Random Things....

Top Five Things That I Dug Last Week.

5) Hugh Jackman’s Oscar opening number.

This was just funny! If you missed it you really need to catch it on Youtube or something. Him singing about how he didn’t see The Reader nearly brought me to tears.

4) Netflix: My new best friend

Rachael and I got a subscription for Christmas and have been using the hell out of it ever since. Last week I watched a forgotten classic: Monster Squad. If you’ve never seen this movie go right now to a place where movies are rented or sold and rent it. Or buy it. If you liked The Goonies this is even better. And if you didn’t like The Goonies….well then I don’t care to know you. Please leave now.

3) Twilight.

Sigh. Yes. I’m reading Twilight. What, you may ask, would make a Football lovin’, UFC watchin’ dude read a tale of teen romance? Quite simply my wife loves it. No, love isn’t right. What’s stronger then love? Who said plastic?!? Get out of here!Anyway, she’s spellbound with the entire world of Teen Vampire love and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So I saw the movie and was completely bored. Still, she insisted that the book was much better and I relented. Turns out she was right. (She’s a brilliant lady so that happens a lot.) The characters are surprisingly believable and the story moves at an entertaining pace. Still, there are waaaaay too many passages about how beautiful Edward is. I get it. He’s a good looking cat. Let’s move on.

2) Random Free Channels on my HD TV.

For some reason my HD TV picks up odd ball channels. Over the weekend I was treated to The Dark Knight, There Will Be Blood, and bad 80s porn. There appears to be no rhyme or reason for where these shows come from. Channels will disappear after each movie and, sometimes, the programs are fast forwarded. The bad porn for example. The dialogue scenes were mostly fast forwarded to get to the nastiness. I’m starting to think I’m picking up some creepy neighbors satellite signal. Weird. But highly entertaining. If anyone knows about this phenomena please let me know.

1) Free Whoppers!

I bought one of those “Support a School” coupon book thingies at Burger King and have been livin’ the fatty lifestyle ever since. Why have one Whopper when you can clog your arteries with two for the same price! Heh. See, this is why other countries hate us. I’m convinced the Russians secretly took control of the fast food industry in the mid-80s and are slowly killing us Capitalist pigs with delicious fried cheese. Commie bastards.


Now, for the sake of balance, here are a couple of things the pissed me off last week.

2) They’re making a Spider-Man musical.

This hurts me deep inside. While my love of Spidey is unwavering I have no desire to see this future train wreck.
A dance number with the Daily Bugle Bullpen.
A tearful solo from Mary Jane.
Aunt May singin’ about wheat cakes.

Shudder.
I’ll pass thanks. Though, whomever plays Peter Parker will have to be better than that android they call Tobey.

1) Ann Hathaway needs a sandwich.

I like me some Ann Hathaway. But good lord she’s skinny. Perhaps I’ll use one of my Burger King coupons and send her a double cheese burger.

---BJS

One more time with feeling...

Do people still write in diaries?

Honestly, if I wanted to purchase a journal could I even find one or would the clerk just stare at me puzzled?

I ask because this is my third attempt at keeping an active blog. The first two just kind of fizzled out. The classic combo of work, television, and general laziness. But I have to think the folk that keep a diary don’t have these problems. To me a diary is something updated religiously. I doubt you’ll find many diaries with the gapping time holes that most blogs feature. It’s fun to think of some middle aged woman taking out her favorite pen every Tuesday night and chronicling her weekly adventures for the last 30 years. There’s something romantic abou—

What?

Shut up! People have favorite pens! I see. It’s going to be like that is it?

Fine. Whatever.

Anyway, I’m back and hopefully this time for good. My plan is to post here at least once a week. There’s no particular theme to this blog. Just whatever I feel like talking about. Let’s get to it then.

It’s quite strange to see The Mario Bros. in their 8-bit glory on a Hi-Definition TV. I got the video game urge the other day. Sadly I’m not cool enough to have a Wii. So I dusted off my old Nintendo and have been mashing buttons like it’s 1989. Sure the graphics are cheesy and the music is enough to make you wanna kick a puppy. But for the most part these games are just fun. See this is how I know I’m getting old. Well, that and my head’s refusal to grow hair. Stupid head. These games are just fun. But the kicker…I still suck at them.

I still can’t beat Mario 3…

The Ninja Turtles always die on my watch…

And I refuse to believe that anyone has every beaten Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. (Could Tyson be on digital Steriods?)

Still, good times.

In other news a Tyrannosaurs Rex was in my backyard.

Well…no. Not really. I can’t back that up.When Rachael (my lovely bride) and I moved into our new house last summer we had a horrid overgrown pond in the backyard. We decided to rip it out and fill it in, but we ran out of time and Winter crept in before we could fill it. So now we have these nasty Sarlacc pit outside. Thankfully the snow came and made the yard bright and clean. But it never quite snows enough to fully cover the hole. So we’ve got this big ol’ dinosaur footprint staring at us. I need to take a picture because it’s really bizarre looking. What I really want to do is get an exact model of the Superman ship. The one he crashed to Earth in as a baby. Wouldn’t it be cool to put that sucker in there and leave it uncovered? People'd be like, what's that? And I'd be like, Oh, just my ship. Excuse me a momment. I have to go fight crime.Wow.

What a first blog. Nintendo, Dinosaurs, and Superman. Why my wife loves me I’ll never now.

---BJS