Moneyball! makes even old people care about baseball. At the showing, the old people liked the game. They seemed to cheer for a game that was played years ago. And that's the magic of Moneyball!, it made baseball slightly relevant again.
Of course, I was going to watch Moneyball! because I'm a baseball jones. As the Orioles wind down another losing season, we can only hope that the new O's GM can find some magic and breathe life into a moribund organization. I said it once I have to say it again, "There's rock bottom, then fifty feet of crap, and then there's [the A's]." They're being held up by the Orioles.
Hopefully, this movie will make our ownership decide to try and find a system to get out of this losing. Or inspire baseball players to go all OBP on us. The Orioles need the players to stop giving up outs. Earl Weaver, we need your guidance!
Anyhow, Jonah Hill plays it straight. Brad Pitt does a Brad Pitt move. It's great that the A's have won something. Now when will the O's.
The movie bloggers I followed have given good reviews to Drive. I guess I had better go and check it out.
It's about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for thieves. He's a good driver so that makes him a good getaway driver.
The movie opens with a heist. Our driver is waiting for the thieves to get out to make their getaway. It doesn't go off smoothly so we are treated with a driving spectacle. Except, after 5 minutes he kind of gives up. I want to know what happened.
This opening hints at what you'll go through watching Drive. You'll be thrilled at times, but then you'll want to know WTF.
The movie reminds me of To Live and Die in LA. Moody LA. LA of the night. LA of the 80s.
There's some violence and gore. What's a heist movie without violence. When its knife violence, I can do without.
I like blondes when they have short hair. Carey Mulligan's hair was slightly too short, but I still found her cute.
If the baseball season ended today, the Orioles will have won 67 games which is one more than they did last year. Yet, they still have 3 games left. If they run a 3 game winning streak, they'll get to 70 games for the first time in years.
They are playing the hated Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox may be on their way to the post season. They have a one game lead on the Tampa Bay Rays for the wild card spot.
The Rays are relying on the Orioles to get them into the post season. Good luck on that. Your humble author has followed this Orioles team all season and they are only good at one thing: crushing your hopes. I can't believe that they'll win a game against Boston, and I can't believe they'll spoil the Red Sox's fun. But if they do...
UPDATE: Orioles down 2-1 in 6th. They keep disappointing all year. What makes you think they'll be any different today?
UPDATE 2:Top of the 7th Orioles clinging to a 6-2 lead. #theLegendOfBobbyAndy hitting a 3 run inside the park homer. Perhaps I should've went to the game tonight.
I can't find this DVD at Best Buy. It was released this week and even its BlueRay isn't in Best Buy. Disintermediation sucks. I guess we'll find it on Amazon. Funny thing is I've already have the torrent.
Fuck. I love this song. The video? Not so much. I selected it because of the other ones on YouTube don't have that weird stuff popping out of the piano. Okay, it's pretty weird.
Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr Glass.
I can do that
Do you see any Teletubbies in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Do you see a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside on a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well, that's what you see at a toy store. And you must think you're in a toy store, because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb.
Are you ready for the truth?
Now that there is the Tec-9, a crappy spray gun from South Miami. This gun is advertised as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little book that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they're actually proud of that shit.
We happy?
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.
Woke up to this in my in box: Netflix is splitting the DVD service completely from its streaming service. This is its first steps into selling the DVD distribution off to some sucker. I still like getting DVDs. The streaming service lacks because it is missing content. It's gonna be even trickier in the future as content makers can just create their own service removing the Netflix middle man. The future is even more uncertain. Thanks disintermediation!
In the last week, the Orioles have shown that they are not gonna roll over. Their season may be over, but they've played the Yankees strong, halted the Rays' momentum, and have put some hurt into the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's playoff chances. They've got some good pitching and have knocked the hell out of the ball.
I'm really hoping that they turn it on against the hated Red Sox. I dream that they're the ones responsible for the Sox getting bounced out of the playoffs.
I haven't finished out the "Gabe at the Park posts." Here he's trying to catch batting practice flies. He's not in position. It takes a special person to figure out how to snag a homer.
