Wednesday, September 26, 2007

756


Some douche drops a shitbag of cash for Bonds 756th homerun ball, has a poll to decide what to do with it & the winning choice was to brand an asterisk on it then send it to cooperstown. The other choices were to send it to the Hall of Fame or, the only sensible choice, make it a real "rocket into space!" Like I've said I'm no Barry fan but I'll defend the guy for being a great ball player. Do you think the Hall of Fame will accept this ball? Is this justice? I'll bet Barry doesn't give a rat's ass and for the most part I don't either BUT...if someday I manage to make the trip to Cooperstown to show my kids cool baseball shit, I don't want some fucker's publicity stunt mucking up my experience. If you don't like Bonds fine but the record stands and is baseball history that in my opinion shouldn't get this treatment. Steroids suck it's true but I doubt they ever prove Bonds did them.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Heroes


Yea so I just got finished with season 1 of Heroes. Holy Badass! I can't believe those of you I call friends didn't make me watch this sooner. I loved every episode. I kinda lagged when the show first came out so I was behind. Not wanting to jump in mid season I just said screw it I'll wait for the DVD. Well that day came and boy was I pleasantly surprised. Of course all the powers are Marvel knock off but I still dig the new way of telling the story without spandex suits. I really dig Nikki/Jessica and of course Hiro, and Nathan, well I like them all. Thank goodness I did have the DVD because waiting a week to wrap up those cliff hangers would have killed me. Now that season 2 is under way I already have my predictions as to what will happen to who. Can't wait to see what's next hopefully it won't suck.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Monday, August 20, 2007

Manhunt




I just finished reading this book and I must say it was pretty badass. I'm no history buff so I'll admit that I knew just the facts about John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of President Lincoln. What I learned in reading this book really got me interested in the entire event, so much so that I've been online researching just to get more questions answered. Because the author draws from so many resources ( the bibliography itself is like 40 pages) the whole book reads like a police report. Using eye witness accounts, court testimonies, police reports, and Booth's own journal you follow the story practically day by day hour by hour. I also learned that this book is going to be made into a movie with Harrison Ford already signed up to play Sgt. Conger. It'll probably be a pretty good flick because it reads like a movie. On one hand you read a few paragraphs on Booth trying to escape after the shot and then a few on the audience going apeshit at Ford's theater and then later on Lincoln's final hours. Anyways I'm just saying it's a good book about a real historical event that literally shook the nation. If Booth and his conspirators (yes there was a conspiracy with 4 men assigned an assassination of their own) had succeeded then all of the heads of the U.S. government would have been killed giving the south the edge they needed to rally after the loss at Richmond and basically take over the entire country. To me that's pretty cool. If you need a good read I suggest it.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Like it or Not


Well like it or not Barry broke 755. Is he on roids? Hell I dunno. But I will continue to say that he is the best player of my generation...so far. Or at least until proven guilty. So the actual moment wasn't that magical. I remember watching Pete Rose break the hitting record with my dad, that was history, that was a moment. Bonds homer was just another stat to me, another headline I skimmed past on the internet before going to work. Does he deserve it? yes, somebody hit all those bombs and until they prove otherwise I'm sure it's a record that will last at least 10 years until Pujols breaks it.