The Incessant Posting Ends

Have you seen the Pontiac commercial featuring M83's "Don't Save Us from the Flames"? I mean, it's still just a car commercial, but it's pretty great. It's about a minute of shiny black Pontiacs changing into different Pontiac models while driving through some sort of special effects pyrotechnics show with M83's enormous song blasting away throughout. I listened to that album the other night, but I think it needed to be a lot louder, because as I experienced at the Triple Rock, M83 is even better loud than quiet, and they're already pretty good at a low volume.

The commercial was on ABC during college football (of which I think I saw about eight or nine hours), I think near the beginning of the Iowa-Iowa State game. I was impressed with the Cyclones on both sides of the ball. Ohio State's game against Texas was fairly hard fought. Vince Young's passing numbers make the damage they did look worse than it was. The Buckeyes' secondary was invisible, which allowed for some big gains, but their linebackers were absolutely ferocious. If Holmes or Ginn had been able to get open at all, the Buckeyes would likely have won by at least a touchdown, but it seemed to that throughout the second half the OSU quarterbacks would get stuck in the pocket with no one to throw to and have to continually settle for losses or short gains. We also saw the second half of Michigan-Notre Dame and the end of Boise State-Oregon State. After yesterday it certainly appears that the Buckeyes can win the Big Ten (since Michigan and Iowa both completely folded), but to win in the BCS they'll probably need a much more effective passing game.

I'll fly to Kansas tomorrow for some volunteer orientation and then to Seattle on Friday, so you'll have go back and re-read some archives until then.