news feeds nov 27 #2

Peep Show, season 8, has begun! The premiere aired on Sunday night. Season 7 aired in 2010 and there has been some changes! Jeremy looks older, Super Hans seems reputable (waiting for re-addiction to crack), and something really weird is going on with Mark's hair. Great episode though, with the Mark-Dobby-Gerrard heavy petting triangle in full swing. Mark is trying to get Dobby to move in with him but can't seem to get Jeremy to go, all the while getting a job interview(s) at the bathroom fixture company Super Hans works at. Great second act, won't spoil it. Oh, and Jeff is back! Son of a bitch. Anyways, the show airs Sunday nights in the UK and is available to stream state side by the next AM from your favourite streaming site!

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Sticking with the UK, this was voted the funniest Royal picture of all time. Prince Charles DJing with a guy who has a Daffy Duck tie on. Def news worthy.

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The 100th Grey Cup was played in Toronto over the past weekend with the hometown Argonauts defeating the Calgary Stampeders fairly handily to capture their first Cup since 2004. The trophy, handed out annually to the winner of the CFL's playoffs, was won by an Argonauts team that went 9-9 in the season before 50,000+ fans at the Rogers Centre. Argo quarterback Ricky Ray was key in defeating his former team, the Edmonton Eskimos before shocking the division champion Montreal Alouettes in a classic semi-final to advance to the big game on Sunday. It was the teams 14th Grey Cup. In a city with so much sports activity, we are starved for championships. We have a major league basketball and football teams, both of which are going nowhere, especially not to the playoffs. The Maple Leafs are hopeless and their league is on strike. The Blue Jays may provide some excitement in the coming year.. but a World Series team? Not so sure. Since the Toronto Maple Leafs thirteenth Stanley Cup in 1967, there have been two Blue Jays World Series championships (1992, 1993) and six Grey Cups (83, 91, 96, 97, 04, 12). 

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Despite both sides of the table being stubborn jerks something was finally agreed upon: they can't solve this. So the NHL and the NHL Players Association have decided to us the Federal Mediation and Concilliation Service with hopes of ending the lock out and salvaging some kind of season. The two sides are expected meet at an undisclosed location Wednesday with mediators, who at least should bore them into making a deal fast. "While we have no particular level of expectation going into this process, we welcome a new approach in trying to reach a resolution of the ongoing labor dispute at the earliest possible date," said NHL troll Gary Bettman's right hand manned, deputy commissioner Bill Daly. In old NHL game news, one year ago today the Leafs took on the Ducks on a Sunday and beat up on them 5-2, with Bozak scoring a pair, Joey Crabb, Clarke McArthur and Luke Schenn scoring singles, Schenn's on and empty new from his own end. Corey Perry and former Leaf Francois Beauchemin replied for Anaheim. Highlights below!

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news feeds oct 22

Tonight is the third and final debate leading up to the November election between  incumbent Barack and challenger Mitt Romney is what has already been dubbed "Get It On In Boca Raton," named after a popular local slogan. Obama was much better prepared for the second town hall style debate after being shown up pretty bad at the first one. The third one they will be sitting at a table with moderator Bob Schieffer (CBS News) acting as referee. The key issues will be on foreign policy (in particular current situation in Libya and Iran) with most experts saying Barack to have an edge on the issue since incumbents have access to more privileged intelligence and get more comp trips than senators. If you can peel yourself away from the Bears and Lions Monday Nighter game then take in a minute or two of the debate. Or switch over to the Giants and Cardinals game.

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If you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner or Verizon as your internet provider and you enjoy downloading episode of Seinfeld via Bit Torrent, you could be getting a threatening letter. That's right.. after years of trying to impose legislature against illegal downloads, they have taken their first step. First time offenders get a mild warning which also includes information to steer the guilty party away from a life of crime (what? really?). After the 'educational' phase of the warnings, if material is still downloaded illegally then they slow (throttle) your internet connection down so you can't download large files. Terminating the internet service to a customer does still appear unlikely however since copyright infringement is alright so long as you don't miss paying the bill by two days (in which case it will be promptly cancelled.)

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I had to make sure that I finished the entire series of Peep Show (seven seasons) before November 9th since, hallelujah, there is going to be a new season debuting on that very day. The show is basically a take on old Odd Couple premise with David Mitchell's Mark Corrigan playing Jack Lemmon's Felix, and Robert Webb's Jez (Jeremy) playing Walter Matthau's Oscar. Throw in the best bits of the British version of The Office (after all Mark works in a similar work place, JLB Credit), and constant interior thoughts of the two main characters and you have absolute comedy gold. From pee dripping through floorboards at a wedding, to eating a semi-charred dog or even helping a bandmate score some crack this is definitely one of the funniest shows I have ever seen. Again, season 8 starts November 9!

