Gary Payton gets his just deserts!!!

Gary Payton got traded to the Atlanta Hawks today...the worst team in the NBA!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Serves him right!! First of all, he's always been the king of jackasses in the NBA. It's obvious in his demeanor and in the things he says. But then, the jerk went to the Lakers last season because he thought he could cheat and go straight to a team that he thought was going to win a championship that season. Well, they DIDN'T, and not only that, they got HUMILIATED in the Finals, being the victims of a "five-game sweep"! Then, during the offseason, he got traded to the sorry Celtics! HA! Then he said he wouldn't play for them! But then he did! HA! And now he's been traded to the lowest of the low, the Atlanta Hawks. I wonder if he's going to say that he won't play for them before he does? HA! Oh well, it all serves him right for being the biggest sorry-ass in the league.

Karl Malone retired from the NBA yesterday

'Bout time...

Kobe kicks out another coach

So Rudy Tomjanovich is about to step down as coach of the Lakers? Didn't he just start? Hmmm...didn't take him long to figure out that Kobe Bryant is uncoachable, did it? HAHAHA!!! I mean, if Phil Jackson, the greatest coach of all time, says that Kobe is uncoachable, he's UNCOACHABLE. I mean, Jackson got Dennis Rodman to act right, so if Jackson couldn't get Bryant to act right, who can? The answer: NOOOOOOBODY.

Star Trek: Enterprise this season is the best season of Trek ever

Star Trek: Enterprise has totally kicked ass this season. From the inclusion of Augments (genetically engineered superpeople like Khan Singh), to seeing an Orion slave girl (green and yummy!), to a story that sets up how Vulcans are going to be when the Federation is founded, to seeing the inventor of the transporter, to seeing the Organians again, it's been the most awesome season of any Star Trek series ever!

Continuing the awesome episodes ths season, starting tomorrow we have a three-part episode dealing with Andorians and Tellarites. Their sparse inclusion in past Star Trek series has been puzzling, considering that they were seen a few times in The Original Series, but not too much since. And fandom has always had them as two of the founders of the Federation. But Star Trek: Enterprise is finally giving these two races their due. And on a personal note, it'll be cool to see these two species because in the series of Star Trek movies that my friends and I made, the captain (me) was an Andorian, and the first officer (ole Teddy Michael Millikan) was a Tellarite! Awesome!

And later in the season on Enterprise we get to find out why the Klingons had smooth foreheads during The Original Series, we get to see three more Orion slave girls (triple green and yummy!), and we get to see the Constitution-class starship Defiant for the first time since The Original Series! And being a Constitution-class starship means that it will look exactly like the Enterprise from The Original Series! And then for the end of the season we're going to get to see the Moon and Mars in their time period. And also, just announced this week is the possibility that Jonathon Frakes and Marina Siris from Star Trek: The Next Generation may appear in the season finale. So folks, it doesn't get much better than this...this is the best show on TV!!!

Gene Simmons on American Idol

I just watched American Idol for the very first time tonight. Why? Because Gene Simmons was a guest judge! It was pretty good, if for no other reason that to watch people make fools of themselves. My favorite was the geeky "movie projectionist." This part of every season, where people come in off the street to audition, is probably the only part of the season that I would care to watch, because it's funny. Cause later on in the season it probably just becomes another talent show. And Randy the Judge DOES say "dawg" every other word! I think I found that out from watching a Saturday Night Live skit one time that was parodying American Idol. And I wonder if Gene met that fine girl that made the audition after the show? He was looking at her pretty hard. Heh heh heh...

Grizz back on track!

The Grizzlies' six-game winning streak (their longest of the season) came to an end just now (against the Pacer thugs) but they're finally on the right track for the season! Mike Fratello seems to be doing a decent job, and the Grizz are doing better since he came along. Of course, we still have Lorenzen Wright on the team, who missed a shot about two feet from the goal late in the fourth quarter, and who passed the ball to a Pacer with about 15 seconds left and the Grizz up by one (after which the Pacers scored and put them on top), but if we could just get rid of him, we'd be a damn good playoff-caliber team! Wright did plenty of his normal whining and screaming and cussing during the game, but not much else, which is the norm for him. But hey...all in all...it was a pretty good winning streak!

