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Margaret Dragonette arrived in New York last week — three nieces, a cousin and loads of empty luggage in tow. By the time Dragonette, an administrative assistant for a nonprofit in Liverpool, was heading home, her group had filled six large suitcases and five carry-on bags. The bags were so stuffed with Juicy Couture T-shirts, Guess watches and Croc sandals that her nieces would have to wear onto the plane the Ugg boots she was giving them for Christmas.

“Your money just keeps on going,” said Dragonette, awed at the buying power of her British pounds, each worth US$2.03 at the time.

The dollar was so weak, said her cousin, a 27-year-old nurse, “We had trouble spending all our money.”

Add a new superlative to New York’s long list: world’s most fabulous discount mall.

With the dollar near its lowest rate against the pound in 26 years, and its lowest rate against the euro ever, many Europeans are looking at the US the way some Americans have long viewed Latin America and the Caribbean and, once upon a time, Europe — a cheap place to flex their strong currency.

The situation is more than just a potential blow to Americans’ self-image, it could be a blow to the world economy as some central bankers worry about “currency tension,” and many countries move trillions of dollars out of their foreign reserves and buy euros instead.

The dollar’s fall has been so drastic, it has seeped into the popular consciousness. In his last video, rapper Jay-Z cruised the streets of New York flashing not a stack of Benjamins, but a fistful of euros.

The dollar had been at relatively low levels against the pound and euro for most of this year, but in April it broke the US$2 to &POND;1 barrier and the exchange rate started to make headlines in Britain.

Travel soared.

“You already got high-quality holidays and friendliness and now you even got the good prices,” said Alan Waddell, chief operating officer of Visit USA in London, which promotes British travel to the US.

For a new breed of European tourists, working-class and first-time visitors, the weak dollar is more than an everything-off coupon. “It means we can come,” said Inaki Benito, a 27-year-old bus factory worker from Vitoria, Spain, who never thought he would be able to afford a two-week stay in New York.

Even with the weak dollar, Benito and his traveling companion, Eneko Ruiz-de-Samanie, a tire factory worker, had to rent an apartment in the Bronx rather than stay in hotels, so they would have money for shopping and Broadway shows.

“This year is unbelievable,” said George Chaves, the guest relations manager at Fitzpatrick Hotels, two Manhattan hotels catering to British and Irish tourists for the last six years. “We’re seeing families of modest means, they’re here for the first time and they can’t believe the purchasing freedom and the spending power they have.”

A standard room at one of the Fitzpatrick hotels costs about US$460 a night.

Though statistics are not kept by tourists’ economic class or income level, anecdotal evidence from travel agents and hoteliers, as well as New Yorkers, suggested there was a huge wave of new visitors to New York over the summer. The number of tourists from Britain, for instance, was up 22 percent in August, compared with August last year.

The year-over-year increase for September was only 6 percent, but indications were that this fall’s travelers were more well-traveled and even less budget-conscious.

More guests at the hotels where Chaves works are seeing Broadway shows — from the orchestra seats — and he is making more reservations for them at expensive uptown steakhouses like Bobby Van’s, Maloney & Porcelli and Smith & Wollensky.

Matthias Jungkind, a 34-year-old financial controller from Dusseldorf, Germany, said he finds the low exchange rate laughable, literally. Every time he saw the dollar price tag on an item, he said, he giggled involuntarily.

But monetary authorities are not laughing. The dollar has been so low for so long, Europeans are worrying about how expensive their exports are becoming for US consumers when priced in dollars, and how much that hurts European growth.

Last month, Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, warned that an appreciating pound and euro, combined with most oil-producing countries and China linking their currencies to the dollar, creates “great currency tension.”

Such tension could hurt the dollar further as countries like China, which holds the largest reserves of US currency outside the US, see their dollar reserves sink in value and hurry to move them to other currencies.

A Chinese official threatened to do that last month, though other leaders contradicted him.

Still, an estimated US$1.2 trillion in dollar holdings will move to other currencies over the next five years, economists at Merrill Lynch said. In May, Kuwait dropped its currency’s link to the dollar, and in October, Iraq said it wanted to diversify its heavily dollar-dominated reserves.

“The current currency system is quite fragile and will break down as it leads to imbalances and capital losses” among countries with dollar reserves, said Nouriel Roubini, a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

It is still less clear whether one or several currencies will replace the dollar as the main reserve currency. “With the euro, the world has gained an alternative reserve currency but other currencies have also won in strength,” said Chris Munns, a lecturer at the London School of Economics.

Whatever the long-term effect of the strong euro (and the weak dollar), in the short run the current exchange rate could serve US interests, not only because it helps reduce the current-account deficit, but also because Europeans could help save what is expected to be a somber holiday shopping season, even though retail sales figures for last month, released on Thursday, were better than anticipated.

Europeans are descending on the nation’s shopping malls and department stores at the highest rate in seven years.

International travelers are expected to spend US$92 billion in the US this year, 7.5 percent more than last year, according to the Commerce Department. The number of visitors from abroad is expected to rise 5 percent to 53.6 million this year. Europeans make up the largest group of overseas visitors to the US, with about 35 percent of them visiting New York City.

Low prices should keep them coming. Increasing demand tied to the weak dollar has set off a price war among trans-Atlantic airlines, pushing prices to new lows, said Sean Tipton, spokesman for the Association of British Travel Agents in London.

Holly Lancaster, a 52-year-old airline customer service agent from Miami, said she was experiencing tourist envy after a trip to Greece last month.

“I just couldn’t do as much with my money as I wanted,” she said.
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Disney is registering bizarre domain names. Maybe they think people type in that long word. I don’t think so, but hey! it’s only 10 bucks a month at most.

