covered with the same fury? In 2004, the last year for which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has complete statistics, there were 16,137 reported murders in the United States. Iraq Casualties by year 2003 486 2004 848 2005 846 2006 126 Total 2306
  4. I wonder how many people are going to read this post and dial the phone sex number!!
  5. I'm going to the game on Tuesday and i was kind of wondering the same thing. On game day....is tehre tuff to do or see before the game? Can you catch them working out or anything? Maybe get autographs?
  6. Anyone else notice the lady has 4 kids and she is only 22. Wow....
  7. I been to Babies R Us for nursery stuff the last few weeks and I've seen sox stuff there. I also got my nephew a sox outfit from Target last year.
  8. I'm kind of in this boat..... If you don't post you run the risk of looking like you are past the point of caring when really you are just tired of the :banghead and the and the and the But for now it suits me...I read what you guys write on both sides and make my opinions from there...I usually just keep them to myself now...
  9. Great job guys. I enjoyed listening!!
  10. QUOTE(SnB @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 02:55 PM) Undeclared. Hilarious!! Has to be #1 on my list. DVD is out http://www.undeclaredonline.com/
  11. Is there a way to notify everyone when something like this happens?? I hope you get the bastard that did this!!
  12. I thought Crash was a very good movie. As for Brokeback, I haven't seen it and I have no desire to see it, but I have read a few reviews such as the one below that pretty much says the movie just isn't that good. The other two reviews I have read were from gay movie critics. I mean they both started out by saying...I'm gay so don't call me a homophobe, but I didn't like Brokeback and they said how they are getting so much flack for not liking the movie. The first thing people say to them is they are anti gay, without knowing that they were both indeed gay. They said it's like a sin to criticize the movie, but it just wasn't that good and it was boring. Anyway here's one review I just found. 'Brokeback Mountain' wasn't very good That's right; I said it. Brokeback Mountain, which critics everywhere are fawning over, isn't a great movie. I mean, sure, it's okay. But eight Academy Award nominations great? Not at all. Brokeback Mountain is a story about two Wyoming cowboys and their homosexual love affair over the course of twenty or so years. It's based on a short story by E. Annie Proulx, who also wrote the source novel for 2001's The Shipping News. Unlike other films based upon previous works -- in which there's usually too much material to fit it all into a movie -- Proulx's short story didn't have enough material to fit into this movie. As a result, director Ang Lee fills the movie with sweeping vistas and a repetition of the same chords over and over again on the soundtrack. Seriously, how did this movie get nominated for Best Original Score? It's the same four measures of music over and over and over for two hours! The second half of the movie feels forced, as Heath Ledger's wife, Michelle Williams, finds out about his love affair with Jake Gyllenhall, and eventually divorces him. Ledger becomes a loner and drops out of most sociable life. Gyllenhall marries the daughter of a farm-equipment salesman and becomes a successful farm equipment salesman, too. One could suspect that Ledger's lack of success is due to his constant fear of being discovered as gay. Plenty of opportunity is given to this film to explore Ledger's fear, but it is mentioned only superficially. Unfortunately, that would have been a better movie. Also, the end of the film presents an interesting dilemma for the audience. It's perfectly ambigious -- "perfectly" in the sense that there is absolutely, 100% no way to figure out what really happens. (I'll leave this sentence ambiguous in case you haven't seen the movie.) It's either really good writing or it's really bad writing to leave an audience without any clues. So, what do we have, here? A story of forbidden love? Extra-marital affairs? If it were any other movie, then Brokeback Mountain would have gone to video without a peep from anybody. But they're gay, so it's a novel new idea! Holy crap! There are gay people? Jesus Christ, I had no idea! Oh, man; a movie about gay people! How bold! How daring! Never mind the mediocre story and obvious attempts by Lee to fill space; there's gay people! A tour de force! A triumph! Michelle Williams is "a revelation"! Brokeback Mountain will change the way films are made forever! Except, all of that is overblown crap. To anyone who's been thinking in a progressive way for the last ten years, gay people aren't a novel idea. It's also not like they've never been represented on stage and screen before, either. This isn't a "triumph." Rent was hugely successful on Broadway, and there were gay people there. And in the movie version, too. Brokeback Mountain is, to Hollywood, what Margaret Cho yelling "Bush sucks!" is to one of her shows. It's an attempt at cheap applause. Of course the audience at a Margaret Cho show is going to scream and clap and get rowdy at the line "Bush sucks," because they all agree with it. Likewise, Hollywood is going to pat itself on the back for being progressive when Brokeback