Thursday, November 09, 2006
Side Boob
Yes, Ms. Bula, I did rip off the title from the Sister Act sequel. I suck.
What a great Rutgers-Louisville game tonight. An offsides penalty on the D to give the kicker a second chance at a FG he missed to win it with 27 seconds left in the game? That's drama... and it wasn't even on TNT. Bum Bum (that was the Law & Order sound).
What in the hell are the voters going to do with Rutgers now? They are an undefeated team in the Big East. And how do they possibly rank all the one-loss teams from big conferences: Texas, Cal, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Notre Dame (I know, they don't belong to a conference), Louisville, USC, Florida, Auburn, Arkansas - and Boise State is undefeated. There are those 12 teams plus Ohio State and Michigan. Who is going to get the BCS Bowl bids? Some teams better start getting ready to get screwed with their pants on. If Ohio State loses to Michigan and Wisconsin wins out, then Ohio State and Wisconsin will both have one loss and that only loss being to the same team: Michigan. Can they screw Wisconsin out of a BCS bowl? If Wisconsin doesn't get one, is it a screw job? There has to be a better way to do this... What do they do in other sports... I wish someone would come up with an idea... How about PLAYOFFS?!? Yeah, Jim Mora. Playoffs?!? FORM A PLAYOFF SYSTEM! Right now you have 14 teams who could lay claim to a BCS bowl bid. Why not stick them in a bracket and have a tournament?
On to the Sunday league...
Most annoying trend of the 2006 NFL Season: Coaches listing every player who matters on their injury report as "Questionable." This madness needs to end. It is seriously fucking with my fantasy football team and the teams of millions of owners all over the country. By now opposing coaches have to have decided just ignore it and prepare for the team as if they are full strength.
The Office was hilarious tonight. That is one show that has never had a bad episode. Not too many shows can claim that. If you're not watching it, you really are missing out. And if you don't like it then I'm not sure we can ever have a conversation.
New musical artist to look out for: Marion Raven. She's a 22 year old babe from Norway who has a phenomenal voice. There aren't a lot of chicks out there who can sing rock and roll well, as Cassie pointed out to me, and Marion Raven has a good rock voice. And a killer body.
Some of you may remember her as one half of M2M. Well, she grew up. She's got a single called "Heads Will Roll" that she co-wrote with Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue. How did she get teamed up with Nikki Sixx? I thought you might be wondering.
And this is where I have to reveal my biggest guilty pleasure as a music fan when talking to people about Marion Raven.
I love Meat Loaf. The guy is great. Great voice, great videos (mini-movies, really), huge concepts. You have to like Meat Loaf. You just do.
Anyway, Marion Raven and Meat Loaf teamed up to cover Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now." Except that song was originally written in 1986 for Meat Loaf's second Bat Out of Hell album. It didn't make it on and the crazy Canadian bitch with the huge head recorded it. Meat Loaf thought it should be a duet so he put it on his third Bat Out of Hell album and recorded it with Marion Raven.
Back to Nikki Sixx. He wrote some material for Meat's Bat Out of Hell III (released a week and a half ago or so. No, I don't own it) and I'm guessing that's how he and Marion Raven came together. Or he brought her into the Meat Loaf project. Either way, there is overlap.
Wow, I've written far too much about this. When I saw her and heard her I became seriously obsessed in a very brief amount of time. The obsession has since dwindled. You should all check her out and watch the videos on her website. You get some great side boob shots.
Side Boob is different than cleavage. With cleavage you see the top, inside part of the boob. But with side boob, you see the whole side of the boob. It is not just boobs pushed up and in, but it revealing the entire side of the boob. I prefer outside side boob to inside side boob just because outside side boob is less common, but you never complain when you see side boob. Marion Raven shows some great inside side boob in her video for "Heads Will Roll." Girls, if you want to get some guys attention, you have to go beyond cleavage. We appreciate cleavage. There's nothing wrong it. But you have to stretch the limits a little bit. You have to go for side boob.
From side boob to just a plain boob...
