I saw the space station!

Just saw the International Space Station for the first time! It passed directly overhead for five minutes, from 9:40pm to 9:45pm. If you were looking for it, you couldn't miss it; it looked just like a moving star. I've seen parts of it in person before, before they were attached to the rest of the station: the first time on January 1, 2000, at Kennedy Space Center (awesome way to open up the 2000s), and the other time just two months ago, when I visited KSC again (although the parts I saw two months ago haven't been taken to the station yet.)

Thank you for the championship, Memphis Grizzlies. Signed, Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are about to win their next championship. And it's all because of the Memphis Grizzlies.

Y'see, last year, Memphis traded all-star player Pau Gasol to the Lakers for...um...well...nothing. He was traded for like a draft pick or two that Memphis has probably already given away, a player or two that I don't think are with the team anymore (and that Memphis knew weren't going to be with the team for long), and Pau's brother, Marc Gasol. Now, Marc is a good player, but hey, there are a lot of good players in the league. But Pau Gasol is an all-star.

Oh, and there's another thing, too: Jerry West. West has been with the NBA for a hundred years as both a player and an executive. 95 of those years he was with the Lakers...5 of those years he was with the Grizzlies. He left the Grizzlies in 2007 to go back and hang around the Lakers again. The very next year, Memphis traded Pau Gasol to Los Angeles for nothing. West had it planned all along.

As soon as Gasol went to the Lakers last year, I knew that they would come close to winning the championship last year, but that they would defintely win it this year. My only slim hope of LA not winning was if LeBron James and the Cavaliers played them in the Finals. But the Cavs choked just like they always do. And LA is on its way to a sweep of the Finals against...get this...the MAGIC.

So when the Lake Show kisses and slobbers all over that trophy Thursday, and the rapist Kobe Bryant is all smiles (after looking pissed off after every play in the series, even ones that go in his favor...why is he mad when he makes a shot? Is he effed up in the head?), all I've got to say is...you're welcome, Los Angeles Rich Man's Team...we gave it to ya!!

Company Convenience time again, buddy

It's the most wonderful time of year again...time for...Company Convenience!! A time where I'm off work and can do whatever I want to do, all day every day, and get paid for it! Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout...

Chewie gonna make me famous!

I sent the picture of me and Peter Mayhew (aka Chewbacca) that I had taken at Star Wars Celebration II to Star Wars Insider magazine. They have a section called Bounty Hunters that contains pictures of people that had their pictures taken with Star Wars celebrities. Maybe they'll publish my pic in the magazine and I'll be famous again, like I was a couple months ago when I walked onto the background of the Grizzlies' live pre-game show on TV!

Barbra and I to be on The Amazing Race!!!

We made it! Barbra and I have been applying for years to be on The Amazing Race, and finally we’re going to be on there! We just got the call today. At first, Barbra didn’t really want to do it, since she doesn’t like to fly, and we’d have to fly to all the different locations via airplane. But when I reminded her that we’d be playing for a million dollars, she said “Where’s the jet?” For more about this awesome news, click here!

Memphis Tigers booted again

The Memphis Tigers got eliminated from the NCAA tournament last night, making it only to the Sweet Sixteen. They had probably their only chance of going all the way last year, when they made it to the championship game and were up by 9 points with 2:12 left in the game. But then they missed like a gazillion free throws. And they sucked at free throws that whole year. (I'm sure they did this year too, but I didn't pay much attention.) So how are you going to win a championship when your whole team sucks at free throws? Answer: you don't.

Green Lantern movie: 12/17/10

It was announced yesterday that the Green Lantern movie will be released December 17, 2010. All I've got to say is...thank the Lord! Been waiting on GL at the movies for years!! Bring it on!

The Dark Knight doesn't get Best Picture nomination; further proof that the Oscars are a joke

The Academy Awards nominations were today, and The Dark Knight didn't get a nomination for Best Picture. If it had, it would've been the first comic book movie ever to do so. It did get eight nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger (which was guaranteed because of the sympathy vote), but not the nomination for Best Picture. Why didn't it? Because the Oscars have been and always will be a joke, nominating movies for awards that people have never even friggin' heard of.

The Oscars are run by a bunch of old Hollywood weirdos who wouldn't know a good movie if it bit them on the ass. They have always avoided comic book, science fiction, and fantasy movies. Believe it or not, Star Wars in 1977 was actually nominated for Best Picture, but it lost to some movie that no one had ever heard of. The last Lord of the Rings movie won Best Picture a few years ago, and it is the only time a fantasy movie has ever won, but there was a specific reason why it won. You see, the Lord of the Rings movies started off as novels in the 1950s, so that gives them "clout" with ceratin idiot people who otherwise wouldn't give clout to a fantasy movie that started out as a movie. (Of course, those movies would have been great if they had had an hour cut out of each one. Oh, and what's so funny is that the LOTR movie that won Best Pic is the only one of the three I haven't seen...I've seen the first two, but they were both so long and drawn out that I haven't been in a rush to see the last one. But other than that, they were pretty goo. So I'll see the last one one of these years.)

Anyway, to get back to the subject at hand, and in closing, I would like to say...the Oscars suck.

My favorite from two years ago wins Rock of Love: Charm School

Brandi M. was my favorite girl from the first Rock of Love, and she wound up winning Charm School a couple of weeks ago! Just like my favorite girl from the beginning of Rock of Love 2 won that season, as I talked about here! So like I said before: can I pick the ladies or what?

