I haven’t been too busy watching movies lately, with vacation, work, my college football dynasty on the PS2 and Rockstar: INXS. Here are the ones I have seen:
Bridget Jones's Diary – Watch, surprisingly funny.
Kissing Jessica Stein – Watch, also surprisingly funny
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze – No. Maybe if it's ever on TV.
Seeing Other People – Nope
Lucky 13 – Nope
Beautiful Mind – Watch. First half very slow, the second half is much better
Manchurian Candidate – Watch. A mild nod.
Motorcycle Diaries – No
Monster – Watch
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde – A mild no. Stick with the first one.
Monday, August 29, 2005
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Just say no to Crack
Ok I have to admit that is one was inspired by Trent’s blog about belly overhang/exposure.
School here started last week, and with the warm weather you have young college co-eds walking around campus in many of the newest fashions and styles, but I have seen a very disturbing trend lately and it really isn’t one I have been looking for.
It is hard to imagine, but if you work or have been around a college campus over the past few years it was common place to see female students with their thong underwear exposed as they wore short low rider jeans and short cropped shirts. It was actually so common that no one really flinched when they did see it. And like Trent said in his blog, what would make you want to walk out of the house with your underwear exposed, and think no one will notice?
Well it seems like that trend is over but the low rider jeans still are around, but now the thongs are gone and it is just butt crack that is now exposed. I have no idea where the underwear went, but walking from my office to my car the other day you would have thought we had a plummer convention on our campus. Girls sitting and eating lunch on the mall and on the benches, it was a crack epidemic out there.
Come on ladies, I beg you. Crack is never attractive, and you have to know when you put those jeans on that either your crack, or underwear is going to be exposed. Please choose the latter, I have gotten used to living in a society where you see thongs half way up the women’s midsection, but I will never, NEVER get used to having to see crack everywhere.
School here started last week, and with the warm weather you have young college co-eds walking around campus in many of the newest fashions and styles, but I have seen a very disturbing trend lately and it really isn’t one I have been looking for.
It is hard to imagine, but if you work or have been around a college campus over the past few years it was common place to see female students with their thong underwear exposed as they wore short low rider jeans and short cropped shirts. It was actually so common that no one really flinched when they did see it. And like Trent said in his blog, what would make you want to walk out of the house with your underwear exposed, and think no one will notice?
Well it seems like that trend is over but the low rider jeans still are around, but now the thongs are gone and it is just butt crack that is now exposed. I have no idea where the underwear went, but walking from my office to my car the other day you would have thought we had a plummer convention on our campus. Girls sitting and eating lunch on the mall and on the benches, it was a crack epidemic out there.
Come on ladies, I beg you. Crack is never attractive, and you have to know when you put those jeans on that either your crack, or underwear is going to be exposed. Please choose the latter, I have gotten used to living in a society where you see thongs half way up the women’s midsection, but I will never, NEVER get used to having to see crack everywhere.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Cold Pizza
Sometimes I wonder how people, and shows stay on the air.
This week I have started my 7 a.m. workouts again now that the gym is opening early and the ESPN2 show Cold Pizza is on a few of the TV’s.
Now when this show debuted over 2 years ago (if you can believe it has been on the air that long) they had 3 nice looking women hosts and 1 guy thrown in there to add some “legitimacy” to the sports/entertainment programming. The show would touch on some of the relevant topics in sports and also would touch on things like people who collect Air Jordans or the Miami South Beach nightlife after Heat games. I gave the show a chance, I though, here might be an alternative to the Today show or CBS this Morning, but it was clear that after about 3-4 viewings that this was a stinker and that it really doesn’t matter how good looking the hosts are if the content stinks, it stinks.
Well I got the show this morning and I have to say it still stinks and the people on the show are worse than before. They have gotten rid of the 3 women hosts; added Dana Jacobson (from ESPN SportsCenter) kept the one guy, Jay Crawford, and added for some strange reason Woody Paige and Skip Bayless. Now if it was a show with Jay and Dana it would just be called SportsCenter sitting on couches, but they have theses idiots (and I am putting it lightly) Woody and Skip doing this stupid arguing and sniping First and Ten segment where not one intelligent thought is uttered. It made me more stupid watching it. It is truly too painful to watch.
So I guess my question is, how does this crap stay on the air? I mean it is a cable show so you know right of the bat that the rating is low, then you are competing in one of the toughest timeslots in all of TV (7 a.m.-10 a.m., and you aren’t starting the show until 8 a.m.) I mean if the Today loses half a rating point someone is fired yet this piece of dog poo is still on the air.
And how do Woody Paige and Skip Bayless keep popping up on TV? They are morons, plain and simple. They were writers that made the jump to TV, but how? Who looked at these guys and said, “I see them being great TV stars.” Who? I mean really, can you see two ESPN executives sitting around patting each other on the back for making the hire of Woody Paige? “Woo hoo, what a coo, I am glad we grabbed him up before CNN did.”
