RANDOM THOUGHTS:
- I'm very excited and happy to find that one of my favorite sports blogs ever, Awful Announcing is back after a four and a half month hiatus. Sure it's under new management and there are more writers on the site than before. However, as long as it fulfills its purpose (to put sports announcers on notice) and is entertaining to read, I will be just fine with it:
(Awful Announcing.com)
- This is one of the best news that I have read all week: (http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09/03/its-been-the-worst-summer-ever-for-the-tonight-show-with-jay-l/) My favorite part of this report is when it said that NBC is hoping that the new fall shows will help give Leno a ratings boost. So they're still not giving up on Leno but when Conan was dropping off in ratings after the first six months of his reign on The Tonight Show, they wanted to push him back a half hour? NBC...am I right, people?
- I haven't been this less optimistic as a Bears fan heading into a season since 2004. At this point, I would consider it a remarkable achievement is they win more than nine games.
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson has to be considered as one of the best books ever written to not be made into a movie yet.
- The music video version of Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" is pretty good, but I like the original one with the lyrics better. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU)
- I hope next year's Emmys will be back in its normal day of the year, which was usually sometime between September 15th and September 25th. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this year's live blog. In fact, I enjoyed it a lot. However, if I had to choose between writing about just the Emmys for four hours or spend ten hours writing about the Emmys AND the day's live NFL game action like I did back in 2009, I would choose to do the latter everytime.
- Did ESPN secretly suspend Jay Marrioti? He has yet to appear on "Around the Horn" since the time he went to jail for hitting his girlfriend a couple of weeks back, and I'm not sure if that's because he's suspended or because they just had an agreement to not appear until all of the legal issues are cleared.
- With the return of Bill Kurtis and now the addition of Walter Jacobson, Is CBS 2-Chicago now the official home for old and acclaimed Chicago news personalities trying to make a comeback in television?
One thing on the list down, two more to go. Here's this week's edition of End of the Week:
END OF THE WEEK:
Video of the Week: "Dancing Merengue Dog"
It's so good at the merengue, I can't tell if the guy taught the dog or if the dog taught the guy.
Stories of the Week:
-The Actual Story of the Week: Hurricane Earl Hits Atlantic Ocean; State of Emergency Declared in 3 States
Well, looks like some people won't have such a nice Labor Day weekend.
- The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week: Man Loses $1.4 Million Painting After Getting Wasted
I always hate it when that happens to me.
Embarrassing Moment of the Week: Jan Brewer's Opening Monologue in Arizona Gubernatorial Debate
The people that didn't approve of that Arizona immigration law are experiencing big cases of schadenfreude after seeing this. She will probably still win, though.
Random Made Up Date of the Week Used to Commemorate a Hit '90s Primetime Soap Opera: "Beverly Hills 90210" Day on 9/02/10
Get it? Cause the show has the numbers 9-0-2-1-0 and September 2ns, 2010 could also be written as 9/02/10! And people that were fans of "Beverly Hills 90210" took it as a way to remember the show! It's so brilliant, yet so simple!
People of the Week: First Time Winners
Over the years, the Primetime Emmy Awards have developed a reputation for being very predictable, not giving out the award to the most deserving nominee in each category, and making past winners easy targets for another award. And though this year's award show had some moments of that ("Mad Men" winning Outstanding Drama, Bryan Cranston winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the 3rd year in a row, Edie Falco winning her 4th career Emmy), it was outweighed by the large amount of first time winners, making it one of the most refreshing Emmy awards in recent memory (and by "recent memory," I mean since the 1st year "30 Rock" won Outstanding Comedy).
In the drama series and comedy series categories, all of the major acting awards went to first timers except for Cranston and Falco. Some finally won it after being nominated for their award multiple times (Kyra Sedgwick, Aaron Paul, Jim Parsons). Others won it in their first try (Eric Stonestreet, Jane Lynch, Archie Panjabi). And while the big award in the drama category (Outstanding Drama) went to "Mad Men" for the third year in a row (the first show to do so since "The West Wing"), we saw a fresh face win the award for Outstanding Comedy Series. In a TV year filled with many critically acclaimed and/or highly beloved new comedies like "Community," "Parks and Recreations," and "Glee," it was "Modern Family" that rose on top of that crowd to be the first non-"30 Rock" winner since 2006. So while this old stereotype might pop up in next year's show yet again, at least we had at least one refreshing awards show to go with the '08 and '09 awards shows where we saw almost all of the major awards go to the same people.
Did you know that in the fourteen month history of this blog, I have yet to write a blog post in which I had both End of the Week and End of the Month on it? Well, in that case it appears that history has just been made. Here now to wrap up this Leo Tolstoy novel length of a post is the August 2010 edition of End of the Month. Enjoy.
END OF THE MONTH:
Politician of the Month: Basil Marceaux (.com)
How he wasn't elected as the Republican nominee for governor is one of those questions that people will ponder and evaluate for years to come.
