Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW is the hot chick from Destination Truth and SyFy's new show Fact or Faked:  Paranormal Files.  Her name is Jael de Pardo and apparently she is also on Current TV, which I do not believe is a real channel or show, or whatever it is. 

I first saw her on DT with old Josh Gates.  As most of you know, I am not a believer of paranormal crap, yet I love watching DT.  She was one of the many reasons the show was enjoyable.  She is hot, funny, and seemingly intelligent.  That is a huge turn-on.

3 Questions With Cory Giger

As I have said before, I enjoy Cory Giger's radio show and his new thing of asking three questions is pretty cool.  Yesterday he asked these questions and I wanted to answer them for the rest of you.

1.  What do you think of Cowboys rookie Dez Bryant refusing to take part in the typical rookie hazing of carrying another player's pads?

When I first tuned in, I did not know what Bryant refused to do aside from being hazed.  My initial thought was that it was something weird, like wearing a pink thong in the locker room.  Then, I realized they meant carrying pads.  

I do not think it really matters though, if he does not want to take part, that is his problem.  Granted, he better not cry when one of his teammates forgets to block for him and he gets crushed by some free safety.  He should have carried the pads and made jokes while doing it.  Mock them for being old.  Or if carrying Roy Williams pads, make a joke about not wanting Williams to drop them...Roy Williams is still a receiver on the Cowboys, right?


Maybe Bryant wants to turn things around for the Cowboys.  He is standing up against the old ways, which have not been so successful the last few years.  This is something that should have been handled inside the locker room or out on the practice field.  Unfortunately, these non-stories always end up becoming such a big deal.

2. How many games will Big Ben actually be suspended this season -- 4 or the full 6?

Ben will serve four games.  Unless he does something stupid in the next few weeks (always possible), he should be in the clear.

3.  Better actor/actress: Tom Hanks or Meryl Streep?

Cory decided to go with Meryl Streep, mainly because of her Oscar nominations and the fact that she has been in dramatic/comedic/whatever roles.  But, seriously, Tom Hanks all the way.  Have you seen Joe Versus the Volcano?  Greatest movie of all time.

I do agree with Cory that Hanks' performance in Cast Away was one of the greatest of all time, and from that I just cannot see what Streep has done that is better.  Plus, and this is going to piss off the feminists again, how many really good actresses are out there?  I mean, Streep gets nominated because they could not find anyone else...I know, it is sad, but true.

Anyways, Oscar nominations are like Gold Gloves.  They look great on a resume, but do they really prove how good you are?  As Robert Wuhl says:  "Ben Affleck has an Oscar, I shit you not!"

The Neutronium Alchemist

The second book in The Night's Dawn Trilogy, The Neutronium Alchemist picks up right where The Reality Dysfunction left off.  Fortunately, it does not have the slow beginning of having to explain who the characters are and where they came from.

Without getting into too much of a synopsis of the book, allow me to explain one of the best parts of the book.  The knowledge of the possessed has caused people to rethink their belief in the afterlife.  Religious folks (the Adamists) are starting to panic.  The afterlife means going to the beyond and suffering in purgatory.  The atheists (Edenists) see the possessed and wonder if they made the right decision.  They transfer their memories into their habitats, but now they have to wonder if that is the right choice, since they also have a soul.

As I read this I realized that this is how it would be here if somehow a god was proven to exist.  Atheists would look at the data and go "oh, I guess we were wrong."  Religious people though, would probably go to war with each other trying to prove which denomination was correct.  Just something I enjoyed.

Anyways, I am excited to see what this Sleeping God will end up being.  Also, I loved Syrinx's visit with the Kiint.  They are this super brilliant race, who have already survived their own Reality Dysfunction, yet they explain to us that they cannot help because every species must face this crisis on their own.

I think that after I finish the third book, I will do a casting call for some of the main characters...that is always fun.

Fantasy Baseball Week Sixteen

I lost to Gideon 7-4-1, which was not so bad, except that it dropped me to fifth place and I am very close to dropping to sixth place.  I just need to destroy Ryan this week and make myself feel much better.  Hopefully, my team decides to actually play well this week.

