RANDOM THOUGHTS:
The following were on my mind between Thursday, December 2nd and Monday, December 6th:
- We as speakers of the English language have to work together in creating better names for conspiracies and scandalous stories other than by adding "-gate" at the end.
-This "Community" Christmas special looks like it's going to be another classic from the show. Can't wait to watch it on Thursday night.
-The Yahoo! Answers question of the year, by far:
"Why is my sperm so powerful?
I've only been with my girlfriend for about 4 weeks, but the doctor says she is four months pregnant.
Why is my sperm so potent?"
- If I had to choose any quarterback to lead a game winning drive in my football game, it would be Ben Roethlisberger. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are a close second and third, but Big Ben just seems to be the most clutch QBs of the last five or so seasons.
- Overall thoughts on the first season of "Boardwalk Empire": not as good as I thought it would be after I saw the ads, the raving reviews from critics, the terrific pilot that brought great promise to the show, the plot (Prohibition! Gangsters! Atlantic City! Al Capone!) and , of course, the people involved in the show (Terrence Winter! Martin Scorsese! Mark Walhberg! Steve Buscemi! Omar from "The Wire"! Michael Shannon (who I enjoyed very much on "Revolutionary Road"!). That being said, it was still a damn good season with fantastic acting, fantastic writing and a well-done job by almost everyone involved that I think will still contend with "Mad Men" in next month's Golden Globe Awards, and thanks to the season finale (which I felt was more of a prologue to season two than a wrap up of season one), I have a feeling that season two should be even better (especially now after I have read an interview with show creator Terrence Winter in which he states that he will use Chalky White and Richard Harrow, two of my favorite characters on the show, more the next time around).
- The commercial of Kevin Bacon playing a big fan of Kevin Bacon that uses Logitech Revue with Google TV to find Kevin Bacon movies of six degrees of awesomeness.
- Afrter watching the Bears-Lions game, I'm now confident that Ndamukong Suh's main goal in life is too injure and kill as many quarterbacks on the field as possible.
-The only thing surprising about the Broncos firing Josh McDaniels is that it took this long for Denver to do it. You would figure that after inexcusably trading up in the draft to get second rounder at best Tim Tebow, coached his team to a 5-16 record since October of '09, can't rush the football and allowed the Raiders to score 59-14 and ratted out the head coach he used to work for, that it would have happened much sooner than 12 games into the season.
- FOX's Sam Rosen and Tim Ryan have too be considered among the most underrated NFL broadcasting team in the country. They're not one of the most respected or highly acclaimed announcing teams like, say, Micheals/Collinsworth, Buck/Aikman or Nantz/Simms, and yet they do a solid job calling the games without the annoyance or horrible analysis of the game action that you see with most other NFL crews (I'm looking at you, Thom Brenneman and Brian Billick!). Overall, they're one of the few announcing teams outside of the Big Four (the three teams that I just mentioned along with the Monday Night Football crew of Tirico, Jaworski and Gruden) that are okay to listen to and not make me want to mute them in favor of the radio calls. Another one is the team of Kevin Harlan and Solomon Wilcotts, mostly because Kevin Harlan is awesome.
More random thoughts to come on Thursday. See you then!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
If you have any opinions on today's post, or if you just have any suggestions or tips for my next blog entry, e-mail me at: mj1599@aol.com. Your e-mails are greatly appreciated.
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