Why is Ryan Suckcock and Europe on the NFL opener? Get these losers off my football! This game was supposed to be in Baltimore but the Orioles ruined it for the Ravens.

^^^ Do I amuse you?

Just so you know, Chuck, the way you formatted your post it looks like those are Paul's picks, not yours. Only ONE MORE HOUR TO GO 'TIL KICKOFF!!! Come on peeps...get your picks in! Where is Black Dog? Redrum? ebk? jb126? Bongo Man? Texas Melanie?

You'll be happy to know that I washed it down with a litre of Canada's finest...a bottle of Canadian Gold sparkling water. Dinner with friends last night: Openers... Salad of heirloom tomatoes, burrata, red onion, olive oil and balsamic reduction. Hamachi (Yellowtail) sashimi-style, togarashi, crispy shallots, cilantro and sweet soy. Heirloom tomato gazpacho. Entree... Pan-seared Bass w/ wild mushroom ragout, rapini, and cherry tomato marmalade. Wine with meal...bottles of 2011 Nikolaihof Hefeabzug Grüner Veltliner Wachau and 2011 Cline Cellars Ancient Vines Zinfandel. Dessert and afters... Strawberry shortcake. Rhubarb tart. Various fresh fruits and cheeses. Coffee.

^^^ Except then you have a bunch of boys running around looking like Little Lord Fauntleroy ponces just begging to be picked on and beaten up. Face it...some people, both male and female, just look better with short hair than long. The myth that only long-hairs can be rebels and free is just that...A MYTH! For all we know, redrum does more in one day to stick it to "The Man" and go against the grain than Mr. Garlic has in his entire life. I mean, look at Joe Strummer vs. Michael Bolton...or John Coltrane vs. that other ponce, Kenny G. Look at Gandhi vs. anybody...I'll take Gandhi, thank you very much.

Okay, I usually go to CBS Sportsline for my odds, so that's what I am using. 1000 Indianapolis -9.5 vs. Oakland 1000 Indianapolis

I have a friend who hasn't cut her son's hair since he was born. He is eight now and his long, flowing locks are past his butt.

What's wrong with "Hello Dolly!"? Or Michael Crawford? I love that movie. Right now I am watching the US Open tennis. Shocking results: the Bryan Brothers lost in doubles for the first time since 2012 Wimbledon. At the moment it's Hewitt battling Youzhny in a five-setter. D'oh! Lleyton Hewitt lost...sorry Aussies! Now it's time to get ready for some football!

Same here. I had forgotten Norv Turner was finally gone from San Di-Lame-O...but no matter who is coach, the Chargers are overrated. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami, Buffalo, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Indianapolis, Tennessee...the league is full of these teams that you just don't know if they're good or not; if they're really ready to step up and assert themselves into the conversation as contenders. We already know who sucks...the Jets, the Raiders, Dallas(hahaha! Just kidding Walter...barely)... Loser game of the week is definitely Kansas City @ Jacksonville...what a dud! Wonder how many empty seats will be disguised as fans at Jacksonville?

^^^ If you look in the Going to the Mooovies thread you'll see my post about Blue Jasmine. Go see it. Ummm, methinks you mean Sleeper? The Big Sleep was a classic Howard Hawks film with Bogie & Bacall. Or perhaps you were thinking of Play It Again, Sam, which has Humphrey Bogart giving advice on dames to Woody?

We should decide on a line to use for this thread. Are we using Danny Sheridan's line or the line at Caesar's Palace or what?

Not to mention that Japan has some of the vilest and demeaning and ridiculous television programming in the world...stuff that makes Duck Dynasty and Honey Bear look quaint. Plus, shows like Survivor and Big Brother and others were based on foreign tv shows from Norway and the UK and elsewhere. So it's not just the U.S. who has a "reality show" problem.

Nice to finally see you, Mr. Garlic.

Tolkien, hands down. Not even close. The PJ movies are what they are, and enjoyable in their own way. But I will always prefer the books.

Well, both Buffalo and Oakland got clobbered in their last preseason games, so it could be a long season for both of us. I was having pizza and beer for lunch and the place had the NFL Network and ESPN on all the tv screens. Baltimore @ Denver on NBC at 8:30EST/5:30PST is the Kick-Off game of the season. http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2013090500/2013/REG1/ravens@broncos#menu=gameinfo&tab=preview

Nobody's going to pin a thread with all this bickering, hehe. I've got four pools to make picks for, including a suicide pool I just joined today. Denver New England Chicago Miami New Orleans NY Jets Pittsburgh Detroit Indianapolis Seattle Jacksonville St. Louis San Francisco Dallas Washington Houston

I don't watch any of that hillbilly shit, nor do I pay attention to it. It might be someone's idea of America, but it isn't mine. For the record, though, "This Old House" was not the first reality show. "An American Family", filmed in 1971 and aired on PBS in 1973 was where it all began. The Loud family was never the same...and neither was American television. The reality tv bullshit really got going with MTV's "Real World" debut in 1992. Later came "Big Brother" and "Survivor" around 1999-2000. After the success of those shows, all bets were off and the floodgates opened with "American Idol" and all the rest of the swill.

