Penalties, Injuries and Turnovers – But Not For Us

UPDATE: Top of the 4th quarter. The Broncos just scored their first touchdown. Score is 34 to 7. Rodney Harrison is hurt, looks bad. Matt Cassel can’t stop smiling, looks good. Going to bed. 🙂

How about that kids? Only halftime through the Pats game tonight but the score is 20 – 0 Patriots. The Broncos have turned it over I think 4 or 5 times, tons of penalties and the Pats haven’t done either. I haven’t seen our defense this aggressive in a very long time. Kudos to Belichick for going for it TWICE on 4 and 1. I would like to say that I didn’t cheer when Cutler got hurt in the first play. I would like to say it but it isn’t true and I did and you can judge me if you want.

And we have a running game! WHO KNEW?!! Sammy Morris is quickly becoming this week’s town hero. He’s had more yards than the whole of the Denver offense. We got two field goals, a rushing touchdown and a bullet to Randy Moss.

But let me say this: we cannot wait for the other team to do a piss poor job for us to step up and win a game. Matt Cassel – you are on my last straw right now. You and your offense got into the red zone twice in the first quarter and settled for field goals. Everyone knows that you don’t win in the NFL by settling for field goals. Cassel has been sacked now about 5 times and it is only halftime. O-Line, where the f are you? Cassel, throw the ball faster.

I did something bad tonight and am wearing my Tom Brady jersey for the first time since he got hurt in early September. My Mike Vrabel jersey wasn’t doing good and I was in a depressed mood and just wanted a reminder that Brady is still out there somewhere. Well, me, my Brady jersey, and Brady Elephante have been enjoying this one so far. I think my neighbors must hate me, I’ve been screaming quite a lot. 🙂

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Sad news

I just got a call from my father and the dog that they’ve had since mid summer was hit and killed by a car today. Her name was Polly, she was a black lab mix. Understand that they live out in the country and Polly was an outdoor dog so it isn’t that far fetched that it would happen but it is still very sad, especially for my stepmother who was quite attached to her.

It’s silly that I’m getting all upset, I never met the dog. But I’ve seen pictures and she seemed like a lovely dog.

Eesh, what can you do right?

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Awesome

The Boston Globe counts down the top 50 scariest movies of all time. It’s a great list. Number 17 is the movie Jesus Camp!

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/gallery/top_50_scary_movies/

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New Lunch

Holy crap I’ve found the best thing to get for lunch. I’ve never had a Cosi salad until today but I got the Signature Salad (with no cheese) and it is to die for! It’s so good! I’m not a big salad person but I love salads with fruit in them covered in a vinaigrette.

Now the only question that remains is whether it is worth 7.55 a day to get this salad. It’s healthy, right? So I guess that counts for something. I should get it without dressing though as they put too much on.

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Jon Stewart for President! – Again

My love for Jon Stewart grows and grows. Apparently he was at a speaking gig in Boston over the weekend and had strong words for Sarah Palin in response to her saying that only smaller towns are pro-America.

I can’t watch the video yet but here’s the news item:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/jon-stewart-to-sarah-pali_n_136143.html

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Quick Monday Morning Roundup

Some quick thoughts before tackling my back-from-vacation pile of work:

• The New York Times has an extensive article about the health of the candidates, McCain especially. Read it here:
• Tampa Bay Rays beat the Red Sox last night in game 7 of the ALCS meaning they are going to the World Series for the first time in franchise history. As long as it isn’t the NY Giants in last year’s Super Bowl :::cries:::, I like rooting for the underdog and I was probably the only one in Boston cheering at the end of that game last night (of which I watched about the last half hour).
• Pats face Denver Broncos tonight. I’m prepared to be frustrated.
• It’s effing cold outside today and they finally have turned the heat on in my office. Thank God!
• Zac Efron is 21. Why I put that on here is beyond me.
• The film W. came in at number 4 in the weekend box office, making roughly 10 million which is what had been expected for it so a decent opening for a film that was never going to have broad appeal.
• I dreamt last night that I was hired to find Abe Lincoln’s real murderer and everyone was giving me praise except Mark Wahlberg who was trying to set up a community bridge. I don’t know.
• I’m back at work after 4 and a half days off. I have tons to do but am already finding it difficult to get started.

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Editorial: Race and the 2008 Presidential Election (NSFW)

Are you fucking insane? Seriously, are you able to put together words into sentence that can’t be construed as offensive or racist? I’m speaking directly to you shitbags out there that have the balls to go on local and national media, spouting your racist, prejudiced, misguided beliefs about what America is and who the people are who live in it. I am deeply ashamed to call you bigots my countrymen. I’m humiliated that a lot of you are from Ohio where I spent most of my youth. I’m mortified that you even dare to call yourselves Americans. ‘Cause guess what? YOU’RE FUCKING NOT!

How can you believe in America and also believe that a black man cannot be president? I’m sick and tired of having to put up with these racists as if they are entitled to their opinion. That isn’t an opinion, it is a belief of hate that this country has tried to battle against since its inception. America is the land of the free, where everyone has the right to pursue happiness, where every man, woman, and child is by law equal. I’ll be damned if I’m going to respect your hateful, hurtful beliefs about the inferiority of a race other than white. Some things/actions/words/people should not be respected, should not be tolerated.

I just watched a local news item from Fairfield, OH, about a man who put up a white sheeted ghost in his front yard hanging from a nuce with “Husein (how he spelled it) Obama” spray-painted on the front. What the fuck? The reporter talked to the next door neighbor whose 5 year old son was the first to see it and he asked his mommy why Obama was hanging from a tree. What are we teaching the next generation? That act is certainly not teaching tolerance, understanding, or love of your fellow man.

