I hate Brett Favre, and I hate myself.

Seriously.

God...damn...it.

Baseball, eye gouging, and other fun diversions

Okay, so, we're not there yet. This isn't YET the NHL Western Conference in 2002 (or 2000...or 1999...), but...it's that same feeling:

"...and he scores. Five minutes gone, and the Red Wings are up 2-0.

...and he scores again. 4-0, and the Avs are in trouble now.

...7-0, and the Avs are...really...in trouble now."

Even that wasn't ROB SMASH!!! level. I didn't break any tables or anything.

I haven't stabbed myself in the eyes and/or ears with, like, shards of glass or anything. Then again, I DID have some plastic shards on hand from around the 8th inning last night when the remote control magically flew out of my hand and shattered against the wall.

Fortunately, Sarah and I managed to successfully reconstruct said remote, and we took this extremely lucky bit as a sign that it was probably time to turn the game off.

Of course, when I move several months from now, I'll find shards of plastic here and there, and that will be a fun reminder.

Random observations and questions

Contrary to popular opinion, directions are not (generally) intended to be ignored.

According to iTunes, I have 3.6 days worth of music on my computer.

For what it’s worth, only 3min 32sec of it is techno.

Query: What ever happened to looking like you were working?

G.I. Joe cartoons are available from Netflix.

I found "The Chronicles of Riddick" starring Vin Diesel to be surprisingly entertaining.

“I like that song. Keep playing that song.”

In all likelihood, my apartment will continue to lack an Xbox 360 for the foreseeable future.

Not that it has much say in the matter. It had an argument with my credit card, and they’re not speaking.

Fantasy football is for losers. I can’t wait for my team to try and not lose on Sunday.

The Rockies making the World Series is less of a sign of the apocalypse (the end time, not the comic book character) than the Seahawks making the Super Bowl.

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse features Apocalypse (the comic book character, not the end time) as the primary villain.

No, I did not buy X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse at Best Buy for $10.

That last statement was a bold faced lie.

I own one Sublime album. The same one everyone else has.

“Duran Duran is neither a Duran nor a Duran. Discuss amongst yourselves.”

The new Doctor Who theme (well...remix) is an exhilarating listen, for those who count the soundtrack amongst their 3.6 days worth of music.

Jesus, I have a lot of Led Zeppelin albums.

The Lord of the Rings is not about World War II.

I recently (as in, an hour ago) purchased the Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion pack, “Mask of the Betrayer” at Best Buy. I will not play it until I have finished my work.

Don’t believe me? Well, it’s guarded by a small teddy bear wearing a sweater with a heart on it. You try to get past that.

Okay, why hasn’t the recent wave of 80’s cartoons retro-revival trend not featured the Care Bears? Is a live action, Michael Bay adaptation soon to be announced?

I’m writing random observations and questions instead of working.

I should probably do something about that.

It occurs to me, once I get to the point where I would rather write random observations and questions than work, it’s kind of hard to go back.

Does anyone still have that stupid email I wrote in college about John Calvin, Edith Wharton, Karl Marx, and Max Weber having a gun fight which may or may not have resulted in me getting an imaginary A in my Soc class?

Subsequent efforts to write dumb emails instead of working never really quite captured the magic.

Ultimately they ended up just being stupid lists of random observations and questions.

Wait…oh, god damn it.

Holy Crap!

The World Series?!?! Seriously?!?!?! Hot DAMN!

Me and Politics, Oil and Water...

First off, GO ROCKIES!

Second, this:

Okay, so, I don't like to bring politics into this blog for a number of reasons. The big ones are, of course, that 1) I REALLY don't like politics, and 2) for the most part, I like talking about politics even less. But I feel like this is worth mentioning.

Now, granted, I have my own views, many of which conflict with the person in question, but with allllll the violence and suffering in the world (and there is a fucking LOT of it), how is it that Al Gore and the UN committee on Global Warming or Climate Change or what have you win the Nobel PEACE prize? How do you win a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for TALKING about ways to MAYBE get some people to THINK about TALKING about POSSIBLY making some changes to the environment while people are fighting and killing each other?

Okay, contrary to what is apparently popular opinion, I DO care about the environment. Very much. I DO think we need to take care of it because it's the only one we've got...but this? I don't know. Really, this doesn't feel like a good message.

That is, I guess, until Global Warming strikes suddenly and violently:





At which point I will gladly chime in with the cries of "We...w-we didn't listen!"

Sweeeeeeet ROCKtober!

Thirteen innings? THIRTEEN?

HA! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

HA!

Geez. I'm suffering from "ha" fatigue this week. Well, whatever. Rocktober only comes once every 12 years, and usually lasts less than a week.

Suck it, Padres. Go Rox!