Super Hero Cavalcade

Just got finished watching last weekend's Justice League Unlimited. The new format for the show, showcasing MANY different super heroes and villians from the DC comics universe, is nothing short of brilliant! Since DC (and Marvel for that matter) has a gazillion different cool heroes and villians that have been created over the years, it's an awesome idea to showcase the lesser-known characters on television. I mean, just in this episode, they had the Phanton Stranger, the Red Tornado, Elongated Man, and...B'wanna Beast!! B'wanna Beast, for Pete's sake!! And being the big DC fan I am, I knew them all, and it was cool! I've always wondered why, when DC has had other TV shows and movies about their super heroes, when those shows would have super hero or villian guest stars, they would sometimes create brand-new ones, when the comics had a TON of ones to choose from! I mean, if you're making a movie or show on a previously existing super hero ANYWAY, then that means that it's ALREADY an adaptation, so just keep adapting! So anyway, Justice League Unlimited has it right. (Now, if they'd just start turning some of those characters into movies or live-action shows, like Marvel's been doing, everything will be fine. I heard the other day that Aquaman was being considered for a movie, which would be awesome, but...I'll believe it when I see it.)

LeBron wins bronze, so call him LeBronz

The United States basketball team, made up entirely of NBA players, won the bronze metal yesterday. Of course, if the BEST players in the NBA would have played on the team, instead of just these jokers, not only would they have won the gold, they would have slaughtered everyone else. So where was everybody? Where was Tracy McGrady? Vince Carter? Shaq-daddy? Jailbird Kobe? MVP Kevin Garnett? They all suck. Not enough money in it or something? Or were they just lazy asses like Craig Kilborn is for quitting his talk show?

Craigers Quits

Craig Kilborn quit his talk show Friday night. Lazy ass. I actually watched his show sometimes when I could. Now what's he going to do, go back to SportsCenter?

Sea-Monkey murderer

The Sea-Monkeys that I birthed July 1 (as detailed in my July 1 column) are all visiting Davy Jones's locker. And I did the deed! Y'see, when I had Sea-Monkeys before, I put them in my window. Well, in the instructions I got with this batch, it said to put them in a room where there is indirect light, but not in direct sunlight. But I said, "Phooey! I put them in direct sunlight before, and I'm doing it again! Cause I'm having to keep them in my showcase now to keep my cat from knocking them over, and they probably aren't getting much light or air!" So, I put them in my window. The next day...they were all dead! Maybe the other Sea-Monkeys I had weren't put in a window in the summertime like these were, or maybe these new Sea-Monkeys are just wussies! So anyway, I still put some Plasma III in it, cause that's supposed to make more eggs survive or something, and voila! A few days later there were more Monkeys! Then they died, too! Anyway, this all happened a while back, but I just today got around to cleaning out the tank. Guess I thought some more would pop up. Oh, well...the next time I get some Monkeys, maybe I'll get one of those two space-related containers. And this time, I'll follow directions!

Cool Adaptation

This weekend's episode of Justice League Unlimited, "For the Man Who Has Everything," was a direct adaptation of Superman Annual #11 from 1985, a story by the same name. I remember reading it when it first came out and it was always one of my favorites.

Revenge of the Sith

I found out today that the name of the new Star Wars movie that's coming out next year will be "Revenge of the Sith"...just like I predicted years ago!  I always thought that that name would be a nice parallel to the OTHER third movie in the OTHER Star Wars trilogy, "Return of the Jedi."  Not long ago, there was a rumor that "Revenge of the Sith" would be the name of the new movie, but I had already thought of the name years ago.  And to prove it, check out my second post on the following thread at TheForce.net, which was posted two years ago:  http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=7591808&start=7597051.  (My user name is penzargrat.)  I'm not sure when I thought of the title, but it was even before that thread.

When I was kid, I remember writing down on a sheet of paper the names of all six Star Wars movies...of course, I had to leave the names of one through three blank.  But now, twenty or so years later, if I still had that sheet of paper, I could finally fill in all six blanks!

Big Money!!

I cashed my check today that I received from the Florida Lottery Monday!!  And it was for a whopping ONE DOLLAR!!  WOOOO WEE!!!!  To find out why I got a check for a whole dollar from the Florida Lottery, check out my June 29th entry!

Splitsville for the Lake Show

Shaq's probably going to Miami? I don't even care if Kobe goes or stays, now, the Lake Show is FINISHED. And Phil Jackson isn't going to take that job that the Lakers offered him, either. Turns out Buss offered him a position as a vice president. I'm glad that Jackson isn't going to have ANYTHING to do with the Lakers any more.

The REAL Lord of the Rings

Cassini entered orbit around Saturn last night and has been sending back cool pictures of the planet's rings! And when they colorize the pictures they'll be even cooler!

Sea-Monkey Business

I just birthed me some Sea-Monkeys! I've had Sea-Monkeys a lot of different times before, but this is the first time I've had any in a while. I got these Saturday while I was at Ripley's Believe It or Not. I would have gotten them a long time ago, but I was waiting until I found the "Plasma II" packet included with them, cause it's supposed to help them grow bigger, or have more of the eggs hatch, or something. But this set had "Plasma III," so I said, "Even better!" So anyway, I just dumped the "Instant Live Eggs" pack in the tank, and voila: itty-bitty baby Sea-Monkeys squiggling around!