Michael Patalano, college student and disney fanatic, likes guessing what his favorite company is up to by tracking which Web sites Disney Enterprises registers.
Patalano discovered that Disney registered names like and — signaling the company’s interest in securing sites that could be related to its TV show “The Suite Life with Zack & Cody” and a popular children’s book, respectively. Patalano said his biggest scoop came when he discovered the name of Disney’s sequel to “National Treasure” — “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” — before Disney had announced it, setting his fellow Internet fans abuzz.

“I’m a fan of practically everything Disney,” he said. “This was another way to find out what they’re up to.”

Shielding a company’s brand from early or negative exposure has become a business unto itself. On the advice of digital brand-management services and lawyers, many companies register thousands of names to protect themselves. Every time they launch products or services, executives have to worry about shielding their moves online from competitors and protecting themselves from users who might sully their brand.

Yesterday I posted Dolly Parton’s new video for Better Get to Livin’, in which Amy plays three different roles. Amy Sedaris and Dolly Parton seem like such an unlikely pair, yet Amy was perfect for the part. So, when the video’s director, Steve Lipmann, aka Flip, contacted me last night, I just had ask… How in the world did Amy come to be cast in a Dolly Parton video?! Steve explains:

The thought of casting Amy came from myself and my creative team — we’re all longtime fans. I can remember seeing her shows at La Mama years ago, and immediately succumbed to the insanity. As for the video, the roles were already sketched out, but then I had the idea of getting Amy to do all 3 of them, like Peter Sellers used to do in his movies. I suggested this to Dolly and her team, and they thought it was a great idea. Next thing you know, we approached Amy and she said “yes”. It was the promise that Amy would share a scene with a monkey, and of course, Dolly, that sealed the deal. Wow. Imagine 2 days of filming with Dolly and Amy. This is when show biz has its perks. Amy improvised a lot, and the costume designer Adam Selman and make-up artist Chris Colbeck helped her bring the characters to life, beyond anything I imagined. We all had a blast making the video, and it doesn’t surprise me that there is so much overlap in the fan base with Dolly and Amy. They are both generous and genius one-of-a-kind talents.

Also - Just a reminder that if you want to see the video on the big screen, it premieres on CMT tomorrow (Thursday, November 29th) during the Top 20 Countdown (and if you really like the video, you can go to CMT.com afterwards and vote for it to actually get into the Top 20 Countdown).

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 On December 4th a huge Menorah was erected and lit in front of the America’s White House. A radical Jewish supremacist organization called Chabad Lubavitch sponsored the menorah and it was lit by the prominent Jewish extremist and torture advocate, the new U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey. In America you cannot put a Christian cross on public ground; no symbol representing any aspect of the Christian religion is allowed. Christmas manger scenes, for example, have long been deemed illegal.But while crosses are banned from the White House and any public place, huge Jewish Menorahs are going up by the thousands all over the United States as well as  in many European countries. One of the main groups erecting them is Chabad Lubavitch, an organization that teaches that Gentiles are a lower and different species from Jews and that Gentiles entire purpose on earth is only to “serve Jews.” (read the following article on Chabad on www.davidduke.com)

Menorahs are now erected in most hallowed places of many respective nations.  You can find them in front of many European parliaments and government buildings. A huge Menorah is now in front of the White House and hundreds more adorn government buildings, both state and federal and local all over America.

The Menorah is symbol intrinsic with the Jewish religion, and long before the creation of the modern state of Israel, the Menorah was the most common symbol of the Jewish religion, it has been used for centuries as symbol of Jewish organizations all over the world.

Menorahs symbolize what the Jewish religion calls miracle of the lamps and commemorates the Jewish military victory over the Greeks and the recapture of the Jewish temple which is now celebrated as the Jewish religious holiday of Hanukkah. The Jewish religion views Hanukkah’s meaning as commemorating Jewish resistance to the threat of intermarriage and assimilation. Instead of persecuting Jews, the Greeks of Syria accepted them and allowed them to assimilate and because of this the rabbis waged war and massacred them.

Hanukkah is used by the Jewish faith as a lesson against intermarriage with Christians. Imagine for a moment if any Christian Politician would condemn the marriage of Christians to Jews, or would suggest that America should not let Jews assimilate into our nation. The fact that Jewish extremists routinely get away with these double standards is only understandable when one recognizes that Jewish supremacy in many areas of the American media. They can focus on what they want, hide what they want.

When President Bush was campaigning for President in his first election, he was roundly criticized for speaking at the Christian, Bob Jones University. It was brought out that BJU opposed interracial or inter-religious dating or marriage. Bush had to make a servile apology to the Jewish press for his appearance. Yet, the very next week he was speaking before powerful national Jewish organizations such as the American Jewish Committee, an organization that spends millions in opposing intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews. Practically every major Jewish organization in America has gone on record as opposing Jewish  intermarriage with non-Jews. Of course, there was no outcry in the controlled press against Bush for speaking at these Jewish extremist groups, and every major candidate for president  has to genuflect before the radical, pro-Israel radical Jewish groups that wield so much political, financial and media power in America.

President Bush learned his lesson and helped light the anti-assimilationist Jewish menorah in the White House, accompanied by members of the Jewish hate-group called Chabad Lubavitch. Could you imagine President Bush lighting candles in the shape of the cross in ceremony opposing Jewish assimilation in Gentile society, but somehow there is no problem in lighting a symbol that opposes Jewish assimilation from a Jewish perspective.

Chabad Lubavitch is a powerful Jewish extremist group with branches in every major city of Europe and America and even with branches for Jews in far away cities such as Peking and New Delhi. Here are two  excerpts from their website on the Menorah erections around the world.