My pitchers finally decided to suck.  Only two freakin' wins, and one of them was from a closer.  Lincecum pitched well the other day, but did not pick up a win.  Same with R.A. Dickey.  It is actually extremely irritating watching your pitchers do well, but not get a win.

The bright is that Troy Tulowitzki will be back this week.  I do not expect huge things from him, but he has to be an upgrade over Mike Aviles.  Joey Votto had a huge week for me, 3 HRs and a .375 average.  That was about it though, everyone else sucked.  Okay not really, but Braun and Vlad will not have such crappy weeks, so I am okay with it.

This Week in TV

Mad Men
The season premiere started off a few months where we left last season.  SCDP (Sterling Cooper Draper Price) now has an office (they joke about the second floor to clients) and apparently Don has had some huge success with a new television ad.  He is kind of falling apart, he blows up at some clients.  He gives a crappy interview to an ad magazine and they lose another client.

His personal life is also looking pretty bad since he is sleeping with a hooker and wants her to smack him.  Roger sets him up on a date, which goes pretty well and the girl is definitely hot.  Roger had a great line about if the date goes well, maybe Don can stuff her Thanksgiving turkey.  Actually, Roger was hilarious all episode.  Don's interview was with a one-legged reporter, which Roger comments that they could not even send a whole reporter.

That moves us to Betty.  Ugh.  She is still a terrible mother.  At Thanksgiving dinner, she acts like a bitch because Sally is doing what small children normally do:  make a scene and act like monsters.  Granted, she is still smokin' hot and I cannot believe her new husband did not just jump her in bed.

Anyways, Sundays are a great night for TV, especially if you leave work and come home to a full DVR.

True Blood
There were so many great moments during this episode.  My favorite had to be Eric attacking the Queen and threatening to rip her head off.  In fact, Eric was awesome the entire episode.  I am excited to see how he deals with Russell.

It became pretty apparent that Sam's brother was being used in a dog fighting ring, which is an interesting story.  I guess.  Why do I get the sense that Sam will get there and feel the only choice he has is to go into the ring.  I think this will bring Sam and Tommy closer together though, which is good.

Tara smashing Franklin's head with a mace was pretty damn awesome.  I bet that turns him on.  He is such a crazy bastard, I love him and I really hope they do not get rid of him.  Seriously, a show about him traveling the country and being psychotic would be great.

Jason's storyline is pretty dumb.  It was creepy watching him threaten the high school QB.  Is the girl some kind of shifter or just a hillbilly sex toy?  I could do without the Lafayette/Jesus make-out session, Tara ripping out Franklin's throat or the whole Bill being tortured scene.

Hung
I have no idea why I watch this show.  There are usually some funny moments, but nothing hilarous.  Tonight's episode featured Mageina Tovah, who played Ursala from the Spider-Man movies.  She played some rich girl, who Ray got to bang for her birthday.  She made him sing happy birthday while they had sex. 

And yes ladies, I decided to be nice and post some pictures for you.  It will not happen very often.  So enjoy.

Girlfriend of the Week

This Sunday is the premiere of Mad Men season four, which I am pretty excited for.  If you are not a fan of the show, then you have no clue how many hot girls are in it.  This week's GOTW is Alison Brie.  She plays Pete Campbell's wife:  Trudy.  It is actually hard to tell how hot she is until you see some of these pictures.

Enjoy the show this weekend and enjoy the pictures.  Also there is a video of her, I have no clue what the video is for, but I like it.

Batman News

Last night while I was lying (or is it laying, I can never remember that rule) in bed, I started thinking about Batman 3 and who would be the villain.  When I wrote about it back then, the big rumor was Johnny Depp as the Riddler, which I just could not see.  Anyways, my thought last night was that Nolan would probably use someone from Inception.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt could work as the Riddler, but I could also see Nolan somehow using Tom Hardy as a villain.

I am not saying Hardy should be the Riddler, but after his performance in Inception, he should definitely be a villain.  He had the cool, charming, and also witty lines that would make him a fun bad guy. 

What kind of villain could he play though?  How about Deadshot?  I do not believe Floyd Lawton to be British, but whatever, that is a detail that could be overlooked.  It would definitely work if they did it where Deadshot is hired by someone, maybe the Riddler, to kill Batman.

