The four #1s, in order: Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse.
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The four #1s, in order: Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Syracuse. Discuss away. Brackets forming now! Share on Facebook This Weekend’s Five brought to you by a panic attack. I was killing time, waiting for that gangsta-wannabe-misogynistic-piece-of-crap that is the soap opera I occasionally watch, to come on…sitting through another soap opera. A long-time fan favorite was lecturing the latest seventeen-year-old soap hunk he didn’t realize was his own son (Soap Action 101!) on how [...] Former Kansas City Star (and current Sports Illustrated) scribe Joe Posnanski wrote the following column October 7, 2006 — the day after his friend (and frequent subject) Buck O’Neil passed away at 94. I share it with you today because I shared it with some morons college students this morning and the resulting non-reaction hurt more [...] Today Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in jail for her role in a bribery scandal. The 37 months is the top of the sentencing guidelines recommended by the probation department. She has 10 days to appeal; otherwise she’ll start serving July 1. I used to love this night! I always watched all the nominees…for everything. And kept a scorecard. In my film professor days, I spent the day after The Night Of ranting on the wardrobe choices and the acceptance speeches. Don’t I wish I had those on tape. But this has not been a good year — [...] The best ever wasn’t even shown at the Academy Awards — it was TCM’s 100 Years At The Movies (by Chuck Workman, who edited this one and most of the best of the Academy ones) — but they do have their share of wonderfully trippy spliced-together trips down memory lane. Make your own! theme-up, or just [...] I confess: I am so in the tank for Jay Leno, I may actually be the tank. Loved him when he appeared on the old Letterman show (back when they were buddies), and he had his own segment (“Jay’s Beef”), where he would gripe eloquent on his sore subject du jour. Then I started catching his stand-up. [...] (* my new 3D series: Wankette’s Worth Watching) PBS, those marketing geniuses, decided to break up Masterpiece Theatre into three “pieces”: Classic, Contemporary, and (adding the previously separate collection to the mix) Mystery! Classics continues its season tonight with a remake of John Buchan’s The 39 Steps (yes, the same one Hitchcock did). It got mixed reviews in [...] After last weekend’s debacle, Five is at a “Learn to explain it” clinic in Lausanne. I’m here as Oscar week fill-in. Choose your favorites from the winners’ lists and make your all-time Academy Awards. Here are the links: Best Picture winners. Best Actors & Best Supporting Actors. Best Actresses & Best Supporting Actressess. Fun Fact: My all-time favorites are not [...] …on your Gucci-clad behind. Social Climber Secretary Desiree Rogers is leaving to pursue other opportunities: In a statement released Friday…the Obamas said, “We are enormously grateful to Desiree Rogers for the terrific job she’s done as the White House Social Secretary. When she took this position, we asked Desiree to help make sure that the White House truly [...] One of my students wrote that that was her favorite piece of music. She’s a snotty little wench so I know it wasn’t intentional. Have not. Stopped. Laughing. Here’s a candid shot of Paco Bell, his unit, and their cannon: NRO’s The Corner did a running bit recently, with people submitting their Fun w/Spelling Greatest Hits. Like when I [...] Because in Son of Miracle on Ice, he blocked 42 shots. Forty-two. Shots. Because if you haven’t watched in the 30 years since (Thirty years. Since.), check out Team USA in Wednesday’s quarterfinals. Because there’s finally a reason to watch MessNBC. Because, did I mention, forty-two freaking shots??!?!! Share on Facebook Because he’s now the most-decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, ever. Because