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Say it ain't so Lance! I have tried to years to always take him at his word. He seemed honest enough, and you always seem to have sympathy for a man with one testicle. It appears the evidence is stacked too highly against him, and in the wake of him stepping down from his own charity, being stripped of his Tour De France titles and losing his endorsements, his credibility seems to have been blown to hell. Too bad, he was a real source of inspiration for, well for people looking for that sort of thing in a cyclist. "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling," said Pat McQuaid, the president of the Union Cycliste Internationale. Remember Lance's scene in the movie Dodgeball? It was great.

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The Red Sox have gotten their man, finally. After their worst record since the 60s, Boston axed skipper Bobby Valentine after one nightmarish season. John Farrell had been Boston pitching coach prior to being named as Blue Jays manager before the 2011 season. Boston had tried to hire him before this season but the Blue Jays were reluctant to let him go to a divisional rival. But after the Jays had a season almost as bad as the Red Sox (and with just one year left on Farrell's contract) Jays GM Alex Anthopolous was more open to the lateral divisional more and picked up Mike Aviles from Boston as compensation. Farrell pitched for the Indians, Angels, and Tigers over his seven year career cut short by injury. Welcome back to Boston, John!

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The American League champion Detroit Tigers are waiting to see whether they are headed to St. Louis or San Francisco for the start of the World Series on Wednesday night. Game 7 of the NLCS between the Giants and Cardinals goes tonight in San Francisco to see who gets to represent the National League in a face-off again the powerful Tigers. Pitching for the Giants tonight is ace Matt Cain facing off against St. Louis Cardinals' right-hander Kyle Lohse who, over 18 innings has given up four runs of a tidy ERA of 1.96 while Cain's number show he's been roughed up a bit more to the tune of 9 earned runs allowed over 17 innings. First pitch is tonight at 8:07 at AT&T Park.  In a semi-related note: Remember the season Melky Cabrera was having for the Giants? He was leading the league in batting average and was the All Star Game MVP then he got a 50 game suspension by the MLB, and despite eligibility to be reinstated, he was left off the Giants playoff roster. The interesting part is that his heroics in the All Star Game guaranteed home field advantage for the National League champions, possibly the Giants. So he's even helping them while not being in the line-up. That's a dynamic player. Just saying..

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There's no hockey on. We know that. One year ago tonight, was a night the Leafs played the Canadiens in Montreal and Toronto won 5-4 on a gorgeous goal by Grabovski in overtime. Other Leaf scorers were David Steckel, Phil Kessel, Dion Phaneuf and Nik Kulemin. Anyways, here is some highlights from the game for a mild hockey fix.

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quick update september 20

Remember the rock star US snowboarder with the huge Sideshow Bob style hair? He had a little too much fun at a hotel in Nashville over the weekend. Shaun White was charged with public intoxication and vandalism after allegedly smashing a phone, assaulting a hotel employee, trying to flee in a cab and doing some kind of Jackie Chan spin kick to another hotel employee, missing, then falling on his head. He seems to be a touch better human being when there is a board under his feet. He could have Marty McFly'd it on a skateboard and held onto the cabs bumper, but he didn't. He spent the night in jail before being released Monday evening.

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Baby bikinis. Are they over the line, asks CNN. Umm… ya, they are.

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Well, since everyone is talking about Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge's boobs I might as well too. The royal family is up in arms over topless photos of Kate published in a French magazine last week, and again this past Monday in an Italian magazine. Now Dutch and Swedish magus have bought the photos and plan to run them over the weekend. "It's a set of unique photos from an A class celebrity. We are a leading gossip magazine in Denmark, and it is my job to publish them. If the British royal family want to sue us, then it will happen then and we'll deal with it," said Kim Henningsen, editor of Dutch rag-mag Se Og Hor. I heard she looked pretty good and I would have a peek if I was presented them… She is pretty gorg.

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Awesome.. this is what the world needs. Lance Bass says that he would love a NSync reunion to happen. As it turns out he is not the only one, no one returning his call since his phone was cut off six months ago. Everything has been coming up Bass lately though as he just launched his own satellite radio show "Dirty Pop with Lance Bass" and thinks that the constant discussion by fans (who??) about a reunion leave him feeling semi-optimistic about one actually happening. I'm pretty sure Bass was the boy band member who wanted to go to space but they wouldn't let him. I don't care to actually look it up. Oh, about the space thing. They sent a monkey into space and couldn't send you… do the math.

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Been watching alot of Peep Show.. should have been watching it much sooner, but just finished the first four series in about as many days (also may explain a lack of posts) so check it if you haven't!