Anyways, it is just a thought, but I can almost guarantee we see Hardy or Gordon-Levitt (or both) in the next Batman movie.

Inception

Aside from Iron Man 2, there has not been a movie that I was excited for this summer except for Inception.  I am sure that some of you have heard about this latest movie from Christopher Nolan, the guy who directed The Dark Knight.  The movie lived up to most of the hype.  As many people have said, it needed to do well so that studios would see summer blockbusters can have a story and make you think.

The plot is fairly straightforward:  Leonardo DiCaprio and his team go into people's dreams and usually steal secrets.  This time though, they are going inside a man's dream to plant a thought.  This is what they call inception.  The further into the dreamworld they travel, the harder it becomes to figure out what is real and what is a dream.  This is all interlaced with the mysterious past of Leo's wife.

The movie has that nice twist ending, like Memento or the Prestige.  As the movie ends, we see the top spinning that Leo uses to test reality, as it starts to wobble the movie ends leaving us wondering if it actually stopped spinning or if the entire thing was just some kind of dream.

I would imagine that people will debate whether or not this was a dream.  I can see message boards debating it for hours.  Did Leo actually win and make it home to his family or is he still stuck in the limbo of the dream?  I believe the top stopped spinning and that this world is the real one. 

I would also like to mention how much I like Ellen Page.  I first saw her in Hard Candy and was amazed by how good she was.  She was good in this movie as well.  Actually everyone was very good in this movie.  Anyways, let me know what you thought of the film.

Fantasy Baseball Week Fifteen

Even though it was a shortened week, it was great to actually get a win.  I beat Big Jacker 7-3, which keeps me in fourth place.  I will probably remain there the rest of the season, unless something drastic happens. 

Big Jacker is one of the people that likes to add and drop whatever pitchers are starting for the day.  As I have said before, this can be useful for gaining wins and strikeouts, but not good for WHIP/ERA.  Mainly because you are always picking up fourth and fifth starters.  We tied in wins with five, and my team pumped out 53 Ks to his 46, which is pretty damn awesome. 

My hitting was pretty unspectacular, but it was enough to win, so that is all that matters.  I am still in the market to trade a pitcher for a grade-A hitter.  I actually picked up Edinson Volquez and dropped Ricky Romero.  Romero was one of my nice pickups, but I think I may have gotten the majority of his quality starts.  Fangraphs predicts him to go 5-5 with 73 Ks for the rest of the year.  I did notice that Offord picked him up, so good luck to him I suppose.

Anyways, Volquez had a great first start.  Picked up a win, 9 Ks, and a 1.50 ERA/0.83 WHIP.  I doubt he pitches like this the rest of the year (although he does pitch in the NL Central, so he should face the Pirates a few times).

This Week in TV

I figured instead of writing about each television show I watch, it would be easier to just have a weekly write-up of some of the different shows that I enjoyed.

True Blood
We get to see the reason behind Eric's werewolf hatred.  Apparently they killed his family and most likely they were working on orders from Russell (Mississippi vampire king).  The reason it seems that way:  we learn that Russell has been working with werewolves wherever he lives and he also has Eric's father's crown.

I almost always hate Tara's storyline, but this season has been interesting.  Franklin cracks me up, he is the definition of batshit crazy.  His line about girls wanting to have that talk and then him seeing black and waking up next to a bunch of body parts was hilarious.

The Glades
I normally do not watch police shows, mainly because they are always the same.  Fortunately, this show is not so bad.  The main character is funny.  He is just a jerk and extremely annoying to everyone he encounters.  I love it.

Also, the show has my girl Kiele Sanchez.  She plays a nurse, studying to be a doctor.  She has a son and a husband who is in jail.  Jim is trying hard to bang her, as he should be, because she is hot...

Eureka
The fourth season has started off with a little time-traveling.  Carter, Allison, Henry, Jo, and Fargo all head back to the 1940s.  They find a way back, but some things have changed.  For instance, Allison's son no longer has autism or Fargo is in charge of Global Dynamic...

As this week's episode comes to an end, the five realize that they cannot fix the time-line and must adapt to these changes.  I just hope they continue with this and do not fix this problem anytime soon.  Like they did with the whole alternate future where Henry and Carter came back from...