Included in the box is a little catalog that shows two cool Sea-Monkey tanks that are available: "Space Shuttle Expedition," shaped like the Discovery, and "On Mars," which has a Martiany landscape in it. I wish I had known about those before I bought my tank, cause I would've gotten one of those two instead. But I got the "Ghostly Galleon," which has a sunken ship in it. Oh well, it still looks pretty cool.

Florida Lotto is a lot o' trouble

I just mailed in my winning Florida Lottery Scratch-Off ticket! I would have redeemed it Saturday night before I left Florida, but when I tried, at two different gas stations, they told me that they were no longer able to redeem winning tickets for the day! Apparently, the places in Florida that sell tickets stop redeeming them at a certain time each night (different vendors having different stopping times), and then you have to wait until the next day! I've bought Scratch-Offs in Missouri for years, and I've NEVER heard of that before. Maybe it's just a Florida thing. So anyway, I was on my way out of Florida Saturday night, knowing that I wouldn't be back until...well...no telling when! So I saw on the back of the ticket that you can mail in winning tickets and get your winnings back through the mail. Well...see...what I won on my winning ticket (which cost me a dollar) was a free ticket! So I figured when I mailed it in, that they would send me another ticket. So anyway, I got home and checked Florida Lottery's website, and it said that they can't send unscratched tickets across state lines, and that instead, they send out the retail value of the ticket! If I had won money, they would send me a check for the amount I had won. But since all I won was a free ticket, they're going to send me the retail value of the ticket...which is a WHOLE DOLLAR! And it cost 37 cents to mail the thing! HAHAHAHAHA!!! How crazy is that? All because those damn gas stations don't redeem winning tickets after a certain time. Oh well...those gas stations are probably the same ones that make you pre-pay your gas when you don't know exactly how much it's going to cost to fill up your tank, thereby forcing you to make two trips inside: one to give them enough money that you know will fill up the tank, and the other to go back in and get your change.

2004 Florida Vacation #2

Last night I got back from my second Florida vacation in as many months! Before last month, I hadn't been to Florida in four-and-a-half years, and now I've gone there twice in the past month-and-a-half! I went on a cruise out of Florida last month, and last week I went back to Florida and stayed at Daytona Beach. Wednesday I played around on the beach there, Thursday I went to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World, Friday I played on the beach again, and Saturday I went to Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. I had a great time at all the places!

Phil Jackson gone from Lakers...or IS he??

The good news is...the Lakers said yesterday that Phil Jackson won't be back to coach the Lakers next year! Hallelujah! The bad news is...the Lakers' owner, Jerry Buss, offered Jackson another position with the Lakers! ARRRGH!! Jackson is supposed to decide soon whether to take it. Hopefully he won't. Since Phil has been seeing Buss' daughter, maybe he just didn't want to tell Buss right off the bat that he didn't want another position with the Lakers. I sure hope so, anyway. I mean, Phil having a different job with the Lakers won't be as bad as having the coaching job with the Lakers, but still, I don't want him on the team at all. And plus, how's he gonna come to the Grizzlies if he's still with the Lakers?? (Or maybe Phil can take this new Lakers job for a year or two, then if Hubie Brown has departed from the Grizzlies by then, Phil can tell the Lake Show to take a hike and come on over to the Grizz!!)

Lakers lose big time, now Phil Jackson can come to the Grizzlies!!

I was wrong!!! And I've never been so happy in my life to be so dad-gum wrong!! HAHAHAHA!! The Lakers lost the championship!! I thought for sure after they beat the Spurs in Game Five of the 2nd round of the playoffs that they were guaranteed a championship, but I was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, HAHAHAHA!!! Before the Finals started, I was depressed that smart-ass Gary Payton was finally going to get a ring, and by contributing absolutely NOTHING to the team all season, too. Elbow-throwing Karl Malone thought he could come to the team and get a ring before he retired, too. Tee hee. Of course, I was glad that Whiner O'Neal and Ball-hog Bryant didn't get more rings, too.

So now that all that crap's over with, I hope that Phil Jackson leaves the Lakers, and it looks like he will. Any team that Phil Jackson coached, with the exception of the Lakers and the Knicks, would probably be my second favorite team, and I'll be damned if he didn't have to coach the Lakers for five depressing years. So hopefully he won't ever go to the Knicks (which, unfortunately, may be a possibility one day, since he used to play for them). But of course, my favorite team is the Grizzlies, so...what if Phil went to them? After all, Hubie Brown is the OLDEST coach in the four major professional sports, so if Phil takes a year off from coaching or something, he can take Hubie's place if Hubie retires or gets fired or kicks over!

(By the way...where was Magic Johnson after the Lakers started sucking? At the beginning of the series, he was all happy and on TV all the time with that big doofy grin, but then he completely disappeared after Detroit started dominating! Oh, except for last Saturday when he was GETTIN' ON the poor Lakers! HAHAHA!!!)

My new journal

Here's my new journal! Unlike with my old journal, now people can leave comments on my posts and tell me how right I am with my opinions and such! HA HA!!

UPDATE 6/5/06
Speaking of my old journal, here it is. I used to have a link to it on the TracyWalters.com main page, but now I've moved it here.