Chabad Lubavitch sponsored Menorah at the KremlinPublic menorah lightings were initiated and promoted by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory. Today, more than 10,000 public squares around the world are illuminated by Menorahs placed by Chabad Lubavitch.
From Giant Menorah Lit in Front of the Kremlin

In a tradition started by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to publicize and popularize the Festival of Lights, Chabad has brought the menorah to be lit in the White House, the Kremlin, the Brandenburg Gate, in Iraq, embassies, consulates, State Houses, college campuses, army bases, ball games, shopping malls, and more.
From Chabad To Light Menorah In Polish Parliament (Sejm)

Chabad Lubavitch sponsored a huge Menorah in Zagreb with Chabad claiming that Croatia can’t enter the EU unless Croatia builds a huge synagogue.

Of course no Christian organization could  claim, to put special holiday crosses in thousands of public squares as most of these nations would forbid any overt Christian symbols, yet strangely, Jewish supremacist symbols are not only permitted they are approved and celebrated by the top political leaders of European nations. Why?

The answer to that question will lead to answers of many other questions that challenge us. Let’s take a glimpse into Chabad Lubavitch which has an inside track to most political leaders in the European world, the same organizations that put up the Menorahs that are clearly illegal in most countries.

The New Republic in a May 4, 1992 article revealed the hateful anti-Gentile nature of Chabad Lubavitch.

…there are some powerful ironies in Chabad’s new messianic universalism, in its mission to the gentiles; and surely the most unpleasant of them concerns Chabad’s otherwise undisguised and even racial contempt for the goyim.
…Moreover, this characterization of gentiles as being inherently evil, as being spiritually as well as biologically inferior to Jews, has not in any way been revised in later Chabad writing. (The New Republic)

Chabad and other extremist orthodox rabbis frequently author columns in the largest Jewish newspaper in the United States, Jewish Week. In this paper you will find supremacist attitudes that any decent human being would call horrific. Examine the following quote:

 “Gentile souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They are totally evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.” …If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is a part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA. …

If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value,” he explained. “There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.

– Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh in Jewish Week, the largest Jewish publication in the United States.

This Statement was made by a leading Lubavitch Rabbi named Yitshak Ginsburgh and it can be found in the April 26, 1996 Jewish Week. Many Christians would doubt the authenticity of the quote simply because they could not believe any religious leader would actually say that it would be moral for a Jew to kill a Gentile and take his liver. In many of my lectures, I bring home the horror of what Rabbi Ginsburgh said by pointing out to the non-Jews in the audience that he argues that Jews have the moral right to murder your mother or father, son or daughter, husband or wife to provide a liver for a Jew. The evil of such a statement is simply beyond the comprehension of most of us, but again, this statement was made in largest, most popular Jewish publication in the United States, the same organization that is sponsoring the illegal Menorahs in front of the White House and in many other nations.

For simply quoting Ginsburgh and exposing Jewish supremacism in my writings and lectures I have been condemned as a hater, anti-Semite and a bigot. I must endure this treatment by the media while Ginsburgh himself has received hardly a whiff of criticism. His statement was not one of a lone extremist Jew off somewhere in a remote desert of Israel, but was made by one of the honored leaders of a sect that actually has parties and conferences in the White House.

As far as Hanukkah is concerned, let me quote to you from a typical Jewish accounting of it. I take this quote from Zipple: the Jewish Supersite. Here are some excerpts:

That’s not to say that Chanukah isn’t important. After all, the eight-day holiday celebrates the Jewish military victory against the Syrians…, Underlying Chanukah is a theme just as central today as it was 2,000 years ago, the fight against assimilation. Today, just as then, Jews are well accepted; the Maccabees revolted not only against the ruling Syrians, but against the prevailing Jewish practice of Hellenization.

See, Jewish writers define the Hanukkah celebration as one to encourage resistance to assimilation among Gentiles, a battle as vital today as the one that went on 2000 years ago. The word Hellenization could be interchangeable with Americanization.

You see, everyone else in the world that comes to America is supposed to be quote, “Americanized, ” everyone of course except the Jews. For them we are supposed to say isn’t it great that they want to maintain their separateness and not merge into the great melting of races and creeds in America!

Any Gentile who would dare to say that Jews want to remain separate and not truly assimilate into American culture would be labeled an anti-Semite. If that’s true, I guess almost every Jewish organization is quote “anti-Semitic, because all of them preach against intermarriage and assimilation.

The fact-of-the-matter is that Hanukkah is an extremely ethno-phobic celebration of a Jewish military victory and massacre of the pro-Greek Syrians. While a billion Christians celebrate peace on earth, good will to men, the Hanukkah celebration celebrates annihilation of Jewish enemies. I am not exaggerating in the least bit.

Most of the Jewish holidays are celebrations of massacres of their enemies. Seems odd, doesn’t it, for a religion to revere military victories as their most sacred times.

In fact, the meaning given to Hanukkah by almost all Jewish leaders and scholars is that Hanukkah symbolizes the resistance of the assimilation of the Jewish people, religion and culture. That in itself is not so bad; all people who want to maintain their traditions, culture and even the heritage of their children should resist assimilation. Somehow, the same rules are not supposed to apply to people of European descent. Jewish supremacists, in recognizing Hanukkah, promote the idea that Jews need to keep themselves pure, and non-assimilated. We Europeans are supposed to have our people and culture become assimilated and subsumed every race on earth, but they are supposed to resist assimilation at all costs. Anyone who can think well enough to recognize this hypocrisy should realize its implications in the Jewish extremist power wielded in media and politics. Why is this hypocrisy never exposed in our supposedly free media? Why is exposing Jewish intolerance, supremacism and racial hatred considered in itself intolerant?

