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Tarara Winery
May 21st
Tarara Vineyards is a large vineyard north of Leesburg, VA. The vineyard is nestled among large orchards and farmland for tomatoes, asparagus, blackberries and apples. The vineyard also has vast tracts of open field which they use to host wine festivals and other large events.
Tarara had the Winds and Wine Festival this past weekend, which featured live music, arts and crafts vendors, kite flying demonstrations and of course, wine tasting. The afternoon was cool and breezy, and the festivities made a great way to spend a Sunday.
Tarara’s wines are affordable and varied. Most of the whites and reds were unremarkable, but this may be due to the vintage. 2003 was a very rainy summer, which seems to have washed out much of the flavor from the wines. One exception is the white table wine they call “Charval” which is a crisp, floral scented wine with a sweet after taste, which made for a great sipping wine on .
Tarara also has a sweet red wine called Wild River Red that is quite fruity with a blackberry taste. It would be an excellent dessert wine, or it would go very well with chocolate.
If you are looking for a winery that offers lots of activities for family, this is a great and fun place. If you are looking for finer wines, Tarara has a line of Reserve Wines which is a bit pricey, but comparable wines can be found at other vineyards for a better price.
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Loading ...Hilarity Earns Quarter Million Bucks
May 20th
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was the two-hour special of America’s Funniest Home Videos on Friday Night. It was a hilarious look back at the funniest videos of all time in the long running Disney show, and they capped the show by awarding $250,000 to the family with the funniest video of all time.
I have placed it on the BelchSpeak Video page here, or you can click the pic below.
Enjoy! But be warned, its too cute.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chrysalis Vineyards
May 8th
Chrysalis is a modern, moderate-sized winery located in beautiful Middleburg, VA, about halfway between Chantilly and Winchester on Route 50. The drive out there into Virginia’s Horse and Wine country is beautiful, and nearby villages offer quaint shopping and roadside antiques if you want to make a day of the visit to the winery.
Chrysalis is the largest grower of the Norton Grape on the East Coast. The Norton grape once stood among the world’s finest species of grape, but the fruit was almost lost due to the American Civil war and the purges of the vineyards in the Prohibition years. Fortunately, small parishes and churches kept the fruit alive for use in sacrament ceremonies, and Chrysalis has revitalized it, and it flourishes now in Middleburg.
Most of Chrysalis’ wines are on the expensive side, and this year, many were short on taste. For instance, I was looking forward to tasting the Chardonnay again. I had some at the winery back in 2004 and remembered it fondly for its buttery, oaken taste. But this year’s was dry, with a taste of apples, but the buttery oaken taste was gone. You could see the difference in the two vintages too at the cash register. The old 2002 Chardonnay that I loved was on display with 9 medals hanging from the bottle from the many awards it had won. The newer brand only had one medal.
Rather than go on about the other flavors that didn’t appeal to me, I will tell you what I did like: The Sarah’s Patio Red and the Norton Estate. The Sarah’s Patio red is a dark blush wine with a sweet berry taste that is perfect chilled for sipping in the shade on a warm day. The wine is named for the daughter of a previous 19th century landowner of the vineyard, Sara Lynn, whose grave and headstone is next to the tasting patio. The Norton Estate is a very dark red wine made from the Norton Grapes, and it has a rich, earthy taste that would go great with a grilled steak. I took home a couple of bottles of this fine-tasting wine.
The vineyard’s guest area is large and hosts events throughout the year, and could accommodate large parties under its expansive sheltered picnic tables, and it has a large barbecue on grounds for cooking lots of meat. The place would be great for corporate events, weddings or other celebrations.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Yo Ho Ho and a Barrel of Rum
May 4th
This is what you get when you hire Hungarians to renovate your house. They slack off and drink all of your rum!
From Reuters Here:
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.
The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.
According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a “special taste” so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.
The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave.
This may sound shocking, but these men have bottled one of the rarest drinks in the world- Nelson’s Blood. Nelson’s Blood is the name given to rum that is tapped from a cask full of rum and old Naval War Heroes.