Isn't that funny? We call an idiot or a dunse a boob, but boobs are so great so why do we call them that? What is the genesis of this practice? Whatever.
Yesterday I didn't write about Rumsfeld getting canned, scratch that, resigning, because I didn't really know much. Today I don't know anything more than I did yesterday. But here is my take:
Was his resignation overdue? Yes. Was the timing politically motivated? Duh.
But here is the kicker that people need to be aware of. There is no way that average American citizens can evaluate the job that the Secretary of Defense does. I'm not at all defending Rumsfeld. I've never liked him. But I am no where near educated enough in the appropriate matters to say he sucks at his job. He was a major proponent for a war I disagreed with from the start. He sucks a public speaking. And he just seems slimy. The thing that made it for me was hearing all of the Generals speaking out against him and the war and the way he was running the war. You don't see a lot of career military men speaking out aganist their own. That's convincing stuff. But there are so many issues on which average American citizens just cannot make informed decisions on. That's why we elect people smarter than we and hope they appoint the right people. Where we went wrong here is when we elected someone not smarter than we. Whoops.
Quick Story:
I had a buddy out on a date tonight. I sent him about a dozen very perverted text messages while he was at dinner with her. I wasn't trying to sabotage the date, just trying to make him laugh and put him in an uncomfortable situation. I succeeded. And his date went well. I swear to whatever god you believe in that I am 23 years old.
I was running through some old columns written by The Sports Guy (Bill Simmons, ESPN.com Page 2) and I came across this one, which I remember reading in Josh and Beth Peterson's bedroom before they were married when they lived with Adam in the basement of an apartment building in Minneapolis.
He was asked a question about having a test for a girlfriend or some shit.
I am happy to say that Cassie passed the FOD Test with colors that flew. How can you not appreciate the sentiment in that movie? You heartless fuck.
And then, further down in the column, there is this bit about The OC.
Q: Do you think "The OC" has "Beverly Hills: 90210" potential? -- Joe Dyton, Trenton, N.J.
SG: Potentially. The pilot was tremendous -- I haven't enjoyed bad TV that much since the heyday of "Melrose Place." They incorporated elements of "90210," "The Karate Kid" and just about every '80s movie ever made (evil boyfriends, hot chicks falling for soft-spoken outcasts, the whole shebang). It's extremely well-done (the first two episodes were directed by Doug Liman, who also did "Swingers" and "Go"). The acting was just good enough that it didn't detract from the show. Everyone looked good, which is always important. There were just enough holes in the plot that it made you think, "Hey, wait a second ..." And the music was perfect. Of course. I see a few problems here. First of all, the pilot was considerably better than the second show. That scares me. Second, the lead actor (Benjamin McKenzie) is a little too old to be playing a 16-year-old outcast. He's fine now, but in two years, he could go Ziering on us. Third, in the second episode, one of the characters fondly remembers watching the Pistons-Lakers Finals in "'86." Just an egregious mistake. Makes me wonder if the writers are paying attention. But here's the big thing: None of the "OC" actors -- with the possible exception of the Aryan boyfriend -- are bad enough to rate on the Unintentional Comedy Scale, an integral part of 90210's success. Remember David Silver singing and dancing, Tori Spelling's cleavage (which looked like a a thumbprint in a pound of ground beef), Noah Hunter rattling out his lines like his mouth was on fire, or every scene with Ian Ziering? Remember Dr. Michael Mancini on "Melrose," or the immortal Andrew Shue? I'm not sure "The OC" has these things, which brings it closer to "Dawson's Creek" than anything. And that was the problem with "Dawson" -- it always took itself too seriously. That's why I didn't like that show. Josh Jackson stumbling through his lines can only go so far. Anyway, my jury's still out on "The OC." After two weeks, I can only give it a 15 out of 10. We'll see if that changes. And if you don't like it ... well, "Welcome to the SG, bitch."
That was a gift from me to you OC fans out there. I'm done with that show.
Tomorrow I'm headed for Madison for a weekend with the crew from the 213.
Be in touch.
Until The Next.