Any resistance we have to losing our genetic and cultural heritage through assimilation is called chauvinism, intolerance and ultimately racism by the media. Jewish resistance to assimilation is called “heroic” and worthy of solemn ceremony and celebration. Bush trumpeted that he was committed to Israel as a Jewish state. Note, he did not say multicultural state, diverse state, but as an all caps JEWISH state, which of course it is. With three million Palestinians living under an oppressive Israeli military occupation, some even still dare to call Israel the only democracy in the Mideast, tell that to the 3 million who suffer under a brutal occupation that steals their land and water, imprisons and tortures thousands and that controls almost every aspect ot their lives.

What is so incredibly hypocritical about the whole thing is that the same media that lauds assimilation and diversity for European Americans has no problem with Jews resisting assimilation in the countries in which they dwell. Of course, that is because the media is dominated by the same group that celebrates Hanukkah. Most of the Jewish groups promoting Hanukkah do so use it as a lesson to vigorously condemn intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles.

Imagine for a moment if there was a White House ceremony that symbolized White rejection of assimilation and multiculturalism and condemned intermarriage of Whites with Jews.  Do you think the media would be silent?

Or how about if Bush Welcomed to the White House the Gentile equivalent of Jewish supremacists called Israel Identity and they had a religious ceremony celebrating opposition to Jews mixing or assimilating with them?

Every major Jewish organization in the world has programs dedicated to preventing intermarriage of Jews and non-Jews.

How often are they compared to those organizations of Whites who oppose intermarriage?

How many times have you seen the Hollywood stereotype of the evil White Southerner opposed to race-mixing?

How many times have you seen the pervasive Jewish supremacism condemned by media?

How many of you listening to this broadcast or reading this know that by law in Israel Jews and non-Jews cannot marry?

Has any media proposed stopping aid to Israel as long as this continues?

How many times has the media dared to compare those Israeli laws to the old anti-intermarriage laws in most of the American states?

How are these double standards maintained without any outcry?

In truth the double standards that we witness every day in our nation reveal the extent of Jewish power and influence over our media, government and culture.

And how can the government of the U.S. forbid Christian crosses but put up Jewish religious symbols of supremacism and hate?

The answer to all these questions is quite evident.

The government and media of the United States are influenced mightily by the same Jewish extremists who exercise these double standards.

And with that, Griffin and I begin our live blog. Hello everyone, it’s Justin McElroy, and for the next two hours my brother and I will be your guides for “Samuel L. Jackson No-So-Subtly Judges Everyone in the Room,” or, as it’s being advertised, “The Spike 2007 Video Game Awards.”

The live blog begins after the break. Come, join us.[20:59] griffinjoystiq: That woman is naked.
[20:59] griffinjoystiq: She’s on the TV and she’s naked.
[21:04] JustinAtTheVGAs: They really are just naked girls
[21:04] JustinAtTheVGAs: Right?
[21:04] griffinjoystiq: Yes? I think?
[21:05] JustinAtTheVGAs: The not-so-subtle parade of insults begins.
[21:05] griffinjoystiq: I’m glad my girlfriend isn’t here.
[21:05] JustinAtTheVGAs: Would she totally see your rod?
[21:05] griffinjoystiq: Indubidably.
[21:05] JustinAtTheVGAs: Dear Sam: Mario has been weird for two decades.

Kristen Bell wins something for being in Assassin’s Creed
[21:06] griffinjoystiq: OMG HEIDI AND SPENCER
[21:06] griffinjoystiq: I thought they broke up.
[21:06] griffinjoystiq: I’m pretty sure they broke up.
[21:07] JustinAtTheVGAs: You’re ruining the liveblog.
[21:07] griffinjoystiq: Look at how pissed off Heidi looks at Spencer.

Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 Premiere
[21:08] griffinjoystiq: Not to sound like a feminist, but have they done anything but objectify half of the people on the planet so far?
[21:08] JustinAtTheVGAs: I’m going to set Criss Angel on fire with my heart.
[21:09] griffinjoystiq: It looks like he stole those clothes from a hobo, who stole those clothes from a poorer hobo.
[21:09] griffinjoystiq: There’s a rainbow six vegas two coming out?
[21:09] JustinAtTheVGAs: It’s ubisoft.
[21:10] JustinAtTheVGAs: That was really informative.
[21:10] griffinjoystiq: Wow, I learned something I actually didn’t know about on this thing. I’m pleasantly surprised.
[21:10] JustinAtTheVGAs: Just a bunch of people having fun and some limited fighting.
[21:11] griffinjoystiq: Secret gamestop ad attack!
[21:11] JustinAtTheVGAs: But hey, I like that tagline. If you’re betting, (something something) stand on six. OK, commercial (beer) break. BRB.

Best game based on a movie or TV show
[21:16] JustinAtTheVGAs: Dave Navarro has never played a movie based game.
[21:17] griffinjoystiq: Video games and movies make a good match? Go straight to hell, Navarro.
[21:17] JustinAtTheVGAs: Straight. To. Hell.
[21:17] JustinAtTheVGAs: And the winner is …
[21:17] griffinjoystiq: N/A
[21:18] JustinAtTheVGAs: I’d give it to stranglehold.
[21:18] JustinAtTheVGAs: But it goes to the Simpson’s Game. C’est la vie.
[21:18] griffinjoystiq: Picking the best movie based game is like picking the least retarded show pony.

Foo Fighters
[21:21] griffinjoystiq: Are the guys in Foo Fighters having a beard-growing competition? Even that stand up bass player has a bit of scruff, and she’s a petite lady.
[21:23] JustinAtTheVGAs: Every guy in the audience looks like he just wants one special glance from Dave Grohl. Or maybe they just don’t want him to beat them up.

