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Overrated Movies
I ran across this list of Premiere’s 20 Most Overrated Movies:
1. American Beauty
2. Chicago
3. Clerks
4. Fantasia
5. Field of Dreams
6. Chariots of Fire
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Forrest Gump
9. Jules and Jim
10. A Beautiful Mind
11. Monster’s Ball
12. Moonstruck
13. Mystic River
14. Nashville
15. The Wizard of Oz
16. An American in Paris
17. Easy Rider
18. The Red Shoes
19. 2001: A Space [...]
Five Things I Don’t Get the Appeal Of
If you can explain any of these to me, please leave a comment.
Watching Regular Season Baseball: Really, what’s the point? 162 games per team…are you kidding me? Other than a few games in September, the MLB regular season’s only function is to generate stats for Fantasy Baseball players and bean counters who [...]
Sports’ Top Ten Biggest Falls from Grace in the Past Decade
Inspired by the latest in the Maurice Clarett saga and an ESPN list, I decided to put together this list. Feel free to leave comments with any I may have missed.
Ken Griffey, Jr.: Not really a fall so much as a gradual decline ever since leaving Seattle. When he was traded in 2000, [...]
Smug Alert
I saw the South Park episode this week entitled Smug Alert! (Wikipedia episode summary). Hilarious. Basically, one of the characters gets a hybrid car and immediately becomes “smug”. He thinks he’s better than everyone else and starts always talking with his eyes closed. When he decides South Park is too backwards [...]
World’s Best Skylines
Here’s a cool list by some student of urban planning: the world’s 15 best skylines. Chicago makes number two on the list, just behind Hong Kong! It has a pic of each skyline mentioned.
Funny Domain Names
If you’re ever in the market for a domain name, please consider alternate word delineations before registering. Or else, you could end up on a list like this or this. (Note: all these links go to “good” sites that are described first and are safe to click on)
Want to find out which agency [...]
Thoughts on Podcasts
So, one of the things we’ve been trying out with the new iPod is podcasts. Here’s some thoughts on ones that I’ve come across. If you have any to recommend, please leave comments!
Beastie Boys Podcast: Kind of boring, it was more like some dinky extra that throw in on a DVD for no [...]
The Best and Worst Wedding Songs
My cousin has an entertaining thread open: What are some good and bad ideas for first dance songs at a wedding? You know you have some ideas…go to his blog and leave a comment.
I only posted bad songs on his thread. They are:
U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Probably anything [...]
A List By Dave Barry
I saw this list when we were eating at Jimmy John’s today and found it rather amusing. It’s from Dave Barry’s book, Dave Barry Turns 50.
25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years
By Dave Barry
The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
You will never find anybody who [...]
The Rose Bowl Drinking Game
With the beverage of your choice of course…
Take a drink every time the telestrator is used to circle or point to Reggie Bush. Chug if the telestrator breaks from overuse.
Drink every time the announcer mentions how Mack Brown has silenced his critics by playing for the National Championship. Chug if the announcer has [...]
2005 College Football Awards
( Clemson and Illinois and Lists and Matt's Posts and Ohio State and Sports )
Feel free to add your own awards in the comments!
Irrational Exuberance Award: After the Illini started 2-0 by beating Rutgers and San Jose State, one of the local news stations led a segment with the title, “Feels Like 2001″. 2001, of course being the year that the Kurt Kittner-led Illini went 10-2 and earned [...]
Top Ten Reasons President Bush Couldn’t Do His Jury Duty
In case you haven’t heard, here’s a link to the news.
I’ll even throw in a 50% Christmas bonus for ya’ll. Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa Power.
Bankrupted the jury’s refreshment fund on the first day by spending 10 times the budget for donuts and drinks.
Got annoyed when other jurors continually [...]
You Might Be a Hiking Snob If…
Inspired by Damon’s mention of hiking snobs in a recent post, I thought I’d do a blatant rip-off of Jeff Foxworthy’s You Might Be a Redneck If… (what’s the creative world coming to when people are copying Jeff Foxworthy).
You’ll always remember the day you got your first Thermarest.
When you see animal droppings on the trail, [...]
Ten Things I Did During the Ohio State-Texas Game
Learned in pre-game questioning by Jack Arute that Mack Brown was going to have his team play “No Holds Barred”. Was shocked to learn his strategy wasn’t to only play about 80% with some holds barred.
Wondered what’s up with Tressel wearing bifocals.
Was relieved to learn that Josh Houston and A.J. Trapasso [...]
Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I just finished reading the new Harry Potter book (as if you really needed a link to find it). I’ve gotta say, this is one of the best in the series in my opinion. After reading this book, my list of favorites in the series looked something like this:
Prisoner of Azkaban, Half-Blood [...]
Eight Things I Did Within The Past 24 Hours
Was disappointed to learn the spelling of forfeit which violates the “i before e except after c or when sounding like a as in neighbor and weigh” rule that has served me so well for over 20 years.
Read more articles about ESPN college football analysts than had in my entire life up to this point. [...]
10 Things Leigh Ann Did This Week
Since Matt has successfully pushed all of my (three) posts into the hidden caves of the blog archives, I figure it’s time I should post something new. So here it is, 10 Things Leigh Ann Did This Week (sorry, no international politics or book reviews in this posting, see Matt’s postings for those):
1) [...]
Old School Video Game Commentary
Inspired by Damon’s post, I wanted to give my commentary on the top 100 video games of all time that I have played. Keep in mind that this list will be from quite a different perspective than Damon’s. He throws LAN parties that are quite the rage. I, on the other hand, [...]
Thank you Benjamin Franklin…
Or whomever invented the concept of libraries that allow me to watch the entire first season of Arrested Development on DVD free of charge. This show is the funniest sitcom on TV by like two orders of magnitude. Dare I say it’s the only one of which I’m aware that [...]