Harold and Kumar 2

Finally a movie worth paying to see!

Because I am all about the folllow up!

Episode II: Zombie kid grows up

I like Turtles....

Thank you You Tube!

D-Bag of the Week

When I used to see this face in the national news all I could think was, "what a d-bag!"

Now, all I can think is..."what a d-bag...who LOVES the whores!"

Elliott Spitzer, come on down...you are the newest winner of the illustrious "D-Bag of the Week Award"

Seriously, the business of the governor's of other states usually doesn't make a dent on my radar. Seems that Illinois' Gov. Rod Blagojevich has done enough to keep my attention at home.

But, when you throw in a federal probe and a boat load of high priced hookers...I take notice.

I think that the day this story broke, Gov. Blagojevich decided to take a nap. Since finally there was a bigger screw up in office somewhere!

On a fun side note: Since Spitzer was forced to resign, Lt. Gov. David Patterson becomes New York's first black governor....and he's legally blind! There's a feel good story for ya!

LOST! Now what?

So I have finally made it through the second season of Lost! Now the only thing that is going through my head is, "do I want to stay awake for another three hours to watch another disc?"

Not a good dilema to have at 2 am!

Still so many questions!!! At this pace, and with the weekend off, I should be current by next weeks episode. I can't wait to be able to talk to people about the show! Or, at the least, visit a few websites!!

New Tv Returns...

Well..next week we finally start to get new episodes of some old favorites! Plus we also get to the second season of my all time favorite FX show (that isn't: Rescue Me or The Shield)... The Riches!

Seems the Eddie Izzard/Minnie Driver series sees its triumphant retun to the airwaves next Tuesday!

Thank you FX for making great TV!! Woot!

Sports Injuries

So my recent post on Felix Pie and his ... um ... unfortunate injury got me thinking of other "great' sports injuries.

Now we aren't talking about your line drives off the face, or fast balls to the balls (John Kruk aside...what a strange way to find out you have testicular cancer by the way). No here we are going to focus on the strange, the odd, the downright dumb ass reasons that some Pro Athletes have missed games.

Some of my personal favorites are:

Tigers Pitcher Joel Zumaya -- missed three post season games after straining his wrist playing a little too much Guitar Hero!

Sammy Sosa -- Missed a Sunday game with the Cubs due to a sneeze (granted it was more the back spasms that the sneeze brought on!)

Jeff Kent -- "Fell off his Truck"...actually pulling a Kellen Winslow. (Stunt riding his motorcycle in a parking lot!)

Adam Eaton -- Didn't know this one until I started looking on the net...seems he got himself a one way trip to the ER after stabbing himself in the abdomen...trying to open a DVD.

Gus Frerotte -- Missed playing time with a concussion...after he laid down a massive hit...on himself. Seems he was a little excited following a TD. Frerotte decided to celebrate a Washington Redskins TD by running head first (on purpose) into a wall at the back corner of the end zone! Brilliant!

back to baseball...

Clint Barmes -- During his rookie season with the Colordo Rockies he, fell down the stairs and broke his collarbone. At first he told the club he had a sack of food in his hands...what he really had was a slab of deer meat given to him by Todd Helton. Oops!

John Smoltz -- On of the greatest pitchers of all time... and maybe not that bright a bulb. He once burned himself while ironing a shirt. Apparently Smoltz was wearing the shirt at the time

For a list of these and other injuries check out:

ArmchairGM
Strange Sports

also check out the photo gallery tribute to Odd injuries at Sports Illustrated

Nuts!

Felix Pie....all I can say is, sorry man!

The Cubs center fielder is going to miss 3-5 days, according to a Chicago Tribune article.

The worst part is that it seems the injury that will keep him out for almost week is... gulp...

Testicular (balls) Torsion (twisted).

That's right, Pie will be out with a twisted testicle! Now, as my sister put it, how does one actually twist a testicle?

Oh, and I lied...the worst part is actually the "minor procedure" done to correct the issue.

Doctor's had to actually, "sew the outer layer of the testicle to the scrotum wall."

Again....Sorry!!

Too Much Time/Money Equals????

The most worthless tattoo in the world!

Dude got breast implants for his tat!

I'm just saying!

Hey Bubba...

So I got a call from my loving sister last week...not really that strange, we talk alot. But, this call had a purpose.

Debi: "Hey, you're never going to belive what WGN is running ever morning now?!"

ME: "What?"

Debi: "Nash Bridges!!!"

ME: "No Way!"

Basically it goes on in short bursts like that for a while...but that was the meat of the conversation for purposes of here!

Nash Bridges...one of my all time favorite cop drama's is back on TV.

Once it went off the air I was always shocked that it didn't get a heavy rotation of syndication or a DVD release.

I think it was the combination of the action and comedy aspects of this show that has allowed it to stick in my head.

Joe's (Cheech Marin) get rich quick schemes were priceless...including, among the many..the time he bought into part ownership of a bar he had never seen...his partner died...and he finds out that the dive bar is actually a Gay Nightclub Hotspot!

Cheech's outright comedy played well off of Don Johnson's dry wit.

After watching a few episodes the other day I suddenly wanted to bust out my copy of Tin Cup.

I could go on and on...but I won't..mostly because I need to take a break and watch another episode of Lost!

So if you remember the Don Johnson/Cheech Marin/Bright Yellow '71 Cuda action tune in EVERY DAY to WGN for two hours of Nashy goodness..

