It’s so much easier to ignore — to forget — the Red Sox and their losing ways when they play during the day, as they did on Monday, and when they’re playing on the West coast, with nearly all games starting at 10 p.m. Boston time, as they’ll be doing until next Wednesday night.
Sigh. I can’t believe they lost again last night. At this point, I hope they never come home. Stop the bleeding! End the season now!
I know many of you enjoyed my recent post about the fake web site supposedly created by a woman whose husband had cheated on her. Well, here’s another good read.
Apparently — and this one is real, folks — some guy in New York named Darren met a woman named Joanne on JDate back in June. (If you don’t know, JDate is a dating site for members of the tribe.) They went out, she led him on, said she’d go out with him again, so he paid for the entire date. Well, guess what? She had no interest in going out with this guy again. So what did he do? He emailed and called and tried to get her to pay for her half of the date ($50). When she didn’t respond, he kept calling and emailing. And when she did email, it only encouraged him to call and email more.
Suffice it to say, you can read all the emails and hear — yes, hear — all the voice mails right here.
According to Snopes.com, which reports on web hoaxes, this isn’t the first time such a thing has happened or been passed around the internet. But this Darren guy is apparently very real, as the blog GonzoRangers has discovered. I won’t link to his company’s web site or to news stories that quote him, but you can find them very easily if you want to. And for further proof, check out this story from the New York Daily News. Or, you can check out Confessions of a Drama Duchess not only to read excerpts from Darren’s JDate profile, but also to see his picture. Continue reading
And how is your ass today? Man, did we ever get spanked this weekend. And boy, does it ever hurt. Waking up on a Monday morning hasn’t been this rough in some time.
When did it all go wrong? Wasn’t everything going so well? Weren’t we in first place by three games just a few weeks ago? I’m utterly baffled. And now I definitely don’t feel as naïve as I was about the Sox’s chances for the rest of the season.
Then again, what season? This one is over. Finito. Over. Dunzo. Dead. Wait till next year.
It’s time to throw in the towel. Wave the white flag. Surrender. Root for the Patriots. As far as I’m concerned, the 2006 Red Sox season officially ended at 1:30 a.m. last night. I mean, this morning. Just a few short hours ago. What a bitch. But more importantly, what a bummer.
It’s been a long, dragging morning already, and I’m happy the game today — you mean they’re playing again?? — is during the afternoon so I don’t have to get suckered into watching like I was last night.
Happy fall, everyone. See you next spring.
To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson in Snakes on a Plane:
“I’ve had it with these mother fucking Yankees winning in our mother fucking stadium!”
I mean, really. This has been a ridiculous weekend. But I still say, it’s not over yet.
I have to admit, I had one of the best moviegoing experiences of the year when I went to see Snakes on a Plane on Saturday. I mean, sure, the guys in the back row who were hissing all through the movie (including the trailers) and who were trying to do a call-and-response cheer of “Snakes!” “On a Plane!” before it started became a little much, but really, this is a totally fun movie that completely lives up to the hype and is actually worth seeing.
And if you see it with the right kind of crowd, as I did, one that was totally into it (and I, personally, was quite excited to see the movie), you’ll like it even more. Continue reading
Trust the Man is an amiable comedy about two couples going through rough patches. One is married with two children, the other unmarried but together for seven years.
Not sure what else the movie is about because basically, all that really happens is things get bad, and then pretty quickly they get better. It’s all a little too pat. Continue reading
I won’t spend much time writing about The Illusionist because I don’t expect it to stay around in theaters all that long anyway.
Basically, despite a typically good performance by Paul Giamatti and a typically intense one by Ed Norton — and a surprisingly decent one by Jessica Biel — I found the movie lacking in (please excuse the obvious pun) magic.
Hopefully The Prestige, another movie about magicians, will be more enjoyable. It certainly looks better.
In the meantime, The Illusionist gets a B- from me.
I believe it’s Kaplan‘s second law of moviemaking that states: “Never bet against a talking animal picture.” Well, consider it law 2A that you shouldn’t bet against a movie where the animals also sing and dance, and where one animal has the speaking voice of Robin Williams. If that’s the type of movie that appeals to you, then waste no time heading over to the web site for Happy Feet and watch the three trailers (in the “video”) section. Aside from featuring some truly amazing animation, these trailers promise a really great and funny movie. I mean, I don’t even know what this movie is all about, but already I’m dying to see it. I mean, really. Just try to find something more entertaining than a penguin with Robin Williams’ voice singing “My Way” in Spanish — complete with back-up singers. Just try it. But watch these trailers first. Or, if you have a really good Internet connection, click here to watch in high-definition Quicktime video. (Trailer two is the one you want.)
Went home to New York this weekend for Mitzi and Jason’s aufruf, but that wasn’t the only excitement.
Saturday night, my friends Scott and David continued our end-of-summer tradition of going to Friday’s and Playland. Believe it or not, this was the 15th consecutive year we did this.
And who said I couldn’t stick with something that long? Continue reading
The worst thing the Red Sox did was come back from being down three games to none in the 2004 ALCS. Because now, when they’re down, all I say is “Don’t count them out. After all, they came back against the Yankees …!”
So that’s what I’m saying now, naive as it may be. In the words of my Yankee fan friends, and to quote what they were saying in April (and May, and June, and July), it’s a long season. We’ve had a bad week — a very bad week. But there’s still a month and a half left to go in the season, and we’re less than a handful of games out. ‘Tek and the others will come back right when we need them, and then we’ll have the extra power to go back into first place and win the division. But even before that happens, we’ll rally. We don’t stay down for long. We can still rebound from this slump.
Don’t count this team out just yet, folks.
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