Catwoman kills Batman at my house!

My female kitty kat, Shadi, knocked over my Batman Bobble Head today and busted his bobbling head! Then I busted her hiney! But then she caught a freaky-looking cricket afterwards, so I guess she was trying to make up for it. She's been catching a lot of crickets lately, but they were all the normal ones. This was her first freaky one.

Van Halen Shafts Memphis: Part Five - OFFICIALLY SHAFTED

Just checked the Van Halen website's 2004 Tour page, and it now says "The band's 80 city 2004 Summer tour is now over." Guess I was right...they just forgot to take off the "Additional concerts will be announced shortly" blurb after scheduling their last show. Or maybe they just couldn't get anybody else to take them. So, as far as them coming to Memphis, it's like the title of one of their songs: "The Dream Is Over." They could've played in Memphis' brand-new arena, the FedExForum, and could've even opened it up, just like they were the first rock bank to play the Pyramid after it opened up in 1991. Guess I won't be buying their new greatest hits album that came out with the tour since they couldn't even come to Memphis. But oh well...if they can somehow manage to make a new album, which I doubt, I won't be in any hurry to get a ticket if they come to Memphis for that tour. If they even come then. Or maybe they'll just be like Kiss is now and tour without making new albums.

I jinxed the Jeopardy champ!

I'd been hearing about Ken Jennings, the dude who's won a gazillion Jeopardy games in a row, for months, but I hadn't watched a show. I'd also been saying for a while that if I ever did remember to watch the show that I would jinx him and he'd probably finally lose. So anyway, yesterday I actually remembered to watch the show, and I turned it over there just in time to see Final Jeopardy. He won, and it was his 74th win in a row. Well, today, I forgot to watch the show again, but then tonight I saw on USA Today.com that he finally lost today!! So I was right...I DID jinx him! But I got to see his final victory yesterday.

(Actually, today's episode was shot in September. So I guess it was a time travel jinx!)

Hubie Brown resigns as Grizzlies' head coach mid-season, destroying any chance of the Grizz ever getting Phil Jackson

Thanks a lot, Hubie. Head Coach Hubie Brown has resigned from the Grizzlies for health reasons. That's all fine and dandy, but couldn't he have done it before the season started, which was only less than a month ago? I always knew that Hubie wouldn't last long with the Grizzlies since he was the OLDEST head coach in the four major professional sports in America. But I was hoping that when he resigned that the Grizz could sign Phil Jackson, the greatest coach in NBA history. And plus, Jerry West and Phil Jackson know each other after having worked together for the Lakers. So Hubie was supposed to have quit IN-BETWEEN seasons so that Jerry West could pursue Phil Jackson. But NO, Hubie had to quit in the middle of the season. So now West is going to have to hurry up and find a replacement. Jackson probably already has his mind set on taking this season off now that it's started, so he probably won't be available. Now, I wish that West would just hire some dumbo coach for the remainder of the season, or let the interim coach Lionel Hollins coach the rest of the season, but no, West is probably going to hire somebody and sign them to a mulit-year contract. Then, next year, if Jackson comes back to the NBA, he'll probably sign with some other team for years, and we'll NEVER get him. Oh well. The Grizzlies have been going down the tubes all season anyway. I think last year's good season was a friggin' FLUKE.

By the way, the only person the media is talking about that's in the running for the coaches job right now is Mike Fratello. The Czar??? Oh, Lord...

Van Halen Shafts Memphis: Part Four - Final Shaft?

Well, the last show on the Van Halen tour was last week (Friday, November 19), even though on their website it still says ADDITIONAL CONCERTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. Hmmmm...wonder if they just forgot to take that blurb off? Anyway, the last concert added to the list was posted on October 11. So, unless Van Halen really IS going to "announce more concerts shortly," this was the final FU from Van Halen to Memphis!! And if it is, then I can finally say FU to Van Halen, too!!!

