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QUOTE(Sonik22 @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 11:11 PM) This is awesome, i dont even care how screwed up my bracket is! can't disagree with that. Lots of fun and excitement. Except NC who looks unstopable. Which means they will be stopped in the next round

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QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 10:53 PM) I just don't get the "any puiblicity is good publicity' approach alot of people take today. Do they really think that changed anyone's mind in their direction? They are lucky someone didn't beat them. Alot. No, it didn't chamge anyone's mind. What it did do was get some people to voice their feelings against the war believing that if someone could be so bold to stand up at Holy Name, certainly they can speak out via a letter to the editor, on the phone with a friend, or over coffee with a co-worker.

I love protests. I love people exercising their right to free speech. But do not interfere with someone else's rights. Afterwards make your little scene and get on them news. Middle of Mass, no way.

For the sake of argument, I will not challenge your statement about them carrying the jock. You picked writers who I agree are great. I just believe there is much more room on that list. Basically you nailed a list of conventional, dead white guys in US literature. Even in that vein I would have added Twain Thoreau London James Whitman Poe Frost Cummings Eliot And certainly we have produced some great women writers Wharton Stein Chopin Alcott And minorities Frederick Douglas Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Du Bois William Carlos Williams Langston Hughes I'd also give consideration to Capote and Sinclair.

Kerouac not a great American writer? Would he be in your top 10,000? 1,000? 100? I'm guessing that Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the rest of that group is also not on your list of great American writers?

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 04:09 PM) Read it and know the list. I feel "abstract" guidelines to creative writing are even less helpful than technical guidelines. I'd recommend Stephen King's "On Writing" far before I'd give that list to somebody. Plus there are a lot of existentialst writers that would/will disagree with just about everything on that list. Kafka? Dostoevsky? Camus? I don't think these people were in love with their lives. Or wrote in amazement of themselves. It is an interesting list, though. Of course King as made a lot more money than Kerouac ever did. It all depends on your yardstick.

QUOTE(zenryan @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 03:35 PM) dammit. If we were able to defend the 3 in the first half, we wouldve had a shot at winning this game. Not upset at all. Actually proud that this team didnt lay down and get rolled by Texas. 4 starters back next season, so hopefully we can really build on this as a program. They made my #1 pick in the nation look bad. I'm hoping this was the tough game that makes them sharper for the run to #1

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 23, 2008 -> 03:33 PM) What are you talking a-boot? well played There is a comedian in the hoose!

Read Kerouac's On the Road Follow his guide, I highlighted a couple things for recent college grads 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye 17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea 19. Accept loss forever 20. Believe in the holy contour of life 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form 27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better 29. You're a Genius all the time 30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

I'm liking this year's tournament. Some surprises, but most of the 1-2-3 are still alive. I see some great games heading our way. I like that each two brackets are upset city and two are not. Each step from here should have a couple underdogs. It seems like the officiating is coming into play more than most years.

I need Oklahoma. The West bracket just destroyed me. I just checked one I tossed together for a different group, I thought they were both the same, but I made a couple changes that have me looking much better there.

The officials have the official time, there could have been an issue with the stadium scoreboard. Rare, but possible.

I'm leaning towards them not being swayed by gambling, which gives them a it really doesn't matter defense.

I just used the scenario tracker on Yahoo, in this group, if Oklahoma wins, I jump past a bunch of people, if they lose, well, put a fork in me, I'm done.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 10:32 PM) Michigan State picks a heck of a time to get their first win against a noteable opponent away from East Lansing, go figure. Another team that could not follow my very simple script and lose

And I smell like smoke. I hate that smell. And A&M lost, but all my new friends were cxrying in their beer too

drunk and no excellent snacks in then house, I hate f***ing diets.

I think my chances are coming down to Oklahoma. I'm about the only person to pcik 'em.

Looking it over, and saying screw my UCLA pick for this round, GO AGGIES! Plus, I did not have them in the final four, and almost everyone else did.

Why not Their Maggs gamble certainly paid off.

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 06:53 PM) Why would I pick ND over Wash State? I hate them. Like I really hate Notre Dame. I was thinking next year I'm going to just pick Universities I like. I'd love to be cheering for Texas A&M right now.

My next upset pick is Oklahoma. I need them to come in to pass a couple people.

QUOTE(Brian @ Mar 21, 2008 -> 10:41 PM) My one buddy picked SD AND Siena. Wow, with another buddy and you double your total? I stopped playing multiple brackets. I got tired of guys playing a dozen brackets, they always "had that one".

I got Stanford but would have loved to see Marquette pull off the upset.