One of my favorite stories of Admiral Horatio Nelson is here:
Nelson’s Blood – Another name for Pusser’s Rum, and still in use today by old salts – especially in Great Britain’s Royal Navy! At the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21st, 1805, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson engaged the combined fleets of Spain and France. His flagship was HMS VICTORY. Although outnumbered, he sank or captured 17 of the enemy’s ships to not a single loss of his own. This victory still lives as one of the greatest in the annals of naval warfare. Unfortunately, Nelson was mortally wounded and died knowing that victory was his. Legend has it that to preserve his body for the long passage back to England, that it was placed into a large cask of Pusser s Rum. Upon arrival, when the cask was opened, his pickled body was removed, but the jack tars had drilled a small hole at the base of the cask through which they drained most of the rum, thereby drinking of Nelson s Blood. Since then, the term Nelson s Blood has become synonymous with Pusser s Rum, and is still in wide use today.
Now I’m craving a Pusser’s Painkiller.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Fox Meadow Vineyards
May 1st
I had the pleasure of being invited to the Grand Opening of Fox Meadow Vineyards by friends who happen to live very close by the mountaintop winery. It was a lovely day, and it was perfect to sample the delicious wines, nibble on sausage, cheese and chocolate and gaze out across the mountaintops of Manassas Gap.
For those that do not know, Virginia is quickly becoming famous for its wines, and one of the greatest things about living in Northern Virginia is that there are so many wineries close by. I even got married in a beautiful Mountainside winery, so the vino is close to my heart.
Fox Meadow does not yet offer its own red wines, but is selling another vineyards’ wine under its own label while Fox Meadow’s wines finish aging. But its white wines are available and they are very good, especially the Pinot Grigio. The Pinot is sweet and dry, and has an aroma of spring flowers and a hint of a Pear taste.
The Chardonnay was from last year’s harvest and you could taste the flavor of the oak casks quite well. However, I think it needs just a bit more age before it is really smooth.
There was a scrumptious 2004 Red Syrah wine that had the color of black cherries and was neither too dry nor too sweet. In fact, with a bit of chocolate on the palate, this wine turned into a wonderfully decadent beverage.
I got bottles of both the Pinot and the Syrah.
The winery is brand new, so the owners have not had a chance to finish decorating. But with the gorgeous mountain-top view, overlooking the vineyard and the dozen peaks of Manassas Pass, there is little need for any competing decor. If you get out toward Linden, or if you visit the Hartland Orchard (very popular for fruit picking!) you should take the time to stop by Fox Meadow Vineyards for a tasting.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Tasia and Jimmy Lee Still Rock
Apr 29th
They have only three instruments- two voices and a guitar- and they sound absolutely incredible.
I caught them again last night at a local venue and they put on a terrific show. See my prior review here, and check out their latest schedule at http://www.jleelive.com/
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Go See United 93
Apr 26th
The move about the heroes aboard United Flight 93 that refused to allow Moslems to use the flight to attack the Nation’s Capitol opens on Friday. Everyone should go see this film.
See the Trailer Here.
The reviews are already pouring in.
“When I compile my Top 10 list of films for 2006, United 93 will be on it, and almost certainly close to the top.”
– James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS
“A few people made extraordinary use of those tormented minutes, and United 93 fully honors what was original and spontaneous and brave in their refusal to go quietly.”
– David Denby, NEW YORKER
“Greengrass has made not only a thoroughly fact-checked film but a film that uncontrovertibly comes from the heart.”
– Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Taut, visceral and predictably gut-wrenching.”
– Brian Lowry, VARIETY
“Their story is told with devastating realism, stirring up a fresh sense of horror and erasing five years’ distance from the attacks.”
– Lisa Rose, NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
“[Paul Greengrass] keeps a cataclysmic story scaled to the vulnerable men and women involved.”
– Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“United 93 is a shattering, yet effective tribute to men and women who, when faced with unimaginable terror and all-but-certain death, dared to resist their fate using whatever they could get their hands on.”