Commercials Pt. 1
[21:24] JustinAtTheVGAs: Hey, in the interim, I’d like to point out that the stage (sort of an arcade cabinet homage) is really, really cool.
[21:26] griffinjoystiq: Seriously, they just showed an ad for one of their shows to everyone in the audience? Can you imagine if CBS interrupted the Oscars to advertise Two and a Half Men?
[21:26] griffinjoystiq: Yes, the stage is pretty cool.
[21:27] JustinAtTheVGAs: Can I admit that I think the GameStop ad with the sensitive convo between player and monster is actually pretty funny?

Afro Samurai trailer
[21:31] JustinAtTheVGAs: Samuel L. Jackson presents the trailer for HIS video game. Yeah, he’s making it. In the same sense that George Foreman invents grills.
[21:31] JustinAtTheVGAs: Side note. We’re 31 minutes in and we’re getting our first appearance of a Mad TV cast member.
[21:32] griffinjoystiq: And, funnily enough, Afro Samurai airs on, you guessed it, Spike TV.

Best team sports game
[21:32] griffinjoystiq: I must say that, so far, the Spike TV VGA’s are the most meta of all the awards shows.
[21:32] JustinAtTheVGAs: Look, the screen looks like a YouTube video! Like on the internet.
[21:33] JustinAtTheVGAs: I think the winner in this category HAS to be the Blitz game from two years ago.
[21:33] griffinjoystiq: Ugh, Madden.
[21:33] griffinjoystiq: Where was The Bigs?
[21:34] JustinAtTheVGAs: And where were that girl’s nipples? Pastie’d.
[21:34] griffinjoystiq: The 2007 Griffin McElroy Sports Game of the Year award goes to The Bigs, for what it’s worth, 2K.

Chingy presents: A History of Gran Turismo (and a new GT5 trailer)
[21:35] griffinjoystiq: NERRBODY INN THEEE ROOM GETTIN’ VIDEO GAME AWARDS
[21:35] griffinjoystiq: Oh, this GT5 trailer was pretty hyped up.
[21:36] JustinAtTheVGAs: It looked good, but strangely unrealistic. Does that make sense?
[21:36] JustinAtTheVGAs: Kind of plasticky?
[21:36] griffinjoystiq: Yeah man. Apparently, cars are capable of driving into the uncanny valley.

Commercials Pt. 2
[21:37] griffinjoystiq: Is there not enough product placement in the content of the show that they actually have to add segments like that verizon wireless gaming sales pitch?
[21:38] JustinAtTheVGAs: Do you think girls take their clothes of, put pasties on their nipples and paint themselves for free?
[21:39] JustinAtTheVGAs: (If they’re not on Flavor of Love, natch.)
[21:39] griffinjoystiq: Do you understand what I’m saying? This show is about the best things on a market, it’s basically telling you what is worth buying. It’s a huge commercial. Why do they need to keep dropping obvious advertisements between awards?
[21:40] griffinjoystiq: I feel like I’ve been watching commercials for 41 minutes. Is the show about to start?
[21:40] JustinAtTheVGAs: Do you feel like Samuel L. Jackson is judging you?
[21:41] griffinjoystiq: I feel like every time he puts his hand in his pocket, he gives sensual rubdowns to the huge check Spike TV wrote him. I think it’s the only way he’s getting through the show.

Stan Lee presents an Iron Man trailer
[21:42] griffinjoystiq: I don’t think the presenters know that people who play video games don’t spontaneously yell “DAMN I LOVE VIDEO GAMES”.
[21:42] JustinAtTheVGAs: I do.
[21:42] JustinAtTheVGAs: Ooooh, first gen Iron Man costume.
[21:43] JustinAtTheVGAs: Actual Robert Downey Jr. voice too.
[21:43] griffinjoystiq: I eat Arby’s all the time, but I don’t walk around screaming “MMMM DAMN ARBYS IS GOOD”
[21:43] griffinjoystiq: Iron Man looked amazing, against all odds.
[21:43] JustinAtTheVGAs: “Tony, you’re not a soldier.”
[21:44] JustinAtTheVGAs: “You’re right, I’m an army.” Nice.

Ralphie May and Best Individual Sports game
[21:44] griffinjoystiq: He’s a “really big” game fan? Do I even touch that one?
[21:45] JustinAtTheVGAs: Ralphie May’s so fat that I want to slit his wrist and drink the herb-butter that gushes from his veins.
[21:45] griffinjoystiq: When he cries, rolls from Outback Steakhouse fall out.
[21:46] griffinjoystiq: Predictions for best individual sports game?
[21:46] JustinAtTheVGAs: The last individual sport Ralphie May played was “try not to have a heart attack while walking up stairs.”
[21:46] JustinAtTheVGAs: Skate seems to have fared well in reviews.
[21:46] JustinAtTheVGAs: And I win.
[21:46] griffinjoystiq: I give this one to The Bigs as well.

TNA Impact trailer
[21:48] griffinjoystiq: Is that Lex Luthor?
[21:49] JustinAtTheVGAs: I’m afraid that the WWE has used up all my not caring about wrestling.
[21:49] JustinAtTheVGAs: Side note: This looks like utter trash.
[21:49] griffinjoystiq: Can a professional wrestling game really be heralded as “the most realistic fighting game ever?”

Tila Tequila is on TV
[21:50] JustinAtTheVGAs: Oh, and now Tila Tequila is on TV.
[21:50] griffinjoystiq: Side note: If Tila doesn’t pick Dani, she’s an idiot.
[21:51] JustinAtTheVGAs: This is a nightmare.
[21:51] JustinAtTheVGAs: Oh, and she’s presenting the the awards that were too umimportant to be shown on the VGAs. HOW INCREDIBLY APPROPRIATE.
[21:52] griffinjoystiq: Wow, a rapid fire segment about most of the awards. I thought awards were usually the most important part of awards shows.
[21:52] griffinjoystiq: I don’t know, I’m not some kind of awards scientist.

