Resurrecting the Champ

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Here we have another great movie that for some reason no one is seeing. Well I know the reason, it's not being promoted. Samuel L. Jackson is great in this. Josh Hartnett is awesome too. It's well-written, well-acted, well-directed. It should be on the top of everyone's "must-see" list. To tell the truth the only reason I saw it in the first place was because I'm a fan of both actors. Had I not been I probably would have let it pass by too. With the number of movies released ever increasing, it's hard to get around to everything. And with all the varied and sometimes biased opinions out there it's hard to determine what's worth it. Well this is worth it. It's also about something important to me which is personal integrity. People need more integrity nowadays.

If you're somehow reading this and have the time and money, check it out before it vanishes from theaters, which could be in days.

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Today in the News (8/27/07)

{I think I'm just going to do some compilation posts like this when news I haven't gotten to piles up.)

Owen Wilson

Yeah, I have no idea what this is about. I'm not really a fan of his but it sucks if it's true (that he attempted suicide). Look I mean my problems are mostly financial and I think it's hard for people in my situation to understand why someone with that much money would want to take their life. Well, as a general rule, life sucks. We wouldn't have all heard the expression before if it wasn't true.

Most people think if you seem happy, like you smile a lot and crack jokes, that everything is fine. That's just not the case. People need to understand that human are complex and they have emotions. I think at the time in which we live there in little room for emotions. Since there are televised psychologists basically telling people to suck it up, it seems like you can't be less than 100%. If trained doctors don't give a hoot about hurting anyone, why should anyone else? And people do follow suit. You know people watch shows like that and then turn around and treat the people in their lives the same way. I don't even think that many people have real friends anymore. You're lucky if you can find your own little corner of the world and be peacefully alone there because the world has just become too much.

I don't know what he's going through, but I know what it is to want off this planet. I hope he can find some kind of happiness somewhere.

Alberto Gonzalez

Honestly is it really going to make a difference if this guy resigns? The way I see it those in power have everything wrapped up around itself a thousand times. Nothing is cause for celebration. This still will benefit them somehow, don't you worry.

Michael Vick

Who cares? I'm so sick of this story. Stupid person was so bored at the top he had to find a really ridiculous reason for people to take it away from him? Next.

YAY! I live in Trashcity.

Now if I'd done this I would have concetrated on all the puke and dog poop in the streets, even by city hall. But this is great since someone else is taking some initiative. This idiot mayor made a lot of promises he didn't even attempt to keep. If you've been reading my blog you know my problems with this place.

I love Phil Rizzuto

For some reason in my baseball watching days as a kid we got WPIX here. So I decided that I was a Yankees fan. It was back when they had Mattingly and Winfield and my favorite Mike Pagliarulo. So nearly every day I watched and listened as Phil cracked me up time after time with his funny stories. That's actually how I used to do my homework. With the game on. They're really fond memories. Just peacefully doing my homework listening to the game with my old pal Phil. I wish I could go back there.

The insanity I have to deal with is insane

I have to tell you about how I ended up yelling at some kids I'd never seen before Sunday evening.

At about 6:45 in the PM, I was sitting here at the computer. I heard a thud that sounded like something hit my house. My mother went outside to see what it was. Then when she didn't come back in right away I looked out the window and it looked like she was talking to someone. So she came back into the house and I asked what happened. She said to me "Two kids are burying a bird on the side of our house." This immediately makes no sense.

So I go outside. And I start interrogating these kids. The fact is I can't really do quotes because I was so confused while I'm trying to reason and gets answers out of these kids that my mind was swirling. Apparently their bird died and they thought the dirt on the side of my house which only goes a foot beyond my house looked like a good spot. I'm of course not understanding how kids determine to go onto someone else's property and just start digging but I guess it made sense to them. So as I'm standing there watching them to make sure they dig the corpse back up. I start to think 'what if this isn't their bird and it's just some diseased bird they saw dead near our house and just decided to bury' so I asked the kid why, if it was his bird, didn't he burying it in his own backyard..

"BECAUSE MY DOG WILL GET IT!"

God help me but what kind of rationale is that? Now I've never seen this kid before. There are many kids in the area but these two weren't familiar to me. So I asked them where they lived and they said to different directions but one wasn't really talking. I didn't really believe the other kid anyway which was really frustrating because you can't even trust kids anymore. So now nothing makes sense. Because whose bird is it?

"It's both our bird."

Again they make no sense. Two kids who don't look related who say they live in two separate directions own the same bird. I'm just getting more aggravated and aggravated with these kids. But I watched them dig the bird(s) up. (Apparently there were two somehow, one of which they claimed to have buried there two weeks ago?!?!) When I told them they can't just do stuff like that the one kid said that he didn't know it was my property he thought it was "theirs".

Now there is a double driveway for the business next door and a brown house on the other side of that. I'm not sure what he meant but I said "well even if it was then it would be their [the business'] property", meaning they're still wrong.

But he comes back with "Nobody lives there."

And I said "HEL-LO!!! It's a business! It goes all the way around to the other side."

And he said "Oh."

I mean my brain is trying to sort through all of this while trying to make some kind of sense. And they tried to get me to let them leave their bird there. So I had to scream so that the neighborhood could hear me "PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY ANYMORE!!!" I told my mother that if they didn't do it, I'd call the cops, so they could hear me.

So they dug it up and looked all pissed off as they went to walk off. And I said to them, "Look kids. You can't do stuff like this. One day someone is going to get really mad and get you into really bad trouble." And they just looked at me with blank faces and walked off. My mother went to watch them to make sure they were going in the direction they said.

This thing with the miners, I don't know

I had been hopeful, because the owner seemed to know what he was talking about and they seemed to be getting there yesterday. I was expecting late night word that they reached them. But I guess they missed the spot? The second bigger whole is supposed to be done soon. I'll update this if I hear anything. But should that even be a job anymore? It just seems so dangerous.

edit: well it seems pretty bad now. But they didn't find anything with the cameras so maybe that'll turn out to be a good thing. But the amount of time it's taking. They should make some kind of device that would allow people to signal from underground for this specific reason. Then they wouldn't have to guess where to dig.

Okay Mel B needs to stop

She got pregnant on purpose to attach herself to someone who is still famous. Right when he's divorcing after a long marriage when he was on the rebound. Opportunist. And now there is someone here on earth because of it. A whole life just to play games. And she's not poor. She was in one of the most successful groups ever. I watched her on Larry King with the undead Allred. They just now want to shame him into including the kid in his life. And you know she just got married so he can't take the kid away from her. Whatever. She needs to stop. She's a disgrace to women everywhere. And would you believe she used to be my favorite Spice Girl? I'm embarassed.

Illegal aliens are so nice

Nice enough to line you up before they murder you. And they're rapists too. Awwww....

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I'd really love to hear the reponses from all those pro-alien Senators. Ted, got a minute?

I really have to start posting more

I guess I gave up on a lot of things. But I should start posting more, maybe in compilation posts, about stuff in the news. My personal stuff isn't getting fixed so I don't even feel like complaining anymore. But there are always current events to go off on.