Oops...

Ok, so I missed my weekly deadline for the D-Bag of the week award yesterday. It just seems that since I have started watching Lost (started Saturday and I am now halfway through season 2) not a lot else has been getting done!

So in the place of the weekly D-Bag award...I have an honorable mention...

Earlier in the week, at work, I got a news release from the Illinois State Police that was pretty funny if you ask me.

So, in order to protect the innocent, or mildly retarded in this case, no names will be used....insert your favorite dumb friend into the story for a nice personal touch.

Seems that a driver was pulled over on I-57 South Bound near Paxton, IL. He was pulled over for being clocked going 138mph in a 65mph zone. A little fast, unless there is a phantom zone on the interstate system in Illinois that has a slightly higher speed zone than ANYWHERE else.

But, the speed isn't what is the best part...in the officers notes section it stated that: "when asked what the rush was, driver ________ responded with "I am on the way to Unofficial St. Patrick's day in Champaign!"

Nothing like telling a cop the reason you were speeding was so that you could get to drinking faster!

On the other hand, could have been worse had it been: "Well, officer, I was on my way BACK from Unofficial....and I really needed to get home fast!"

Of Polar Bears and Smoke Monsters...

An open letter to my friends who watch Lost:

I am Sorry!

I have, for years now, made fun of you! Wispered strange things about you and "your show"! I take it all back.

It seems that what started out as a vendetta to stay away from the new "it" show has led me to be about four years behind the curve. Usually, I feel I have made the right choice in situations like this in the past: All reality tv, American Idol, anything with a host who wasn't Regis Philbin, Bob Barker, or Drew Carey...for the most part I have stuck to my guns, and I was right!

But, here I have to digress and say in the immortal words of Denis Leary....oops! I fucked up! Please forgive me for my misguided ways! That being said...I am now officially scared to see any animal out of it's normal habitat. Polar Bears on a freakin' Tropical Island! Seriously what is more freaky that that I ask you? Maybe the paralyzed walking or a fat guy who, on a deserted island with little or no food, lose no weight ( P.S. I want to be Hurley! 156 Million aside).

So there you have it...I have officially become one of the Lost....rather than on of the "others"... and sadly I am not far enough into the series to know what that MEANS!!!

OK, Thanks go out to Chris for loaning me his first and third seasons! Levi for returning the second season to Chris just in time for him to loan it to me...Chris again for getting me season two in a timely fashion! And to Laryngitis, whithout which I am not sure I would have had the motivation to sit down and actually watch season one over the course of two days!

Again...I am sorry.

Yours,
James

P.S. This letter brought to you by the numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 and 42
(oddly...posted at 1:08pm!!)

WoW!! I'm Speechless (for a few reasons)

So, with the voice not back yet I decided to watch a ton of tv this weekend...thank you Chris for hookin' me on the Smack that is Lost!

And thank you PBS for introducing me to Tal Wilkenfeld, by way of Jeff Beck, by way of Eric Clapton's 2007 Crossroads Concert! By the way...she was 21 at the time of the concert...and girl can rip!

Grr...(cause that's all I can say!)

Right now I would have to say that I am really...REALLY hating Laryngitis! Not sure if it is the fact that I can't talk, swallow, go five minutes without coughing up a lung...or the fact that I am pretty much going to have to face the rest of the weekend in bed.

And not in the good way!

Haven't gone to the doc....but according to Healthscout.com it seems that once I hit the third day with no voice and a persistant cough/fever it is officially Laryngitis. The only real suprise to me was that I spelled Laryngitis right on the first go!

Another Funny Clip...

Ok...so I spent just a little time on YouTube after I posted on Silent Library...and this is what I found!


Not as funny...but still pretty entertaining just the same.

Silent Library...

So I was introduced to yet another TV show I have never heard of before! Apparently I don't spend enough time trolling YouTube and other video sites! But, this one is, hands down, a winner!

Welcome to the world of Silent Library!

The idea behind the "game" is that six guys walk into a library (insert bad joke here) and set up the show....six cards are placed on the table one has a Skull...that is the card you want no part of!

The unlucky guy who draws that card is then subjected to a punishment that is displayed at the end of the table on a flip chart.....everything from a "slapping machine", wasabi roll, and my favorite "old man gently biting" are up for grabs.

While you are led to believe that the show takes place in a real library...lets face it...who cares!? This is funny stuff.

My only question is that since this show is like five years old why hasn't SPIKE picked this show up to pair with MXC?

Crazy...

Thanks to the power of YouTube you can now sit at home and watch idiots do things like this!

D-Bag of the Week

Hard to believe another week has gone by ! This week though there wasn't a whole lot of debate over who would win this highly coveted award.

Drumroll please..........

And the winner is???

?????

Come on...like you didn't see this one coming a mile away!

The man may get another coaching job (hopefully nowhere in Illinios) but I think that should someone hire him...one contract term is that he gets an electric shock everything he looks at a telephone!

Thought of the day...

Which is worse?

Lying TO Congress?

or

Lying WHILE A MEMBER of Congress?

Mr. Clemens Goes to Washington...

Why is it that the leadership of this great country can't find: an exit strategy to the War in Iraq; a REAL solution to the national debt; or something that resembles bi-partisanship? But, they find the time to hold meetings, send out press releases, and possibly start and investigation into the baseball steroid situation?

I get it...don't lie to Congress...but really! Don't our leaders have something better to do?

Just a thought?