he did it in the most uproarious of events: short-track speedskating. Because sure: Eric & Bonnie have more Winter golds. But they never had to do it with someone grabbing their ass. Because he was also the best Dancing With The Stars champion. Watch this ice skater’s leap [...] Continuing with Oscar-bait Watch 2010… The Academy is known for handing their Little Man to the right performer a year (or twenty) after the right performance. This is called the “Whoops! Our bad” Award. Edited for further explanation: This is not a list of people who should have won but didn’t. (that was a previous 3D5) Or [...] She died yesterday. Kiss Me, Kate is my favorite movie musical; one of my favorite scenes in film history is Kath & Howard Keel waltzing & singing to Wunderbar. Utterly unforgettable. Thanks for the memories. Love to your family. What a great chorus there is in heaven today! Share on Facebook – or at the very least, I’m saying it to my students tomorrow. Dick Cheney Drives CPAC Wild With Killer Quote: “I Will Bathe In Your Blood Before the Children of Babylon!!!” Because a certain short-track star was going to be first, until I saw this: Because America’s all about Second Acts. And he didn’t blow his. Because I like how he embraced the spirit of the Olympics this time ’round. Because this should be an all-nude shot after what I was forced to witness “below the fold” earlier on [...] Edited for your linking pleasure…Happy Valentine’s Day from Wanks & YouTube…all but two are here; one’s a trailer and one’s a clipfest and a few are excerpts (Valentino’s Son of… is the first kiss shown); all worth watching! It’s Valentine’s Day, so you knew what to expect. I b’lieve some of this is repeat business, but [...] It’s a geostationary banana.Thank heavens we got that straightened out. Share on Facebook In honor of Superbowl 2010’s Cheetos/Fritos/Doritos/Tostitos Halftime Show (and a Threedonian’s request that we compile a list for the halftime act), I bring you the return of the Battle of the Bands. Every song is one point for that group, and every number one is five points. I’ll post the winner on Monday, along with that [...] Your (Canadian) tax dollars at work: An Argentine artist called Caesar Saëz applied to the Canada Arts Council and le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and was given, between the two bodies, a grant of $130,000 to create a 300-metre long flying banana that would float over Texas protesting the policies of George W. [...] Tonight’s “TCM Import” is from Iran: Abbas Kiraosatami and his 1998 film Taste of Cherry. It might well be subtitled “Talk Me To Death” — the hero drives his truck around Tehran, looking for someone who will bury him after he commits suicide that evening. Much chatter about life, death, and the price of pistachios [...] This is the first in a series of Academy Award-prep Weekend Fives, all leading up to my liveblog of the event itself. Yes: I have finally healed from that sword I fell on last year for you people. Eric Cantor isn’t the only one tanned, rested, & ready. Today’s Five is a riff on a photo [...] At least the Repubs were polite enough to stay awake. I saw the foto of JNo (our crack DHS sec’y) with both eyes shut. Hey Janet! Woulda been my response to it too. Must be why they asked Bob McDonnell, and not me, to give the response. By the way, Barry: a big two fingers up for [...] Because while trolling the ‘net for naked pictures of Chad Kroeger — my attempt to lure June Cleaver out of hiding — I came across these guys. And my heart stopped. Because I never would’ve predicted those sweet, dorky little long-haired Leif Garrett-lookalikes would age so verrrry nicely. Because their breakout bubblegum hit (“Mmm Bop “) is more [...] I confess to having no dog in this hunt. In fact, all due respect, I’d be okay with all four of ‘em losing. But I am very fond of love adore light a small candle & chant to a picture of his dad, so he wins the money shot. Bring on March Madness. In the meantime, chat away.