Grizzlies suckin' big time, prove last year's success a fluke

The Grizzlies have sucked and disappointed big time this year. They started off 0-4 (which included a loss in their first game at the FedExForum, in which they lost a NINETEEN-point lead to the Wizards), bounced back to win two games in convincing fashion, but then losing the next two games...and in that last loss, which was to the SuperSonics, they were ahead at one time by TWENTY-ONE points!! Tonight they play at Portland...wonder how big their lead will be before they lose tonight? HA HA!!

Halloween not on Halloween here

I just read this week's Osceola Times and it says that the city council has adopted a resolution stating that Halloween will not be held on October 31st this year, but will instead be held on October 30th. It doesn't say why, but obviously it's because October 31st is on a Sunday this year. The last two times October 31st was on a Sunday here, Halloween was also held on October 30th. But mysteriously, the previous years that October 31st was on Sunday, it was held on Sunday!!

Anyway, what kind of message does not having Halloween on Sunday send to children? That Halloween is devilish or something? No, the true evil is the possibility of making kids believe that that's true!! There's nothing wrong with Halloween!! It's an awesome day!! This "Halloween not on Sunday" crap REALLY makes me mad. I'm religious and I'm telling you right now that saying that Halloween can't be held on Sunday is wrong. But you know what's funny? American Greetings, which has it's largest factory right here in Osceola, makes and sells advertisements for their Halloween greeting cards that clearly state, "Halloween - Sunday, October 31st." HAHAHAHA!!!! And hey, the Osceola CITY COUNCIL adopted a RESOLUTION for HALLOWEEN??? What are they going to adopt a resolution on next, how much money the Tooth Fairy can leave under your pillow??

P.S. For more on this igmo subject, check out the bottom of my "Halloween 1993 dressed as Kiss" webpage.

Van Halen Shafts Memphis: Part Three

New show added Monday: Tucson, AZ. Still no Memphis. Date website says show was added: October 11. Date website actually showed that the new show was added: October 12. Hey, waitaminit...Tucson, AZ??? Didn't they just add that show last week? Indeed they did...and now they're adding ANOTHER one!!! And at the same venue, too! The...Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater. Oooookay...

R.I.P. Christopher Reeve (and I'll actually report on his Smallville role, too!)

Christopher Reeve died Sunday. I was shocked when I found out about it on USA Today.com Monday morning when I woke up. But I've also been shocked to discover that the mass media people haven't mentioned the two appearances in Smallville he's made the last couple of years!! He finally got a chance to return to the Superman mythos, and they aren't even reporting on it!! He didn't play Superman, but he was on the dad-gum show because he USED to play Superman! I mean, Superman is the reason Reeve got famous, and so you would think that him being on a Superman-related TV show would be newsworthy for his obituary. All of the mass media places that I saw Monday that talked about Reeve didn't mention Smallville at all, like USA Today.com, NBC Nightly News, Entertainment Tonight, and 20/20. And 20/20 even ran an entire HOUR-LONG tribute to him and failed to mention it! (Oh wait, USA Today.com did mention it...in it's list of TV appearances he's made over the years. They really tried to bring attention to it, huh?) KryptonSite, which is the best Smallville website, even commented on the media not talking about Smallville with regards to Reeve. The first time he was on Smallville, he even said that it was nice to do something fun for a change. So anyway, yet another example of comic book super hero stuff getting the shaft. Oh well...the media can kiss it since there are all kinds of super hero TV shows and movies coming out now! Report on THOSE, media! And we can thank Reeve for blazing the trail for making serious and cool super hero shows!

Van Halen Shafts Memphis: Part Two

New show added yesterday: Tucson, AZ (which is neither the capital nor the largest city in Arizona.) Still no Memphis (and Memphis is the largest city in Tennessee).