What a great Rutgers-Louisville game tonight. An offsides penalty on the D to give the kicker a second chance at a FG he missed to win it with 27 seconds left in the game? That's drama... and it wasn't even on TNT. Bum Bum (that was the Law & Order sound).
What in the hell are the voters going to do with Rutgers now? They are an undefeated team in the Big East. And how do they possibly rank all the one-loss teams from big conferences: Texas, Cal, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Notre Dame (I know, they don't belong to a conference), Louisville, USC, Florida, Auburn, Arkansas - and Boise State is undefeated. There are those 12 teams plus Ohio State and Michigan. Who is going to get the BCS Bowl bids? Some teams better start getting ready to get screwed with their pants on. If Ohio State loses to Michigan and Wisconsin wins out, then Ohio State and Wisconsin will both have one loss and that only loss being to the same team: Michigan. Can they screw Wisconsin out of a BCS bowl? If Wisconsin doesn't get one, is it a screw job? There has to be a better way to do this... What do they do in other sports... I wish someone would come up with an idea... How about PLAYOFFS?!? Yeah, Jim Mora. Playoffs?!? FORM A PLAYOFF SYSTEM! Right now you have 14 teams who could lay claim to a BCS bowl bid. Why not stick them in a bracket and have a tournament?
On to the Sunday league...
Most annoying trend of the 2006 NFL Season: Coaches listing every player who matters on their injury report as "Questionable." This madness needs to end. It is seriously fucking with my fantasy football team and the teams of millions of owners all over the country. By now opposing coaches have to have decided just ignore it and prepare for the team as if they are full strength.
The Office was hilarious tonight. That is one show that has never had a bad episode. Not too many shows can claim that. If you're not watching it, you really are missing out. And if you don't like it then I'm not sure we can ever have a conversation.
New musical artist to look out for: Marion Raven. She's a 22 year old babe from Norway who has a phenomenal voice. There aren't a lot of chicks out there who can sing rock and roll well, as Cassie pointed out to me, and Marion Raven has a good rock voice. And a killer body.
Some of you may remember her as one half of M2M. Well, she grew up. She's got a single called "Heads Will Roll" that she co-wrote with Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue. How did she get teamed up with Nikki Sixx? I thought you might be wondering.
And this is where I have to reveal my biggest guilty pleasure as a music fan when talking to people about Marion Raven.
I love Meat Loaf. The guy is great. Great voice, great videos (mini-movies, really), huge concepts. You have to like Meat Loaf. You just do.
Anyway, Marion Raven and Meat Loaf teamed up to cover Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now." Except that song was originally written in 1986 for Meat Loaf's second Bat Out of Hell album. It didn't make it on and the crazy Canadian bitch with the huge head recorded it. Meat Loaf thought it should be a duet so he put it on his third Bat Out of Hell album and recorded it with Marion Raven.
Back to Nikki Sixx. He wrote some material for Meat's Bat Out of Hell III (released a week and a half ago or so. No, I don't own it) and I'm guessing that's how he and Marion Raven came together. Or he brought her into the Meat Loaf project. Either way, there is overlap.
Wow, I've written far too much about this. When I saw her and heard her I became seriously obsessed in a very brief amount of time. The obsession has since dwindled. You should all check her out and watch the videos on her website. You get some great side boob shots.
Side Boob is different than cleavage. With cleavage you see the top, inside part of the boob. But with side boob, you see the whole side of the boob. It is not just boobs pushed up and in, but it revealing the entire side of the boob. I prefer outside side boob to inside side boob just because outside side boob is less common, but you never complain when you see side boob. Marion Raven shows some great inside side boob in her video for "Heads Will Roll." Girls, if you want to get some guys attention, you have to go beyond cleavage. We appreciate cleavage. There's nothing wrong it. But you have to stretch the limits a little bit. You have to go for side boob.
From side boob to just a plain boob...
Isn't that funny? We call an idiot or a dunse a boob, but boobs are so great so why do we call them that? What is the genesis of this practice? Whatever.
Yesterday I didn't write about Rumsfeld getting canned, scratch that, resigning, because I didn't really know much. Today I don't know anything more than I did yesterday. But here is my take:
Was his resignation overdue? Yes. Was the timing politically motivated? Duh.
