After going only 7-9 in the kickoff week of the 2011 NFL season, our in-house football expert has made his picks and predictions for week 2. He has assured us that what he has learned by watching week 1 has now given him the edge and this new set of picks cannot be beaten.
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After you review Cletus’ picks, click the agree or disagree boxes to the right of them to weigh in with your opinion. If the group collective can “Beat the House”, then we will award a movie prize pack to the entrant who had the best pick set. In week 1 we awarded two prize packs. Check out the week 1 contest post for the official rules and prize details. Read the rest of this entry »
I hope everyone is doing well. Myself? Thanks for asking! I am doing quite well. Today I went to an interview and left with a job, and shortly after walking in the door from that interview I got a phone call from another employer telling me I have a job if I want it. It does put me in a slight pickle, but a pickle I would welcome any day.
The merging of Microsoft Windows and Xbox gaming gets a boost as Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has officially confirmed that Xbox Live will be an integral part of Windows 8, which will allow users to control their Xbox 360 features from the PC. This was first announced back in June.
Paul has some angry comments, Jonah has some angry comments, while Jordan just chuckles and makes a Freudian mistake. In between complaints, the Gaming Flashback looks at the Amiga classic Syndicate, and the following news items:
A day after a new edition of Scarlett Johansson hacked cell phone pics the web, we are getting reports that a set of Mila Kunis nude photos has also been uncovered. Apparently the same party is responsible for nabbing both sets of highly-sought after pics as well as those of many other celebrities and high-profile personalities.
It looks like going commando is getting popular again for celebrities. Who could forget the uncensored photos of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears flashes of their baby makers. Just as famous but not quite in the same vein is the Maria Menounos lip slip that is o’ so popular on the pages of TMRzoo. Now Lada Gaga shares her lady parts and joins the club.
Week 1 of the 2011 NFL season is already in the book and it was a pretty uneventful start to the new season. Uneventful if don’t like 63-yard game-winning field goals, 500+ yard passing games or the past two Super Bowl Champions not dressing their defenses while playing each other.
Comedy Central is rolling out the promotional machine to make sure everyone hears the word about the Charlie Sheen Roast on September 19th. Below are the first few clips they have already rolled out promoting the event, including a great parody of Apocalypse Now starring both Charlie and Martin Sheen.
Last night on Hell’s Kitchen, the five remaining chefs received a mulligan after no one was eliminated last week. They awoke this week to a new challenge: determining what to do with the giant salmon that had fallen from the sky on the table in front of them. 
Let’s all agree that Stephen Glover or “Steve O” from Jackass is an idiot. That being said the Mtv jester and Jackass star may have gone too far at the Roast of Charlie Sheen. Steve made a joke about the victims of the Station Nightclub fire in Rhode Island. The fire that claimed the lives of over 100 Great White fans and the band’s guitarist Ty Longely. 
This is not a case aof Manny being Manny. This is a case of Manny being an asshole. The AP is reporting the ex-Boston Red Sox and current Tampa Bay Devil Ray outfielder has been arrested for domestic abuse. If this were the NFL Manny would be suspended tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what MLB does.
ESPN “Sunday NFL Countown” News And Notes – September 11, 2011 ESPN’s Chris Berman and analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson and Keyshawn Johnson previewed today’s 2011 season-opening NFL action, on Sunday NFL Countdown three-hour program. The show also marked the return of legendary coach Bill Parcells, debut of Xs and Os analyst Merril Hoge and Suzy Kolber as co-host of key segments. Some excerpts:
Eventide continues to shock and surprise me. The latest addition to their stompbox line is the Eventide Space – Reverb and Beyond. Reverb is one of the earliest and simplest guitar effects but is still o’ so understood. The book Audiology defines reverb as ” the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed”.
Bringing the three main actors from 1999′s The Talented Mr. Ripley back to the screen in a new film along with our old friend Morpheus from The Matrix (Laurence Fishburne), is not as much fun as a return would have been to the believe-it-or-not world that Tom Ripley inhabited. In 1995 we had to suffer through Dustin Hoffman’s airborne virus in Outbreak, in 1971 it was the late Michael Crichton’s alien virus in The Andromeda Strain – which was re-inflicted on the viewing public again in the 2008 made-for-television remake when scientists had to “discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.” Gee, really? 
DICE has released a 50 second video showing off Battlefield 3‘s “Operation Guillotine”, a joint operation mission set in Tehran to “capture key members of the PLR leadership.”
