I jinxed the Memphis Tigers!

The Memphis Tigers just lost in their Elite Eight game in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. I didn't watch their first three games in the tournament, but I watched this one, so I figured they'd lose this one, and they did! And watching this reminded me of why I watch pro basketball and not college. In college games, it's just kids playing, so they make 10,000 mistakes a game, unlike in the NBA. And also, college has a long, boring 35-second shot clock, whereas the NBA has a lean, mean 24-second shot clock.

Steroid Man's elbow hurts him again because of steroids

I read today on USA Today.com that Steroid Man Barry Bonds was scratched from the lineup for a preseason baseball game today because his left elbow was hurting him again. It's the same elbow that caused him to be on the disabled list for seven weeks in 1999. The new book "Game of Shadows" says that's because the steroids he was taking allowed him to put on muscle too quickly. However, the USA Today article doesn't even mention that the book says that, even though it talks about the book in the same article! USA Today didn't have to state the book's info as fact, they could've just said that the book said that! And I couldn't even find anything at all about Bonds missing the game today on CNN.com! So what are all these people, WUSSIES!?!? Afraid Steroid Man is going to knock down their doors and beat them up?!?!

Six more weeks...

...until I get company convenience! That's the voluntary lay-off I get every summer from my job as a distribution specialist at American Greetings. The lay-off lasts for ten weeks and I get paid unemployment pay. So I get to sit on my butt and do nothing and still get paid! I love my job this time of year...

The Simpsons...LIVE-ACTION!

Check out this live-action Simpsons intro! It's with real folks and real locations! It was made by Sky One in the UK to promote the series. It has to be seen to be believed! (But a word of warning...you'll see Homer's butt crack! I don't remember THAT in the animated version...but I'll check it when I watch the new episode tonight. Maybe I just never paid attention.)

I'M A MILLIONAIRE!!!!!

I'M A MILLIONAIRE!!!!! I told yall I would win!!!!! My grandma just won the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, and she's gonna give me half of it! WOO HOO!!

I'm about to become a millionaire...

Everyone has about an hour or so to get in my good graces. Because in about that time, my grandma will be winning $10,000,000 in the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes! She had me fill it out and send it in for her last month, and she said that for doing so she would give me half of the money! The winner will be announced during the NBC Nightly News.

By the way, in the envelope that had all the stuff to fill out, there were a bunch of stamps with different names of magazines on them. If you wanted a subscription to them, you put the stamps of the magazines on a form. Well, she didn't want any subscriptions, so it says if you don't want any, to put down a stamp of a mag that you might be interested in. I knew that she wouldn't care to do that either, so I put down what I wanted, which was Playboy. So if she gets a sample issue or two, I'll gladly take them off her hands. (I still haven't told her I did that though, so she'll be wondering where it came from if she gets an issue in the mail...)

Cheney's Got a Gun

Check out this hilarious music video about our blind vice-president. It's called "Cheney's Got a Gun," and it's to the tune of Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun."

King Kong...even longer!!

I read yesterday on The Digital Bits that they may be coming out with an EXTENDED EDITION of King Kong!! You know, the already way-too-long movie that came out in December! Are they nuts?? That movie would have been awesome...if it had been cut down to two hours...but a lot of scenes dragged on like crazy, and made it a big snooze-fest! But I'm not surprised...the director was Peter Jackson, who also directed the three way-too-long, would-have-been-better-at-two-hours-apiece Lord of the Rings movies. That guy is a major idiot. He needs to go back to movie school and learn how to friggin' EDIT.

Survivor...not!

Richard Hatch, the first winner of Survivor, was found guilty yesterday of not paying taxes on the million dollars he won on the show. Uhhhh...did he not think that anyone knew he won a million dollars? It was the highest-rated summer television series in history!! But he's getting what he deserves anyway, because the guy is a first-class jerk. And him being gay, I'm sure he'll be a big hit in prison.

God the Weatherman

David Waters has a religious column in The Commercial Appeal, and he usually seems to know what he's talking about. I especially liked his column this past Sunday, in which he talks about idiotic people who believe that when there are natural disasters and such, that God must be mad at people. Which is a crock of you-know-what. (I alluded to this kind of crap in my November 14th column.) So check it out here.

UPDATE 6/5/06
I did have a link to his article at the word "here" in the last sentence, but The Commercial Appeal apparently can't keep their pages straight or don't have enough money to buy enough space to keep all their articles, cause the article is no longer at the link. Oh waitaminit, the same thing happened with another Commercial Appeal artice I spoke of back in my 9/9/02 column!

