Ramblings...

Welcome back everybody. Let's see who fed it and who ate it this week...

For the past two years, I have correctly predicted the winner of the Miss Teen USA Pageant. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but either way I kinda feel like a pederass. Miss Oregon, the dark horse, took the 2003 contest, while Miss Louisiana claimed victory in 2004. I watched with Sami Bull, while Radochia watched from NJ and fed us his comments via IM. Lowpoints in the contest had to be performances by JC Chasez and Brandy. As Rads pointed out, Weird Al must have been busy...

The high point of the evening had to be the Q&A with the five finalists. This is where Miss Louisiana truly shined. At this point it looked like Miss Hawaii or Miss Nevada could walk away with the title. And then they spoke. When asked who her personal hero was, Miss Nevada said it was her brother, who is currently serving in the Air Force, because, and I quote, "he's putting his line on the life for us." There was about five seconds of silence in my room, followed by the eruption of laughter. Sami Bull started drinking Tanqueray from the bottle. None of us could believe she actually said that. I wish I could say it ended there, but it got worse. In the second round of questioning, Nevada was asked what her favorite book was, to which she replied "The Great Gapspy." We all needed a drink. I think at this point, her parents left the building and went looking to buy her a pair of clear heels. That question took her out of the money, leaving a tight race between Hawaii and Louisiana.

Hawaii ate it during the second round of questioning. When asked what she would like to work with the government to change, she said she wanted to work with the FDA to help get rid of fast food because, "I'm like addicted to fries." That's not gonna win it. Thanks for playing.

Some comments from Mr. Radochia during the Pageant...
-- "that one looks like a retarded Mariah Carey"
-- "they are all hot, watching stuff like this frustrates me because I know that they will be fucking morons and not me all at once like they should"
-- "think she's hiding a huge ass under that large skirt?"

Old School SportsCenter is all the rage! There's nothing like the Kilborn-Patrick duo, who set the precedent for all those who follow. "Crackatoa! East of Java!" "He's not my Vydas. He's not your Vydas. He's Arvydas!" "Jumanji!" ESPN really needs more Kenny Mayne and far less Stuart Scott. I think it's one of two things with Stu: either (1), ESPN is deathly afraid that he will play the race card, or (2) nobody can actually look him in his lazy eye to tell him how much he sucks.

Imagine if they had with Old School Miss Teen USA...how many former contestants would be on the pole?

Phil and Sean came up last weekend for a visit. Shmitty is a gamer, but Phil can't drink for shit.

I finally saw American Wedding and was actually surprised at how funny it was...

Mr. Goldstein returns to Boston for the weekend. Guaranteed good times for all. It's gonna be really hard to say goodbye to him and Gaines...

With only a few minor touch ups left, the Year End Video is nearly complete and the working copy has been extremely popular thus far. Yet no matter how many times Seed and I watch it, we end up getting sad and start drinking...

Song of the moment: Counting Crows, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," This Desert Life, 1999
If dreams are like movies, than memories are films about ghosts...

I'm now entering my last week in Boston. To say that I'm "sad" is an understatement. But as they say, "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'"...

The Random Shout Out for the week goes to Mr. Seth Leavitt, COM Grad, Fenway Security extraordinaire. Seth hooked us up with some incredible seats down the first base line for today's matinee against the Devil Rays. Then, we hopped onto the field for a quick photo with him. Thanks again Seth, the "other" DH on Team WTBU. Best of luck, kid...

"Yo! Yo Rey! Rey! Rey Sanchez!"
"Yo, what's up man?"
"Not much, man! Good job!" -- Dan's encounter with Rey Sanchez after the game. Rey was just happy that someone recognized him. Don Zimmer was less than cordial however...

"Hey Tino! Can I get a picture? Thanks man! Big fan, big fan!" -- my encounter with Tino Martinez after the game. Class act all the way...

Lenny Clarke was definitely shitfaced when he was in the NESN booth with Denis Leary during Wednesday night's Sox game...

Hopefully the Madden Curse will strike again this year. Ray Lewis needs to go. Aside from the fact that he's a card-carrying Blood, he does his stupid fucking Riverdance-esque jig before every game. Fuck him...maybe he'll stab someone else...

Goodfellas: Special Edition comes out on DVD this week. No more flipping the dvd over in the middle of the movie!

UPS sucks. "Go Brown" is what their commercials say. Yeah, brown because they're shit. Two days in a row they fucked up the delivery of my Marx Brothers DVD set. I paid for 2nd Day Air shipping, which meant the package was supposed to arrive on Monday. It didn't come until Wednesday. TWICE they put it on the wrong truck. Once is just an unfortunate accident. Twice is just a total fuck up. I got a call from one of the managers at the local UPS center on Tuesday night saying that it was again placed on the wrong truck. She said she had it in her hand and asked if I would like to come and pick it up. UPS is a delivery service. I shouldn't have to come and pick up my package. You fucked up...you figure it out.

But then again, what do I know?