Fonzie is strapping on his water skis...

So, Melissa and I watched the season premiere of "Alias" tonight.

Meh.

As I previously said to someone, this show has "jumped the shark, circled back around, and jumped it again just for good measure."

Not only do I now despise Ben Affleck for forcing us to sit through a season of "baby" plot lines, but they killed off Vaughn (or did they?) in pretty boring fashion. You're telling me that after all these years of artfully dodging death in the C.I.A. (and apparently other areas as well) that he gets killed....? Right in front of Sydney....? At point-blank range.....? After this project that he's apparently been working on for at least half a decade.....? In a show that has already shown us a machine that can clone people....?

I know Michael Vartan probably wants off the show, as Melissa always mentions how much it must suck to play the love interest of your former real-life love interest, and to act as though the baby in the plot of the show you're on is yours even though it actually belongs to the formerly-Jenny-from-the-block-owned blockhead who stole your girl.

If this show lasts past this season, I will be surprised. Last season was bad enough where everything was always wrapped up in a nice little package at the end of each episode (more like a sitcom than a drama), and where the finale might as well have had an "inspired by '28 Days Later'" tagline in the credits. But this? One of the three main characters is dead and I have to hear about Sydney's freaking baby for an entire season?

Methinks no.

Ironically, I was originally pissed that our bowling league was on Thursday nights, because we wouldn't get to watch it. Now, we find that Alias will be on every Thursday at 8, and we don't have to leave the house until 9. Now I'm not even sure that I'll want to watch it, even though we will be able to.

For shame, Ben Affleck. Buy some condoms.

Intelligent Design: We will have proof

If people want me to believe in "Intelligent Design" as something that should be taught in schools, the following could go a long way to convincing me.

Tom DeLay has been indicted. If they were to fucking convict this worthless lying sack of shit, then I would agree that the following should be taught in schools:

"Realizing that Tom DeLay would become a corrupt abuser of power who wrongfully wrapped himself in the cape of morality, the Intelligent Designer saw it fit to give Mr. DeLay his come-uppance. This was all part of The Great Plan."

Godspeed, oh Great IDer.

Apparently I suck at keeping a Blog.

Wow. I've written like twice in the span on three weeks. Terrible.

Things have been busy. We're trying to get our house in order post-wedding presents. We were originally going to have a yard sale and donate all of the money to the Red Cross, but we instead decided simply to give all of the items away to a charity. Basically, we were going to have it this past Saturday, but the weather was crappy and it was an OSU home game.

The band is getting going again. We have three gigs lined up for the coming weeks, with a potential fourth show as well. That would put us at one a week for the entire month of October, which would be a nice way to get started again.

As of right now, we have the following scheduled:
Wednesday, October 5th @ Skully's
Thursday, October 20th @ High Five
Thursday, October 27th @ Oldfield's on High

We may also have a show on Wednesday, October 12th at Andyman's Treehouse.

At any rate, it should be a killer month, and hopefully the time off hasn't caused us to start sucking at music.

Just when I thought I'd seen it all...

The Browns went into Green Bay.

A place they'd never won, in the history of their franchise.

Against Brett Favre, Hall-of-Fame QB and full-time Media Whore.

With a starting QB (Trent Dilfer) who had never won in Lambeau Field in his entire career (8 previous starts).

With a defense that looked like it was standing still the previous game against Cincinnati.


The Browns went into Green Bay with all of that staring them in the face.

And they won.


What a day for Cleveland sports fans. Suddenly, 5 or 6 wins doesn't sound completely out of the question. Either that, or Green Bay is a really fucking bad football team.



In other news, anyone who (like me) listened to copious amounts of N.W.A. as a younger person will find this funny.

It's that wonderful time of year again...

It's opening weekend for the Browns. As my buddy Jon is demonstrating above, we get to ride up to the games in what has to be--as the kids are saying today--the fly-est whip out there...

The Browns may not do well this year, but the tail-gating portion of the season is what I most look forward to. I get to spend some quality time (i.e., eating a lot of bad food, drinking beer, belching, talking sports) with one of my best friends in the whole world, and I get to yell my lungs out at a football game... ahh, yes.

Some friends are going to seek our camper out in the muni lot to swing by for a couple of beers. In addition, to the two people that read this blog:

Steve, if you're going to be around the Muni Lot at all before the game, swing on by. Look for our monstrous 30+ year old camper, which is always parked near the Bone Lady (she of the large orange Volvo station wagon with the giant Bone-shaped light/sign on top). I'll pour you a beer from our tap.

It's going to be a great sports weekend:

• company picnic today at noon, followed by a buddy of mine and I trying to get in 9 holes afterward


• bowling league tonight (thanks, baby!)


• company golf scramble tomorrow, with three of my friends/co-workers


• watching Michigan hopefully hold off Notre Dame on Saturday


• taking Jon to the Tribe game (seats on the first base side of home plate, down close to the field) for his birthday on Saturday evening (thanks again, baby!)
  


• and getting up before the crack of dawn to begin drinking and gorging myself at about 8:30, in order to get into the proper frame of mind for the Browns HOME OPENER!!

Moon pie... what a time to be alive.

Stuff Like This Makes My Blood Boil

People wonder why there are still tensions in this country between people of different races.

Exhibit A:
It turns out there are interesting semantics in journalism.

Look at the captions for this pic:
Picture 1

And now this:
Picture 2

Wow. Two different pictures. The subject(s) of each picture have just technically stolen food from a grocery store. Yet, the person of color has "looted" it whereas the white people have "found food."

Freudian slip much?


Other News

In other news, we went to see Coldplay last evening here in Columbus. I cannot say enough about how good and energetic they are. I'll refrain from the DMB-style review that I did earlier this summer, but suffice it to say that I would recommend seeing them the next time they come through your town.

Also, my first of two fantasy football drafts was held last night. It was an autodraft, which always makes me cringe, as the computer tends to always pick crappy players. At first glance, though, I have to think my team has a good shot. I'm a little thin at WR, and I'm not sure about my QBs (in fact, I HATE one of them), but at RB I am a juggernaut. Check it:

QB:
Brett Favre
Jake Plummer (I wish I had more hands.... so I could give this pick FOUR THUMBS DOWN!)

RB:
Edgerrin James
Deuce McAllister
Curtis Martin
Warrick Dunn
J.J. Arrington

WR:
Drew Bennet
Steve Smith
Joey Galloway

TE:
Jermaine Wiggins
Jason Witten

K:
David Akers
John Carney

DEF:
Carolina
Seattle

If Carolina's defense reverts to 2003/Super Bowl form, that's a solid pickup. Any one of my top four running backs could be good. My wide receivers pretty much suck, unless Drew Bennet has extended his late-season-2004 deal with Satan. At least neither of my tight ends crashed their motorcycles in the off-season. David Akers is pretty much automatic, and John Carney's probably getting cut. What scares me is that Brett Favre is NOT going to be a reliable QB, and I will UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ever start Jake Plummer as my fantasy QB. I loathe him.

Which probably means I'll be starting him by week 4.

And then he'll throw 5 INTs.

One more draft (a live draft, thankfully) next Tuesday, and then next Sunday is the Browns home opener. I'll be there bright and early getting my tailgate on.