Replace Houston with Baltimore in today's link and you'll have the story of the Orioles. Except in this case the O's never got to the World Series in the last 30 years, and they never had a winning season in 14 years. Plus, they haven't produced a star out of their farm system since Cal Ripken, Jr. For all this talk about Houston being rock bottom, let me paraphrase Brad Pitt from the soon to be released movie, Moneyball: there's rock bottom, then there' fifty feet of crap, and then there's [the A's], and then there's the Orioles.
Contagion will freak you out about germs, viruses, the flu, HIV, venereal diseases, and almost anything contagious. It'll scare you.
I didn't know this was a Soderbergh movie.
I liked how clinical this movie was. This is the virus. This is the patient. These are the victims. They're all dead. You couldn't sympathize with anyone, because you had to sympathize with everyone.
I should contribute my collection of boxes of OS X from panther to snow leopard. Or maybe, if CapitolSwell didn't toss it the PowerBook 140 and the Apple ][e!
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark won't keep me up at night. While certainly spooky at times, it's frights never materialized to made me admonish myself to "not be afraid of the dark." Of course, on occasion, I got goosebumps, but that's just because it was cold in the theatre. I didn't even have to hide behind the bill of my cap.
The movie was produced and written by Guillermo del Toro. The monsters were faeries like the ones found in del Toro's adaption of Hellboy. If you think this spoils the movie for you, then you've got to watch to see how they spook out the house owners.
The new owners of the condemned house are a couple of nitwits. Guy Pearse is starting to corner the spineless asshole parts. Katie Holmes didn't have much to say except be the non-sceptic in the house. The young daughter gets them into trouble, first by coming into their home, then unknowingly unleashing the darkness.
If you have faeries swarming about you, you start sweeping the legs and start sweeping the ground around you. Boot them about!
Not scary enough, but worth a look on a cold winter's night.
The legend of pretend anchorman started back in high school. We would be drinking 40s of Colt .45, passing the bottle around until it was done. You can only get through 2 of those before you want to throw up except you had bought four. The only way to finish those 40s is to play pretend anchorman. Just pass one bottle around until you kill it. No different from earlier in the night except for there is no stopping the bottle going around and around. Pretend anchorman is just a chugfest.
Today's link will show you how to play the real anchorman drinking game. I think the pretend anchorman is more fun.
The Thing (2011) is coming! So is @M_E_Winstead. I wonder, when viewing the trailer, you get that Ripley feeling. O, Mary Elizabeth, can you kick alien ass as great as Ms. Weaver.
Had a blast at the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix. Although, we were there on the Saturday and just watched the American Le Mans, it was still fun. If you go next year, get the 2 day pass so that you can wander around on the Saturday and watch the grand prix on the Sunday. There's just too much to do for one day. If you do something, you'll miss the races, and if you watch the races, you'll miss the stuff to do.
Apple was down in the dumps in the early 00s that in 2001, I remember their stock at $12. This is even after Apple came back with the bondi blue iMac. The company was working, but they were still getting worked. Now look at them. A juggernaut. This is what Steve Jobs left behind.
”The voluptuous pleasure that cycling can give you is delicate, intimate and ephemeral. It arrives, it takes hold of you, sweeps you up and then leaves you again. It is for you alone. It is a combination of speed and ease, force and grace. It is pure happiness.”
Jean Bobet about La Volupté, "Demain, en Roule (Tomorrow, We Ride)"
The quote does not come from this episode, but since I found that you can emed hulu. This may just become "quote the episode that you're watching month." Enjoy. (This is my favorite episode.)
I've been doing this since 2004. I only do it one month a year. I've got about 200 entries. I can't believe I'm doing it again!
Here we are the start of NewsRadio Quote Month, and I'd like to share the Link of the Day with you of a blog purported to have NewsRadio quotes. It's got 'em, but only a months worth. For one year. Back in 2008. They did a flurry of posts, but afterwards, nada. If they had continued it, they would have surely surpassed my output by 2009.
