Saturday, August 23, 2003
Last night Kriss and I met James at Fazoli's for some dinner. Then we went to James' house to watch some tv and the Cardinals' preseason game against the Chicago Bears. The Cards won AGAIN. 3-0. Its going to be so tragic when they fail so miserably during the season.
Tonight is the Dave Gahan show at The Joint. I have a bad feeling its going to suck alot. But we'll see. Recap later....
- posted by Destral at 4:44 PM
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Another post from work...I'm sitting here while a giant collection of images are batch converted to appropriate thumbnail size.
Weekend was good.
Friday was the typical meet up with James, eat at Fazoli's, then go watch Stargate/Monk/other misc. stuff. Madden 2004 came out this week so I decided to rent it from Blockbuster and bring my Xbox over to James'. Madden 2004 is odd in the fact that while it is really fun to play, I am completely indifferent at the same time. Plus add in how the game absolutely hates me I'm not sure why I keep playing it. When I say the game absolutely hates me, I mean it. The game gives every fluke turnover and penalty to me. I lost 9 games in a row to James and most were by more then 30 points. I had 11 interceptions and 3 fumbles in one game and none of them were actually caused by James. I must have done something to anger the football gods. They must enjoy chortling at me.
Saturday I finally won a game of Madden. Barely. I ended up beating Kia twice on Sunday, but he did walk out of the endzone on the last play of the game to break the tie score and hand me the victory in the most stunning fuckup in all of video game sports history. It was classic. But then he did it in the next game as well only I was up by a few points. Anyhow, James ended up ditching us to go see a movie with Aimie *cough* *wheeze*. He did join Aaron, Ki, Jane (Janie?) and I at Outback later. Delicious stuff. Then it was just James and I again playing Madden 2004 and watching the Cardinals season go down the drains in preseason when Kyle Vanden Bosch went down with torn ligaments in his knee. Tragic. More football god chortling for us mocking the injury to Michael Vick.
Sunday Sunday Sunday! Blanking on what I did. Give me a minute. Ah yes, more Madden with James until we went to Fridays to eat with Ben, Jimmy, Kianoush, and Jamie Woodard. We sat there for like 5 hours. Then it was even more Madden with James and Kia (the aforementioned safety incident). Classic.
Monday was work. Then I went to see Freddy vs. Jason with Kriss. Wow, talk about a funny movie. It was hysterical. It was absolutely outstanding how funny it was. Not scary in the least, but tons of blood, boobies, and sexual innuendo. Goooooodd stuff!
Tuesday. Now. I still sit here. However I was up way earlier then normal because today is my Mom's birthday and she wanted to go to Boulder Station for breakfast. That early wakeup coupled with me staying out late last night with Kriss, does not make for an alert and awake me. I might end up playing Madden by myself tonight because it is due back tomorow by noon. Then again I might not play it ever again!
This weekend is the Dave Gahan show. I'm sure there will be a nice, long, and boring post about that soon enough.
One parting note taken from the great Greg Easterbrook, more commonly known as TMQ:
It's about time Canada became America's universal scapegoat, as the United States is already and has been for decades the scapegoat for anything Canada doesn't like.
Canada is a threat to all we hold dear. Consider that millions of Americans cannot subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket -- the product TMQ desires more than anything in life -- because they cannot or do not get the satellite signal of the Rupert Murdoch-owned DirecTV, which holds a monopoly over Sunday Ticket. Yet in Canada, anyone may subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket over cable. That's right, Canadians have much better access to the viewing of NFL games than Americans do.
We apologize for making Rupert your first photo in this week's TMQ.
Plus in Canada, marijuana is close to legal. Same-gender marriage is recognized. So all these gay married Canadians are sitting around smoking pot and watching NFL Sunday Ticket -- enjoying total access to games made possible by the tax dollars of Americans! -- while in the United States, you can only drink beer, marry someone of the opposite sex and watch whatever awful woofer game your local network affiliate has chosen for you.
- posted by Destral at 3:49 PM