I guess I just can take comfort in the fact that if these are idiots can make a lot of money being complete morons, then someone like myself with just a tad bit of intelligence will find the company out there that will spend a lot of money to hire me.
This week I have started my 7 a.m. workouts again now that the gym is opening early and the ESPN2 show Cold Pizza is on a few of the TV’s.
Now when this show debuted over 2 years ago (if you can believe it has been on the air that long) they had 3 nice looking women hosts and 1 guy thrown in there to add some “legitimacy” to the sports/entertainment programming. The show would touch on some of the relevant topics in sports and also would touch on things like people who collect Air Jordans or the Miami South Beach nightlife after Heat games. I gave the show a chance, I though, here might be an alternative to the Today show or CBS this Morning, but it was clear that after about 3-4 viewings that this was a stinker and that it really doesn’t matter how good looking the hosts are if the content stinks, it stinks.
Well I got the show this morning and I have to say it still stinks and the people on the show are worse than before. They have gotten rid of the 3 women hosts; added Dana Jacobson (from ESPN SportsCenter) kept the one guy, Jay Crawford, and added for some strange reason Woody Paige and Skip Bayless. Now if it was a show with Jay and Dana it would just be called SportsCenter sitting on couches, but they have theses idiots (and I am putting it lightly) Woody and Skip doing this stupid arguing and sniping First and Ten segment where not one intelligent thought is uttered. It made me more stupid watching it. It is truly too painful to watch.
So I guess my question is, how does this crap stay on the air? I mean it is a cable show so you know right of the bat that the rating is low, then you are competing in one of the toughest timeslots in all of TV (7 a.m.-10 a.m., and you aren’t starting the show until 8 a.m.) I mean if the Today loses half a rating point someone is fired yet this piece of dog poo is still on the air.
And how do Woody Paige and Skip Bayless keep popping up on TV? They are morons, plain and simple. They were writers that made the jump to TV, but how? Who looked at these guys and said, “I see them being great TV stars.” Who? I mean really, can you see two ESPN executives sitting around patting each other on the back for making the hire of Woody Paige? “Woo hoo, what a coo, I am glad we grabbed him up before CNN did.”
I guess I just can take comfort in the fact that if these are idiots can make a lot of money being complete morons, then someone like myself with just a tad bit of intelligence will find the company out there that will spend a lot of money to hire me.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Sign Him
Usually I have a pretty solid view when it comes to professional football players “holding out” for more money. 99.9% of the time I side with management. You signed the player to a contract, the player should honor that contract, no gray area, it is black and white.
In the case of Hines Ward (WR for the Pittsburgh Steelers) I have to side with the player in this dispute. Hines Ward has been a 4 time Pro Bowler and is paid a base salary of $1.25 million. I know this sounds like a lot of money still, but he is one of the lowest paid WR and is nowhere near being paid his value. Hines asked to renegotiate his contract with the Steelers last summer. The Steelers said they do not renegotiate contracts with players until they are in their final contract year, but they would renegotiate with Hines and make him their “priority” in the off-season.
So Hines played the year, and when the season was over he thought he would be a “priority.” So then February, March, April, May, June and July all came and went and other players signed and Ward, who was their “priority” was left without any negotiations.
Now right before training camp the Steelers and Ward started talking and there is a rumor out there that the Steelers had and offer out there that would make Hines the highest paid Steeler ever, which is like telling a homeless person that they are living in the nicest box on the block.
The Steelers are notorious for letting players go at the right time in their careers and casting players away because they are asking for too much money, but in this case they need to swallow some of their fiscal pride and sign Ward to a deal that will keep him a Steeler for life. Ward is a fan favorite, a positive influence in the community, and has been the example all players should follow on how to play the game.
Pittsburgh, sign Hines. Don’t you remember Rod Woodson?
In the case of Hines Ward (WR for the Pittsburgh Steelers) I have to side with the player in this dispute. Hines Ward has been a 4 time Pro Bowler and is paid a base salary of $1.25 million. I know this sounds like a lot of money still, but he is one of the lowest paid WR and is nowhere near being paid his value. Hines asked to renegotiate his contract with the Steelers last summer. The Steelers said they do not renegotiate contracts with players until they are in their final contract year, but they would renegotiate with Hines and make him their “priority” in the off-season.
So Hines played the year, and when the season was over he thought he would be a “priority.” So then February, March, April, May, June and July all came and went and other players signed and Ward, who was their “priority” was left without any negotiations.
Now right before training camp the Steelers and Ward started talking and there is a rumor out there that the Steelers had and offer out there that would make Hines the highest paid Steeler ever, which is like telling a homeless person that they are living in the nicest box on the block.
The Steelers are notorious for letting players go at the right time in their careers and casting players away because they are asking for too much money, but in this case they need to swallow some of their fiscal pride and sign Ward to a deal that will keep him a Steeler for life. Ward is a fan favorite, a positive influence in the community, and has been the example all players should follow on how to play the game.
Pittsburgh, sign Hines. Don’t you remember Rod Woodson?
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