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elite eight!
Mar. 12th, 2010 08:43 pmGuys, I suck, I'm sorry; I forgot to post a link to the sweet sixteen. BUT the elite eight will be open all weekend! Vote! Last time some of the races were super close!
round 2 voting!
Mar. 10th, 2010 11:20 amVote round 2 here!
Revised bracket will be posted once it's updated, but for results of the closed first round: first half (left side) of the bracket, second half (right side) of the bracket.
Revised bracket will be posted once it's updated, but for results of the closed first round: first half (left side) of the bracket, second half (right side) of the bracket.
round 1 voting now closed!
Mar. 8th, 2010 08:11 pmRound 1, the round of 64, has now closed! For results: first half (left side) of the bracket, second half (right side) of the bracket.
Color War!
Mar. 8th, 2010 06:27 pmI've seen a lot of woe around here lately—including from me! So I wanted an alternative bracket that would actually be nothing but fun, and in thinking about the 64 spaces on a bracket of course my brain went to the 64 colors in the original large box of Crayola crayons!
I have a great love for the original 64, the colors Crayola sold in the big box with a sharpener from 1958-1990. Since then colors have been added, retired, renamed, but the original 64 is what I had as a child. I used them so much I had the names memorized, and a long elaborate ongoing soap opera about them in my head.
Here's the bracket, awesomely made by![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ali_wildgoose! The NCAA format is four brackets of sixteen slots, but mine has eight brackets of eight slots, each one headed by a color in that very first Crayola pack of eight. Click to enlarge!
( bracket! )
The original 64 were heavy on the browns and blues, moderate on the reds and greens, and light on the oranges, yellows and purples, so I had to get creative about the placements. As with most brackets, I'm keeping as many like things with like as possible. And there will be samples of each color along with the polls for your voting needs.
First round polls have been closed! For results: first half (left side) of the bracket, second half (right side) of the bracket.
Vote round 2 here!
Spread the word! I'd love to see as many votes as possible. It's early spring and we need a little silly, colorful cheer!
I have a great love for the original 64, the colors Crayola sold in the big box with a sharpener from 1958-1990. Since then colors have been added, retired, renamed, but the original 64 is what I had as a child. I used them so much I had the names memorized, and a long elaborate ongoing soap opera about them in my head.
Here's the bracket, awesomely made by
ali_wildgoose! The NCAA format is four brackets of sixteen slots, but mine has eight brackets of eight slots, each one headed by a color in that very first Crayola pack of eight. Click to enlarge!( bracket! )
The original 64 were heavy on the browns and blues, moderate on the reds and greens, and light on the oranges, yellows and purples, so I had to get creative about the placements. As with most brackets, I'm keeping as many like things with like as possible. And there will be samples of each color along with the polls for your voting needs.
First round polls have been closed! For results: first half (left side) of the bracket, second half (right side) of the bracket.
Vote round 2 here!
Spread the word! I'd love to see as many votes as possible. It's early spring and we need a little silly, colorful cheer!
feathers, fur and fighting
Feb. 14th, 2010 03:43 pmDVR really saves the Olympics for the sports fans. You don't have to sit through endless packages about how Mary Carillo went to the Netherlands and omg they love speedskating or whatever; you can just watch the goddamned speedskating. So I'm watching speedskating and skijumping from yesterday, and just caught up on my tumblr, and came across this:
On my tumblr—and this is awesome enough that I'm multiplatforming this shit, sorry for the duplicates—I said that there must be things as awesome as this but I couldn't think of any. Reasons why Liza Minelli singing "Copacabana" on The Muppet Show may be the awesomest thing ever:
I just … I can't even.
On my tumblr—and this is awesome enough that I'm multiplatforming this shit, sorry for the duplicates—I said that there must be things as awesome as this but I couldn't think of any. Reasons why Liza Minelli singing "Copacabana" on The Muppet Show may be the awesomest thing ever:
- Between them, Liza and Barry Manilow pretty much own the 70s. You know that he must have played piano for some Liza Minelli drag queen at a bathhouse, in between playing for Bette.
- The best numbers on The Muppet Show were always the story-songs. See also, "The Gambler."
- Two large muppets fighting over her, and dancing with her. The "Tony" muppet slides across the bar.
- Liza as the drunken, faded Lola in the disco, with the crowd of other muppets disco dancing in the foreground is amazing.
- The framing device of "narrator" Liza in a black turtleneck sweater, especially when she appears in the top of the frame, like those weird Olan Mills portraits, singing "don't fall in love."
- Liza breaking character after she finishes singing to give us her trademark giggle and bow to the audience that isn't really there.
I just … I can't even.
welcome interstate managers
Feb. 11th, 2010 06:26 pmWelcome all who answered the call of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
team_jones or who have floated by from other places! I recently reformatted my profile page so it's a really good introduction to me and the things that go on around here. If you want to follow me on twitter please do, but send an @reply so I know who you are and can follow you back. I am going to do that 30 posts/30 days meme because it sounds fun.
The other thing I mean to say today is, in two weeks we'll be at the semifinals for American Idol, which means I'll be posting about Idol twice a week, recaps and polls and thoughts on results. I've trained as a singer so the recaps are pretty singerly, but I also ship Ryan and Simon and since it's the last year of Idol Rymon there will probably be more overt references to them.
I reward you with a playlist of the six awesome songs that played on shuffle when I braved the unshoveled sidewalks earlier to mail a check and get some canned tomatoes. (I had a pita pizza craving.) Yay music!
team_jones or who have floated by from other places! I recently reformatted my profile page so it's a really good introduction to me and the things that go on around here. If you want to follow me on twitter please do, but send an @reply so I know who you are and can follow you back. I am going to do that 30 posts/30 days meme because it sounds fun.The other thing I mean to say today is, in two weeks we'll be at the semifinals for American Idol, which means I'll be posting about Idol twice a week, recaps and polls and thoughts on results. I've trained as a singer so the recaps are pretty singerly, but I also ship Ryan and Simon and since it's the last year of Idol Rymon there will probably be more overt references to them.
I reward you with a playlist of the six awesome songs that played on shuffle when I braved the unshoveled sidewalks earlier to mail a check and get some canned tomatoes. (I had a pita pizza craving.) Yay music!
