Friday, January 9, 2009

Where's this going?

I don't know, but it bugs me to go a full week without posting something.

So, uh yeah...

-Fuck OU should go without saying. I'm glad they lost.

I understand Texas ended up ranked no. 4, which baffles me slightly, but I don't care much. No playoff = No validity to ranking system.

You can't use reason to discern the best football team. This is not an a priori matter.

Whatever.

-Hmm, what else... I definitely need to get out and see the Wrestler. Darren Aronofsky FTW. Even the Fountain, which didn't work, was interesting. I watched an interview with Quentin Tarantino once (he was the one being interviewed, we weren't hanging out watching Charlie Rose; that would be a better story, though), and he was talking about how it took true genius to make a truly epic failure. Any hack can make something really shitty, but it takes ambition and creativity to make a uniquely spectacular failure.

-Dammit, I hate people who don't understand the difference between 'Reply' and 'Reply to All' I'm getting swamped with e-mails from such dullards this morning.

-Don't ask me why I'm so slow, I feel like that old fart from 60 minutes, but I discovered that Google Reader is pretty great this week.

-I envy people who are exceptionally talented at something useful. Athletics, business, people-skills, etc. I'm ridiculously fucking good at Tetris and Boggle. This is rarely helpful. I'm reminded of the 40 Year Old Virgin quote, "What am I supposed to say? That I went to magic camp? That I'm an accomplished ventriloquist? Oh, I am a 7th degree imperial yo-yo master. Oh, do me yo-yo master. I want you to do me cuz you're the yo-yo guy... "

-I hate when quotes on IMDB use poor grammar and incorrect punctuation.

-In finding the quote above, I found this quote from the movie, '"You ever heard of Rollin 20's, nigga? Since I was 16 nigga, I'm saying, "frosty." You know what I'm saying, "spoon", nigga. We fucked dwarves in the ass! '

Now, I remember that exchange, but I just realized that I don't have the slightest clue what any of that shit means. I can't tell if it's cuz I'm out of touch with the black people or if that's intentionally nonsensical.

-The girl from Slumdog Millionaire is very attractive.

-I'm sick of the Yankees and Red Sox signing every fucking body.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Auvc3xwfOiisUMtIglAmFFWFCLcF?slug=ap-redsox-smoltz&prov=ap&type=lgns

Seriously, Smoltz, Penny, and Baldelli? Man, that's 3 clever fucking moves. Any or all of those guys could pan out and be quality contributors, but none require big money or a long term commitment.

D

2 comments:

Lane said...

I like how you started at OU, somehow found a way to fit in Boggle, and then made your way all the way to Red Sox end.

Yes. Red Sox/Yankees signings are 2-3 seasons away from systems crash. Selig is fucking retarded for not trying to keep in touch with what is happening. I have no mathematical, scientific, or fortune telling evidence to prove this, but I've always maintained the attitude that EVERYTHING is on some sort of balance scale. And these guys are totally tipping that motherfucker over.

yea

Donovan said...

It takes a special kind of talent to be this unfocused.

Yeah, baseball needs a damn salary cap. The Astros, of course, will mismanage it like a motherfucker, but it would give team likes Milwaukee a chance more than once every 20 years.

Baseball's headed into hockey territory if it doesn't get it's shit together.

The only teams that get ratings are Boston and New York, and only a couple other teams (the Dodgers are the only example that leaps to mind) can come even vaguely close to competing for the top free agents. This irritates me.