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...How Did McDonald’s Recover?
Apr 20th
After Morgan Spurlock of Supersize Me fame came out with his documentary on McDonalds and its health effects, McDonalds made a commitment to corporate recovery and they revamped their menu to be more health conscious. Is Morgan to thank for the company’s recovery?
Just three and a half years ago, McDonald’s was struggling mightily. Its stock had tumbled 56 percent in 10 months and the company had reported its first quarterly loss. Sales at existing stores in the United States, by far McDonald s biggest market, were not growing and in many instances were declining.
Stung by obesity lawsuits and criticism from books like Fast Food Nation, the company’s brand seemed passe and the high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium cuisine appeared poised for a long decline.
But that did not happen. Today, McDonald’s business, both in the United States and globally, is growing; the chain gets some one million more American visitors a day than it did just a year ago.
Since 2003, according to the NY Times, revenue for McDonald s has increased by 33 percent and its shares have rocketed 170 percent. The burger chain has, you might say, been supersized.
But I have a different take on the turnaround. Spurlock may have been the impetus and final nail in McDonald’s healthy food, but since that movie, McDonalds did away with anything Supersize.
I happen to love the fountain soda at McDonalds, and its pretty quick to hit a drive thru and get a jumbo soda. But you can’t even get that anymore.
But you can at the competition!
What McDonald’s did was literally make lemonade from lemons. They stopped giving away 33 percent more product for free. And the competition didnt. McDonalds led the way with new innovative menu items such as the McGriddle, and now BurgerKing is introducing a similar product. This has allowed McDonalds to conserve cash and expand the business.
Spurlock would love to take the credit, but I say its great management at the company that brought about the change.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Jamestown 400 Years Later: Godspeed Tour
Apr 19th
Ever since I was a small child, I was fascinated with the story of the Jamestown Settlers, and how they risked everything in 1607 to come to the New World. Most did not survive the transition. The ones that survived pioneered the freedom and democracy we all enjoy today by instituting the House of Burgesses and adopting English Common Law.
As part of the 400 year National Celebration, the Godspeed, one of the first ships to sail to our shores, will tour the East Coast. The ship will be in Alexandria, VA Old Town Waterfront from May 27-June 3, and I will definitely be going to see them.
From the AP Here:
Godspeed Replica to Tour East Coast
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – A new replica of one of the three ships that carried Jamestown’s founders will set sail May 22 for a tour of six East Coast ports to begin commemorating the 400th anniversary of America’s first permanent English settlement.
The Godspeed is to depart from its home berth at the Jamestown Settlement outdoor living history museum and head to Alexandria, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Newport, R.I. Each port will have a free “Landing Party Festival” featuring live music, family entertainment and historical and cultural displays about Jamestown.
During each port stop, costumed interpreters will give visitors a taste of shipboard life. Visitors also can take a “virtual” voyage using an onshore simulator and use their handprints to design panels for a huge American flag that will serve as a backdrop during the anniversary weekend.
The Godspeed Sail is one of 10 “signature” Jamestown anniversary events. The premier event “America’s Anniversary Weekend,” will take place a year after the sailings, on May 11-13, 2007, a national observance of Jamestown’s founding in 1607.
If you have never had the opportunity to visit the Jamestown settlement, you should.? When you do, try to imagine what it must have been like to tame the surrounding mosquito-infested swamps, eke out a living, survive the harsh weather and find a bride, and try to stay on good terms with the Native Powhattan Indians.
The brave men and women that were able to survive those early days are heroes.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Hampton Block Parties
Apr 16th
Summertime is coming, which means that Block Parties will be back on Saturday Nights, featuring live bands and local vendors in Downtown Hampton. I have family that lives in Hampton and I often travel down on the weekends to visit, and for distractions during those weekends, nothing beats the live music scene of Hampton’s Queen Street. There are often 5 bands and even a few solo acts on the various stages and bars, and thousands of residents come out to mingle, laugh and enjoy the music.