Winter Is Coming

And this is the preview for something I am super excited for...

Girlfriend of the Week

Since last week's GOTW went over so well, I almost decided not to do one this week.  Then I realized that it is my blog and I will do whatever the hell I want.  Actually, this week's GOTW is someone my feminist fan-base can get behind:  Sephie of Meridian.  I realize that a comic book character from a failed publisher is probably not the best example, but allow me to explain.

Sephie is very attractive, but not really the ideal comic book girl.  She does not have huge boobs or a revealing costume.  In fact, she wears normal clothes, usually pants and a work shirt.  Of the Crossgen books, Meridian was one of my favorite, mainly because it was different.

So there ladies, if you want a nice positive role model, look at Sephie.  She helped save the universe (well maybe, no one really knows how things ended for the Crossgen Universe) and did it by using her wits and weird super powers granted to her by a god-like being...oh and just so you know, Crossgen had plenty of books with big breasted girls wearing very little clothing.

Hell, if you look at the cover over on the right, she is sitting there reading a book.  Do you realize how sexy I find that to be?  I do believe by this issue she was of the legal age (I think on Meridian the consent law is 16, not that I checked or anything).

See, I can be a sensitive person when it comes to gender equality...

The Last Airbender

I went to see The Last Airbender tonight and must say that it was umm, very interesting.  Actually it was pretty terrible.  The plot of the movie is pretty simple:  boy does not want to fulfill his destiny, but then realizes he needs to since everyone is dead because of him, so now he must master his powers to save the world.

It is a pretty stupid movie.  The acting is terrible, the CGI is lackluster, the story makes no sense.  This whole bender thing is just ridiculous.  Why do they have to use hardcore karate movies to make the elements do anything?  Naturally everyone has to wear the colors of their respective element tribe.  Also, no one uses their power to kill anyone simply.  Like an airbender should just suck the air out of someone's lungs or if a waterbender can form ice around people, why not just shoot an ice dart into their chest?  Just idiotic.

The entire time someone would mention a bender, it made me think of the greatest robot of all time:

Books Page

As some of you have noticed, I made some changes around here.  There was a problem with the template I was using, it made it way too difficult to actually add the new features that blogger keeps implementing.  You can now share my awesome posts on facebook, twitter, etc...

This also allowed me to move the pages bar to the top and add a page about books.  This page will be updated periodically.  It will just be a list of all the books I have ever read.  Or at least as many as I can remember reading.  At the moment it contains just the books here on my bookshelf.  I have also linked the books that I have written about.

I plan on including books that I have read for college courses.  I will only include the textbooks that I have read at least 75%, many of those books were read over and over for different classes, so I figure they should count.  If it is something I did not read completely, I will put an asterisk by it.

That brings me to the Bible.  I have definitely read more of it than most people.  In fact, if you can read Numbers and Leviticus you can pretty much sit through anything.  I took enough courses where we read a bunch of different books of the Bible, depending on the course focus.

Finally, if you want me to write about any book on the list, feel free to ask me.

This Should Go Over Well

Since I have pissed off the feminists, I figured a few funny videos would be appropriate...

Unfortunately I cannot find a video of George Carlin making his funny comments during his Feminist Blowjob joke.

It does not take a lot of imagination to piss off a feminist. All you gotta do is run into NOW headquarters or Ms. magazine and say, "hey, which one of you cute little cupcakes wants to come home and cook me a nice meal and give me a blowjob!"  Oh, that pisses them off. You want to piss off a feminist, call her a cum-catcher.

Fantasy Baseball Week Fourteen

Nothing like beating a guy 6-5, especially when that guy does not even check his team.  I almost lost to the last place guy because his pitchers decided to post up four wins, 3.21 ERA, and a .98 WHIP.  He almost beat me in saves as well.  His one closer almost had as many as my four...ridiculous.

Not much changes with the standings, Offord is still in first place, especially after Jason and Ryan tied 6-6.  At the moment I am in shortstop hell.  Mike Aviles had a .111 average this week and a .190 OBP.  I did pick up Troy Tulowitzki who is still on the DL, so I just need someone as a stopgap until he gets healthy. 

