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    Vito will get whacked this season for sure. I can see him being bitchy that he isn't filling in for Tony.

     

    I can't believe they never went any futher with him and Meadow's boyfriend.

     

    that ain't done yet.

    Vito's already got a bigger role this season that he has in the past... even to the point where he referred to himself as "the top earner" last night.

     

     

    if Vito starts to make trouble while Tony's away, it will only heighten the Finch situation.

     

     

     

    also, watch tempers flair if indeed Chris does buy Johnny's Maserati.

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    I think Tony will be out of commission for a while. Silvio or Christopher will fill in for a bit and do a poor job and the business will suffer.

     

    Phil will also grow more balls with Tony out of the picture.

     

    Basically, hell will break loose and Tony will come back and kick some ass. Also, he might incurr some medical bills that might put a strain on their financial situation. I know I heard Carmella mention an "insurance card" but I bet that falls through somehow.

     

     

    gay Vito has already alluded to the fact that he'd like to be boss of the family.

    I bet ya' Phil and Vito team up to take over some of Tony's business while Tony's out of action.

     

    Sil, Chris, and Paully will have to stave off the NY crew until Tony gets back.

  3. Posted

    Music was Seven Souls by William Burroughs

     

     

    Excerpt from "The Western Lands"

    by William Burroughs

     

    The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls, Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the Secret Name. This corresponds to my Director, He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in.

    Second soul, and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power, Light The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.

    Number three is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she, or it is third man out . . . depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. Sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense- but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go beck to Heaven for another vessel.

    The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the Land of the Dead. Number four is Ba, the heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.

    Number five is Ka, the Double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the western Lands.

    Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.

    Number seven is Sekhu, the Remains.

    I first encountered this concept in Norman Mailer's, Ancient Evenings, and saw that it corresponded precisely with my own mythology, developed over a period of many years, since birth in fact.

    Ren, the Director, the Secret Name, is your life story, your destiny-in one word or one sentence, what was your life about? Nixon: Watergate. Billy the Kid: Quien es?

    And what is the Ren of the Director?

    Actors frantically packing in thousands of furnished rooms and theatrical hotels: "Don't bother with all that junk, John. The Director is on stage! And you know what that means in show biz: every man for himself."

    Sekem corresponds to my Technician: ,Lights. Action. Camera. ' "Look, boss, we don't got enough Sek to fry an elderly woman in a fleabag hotel fire. And yoa want s hurricane?" "Well, Joe, we'll just have to start faking it"

    "###### moguls don't even know what buttons to push or what happens when you push them. Sure; start faking it and leave the details to Joe."

    Look, from a real disaster you get a pig of Sek: sacrifice, tears, heartbreak, heroism and violent death. Always remember, one case of VD yields more Sek than a cancer ward. And you get the lowest acts of which humans are capable-remember the Italian steward who put on women's clothes and so filched a seat in a lifeboat? "A cur in human shape, certainly he was born and saved to set a new standard by which to judge infamy and shame." With a Sek surplus you can underwrite the next one, but if the first one's a fake you can't underwrite a shithouse. Sekem is second man out: 'No power left in this set" He drinks a bicarbonate of soda and disappears in a belch.

    Lots of people don't have a Khu these days. No Khu would work for them. Mafioso Don: "Get offa me, Khu crumb! Worka for a living!"

    Ba, the Heart: that's sex. Always treacherous. Suck all the Sek out of a man. Many Bas, have poison juices.

    The Ka is about the only soul a man can trust. If you don't make it, he don't make it. But it is very difficult to contact your real Ka.

    Sekhu is the physical body, and the planet is mostly populated with walking Sekhus, just enough Sek to keep them moving.

    The Venusian invasion is a takeover of the souls. Ren is degraded by Hollywood down to John Wayne levels. Sekem works for the Company. The Khus are all transparent fakes. The Bas is rotten with AIDS. The Ka is paralyzed. Khaibit sits on yon like a nagging wife. Sekhu is poisoned with radiation and contaminants and cancer.

    There is intrigue among the souls, and treachery. No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls. And what about Mr. Eight-Ball, who has these souls? They don't exist without him, and he gets the dirty end of every stick.

    Eights of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your dirty rotten vampires: A hundred years ago there were rat-killing .dogs known as "Fancies." A man bet on his "Fancy," how many rata he would kill. The rats were confined in a circular arena too high for a rat to jump over. But they formed pyramids, so that the top rats could escape. Sekhu is bottom rat in the pyramid. Like the vital bottom integer in a serial, when that goes, the whole serial universe gone up in smoke. It never existed.

    Angelic boys who walk on water, sweet inhuman voices from a distant star. The Khu, sweet -bird of night, with luminous wings and a head of light, flies across the full moon . . . a born-again redneck raise's his shotgun. . . .

    "Stinkin' Khu!"

    The Egyptians recognized many degrees of immortality. The Ren and the Sekem and the Khu are relatively immortal, but still subject to injury. The other souls who survive physical death are much more precariously situated.

    Can any soul survive the searing fireball of an atomic blast? If humans and animal souls are seen as electromagnetic force fields, such fields could be totally disrupted by a nuclear explosion. The mummy's 'nightmare: disintegration of souls, and this is precisely the ultrasecret and supersensitive function of the atom bomb: a Soul Killer, to alleviate an escalating soul glut.

  4. Posted

    The product placement of the Porche Cayenne got annoying but it was a great start to the season to say the least. Meadow's body was smoking and as previously mentioned, the silence from my fiancee was priceless. :first:

     

    the internetS Sopranos rumors talked about Tony being out of a few episodes while Silvio tries (unsuccessfully) to take over as the interim #1.

     

     

    Also, until last night's episode, I never really bought into the Meadow=Hot thinking... I was wrong, she's all growed up and she's fantastic.

  8. Posted

    Reggie Williams, WR JAX.

     

    - with Jurevicious and Harrison on a bye and Brandon Jones injured, I'm taking a flier on Reggie Willaims (@STL) for my #3WR.

     

    If you pick Reggie up now, you get two pretty nice matchups with STL this week and HOU next week. Certainly I'm not looking to use him long term but he may fill in nicely for byes/injuries and then serve as decent trade bait.

     

    ETA: also, factor in that Williams' last 4 weeks have been a bye, CIN, DEN, PIT... not exactly an easy schedule for fantasy owners to deal with. At this point, I'd expect that Reggie and JAX's "new passing offense" has been all but forgotten by the knee-jerk fantasy world.

  9. Posted

    Everyone get off Lamont's jock. He's solid, but this is typical kneejerk after one great game. Let's check back in a few weeks.

     

    Lamont has been one of the most consistent Fantasy RBs this year. Of the 6 weeks Lamont and Priest have played, Lamont has outscored him in 3 and Lamont is ahead in total fantasy points.

     

     

    don't get me wrong, Priest is a fine RB. But nobody backing up Lamont Jordan is pointing only to this past week.

  10. Posted

    Lamont Jordan vs. Priest?

    - OK, it's a tossup.

    Though Jordan is the younger RB, no RBBC, and in most leagues Jordan has outscored Priest. Still, I'll agree that it's a tossup because Priest is a proven performer and even within a RBBC he'll continue to put up respectable numbers.

     

    Plaxico vs. Clayton.

    - Plax is the #1WR on the #1 scoring offense in the NFL. Clayton is in the running for "bust of the year". This makes it a great trade for WON.

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