If you are in the Hampton Roads area on a Saturday night, skip Virginia Beach or Norfolk, and go to Downtown Hampton for your entertainment.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Comedy Central Draws the Line
Apr 13th
With South Park. Apparantly, its just fine to show cartoons of Jesus pooping on people and President Bush pooping on people, but you cannot depict anything that resembles Muhammed, because its offensive to show an 11th century child molester, no matter what he does.
I had originally thought that last night’s South Park episode was censored because Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show’s creators, did the stunt because they wanted people to think that Comedy Central were against free speech. Well, it turns out that Comedy Central really did censor their own TV show.
I repeat my earlier call to boycott “Mission Impossible 3″ which is a Paramount movie that Tom Cruise, noted and whacky scientologist, threatened not to promote unless Comedy Central pulled a recent episode about the origins of Scientology. Paramount and Comedy Central are both owned by Viacom.
Michelle Malkin has full details, including a video of the show that shows the censorship.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Music Review: Automatic
Apr 10th
On Saturday Night, I stopped by Sully’s in Chantilly and caught the last two sets of Classic Rock Cover Band, Automatic.
It was my first time seeing this band, and they blew me away with their classic rock covers such as Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water, the Guess Who’s No Time and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way.
The lead vocalist, Lloyd has an amazing vocal range, and does a dead-on cover of Jim Morrison from the Doors. Rick, the Bass player, also performs lead vocals on some songs, and together, the two of them provide the perfect voices to cover most of the classic favorites.
The lead guitarist lives for his solo performances, and performs these like a virtuoso.
Automatic thrilled the audience, had everyone dancing, and when the lights came up for last call, there were some boos of disappointment and chants for one more song. I will be seeking out a future performance of Automatic, and if you get a chance to see them, you should. Check their website for dates.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...New VH-1 Show- Can’t Get a Date
Apr 8th
I don’t know how VH-1 manages to target my demographic so well. Every show on VH-1′s lineup is like CrackTV to me. New on Friday Nights is a clever and cute show called “Can’t Get a Date.”
“Can’t Get a Date” profiles normal every day people that can’t seem to well… get a date. These people have annoying problems that make them undatable at worst, and social misfits at best. The show also features a narrator that interacts in real time with the people, providing real-time tips on what works, and what doesn’t when it comes to dating. It works very well and comes off as a humorous how-to guide for the viewers on how to not be a troglodyte on the dating scene.
This week’s season premiere featured Morgan, a misfit toymaker who turns off women all the time with his rudeness, his grubby clothes, and general obnoxiousness. He goes through a series of makeovers, fitting him with proper glasses, a good haircut, new clothes and lots of good sound advice from the narrator, and he scores a charming lady by the end of the episode.
Its like a mini-Cinderella story every week, with the Narrator as the omnipresent fairy godmother.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Cute Fairy Video
Apr 7th
My wife adores fairies. She has figurines and books and pictures of them scattered all over the house, in the garden, on the walls, and in surprising places that I stumble upon from time to time.
I updated the BelchSpeak Video Page here.
It now has a funny commerical on YouTube of the new Dodge Caliber. It features a cute fairy. Check it out!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Couric is a Bad Choice for Anchor
Apr 6th
Katie Couric made a career ending move by accepting the offer to anchor CBS Evening News. She is not AnchorPerson material. Her hardest news coverage to date seems to be the annual Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade.
So after Kronkite and Rather, Couric will now take the reigns of CBS Evening News and finally drill that news division into the cellar of the ratings among the three major news networks. Katie will likely leave the new post at CBS with dismal ratings and an excuse that she wishes to “focus on family” or something similar.
If CBS wanted a woman, there are many more qualified women television anchors out there. Women that aren’t known to be “perky and bubbly.” Women that will lend a seriousness to the news.
If CBS wanted someone young and cute, they could have definitely done much better than Katie, who has “hit the wall” at full speed. No one wants to see an anchor lady age on the nightly news. Am I being mean? Maybe just a tad, but I have my crystal ball out and I’m peering into the future. This is what I see-
- Couric will be out of the anchor chair after dismal ratings.