I am willing to trade some of my pitching, either a starter or a closer for a solid bat.  Someone with a high average would be nice.  I am willing to part with Lincecum or any of the closers.  Hopefully someone will jump on this for me...

Congratulations to David Dejesus, the only player to hit over .300 for the week.  This picture cracked me up and made me quite happy that DeJesus could hit well this week so I could use it...

Vacation Results Part 2

Remember last month when I was on vacation and I then told you all about it?  No??  Well here is a refresher.  I was on vacation again this week and you are all dying to know what I did for ten days.

Friday
Adam, Lora, and Lora's friend met me at work around 3:00 so we could leave and get down to the Pirates game.  We were in a hurry and wanted to get down there with enough time to tailgate for a bit.  That led me to not eat anything.  Bad move.

We got there around 5:30 and immediately found everyone.  We started drinking immediately and playing ladder ball.  Adam and I pretty much sucked at it, we lost four games in a row.  Oh well though, we won the final game which we had bet on.  The losers had to buy our beers inside the stadium.

We head inside and get to our seats.  I am already starting to get a nice buzz.  Adam grabs me nachos and a beer.  The game is awesome, the Pirates beat the Phillies 2-0.  I wish I had known it was WHYGAVS night at the park, I would have stopped over.  After a few too many beers though, I really do not remember much of the game. 

Except for the one girl's boyfriend getting a bloody nose when we first went in.  No one seemed to even care.  Adam actually jumped up and grabbed some sani-wipe from a food vendor.  He responds well to an emergency.

We leave the game and go to this one girl's place that we are spending the night.  We find out that we do not have enough time to get showered or anything.  While the girls get ready, Adam and I head across the street to a shitty bar (we are staying in McKees Rocks...enough said) and decide to play darts.  We head to some club in Station Square and I proceed to get really drunk.

Back at the girl's apartment, I decided to take my contacts out, but I never made it that far.  Instead I passed out on the bathroom floor.  Way to go moron.

Saturday
We get up and go for breakfast.  Then on the way home, I get a speeding ticket.  Actually the nice officer only gave me a failure to obey traffic signs.   That reminds me though, I need to pay the fine tomorrow.  Once I got home, I relaxed on the couch all night.  I had to meet Imler in the morning because we were going to the Pirates game.

Sunday
I must have been extremely tired because I slept through three alarms and Jason calling me.  Yeah, that takes some talent.  I wake up and get to Altoona about an hour late.  We make great time and should get there about thirty minutes early.  Should being the operative word.  Traffic getting into the stadium was insane (I never drive down to games, since we always take the bus from Steve's place).

It takes way too long to get inside, where Offord is waiting for us.  This game ended up being amazing.  Probably one of the best games I have been to in years.  They were down 5-2 in the 7th inning.  Pedro Alvarez led off with a monster home run.  The Buccos then scored five more runs and won the game 8-5.  I cannot remember the last time I was at a game where they came back and batted around in an inning. 

We head back and I give Adam a call.  Turns out he has to work Monday morning (he must have been one of like ten people who had to work).  He says that Lora is going up to Osceola.  She then gets a hold of me and says they will pick me up soon.

Once at the Hotel, the beer begins to flow like honey (is that the saying? and what does that even mean, have you ever seen honey, it does not really flow all that fast...).  It ends up being a pretty fun night, and sadly nothing of importance happened.  Aside from great conversation and seeing a bunch of good people.

Monday Through Friday
The entire week was pretty uneventful.  I basically relaxed and watched a ton of television.  I watched the entire third season of Mad Men and the first season of Sons of Anarchy.  I also watched a few movies.  It was actually a great time.  Last vacation was spent going places, this time was spent just doing nothing.  And going out drinking. 

Saturday
I woke up and went over to Adam's place to watch the Philipsburg Heritage Days Parade.  Yeah, it was as lame as it sounds.  Fortunately there was beer, which it is always a good idea to start drinking around one.  Adam was actually not around, so I drank with his roommate Jarrod.  He and I went to this party, which could have been cool, but we did not stick around.  Instead we headed to State College with some hot girls.