Some assholes are saying that America is a white Christian country and therefore should only led by a white Christian. Some are saying that if elected, Barack Obama will only represent black people and that his wife, Michelle, is an angry black woman hell bent on punishing whites. People at McCain/Palin rallies are shouting things like “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” Is this the country we live in? Is this the country we want to live in?

You douchebags sit there and run your filthy mouths about small town values and small town America. I grew up in small town America and I can tell you with 100% honesty that this country is better than those towns. There is no opportunity in places like that. There is a tangible feeling of despair and complacency and it’s why I left. If the “other” is so bad and so dangerous, why is it that these small towns with near 100% white populations are the most ignorant and racist while us in the cities have learned tolerance? Shouldn’t we be pissing our pants every time a black person walks by?

And who are the two people who aren’t saying a blessed thing about it? Who are the two people who are encouraging this radical behavior from these ignorant crowds? John McCain and Sarah Palin have not once spoken out against the racist things being said about Barack Obama. And if they continue to not say anything, they are just as guilty as that guy in Fairfield, OH. Guess who else is from that area. Joe the fucking plumber.

I was brought up my two people who come from this same crowd, from families that believe whites are inherently better than any other race. My mother and father taught my brother and I that race doesn’t make a person better or worse than another. I was taught that difference is what makes our country stronger, what makes our country unique. I was taught all of this in towns that had maybe one black family and that’s it. My brother was repeatedly accosted at school and on the streets for not yielding to the ignorance of places like Sebring, OH, or western PA.

So don’t tell me people can’t change. Don’t tell me that just because your entire family believes something that you have to believe it too. It is not the culture of America to hate, that’s a cynical view of the cultural clashes this nation has.

Someone has to put a stop to this outrageous behavior from our “valued” small town Americans. If John McCain won’t do it so that he doesn’t lose any voters then he’s a more dangerous and immoral candidate than I thought.

Ask me why I’m voting for Barack Obama. Is it because he’s black? Not entirely. Because he’s better equipped to run our country? Absolutely. Why are these racists voting for John McCain? Because Barack Obama is black.

These fucking people make me sick. It is 2008. Fucking grow up already.

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“What made it all right, together, is what made it all wrong”

There are times in your life where fate steps her nasty little foot in and course corrects your path. I have reached one of those moments again. The my theater schedule came out for the next show I’m working and I am not scheduled with the so-called Mr. Right I had gone on and on about last month.

I’m not that upset about it so that must mean that it was all a temporary infatuation and nothing more. Still, it’d be nice to work with him to at least get to know him better. He seems pretty cool.

:::sigh::: I’m destined to be alone for all of eternity. At least I have cable.

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Laziest Start to a Sunday Ever

It is currently 1pm on Sunday and I just got out of bed. How sad is that? I spent the morning waking up, watching half hour of TV from bed then would fall back into a half sleep half awake state that kept me in my bed until 1.

That’s really pathetic but this is also the first weekend day since August that I haven’t had to get up for any reason so I’m not gonna be too hard on myself. 🙂

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“You’re a Bush, act like one.” – “W.” Movie Review

Laura and I went to see the new Oliver Stone movie W. about President George W. Bush this morning. It was a thought-provoking, well-done film that the more I think about it, the more I don’t know what to make of it.

Let me start with what I do know. The acting was superb. The ensemble cast they pulled together to play Bush’s inner circle and the Bush family were outstanding. So many of them looked very similar to their real life counterparts that it was easy to overlook the ones that didn’t quite fit. Thandi Newton as Condeleza Rice looked the part but the voice was overreaching a bit. Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney was fantastic, had all of the mannerisms and smarminess down. James Cromwell as George H. W. Bush didn’t look the part most of the time but was incredibly good and believable as #41. Elizabeth Banks was also a believable Laura Bush though she didn’t get a whole lot to do in the film.

But Josh Brolin outdid everyone. Brolin as W. was absolutely amazing. There were times during the movie where I just forgot that I was watching an actor and thought that I was actually watching Bush on screen. He got the voice pitch perfect, Bush’s crooked smirk spot on, and his whole performance was definitely Oscar worthy.

The film itself was told almost like a series of vignettes that jumped in time. The current scenes took place in the lead up to the Iraq War at the end of 2002 and 2003, dealing with the closed door meetings of Bush and his inner circle (forgive misspellings please): Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove. The scenes were interspersed with flashbacks starting at Bush’s fraternity hazing at Yale and going through his decision to run for the White House in the late 90s. They covered his problems with women and alcohol but mostly focused on his strained relationship with his father.

And this seemed to be the main point or message of the film, that George W. Bush has major daddy issues stemming from his inability to please his father and his constant competition to be as good as or better than his do-gooder brother Jeb. I thought that the film might have oversimplified Bush’s character in pinning all of his flaws on this broken relationship but it certainly was interesting and seemed like it could be close to the truth.

Overall, the movie was very interesting to watch and an entertaining one to sit through with a couple of good laughs thrown in. There were times when I was asking myself why the movie was made and what was the real point of the story. What was Oliver Stone trying to say through this movie about a sitting president released two and a half weeks before election day? Surprisingly enough, I left the theater with more sympathy for Bush than I had going in – though I don’t think that says a lot because I really don’t like this man. Having that sympathy doesn’t exonerate his actions in my book but  it does provide some perspective on the failings of this administration leading us into a misguided war.

The men and women involved with this administration will be judged by future generations on their actions, not on their conversations behind closed doors. I would hope that this movie only serves as a side view for those generations and not as a full account of Bush as that would wrongly oversimplify just what this president has meant for and done to America.

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