- Les Moonves, who pushed for the move for Couric, will face difficulty in his position at CBS, and will ultimately admit that it was a mistake to put Couric in the Anchor Chair.
- 60 Minutes, which Katie will now likely work on as well, will lose further credibility after the faked story debacle in 2004 about Bush’s National Guard service.
Katie will be retired from the news biz, and the whole move to the anchor chair will sadly be viewed as an “experiment.” Don’t get me wrong. Its definitely time that a woman was a major news anchor. And a woman can do the job very well, if not better than any man. But is Katie Couric that brave pioneer for equality in the male-dominated evening news biz?
She most certainly is not.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...The Reviews Are In. Sharon Stone’s Basic Instinct 2 Sucks.
Apr 5th
But don’t take my word for it. According to Rotten Tomatoes, this looks to be one of the worst movies EVER.
| If you’re trying to reinvigorate the art of the stylish thriller, the movie you come up with needs to be stylish and it needs to be thrilling. Basic Instinct 2, written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean and directed by Michael Caton-Jones, is neither.” – Stephanie Zacharek, SLATE  “For many people, the only reason to see Basic Instinct 2 is to find out if Stone uncrosses her legs again. She doesn?t.”– Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL) “Instead of moving like an enchanting vision of lust, Stone stomps through every scene with the subtlety of a Clydesdale, and her hair looks like it was stolen off a Raggedy Ann doll”– Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Blogging from The Villages, FL
Mar 30th
My wife and I are on vacation this week, and we are currently visiting my wife’s grandmother for the first time in her new home at The Villages, Florida.
What a beautiful, wholesome town this is.
The villages is a planned community, much like my own hometown of Reston, VA. But unlike Reston, the Villages is primarily a retirement community of low-cost homes and golf courses, more golf courses and still more golf courses. In fact, most residents of this huge town drive everywhere in their golf carts, with golf clubs in tow, and in case they cant get a tee time, they go shopping.
You cant move here unless you are 55. And I’m so jealous of the current residents, cause I really want to come here. Beautiful architecture, plenty of churches and shops, and everything is so clean and – wholesome. Ive said that twice now. Its because every night is dance night in the town square. Grandchildren love to come visit Paps and Granny because everyone has such a good time in this town. Grandfathers dance with their granddaughters under the starlight to Lady in Red on a typical Thursday.
It strikes me that with the baby boomer generation becoming the largest retirement group ever, the Villages in FL should be a model of a retirement community. For far too long, Americans have envisioned a retirement community as a place where you go to watch old folks waste away and die. Boy has that changed for me. A retirement community is where you should celebrate your twilight years under the stars with a different band every night, surrounded by your neighbors and golf friends, and attended by your children and grand children.
This country is hopefully building more and more communities like the Villages, where the skies are big, the air is clean, and the neighbors are friendly.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Great Distractions
Mar 28th
My wife and I have found a new favorite website- its VH1′s Best Week Ever Blog.
It is great fun to lie in bed together with a laptop (in bed its a tummytop) and watch the posted videos and catch up on all of the celebrity gossip. It has inspired me to capture some of the best videos and post them on the new BelchSpeak Video Page located here.
First up on the video page is an odd collaboration between Kotex (makers of fine feminine hygeine products) and Walt Disney. Its a cartoon that describes in vivid 1940′s detail, all that you need to know about the menstrual cycle. ‘Nuff Said.
Also is a great 1999 television pilot by Ben Stiller starring Jack Black and the voice of Owen Wilson called “Heat Vision and Jack.” Its an unbelieavable superhero story of a talking motorcycle and a wandering former astronaut who, together, encounter adventures and are pursued by the evil Ron Silver. You gotta see it.
I will update the vids page with new items as they are encountered.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...George Mason Cinderella Story!
Mar 27th
These guys are GOOD! The George Mason Men’s basketball team defied all of the odds and wrecked countless betting brackets by knocking off top seed University of Connecticut in the NCAA tournament yesterday 86 to 84 in Overtime.