We started out at Sharkies, where Jarrod and I lost at pool to a couple of guys who were irritating.  They were playing ball-in-hand, yet they just kept on shooting after the one guy hit made a shot that he did not call.  That makes me angry.  At the bar, there was some dude with an annoying laugh hitting on one of the girls.  So I started doing what I do best:  lie.  I said that we were twins.  We look nothing alike.  I also just kept making shit up and this dude was buying it.  He was pissed when he found out I was lying.  In fact, he was so pissed that he left the bar.

Sunday
I woke up with a hangover and have to listen to some kind of closing ceremony for Heritage Days.  Definitely not what I wanted to listen to in the condition I was in.  I decided to just go back to sleep.  I spent the rest of the day doing nothing (and loving it) and then I watched True Blood and Hung on HBO.  I caught the premiere of the new cop show on A&E The Glades.  I am not usually a cop show fan, but this one could be pretty good.  The main character is pretty funny.  It also stars my girlfriend:  Kiele Sanchez

It was nice being off for ten days, but now I am ready to go back to work. 

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW is Jordan Hinson.  You may have seen her on Eureka or maybe not.  I am probably one of the only people out there that enjoys the show.  I realize she is not super hot or anything, but she has something...especially on the show.  She is just cute and spunky.  I like that...

She is nineteen, so she is legal.  That makes me happy since I am not a pedophile or anything.  Seriously.

She has small breasts, but there is nothing wrong with that.  Or nothing wrong with a boob job.  She does have a fantastic ass...

Super Excited

I know that some of you did not enjoy Prince Caspian, but I did and since this is my blog...well you can lick my nuts.  Anyways, I thought they were not going to make any more of these movies because of monetary issues.  I am pumped about seeing this in December...

Mad Men Season Three

I kept putting it off, but yesterday I finally went out and picked up Mad Men season three.  Needless to say, I watched most of it last night and finished it this afternoon.  It was absolutely amazing.  A quick review of what happened during this season:

-A man loses his foot in a lawnmower accident at the office:  Roger makes great jokes.
Kinsey:  He might lose his foot.
Roger:  Right when he got his foot in the door.

Roger:  In this business, this has definitely happened before.

Also, the Brits who act appalled because he is losing his foot and will not be able to golf again.  Absolutely hilarious.

-The agency gets sold again and by the end of the season, Cooper, Sterling, Draper, and Pryce have decided to start their own agency.  They leave and bring Harry, Peggy, and Pete with them.  Bringing Pete was one of my favorite parts of the season. 

Pete is the character we love to hate.  Yet, he is good at his job and his need for approval from Don makes him valuable to Don.

-This season caused me much hatred for Betty Draper.  She is such an idiot at times and such a shitty mother.  The whole childish crap with her dad and brother made me angry.  The way she acted about Sally pissed me off.  Then she uses Don's false identity to justify her wanting to go screw the other guy.  Don was right, she is a whore.

-I wonder with Betty out of the picture, will Don continue to seek out women who are so unlike him.  Remember, season one it was Midge, season two it was the girl from California, and this season was Suzanne.  All of them were free-spirited and completely opposite of Don. 

-Speaking of Don Draper, what were the quotes like this season?  Fantastic.  Here are a few from him (and a few from Roger as well).

Don:  People may see things differently, but they don't really want to.

Don: This is your brother. We don't know who he is yet, or what he's gonna be. And that is a wonderful thing.

Roger: I watched the sunrise today. Couldn't sleep.
Don: How was it?
Roger: Average.

Don: Change isn't good or bad. It just is.

Needless to say, I am pumped for the season four premiere.  Expect a post about each episode

A Little About Me

Yesterday I was having breakfast (well breakfast for me, dinner for anyone else that did not stay up for 27 hours watching season one of Sons of Anarchy and the Mad Men season one marathon).  We were having a fairly normal conversation when she asked me a question:  do I wish things had turned out different?  I have a feeling she meant in our relationship, but I started thinking about it in the more broader spectrum.

The answer is no.  I like the way things have went in my life.  The problem with thinking about how things could be different is that no one ever thinks about what else could have changed.  Without getting into too many details, let me just say that some of the bad decisions, have helped shape the good decisions.