But here is the kicker that people need to be aware of. There is no way that average American citizens can evaluate the job that the Secretary of Defense does. I'm not at all defending Rumsfeld. I've never liked him. But I am no where near educated enough in the appropriate matters to say he sucks at his job. He was a major proponent for a war I disagreed with from the start. He sucks a public speaking. And he just seems slimy. The thing that made it for me was hearing all of the Generals speaking out against him and the war and the way he was running the war. You don't see a lot of career military men speaking out aganist their own. That's convincing stuff. But there are so many issues on which average American citizens just cannot make informed decisions on. That's why we elect people smarter than we and hope they appoint the right people. Where we went wrong here is when we elected someone not smarter than we. Whoops.
Quick Story:
I had a buddy out on a date tonight. I sent him about a dozen very perverted text messages while he was at dinner with her. I wasn't trying to sabotage the date, just trying to make him laugh and put him in an uncomfortable situation. I succeeded. And his date went well. I swear to whatever god you believe in that I am 23 years old.
I was running through some old columns written by The Sports Guy (Bill Simmons, ESPN.com Page 2) and I came across this one, which I remember reading in Josh and Beth Peterson's bedroom before they were married when they lived with Adam in the basement of an apartment building in Minneapolis.
He was asked a question about having a test for a girlfriend or some shit.
Sports Guy: Hey, you already know where I stand. I think the world is separated into two kinds of people -- people who loved "Field of Dreams," and people who don't have a heart. If I were dating a woman and she said she didn't like "Field of Dreams," I'd immediately dump her. I'm not kidding, either. It says a lot about a person where they stand on "Field of Dreams."
To answer your other question, when I was single, I never really had one big test for prospective girlfriends. It was more like a series of smaller tests: If they liked "Field of Dreams," "Halloween" and "Hoosiers;" if they got along with dogs; if they laughed at the "Jackie Rogers Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad" sketch on "SNL"; if they felt comfortable wearing the Bird jersey to bed; if they didn't mind the fact that I watched 12 straight hours of football every Sunday; if they put up a token fight to pay on one of the first few dates; if they liked going to Celtics games; and so on. I was pretty picky. Now I'm married, and I might as well be dead.I am happy to say that Cassie passed the FOD Test with colors that flew. How can you not appreciate the sentiment in that movie? You heartless fuck.
And then, further down in the column, there is this bit about The OC.
Q: Do you think "The OC" has "Beverly Hills: 90210" potential? -- Joe Dyton, Trenton, N.J.
SG: Potentially. The pilot was tremendous -- I haven't enjoyed bad TV that much since the heyday of "Melrose Place." They incorporated elements of "90210," "The Karate Kid" and just about every '80s movie ever made (evil boyfriends, hot chicks falling for soft-spoken outcasts, the whole shebang). It's extremely well-done (the first two episodes were directed by Doug Liman, who also did "Swingers" and "Go"). The acting was just good enough that it didn't detract from the show. Everyone looked good, which is always important. There were just enough holes in the plot that it made you think, "Hey, wait a second ..." And the music was perfect.
That was a gift from me to you OC fans out there. I'm done with that show.
Tomorrow I'm headed for Madison for a weekend with the crew from the 213.
Be in touch.
Until The Next.
Deets Blog II: Back in the Habit
It's been a year since I've blogged. I think it's a good day to start it up again.
Years always go faster than you expect them to, don't they? I feel like I have just recently become used to writing "2006" as the date, and now we're two big Holidays, a set of finals, and the rest of the NFL regular season away from 2007.
Is there a good way to measure a year? On January 1st, 2007, will you be able to look back at 2006 and decide whether or not it was a good year? Maybe. But I think it will need a grace period before you can pass judgment on it. I think you need to let the events of a year settle in first. And what if something happened in 2006 and the effects of that incident aren't known until 2007? When they are known, you will have new information with which to judge 2006. I would wait at least six months until I decided if 2006 was a banner year or one for the forget-me files.
