FREEKS OF THE WEEK: DFW'd
by Orson on Sep 15, 2008 10:44 AM EDT
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*1. Idolatry reversed; a Catholic inversion of an authoritarian meme where Michigan, symbolized by the dead, glowering paterfamilias of Schembechler, is rocked to its core by a radical Steve Reeves exercising his muscular authority in the name of destablizing the ancien regime. Notre Dame typically receives the feudal brand; here Freek inverts, slips an uninvited wet willie in the ear while you were busy.
2. The cheap, overexposed pastels of early technicolor wake up the echoes of a thousand noontime gladiator pics where centurions wear wristwatches, every hero is coated in a fine sheen of olive oil and noble perspiration, and a Greek producer sits behind the director's chair with a pistol and the last fifteen dollars in the film's budget looking displeased. It is a dual nostalgia; one of the film's actual production, an experience only imagined, then glommed onto vicariously, as if you yourself had held sat in a theater one hot Mediterranean afternoon, and then the primary nostalgia of watching the movie for fifteen to twenty tedious minutes on a dull afternoon in the late 1970s or early 80s when cable had not walled you in with entertainment, and local channels filled dead air with the failed historical fantasies of dodgy playboy producers.
3. For anxiety over repeated losses, Tressel could consider the following:
Chemical Brand
alprazolam Xanax
buspirone BuSpar
chlordiazepoxide Librax, Libritabs, Librium
clonazepam Klonopin
clorazepate Azene, Tranxene
diazepam Valium
halazepam Paxipam
lorazepam Ativan
oxazepam Serax
prazepam Centrax
Of course, all grapefruits should be avoided in the case of MAOI inhibitors, which run the risk of stroke, a side effect of a cure ironically causing significant incidence of the very phenomena addressed in its application.
4. Yes, footnotes. What he said.
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Nice use of “Samson and Delilah,” LSUFreek. I thought I was only person under sixty who had seen it.
by John on Sep 15, 2008 10:57 AM EDT reply actions
I’ve got my master’s in pharm.
CFB & benzodiazepenes on one blog?
And now I need a cigarette.
by MCab on Sep 15, 2008 11:15 AM EDT reply actions
If Knowshon Moreno is only 3rd string at Cal, imagine how deep he’d be buried on the Blue Raider depth chart.
by Chg on Sep 15, 2008 11:23 AM EDT reply actions
Two lessons learned this weekend: USC, Oklahoma, and Missouri are about the only three really good teams in college football, and everyone should read David Foster Wallace.
But here’s my tip: find the other good literary geniuses (say, Michael Chabon) and appreciate them so that the world doesn’t turn too black for them. We can’t lose artists in a time of hopelessness.
by Rockabye Reggie Nelson on Sep 15, 2008 11:44 AM EDT reply actions
Does that mean Charlie is Delilah? Because I don’t want to consider everything that could mean.
by Harris on Sep 15, 2008 11:44 AM EDT reply actions
Would love to see LSUfreek do one on HIS COACHNESS after his wonderful defensive effort this weekend.
Logically, I guess this means Bring’Em Young would beat Phat Phil 62-0.
by yoyofutbawl on Sep 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT reply actions
Pretty sure it wasn’t Clausen(10-21 147 2 PICKS) that beat UM.
It was, as Tracey Austin so sublimely stated:
“Wet balls”
by scalz1 on Sep 15, 2008 2:21 PM EDT reply actions
Maybe Mr. Freek can re-do the Temple of Schembechler animation with the stones falling down and tearing Charlie Weis’s ACL and MCL.
Who’s laughing now, Fattypants?
by Sgt. Barwis's Beatdown Brigade on Sep 15, 2008 3:25 PM EDT reply actions
We all miss you, DFW. I hope the fantods stopped howling :( :( :(.
Your threnody is appreciated in this dark Year of the Hanged Man.
by Nick Black on Sep 15, 2008 3:57 PM EDT reply actions
Yes: ND can win when spotted 21 points. If I were a Domer, I think I’d still have some concerns.
by Sgt. Barwis's Beatdown Brigade on Sep 15, 2008 4:29 PM EDT reply actions
No matter how many games ND wins or loses this year…they still beat scUM. I don’t care how many point scUM “gave them”, they still beat them.
by GodCountryND on Sep 15, 2008 4:49 PM EDT reply actions
Slapfight between terrible UM-ND squads? Priceless.
Reveling in permanent partial disability that even freakishly-healed ACL/MCL tears leave behind? Never. Ok. I’m beginning to see why others call the UM faithful scUM.
by der schatten on Sep 15, 2008 6:24 PM EDT reply actions
Charlie Weis was already permanently partially disabled.
by Sgt. Barwis's Beatdown Brigade on Sep 15, 2008 8:39 PM EDT reply actions
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