And then I started thinking about my relationship with Kacie.  I do not wish things were different, but I do wish certain aspects of my personality were different.  I wish that I had been able to make changes.  Sadly, I did not, and I probably never will.  Instead I will now make fun of myself for the rest of you to read.

1.  Selfish
I am a very selfish person.  If I do not want to do something, that is it.  For the entirety of our relationship Kacie asked me, no wait, begged me, to go snowboarding.  Just give it a try she would say.  She begged me.  And my answer was always no.  A better man would have tried it.

Kacie on the other hand, was a selfless person.  She would give anything a chance.  She started watching baseball, specifically the Pirates.  She started reading comics...


2.  Stubborn
I am also a very stubborn person (it is a Croyle flaw).  Obviously from the above, you can see that I have a tendency to be stubborn.  I am also stubborn when it comes to ideas.  Sometimes it is a good thing, like if I get something in my head, I do not stop until it is complete.  Sadly though, sometimes it can be a problem.

3.  Argumentative
This is sometimes a good quality.  In fact, some people find it attractive, especially when they think I am passionate about something.  Unfortunately, there are times when I like to argue just for the sake of arguing.  If a girl tells me that the sky is blue, I will argue to death that the sky is a light green.

So to answer the question, yes there are things that I would change.  Not actual events, but instead my own personality defects.  Well this is the worst post ever.  I apologize.  And I hope that none of you jump to idiotic conclusions about this post.

Fantasy Baseball Week Thirteen

AHHHHHH!!!!!  This is the shitty thing about a head-to-head league:  you can have a great team and still lose each week.  I started out this week beating the crap out of Happy Valley Swagger and then as the weekend came, I could see my lead diminishing.

Needless to say, I lost 7-2.  I do not even want to talk about any of the categories.  It really pisses me off.  I need to destroy Singer this week or I might have a nervous breakdown. 

Andrew Bailey was about the only player worth talking about...screw the rest of 'em.

Girlfriend of the Week

Since this weekend is the 4th of July, I figured I would go with a patriotic GOTW.  I then realized the Statue of Liberty is not very sexy.  It occurred to me that Wonder Woman is kind of patriotic, I mean she wears red, white, and blue...well she used to.  Granted, she is from some hidden island of Amazonian women and she is basically like ancient Greek or something (yes, I know her origin, but do any of you actually care?), but she helps defend this wonderful country from all sorts of threats...like Darkseid...

Anyways, have a happy 4th of July!  I will be at the Pirate game, but then I should be home in the evening.  I am on vacation, so feel free to get a hold of me.

What do you think of the new costume?  I kind of like it.  I mean the old one is iconic, but this one is a bit more practical.  Sadly though, it will last for about a month and then DC will change it back because fans will have a heart attack. 

Hahahaha

Happy Birthday Sam Raimi from James Franco from James Franco

Since most of you are in severe pain from thinking about those extremely difficult MindTrap questions, I figured a funny video would help.  This was actually better than Spider-Man 3...

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We might as well try some more of the questions from everyone's favorite game:  MindTrap.  I went through about sixty cards before I found these seven that were worth using.  This game must have really sucked...

1.  There was an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the "International Home Show".  One of them was the father of the other one's son.  How could this be possible?

2.  King Tut died 120 years after King Eros was born.  Their combined ages when they died was 100 years.  King Eros died in the year 40 B.C.  In what year was King Tut born?

3.  Hardy Pyle was bragging about his church's baseball team.  He said, "Three of our players hit home runs and two of those home runs were hit with the bases loaded.  Our guys won 9 to 0 and not a single man crossed home plate."  How was this possible?

4.  Professor Quantum has two coins which total 35 cents.  Since one of the coins is not a dime, what are the two coins?

5.  A worm is at the bottom of a forty meter hole.  It can crawl upwards at the rate of four meters in one day, but at night, it slips back three meters.  At this rate, how long will it take the worm to crawl out of the hole?

6.  It takes six men six days to dig six holes, how long will it take one man to dig half a hole?

7.  Often talked of, never seen,
Ever coming, never been,
Daily looked for, never here,
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for it's visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Tho' they me to appear,
They will never find me here.

What is the poem about?

There was only one of these I did not get.  Mainly because I did not take the time to think it through.  Good luck to all...