If I was excited about the upcoming NFL season before, I’m REALLY geeked up, now.  The Eagles have (surprisingly, I might add) actually gone out and gotten a starting-quality wide receiver.  Now I ain’t gon’ lie, I liked the Eagles for 10-6 back in June.  This move doesn’t really make me want to change my prediction, but it does make me feel a lot more comfortable.  Here’s why:  Donte Stallworth isn’t the game-breaking receiver that #81 is (when the player is healthy).  However, he is a quality starter, which I’ve maintained all along is all that Donovan ever really needed.  With very pedestrian talent at wideout, the Eagles consistently made moves in the playoffs. Then came the big name and then the big implosion.  Hopefully, this will be a good balance.  This is a receiver with excellent speed, who can catch the ball.  If he can give us something down the field, that would open things up for the lesser lights who have been playing WR all this time.  And who knows?  This might give one of those dudes a chance to develop into something resembling his Madden numbers.

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DarkStar drops science in his post on message t-shirts.  Despite the fact that I’ve claimed to have pretty strong t-shirt game, I’ve never been one to wear self-referential t-shirts.  I always thought it was corny.  The t-shirt itself is self-referential.  There doesn’t need to be any reference to the wearer or the viewer.  Like D*, I strongly dislike the current trend in t-shirts.  He writes,

It seems many girls are wearing t-shirts with words outlined in glitter or fake jewels. But the comments are biting, sarcastic, nasty, and “attitudinal.” I don’t like it and I think it is speaking to the growing darkness of these young women’s souls and they are too young, and in many cases, well off, to be sporting such attitudes in words.

The other t-shirts I’m not crazy about are the ones sold in the hood and at ‘hood malls with “ghettofied” permutations of popular brands, where they have a scowling Pillsbury Doughboy-type character and some slight adjustment of the name to make a drug-selling conotation.  In a way, it’s like Garbage Pail Kids, but with a much more sinister and I would even say nihilistic bent.   But then, I think our culture is bent towards the nihilistic, so I probably shouldn’t be surprised to see that fashion is headed in that direction as well.

 

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