Vic Sage

a plague upon both their houses --

But i'm not bitter.

As always, in these oh so many Metless post-seasons, i only root for both teams to suffer humiliating defeats, off-field injuries, sex scandals and drug busts. And, when it comes to the Yankees, i root for apocalyptic consequences... epic collapses; career-ending injuries that become parts of video montages on ESPN for years to come; terrorist attacks; and the Captain failing in the clutch, evidencing a tangible lack of intangibles.

isn't Darryl an alcoholic? what's he doing owning a bar? I know i shouldn't invest in a donut shop.

Do you think the copywriter also had to suck the captain's spunk to capture in his prose that not-so-unique O'Connorian gargling sound?

amusing thumbnails of GM candidates: http://www.patrickfloodblog.com/2010/10/guide-to-the-mets-gm-candidates.html

that's ok... me, i've never been able to get through MOBY DICK. We all have our cultural crosses to bear.

When Clint is asked to name his 5 favorites among his own directorial efforts, he names 6: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101013/ap_en_mo/us_film_five_most

thank you.

cast your vote for: AL MVP: Josh Hamilton / Miguel Cabrera / Evan Longoria NL MVP: Joey Votto / Albert Pujols / Carlos Gonzalez AL CYY: Felix Hernandez / David Price / CC Sabathia NL CYY: Roy Halladay / Adam Wainwright / Ubaldo Jimenez my ballot: -Cabrera -Votto -Hernandez -Halladay [all write-in votes accepted, but require justification]

Carter has just had an excellent year as a LHed PHer off the bench. Why are we bitching about what he can't do? He's got a role; let him do it. If you need to stick him at a corner OF or 1b for a game here or there, it won't be the apocalypse. I think him and Evans would make a good platoon of PHers/corner OFs/1bmen off the bench, with a supersub 25th man, who could play IF or OF, like Arias. I'm much more concerned about adding a SPer and a 2bman.

seawolf17 wrote: I'll always like Feliciano, but I think he's outlived his usefulness. Let some other team give him a Chad Bradford deal. ...but we're gonna have to pay somebody! viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13179&start=75

NxNW starting to pull away from REAR WINDOW...

i don't know that Madden even believes his crap. I think he's just staking out a position that seems slightly less likely to occur (Wilpons hiring an inexperienced GM) so he can beat them up with it afterwards. It's not journalism, it's just stirring the pot. how did this hack get into the HOF?

well, when Charlie Clam said it was Henry VIII using an axe in a lover's quarrel, i saluted his historical consistency.

don't mind the moroseness of Vertigo so much. I just remember the plot as being flawed. But I'm the guy that walks away from Casablanca because Paul Henreid as Laszlo, an enemy of the Third Reich, is allowed to exist in Vichy France with all of the apparent freedom of the King of Siam. its not just moroseness... its tragedy. And walking away from CASABLANCA is inexusable. Flawed plots do not bother me overmuch. Or rather, if i like a film, i'll excuse logical plot flaws. And if i don't like a film, i can pick its plot apart with disgust. But plots are just story-telling mechanics, and they can work better or worse, but are generally not a cause for my liking or not liking a movie, which has so many other story-telling tools at its disposal.

themetfairy wrote: Not on this list for obvious reasons, but Mel Brooks' High Anxiety is a great spoof of and homage to Hitch. While certainly a spoof and a homage, its greatness is highly debatable.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I can't get through Vertigo in one sitting. I'm aware of its stellar critical reputation, but I struggle to view it. I find it to be overly contrived, even for a movie. Maybe I'll give it another shot the next time I decide to watch a movie. What am I missing? What should I be focusing on? Your right, its a difficult film, tough on viewers. It's unusual in Hitch's ouevre because, rather than employing entertaining elements of suspense or horror, the film is a TRAGEDY of sexual obsession and psychological disfunction, with little comedy and few thrills to leaven the depraved goings on. In that way, its probably the most autobiographical and disturbing of his films, which is why it has a certain cache with critics, who see it, not just in isolation but in the context of the filmmaker's life and career. If you'll pardon an absurd comparision, VERTIGO is to his career as DUCK SOUP was to the Marx Bros, in that it is quintessential. In DUCK SOUP, the brothers dispensed entirely with the romantic subplots that always distracted from their looniness and its just pure Marxian insanity. It flopped but later earned a critical rep because of its "purity" of vision. Similarly, VERTIGO is, in many ways, the purest and most distilled version of Hitchcock's particular assortment of festishes, without the crowd pleasing veneer he usually slathered on. And the ending is a sucker punch to the solar plexus that knocks all the wind out of the viewer, with a searing tragic final image that makes everything else he ever did seem like doodling with an etch-a-sketch. That's why its my favorite. But your mileage may vary. For pure entertainment value, i might go with either REAR WINDOW or NxNW, which both are funnier and lighter, though with an appropriately unhealthy dose of Hitchockian sexual wackitude.

what is most remarkable to me was his consistency over a 50 year career. Even compared to other great filmmakers, he rarely had a fallow period, with relatively few flops (either commercial or critical failures) sprinkled out over the course of 1/2 century of films.

just you and me so far, WP.

Bernie was a notorious cocksman who destroyed his many marriages with infidelities, banging every starlet he could get his paws on. If he was gay, he did a formidable job of overcompensating.

doh

How big is that gun pointed at my head? .457 magnum ... biggest handgun known to man... been known to blow a man's head clean off. So you gotta ask yourself one question... you feelin lucky, punk?

which one is your favorite, from among this list? feel free to write in any others, as well.

lets find out!