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THIS (FOOTBALL) WEEK (FOOTBALL) IN (FOOTBALL) THOUGHT
2008-09-02 14:28:07
OK! I hear Tom’s blog talks about comics. Feel free to go over there if you’re not into stuff I like.
1. UCLA vs. TENNESSEE – This is #1 on my mind, since it just happened on Monday night. DID YOU SEE THIS?!?!?!? I flew into LaGuardia late last night, so I got home with about five minutes to go in the 4th quarter. But that’s all I needed to see. What a friggin’ game. Kevin Craft does crappy the first three quarters, then gets his Joe Montana on at the VERY end. Outstanding. And I’m not even angry that UCLA beat the SEC, since Tennessee is my second least favorite team in the conference (Hi Alabama!)
2. MY MOM THE GRANDMASTER – Don’t mess with my Ma. Seriously. All she does is win trophies. Me, Pop, Ma and the Sis ran the Chick-Fil-A 5K in Memphis on Monday. We all did respectable (I came in 42nd), but I swear, Ma went and won Grandmaster AGAIN. She’s a 5-foot-3 pile of awesome. Proud’a ya, Ma! Shout-out to the lovely people at the Memphis Redwings baseball stadium for hosting a lovely race. Sorry we didn’t use the free tickets to the game you gave us after the run. But (nothing personal) you’re a baseball team.
3. OLE MISS vs. MEMPHIS – The family headed to Oxford, Mississippi on Saturday to catch the beginning of the Houston Nutt era. Blow-out game, but that’s kinda beside the point. Point of Ole Miss games is to show up in The Grove about five hours before kickoff. We’re mainly Mississippi State fans (more on that later), so we were a bit out of our element, but our friend Rod was nice enough to have us at his tent. Rod is kind of a big fan; I’m reasonably sure he could name every third string Ole Miss player faster than he could name his children.
You cannot imagine this place. Picture fifty acres of humanity draped in red, white and blue, all holding plastic cups and fanning themselves with paper plates. Tents full of every food imaginable (most of it fried). The highlights of the game were A) Watching Michael Oher play (seriously, READ THE BLIND SIDE. Great book), and B) Leaving the stadium at halftime to get cheap bottles of water, then realizing that once you leave the stadium, you can’t get back in. So I put on my best New York accent and convinced the security guard that I did not understand his strange Southern ways. He let me back in. Very proud of myself.
4. HOOSIERS – Watched this on the plane. Totally conflicted about this movie. Great story, awesome dialogue, beautiful cinematography, terrific Gene Hackman performance (Hackman Theory: He’s best when he plays a good guy, because he looks inherently evil. Something about a good evil-looking guy is more fascinating than watching a virtuous-looking guy playing a good guy.) But Hoosiers will be forever handicapped by that awful '80s synth score. The movie is set in 1951 and the music sounds like it’s from Tron! Same thing happened to The Right Stuff. Breaks my heart. You suck, '80s. If I wasn’t born during you, I would ask that you be stricken from the annals of history.
5. MISSISSIPPI STATE vs. LOUISIANA TECH – Well, State’s bad. This happens a lot. There’s a certain comfortable sameness that washes over you after State does well one year, then hops right back into land of mediocrity. I’m wearing my black State shirt today, in observance of what may very be a 3-win season. Thank goodness for the rest of the SEC.
6. DEATH TO CATS – Fantasy Football Draft on Wednesday night! Very pumped. This might make me care about the NFL this year! I’ll be using a drafting method I don’t want to reveal here, because at least one of the guys on my team reads my blog. But I WILL reveal: I’m NOT taking LaDanian Tomlinson. The guy wears a dark visor at all times. He looks like Darth Vader sitting on the sidelines, he’s all cocky about his abilities, then he gets a lil’ knee ache in the playoffs last year and doesn’t even go in as a possible distraction for the defense. Bleh. I hate the No Fun League. Bunch’a whiny millionaires.
7. TOM HANKS AS A VILLAIN - #4 got me thinking about this. Where in the heck is the token Tom Hanks villain performance? ("Road to Perdition" doesn’t count, he got good) He’s won two Oscars, should’ve gotten a third for Castaway and he hasn’t done the bad guy thing yet? C’mon, Hackman, Denzel, Russell, Cheadle, Pitt, Jackson, Welles, everyone but Tom Cruise has played evil (and you could argue that EVERY Tom Cruise performance is evil). Be a bad guy! (But don’t let Marvel sign you. I don’t want to see you cast as Loki in the Thor movie and get killed by an energy donut like War Monger was in Iron Man).
Back to work. HULK #6's gotta go out this week...
Time to get over your fascination with amatuer football. You are in a town with big league sports now.
Posted by ctwillis on 2008-09-03 09:39:07
Tom Hanks as a villain
Professor Dorr in The Ladykillers
Posted by izzatrix on 2008-09-03 13:11:14
I was going to point out that Tom Cruise did play a bad guy in Collateral, but then decided that it didn't really matter. Then I realized I had already written it, so I decided to post it anyways.
Posted by gevth on 2008-09-04 18:07:29
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