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Prom Night was pretty good. It was typical 'crazy person kills teens' movie with a few twists and turns here and there. It was rated PG13, so there was none of the usual 80's slasher film TnA. Still, some of the stereotypes were there. The dumb girl with big boobs was killed first, the girl that was about to screw her boyfriend was killed, and the main character was saved at the last minute. It was a little scary here and there. It was worth the watch.

I don't remember if I mentioned, but when I was at Sears picking up a new lawn mower, my van was clipped by a big ass truck. Granted, I was parked in from of the store waiting for the mower to be loaded (there was no loading zone, but the guy was in a big ass truck and was trying to get passed me and an oncoming car. There just wasn't the room. Personally, if I don't KNOW that I have enough room to get buy, I wait. Apparently, this guy was in more of the "I can make it." mind set. I guess he was in too much of a hurry to wait 30 seconds. Now my car has a nice big dent.

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I got a call from Herb yesterday. Quite a suprise, since I haven't heard from him in a while. We wanted me to pass the word that he and his wife had another kid. A boy this time. This makes 4.

I got my ass handed to me all night in poker again. My cards just aren't hitting. I did get quads one (four of a kind) but was only able to win $10 out of the hand. It would have been better if there were more people in the hand and someone else had a pair, giving them a full house. Oh well. Life goes on.

Jessica and I are going out tonight. We are going to the Movie Tavern to see Prom Night. It looks like a slasher film. Could be good. Jessica wanted to see it because there are so few 'good slasher movies' out there anymore. It was a toss up between that and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I think it looks funny. I will let you know how Prom night is. It has that cutie from American Dreams and John Tucker Must Die, Brittany Snow. OK, she is pretty hot in that picture, not just cute.

I also started a new NCAA 08 football season. It's been a while since I've played it. I decided to try to get a Heisman Trophy using Hawaii and their quarterback. Basically, pass a lot and all of my run plays are the qb as well. I got an achievement for over 350 passing yards in one game. The Xbox automatically pulled my QB and put in the second stringer. It was fun. I smell Heisman!

Various posts

I've been neglecting my blog. Sorry. I just haven't really been too into it, I guess.

-I am trying to play some cards tonight. I haven't won playing cards for a while. Terrible luck and, let's face it, bad card playing. Hopfully things turn around for me tonight.

-I really would like to become more of a baseball fan. Specifically, a Cleveland Indians fan. I was really into their play off run last year, but for some reason, I just can't get into the regular season. When you can say something like, "The Indians are 2 games below .500 with only 114 games to go." you know that the season is just too long. At least thatis my opinion. The people I really can't understand are these guys that play fantasy baseball. Who has time to track all of those stats? I don't. I think that my baseball fan status will have to be limited to checking out the scores on Sports Center.

-I was really disappointed with one of my NetFlix picks that I watched this week. It was a Simpsons compilation called Bart Wars. It shows a picture of homer and Bart in the Luke/Vader get ups crossing light sabers. I thought that maybe it was a Star Wars spoof, ala Family Guy's Blue Harvest, or at least some episodes with Star Wars references. I was wrong. I guess that's what I get for adding a DVD to my queue without reading the explaination. the DVD was only a set of four episodes with little to do with Star Wars. There was one episode that had Star Wars references, but the rest were old shows that I had seen and were second rate at best. Oh well. You live and you learn.

-I want to go on record that I STILL love my DVR. Last night we watched Grey's Anatomy while recording CSI and then watched CSI while recording Lost and ER. AWESOME!

Jumping the Shark?

Jump the Shark: When the Fonz went water skiing and jumped a shark, it was considered the moment in Happy Days that the show was coming to an end. Has my two favorite shows, Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who jumped their sharks? I have written about these shows often. I love them, have loved them since they started. However, the debut of Dr Who and the beginning episodes of the last season of BSG have been kind of weak.

BSG - I thought that, since we are in the last season, we would be getting answers and the story line would start to progress. Instead, we are getting weak subplots that are taking the show in weird directions. Apparently, Baltar is some religious vessel and hot girls are hiding him in a 'secret' room on Galactica, Apollo wants to be a political pain in the ass of the president, instead of a kick ass viper pilot, and we needed a whole episode to show that at least one of the new Cylons is a murderous bitch. Oh, and Calli can't hold her breath in space. The one saving grace so far has been all of the Cylon in fighting. It has been interesting and had a few suprises here and there. Other than that, this season has been kind of boring.

Dr. Who - I wasn't too thrilled with the season debut of Dr Who. It was an hour and a half long, instead of the normal hour episodes. It was pretty weak. Robots reprogrammed to kill instead of help people. I think they used that plot already. And why are all of the season debuts of Dr Who taking place on Christmas Day? I guess they are trying to show a linear progression of time somehow, but I don't see why when time travel is one of the show's cornerstones. They also seem to be trying to make the David Tennant Dr Who all bad ass. "I'm the Doctor and I'm the one that is going to save you. Any questions?" That may not be the exact quote, but it is close.

I am not going to stop watching these shows, but I hope they get better soon.

How they have fallen

I just saw a commercial for the new Speed Racer movie. The first time I saw a preview/trailer for Speed Racer, I thought it looked retarded. Yes, I watched Speed Racer when I was knee high to a grasshopper, but I have NO craving what-so-ever to see this movie. What makes me sad is that the commercial said that Speed Racer is from the makers of the Matrix. I LOVED the Matrix. How can you make a kick ass movie and then stoop to a corney kid film? Maybe I need to see more before I judge, but I prefir to jump to conclusions in this case.