Dyess, Arkansas on Belgian cooking show, showcasing Johnny Cash

In October, a Belgian cooking show called "Favorite Dish" journeyed to Dyess, Arkansas, to make Johnny Cash's favorite dish. The Dyess segment aired in Belgium on December 2, and now I've found it on the Internet. It's at "Favorite Dish"'s homepage, which is at http://platprefere.canvas.be. Just scroll down till you get to it!

It's official: Grizzlies SUUUUUUUUUUCK...and suck hard

The Grizzlies, who traded away their star player last season for nothing, and who got a bunch of children this season to play on the team, officially suck and suck hard. They started off 3 and 3, making people think that they would be halfway decent this year, but since then they've lost TEN OUT OF ELEVEN GAMES. But their latest loss was the clincher: tonight they lost, at home, to the THUNDER. The Thunder...who are the worst team in the league...who before tonight were 1 and 16, and had lost FOURTEEN IN A ROW. So it's official: the Grizzlies suck as much as they have the past two seasons, and before it's over with, they may suck MORE. Their days in Memphis are numbered, folks, so get ready...before long, they're going to be the LAS VEGAS GRIZZLIES! Or maybe the Louisville Grizzlies. Nah, probably Las Vegas.

St. Jude's WHAT?

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis is a great place that does great work, but...do you think their construction workers could've found a better stopping place while making their new sign?

Magic Johnson: faking AIDS

A couple of talk show hosts on a radio show last week said that Magic Johnson faked having AIDS. Hell, we've been saying that for years!! That man's healthier than an ox and always has been! He probably faked AIDS so he would have an excuse to quit the NBA because he was too lazy to keep playing. I mean, the man's quit or run into the ground everything he's tried since then: returning to the NBA in '92 but quitting before the season even started, taking over as coach of the Lakers towards the end of the '93-'94 season and then not returning for the next season, returning to play in the NBA halfway through the '95-'96 season and then not returning the next year, hosting a talk show in '98 that sucked big time and only lasted two months, etc., etc.

After the talk show hosts said that Johnson faked AIDS, of course he denied it, but did go on to clarify that he has HIV, not AIDS. That reminds me of one time in high school when Johnson first announced he had AIDS, I mean, HIV: somebody was talking about Johnson having AIDS, and a girl in class said, "He ain't got AIDS, he got HIV."

Clone Wars TV series rocks, too

Star Wars: The Clone Wars had the highest-rated debut ever for a series premiere on Cartoon Network last week. Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Knight Rider is back

Man, the premiere of Knight Rider tonight was awesome! The TV-movie that aired back in February was pretty good, but they really pulled out the stops tonight. I'll have to keep watching this show for a while!

Clone Wars movie rocked, now bring on the TV show!

Saw Star Wars: The Clone Wars last Friday, on opening day, and it was awesome! Now I'm really stoked for the TV series. My favorite character in the movie had to be Ziro the Hutt. He/she was cracking me up big time! Ha ha! It was funny when he said, "I'm outta here!" and tried to run away, but being a slug, he couldn't move very fast.

The Dark Knight: kickin' ass and takin' names

The Dark Knight's all-time movie records so far, according to SuperHeroHype.com:
widest release (4,366 theaters),
biggest midnight opening ($18.5M),
biggest opening weekend ($158.4M),
biggest July opener ($158.4M),
biggest PG-13 rated opening ($158.4M),
biggest single day ($67.2M),
biggest opening day ($67.2M),
biggest Friday ($67.2M),
biggest Sunday ($43.6M),
biggest IMAX opening ($6.3M)
and fastest to $200M in five days ($203.8M).

And it's not done yet! As for me, I saw it on opening day, on one of Jonesboro's new DIGITAL screens!

The Mole: Best Show On TV!

Man, The Mole is the best show on TV! Well, it and Gene Simmons Family Jewels are the only two shows I'm watching right now that are showing new episodes, but still yet, The Mole is awesome! It'd be one of the best shows on TV even if it was on when most other shows were showing new episodes. I've watched it since the first season. I even liked the two celebrity editions, although they shouldn't have done a second one immediately after the first. (But at least Dennis Rodman was in the second celebrity edition...and he won, to boot!) But The Mole is being preempted next week! That means I'll have to wait two more weeks to see more Moleish action! Dadgummit!

HOWL YES!

Arkansas State University had to change its nickname, the Indians, because it was racist. So they changed the nickname to the Red Wolves. A billboard was put up in Jonesboro promoting the new name saying "HOWL YES! I WANT FOOTBALL SEASON TICKETS". I saw the billboard a couple of weeks ago and thought it was pretty doggone funny. Well, then I saw on Action News 5 this past Thursday that some people have complained that the billboard is "not very positive." I just love when people are damn stupid and complain about any old damn thing. It's friggin' funny. As a matter of fact, the next time I go to Jonesboro, I'm having my PICTURE taken with the damn thing, and I'm posting it online! That is, if Jonesboro doesn't wuss out and take it down before I can get over there again. Hopefully they won't. Hell, that billboard makes me actually want to go out and buy football season tickets! Well, not really, but it'd be funny to do it just to spite the dumbasses.

Does Ted know Diddley?

Just saw where Bo Diddley died. He was in an old "Bo Knows" commercial close to 20 years ago, where Bo knew this and Bo knew that, but Bo couldn't play guitar, so Diddley said, "Bo...you don't know Diddley!" Well, I had never heard of Bo Diddley before then, and I've never heard of since either, so the only reason I'm writing this is because it reminds me of "Ted Knows": my and my friends' music video from the early '90s that we made as a parody of "Bo Knows." And, coincidentally, we're about to make a sequel to it called "Teddy Knows"! But for now, just check out "Ted Knows" below!