So many things happen in a year that do not pass the (fill in an amount of time) test. This is the test that helps you decide if something is worth worrying about. If you are concerned about something, think to yourself, "For how long will this really matter?" An hour? A day? A week? A month? A year? That will tell you where it fits into your Big Picture and how much you should be worrying about it. It's all about perspective.
Perspective is something that I think many, if not most, people lack - which is why people watch reality TV - and why reality TV sucks. Who doesn't like watching people freak out? It's fun for a couple minutes, but it gets old after that, especially if this is repeated behavior. But if people kept things in perspective and didn't freak about it, then why would anyone watch shows like the Real World or the Challenge? Who would want to watch reasonable adults live together when you can watch 7 fucking idiots fly off the handle because someone spent two minutes more than their allowed time in the bathroom or on the phone?
So much as happened in the last year that I could have written some fun blog entries about. I'm not going to go back and tell you about all of them. They may come up from time to time, but to go back and try to summarize a year would be both boring for you and tedious for me.
I'm living with my girlfriend now. Cassie is her name. I'm sure the adventures of co-habitating will creep in here every once in a while. I haven't yet figured out what I'm allowed to write about and what I'm not. I'm sure I will know much faster when I write about something I shouldn't have than when I write about something that's okay to share with anyone who can access the internet.
What can you expect to read in this blog now?
Let's start with what you won't read about: The OC
I gave up on it not even half way through last season - probably shortly after this blog temporarily died. It sucked. I've heard great things from this season so far, but I'm out. Maybe when the series is over after this season I will catch up on DVD, but I'm done for now.
The two shows I will probably mention the most now are Studio 60 and The Office. If you are not watching Studio 60, you really need to. It's the funniest, smartest one-hour show on TV. It was created by and is written by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. If you are not watching Studio 60 (on NBC Mondays, 8pm), then you are probably watching CSI: Miami. Why should you not watch CSI: Miami? Because that shit will be shown in syndication next season and for a decade to come. Plus, you see enough of those episodes and you can know who did what and to whom 15 minutes in. Lastly, about CSI: Miami, David Caruso might be the worst actor ever to be broadcast on network TV in America. This is not an exaggeration. In 15 years (or less), he will be the subject of the Walker Texas Ranger type jokes that became popular fodder for 18-40 year-olds for a couple weeks a few months ago. People will make t-shirts with Caruso on it and the jokes will be on the backs of little flyers. And then people will drag it on until it's not funny anymore, just really annoying and then you're sort of dense friend will catch on a month later and run with the jokes for a while. You will give him a few courtesy laughs here and there, but after a while you will just ignore him because it is way too much work to pretend to laugh at something that ran out of funny six weeks ago and then he'll get pissed. Nobody wants that, so don't watch David Caruso. You might as well watch something with quality. The way Sorkin and his writers comment on the television business in that show is great and so right on point. It's not too late to catch on to the show.
Except Caruso probably won't tell Haley Joel-Osment that he has AIDS. Maybe that his BAC is .27 and he shoulnd't be behind the wheel though.
And The Office is the funniest half-hour comedy since Seinfeld. If you try to argue that, you're an idiot.
Yeah, I'm open-minded.
Subjects of this blog, you just got a couple of them: TV and my opinions - others will be politics and sports and whatever else.
Speaking of politics. It's good to see the Democrats taking power in both bodies. Now let me tell you what the next two years of national politics will look like:
The Democrats take power in the Senate and the House. Bush is a lame-duck president.
The Democrats try to take advantage of this power, but their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing and they just fuck it up, both left and right.
Congressman Foley gets out of his rehab thing and fondles your 15 year-old cousin Huey.
The Democrats and Bush don't work together at all and almost nothing gets accomplished - and I seriously mean nothing. Bush threatens to veto everything.
The Dems end up fighting with each other on what their priorities should be. They are the most disorganized party in the political history of this continent. They are the New York Knicks of national politics.
Time to start considering options for 2008. The Republicans get behind a couple candidates to send through the primary process. They back one right away and ride him into the campaign - they are together, clear on message, and behind one candidate.