Commercials Pt. 3
[21:53] griffinjoystiq: How excited are you for I Am Legend?
[21:53] griffinjoystiq: I’m about as excited as one person can be for a movie.
[21:53] JustinAtTheVGAs: Have you read the book yet? You really should.
[21:53] griffinjoystiq: I’m completely illiterate. You know that.
[21:54] griffinjoystiq: Thanks for bringing that out for our readers.
[21:54] griffinjoystiq: Ass hat.
[21:54] JustinAtTheVGAs: Spoiler alert: At the end, he raps and boogies with monsters.
[21:54] griffinjoystiq: Double Spoiler Alert: He’s not alone. DJ Jazzy Jeff shows up!

Brian Posehn makes his obligatory appearance/Studio of the Year
[21:56] griffinjoystiq: Did they not pay Samuel L. enough to stand up?
[21:56] griffinjoystiq: Thank God, Posehn is actually pretty funny.
[21:57] JustinAtTheVGAs: And this is a nerd related event, so the Constitution says he has to be there.
[21:58] griffinjoystiq: Has there ever been an event where him and Patton Oswalt didn’t appear together?
[21:58] JustinAtTheVGAs: Studio of the Year!
[21:59] griffinjoystiq: 2K Boston/Australia, please.
[21:59] griffinjoystiq: Oooh, Valve is good too.
[21:59] JustinAtTheVGAs: Wait, if all of these studios have made one game this year, isn’t this just the same as game of the year?
[21:59] griffinjoystiq: Touche.
[21:59] JustinAtTheVGAs: What other criteria is there? Haircuts?
[22:00] JustinAtTheVGAs: I guess the guys from Harmonix are nice enough. Good for them.
[22:00] griffinjoystiq: Courtney Love is designing games now?
[22:01] JustinAtTheVGAs: All the Harmonix people are playing a monster drum fill! I’m SO ROCKED.

Kid Rock is there
[22:01] griffinjoystiq: God, how awesome would it have been if Tia Carrera busted out Rock Band and did Ballroom Blitz?
[22:01] griffinjoystiq: That would have been worth the price of admission, broseph.
[22:02] JustinAtTheVGAs: So, apparently Kid Rock is there.
[22:03] JustinAtTheVGAs: My wife just said that she bets he doesn’t know where he is. Truer words have never been spoken.
[22:03] griffinjoystiq: Am I the only one who thinks his mic stand it up too high? He looks like a little kid singing his solo during the Christmas Pageant.
[22:04] JustinAtTheVGAs: If you’re not good with subtext, let me explain this song to you: Kid Rock has a wiener and he knows how to use it.
[22:04] griffinjoystiq: SLOW RIDE ALERT
[22:04] griffinjoystiq: SLOW RIDE ALERT
[22:05] JustinAtTheVGAs: He just made the unprecedented misogyny into Fog Hat leap.
[22:05] JustinAtTheVGAs: Did Kid Rock misjudge his audience with that one or what?
[22:06] griffinjoystiq: It’s not that big a leap. You know what they’re slow riding on? The Oppressing Women Wagon.

Commercials Pt. 4
[22:06] griffinjoystiq: At least it’s halfway over.
[22:07] JustinAtTheVGAs: So, how are you feeling so far?
[22:08] griffinjoystiq: Despondent.
[22:08] JustinAtTheVGAs: I feel like they’re getting closer to getting the proper tone, like I’m not cringing as much. But it’s also not about video games at all.
[22:08] griffinjoystiq: Despondent/Horny.
[22:08] griffinjoystiq: Okay, just horny.
[22:09] griffinjoystiq: Yeah, I agree. Last year, it was all hip-hop artists and supermodels.
[22:09] griffinjoystiq: This year, it’s Kid Rock, and girls who look like they rolled out of some sort of primordial skank ooze.
[22:10] JustinAtTheVGAs: I could solve this problem for them.
[22:10] JustinAtTheVGAs: You know what I like, Spike? VIDEO GAMES.
[22:11] griffinjoystiq: I love how there’s an above the influence ad when there’s been at least two references to smoking pot during the show.
[22:11] griffinjoystiq: I love this, because I am very high right now.

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Steelers safety Anthony Smith just bit HORRIBLY on playaction up the middle, barely having time to turn his head as a motioning Randy Moss blew right by him. Moss hauled in maybe the most wide open touchdown of his career, good for 63 yards. Smith is now the target of derision for roughly 65,000 fans.

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MEDFIELD, Mass. - Five years ago, I wrote the article below declaring that the Patriots and Steelers were the best rivalry in the NFL. Since that article appeared on the eve of New England and Pittsburgh christening Gillette Stadium in 2002, the Steelers have obviously been replaced by the Colts as the Patriots’ biggest rival.
Patriots-Steelers pick up ferocious rivalry again Sunday
By John Ingoldsby
December 6, 2007
However, there have been three memorable Pats-Steelers games during the ensuing five years since my declaration, and this Sunday’s Super Bowl 41¾ could add luster to this rivalry’s 14-year run, particularly if the “Stillers” ruin the Pats’ current March to History.

Picking up where I left off with my last article in September 2002, the Patriots began defense of their first Super Bowl title by opening Bob Kraft’s glistening new palace on Route 1 with a resounding 30-14 thumping of Pittsburgh.

That Thursday night national TV game opened the NFL season with the unveiling of the first Super Bowl banner, and is memorable for the Pats’ fabulous offensive display and the defense harassing Kordell Stewart into submission.