Mountain comes out, because they all agree with it. (Hollywood is pretty self-congratulatory, anyway. Who do you think are the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?) This film is either preaching to the Hollywood choir or to the choir of people who already know that there are gay people. Two groups of people won't see this movie: (1) people who don't think it looks interesting, and (2) people who hate gays, anyway. The second group is never going to see a movie that homosexualizes the cowboy, one of the sacred ideals of masculinity in the United States. Brokeback Mountain is novel in the sense that it takes one of American heterosexuality's greatest ideals and turns it on its head. But that's about it. The first group of people aren't going to see it no matter what, because they saw the trailers -- filled with Wyoming vistas -- and decided there weren't enough explosions. And the progressives? Hollywood will go to the movie and applaude itself. The other progressives will go to the movie and come out bored and frustrated. Bored that the movie was so boring. Frustrated that an important issue was portrayed so blandly. Seriously, if you remove the homosexuality, what is there to this movie? An extra-marital love affair? I wrote four of those movies before breakfast! If you want to watch a movie and feel like you're being progressive, go watch Crash, which is a much better movie. Also, Munich, Syriana, and Good Night, and Good Luck are better movies. (Crash is pretty awesome, though.) And yet, Brokeback Mountain will win not because it's a good movie, but because it's a mediocre movie about an important issue. Aristotle said that the ideal play is both dulcis and utilis: pleasing to watch, but also filled with good lessons. Even though he was probably gay, too, Aristotle would fault this movie on dulcis grounds. Then he would go see Batman Begins, which has more explosions (and is actually a better movie).
  13. QUOTE(DePloderer @ Mar 3, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) Calm down calm down, lets not fall out. I was thinking of fast food style before the game, pizza sounds great and something better for the evening before, price for this is not an issue, we'll be on holiday after all. I can't think of any style of cuisine we don't enjoy, I was hoping for something away from the tourist trail. Get this man an Italian beef sandwich before he leaves Chitown!!!
  14. QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 03:52 PM) Somehow a script got inserted right above the google ads. I removed it and checked the other skins and saw nothing. Going to make sure an update the security on this site and get the passwords changed as a precaution. I know a while back PHPBB had a lot of problems with security flaws but IPB is supposed to be very good on that front (Vbulletin is too). Whatever it was it appears to be fixed but I'm going to do what I can to protect it from happening in the future. Thanks man!! It was rough being at work today and having to do WORK!!!!!!! I was having withdrawls. Just so you know...I have IE 6 with all the latest updates on it. I have Norton on my machine so it caught the trojans. Unfortunately the other machine I tested didn't have Norton on it yet...thats why i get hit. Anyway thanks for gettin us back up!!
  15. QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 03:45 PM) Hey CC I think I just fixed it. It looks like someone (maybe a hacker) put a script into this skin. I just removed it, but was going to see if that fixed things on your end? Yeah I'm in for the first time since about 11:30 am. f***ed up thing is I tested soxtalk on a brand new machine to see if it was just my computer...and that machine got hammered with spyware. I had to rebuild it from scratch it was so bad. I couldn't even boot into safe mode. Glad it wasn't my machine.
  16. QUOTE(Cknolls @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 10:08 AM) The sodfather is a big fan of Vito&Nick's in Lemont. He is in there all the time, especially Fridays. The only Vito & Nicks I ever heard of is on like 85th and Pulaski. It is pretty famous for their ultra thin crust. If I had to pick a fav of that style of za ir would be them. Weird thing is when I was growing up around there...I remember it being Nick and Vito's, but now everyone tells me Vito & Nicks. I know I'm not insane...it used to be the other way around. Anyone know what I'm talking about??
  17. QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 09:23 AM) You son of a b****. It was all you dreamt of and more....
  18. QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Mar 1, 2006 -> 09:19 AM) I haven't clicked but I'm assuming this is NOT safe for work Good Assumption...but really how could you resist!!! It isn't porn...just a celebration of the perfect female body.
  19. She looks dam good!!! Her skin is so smooth and silky.
  20. QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 28, 2006 -> 03:49 PM) Tip Toes I thought I was the only one to see that movie. I was flipping through and saw Kate Beckinsale and watched it. Weird movie
  21. I was the White Sox in Pee Wee's and our colors were fricken green and white. Scottsdale Durkin Baseball.....gotta love it. There's nothing like fielding a groundball on dirt as hard as concrete.
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