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I have a friend who I first got to know as a student of mine while I was a graduate TA. He was coming back to get his Biology B.S. in his 40s. I feel semi-responsible and somewhat guilty that he enjoyed the experience enough to go on to get his Master's in Maryland, and now - after several years in the workforce - is considering starting a Doctoral program at 50! Some people are gluttons for punishment I tell you.

I thonk "Psycho Linguistics" is research that is going to prepare Soxy for really getting the most out of the psycho posts on this board, particularly on saturday nights when things seem to go to hell.

Congrats, Soxy! I'm duly impressed by that big brain. In all likelihood, you'll finish your program quicker than I did. I got my PhD when I was 30 (technically I was 31 by the time I walked in the ceremony, but I defended my dissertation when I was 30), after 7 years of grad school and 1 year off in the middle to go beat up on poor AP high schoool students in the public school system. Between work and family now I'd never be able to complete a graduate program now, so at least I goty it done while the getting was good.

The home series opener on a Friday the last few seasons has been great, because I have been able to fly in on Thursday night and catch at least two games of the opening series and then fly out that Sunday afternoon. A Tuesday home opener kills that for me, but what'ryagonnado? It gives me an excuse to bring the family up at the end of June for the Tribe and Cubs series.' As far as mlb doing the scheduling... I'm sure that's true, but the teams and owners have some input and I know JR has had some aspects of the schedule worked out the way he wants it -- opening away rather than at home for instance, and probably also the home opener series being on the weekend. It's good to be Buds with Bud.

And mlbRadio broadcasts them all for free too. Then once you're hooked they charge you for the regular season.

Big Fish was outstanding, and visually it was incredibly striking. I am such a Tim Burton fan I'm almost an embarrassment (I've even seen Frankenweinie!), so it's good when one of his films succeeds at the commercial as well as critical level. I usually have to defend a lot of Burton's stuff to the unwashed masses that I usually see as quite visionary, subtle and sometimes biting humor, with attention to detail like maybe noone else out there but Gilliam, etc. With Big Fish, a lot of people are singing his praises, and I hope he enjoys it. A also think Burton and Elfman are every bit as powerful a combination as Lucas/Spielberg and John Williams ever were On the subject of his subtle humor, one of my favorite examples is from Mars Attacks, which I thought was great and perfectly nailed the over-the-top, 4-color cheesiness of the Topps cards that inspired it, even though in liking the film I was in the minority. Anyway, there's the scene where the openly evil martians are blowing everyone away on the streets and it's War of the Worlds-type pandemonium – then there's this one alien dragging the human-built, very campy translation machine across the street on a dolly and another alien is barking into the microphone of the device and it's coming out as, "stop, don't run, we want to be your friends." I loved that.

Golden Palace.com - an online casino that has sponsored silimar outlandish promotional stunts before. That link gives soem more info on superstreaker Mark harris, and also has a quicktime stream of the Super Bowl Streak.

What are the dates? You'll be just a little more than an hour up the road from me, mon.

Add that to the 240+ trampled to death in the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, and it's a lot of dying in the middle East the last two days.

Are you really THAT FAT? ?

Todd Rundgren, "Liars" Nice sig, PA.

Yeah, they got me 100% Kucinich too. I wish he stood a chance. Runners up in order, Sharpton, Kerry, Dean. GW brings up the rear with a 3% match.

Grandma made sure we got our share of Irish curses before she cashed in.

Or the big man hisself... Bobblehead Nazz?

...Or the Boxing Rabbi?

She looks fearsome, but is she any match for... The Pope Innocent III Action Figure?

*Smooch!*

If not visionary, 'visual high-impact' at the very least is an appropriate description of Gilliam, whom I have always liked. He was the one whose eye for detail gave the Python historical send-ups that uthentically dingy look. I think his background as an animator has always made him daring in terms of the visual, as he had never been constrained by anything but his imagination as an animator. The use of detailed models and traditional stop action animation that he first really made an impact with in the "Crimson Chartered Insurance" intro piece for Meaning of Life was pretty stunning for the time, and a good preview of things to come in Time Bandits, Munchausen, etc. Brando's likening Gilliam to Tim Burton is on the money, and I think a lot of it comes from their similar animation backgrounds. Burton started out as a traditional animator at Disney, got entirely disillusioned with the company when its animation was at its low point (Black Calderon), and struck out on his own. Similar dissatisfaction with falling Disney standards is also what made Don Bluth leave to "make more Disney-like films than Disney," although he stuck with traditional animation unlike Burton. On a side note, Eisner is completely f-ing up Disney animation again after it took so many years to get back to form in the late 80s and (mostly) stay there through now. Closing the Florida feature animation studio is a completely bottomline-based decision and ignores the fact that the last two Florida-produced releases (Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear) were vastly better and more successful than the recent Burbank studio offerings (Atlantis, Treasure Planet). Now Steve Jobs and Pixar are cutting ties with Disney after their contractual obligations are met in 2006 which will certainly hurt Disney. I really hope the Board listens to Roy and considers voting Eisner out at the upcoming meeting.

Check out the brain on this one! Knock 'em dead, Soxy!

Smoked Emmenthal swiss, and Greek Kasari - the stuff they ignite as saganaki in Greektown. Opah!

You say that as if it were a bad thing.

He was working on a doomed Don Quixote project that sucked a couple years from his life and ended up having to drop several projects he had intended to do. Giliam, Smash or Trash? Time Bandits was refreshing, Brazil was outstanding, Munchausen didn't quite come together, and I don't care what anybody else thinks, The Fisher King was a very good film. All in all, a good run for the crazy American who drew the silly cartoons for Monty Python, eh? "Things looked hopeless, when all of a sudden the animator suffered a fatal heart attack (...*gasp*...), and the cartoon threat disappeared from the screen, leaving our heros free to continue their journy." He also played Faithful Servant Patsy ("It's only a model...") in Holy Grail.

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