The Democrats start out with 27 candidates to get their nomination. The primary gets ugly and the Dems all shoot each other down. There are still 8 people in the running two weeks before Super Tuesday. They run another "ho-hum" candidate like Kerry who cannot engage the public and cannot communicate ideas and in a year where any party with half a brain should mop the Republicans up, they lose the presidency. Facism takes over.
The Democrats won power in this year's elections because George W. Bush is fucking idiot and has fucked so much up that he tainted the entire party. The Democrats could have won power without even trying. But their party is a mess and that will show in two years.
What should happen? Run Obama from Illinois and let him get the party ready now. Nobody wants to see the faces that we saw in '04. Obama and Wesley Clark (yeah, I know we saw him in '04, but not for very long) would be a good ticket.
Now relating perspective to politics... The Democrats don't have any. But neither do voters: The ammendment to ban same-sex marraige in Wisconsin passed. Putting aside the fact that it is just wrong that we do not allow homosexuals the same rights as heteros, it is 100% inevitable that they will gain these rights one day. Why are we trying to stop it now? It's going to be an issue in 2008 and nobody wants it to be. If the people would just get over it and vote to allow it, then we could listen to politicians speak about things that will actually affect us in our daily lives. If Adam and Steve get married it isn't going to affect you. If your tuition or your property taxes go up 20% you better believe you will notice that.
If we could only just rip every stitch of Christian myth and tradition out of government it would all be so much simpler.
If you haven't seen The Departed or The Prestige, do so as soon as humanly possible. They are the two best Big Hollywood movies I've seen in a long, long time. The Departed might in the top 5 best movies I've ever seen. I need to see it again to make sure.
Good re-start.
Until Tomorrow.
Years always go faster than you expect them to, don't they? I feel like I have just recently become used to writing "2006" as the date, and now we're two big Holidays, a set of finals, and the rest of the NFL regular season away from 2007.
Is there a good way to measure a year? On January 1st, 2007, will you be able to look back at 2006 and decide whether or not it was a good year? Maybe. But I think it will need a grace period before you can pass judgment on it. I think you need to let the events of a year settle in first. And what if something happened in 2006 and the effects of that incident aren't known until 2007? When they are known, you will have new information with which to judge 2006. I would wait at least six months until I decided if 2006 was a banner year or one for the forget-me files.
So many things happen in a year that do not pass the (fill in an amount of time) test. This is the test that helps you decide if something is worth worrying about. If you are concerned about something, think to yourself, "For how long will this really matter?" An hour? A day? A week? A month? A year? That will tell you where it fits into your Big Picture and how much you should be worrying about it. It's all about perspective.
Perspective is something that I think many, if not most, people lack - which is why people watch reality TV - and why reality TV sucks. Who doesn't like watching people freak out? It's fun for a couple minutes, but it gets old after that, especially if this is repeated behavior. But if people kept things in perspective and didn't freak about it, then why would anyone watch shows like the Real World or the Challenge? Who would want to watch reasonable adults live together when you can watch 7 fucking idiots fly off the handle because someone spent two minutes more than their allowed time in the bathroom or on the phone?
So much as happened in the last year that I could have written some fun blog entries about. I'm not going to go back and tell you about all of them. They may come up from time to time, but to go back and try to summarize a year would be both boring for you and tedious for me.
I'm living with my girlfriend now. Cassie is her name. I'm sure the adventures of co-habitating will creep in here every once in a while. I haven't yet figured out what I'm allowed to write about and what I'm not. I'm sure I will know much faster when I write about something I shouldn't have than when I write about something that's okay to share with anyone who can access the internet.
What can you expect to read in this blog now?
Let's start with what you won't read about: The OC
I gave up on it not even half way through last season - probably shortly after this blog temporarily died. It sucked. I've heard great things from this season so far, but I'm out. Maybe when the series is over after this season I will catch up on DVD, but I'm done for now.
