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!

David Cook wins American Idol!! Yahoo!!

WOWZA!! America got it right this time! I thought for sure that with all the praise the judges heaped on Archuleta Tuesday night that Cook was doomed. But he wasn't! America saw through the judges' crap and voted Cook the winner by a 12 million vote margin! Simon himself said that after he watched Tuesday night's show on TV that the contest wasn't as lopsided as he had made it sound.

Finally, American Idol has a rock 'n' roll winner...and a damn good one, at that! Ryan Seacrest said that a record 97 and a half million votes were cast...I'm thinking America was just trying to right itself after screwing over Chris Daughtry two years ago. Probably everyone thought he was safe back then when he wasn't, so he went out fourth place (but went on to sell the most albums of anyone from that year). So America decided that THIS year they wouldn't let the rocker lose! Congrats, David Cook...and America!

David Archuleta wins American Idol, David Cook sells more records

David Archuleta will win American Idol tomorrow night, but David Cook will sell the most records. It will be a virtual repeat of what happened two years ago with Taylor Hicks and Chris Daughtry, with Hicks winning American Idol and Daughtry selling FAR more records (Hicks has sold 702,000 copies of his album, while Daughtry has sold 3,200,000 copies).

Archuleta has a good voice, but the little girls that are his fan base aren't going to buy his album, because Archuleta is NOT a pop singer. He's like a crooning, adult contemporary singer. He's a nice guy, and he has a great voice, but he's not going to appeal to the masses as far as record sales. Plus, he looks like he's about to throw up when he's on stage sometimes, especially when the judges heap praise on him.

David Cook, as opposed to Archuleta, has shown that he can sing a range of songs in different styles. He would appeal to the teenage crowd, as well as older folks. He also has a lot of stage presence.

Cook's album will sell more copies, so that means he'll continue to make more music in the years to come. Archulea? Not so sure. If his album is a pop album, he might sell some records. But the fact is, he never sung ANY songs in a pop style on American Idol, so that makes one think that he can't sing in that style. That means he'll have to sing his adult contemporary style, which is good, but will children want to buy adult contemporary? And will adults buy an "Aw shucks" kid singing adult contemporary?

Company Convenience time again!

I'm off work again! For eight weeks, buddy! And getting paid for it, to boot! Can't beat that with a friggin' STICK!