Random Thoughts

The Patriots beat the Bills 38-30.  EXCUSE ME!?!?!  38-30?!?!?!   Let me see if I understand this correctly...  the inept, incapable, worst offense in the NFL and the worst team in the AFC East got into a shooting match with the Patriots!?!?!  I thought before this game that anything less than a 10 point win would basically be a loss for New England.  If the friggin Bills can put up 30 on the Pats defense then how many points will the Colts and Satan Manning put up?!?!?!?!  Christ Brady and Co will have to score touchdowns on every possession to keep up with them!!!  I hope this mediocre secondary figures out that they are professionals at some point this season!!!!  Or I hope that Bill either decides to promote a defensive coordinator or at least decides to start video taping opposing teams signals again...  cuz this is just ugly.  I realize that they have only played 3 games, but this team already looks like the latest version of Boston's Cardiac Kids.  

Speaking of cardiac kids...  the Red Sox took two out of three against the suddenly fallen back to earth and looking vulnerable Yankees.   I honestly don't know what's worse: having an injury obliterated season that will mercifully end in 6 games or having looked invincible for the whole season only to appear to be limping into the playoffs in (cough) second place? I guess we'll see in a week or two.   New York fans I can almost sympathize with what you are witnessing having seen it happen so many times to my team... instead of cheering and walking around with your chests out, you are shouting at the TV "OH COME ON!!  WTF!!"  Been there done that!!!  

College football needs a playoff...  COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEEDS A PLAYOFF!!!  Division I scholarship athletes should get paid...  DIVISION I SCHOLARSHIP ATHLETES SHOULD GET PAID!!!  It's a total insult to anyone who pays attention that the BCS is an adequate substitute to a tournament!!  I don't say this because I'm a Boise State Fan, personally I could care less about the Bronco's and their blue field...  they whacked themselves by staying in the WAC!!!  If you need to see how competitive the Big 10 is look at Ohio State's bowl game record the last few years!!! #1  Alabama beats # 10 Arkansas by 4 and stays at #1 yet Arkansas drops to #15.  If you look at both the AP and Coaches polls there are six teams in the top 25 with loss ranked higher than undefeated teams!!!  USC returned their copy of Reggie Bush's Heisman trophy because he has been accused of taking money from an agent, yet OJ Simpson's Heisman is still on display at USC!!!  Maybe if USC's athletic department had paid Bush with the millions of dollars that they made off the bowl games he helped win and likenesses of him they used to sell merchandise then he wouldn't have had to take money from an agent.  An NCAA athlete taking money isn't new...  Charles Barkley said playing in college was the easiest money he ever made!!!  And where are the sanctions against The Florida Gators who have 27 players arrested over the last six years?!?!  

9/11 meets Memento meets Lost meets 24... better known as The Event.  That statement is not a dismissal of the show.  On the contrary, it's an acknowledgement of how complex this show is, or at least how complex it wants to be.  I watched the pilot episode twice.  After I watched it the first time, I said that I would keep watching it in order to pick it apart because of its obvious flaws:  Unrealistic, erratic, destined to fall flat on it's face.  In the end that may be what I end up doing, but since I have all this free time, I watched the pilot again.  I'm intrigued.  This shows jumps back and forth through time and across characters backstories, not as seamlessly as Lost did but similarly.  This could be a star turn for Jason Ritter who plays Sean Walker.  After watching the pilot episode twice, the major question I have regarding Sean is how exactly this kid without any links to power or training is going to be a player in this story line.  In similar instances on other shows the character had some background that he could draw on to help him.  So far all Sean Walker has is a daredevil disregard for his own safety.

Finally, the last season of Smallville began on Friday night.  I haven't watched this show in at least five years.  I have been disgusted by the simple fact that I view Tom Welling's Clark Kent as a sniveling, douche bag, not worthy of being the greatest superhero ever.  After all he's supposed to be Superman not Superpussbag!!!  The suit is ready...  the world is ready...  can Clark finally close the deal!?!?  It looks like the switch might have finally been turned to on.   Whether it is called the Justice Society or the Justice League, Superman is not just a member...  Superman is the LEADER!!! I said I would watch this show again when he bacame Superman, so I am watching the final season and I sincerely hope the writers are smart enough to bring back Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luther.  For this show to close properly it must come full circle, and Welling needs Rosenbaum.  

