Graveyard Shift Open Thread
Welcome night crew. Last night seemed to be a success. This thread is to recap the day's Michigan athletic's news. I am sure with these honest and innocent intentions that it will unravel into a late night booze and illegal substance posbang galore.
Recap:
1. Borges is awesome
2. Mattison is even more awesomer
3. yostlovesme wants a michigan snuggie with a an attractive woman included for x-mas.
4. Old people can coach.
5. Countess is most likely going to be a wolverine.
6. lolcats are awesomest to the point of $30 million.
7. Tate isn't coming back!!!11!!1!
8. Sad Panda
9. Instate coaches hate RR.
14. No Twitter Talk
10. RR was recruiting for Michigan in 2007
11. Anne Hathaway is new Catwoman in upcoming Batman film.
13. Will Hill is a man's man when it comes to multitasking.
12. BlueDragon is awesome
13. MLive are a bunch of ninnies
14. Recruiting is making a comeback
15. DB is a carbon copy robot of Ric Flair combined with the Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase.
1A. Braylon speaks in fourth person and everybody gets DUIs and murders.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:52 AM ^
When you say this do you mean have more crazy late night open threads. I didn't think we yielded that much power.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:57 AM ^
Yeah dude, heard it from my cousin's husband's father-in-law's best friend's hair dresser. Raback it (but don't really I absolutely can't back it up).
January 20th, 2011 at 12:57 AM ^
has delusions of granduor.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:03 AM ^
Where the heck did you find that seal?? I've never seen it before!
January 20th, 2011 at 1:09 AM ^
I love how we're all straight-up point whoring the night away.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:11 AM ^
We aren't point whores. We are point friendly people of questionable affection.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:12 AM ^
This comment deserves a +1.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:13 AM ^
And this one^^^^^
January 20th, 2011 at 1:14 AM ^
+1 back atcha.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:20 AM ^
Morally casual with the points.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:25 AM ^
MGoNymphomaniacs.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:53 AM ^
are in love with our new Deffensive Coordinator
January 20th, 2011 at 12:54 AM ^
January 20th, 2011 at 1:16 AM ^
You will see the salad dressing.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:55 AM ^
Braylon can speak in the fourth person. And he's out to prove something. And everyone gets DUI's (not murders).
January 20th, 2011 at 1:09 AM ^
I have to be up for work in five hours and six minutes but am not at all sleepy, my right ankle is purple and probably sprained but I removed the wrap so I could wear super cute boots to dinner tonight and it hurts even more than it did earlier today oh and I'm so completely over my (former) favorite player. How are you guys?
January 20th, 2011 at 1:12 AM ^
You should have left the wrap on and painted on a cute boot. Great conversation piece.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:13 AM ^
Can't complain. I get to get up late-ish tomorrow (9 AM) for class so I'm enjoying a little extra blog time. I had a test and two quizzes over a three-hour stretch earlier today so I'm probably going to crash soon.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:18 AM ^
Has just taken over my sleep and made it its bitch.
<br>These kind of late night threads are completely responsible for my not attending 8:30 classes.
<br>How long till we get angry UM professors trying to ban MGoBlog because of poor class attendance?
January 20th, 2011 at 1:27 AM ^
Maybe your prof should start an open thread for the class on MGoBlog. That seems the most logical thing that can happen.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:30 AM ^
But that requires me waking up and going to the class, something that has happened about as often as twitter hosting press conferences (so, yeah, once)
January 20th, 2011 at 1:34 AM ^
I think we should start an MGoBookclub, or Movieclub. Read a book and/or see a film every couple weeks and discuss it on this here blog. I was going to start a thread about it, but was worried about the non-football related backlash.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:37 AM ^
I'd be for it. I'm all in. I would only worry about a backlash from mouthbreathers. I would email Brian maybe?
January 20th, 2011 at 2:01 AM ^
Yeah, I will.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:19 AM ^
Hey, has anyone here read The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus? So enthralling it makes me almost want to not MGoBlog.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:25 AM ^
But I don't think that's the same thing.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:26 AM ^
I have not. I just finished Griftopia however. Matt Taibbi is our age's HST.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:29 AM ^
I just read a review of Griftopia. Time to blaze up the kindle soon.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:33 AM ^
I got it on my Kindle, well worth the money.