By the way, every time I see on the Van Halen website that a new show has been added to the tour, it always gives the date the show was added as the day before the date it's posted on the website. For example, I checked the list yesterday and there was no new date, but I checked the list today and there was a new date, but it says that the show was added on October 4, which was yesterday!! So either it's always the next day after a new concert is announced before the website gets around to updating the tour list, or they can't keep track of what day it is.

Van Halen Shafts Memphis: Part One

Van Halen, which recently got Sammy Hagar to come back, is on tour. (Thank goodness they got him to come back and not David Lee Roth again...I liked Roth with Van Halen, and I like Roth as a solo artist, but Sammy with Van Halen is so much better.) They've been on tour for a while, and they have many more shows to go, and they are adding shows on a regular basis, but Memphis is NOT YET ON THE LIST. Memphis, of course, being one of the major cities in the country, and with a BRAND SPANKING NEW arena, is being given the shaft. Instead, they have dates on the tour at...Worcester, MA...Moline, IL...Fargo, ND...Rapid City, SD...I mean, WTF??? Who has even HEARD of these cities??? And just yesterday, they added some more dates, and here they are. Let's see if Memphis is on the list! Milwaukee, WI...Ames, IA(??????????)...Wichita, KS...Fort Wayne, IN...Montreal, QE...and Hamilton, ON. Man, what's going ON??? Anyway, from now on, every time Van Halen adds new dates to the tour, I'm going to report them here...and I want everyone to marvel at how Memphis is getting screwed once again for no reason!!!

Shaq doesn't want Jordan at Age 41 to show him up

I heard last week that Jordan was thinking about going to play for the Miami Heat, which, of course, has Shaq now. Shaq said that Jordan had left him many messages, and he thinks it's because Jordan wants to play with the Heat. But Shaq and the teammates he talked to about it say that they're not interested in Jordan.

Not interested in Jordan?

Jordan, at 41, is better than most players at 31. And probably 21. I always knew that Shaq was a big fat dumb ass, but this just takes the cake. And now I'm going to have to call the teammates he "consulted" with big fat dumb asses, too. And since I don't know which players they are, I'll just throw them all in as being dumb asses.

The Jordan camp is saying that those calls to Shaq are just to try to get Shaq to come to Jordan's basketball camp. Which seems more like the truth to me. I mean, why would Mike want to play on a team with a big fat dumb ass?

HMMMMMM!!!!!! The Verse and the Chain

I received the following chain e-mail yesterday from someone I know:

Subject: HMMMMMM!!!!!!

The Lord has a way of revealing those of us who really know him, and those that don't! Think about it! Kerry gave a big speech last week about how his faith is so "important" to him. In this attempt to convince the American people that we should consider him for president, he announced that his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3. Of course the speech writer meant John 3:16, but nobody in the Kerry camp was familiar enough with scripture to catch the error. And do you know what John 16:3 says?

John 16:3 says; "They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me."

The Spirit works in strange ways. Pass it on and VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!

It sounded awfully familar to me. So I thought, "Either Gore and Kerry have the same speechwriter, or this is bogus!" So I went back and checked, and sure enough, another friend of mine had sent me the exact same e-mail before the 2000 presidential election...but back then, the name "Kerry" was substituted for "Gore"!! That made me go "HMMMMMM!!!!!!", just like the e-mail's subject header said!! So then I found the following webpage on a site about urban legends: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_kerry_john_3_16.htm. Turns out that neither Gore nor Kerry had ever said it. As a matter of fact, President Bush has recently been accused of stating the exact same quote, but he didn't say it either. But do you know who REALLY said the quote? It was Bush's father, the FIRST President Bush, speaking at a religious broadcasters' conference in 1990!

So anyway, I made sure that everyone got filled in on the truth, including the dude who sent me the letter four years ago, the dude that sent me the letter yesterday, and all the other people the dude from yesterday sent the letter to. I mean, if people like one political party or the other, that's fine, but when they start making up bad stuff about the politicians from the other party using God's Name, and then forward chain e-mails that state those lies without checking their facts first, that's not very nice.

So, as the e-mail stated, the Spirit really DOES work in strange ways! ;-)

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.)