^^^Ever drink sake with Thai/Indian cuisine?

American winters are marked by three big feasts: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Super Bowl Sunday. Since my interest in the game this year is at an all-time low and it will only be a few of us getting together, I don't feel like doing anything fancy or extravagant as in years past. Probably just order some pizza, have some assortment of chips and dips...maybe make a giant sandwich. Beer and/or wine, natch. Anybody care to share what grub they are fixing up for Sunday? Anybody going whole-hog crazy with an elaborate spread?

My Mardis Gras beads...and I didn't even have to flash my tits to get 'em. Happy Mardis Gras everybody!

Ear's a tHOught...wHy don't you try making SOme cookies instead of buying tHem online?

Carolina 39 Denver 16

^^^Haha, that happens to me a lot, Cecil. Woke up this morning with this song rattling around my noggin':

Some excellent music from "For A Few Dollars More", perhaps my personal fave of the trilogy. The chemistry between Clint and Lee Van Cleef is fun to watch and Gian Maria Volante is such an unhinged villain.

There's great Morricone music in the first two films...some themes that I think are even better than the music in "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly". But it's practically splitting hairs...it's all great. Here are two great pieces from "Fistful of Dollars"... This was the entrance music Mars Volta used at their concerts...

Oh man, this song and entire scene is such a treat...choreography by the great Agnes de Mille. I hadn't seen "Oklahoma!" in some time but I have to say I think it's my favourite Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Which puts it in the running for greatest musical of all-time. Sorry Ddladner and Kiwi Zep, I even put it ahead of "Sound of Music"...just barely.

Happy Birthday Rorer714! Born the same year as me, I am guessing you've given up the 'Ludes by now. Have a rocking birthday.

Music by maestro Ennio Morricone. Did you watch the first two in the Leone-Eastwood Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars and my personal fave, For A Few Dollars More? Who won? Did Merry Olde come thru? John Larroquette. ? Might I suggest "The Sea Hawk" next, with the immortal Errol Flynn?

This totally has the look of a Seattle-Denver Super Bowl redux. The Panthers had first-round bye week in the playoffs, remember? If the layoff didn't cool them off then, I don't see it cooling them off now. It certainly didn't cool off Seattle when they decimated Denver two years ago. And Peyton is even older and gimpier now than he was then. Unless Von Miller and Demarcus Ware turn into Mean Joe Greene and L.C. Greenwood or Cam Newton turns into Rex Grossman, I don't see Denver having much of a chance.

Thank you Paul. I was just thinking the same thing. After all the hot air and silliness of the past two weeks the actual Super Bowl game is almost upon us and it's time to remind those who haven't to get your game pick and score in by Sunday afternoon.

Holy shit. I am so sad and flummoxed by this news, Steve. Never in a million years would I have expected this...Dave Mirra seemed to have a great life. 41 is soooo young. His poor family. Contrary to the MASH song, suicide is not painless. It leaves pain for your family and friends. R.I.P. Dave Mirra.

^^^No response? I'm not feeling any buzz for this Super Bowl. No juice...no excitement. In all the years of the Super Bowl, the ones I cared about the least were the 2001 game between Baltimore and the Giants (didn't watch a second...spent the day at the beach with my girlfriend) and the 2007 Colts vs. Bears yawn in the rain. This year's is right up with those ones, in my opinion. I don't care about either team, their cities, the players, even the coaches hold no interest. I love San Francisco but the Super Bowl is actually being played an hour and a half away in the sleepy burg of Santa Clara. The NFL needs to brush up on its geography. Even the halftime show is a sleeping pill this year with those bland, boring Brit tossers Coldplay. Maybe an earthquake will hit and swallow Coldplay whole. That's the only possibility of excitement I see entering this Super Bowl.

I went to this last night http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-hateful-eight-1 and Jennifer Jason Leigh told a funny-sad story about one of the scenes. She told how the guitar she played in the film was a vintage Martin acoustic from the 1800s worth thousands of dollars and she fell in love with it and was hoping to either buy it from Martin after filming was over or maybe get Quentin or Martin bequeath it to her as a parting gift. So when they shot that scene where she plays and sings in one take, her reaction was real when Kurt Russell took the guitar and smashed it to pieces. She was really aghast and upset at what Kurt did. When Kurt found out about the guitar's value and that Jennifer was hoping to keep it after filming, he cried and was sorry. Martin ended up giving Jennifer another guitar from the 1840s. When Jennifer asked Quentin why he didn't yell "cut" after she finished playing her song, Quentin replied that the take was so perfect he didn't want to spoil the magic by interrupting and decided to let the camera roll to capture Kurt Russell's reaction. Unfortunately, nobody knew Kurt was going to go John Belushi on the valuable guitar.

Happy (belated) birthday to the Madame who began this thread, Manderlyh!!! Come out of your basement, Manders, and enjoy your Celebration Day with all the bells and whistles and trimmings! Keep on rocking! Birthday blessings and cheers to you! Sorry it is late...I tried to post this yesterday but the site was giving me hassles, so I had to wait until I could get to a desktop.

Gremlins in the Forum again. It's still temperamental regarding posting photos but now it has completely stopped me from posting in the Birthday thread. I have been able to post in the General Ramble On section today but every time I try to post in the Birthday thread I get a "Browser has unexpectedly quit" notice and the page disappears. I have cleared my cache, my history, my cookies, rebooted and restarted and everything else I can think of, to no avail.

With regards to the recent Hall of Fame vote, all I have to say is as one who watched him play, Tim Raines absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame. It's a joke he hasn't been voted in yet.

In all seriousness, football should be the least of Johnny Manziel's concerns right now. Physically and especially mentally, he is not fit for professional football. Can't any of his family and/or friends recognize a "cry for help" when they see one? Manziel is obviously deeply troubled and on a self-destructive spiral. What the fuck are his family waiting for...for him to die and then they can stand around and cluck "oh, if only we knew he was in trouble"? Stop treating him as your meal-ticket and treat him as a son/brother/friend in dire need of help you fucking leeches!!! The first step is to get him out of football. That dream is on hiatus until he can get right. There are plenty of other employment options. Playing in the NFL isn't a given or a right, it's a privilege you have to earn. Johnny Manziel hasn't earned it yet. The second step is to get away from this girlfriend of his. I don't know him or her, but it is obvious they have a "toxic relationship" and it would be best for both of them to break it off and go their separate ways. Neither of them are probably mature enough to be in a relationship...she might even be one of those women who get a kick out of provoking their man to violence. I have no rooting interest in Johnny Manziel as a player. I am no Texas A & M fan and certainly no Cleveland fan. I didn't care for Johnny Football and all that entailed. But it makes me sad when a young man fritters away so much away and is clearly suffering psychologically and nobody in his inner-circle can see beyond their self-interests to get the kid some real help. If this ends badly for Manziel, they will all have his blood on their hands. Right now, the last place I want to see him is on a football field. He should be in a doctor's care.

Watch Jerry Jones try to get him for the Cowboys.

First pick in the draft, here we come!

First of all, he died in the month of February. Second, and most importantly, he died TWO FREAKING YEARS AGO! February 17, 2014 to be exact. I guess news travels slow to Japan..or Texas.

I couldn't remember if there was a Ronnie James Dio thread or not...it took me a while to find this as it was buried quite a ways back. Anyway, these photos should be self-explanatory. RJD was a true Metal Hero.