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Nora Ephron.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/27/usa-noraephron-idINL2E8HR05Q20120627

Looks like 30 Rock, Community and Parks and Recreation are gone.


http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/nbc-final-shortened-seasons-30-rock-community-parks-recreation-article-1.1074555

NBC making way for Anne Heche, Matthew Perry and Bill Paxton.

Thomas Kinkade finally succeeds in pandering to me.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57410782/painter-of-light-thomas-kinkade-dies-at-54/

Harvey Araton's book on the championship Knicks of the 1970s.  Pretty good read, although Araton is writing as a fan rather than from an objective viewpoint.  Also, most of the attempts to tie the team into the civil unrest of the times fall a bit flat.

Read it: for the terrific profiles on the various coaches, players, opponents and fans around the team at during that era.

Don't read: the last two chapters essentially lapse into rampant meatballism of DESE GUYS TODAY DON'T PLAY DA GAME LIKE WILLIS AND FRAZIER DID, EXCEPT FOR DA CELTICS NOW SOMETIMES BUT ONLY WHEN THEY WIN.

Do read the epilogue though.

Anyway, I'd recommend this for: Apex and Forklift, plus anybody interested in NBA history.

Not recommended for: People who think that New York sports fans could not be any more insufferable.  Surprise!  They can.

Angelo Dundee.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/01/national/a193737S93.DTL&tsp=1

Here's something stupid!

http://www.foxsportsohio.com/01/24/12/Cleveland-return-in-LeBrons-future-/landing_cavaliers.html?blockID=652216&feedID=3877

Charles Napier.

http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x771640177/Charles-Napier-Bakersfields-leading-man-dies-at-75

Another complaint from the creator of Ziggy.

http://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/index.ssf/2011/09/tom_wilson_of_ziggy_fame_dies.html

Wow.  So, this is a like a real show and everything.  I watched about 5 minutes between the 1st and 2nd period of the hockey game.

Anyway, I've got this idea for a business - we buy a large, wooded estate; then clone Breckin Meyer repeatedly and charge people to hunt him for sport.

E-mail me at meatheads@hockeenight.com if you want to see the prospectus.

Rick Uchwat, founder of Zanies.

http://newssun.suntimes.com/entertainment/5350935-421/zanies-comedy-club-founder-dies-at-64.html

I caught this last night on Comedy Central and it was pretty funny.  Anybody else seen any of it?

Next week's episode seems to involve Juggalos, which has the potential to be gold.

I've got nothing funny to say.  Nearly ten years after the worst terrorist attack in American history Osama Bin Laden is dead.

Fuckin' aye.

Edit - at least we got TEC's student loans paid off

He goes to his grave still holding the Bears record for most receptions in a single game.  Cripes.

http://www.nwherald.com/2011/03/10/services-planned-for-mchenry-bears-star/asrdayv/

If the 1946 Championship team had formed a tontine, Ed Sprinkle would have walked away with it.  The man lives only to spite Huey.

Well, we've made it this far.

Seems there are two types of dopes calling the Score this morning:

1. "FANS LIKE ME PAY A LOTTA MONEY FOR DESE TICKETS!  DEY OWE IT TO US TO PLAY DA STARTERS!" - it's an away game, you dolts.

2. "I picked da Bears to win 4 games dis year, but I know a lot about football and they need to play the starters all four quarters and at least the first 8 minutes of overtime or they will get beat by 8 touchdowns in the playoff opener and I TOLD you this would happen!"

Since the Bears are off and I've got on Jets/Pack here. 

A MAN IS DEAD

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/article/tallest-wrestler-ever-former-wwe-wcw-star-dies-at-44-112673

A very large man.  In a muscle suit.

Can any of you history faggots (or anybody else for that matter) recommend a good history of the Russian Revolution?

Good book on the CIA/KGB shenanigans that went on during the last decade of the Cold War.  The book was written by journalist James Risen and 30 year CIA vet Milt Bearden, and is broken into 3 parts.  First during the early to mid-1980's when the KGB began a major roll up of American spies in their ranks (thanks primarily to tips from Aldridge Ames and a few others).  The second part deals with Bearden being sent to Islamabad to run covert operations against the Soviets in Afghanistan (his arrival coincides with that of the Stinger anti-air missile which played a major roll in turning things against the USSR).  In the final 3rd of the book Bearden is sent back to Langley following the Red Army's withdrawal from Afghanistan and placed in charge of the CIA Stations in Moscow and the other Communist bloc countries, just in time for the Iron Curtain to come down and the Soviet Union's dissolution.

Definitely recommend it for anyone interested in the Cold War.

Let's do this.