…to walk up to a urinal at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, the one actively overflowing onto the floor, and proceed to urinate into it, all the while complaining that you’re getting your shoes wet?
Very drunk, I assume.
I hesitate to note that this was after an Atlanta Thrashers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs game and the dude in this existential situation was wearing a Leafs jersey. Giving Canadians a bad name.
If you’re not paying attention to the huge news out of Atlanta, the Thrashers are out to their best start ever, currently holding a 12-5-3 record and third in the league for points (27). Buffalo is leading the Eastern Conference right now(31 pts), with Buffalo (25 pts) just behind.
Yay for Atlanta hockey! The past seven seasons have been disappointments for the Thrashers, but hopefully they will stay healthy and push this streak on toward the playoffs (which they’ve never been in).
We’re going to see the Thrashers-Maple Leafs game on the 30th of November. I hope it is a good one!
Go Ghana! Oh, darn…
I’ve been watching plenty of World Cup Soccer this time around. The broadcast schedule has been convenient for me to watch at least a half-game during lunchtime at work. I didn’t see Ghana lose to Brazil, but I watched the second half of the Italy/Australia game on Monday. Penalty kick to win for Italy! Woo hoo!
World Cup Soccer has got to be some of the best sports to watch. It’s fast, it’s exciting, and there are no commercials. I love it.
Of course, if you live in the United States like I do, you don’t get most of the games on broadcast television. The only channel we receive at work that has the matches is the local spanish-language channel.
¡Gooooooooooooool!
Messy title, for a messy post. Here goes…
We saw A Prairie Home Companion on Friday. I confess that I had high expectations for this movie, given the character of the radio show from Minnesota Public Radio. We arrived a few minutes before show time and didn’t have any problem getting seats. Let’s just say that if I had to pick the type of people who would show up for this movie, you would have found them all sitting around us. I felt like the cast of a Woody Allen movie.
Speaking of a Woody Allen movie, one was advertised during previews. Again, surprise, surprise. This one looks interesting, however, and it has Scarlett Johannsen and Hugh Jackman in it, which is always good for me.
Movie Review: Clustered and Claustrophobic. There were times when all of the actors (and this was a Who’s Who of Hollywood) were talking incessantly at the same time, and it was driving me nuts. Just SHUT UP people! If that’s what really toes goes on behind curtains at the show, I don’t understand why there haven’t been murders. There was no overarching theme that I could detect, merely several interwoven plot lines that didn’t seem to have much to do with each other. Given that Garrison Keillor wrote this, I’m sure there were deep dark levels of meaning and symbology that I missed, but I don’t go to movies to sit and THINK about them. I’m not an indie foreign film kind of guy. Overall, I was disappointed, especially because it seemed like nothing ever happened. The whole movie was just…nothing ever happening. Very annoying. For reference, my favorite character throughout was Guy Noir, played by Kevin Kline.
If you want a glowing comment, go to the imdb site and read it. I’d recommend it as a rental for anyone who’s interested. Don’t pay the $8.50 to see it in the theater.
Next up! The Carolina Hurricanes sure got served last night. I don’t recall any Stanley Cup game 6’s where one team sucked quite that badly. They should give up and join the Atlanta Braves, who are plumbing the depths of suckedness right now.
Lastly, and this is more of a rant than anything else, but you would figure, if a state goes through all of the effort to set up an AMBER Alert system (missing child notification, which is a Levi’s Call in Georgia), and especially in the Atlanta Metropolitan area where we use highway message boards, radio calls, cable tv alerts, etc., that I would be able to find information regarding said alert when it appears across my spanish-language World Cup channel!
Nope! All of the relevant Georgia Bureau of Investigation websites are hosed, probably by people trying to get the info on the alert. All of the local news channels have…nothing on their webpages regarding this. Georgia-Navigator, which is the website for the Georgia DOT and it’s traffic management system has nothing.
The System is not working… So much for Big Brother. I Just checked again and all of the georgia.gov websites are still hosed. Maybe georgia should invest in some more servers…
Update 1253: Still no findable information on the AMBER Alert. The Georgia-navigator site at least is showing that the message boards around town are displaying “CHILD ABDUCTION ALERT, BLUE CHEVY S-10 P/U, TAG UNKNOWN.” GBI’s website for Levi’s call doesn’t have any current info, it’s solely about the requirements for issuing a Levi’s Call. Blah blah blah. The system isn’t working!
I watched the first two periods of Hurricanes/Oilers game last night. ‘Twas quite exciting. However, I did not know who won until I checked the score this morning (Suprise! Oilers screwed the pooch!).
But that is all secondary to the reason for this post. Checking the SI article to see what happened in the game, I come across this quote at the bottom.
And a few especially knowledgeable fans showed up in green-and-blue Hartford Whalers attire…
Why, if you know the Hurricanes were once the Hartford Whalers, are you especially knowledgeable? This same sports writer would probably expect you to know the exact lineage of the Milwaukee Braves or the Houston Oilers. Yet if it’s Hockey, it must be obscure and therefore a challenge to have any back-history knowledge.
Freaking sports writers. Living in their own world…
Well, so much for me picking Iowa to win this years NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. [sigh]
I was doing well first round right up to that moment. All of my first round picks that had not made it to second round were slated to lose there anyhow, so I still had plenty of opportunity to make it!
Alas, so much for the Atlanta Regional for me. Go Ohio! who I have playing Iowa for the championship.
Yes, I’m contributing to the $4B of lost productivity.
Today, I was sent a video excerpt from a CBS news broadcast. I’m not going to post it because I’m 99.44% certain I’d be violating copyright to do so. However, you can read about the feel-good story by clicking any of the links here at Google.
It is the story from February, 2006, of an autistic high school student who gets his chance to shine in the last basketball game of the year.
Item: Yay for Live halftime shows! Despite their lackluster performance, I give the Rolling Stones 2ThumbsUP (“One for the Thumb!”) for doing the show live. Thank god there were no wardrobe malfunctions to deal with.
Item: Could the Seahawks have been more lame? I don’t think so. They soundly beat themselves, despite any (disputed) referee miscalls. And, they got one big call in their favor during the first half, when the fumble-that-wasn’t was ruled as an incomplete pass. Unless they’ve changed the rules on me (control plus two steps or a “football move”) that was definitely a fumble. And that “downed by contact” that was ruled instead of a fumble was just luck on the Seahawks part. There was no part of that light touch that caused the fumble and it’s merely the letter of the rule that saved their bacon on that one.
Item: It’s bad when I, a profound football noob, am yelling at the TV about wasted play time at the end of the half and the game. If I can see it, why can’t they?
Item: It must suck to go to the Super Bowl and be definitely the Away Team. That was a truly Pittsburgh Home Field.
Item: The MacGyver commercial rocked! My favorite, followed closely by the Ameriquest defibrillator paddle commercial, and then the “Streaker.”