Wonder how Ugie's gonna vote on this one?
Unlike Reason, who fears only the TMC avatar, Ugie fears the man behind the avatar.

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“Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.”

I voted for Midge.
Based on quality of arguments alone.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

I don't really think I'm all that NOW, really. I like to think of myself as inherently connected to both the mid-19th century zeitgeist, as embodied in its preoccupation with structural economic critique, and the late 19th century zeitgeist, as embodied in the triumph of the unconscious and the rise of psychoanalytic theory. Ultimately these antithetical philosophical trends--rational materialist thought and the understanding of the irrational as generative of social meaning, are dialectically linked through Hegelian idealism--turned on its head.

Nas, on the other hand, with his manifest obsession with statistics, is much closer to being NOW than I, though his transparent belief in a numerical, rational and rationalized reality owes more to the early 20th century and the Principles of Scientific Management laid out thence.

Some would argue that Mr. Reason is the true leviathan of this bracket, but methinks his Hobbesian understanding of society as a "war of all against all" renders him a bit passe, even if the neoliberal agenda currently seeks to lustfully, if not nostalgically, revive this social vision.

Perhaps good dolphin, then, will emerge as the champion of the know-it-alls. His talent for rational discourse, combined with his evidently insatiable appetites, truly identifies him as a man of the moment. He longs for and understands a freedom he cannot achieve, coddles his senses while wishing he could tame them, and resents himself for not giving himself over to their liberation. In good dolphin we see the idealism of democracy and the folly of empire, the pleasure of hedonism and the beauty of asceticism--always and never. Can anyone be more now than this enigma we call good dolphin?

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Midge, want me to tape some Son Volt bootlegs for you at Lollapalooza tomorrow afternoon?

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a goddamn shame.

http://www.TheCommittedIndian.com/

If it's not too much trouble, that'd be HUGELY cool of you!

I managed to weasel my way up to the second row for the Summerfest show, which was outstanding. It was really strange exchanging stares with Jay Farrar....

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HOLY SHIT! Back from the dead.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

He was great as Klinger.

Tell him I said so next time.

Their hour set begins at 1:30, hopefully I'll be out of work by then. If I can make it over, I'll do my best to get some video for ya.

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a goddamn shame.

http://www.TheCommittedIndian.com/

Do you really live in Kenilworth?

The police there occassionally let me pass within the town limits.

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Naahh, I've just been busy at work and then had to go visit a very sick relative.

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I'll have to discuss that with them.

If it's any consolation, I can only get in when I wave Nas's W-2 around.

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I always get stopped by road blocks in Kenilworth

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SideshowBob311: "Sadly enough, I think we're the "intelligent" portion of the sports radio fanbase".
"I make fun of whoever sucks, including me"- Harry 11/30/07

Sometimes one must support his enemies to truely understand him.

If you are really looking for the winner of this bracket, I believe that we could all agree that as know it all's go TM should be directly placed in the Final Four for this bracket.