The two shows I will probably mention the most now are Studio 60 and The Office. If you are not watching Studio 60, you really need to. It's the funniest, smartest one-hour show on TV. It was created by and is written by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. If you are not watching Studio 60 (on NBC Mondays, 8pm), then you are probably watching CSI: Miami. Why should you not watch CSI: Miami? Because that shit will be shown in syndication next season and for a decade to come. Plus, you see enough of those episodes and you can know who did what and to whom 15 minutes in. Lastly, about CSI: Miami, David Caruso might be the worst actor ever to be broadcast on network TV in America. This is not an exaggeration. In 15 years (or less), he will be the subject of the Walker Texas Ranger type jokes that became popular fodder for 18-40 year-olds for a couple weeks a few months ago. People will make t-shirts with Caruso on it and the jokes will be on the backs of little flyers. And then people will drag it on until it's not funny anymore, just really annoying and then you're sort of dense friend will catch on a month later and run with the jokes for a while. You will give him a few courtesy laughs here and there, but after a while you will just ignore him because it is way too much work to pretend to laugh at something that ran out of funny six weeks ago and then he'll get pissed. Nobody wants that, so don't watch David Caruso. You might as well watch something with quality. The way Sorkin and his writers comment on the television business in that show is great and so right on point. It's not too late to catch on to the show.
Except Caruso probably won't tell Haley Joel-Osment that he has AIDS. Maybe that his BAC is .27 and he shoulnd't be behind the wheel though.
And The Office is the funniest half-hour comedy since Seinfeld. If you try to argue that, you're an idiot.
Yeah, I'm open-minded.
Subjects of this blog, you just got a couple of them: TV and my opinions - others will be politics and sports and whatever else.
Speaking of politics. It's good to see the Democrats taking power in both bodies. Now let me tell you what the next two years of national politics will look like:
The Democrats take power in the Senate and the House. Bush is a lame-duck president.
The Democrats try to take advantage of this power, but their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing and they just fuck it up, both left and right.
Congressman Foley gets out of his rehab thing and fondles your 15 year-old cousin Huey.
The Democrats and Bush don't work together at all and almost nothing gets accomplished - and I seriously mean nothing. Bush threatens to veto everything.
The Dems end up fighting with each other on what their priorities should be. They are the most disorganized party in the political history of this continent. They are the New York Knicks of national politics.
Time to start considering options for 2008. The Republicans get behind a couple candidates to send through the primary process. They back one right away and ride him into the campaign - they are together, clear on message, and behind one candidate.
The Democrats start out with 27 candidates to get their nomination. The primary gets ugly and the Dems all shoot each other down. There are still 8 people in the running two weeks before Super Tuesday. They run another "ho-hum" candidate like Kerry who cannot engage the public and cannot communicate ideas and in a year where any party with half a brain should mop the Republicans up, they lose the presidency. Facism takes over.
The Democrats won power in this year's elections because George W. Bush is fucking idiot and has fucked so much up that he tainted the entire party. The Democrats could have won power without even trying. But their party is a mess and that will show in two years.
What should happen? Run Obama from Illinois and let him get the party ready now. Nobody wants to see the faces that we saw in '04. Obama and Wesley Clark (yeah, I know we saw him in '04, but not for very long) would be a good ticket.
Now relating perspective to politics... The Democrats don't have any. But neither do voters: The ammendment to ban same-sex marraige in Wisconsin passed. Putting aside the fact that it is just wrong that we do not allow homosexuals the same rights as heteros, it is 100% inevitable that they will gain these rights one day. Why are we trying to stop it now? It's going to be an issue in 2008 and nobody wants it to be. If the people would just get over it and vote to allow it, then we could listen to politicians speak about things that will actually affect us in our daily lives. If Adam and Steve get married it isn't going to affect you. If your tuition or your property taxes go up 20% you better believe you will notice that.
If we could only just rip every stitch of Christian myth and tradition out of government it would all be so much simpler.
If you haven't seen The Departed or The Prestige, do so as soon as humanly possible. They are the two best Big Hollywood movies I've seen in a long, long time. The Departed might in the top 5 best movies I've ever seen. I need to see it again to make sure.
Good re-start.
Until Tomorrow.