Well, if you are still reading this then you must have as much free time as I do and for that you have my sympathies.

This is a test. This is only a test.

Two of my dearest friends got married on July 30, 2010.  It was a beautiful ceremony and there were many wonderful pictures posted here.  Unfortunately the pictures of me weren't so wonderful.  I looked bloated and puffy and just plain fat.  When I saw the pictures I got on the scale and gasped when I saw what I weighed.  I would like to say that I said at that moment that enough was enough.  But I didn't.  I just kept on eating and drinking and treating myself like crap.  Then on Monday September 6th, something happened that literally got me off my ass.  I sat down on my couch and I heard it croak.  Then the frame broke under me!!  Let me say that again "THE F*@%ING FRAME BROKE UNDER ME!!"  The couch is a little over a year old and the frame broke under me!!  I didn't tell a lot of people about this.  I did tell my friend ML what had happened along with some other things that had been happening. He told me that it reminded him of the scene in Tommy Boy when he sat on the bench, after finding out that he had failed and his family had deserted him, and it collapsed to which Tommy says"I could have done without that."  Well I could have done that without that too.  So I made a couple changes that day.  On September 6th I weighed 324 lbs.  Today is September 24th and I weigh 304 lbs.  Now I know that is not earth shattering, but it is a good start.

Now dropping this weight has made me feel better and lighter, like dropping a bag of bricks.  I would like to give some credit to my friend ML for his witty and timely comment.  I have been blessed with some funny and bright friends.  They have created a podcast where they share their observations and experiences.  You can take a listen to it by using this link, What The Thread did with its Summer Vacation...http://threadcast.podomatic.com/.  They have been working really hard on this and I hope you will give them a listen.

I don't have a job right now...  so I find myself with a ridiculous amount of spare time,  While scouring the internet for a job and typing and sending out resumes, I usually leave the radio or the TV on in the background.  Here are some random thoughts on what has been on or advertised on TV the past week:

Pats vs Jets on 9/12:  The Slouch burns Darelle Rivas for a spectacular TD catch only to be outdone later in the game by Braylon Edwards TD catch and subsequent taunting penalty.  The Pats lost the game but somehow I still feel better about the team led by Belichick, TFB, White Wes and Crazy Ass Randy than I would about Sexy Rex and his team of fun loving, skirt chasing, sexually harassing, drunk driving, trash talking J-E-T-S SUCK SUCK SUCK  second tier New York B-team.  This team make Kenny Powers seem level headed and reasonable!!!

(Side Note:  Is it karma that Edwards was arrested for a DUI at 5 am later in the week?  I think so.)

Can anyone explain to me how Teen Mom, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Jersey Shore, Survivor, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol are "reality shows"?  The funny thing is that the same people who watch this slick, prepackaged trash claim that pro wrestling is fake!  The fact that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino could make close to five million dollars this year is outrageous, disgusting and insulting to every fiber of my being!!!  

So this is premier week for 2010 fall season and it seems like it could be a good one.  That being said it should be noted before I have even seen an episode of either Outlaw or The Event that NBC seems intent on trying to recycle the cast of LA LAW. Outlaw seems intent on destroying the career of one of the finest dramatic actors television has seen in a long time by giving him the dumbest possible premice...  A supreme court justice thinks he can do more in private practice?  Are these people retarded?   The Event looks like a bizarre Jericho, Lost, 24 knockoff without the intelligence or Jack Bauer!!! Has anyone else noticed that when a show uses a black actor to play the President an unspeakable disaster looms on the horizon?!?!?!?  And what the hell is Skeet Ulrich doing on Law and Order LA?!?!  I thought he was friggin dead!!  And finally...  wait for it...  Smallville season 6 years longer than it should have run appears to FINALLY be ready to let Clark Kent become SUPERMAN!!!  Not bad for the show that swore he'd never fly but had no problem taking the coolest superhero ever and turned him into a self-doubting pussbag who can't ever seem to get out of his own way and lacks any type of ability to see the signs that a trap is closing in on him!!!  Quentin Tarantino's description of Superman in Kill Bill Volume 2 would be a welcome change!!!  One can only hope!!

If you are still reading this then you must have as much free time as I do and if that's case then you have my sympathies.