Edit: If you like gonzo type writing mixed in with rage and economics.
I'm thinking of getting The Devils Are All Here next. $17 for the Kindle version though!
January 20th, 2011 at 1:37 AM ^
I am mostly a short and "experimental" fiction person, but I have read a bunch of HST, including the Rum Diary in November, which I loved, and which I now understand is filmbound.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:39 AM ^
Rum Diary was great. My female dog of an ex kept my copy. It is going to be a movie. I am pretty pumped. I think it is due out this summer?
January 20th, 2011 at 1:49 AM ^
Do you know if Depp is playing HST again?
January 20th, 2011 at 1:53 AM ^
Depp is playing the main character in the book, Paul Kemp. Here is the IMDB page for the movie:
January 20th, 2011 at 2:29 AM ^
I just read the wiki page, which gives a whole new dimension to the book. So HST made a similar journey to that of Kemp - New York to San Juan, but HST didn't end up actually working at the paper, and hung around people who worked for the paper instead.
Concerning the novel he said:
I got the standard list of rejection letters - and I came back from South America and I got into the politics of the 60s and 70s, and it was a full time job." He then said that he revisited the book because "it's got a romantic notion...that and money.. and I was faced with the fact of having to dig out my 40-year old story...I can't change it, like, 'ye gods, this is me, this is the world I lived in'...so I approached it as a writer...it's a good story."
I find this interesting because any time "situations" of youth are documented by memory I think it takes many years to really process what went on, and remember or retell them with an objective, almost wise, mentality. That's sounds like what HST had to do. Yesterday's memories always have hint of today, and it takes quite a while to truly step back and see them for what they are, fucked up. HST had it written, but it seems he didn't recognize what he exactly had until he had separated himself from that particular world for a while.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:33 AM ^
It is very eerie to see how similar past situations can repeat themselves. I am sure he had to take notes down in a journal. I never knew the story was based off a real experience. That is fascinating. Thank goodness they turned him down for a job or else he may never have came back to the states. I am also sure he has exaggerated and injected hyperbole into the book since that is his MO. Regardless, it worked out for us in the end.
I'm sure all of us could write a HST book off personal experiences. We all have fucked up situations that should be documented. Some more than others.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:43 AM ^
January 20th, 2011 at 1:37 AM ^
If you're a person of questionable character, like me. The book is available for free download in various places across the web.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:40 AM ^
I would be open to be negatively influence by your moral code and privy to the websites you talk of.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:47 AM ^
If you have access to Demonoid they have the a torrent for the .mobi file which I believe is the Kindle format.
http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2495382/6340422/
I could email it to you if you wish.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:01 AM ^
Thanks. Now i just have to figure out how to use this website. Instructions would be helpful on how to use this site and torrents. Thanks again!
January 20th, 2011 at 1:57 AM ^
I sent you the .mobi file, and the pdf. I didn't reply to my comment so you can delete your email address.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:02 AM ^
Thanks! I am beginning to like the dark side...
January 20th, 2011 at 2:05 AM ^
And people think these late night threads are all cat jokes.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:24 AM ^
This thread may be the funniest and smartest for the day.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:42 AM ^
I am not going to judge. I would also like to know this site you speak of.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:00 AM ^
A lot of the torrent sites have eBooks in various formats compatable with the Kindle or Nook and they also have pdfs. There are programs out there that can convert the files into Kindle/Nook compatable files also. I've used Calibre in the past.
January 20th, 2011 at 1:41 AM ^
Did you ever debate whether to get the Nook or Kindle? I am currently contemplating which one to get. The ipad is also in the running.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:05 AM ^
I have the Kindle, my mother has the Nook. The Nook is like a mini Ipad. I like the Kindle because is doesn't use a lot of power and doesn't hurt to look at for a long time. The nook is more friendly to surf the net and doesn't need a light around to read off of. Hope that helps. I don't know the prices of the nook, but the Kindle is $139.