Asides
Short posts due to not wishing to be overly wordy about an item or simply about, or a link to, another site on the interwebs.
Lost: The Brig
Ed busted out two posts last Sunday for the two episodes of Lost previous to tonight. Get that?
Anyway, I busted out some comments before watching tonight’s, so here are my comments about “The Brig” and I’d comment about the ladies, but I don’t remember who was looking particularly fine that night, so we’ll go with Kate for old times sake… oh wait, didn’t she start off the episode in Sawyer’s arms? Ick!
Rockets red glare
I wanted to add this aside to my previous post on Clemen$ because this is the kind of stuff I like to read.
Jim Caple has a funny write-up of the speech Roger must have given to his mates on Page 2. It includes this great outtake:
“You shall fight in Boston and you shall fight in Baltimore. You shall fight special education teachers in the bullpen, you shall fight in front of the dugout with that punk Pedro Martinez. You shall fight in Florida, you shall fight in Canada and other foreign countries like Cleveland.”
Then you have Sports Guy Bill Simmons weighing in, as you knew he would, with a good list of 10 reasons I’m happy the Rocket signed with the Yankees. Jason already added #7 as his comment on my post, which was a good one of course, but I like the reader e-mail in #10 by John F. in Kansas: “This is historic … who ever heard of a rat jumping ON a sinking ship?”
Ballcapgate
This is funny and weird. I happened to click on Boston.com at the right time today to be presented with a photo of Tom Brady strolling the streets of NYC with his horse-faced girlfriend. It would seem the slow news day (???) has the guys at the Globe/web site looking to generate some buzz because he’s sporting a Yankee cap
Checking up on the count now, it looks like they are getting it too. I actually felt the need to comment because there were only a few lame ones when I got there. Sorry, but Papi wearing the cap for a commercial should generate more fan outrage than this…
D’oh, I should have said that! Not that anyone is probably reading the comments now anyway… but, check mine out at the bottom of page 2.
SportsCenter top ten
Joe passed along a link to someone’s top 10 SportsCenter commercials post. It has YouTube linked vids. Wally and Ortiz made the list, so I thought it was appropriate to post here given I posted on that recently.
http://www.sportable.com/2007/04/30/top-ten-espn-commercials/
You’ll have to copy and paste the URI… I don’t want any traffic from these guys… they report on futbol.
Lost: D.O.C.
It’s funny, Ed wrote pretty much everything I would hit on with respect to this episode, so I thought I wouldn’t write that much, but then… I did. Anyway, my comments are on his post as per the usual.
For another usual… Sun was looking right fit helping Kate with her tent, am I right? Jin is a lucky fictional man…
Lost: Catch-22
Ed has posted about the Desmond-centric episode, Catch-22. It features the origin of “Brother” and a lovely appearance by the dear Penny.
You know I can no longer write one of these without mentioning one of the ladies, right? It’s a joke at this point… I’m not a drooling fanboy… okay, maybe a little bit, but at least I’m not trolling message boards… yet.
Anyway, there’s also a bit of Photoshop action that even Michael Scott could do a better job of…
Brady to Moss
So, the Patriots did the unthinkable and traded for one of the baddest bad boys in the NFL, Randy Moss. If this works out because Randy can keep his nose clean and mouth shut, then barring injury, they look to be SB faves to me. Last year we had almost nothing at WR, now we have them up the ass with Moss, Stallworth, Welker, Washington and Gaffney. I left Caldwell off there because he dropped those easy balls against the Colts… oh, and his eyes still freak me out!
Anyway, here’s hoping Rodney can make Moss drink the Kool Aid like he did with Dillon. At the very least, they’ll increase their merchandising revenue even more by selling Moss jerseys. I’ll be at the home opener versus the Chargers and I’m about the same amount excited, which is very.
Magneto
As you may have begun to notice, I get my entertainment news in two forms, my copy of Entertainment Weekly and an E! Online portlet/gadget/widget on my Google page.
Anyway, E! Online is providing me with news of a Magneto solo flick spin-off from the X-Men movies. Set to be an origin piece, this is the way to go for sure. Heck, McKellen might pass on by the time they make it… (that’s not very nice). The Magneto origin is a good one to appeal to a wide audience and exploring his early relationship with Xavier is something that I have always found interesting in the books.
I’m more interested in seeing this spin-off than the Wolverine one.
Angry Alec
I’m sorry that Alec Baldwin went off on his daughter via voice-mail and it was subsequently leaked to the press… but, why does it have to mean an end to his wonderful stint on NBC’s recently renewed 30 Rock? For all we know, he already wanted out before this happened, but if it helped nudge him, then that sux.
I watch the show for his performance alone — I am willing to bet so don’t a lot of other folks — so does NBC keep him locked knowing that fact, thus leading to bad shows, or let him out and try to replace him? When has that ever worked? If he’s out, NBC would be better off reneging on the deal.
UPDATE: A comment is brewing from me, but I figured I’d post a follow up that E! has posted about Baldwin’s appearance on The View and some stuff that Dr. Phil guy had to say on the matter…
Annual jam
I found myself blasting thru my Pearl Jam catalog yesterday starting at work, continuing on the drive home and a late evening completion. Interrupted only by a break for Lost, natch. It reminded me of the posts I wrote last year about PJ and my subsequent calling out by PJ zealots on some message board.
So, I looked in the archives and wouldn’t you know that it was a year and a day since I posted the infamous Pearl Jam = Crap post. Weird.
Oh… and I skipped No Code.
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