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#18051 Re: The Garden » House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski *Book Review/SPOILERS* » 935 weeks ago
Sounds interesting. I'll have to see if this book is on the paperback bookclub site I am a member of.
Yeah, I remember Poe. I didn't even know she had a new album.
#18052 Re: The Sunset Strip » Lindsey Lohan broke » 935 weeks ago
Funny though, I predicted her decline many months ago. You cant spend money like it grows on trees when your actual career is in jeopardy. Her music career tanked, and Hollywood producers were already saying they were gonna start phasing her out of big roles. Her films never made money at the box office, so her per film fee is going to drop astronomically.
What does she do? Become a tabloid star and spend all her money like she's gonna have million dollar bricks of gold being fed exed to her house on a weekly basis.
Ridiculous. She could've been set for life.
Kinda similar to what Whitney Houston went through. She became a crack head in the late 90's, and while spending all her money, she forgot she didn't write 99.9% of her songs, and had only done minimal touring in her entire career. She had a ton of money being smoked up but no money coming in. Its why she is desperate for her next album to be her comeback. Its literally her last chance at getting rich again.
#18053 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 935 weeks ago
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A future Super Bowl champion may someday be crowned overseas in a game witnessed predominantly by a foreign audience, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said.
"There's a great deal of interest in holding a Super Bowl in London," Goodell told reporters Monday. "So we'll be looking at that."
The commissioner said London's new Wembley Stadium would make a great candidate for pro football's biggest matchup, given the enthusiasm overseas for the game.
The NFL has been expanding its overseas presence for years by televising games around the world. It's held preseason games in numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Mexico and Canada, and in 2005, the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers played the first regular-season match outside the United States.
The game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City drew the league's largest crowd to date, 103,467.
On Oct. 28, Wembley will host the first regular-season NFL game outside North America. It took just 90 minutes to sell the first 40,000 tickets for the game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants. Goodell said event organizers have sold 95,000 tickets in all.
Goodell spoke about the possibility of a British Super Bowl after a luncheon Monday in Scottsdale sponsored by the host committee for the 2008 Super Bowl in Arizona.
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This is the dumbest idea the NFL has had in years. While people all over the world do watch the SB, it is primarily an american sport, and the complete failure of NFL Europe is proof of that. You cant play the whole season here and then take the big game overseas.
They better just stick to preseason games overseas, and if they want to broaden their horizons, have the next expansion team be overseas. If they did do that, Europe wouldn't be a viable option. Mexico or Japan would be more suited for an NFL team.
#18054 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 935 weeks ago
Also, that team would collapse without him. If Brady shatters his collarbone next week and is out for the year, all their SB aspirations are tossed out the window. Could they still make the playoffs and maybe spoil another team's playoff run in the 1st round? Maybe. Would they go to the SB? Not a chance.
#18055 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 935 weeks ago
Take into account Young only won one SB with a team he should have won several with, and the 49ers actually missed the playoffs the season after Montana's horrible elbow injury. If the team was that good without his presence, they should have won the SB that year as it was before Dallas started dominating the league.
Had Montana been with the team, the 49ers probably would have won that 93 NFC title game, and possibly the rematch a year later.
If Bruce Smith hadn't knocked Montana out cold in the AFC title game against the Bills in 94, we would have seen a Chiefs-Cowboys SB. The guy was one game away from taking an average team to the SB.
As far as Brady's early career, only WR I remember is Deon Branch. In Montana's early career he didn't have many weapons either. Dwight Clark being the exception of course.
#18056 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 935 weeks ago
I played the new Madden at someone's house. Haven't bought it yet as I don't play videogames enough to warrant paying those hefty prices. I agree that its not as good as it could've been, and the only real reason to get it would be having up to date rosters.
Its better than 06 though. 06 was way too easy, and things such as instant replay and quite a few coaches were missing.
EA has a monopoly on NFL games. No one can compete with them, so they have no drive to actually create kick ass games. Sega was starting to kill Madden before EA got exclusive rights.