Rumor of the Month: Villanova's Corey Fisher Scores 105 Points in a Game
Fisher and others to witnessed it claimed that this was the case. The only problem? There was no video evidence. If this does in fact turn out to be true, then this brings up a good question: why do the 100+point games always happen when it's not taped?
Stories of the Month:
- The Most Unshocking: Paris Hilton Arrested For Cocaine Possession
My favorite part of the story is the constant reports of Hilton's excuses, like the classic "it wasn't my purse" or "I thought it was gum." She is sounding like Floyd Landis after he was caught doping.
- The Most Tragic: 8 Killed, 10 Injured in California 200 Crash
I can think of no other words to describe the events on August 15th other than tragic. No matter who was responsible to blame for this, it's a real shame that we had to see an example of the dark and dangerous side of racing.
- The Weirdest: Woman Calls 9-1-1 Looking For a Date
Look at the bright side, Ms. Music. At least you were able to get a lot of dates in prison.
-The Most Judicial: Judge Overturns California Prop 8 Ruling
- The Biggest Catastrophe: The Flood in Pakistan
- The One That Brings the Most Mixed Emotions To Me: Tila Tequila Attacked at Gathering of the Juggalos
On one hand, what the crowd did to Tequila was wrong. On the other hand, it's not like what happened to Tequila was a national travesty. So many different opinions on this...
- The Coolest: Jet blue Flight Attendant Quits By Sliding Down From Plane With Beer After Fight With Passenger
In his fifteen minutes of fame, Steven Slater did what millions dream of doing. Not only did he quit his job in grand fashion but also stood up for themselves against a rotten customer. How many people do you think would like to do that right now
- The Most Awesome: US Combat Troops Leave Iraq; Operation Iraqi Freedom is Over
So it took seven years longer than it should have and we lost thousands of American lives. But at least the troops are starting to come back home, and that's the most important thing at this moment.
Divorce of the Month: Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren
Hoax of the Month: Jenny the Dry Erase Board Girl
Hey, at least this story came at the perfect time (after the Steven Slater story was reported)!
Videos of the Month:
- The Best Advertisement: "The Last Exorcism" Ads on Chat Roulette
Overall, it was a pretty good idea: to promote the movie through scaring the sh*t out of people on Chat Roulette. It's too bad the movie didn't live up to this.
- The Scariest: "Bull Leaps Out of Ring And Charges At Crowd"
I wonder how much of these need to happen before bull fighting is finally stopped?
- The Most Athletic: "Roger Federer His Another Between the Legs Shot-US Open 2010-1st Round"
The reaction by Dabul pretty much says it all. You know you have mastered a trick shot and have done it so well for so many years that even announcers can predict the exact moment and time you will be able to do it and pull it off.
- The Weirdest: "Crazy Old Guy Sings Carrie Underwood"
If he's that intense singing a Carrie Underwood song, I would be scared to think of how intense he would be if he held a political rally.
- The Most Lovable: "Corgi Flop"
This video is so adorable,you can temporarily stop two sides from fighting as soon as you start playing this video.
- The Most Unintentionally Funny: "Antontio Cromartie Names His Seven Children"
Looks like the New England Patriots weren't the only ones from the NFL that had quite a memorable year in 2007.
- The Most Amazing: "Amazing Japanese Baseball Spiderman Catch"
Man by day...ninja outfielder by night.
Song of the Month: Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You"
This song is so catchy, you can argue that's it's better than most of the pop songs in the airwaves right now.
Person of the Month: New York Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan
for proving that he is, in fact, the most awesome coach in the NFL right now. When HBO announced back in May that the New York Jets were going to be in this year's edition of "Hard Knocks," I had some really high expectations. One big reason why was because I would get to see head coach Rex Ryan in action, who thanks to Drew Magary's caricature of him in the NFL blog Kissing Suzy Kolber, helped give me the vision that he would be this great motivational, foul mouthed, bad ass behemoth of a coach. And with one episode to go, let's just say he has failed to disappoint.
Overall, this entire season of "Hard Knocks" has been nothing short of fantastic. But out of all of the great moments and all the cast of characters, no one stood out more than Coach Ryan. From swearing like a sailor to getting excited like a schoolgirl everytime one of his players made a great hit to treating the ending of a boring 9-3 preseason game like it was the two minute warning of a SuperBowl to his outstanding motivational speeches like this one or this one, Ryan lived up to my expectations. Hell, he even topped it! Makes me hate the fact that I'm a fan of a team with Lovie Smith as head coach.
And that's the way it is! I hope this post wasn't too long for you. I tried to make it as short as possible by doing things like not including the Dr. Laura Schlessinger story and the 8/28 "Restoring Honor" rally from End of the Month. Anyways, be sure to come back again this Wednesday when I post my first predictions column of the 2010 season. Until then, enjoy your Labor Day weekend, everyone!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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