Surprisingly, like he had done after losing the AFC Championship game the year before, Stewart said after the game that the better team had not won the game. Interestingly, it was perhaps one of Stewart’s last pronouncement of interest since his uniquely famous “Slash” career spiraled downward from here.

One of my vivid personal memories of attending that game will always be the well-known Queen anthem “We Are The Champions” being played over the PA system, but then being abruptly being stopped in mid-song.

I always imagined Coach Bill Belichick hearing it and ordering its immediate halt direct from the sidelines. Given the control that Belichick has shown since that memorable night, I still believe that is exactly what happened.

The next time these two squads squared off was on Halloween night in 2004, when the ‘Burghers blitzed New England 34-20, thereby ending the Pats’ record 18-game regular season winning streak, which was actually 21 straight if you included playoff wins.

My personal memory of this game was bumming out that I was going to miss the beginning while I took my kids trick-or-treating (some things in life are non-negotiable and do actually take precedence over football), but coming into my house and seeing the Steelers were ahead by like 21-0 in the first quarter. Needless to say, it was easy to sit down and enjoy counting candy with my kids since the outcome was never in doubt.

This was not the last they would see of each other that year, as the Patriots traveled to Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship game and whupped the Steeltowners 41-27 on the way to their third Super Bowl Championship. This game was famous, of course, for stopping Jerome Bettis on the fourth-and-one, as well as Rodney Harrison’s 87-yard interception return at the end of the first half to quiet the crowd for good.

My personal memory of this one is catching the last plane out of Boston Saturday afternoon to Pittsburgh, before the largest snowfall in Boston history blanketed the area. Had the game been scheduled for Gillette Stadium, Patriots executives said the start time would have had to be delayed in what would have been a first for an NFL conference championship.

The other memory (besides it being the coldest I ever was at a football game) as I stood behind the Patriot bench at game’s end was of the vicious exchange between various Patriots and disappointed, angry Steelers fans, punctuated by Deion Branch openly taunting the fans, as shown in accompanying photo that I took that evening.

The two archenemies went at it again the following September when Tom Brady pulled off one of his patented last-minute game-winning drives, and Adam Vinatieri kicked a field goal to secure a 23-20 victory.

This bloodbath is of course famous for the devastating knee injury to Rodney Harrison, when Belichick waved off the Steelers training staff as his All-Pro defensive back lay writhing on the Heinz Field turf.

Following on that theme, there is also film from one of these Heinz Field games that shows Brady walking off the field and, shall we say, colorfully expressing his utter disdain for all things Pittsburgh and Steelers. Make no mistake when you watch this Sunday, there is no team that Brady, and perhaps even Belichick, have more animosity towards than the Steelers.

That was the last time these two met, and which is unfortunate in that I always felt we missed out when the Pats lost to Denver in the playoffs, thereby preventing the Steelers from coming to Foxboro for the AFC Championship game in January 2006, in what may have been the epic capstone to this rivalry.

The Steelers that January were the all-time Road Warrior team en route to their Super Bowl Championship in Detroit. But I always wondered what would have happened if the two would have met in Foxboro, the basically unbeatable-looking Steelers vs. the Pats at home gunning for the chance to become the NFL’s first-ever Three-Peat Super Bowl Champion.
We will never know about that one, but we will know about this one on Sunday, which yet again has history on the line as the Steelers try to end the Pats undefeated season.

And on Sunday, there is one HUGE difference between this game and the Pats’ two near losses the last two weeks - Ben Roethlisberger. Where A.J. Feeley and Kyle Boller were unable to close the deal, Big Ben is absolutely able to pull it off if the opportunity presents itself, especially at game’s end. I believe it will take a special performance from a special athlete to beat the Patriots during this magical year, and Ben is the only special player left on the Patriots schedule this year.

But yet the Patriots have beaten the Steelers five of the last six meetings, but the one Pittsburgh victory ended an historic Patriots win streak, which is exactly what the Steelers are trying to accomplish on Sunday.

Despite the short week from Monday night’s scintillating comeback win over Baltimore, I expect the Patriots to come out highly energized and it would behoove them to take control of the game early. They would be wise to do so, and not put Roethlisberger in the position that Feeley and Boller found themselves in - a date with destiny by being the quarterback who ended the Patriots’ dream season.One thing’s for sure, the game will be absolutely memorable. Patriots-Colts may be the NFL’s best current rivalry, but Patriots-Steelers is the NFL’s longest current rivalry. Just read below in case you need a reminder.
THE LOWELL (MA) SUN
Pats-Steelers: A renewal of hostilities Sept. 9
Sunday, September 1, 2002
By John Ingoldsby
Special to The Sun

When the New England Patriots raise their Super Bowl flag in front of the Pittsburgh Steelers a week from tomorrow night at the Grand Opening of Gillette Stadium, they will be adding insult to the injury they inflicted on the Steelers in last year’s AFC championship game.

With the proud Steelers still licking their wounds from January’s bloodletting at Heinz Field, the potential for a cataclysmic battle before a national audience in the Monday Night Football opener looms large.

We should expect nothing less since it will be a continuation of what arguably has become the best rivalry in the NFL today, succeeding the San Francisco 49ers-Dallas Cowboys rivalry that lasted into the mid-1990s.

Consider these facts:

The two teams have met in the playoffs three times since the 1996 season, with the Patriots winning twice and going to the Super Bowl both times. They have met four times in the regular season since 1993, with the Steelers winning thrice. All four regular season games were played in December, with two being played as Saturday national TV games. Each year they met in December, one of the two teams made the playoffs, and both made it in 1997. The Steelers hold a 4-3 edge in the seven games overall since 1993.