I live in Fairfax County, and the whole region has become Mason Patriots, and all of the pubs are full of fans, both new and old, crowded around the HDTV plasmas and rooting for this group of players who weren’t supposed to make it out of the second round of the tournament.
Local talk shows on the radio are saying that GMU’s advance to the final four is the equivalent of the greatest Cinderella stories in sports EVER. They said it is bigger than Seabiscuit.
From the San Jose Mercury News here:
Don’t be fooled.
Don’t look at George Mason University in the Final Four and get duped into seeing Cinderella.
Don’t look at the roster of no-name kids who couldn’t get scholarships to any major program and see 14 pairs of glass slippers.
George Mason is not Cinderella.
Cinderella would not – make that could not – have done what the Patriots just did.
Cinderella might always show up in the NCAA Tournament, but she does not go to the Final Four. That exclusive arena is reserved for truly elite teams.
“So what you’re saying now is we’re no longer a Cinderella now, we’re an elite team?” George Mason coach Jim Larranaga joyfully said after his 11th-seeded Patriots stunned top-seeded Connecticut in overtime, 86-84, to win the Washington Regional on Sunday at the Verizon Center.
Of course, George Mason looks like Cinderella. The Patriots join Louisiana State (1986) as only the second double-digit seed to reach the Final Four.
How could an 11th-seeded team from the Colonial Athletic Association going to the Final Four not look like a poor girl turned into a princess at the whim of a fairy godmother?
Considering who and when, this is arguably the most shocking upset in NCAA Tournament history. Princeton, seeded 13th, stunned reigning national champion UCLA in 1996, but that was in the opening round.
However, the fact that George Mason’s achievement appears to be some kind of miracle is the best explanation for why it is not. Miracles are one-time events.
In the last two weeks, George Mason, a program that had been 0-3 in the NCAA Tournament, has taken out a No. 6 seed (Michigan State), a No. 3 (North Carolina) and now a No. 1 in UConn.
Those programs have combined for eight NCAA championships.
Telling no-name players on a no-name team from a no-name conference that they can play with storied programs like Michigan State, North Carolina and Connecticut is one thing. Defeating them is an entirely different story. You might beat one; if you’re really lucky, maybe two, but there’s not enough magic in a wand to account for beating all three plus a good Wichita State squad on the way to the Final Four.
That’s not a result of magic.
That’s a result of the things that only championship-caliber teams show – guts, talent, poise and determination.
Cinderella doesn’t reach the Final Four, only great teams do.
This team can go all the way, based on looking at their performance in this tournament. And if they do, Fairfax County will never be the same. Go Patriots!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chef Dies Gruesome Death- MI3 Boycott
Mar 24th
As predicted on this blog, Matt Stone and and Trey Parker would not allow Chef to just go quietly into South Park Obscurity. He would have to die a very gruesome death. And he did die a horrible death in the season premiere of South Park Season 10. But only after he joined a secret society which engages in sex with children!
From the Washington Post here:
In the episode, pals Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are thrilled when Chef, who’d left South Park to join the Super Adventure Club, returns. But in school the next day, he says to them, “How about I meet you guys after work and we make love . . . come on children, you’re my sexual fantasy, let’s all make sweet love.” Those are the printable things, anyway.
Chef heads back over the bridge, only it’s struck by lightning and falls apart. Chef plunges down the ravine and is impaled on a large stick and attacked by a mountain lion, then a grizzly bear.
Back in South Park, the townsfolk hold a memorial service for Chef. Kyle tells the residents that although a lot of them don’t agree with the choices Chef made in the last few days, they should focus on how much he made them smile and — here’s the money quote — they should not be mad at Chef but instead at “the fruity little club for scrambling his brain.”
There is much furor about Comedy Central pulling the Scientology episode, which is due to Tom Cruise threatening to boycott all promotions dealing with his upcoming Paramount movie of Mission Impossible 3. You see, Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, which is a Paramount subsidiary.
I join in the call to boycott Mission Impossible 3. Don’t go see the movie. Don’t even buy the popcorn.
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