I was flabbergasted that the cops stopped the bus. Does that shit happen? I mean, so many layers of wrong, there. The COPS were trying to punish a sports team for winning a game? They were filing criminal charges for stuff that happened on the field? They were going after Smash so blatantly, and stopping the bus to do it? WTF?

I mean, go Mac and Coach, but I was just astonished that it actually came to that. I know sports are important in many small towns, but really!

Yes, Great Pyrenees. The sweet black eyes and noses in the white faces!

There's an official breed called Anatolian Sheep Dogs, but I've only seen Turkish sheep dogs actually in Turkey. There are some nice pictures here, especially Kangal dogs: [link]

That was happening around my HS experience, but I was so peripheral to that whole scene none of the characters would have known me. Well, probably Landry. But nobody else.

My HS experience was mostly sitting around making fun of the characters on this show.

I know, I'm being a baby, but I am really worried about slipping and falling on the sidewalks.

Not being a baby at all. I already lost it once this year, despite the lack of snow (this was after the freeze following a day of rain we got a couple of weeks back), and I was hurting the next day. And the sidewalks are craptastic today, as I expected they would be.

Kevin Sorbo wank! HEE: [link]

I don't *want* to wait til Sunday!

t cries

Also ... um, have any of you felt really like, irrationally irritated with a co-worker because you perceive them to be DUMB AS A BOX OF HAIR?? I currently am and I feel like such a SHIT for being that snobby because she's just not that smart. Am a horrible horrible person??

lisah, it's up to you. I think it'll be ok, but I also don't want to put you in a position where you're stranded with me either!

The thing with Mac is, it's such a prevalent sort of racism down here in the south. It's not the outright hateful kind you generally see from anyone in a tv show with a southern accent. It's the kind most of our grandparents, sometimes parents, aunts and uncles have. I can look at my grandmother and know she's a kind and loving person who doesn't have a speck of hate in her heart, but who also has racial prejudices. This was a much more realistic depiction of the everyday racism that still exists (not that there's not also the nasty hateful kind) in the south (and probably other places, I'm just more familiar with down here). So sad on all sides. I heart my show.

Consuela, I think there were several things going on there. First, they not only lost the game, but it wasn't finished. And, it wasn't finished because of a fight that, in their eyes, Dillon started. Go after Smash because he's a "Junkyard Dog." Even his own coach believes it, so why wouldn't they give him up.

I'll have to ask Dad if he has any stories like that from when he was at Ole Miss.

shrift, I have this Alan Davies stand-up thing to bring you. Do you want it as a VCD or just an AVI?