In honor of the Lost in Austen series (which runs twice today on OvationTV)… Which fictional character(s) would you like to meet, if given the chance? 5. Adam Dalgliesh: PD James’s detective. And poet. How do you live that life? 4. Sinbad: Or any of those Thousand & One Nights guys. Eh, I must be culturally bound. 3. Sid Halley/Kit Fielding: Or [...] More fallout from Scott Brown’s victory? Air America is going silent. Me, I think that as soon as RadioFree Thredonia hit the airwaves, AA knew its number was up. Party at Porvaznik’s! Share on Facebook Eh, why not turn this into “All Scott/All the TIme”.Are we not entertained? And let me say this, with respect to those who wish to harm us, I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation – they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. In dealing with terrorists, our [...] In a snit the other day, and arguing with a friend (male) about the inability of his sex to understand the erotic appeal of the written word. ” ‘fraid we’re all visual, Luv,” he dismissed me, airily. ”Dear Penthouse Forum…” notwithstanding, I guess that’s true. But just like little girls sometimes like to dress themselves up in [...] Because a few weeks ago, not even conservative pundits gave him a snowball’s chance in hell of pulling this off, and refused to do any water-carrying because of it. And he’s ahead anyway. Because he kind of looks like Richard Gere here, and I am down with that. Because his opponent is a cloth-eared doofus who embarrasses [...] Credit to our Trooper-about-town (Rich), who got me musing on this subject after his post about food he grew up on. I missed a chance then; I’m making up for it now. How old were YOU when you figured out that the way your mom made tuna salad was..not how everyone made tuna salad? 5. tunafish [...] Eh, I haven’t had the time to do much leg work. The Anointed One (h/t Sean Hannity) is going to Massachusetts. Or is it “–ettes”, Martha? The latest from The Gift That Keeps On Giving: the use of the World Trade Towers in an attack ad. “Scott Brown supports corporate greed,” etc etc. It’s been pulled, but [...] Because those who only know him as Mr. Chips are missing a lot of other cookies. Because this amazing, gentle Englishman acted in only 19 films, but left an indelible mark on his medium. Because of the look on his face as he confesses to love at first sight (“You turned around…and I was lost…”) in Knight [...] Since the New Year is always ripe with the possibility that, among other things, something as exciting as what these characters live through, could actually happen: 5. Han Solo (Harrison Ford, Star Wars): Sometimes the Hero’s Best Friend is way cooler than the hero. And, p.s., “A New Hope” should refer to a Bob movie you haven’t yet seen; [...] The following is all about religion and sex; the squeamish among you, skip it. Being nurse to a heart patient, especially a heart patient who’s also your mom, is a full-time, soul-numbing line of work. The worry is overwhelming, and harder to push out of sight when you’re working on 72 hours with no sleep. [...] As Wankette takes care of her familial obligations — (our thoughts and prayers are with her Mom as she is in hospital this morning) here is one of Wank’s favorites — a Proust questionnaire (pardon me if any of these 5 are repeats). My answers in bold: 1. How would you like to die? Either [...] Because his Doctor Who is coming to “The End of Time” this Saturday on BBCAmerica. Because he’s done more for trench coats than anyone since Bogart. Because his Tenth Doctor blew life into a creaky sci-fi series with intensity, humor, and crackling chemistry with his leading ladies. Because his Hamlet’s pretty good too. Because he’s proof that every woman [...] As we continue to work out the technical kinks at our new Right Talk Radio home, an early Christmas/late Hanukkah present for our loyal RF3D listeners: week 2.2’s interviews, minus the in-between chatter from me and Floyd. Some call it a blessing and in lieu of our second unanticipated delay, I won’t argue that point. Also, [...] I emerge, bleary-eyed and blinking, from the dank, dark underground of paper grading and final exams, to announce: Tell us what you love most about this time of year! I’m back! 5. The decorations…Michael Kelly (R.I.P.) wrote a marvelous essay once called “Not a White-Lights Person” (or something to that effect), about how he was all about [...] Threedonians, I need your help! Your Wankette is teaching a college course in writing. One of my students — a young man with a troubled past — has shown great promise. He’s got an eloquence and originality that is rare in anyone, let alone a 17-year-old. But. He submitted an essay (subject: “Explain a theory”) that was…ughhhhhh… delineating [...] LIVE IN ABOUT AN HOUR – please set your online radios to www.righttalkradio.com from 2-4. We’ll all get through this together. For those who have wondered just where Radio Free Threedonia disappeared to after October … We at Team RF3D proudly announce our move to the bigger virtual pastures at Right Talk Radio (since it’s virtual, imagine [...] Today’s FiveIdea, courtesy Matt Helm. He would’ve been 94 today (Frank, not Matt). In honor of this, list your favorite Sinatra things…songs, films, memories, general associations… 5. Somethin’ Stupid (w/Nancy): I loved it when I was a kid, and later (when I was old enough to get it) I listened closely & thought, God, this is so [...] Not a holiday snap per se, but I love the reminder: For Outlaw; for his buddies; for them that are there & keeping watch while we’re here. Send chocolate! send salty snacks! send DVDs! send magazines! Send your thanks and thoughts and goodies their way, to let them know, we’re always thinking of them. And thanking them. to: S. Claus I’m here to take up the haranguing reins from Firefly & the T-man. Plus, to add the girly touch I’m so known for. Our Boy in Blue Manly Man in Camouflage Togs [...] |
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