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Ah, silly me, the crabs weren't threatening Bucky, they were cheering for him. And there's Big Jill with Bjorn Borg's hair (TVM's tennis reference, not mine!), and a little brainy dude playing tambourine with a scimitar. Or is that a movement line?. Those are clearly Guitar Hero SGs, but there just wasn't time to draw frets and strings, I guess. If this was a sellout nod to my need to tie everything into music, it worked, I really dig it.
This being the eighth volley (do the math, look it up in Meggs), there are only two volleys left. James gets his last say in a few minutes, and Beater gets the chance to bring it all home. I don't think we've seen a single subpar volley this whole match, I've not had much time to skim the forums, but I don't think we've got any idea who will win the trip to Bermuda, and who will get a years' supply of Turtle Wax. (See what I did there? GAME SHOW reference! I think that's a first!) By the way, with a car, a motorcycle, and three motorscooters, all immaculately maintained, I probably use more Turtle Wax than most people, and I think I've been rocking the same tin for close to four years now. So a year's supply of Turtle Wax is a total bullshit prize.
OT: Speaking of motormocycles, just heard Evel Kneivel is dead. A moment of silence, please.
Soundtrack to this volley: Bucky and the Cumquats are clearly playing "Takin' It to the Streets" by the Doobie Brothers. You can just tell by the tambourine rythym. Sometime, remind me to tell you all my Fake-Skunk-Baxter story. (The peanut gallery is suggesting "Won't Get Fooled Again" for the windmills and the Melvins for Buzzo's hair, both fine suggestions)
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Bryan Bedell.
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On the last Friday of the season we played two matches at the same time, Koxvold vs Hutchinson and Glass vs Inman. There was a lot of action on the court and a lot in the forums too.
All matches took place on Fridays, live at 2pm Chicago time or GMT-6.
January 25 - Match 1 | View Match
Chris Glass vs Shaun Inman*
Commentary by John Gruber | Forum
January 25 - Match 2 | View Match
Jason Koxvold* vs James Hutchinson
Commentary by Rosecrans Baldwin | Forum
January 11th | View the Match
Veerle Pieters* vs Cindy Li
Commentary by Kevin Guilfoile | Match Forum
December 14th | View the Match
Matt Owens vs Jason Gnewikow*
Commentary by Joshua Allen | Match Forum
December 7th | View the Match
Jason Koxvold* vs Bran Dougherty-Johnson
Commentary by Matt Haughey | Match Forum
Match was played using Adobe® After Effects®
November 30th | View the Match
Trevor Van Meter* vs James Hutchinson
Commentary by Bryan Bedell | Match Forum
This match was played using Adobe® Flash®.
November 16th | View the Match
Aaron Draplin* vs David Nakamoto
Commentary by Steven Heller | Match Forum
November 9th | View the Match
Scott Hansen* vs Rob Cordiner
Commentary by Alissa Walker | Match Forum
November 2nd | View the Match
Marian Bantjes* vs Armin Vit
Commentary by Heather Armstrong | Match Forum
Match was played using Adobe® After Illustrator®
October 26th | View the Match
Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria*
Commentary by Matthew Baldwin | Match Forum
October 19th | View the Match
Naz Hamid vs Chris Glass*
Commentary by Rosecrans Baldwin | Match Forum
October 12th | View the Match
Steven Harrington* vs Chuck Anderson
Commentary by Jason Kottke | Match Forum
October 5th | View the Match
Neil Duerden vs Mathew Star Thomas*
Commentary by Debbie Millman | Match Forum
September 28th | View the Match
Kevin Cornell* vs Shaun Inman
Commentary by John Gruber | Match Forum
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