That soundcheck is from 1973. Hmmmm...assuming they have soundboards or better in the vault, my top 5 wishlist would be: 1. Carnegie Hall 1969 2. Bath 1970 3. 9.19.70 MSG Evening show 4. 5.31.73 Bonzo's Birthday Party 5. 3.12.75 Long Beach

Too, too many to list. But here's a baker's dozen of some of my favourites. January 9, 1970 RAH. March 7, 1970 Montreux. April 17, 1970 Memphis. Sept. 4, 1970 LA Forum. Sept. 19, 1970 Evening show MSG. Sept. 24, 1971 Tokyo. Sept. 29, 1971 Osaka. June 25, 1972 LA Forum. March 21, 1973 Hamburg. March 24, 1973 Offenburg. June 3, 1973 LA Forum. July 17, 1973 Seattle. June 30, 1980 Frankfurt.

September 4, 1970. One of the GREATEST nights in Los Angeles music history. Led Zeppelin Live at the Fabulous Forum of Inglewood, recorded for posterity on Blimp's "Live On Blueberry Hill"... At the same time, Fairport Convention was beginning their three-night stand(Sept. 4-6) at Doug Weston's Troubadour Club in West Hollywood. Also recorded for posterity with a full-on mobile recording truck...officially released as "House Full". At present, the only live Fairport Convention release with Richard Thompson. The Troubadour Club is around 11-13 miles from the Forum, depending on which route you take...roughly a half-hour or so drive. After Led Zeppelin finished their Forum concert, they went to the Troubadour where they joined Fairport Convention around midnight or so to jam. The tape was rolling and exists somewhere...it's just that nobody seems to remember where it is now. Producer Joe Boyd mentions it in his liner notes on the back of the Hannibal Records release of "House Full" in 1986, which uses better takes and artwork than Island Records dismal 1977 release. Joe also writes about the night in his book "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s". "Hey Joe", "Morning Dew", "That's Alright Mama", "Banks of Sweet Primroses" were some of the songs performed during the Fairport Zeppelin or Led Convention.

Or the children, hehe. Seriously, some of this obsessing over hair is excessive. Long or short, thick or thin...who cares? Wear it the way you like and stop dwelling. I used to prefer wearing it long but as I've gotten older I now tend to like it shorter. In a weird sort of twist, people now say that I look younger with short hair instead of long. I don't know...you be the judge. When it was longer a few months ago. The way it is now. I'll say one thing...it's a lot easier to care for when it's short and a lot cooler in the summer.

For the record, the above obituary was published Aug. 24 in the Western Daily Press. They own the copyright. http://m.westerndailypress.co.uk/#!/articles/news/article/19702331 RIP and all that, but cutesy human-interest aside, how do we know he was the oldest rocker? For all we know there may be 90 and 100 year old metalheads cranking Judas Priest and Motorhead right now.

Fresh blackberries. Why? Do you have your face buried in a particularly nasty clam?

These are the two I versions I have:

A moment of silence for a great cinematographer. Gilbert Taylor, Celebrated Cinematographer, Dies at 99 By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Published: August 26, 2013 NEW YORK TIMES Gilbert Taylor, the British cinematographer behind hit movies like “Star Wars,” “The Omen” and “Dr. Strangelove,” died on Friday at his home on the Isle of Wight. He was 99. Columbia Pictures, via Associated Press Gilbert Taylor was behind the cinematography for Stanley Kubrick's “Dr. Strangelove,” with Peter Sellers. 20th Century-Fox, via Associated Press Mr. Taylor was also the mastermind behind the bright, clean shots in “Star Wars.” His death was confirmed by his wife, Dee, the BBC reported. Mr. Taylor brought a cinéma vérité sensibility to black-and-white pictures like the 1964 Beatles comedy “A Hard Day’s Night” and Stanley Kubrick’s cold war satire “Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He ensured that the battle footage in “Dr. Strangelove” was disturbingly realistic by shooting it like a documentary. “Stanley could handle a camera, so I told him, ‘For all this war stuff, we’ll both put on battle dresses and take Arriflexes into the action,’ ” Mr. Taylor said in a profile in American Cinematographer. “We’ll film it just like combat cameramen.” Roman Polanski chose Mr. Taylor to work on “Repulsion,” his 1965 psychological thriller starring Catherine Deneuve. “Our first day’s shooting left me amazed and a bit perturbed,” Mr. Polanski told the cinematography magazine. “As the rushes were shown, however, he possessed such an unerring eye that his exposures were invariably perfect.” Mr. Taylor brought a claustrophobic feel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972 serial-killer film, “Frenzy,” and used a silk stocking provided by his wife as a filter to create the soft, haunting look of the horror film “The Omen.” He also masterminded the bright, clean shots for “Star Wars.” The director, George Lucas, “avoided all meetings and contact with me from Day 1, so I read the extra-long script many times and made my own decisions as to how I would shoot the picture,” Mr. Taylor said. Gilbert Taylor was born in April 1914 in Bushey Heath, England. He studied to be an architect, until age 15, before becoming an assistant to an early cinematographer, William Shenton, in 1929. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and spent World War II photographing nighttime bombing raids over Germany. He took a small unit of cameramen to cover the liberation of concentration camps and the signing of the armistice in Europe. After the war he helped shoot the political film “Fame Is the Spur” (1947) and then worked on movies like “The Guinea Pig,” which starred Richard Attenborough, and “Seven Days to Noon,” a thriller about paranoia over the atomic bomb. Mr. Taylor teamed with the American director Richard Lester to film “It’s Trad, Dad!,” his 1961 movie about Dixieland jazz, which became a template of sorts for “A Hard Day’s Night.” Information about survivors, other than his wife, was unavailable. Mr. Taylor said he regarded his work on “Star Wars” as his greatest accomplishment. “I am most happy to be remembered as the man who set the look for ‘Star Wars,’ ” he said. “I wanted ‘Star Wars’ to have clarity because I don’t think space is out of focus.”