It’s a different game – a 16-1 match-up – this time around, but here’s what happened the last time UVM faced ‘Cuse in the first round of the tournament.
H/T @maxflipper for posting on Twitter.
Happy Selection Show, everyone! Enjoy staring at a .PDF from ESPN, CBS and/or Facebook for the rest of the night.
Really? You found a seminal Rock n’ Roll band with a twenty-year old body of work less entertaining than the voice of Lemony in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events? Really?
Really.
There’s probably someone out there willing to crucify me for saying – not to mention the karmic payback it sets up when I vie for P.J. tickets this week – but I found Jude Law’s performance last night on Saturday Night Live to be mildly amusing, and Pearl Jam’s mildly underwhelming. Chicago RedEye posted the exact opposite earlier today.
Still, let me make it abundantly clear, there is a 100% greater chance of me buying Pearl Jam tickets this week, than of me paying to see Repo Men, ever.
Here’s Law in the Secret Word skit last night, followed by Pearl Jam performing ‘Unthought Known’ (c/o Hulu).
Couldn’t someone have told Mike McCready: Stop jumping, Rick Springfield!
Kristen Stewart posing in stark contrast outside both the Los Angeles and Sundance premiere of The Runaways, which opens this week. Below, Stewart with Joan Jett in 2009 while filming the movie.
The L.A. Times gave the movie a favorable review, and also not hurting is the fact that there isn’t a single other desirable film out right now.
I kind of felt sinister even entertaining the idea of posting Dakota Fanning and Cherie Curry photos.
Premiere photos via Flickr & Jett/Stewart photo via more Flickr.
The following is an actual (read: completely made up) transcript of a conversation between writer/producers of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards from Sunday night:
Producer: The show is only 3 hours long. How do we make people want to go to bed before the Best Picture is announced and shortchange the winner-to-be’s acceptance speech due to time constraints?
Writer: Another musical number with Neil Patrick Harris?
Producer: Nah, people enjoy him. Might give them a second wind. We want people to go to SLEEP.
Writer: What if we unnecessarily put five actors on stage before both the Best Actor & Best Actress nominees are unveiled…Yeah, Five actors who….who….Who have previous relationships with the nominees and….and….
Producer: Yes….yes…GO on….you’re getting there…
Writer: …who have previous relationships with the nominees and who each ramble for 5 minutes about what great people the nominees are and include a bunch of inside jokes? That’ll make the show AT LEAST 30 minutes longer than necessary, right?!
Producer: Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Say you remember the first time you and I were working on the Academy Awards five years ago? It was your first time doing it and you said to me….
(Five Minutes later)
Producer (cont’d): …and I’ll never forget the fact that you pimp slapped an intern. That really stuck with me. Congratulations on your success, Writer.
Editor’s Note: I’ll give you one guess as to what my only gripe was with Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony. Of course if they really wanted to trim down speeches and time, maybe they should have heightened security…
Fun Facts About Kathryn Bigelow…
1.) She used to be married to Jim Cameron.
Here he is wishing her congrats last night – nice find @msaleem
2.) She directed the timeless, tour de force – Keanu’s magnum opus, and one of Swayze’s magnum opi - Point Break.
…that clip is about twice as long as the tribute they gave Swayze last night, which I found irresponsible.
Anything else I should know about Bigelow?
Like a dip potluck. Or a B.Y.O.D.
That right there is an artistic shot of Five Layer Mexican dip. It seems pretty great. Send suggestions for the Dip Festival.
Ethnocentric World Cup prediction of the day:
The game between the U.S.A. and England on the first Saturday of competition will be as highly regarded as a temperate Super Bowl – say Tampa Bay vs. Oakland in 2002.
The U.S. will triumph 1-0, resulting in, hopefully, a drinking freely in the street event for those of us who choose to get engaged. I’ll probably be here, if you’re in New York and would like to join in the fray.
Too bold?
….
Today indeed marks 100 days from the start of the World Cup. Seems like just yesterday we were talking about the draw ceremony – I learned what the group of death is, but am still not sure why Charlize Theron was part of the selection process?
FIFA President, Joseph F. Blatter marked the day by commending South Africa for their preparation. It full of praise, both literal and metaphorical.
From FIFA.com:
The FIFA World Cup in Africa is a love story – a love story between the African continent and myself which began when I was the technical director of FIFA. It has come a long way in a long time. It has been a road travelled with trust, confidence but with patience as well. When this country was awarded the World Cup, there was a lot of work to do. We had to convince people that one day we would give back something to Africa. Africa has given so much to the world and to the world of football.
I’m very proud and very happy that this love story is coming to the ‘wedding celebration’. We are speaking about 100 days to go, but this all goes back to 17 May 1998 when I was campaigning for the FIFA Presidency for the first time and I said that, ‘We have to bring the World Cup to Africa.’ This is what I mean by having patience, as South Africa did not win the first time in 2000 when it lost by one vote to Germany, but with patience and perseverance you managed to win the right to host the World Cup in 2004.
Check out the rest of Blatter’s remarks here: Blatter: The dream is alive
Photo via FIFA.com
The not-exactly decorated UK Olympic squad returns home tomorrow after just one athlete received a medal. Amy Williams, pictured above, who’s as cute as she is, I’m assuming, goddam crazy got the gold in skeleton.
In an article in the Guardian today, the Team UK brass is pleading that they need more funding if they’re going to do better in 2014. The team fell short of their lofty overall goal to win three medals – sigh, could have beaten Latvia (two silvers in the men’s skeleton and doubles luge).
Read more about the internal strife that is the British Olympic Association: UK Sport sticking to no compromise policy over Winter Games funding
Photo via The Guardian
