finally npoc returns to his blog
I apologize for the lack of the updates, but the daily posts, picks, predictions, and more are back and black

You Might Be a Redneck If...
-You owe more to Blockbuster Video than you do on your house
-You throw a beer can out the truck window and your wife shoots it
-You've ever bet on gator wrestling (and won might I add)

npoc has returend to Morgantown after winter break and one of the greatest bowl seasons in recent history
The only bowl games I missed were the EV1.net Houston Bowl and parts of the MasterCard Alamo Bowl and that was only because I was enroute to West Virginia for the George Washington game (more on the bball team later)
My bowl game of the year prediction was correct with Arizona State shocking Purdue, Texas and Michigan put on perhaps the second greatest Rose Bowl of all time and Wyoming and Fresno State pulled huge upsets
Utah embarassed Pitt, WVU continued to struggled in bowl games despite a hell of an effort for once and Southern Miss has the hottest coaches daughter/cheerleader in the nation
Speaking of bowl games, npocs awarding winning Tuesday morning column returned
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You Might Be a Redneck If...
-Making Beer is a neighbordhood project
-Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat
-You serve your christmas turkey on a platter bearing Dale Earnhardts picture
-Theres ammunition in your christmas stocking

You Might Be Italian If...
-Making Wine is a neighbordhood project
-Your wife can slice suprassatta faster than a slicer
-You serve your christmas turkey after everyone is done eating pasta
-Theres ferrera rochers in your christmas stocking

I have been on fire with picks and so heres a few more
Tonight 1-11-05
npoc advises
Milwaukee Bucks -4
Indiana Pacers +6.5
Vanderbilt -4
St. Marys (CA)-8.5

New Years Eve was spent on top of Mount washington and me Joey Mac, Johnny, MJ, newman, mal and willcy trekked down the infamous city steps to see Rusted Root at an incredibly overcrowed station square, we then piled over 20 people in a 8 person max compartment for my first trip ever up the incline, the other 2 sections of the incline fit 7 people each with plenty of leg room, in ours there was no such luck

You Might Be a Redneck If...
-You ever had Christmas dinner on a Ping-Pong table
-You enjoy full cable TV service....only when your neighbor leaves his curtain open
-You proposed to your wife through a mouthful of cheetos
-Your tires are worth more than your truck
-Your kids take roadkill to show and tell at school
-You own half a pickup truck
-You own half a pickup truck

The West Virginia basketball has already reached my expected number of wins, so my projection may be a tad off, tonight they are in the Capitol Classic against Marshall, should be an easy win then starts a brutal slate of Big East games
They start off against Matts cousin, Sunday at the Coliseum, then next Tuesday UCONN comes to town, and Pitt is here Feb 5th for a sold out game

Yinz guys might be from Picksburg If....
-You know the time and location of every Wing Night in a 10 mile radius
-You eat out at least once a week at a mafia-owned Italian pizza parlor
-Your father has worked for the same company for over 20 years
-You own more than one original Terrible Towel
-Your most bitter regret is that Dan Marino plays for the Dolphins
-You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Heinz ketchup, and the bottle of Trappey's Red Devil you swiped from Primanti's
-For the life of you, you can't understand why all your out-of-town friends don't get the "fries and cole slaw" thing
-You can use the phrase "Firehall Wedding" and not even bat an eye

24 is one of my new favorite shows, the drama is intensed they got me hooked with back to back 2 hour specials, it resumes Monday nights
The lead actor Jack Bauer is an absolute lunatic, his girlfriend is damn hot and currently being held captive by terrorists, over 20 people have been shot dead already, the main actor who is supposed to be a good guy has shot an interviewee in the leg to get an answer out of him and has robbed a kwiki mart just to stall a suspect. A boyfriends mom poisened his girlfriend to death so she would not leak any info and Chloe and the dark haired girl have incredible in office chemistry
My rating for this show out of 10
********(7)

Andrew Llyod Weber's Phantom of the Opera
The soundtrack is the greatest in music history, the opening lead of the movie is absolute genius, everything is directed just like the play, not a single shortcut was taken, the colors, costumes and scenary is all their, I absolutely love it and may have to go see it a second and third time
By far the best of the best
The movie of the year, the musical of the year, the best cinematography of the year, best wardrobes of the year, the Phantom will clean up on Oscar night as it damn well should
Very few movies I have ever seen can dare to compare to this
MY score of the movie out of 10
*********1/2 9 1/2

I have yet to buy a single book for any of my classes and dont intend to either, anyone with old books lying around that the bookstore would not buy back let me know and ill get them sold for you ive already made quite a few bucks for people getting rid of old books

So much more to write but I cant think of a damn thing

Oh yeah, Stillers headed to the Superbowl, Divisional round game against the Jets should be an absolute blowout but the Chargers game was supposed to be too, we'll see if Pennington can improve on the game he last time he came into Heinz Filled
Stillers our only 2 games away from Jacksonville and a trip down is going to be necessary

Until tomorrow

-n