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Month: May 2012

Homework!

May 31, 2012Jaybird

Okay. We’ve watched the first five shows from Season Two of Fringe. The two episodes we have before us this week are “Earthling” in which we continue to take a break from the meta-narrative and have a little bit of… Continue Reading →

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Duncan V. Kobe

May 30, 2012Kazzy 86 Comments

With Tim Duncan and the Spurs rolling through the playoffs, perhaps on track for their fifth title of the Duncan/Popovich era, ESPN’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning” posed the following question to their listeners:  If Duncan matches Kobe’s five… Continue Reading →

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Wednesday!

May 30, 2012Jaybird 5 Comments

One of the problems that I have when it comes to music is that I listen to this song and it makes me want to listen to that song and it makes me want to listen to this other song… Continue Reading →

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Bookclub!

May 29, 2012Jaybird 8 Comments

This week, our assignment was to watch the two episodes “Momentum Deferred” and “Dream Logic” from Season Two of Fringe. (You can read the Television Without Pity Recaps here and here, while the AV Club has their recaps of the… Continue Reading →

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Assemble!

May 28, 2012Jaybird 32 Comments

“Turn off your brain and enjoy it.” This is advice that I quite regularly find amazingly irritating. Watching a movie is already a passive entertainment… being told “stop thinking during the movie” is, effectively, telling me that the movie is going… Continue Reading →

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Sunday!

May 27, 2012Jaybird 7 Comments

I brought two books with me on the plane. Game of Thrones, and American Gods. So… what are you reading and/or watching?

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Saturday!

May 26, 2012Jaybird 2 Comments

I imagine that, this weekend, I’m playing poker. So… what are you playing?

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Playoff Predictions: Special Vegas Edition!

May 25, 2012Kazzy 22 Comments

For those of you heading out to Vegas, here are Kazzy’s Personally Guaranteed to be Wrong Playoff Picks: I like the Thunder over the Spurs in 6.  As great as the Spurs have looked, I just don’t know if they… Continue Reading →

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Weekend!

May 25, 2012Jaybird 15 Comments

Well, this weekend, I am going on my first leave-the-house vacation in… what? 5 years? Maybe 4. It’s only for 48 hours, key-in-the-door to key-in-the-door but it’s a start. That’s actually pretty much the whole weekend for me. I’m excited!… Continue Reading →

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What’s the matter with… playoff re-seeding?

May 24, 2012Kazzy 17 Comments

The NHL and NFL re-seed teams as they move through the playoffs. The NBA and NCAA basketball do not, opting for a bracket system. MLB, because of its limited playoff pool, don’t really face the issue (though they certainly have… Continue Reading →

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