Quite simply, no other pair of NFL teams have played as many important games with so much on the line during the past decade, particularly in this era of parity.

However, it’s not only the tight won-loss record in these big games that sets this rivalry apart. It’s that the playoff games have been unforgettable and the regular season games have been both meaningful and memorable. Each contest has had its own identity with action on the field and story lines off the field.

The playoff clashes have been so momentous that they have an actual name attached or can be recalled with one phrase: The Fog Bowl in Foxboro, the Vrabel-forced fumble, and last year’s “Can I have your hotel room in New Orleans” nastiness.

The regular season games also are easily remembered: The Kevin Henry Interception game, the Bledsoe failed quarterback sneak ending, the Bledsoe broken finger stretch, and the rookie Curtis Martin Pittsburgh homecoming.

Some constants have remained through all seven games, such as Patriot receiver Troy Brown and Pittsburgh Coach Bill Cowher, now the longest-tenured coach in the NFL. Other constants will be missing for the first time Sept. 9, such as Foxboro Stadium itself and, most notably, former Pats quarterback Drew Bledsoe, who played a major role both good and bad in most of the seven games.

But constants don’t seem to matter at this point only a knock-down-drag-out recent history with plenty of familiarity and war stories on both sides.

The turning-point game that began to elevate the series in stature would undoubtedly be The Fog Bowl on Sunday, Jan. 5, 1997.

It was a certifiably big event, even as playoff games go. Both teams were 11-5 and the powerhouse Steelers were the defending AFC champions, having lost to the Cowboys in the Super Bowl the previous year. The Patriots were in year three of the Bill Parcells regime, and had just clinched the AFC East championship two weeks earlier with a pulsating comeback victory over the New York Giants.

Against that backdrop, everyone in the Foxboro area awoke to an unseasonably warm, eerily foggy morning that was more suitable to a Vincent Price horror film than an NFL playoff game. But from the opening gun, it was the Steelers who were to find themselves trapped in a horror chamber known as Foxboro Stadium.

On the game’s first play from scrimmage, Bledsoe hit rookie record-holding receiver Terry Glenn (remember him?) with a bomb to the Steelers’ two-yard line, the first of seven straight completions to open the game, and set the tone for the day.

Curtis Martin punched it in moments later for the first of his three touchdowns on the day, and the 28-3 rout was on. The next week the Pats beat the Jacksonville Jaguars en route to their Super Bowl loss to the Green Bay Packers.

However, 363 days later, the Men of Steel would exact their revenge by ending the Patriots’ season with a 7-6 playoff victory in Three Rivers Stadium.

Again, the temperature and the emotions were both high as defense dominated. And it was defense, or lack thereof, that produced the game’s two most memorable plays. The first and only touchdown occurred in the first quarter when quarterback Kordell Stewart tiptoed down the sidelines for a 40-yard score. It’s remembered by all in New England as the play where linebacker Todd Collins shockingly failed to simply push Stewart out of bounds when he had him squarely in his sights near the beginning of the run.

The other decisive play came at the end when all Pats fans were feeling it a comeback victory that is until Steeler rookie linebacker Mike Vrabel barreled into Drew Bledsoe, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Steeler linebacker Jason Gildon. Game over, season over.

Vrabel, now a Patriot, reflected on the hit a few weeks ago, saying: “Looking back, things never seem as big at the time, but people up here sure know me for that hit and it stands out. I was just looking to make a play.”

Just 20 days prior to Vrabel’s game-saving hit against Bledsoe, home field playoff advantage had gone to the Steelers when they and the Pats staged their penultimate regular-season slugfest.

It was a 4 p.m. Saturday national TV extravaganza as one of the most boisterous crowds ever in Foxboro stood practically the entire game. That was the game when Bledsoe was simply protecting a lead at the end and inexplicably threw the ball into defensive lineman Kevin Henry’s waiting hands, and the Steelers capitalized on the stunning turnover to win 24-21 in overtime.

Four years earlier, the Patriots had lost an equally frustrating 17-14 game at the gun when Bledsoe was stuffed on a quarterback sneak from the one-yard line. He was a rookie then, but it was the early warning signal that the Patriots probably weren’t going to be winning many games with Bledsoe’s running.

Two years later, on Saturday, December 16, 1995, the Patriots lost 41-27 in Pittsburgh as Curtis Martin returned to his hometown with a big game, but the Steelers were already flashing their soon-to-be Super Bowl form.

The last regular season game between the teams was in 1998, two weeks after Bledsoe had broken his finger and led the Pats to two breakthrough comeback victories over Miami and Buffalo. He kept it going in Three Rivers that day as he hit Glenn with an 86-yard TD to ignite the 23-9 victory.

The next time the Pats and Steelers would meet was last January, when Bledsoe returned from his Mo Lewis injury to lead the Patriots to the AFC title. In the aftermath, his teammates were screaming at the Steelers and Cowher for their New Orleans hotel rooms after their ill-advised reservations earlier that week. The hard feelings carried over the next day when Kordell Stewart said, “The best team doesn’t always win.”

“When the two teams play, it’s always a great game and we are always looking to see what they are doing knowing it may have playoff implications,” said Patriot safety Lawyer Milloy. When apprised of the Niners-Cowboy rivalry comparison, Milloy showed he hasn’t forgotten last year’s theme, saying: “Finally, someone’s giving US some respect.”

Even understated Patriots coach Bill Belichick, acknowledged the rivalry, saying, “There is no doubt about it. There have been a lot of important games between the Patriots and Steelers.”

And there will be another one to start the 2002 season on the biggest stage of all: Monday Night Football’s season opener before a national TV audience.

Are you ready for some football?

(John Ingoldsby is a former Sun news editor and a Patriots season ticket holder)