#18057 The Sunset Strip » Lindsey Lohan broke » 935 weeks ago
- James
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She may be clean and sober, but a recent report in News of the World claims Lindsay Lohan faces a new challenge '” getting out of debt! After checking out of the Cirque Lodge, lil' LiLo is so cash-poor from the high cost of drugs and rehabilitation, she's staying in a guest house owned by executive producer and billionaire financier Tom Gores.
'Lindsay doesn't have much choice as she is totally broke,' a source told the newspaper. 'The only reason she's coming back to L.A. is to earn some money fast. She still thinks nothing of blowing thousands of dollars on a single night of partying. And the amount she has wasted putting cocaine up her nose is disgusting. Even she has lost count.'
Not tallying the untold money spent on her alleged cocaine use, Lindsay's other bills mounted quickly over the last year. NOTW states that one hotel stay alone ran over a million dollars once the high cost of keeping chauffeurs on standby and sipping Cristal were factored in. Another million reportedly went to clothes, plus 70Gs for hairstyles and 'tanning' (otherwise known as LiLo's orange glow), as well as hefty tabs for cars, parties and lawyers.
And last, there was the major expense for treatment. The three well-publicized rehab stays came with huge price tags, costing $30,000, $45,000 and $62,000 respectively. 'Rehab does not come cheap and Lindsay has spent a fortune on it this year,' the source said. 'Her first two stays there sadly proved a complete waste of money for her.' And shockingly, NOTW's source added, 'I can't see this time being any different.'
#18058 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 935 weeks ago
Go with the 360. The ultimate football experience can only be found on a 360. Wii is more geared towards kids and also a party type atmosphere. It doesn't get all the big games either, although Nintendo does have its own exclusives(Mario, Metroid, Zelda,etc.).
#18059 The Sunset Strip » Spears turns herself in to L.A. police » 935 weeks ago
- James
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LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears is no stranger to being photographed, but it's not often she has her fingerprints taken at the same time.
On Monday night, Spears reported to a Los Angeles police station to face charges of hit and run and driving without a valid license, police said.
Officer Mike Lopez said Spears turned herself in around 9 p.m. and left about 45 minutes later. Spears was fingerprinted and photographed, he said.
"She was fine, cooperative," Lopez said. "She did her business and came out."
Spears, 25, was wearing large designer sunglasses and a black turtleneck dress and jacket. As she left the station, she told KCAL-TV that all went smoothly.
"They were nice," she said of police. She told the station she was wearing the sunglasses because she had pinkeye.
The charges stem from an Aug. 6 wreck during which paparazzi filmed Spears steering her car into another vehicle as she tried to turn into a spot in a Studio City parking lot. The video showed her walking away after assessing the damage to her own car.
The owner of the other car, Kim Robard-Rifkin, filed a police report three days later.
Spears had been ordered to report for booking ahead of an Oct. 25 court appearance.
She has been spending considerable time dealing with legal issues lately. On Oct. 1, a court commissioner ordered her to temporarily relinquish custody of her two young sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, citing concerns over Spears' drug and alcohol use.
She was in court last week to appeal the order and was granted one overnight stay a week with her boys, but the visits must be monitored.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
#18060 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 935 weeks ago
i dunno Brady is pretty damn cool under pressure
You should have seen Montana. At the SB against the Bengals where they were losing and time was running out, teammates talked about how in the huddle he was mentioning how he noticed John Candy in the audience. He threw the winning TD.
One thing I will never forget, and this happened in the twilight of his career, he took an average team(the Chiefs) into Houston(Oilers back then). Buddy Ryan's defense was the talk of the league, and Buddy and his players were trash talking. Montana tore that defense apart in prime time, and the Oilers never recovered. Its one of the best ownings in league history.
Also, Montana is one of the main reasons that kick ass Bears team of the mid 80's only won one SB instead of being a dynasty.