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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.

Nothing like OT

BRICK!

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NC Kansas Texas Duke NC Texas Texas

I'm screwed. My long shot Duke was the final nail.

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 04:46 PM) I'm not throwing stones in a glass house here -- I think I filled out a couple of brackets where I had them getting past this round (not to mention a bunch of other absolutely dumbass picks by me -- USC over K-State, for one). I didn't mean to throw it around as an insult, either. I just can't believe how much joy I take in watching Duke lose. I didn't think you were. I knew Duke was a risky pick. I also knew that not many people would have them past the second. I was looking for a couple teams to differentiate my picks from the crowd. Banked too much on Coach K. I understand the anti-Duke sentiment, but he runs one of the cleanest of the major b-ball programs, and I respect that. Now my only hope is UT-Austin. Go Longhorns

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 02:54 PM) I have literally been to a place in texas that just had a trough that EVERYONE peed into simulatneously. I promptly moved to PA. At least we have a video of you and that trough

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Mar 22, 2008 -> 03:48 PM) Ehh -- if you watched even a bit of college basketball this season it was fairly easy to see Duke wasn't really a #2 seed. It's also amazing what happens when the refs decides to pull their heads out of Coach K's ass and actually call fouls on Duke. Not much Duke coverage here.