Lex Luthor is cool

I've always known that Michael Rosenbaum, the dude that plays Lex Luthor on Smallville, was cool, and this article proves it. He talks about having action figures hanging up in his house and says that his perfect date would be going to Disney World and riding Space Mountain, the Aerosmith ride, and the Twilight Zone ride! Hey, that sounds like me!

Memphis Grizzlies: #1 Defense in the NBA

The Grizzlies have the best defense in the NBA, holding their opponents to 84.83 points per game. There's a wide margin before the next best defensive team: the Houston Rockets, who hold their opponents to 88.52 points per game. Plus, the Rockets suck. This means that the Grizzlies are kicking ass this year! Finally!

Dubya's approval rating hits all-time low of 37% . . . and here I thought he was divinely appointed

President Dubya's approval rating is now at an all-time low: 37%. Serves the idiot (and I do mean IDIOT) right for screwing up the country royally. Of course, anybody who courts religious extremists who try to make voters think that GOD wants you to vote a certain way is pretty sorry. I mean, Dubya's father didn't court religious extremists like that, and he was a Republican too! Dubya may be a Christian, but that doesn't mean he can run the country effectively. I'm a Christian too, but that doesn't mean I can run the country. I probably could, but that's beside the point. (I know I could do a better job than Dubya. Hell, my cat could do a better job than Dubya.) And hey, you know how some religious extrememists (like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, who of course back Dubya) like to say that when bad things happen to people they deserve it because God is mad at them? I've always thought that was a bunch of crap, but now I'm starting to wonder...could these bad things that are happening to Dubya be because...God is mad at him? Hmmmmmm... ;-)

Pizza Inn lawlessness

There's been a lotta law-breakin' going on at the Pizza Inn in West Memphis, AR, lately! Earlier this year I snapped this picture of pizza boxes being set ON THE FLOOR while they were being made up:



And then this past Wednesday, I snapped this picture on the parking lot when I got there:



And to boot, the Pizza Inn delivery car was parked with its rear end facing to the left of this cop car (but the delivery car left before I took this picture), and a second cop car was parked on the other side of the delivery car, like the two cops were trying to block him in! And before the delivery guy left, he said somthing about how the cop in this picture was parked, and I told him that that's why I made sure that I parked right in front of him, in a REGULAR PARKING SPACE, so that the cop would have to back up to get out.

Sulu's a Lulu!

It was revealed Friday that George Takei, the actor who played Captain Sulu on Star Trek, is gay! Man! You just never know, do ya?

Aquaman on Smallville: how cool was that!!

Aquaman was on Smallville last week, and I just watched it. And they actually got it right! It was Aquaman as he is straight from the comics! Unlike when "The Flash" was on Smallville last year (when they used Kid Flash's alter ego's name from the comics instead of one of the THREE Flashes names), this was done right. And I also saw where many records were broken for The WB across many different demographics with the Aquaman episode. So maybe Warner Bros. will take a friggin' HINT and start making movies and TV shows about OTHER super heroes DC Comics has instead of just friggin' Superman and Batman!!

Back to the moon in 2018!!!

All I can say is...'BOUT DAMN TIME!! The official announcement was made by NASA today, but the news was leaked out last week. Hmmmm...I'll be 44 years old in most of 2018. And I've never seen a moon landing in my life. THAT'S HOW FRIGGIN' LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE WE LAST WENT TO THE MOON!!! The last moon landing was in 1972, and I was born in 1973. Oh well...we're back on track now! Finally!

Revenge of the Sith: DVD-ONLY

Just found out that ROTS will be released only on DVD! Not on VHS! It's the first major release to go DVD-only. 'Bout time! Death to VHS!!

Kaysar vs. Eric...and Eric loses like the chump he is

America voted Kaysar back into the Big Brother 6 house over Eric by an overwhelming 82% majority!! Yayyy!!! There were over 5 million votes cast, so that means Kaysar got 4.1 million votes!! America voted Kaysar, an Iraqi-born American, back into the house over Eric, an American firefighter. See, that proves that Americans aren't prejudiced...we judge people based on their personality, not by their ethnicity! Because even though Kaysar was an Iraqi-born American, he was awesome, as opposed to Eric, who was an American firefighter, but was a son of a bitch.

Space Shuttle landed today!

Wish it had landed when I wasn't working. If it had landed Sunday like originally planned, I could have watched it on TV. Same for the launch: if it had launched when it was originally planned, I could have watched it on TV. Oh well, I'll catch it next time. I'm just glad that they're going again!