Friday, September 29, 2006

Fuzzy

That's my brain lately. Completely fuzzy. Calling people their wrong names. Walking into walls. Watching Oprah (ha! just kidding. I'm not that bad). Not sure what this is about, but I'm pretty concerned (or at least I am until my brain forgets why I'm concerned and then I go back to trying to figure out the lyrics to "Louie Louie".
Hey, we gotta go!

Monday, September 25, 2006

BTS ... post Star Wars

This is so funny! My buddy Ken Mooney sent it...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6021365693605761325&pr=goog-sl

Whining

So, I saw "Last Kiss" over the weekend. This is a follow-up for the Scrubs dude to "Garden State" (which I thought was well done, but didn't have a great plot).

This movie is just as well done with a better plot, but my biggest struggle is listening to these 30-year-olds (and, yes, I'm in this category!) whine about the responsibilities of marriage and parenthood.

Wah! So you don't get lucky every night with a different woman (let's face it that only happens in the movies ... and for my roommate in college) and change a few diapers. Suck it up! It's a hell of a lot more manly to take responsibility for his life and his family than it is to whine about "losing my freedom." Good lord! Next it will be someone doing a movie about having to make a house payment! Oooooh! How do you do it?!?!?

OK, now I'm off my soapbox. It was still an OK movie.

Also, I saw "Everyone's Hero" with the kids this weekend. Despite the reviews, I actually enjoyed this one. It had a good story. If it hadn't been for an absolutely moronic ending, this could have been a great movie (although the animation was weak). And, before you ask, no, I don't like it just because it was about baseball. I will admit that there are very few baseball movies I don't like (MVP would probably be top of the list), this was good anyway.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Preview or just view?

A couple other blogs I've read have talked about the Previews to movies giving away the whole movie or at least the best parts. Gotta say that I completely agree.

Seen the new flick with Ashton "jailbait" Kushtor and Kevin "If it's not a baseball movie, it stinks" Costner? It's not out yet, you say? But let's face it, if you've seen the previews, you've seen the whole dang movie. What more could there be? Think he's gonna have a sled called "Rosebud"? Nope! Sorry.

On the other hand, there have been a lot of movies recently that should have been edited by the guy who designs the previews. This guy took a lot of crappy footage and created a two-minute teaser that makes it look like it won't suck. These are the people who should be running Hollywood, IMHO.

Back at it

Struggling to get back in the groove at work and now it's Friday! Needed badly!

Vacations most of the time are meant to recharge your batteries. But our trip to the Black Hills was just jam-packed with stuff to do and I am just fried.

The kids seem to be adjusting to all of this better than Tracy and I. Of course, all they are focused on is Halloween stuff that's now invaded the stores.

The weather has finally cooled here (I love it!), but I have to admit I'm wanting to get back on the golf course soon. I'm playing in a fun tourney (my first!) on Oct. 6. I just hope I don't embarrass myself (more than normal).

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Back from the Dead(wood)

Well, we just got back from our trip to the Black Hills. I had never been there and I gotta say it was one of the best vacations we've done. Really fun, but exhausting.
We had a blast. I got to gamble and geek-out in Deadwood. The boys got to touch snakes, a bear came up to our car window (in one of those drive-thru zoo things). We saw Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Saw Mammoth Bones. Saw Wild Bill get shot. Ate a lot of junk. Spent a lot of time in gift shops! Went in a cave and a mystery house. Panned for gold. Swam in every hotel pool in the Hills. Froze our butts off during the lighting ceremony for Rushmore. Lots more.

Here are some pics from the trip:


To the left, Alex tries to beat a chicken at tic-tac-toe at Reptile Gardens. None of us could beat that darn chicken. I'm a little frustrated!







The boys and I hanging with the prairie dawgs.

We ate at Kevin Costner's sports bar in Deadwood. When I looked next to our table, there was Crash Davis' bat from Bull Durham. It's kinda like going to Mecca.

Monday, September 11, 2006

89

Yup, 89! My best golf score to date! And, yes, this score might be sad and depressing to many. But I gotta tell you, it feels pretty amazing to me. I haven't been back to golf very long. I don't get out very often. And when I do, it's usually pretty ugly.

And was it a perfect 89? NO, shut up and quit asking questions like that. Sure, I took a few mulligans. But it was still an 89 in my book.

My friend, Andy, and I took our kids with us on the carts to the Mad Russian Golf Course in Milliken. This is slowly becoming one of my favorite places to play. It has some of the strangest and most fun holes I've played (and after getting an 89 there, I may never play anywhere else again).

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Yee-haw

You know when you wake up in the morning and everything just seems right? (I know ... it doesn't happen very often, but still...)

Anyway, when I got to work and saw that Paris Hilton had been arrested for DUI, it just filled my heart with joy. Now, if we could get people to quit writing about anything else she does (as well as the exploits of Jessica Simpson, Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears and all the other dimbos in the world) I'll be really giddy!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Sign of the apocolypse

No. 2367.
(courtesy of the Dave Barry blog!)

Music appreciation 2

My friend Eric Anderson sent this to complement the Simpsons guitar clip from below. I love classical music!

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Am I a bad person?

Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, died. My wife was very shocked and saddened.
I have a hard time working up sympathy. Of course I feel bad for his wife and kid(s?). Nobody should lose their father so young.
But I have a hard time feeling bad for someone who put himself on death's door for alleged entertainment. I don't feel bad when people who do death-defying feats die doing those feats. They knew what they were getting into and they loved it for that thrill of possibly dying. If nobody died, they wouldn't be defying anything.
It drives me insane that my kids love to watch the shows where some moron crawls under rocks to grab some venomous snake. They film it so they can pretend they are talking about conservation or education. That's bull. It's all about defying death. His name was the Crocodile Hunter, for God's sake!
Anyway, I won't be shedding any tears for Mr. Irwin. You live by the sword, You die by the sword.