Hey, did anyone see Cloverfield? It is coming out on DVD next week. I added it to my NetFlix queue. Is it worth the watch?

Starting to get that Football feelin'

Although it is only April, and there is still about five months before the OSU football season officially kicks off, I am already starting to get the OSU Football jones. Probably because the Spring Game is this Saturday. I don't kow if we will be going to the game, but it officially indicates the start of the 2008 season. It is the first taste of the football team as they shake the winter rust off and prepare for another run to the National Title. Honestly, I think it is going to be a great season this year. The Buckeyes only lost four or five starters, so they are basically fielding the same team that went to the title game last year. This is the season that they were suppsed to go to the title game. Last year was supposed to be a 'rebuilding season'.

Another thing that is exciting is that Ohio State signed the top ranked QB prospect, Terrelle Pryor. It was between Penn State, M*ch*g*n, and the Buckeyes. People are already compating him to Vince Young. He is big, fast, and has a cannon for an arm. He never had any real competition in highschool, so going to the college ranks could be a shocker to him. I saw an interview and he seemed pretty full of himself. I am hoping that we don't have another Clarette on our hands. One good thing is that I think he wears number 13, so if he lives up to the hype, I won't have to hear anymore Clarette comments when I wear my number 13 jersey.

Big games of note: at USC, at Wisconsin, Penn State, at Illinois, and M*ch*g*n. The biggest challenge will probably be the game against the Trojans. I remember the home/away series against Texas a few years ago. It was a great series.

For You, Betsy

A while back when I was asking what movies I should add to my NetFlix queue, Betsy asked me to review There Will Be Blood. I had seen commercials and thought that the movie lookes interesting, so I added the movie to my list. It arrived yesterday and I watched it today. Honestly, it was nothing at all like I thought it would be. The previews I have seen made the film look like an old Western movie. I was expecting shoot outs, stage coach chases, you get the meaning. Although this movie was based in the west, it revolved around the big oil rush to Texas. No shoot outs, no chases. Daniel Dey Lewis played the main character, who was an oil prospector that hit it rich. If you remember Gangs of New york, Daniel Day Lewis played the leader of the racist gang and was a real bastard. He is kind of a bastard in this movie too. Although, I won't be buying the film to watch over and over, I somewhat enjoyed the movie. It was very well acted and there were some very engrossing scenes. I guess if you are interested in this film, be wary that it may not be what you expected. Still, entertaining. It is long though, almost three hours. There are some slow spots, but not enough to really turn me off to the movie. I may even watch it again if Jessica wants to watch it tonight or tomorrow.

It Didn't Go Well

Monday and Tuesday I was in Indiana playing cards at Caesar's Casino. I would love to say that I played brilliantly and hit all sorts of hands. It wasn't so. I got OK hands and played them poorly. On top of that, when I got killer hands, I would always get a bad beat. It was terrible. I have never had such piss poor luck when it comes to cards. Examples:

1. I was dealt two kings. That is the second best starting hand in Texas Hold'em. I played them, bet a lot of money, and got my ass handed to me by someone that had pocket aces. The best starting hand.

2. I hit a jack high straight on the river, giving me the best possible straight. Unfortunately, the jack was a spade, giving someone else a flush. A flush beats a straight.

3. THE WORST HAND OF THE TRIP: I was dealt two queens. I bet, was raised, I called. The person betting me had Ace-King of clubs. The flop came up 2, 4, 5 which was OK, except that there were two clubs. So, he needed an Ace, King, any club for a flush and a three for a straight. That makes 17 cards in the deck that will win the hand for my opponent. The turn card came up a 9 of hearts. Then the three of diamonds came on the river. I could have lived with an Ace, a King, or a diamond, but for the lowest possible straight to come on the board was just PAINFUL. It was the last hand I played for the whole trip. I figured that the poker gods were set against me and I needed to cut my losses.

I did play a few other fun games. I didn't win anything, but it was fun. There was Carribean Stud Poker, where you get five cards and try to beat the dealer's five cards. There are also bonuses when you hit big hands. There was a jackpot of about $52000, and if you hit a royal straight flush, you would win the jackpot. It was fun. We played three card poker too, which is similar. Actually, I just watched that. We played blackjack as well, and the bealer was being brutal. When we would hit 20, she would hit 21. The worst was when she had a 6, which is a great card for the dealer to have. It is easy for the dealer to bust. She then dealt herself a five and a ten....21. We walked away from that table. All in all, it was fun. The dealers were nice and helped if you didn't understand the games.

We Are the Champions

You 2008 NIT National Champions: THE Ohio State Buckeyes!!!

Is a national champion still a national champion even if they won the consolation tournament? Last night Ohio State proved that they are the best of what's left by winning the NIT title. I would be excited by this, but really, who cares about the NIT? On one hand, it is a title, and Ohio State may hang a banner in their arena, but on the other hand, there are basically 65 teams that the powers that be thought were better than the Buckeyes. Otherwise, wouldn't they have been invited to the NCAA Tournament? Screw that! We are the Champoins! WOO HOO. We Buckeye fans need SOMETHING to hang our hat on after all of the big games we have lost in the past few years. In reality, if they had gone to the 'Big Dance' they would most likely have been bounced out by the second round.

You would think that the NIT champ would then go on to better things, but out of the last four NIT champs, only one has gone to the NCAA tourney, one went back to the NIT, and the other two (including M*ch*g*n) did not go to any tournament. I doubt that will be the case, seeing as how OSU is getting a seven footer that would go to the NBA, if not for the new rule requiring all NBA players to go to their first year of college.