Faith Based?

So, "Evan Almighty" opened much smaller than it needed to make up for its "most expensive comedy of all time" price of 200+ million dollars. The media watchers are surprised because it's a "family friendly" "faith-based" movie that is usually, so they imply, a sure thing to bring in the hayseed Christians and their kids.
Calling it faith-based is kinda like saying "King Kong" was based on a true story because there are people who have gone on trips and captured gorillas. Look, just cause you use the ark and a guy with a long beard doesn't make your movie faith-based anymore than an ex-VP showing a slide show in your movie makes it science based. And, believe it or not, there are some people smart enough to know the difference. Of course this is from a guy who hasn't seen the "Passion of the Christ" because I didn't think it could be as good as the book, so take this rant for what it's worth.

Criminals Wanted

Hey, I know jobs are hard to come by here in Michigan (take that George W., we'll have no part of your economy, unlike the rest of the nation, that'll teach you!) so I suggest moving to Jacksonville, FL and becoming a professional criminal.
Where should you start? First I'd try being a hitman targeting people in apartments owned by Village Green Cos. It seems they fired an employee who, at 2am, responded to yells of a women saying she'd been shot by grabbing a shotgun, running to her aid, and stopping her from bleeding out from a gunshot wound to the leg. That was against company policy. So, sounds like this would be a pretty good place to work if you like shooting people.
If that's a little to extreme for your criminal tendancies why not try being a professional thief and target Jacksonville Home Depots? A man tried to steal $1100 in goods but was confonted in the parking lot by an employee... so of course the employee was fired. Why? I assume because you know what stopping criminals would do for the quickly growing criminal job market in Jacksonville?
So feel free to move to Jacksonville and become a professional criminal. Unless the crime you want to commit is stoppping criminals. In which case I'd recommend Gotham City.

Tuesday Time Waster

Well, I'm back from vacation. Maybe I'll tell ya about it later.

Meanwhile...

http://www.pandora.com/

Type in Jack Johnson to listen to what I'm listening to.

Free Paris

I think Paris Hilton shouldn't be jailed for several reasons which I'll list below, so I'd like to start a free Paris campa... (What's that?)... Hold on one moment... (She's already out? But she didn't even... What am I supposed to do with these 10,000 "Free Paris" t-shirts? Crap. I figured it'd be at least two weeks.)



Uh... please bear with me while I come up with a new blog.

As the World Slides...

Signs that the world is getting worse and worse:

• 15 year old missing girl found in a closet under some stairs, 3 men arrested
• 18 year old girl attacked and killed for what looks like no apparent reason
• Mighty Ducks, southern California team, beats a Canandian team in the Stanley Cup Playoffs

But some good news...

Possiblity of getting the beneift of embryonic stem cells without the moral problems associated with destroying life. What do you know, you don't have to ignore morality to progress.

Smartest Man Running for President?

The Republican's debate and get 2 minute little sound bites. Fred Thompson shows up on Hannity & Colmes immediately after and gets uninterrupted major face time. Brilliant!
I didn't see it but what a brilliant move. He's gonna be worth watching. I think he's gonna try to change the way people run for office. He has the potential to run circles around the traditional media as proven by his video reply to Michael Moore. If you'd vote for him or not he's gonna make things interesting.

Time Waster Tuesday

Check out the game LOST CITIES online. It's an addicitve little card game. If you want to try it with me give me a shout! I'm always looking for opponents. I'm terrible, but those who are less math challenged you can probably kick some butt.

Paris Hilton Going to Jail Naked!

Yes, you got it from the title. It's a sports blog. (If I called this "Pistons Wrap-up" several of you would have read no further.)
Well, another season over. Another huge dissapointment in the playoffs. Where should we lay the blame and what should we do in the future? The answer is one player. Billups.
Last, year I jumped off the Billiups bandwagon and said that we should get rid of him, that he was overated. I was berated by a co-worker and eventually over the course of the season said I'd changed my mind and he looked great. I've changed my mind again.
Billups is an overated egomanic. His "we've been here before" and "we'll just turn it on" attitude after losses is what tanked this team. Although, I did love the look on his face in the 4th quarter of the last game when he realized, "Oh crap, we don't have enough time to win this."
So the blame for these miserable loses lies with the team leader. Detroit fans blaming Flip are just refusing to see the truth that thier beloved Chauncy now thinks it's about him not the team.
The future? Don't resign Billups. Let him go. Rebuild. Get rid of Sheed and/or Webber. Bring up one of your younger guys as point guard and go get a big man somewhere. My thought is, just like Ben"idict" Wallace, Billups won't even be an all-star if he isn't with the Pistons and if he isn't paid as if he's the 2nd best point gaurd in the league his attitude will suck this team down even more.
Don't get me wrong, the Pistons are no Lions, they'll bounce back. But, I think this group, "Billups team", should be done. And this time I won't change my mind. It's been a great run, but you've reached the finish line.

10 Word Reviews

As the global warming debate heats up below (HA!) on with the reviews:

Spiderman 3: Too many characters, no internal logic, but saved by effects.
Shrek 3: Would have been a really good Nickolodeon Movie on TV.
Pirates 3: What is going on? Oh, now the fight makes sense.
LOST Finale: Wow! Wow! Wow! I guessed the flashforward right away! Wow!
Hero's Season One: Eh. But the grand finale made the whole season better.
Next: Loved Nic Cage. Cool idea. Good, solid, old-school film.
American Idol: Melinda gone? Blake writing music on his Mac? Jumped shark?
My Blog: Missing in action, losing momentum, hanging on by my fingernails.

Now back to the the Rumble of the Humble. The Fight of the Bright. The Swarming of the Warming. The Hogging of the Blogging. The... nevermind. Back to arguing global warming. Think we'll solve it?