Laura got us a room at the Radisson Saturday night. We thought Michael Winslow was performing but he’s going on tonight, Monday and Tues so we’re going to hit the Monday show. We did get a free Buffet ticket (when I told the clerk it was my Bday!) and we got 4 free drink coupons and $20 each to the casino. Which we lost Oh well, hot tubbin and swimming was lots of fun.
First time on a Sleep Comfort bed. The pillows were awesome. We enjoyed the bed too. I think we had it set at the softest it could be!

Saw this on the way home from the hotel this morning. We had to pull over and take a pic. What were they thinking? (YES, I know what they meant, but STILL!)

Tomorrow Laura’s bro comes to put a toilet (at least) in the basement. We’ll see about the logistics on a sink too! I’m pumped!

Next Comedy City shows:

Friday March 19th at 7:30pm and 9:30pm

Also, The Comedy City 28 hr marathon will be March 26th and 27th with all proceeds going to 2 different child cancer charities. I’m sure I’ll be in some of those shows too. We don’t have that schedule yet. I might try and stay up all 28 hrs. I’ll be delirious!

Senator Mutombo!

We watched “9″ last night and I was a bit disappointed. The story is somewhat interesting and the animation is kinda cool, but the ending is lacking and overall you could just tell it had a ton of potential that was missed. The biggest reason I didn’t like it was the voice acting. It made it MUCH more cheesy when it had all the makings of a darker film (pg 13). After the movie I watched the original short the movie was based on, and that was actually very good. I see why they wanted to make it full length. A big difference was the characters were silent and you only felt their emotion through facial expression and mime. Producer Tim Burton in an interview on the DVD stated he wanted the movie to be silent but was convinced not to by the screen writer. In my opinion that was a big mistake. Anyway, save the trouble watch the short, it’s cool enough. C+ on the movie B+ on the short. The director made this short film in college. Took him 4 years and won him and academy award.

No, I’m not talking about Klimek’s cracked out libido. Turns out that Andrew Koenig, a.k.a. Richard “Boner” Stabone of Growing Pains fame, is missing. Where is Boner hiding?

On another note, I don’t really ever watch the NBA until it’s playoff time, but I was pretty impressed when I heard how awesome Kevin Durant is playing. He has scored more than 25 points in the last 28 consecutive games. Sounds like me dominating during the ’90’s on AE Arena.

I would imagine this to be biased. I imagine that the methods coming up with these numbers were biased in the favor of Obama. That is what I imagine, but the graph depicts a mejor truth, even if the exact numbers are questionable.

I do not have a grasp on history to be able to say with confidence, but to me, in my humble opinion, what I would imagine in I own head, is that this real partisan problem going on now, is going to take down the United States.
I think the United States has now failed. Obama is trying to slow the tumble down the grassy hill. While champions, of hell, albeit, like Cheney, are doing all the can to grease the hill and make it steeper. Just like any other great empire in history, greed is going to be the failure of the USA.
Thanks Republican’s.

And by the way, NO NEW TAXES, I will bring my own garbage to the damn dump every Wed. Leave my money alone. It is mine. NO TAXES AT ALL!!

Did anyone do anything cool for V day? Laura and I went to Chicago and had an awesome time! We went to New Holstein Friday night to drop off Doughnut with Laura’s bro. The coup of the weekend was Saturday morning. We left at 5 something to get to the hotel in time for Continental breakfast the morning we didn’t even stay there! HAAHAHAHAHA! Awesome! So worth it! Belgian waffles, sausage, eggs, bacon, oatmeal, muffins, bagels, cereal! Oh man, we didn’t eat until 8pm that night we were so full!
We stayed at a La Quinta only a little over a block from the Sears Tower so we were right in the heart. It was about a mile and a half to all the shit we did like the Shed Aquarium, Field Museum, Planetarium (which had a 3d movie on solar systems WOW awesome!), The Bean, Sears tower, and the Italian Village for dinner (actually, that was only a block away too). Our feet were killing us by the end, but all the walks were beautiful. Chicago has incredible architecture! All the people were great. We got a city pass so it’s basically a pack of tickets to all this stuff. We should have gotten in online because we did have to wait in line at the Aquarium (where we bought it), but at the Sears tower it was priceless. We got escorted to the front of the line in and a private elevator. You should have seen the faces of the people as the door closed. We laughed SO hard! It got us to the top in time to watch the sun set on the city. What a site seeing the city go from day to night and all the lights coming on. Wow. Very cool!

the Bean

standing in a glass box outside the sears tower

us sitting in the box

shot out of sears tower

sunset

I will preface by saying I usually lose in a relatively close match………buuuuuUUUUUUUT, not last night!
I watched as Hall built a commanding 3 pie to 0 lead due to a quick start and lucky dice rolling. At this point I thought all was lost until I landed my first pie. A yellow, usually the bane of my existence, the dreaded “wired” question about technology. With that yellow pie I started my journey. I dueled Hall pie for pie after that and still found myself down 6 pies to 3. Sam had only to answer one question in the middle, but it appeared his rolling luck had run out. He answered brown after brown while jumping over the middle unable to roll the perfect number to reach the hallowed ground.

It’s not to say he didn’t reach it at all, but good ol yellow questions proved too hard to handle while I meticulously circled the board gaining my last 3 remaining pies. As I marched toward the middle and felt the perfect roll glide from my fingertips I knew victory was at hand. It was 3 AM. Two heavy weights were tired, cranky, ready to eat pizza and be done with this mind bending game. The question, another yellow of course, was “what medium approved banner adds in 1992″. I sat back, nodded and said “Internet”, the medium I use here to brag. Of course, defeated, Sam threw the card down in disgust, hence ending possibly the greatest come back in Trivia Pursuit history.

Then there was pizza, and it was delicious.

So Kobe passed Jerry West to become the Lakers all-time leading scorer a couple days ago and Dan Patrick was debating a question that I found hard to answer. If you were starting a team and had the choice to draft one former Lakers player straight out of college to lead your team for the decade, who would it be:

Kobe Bryant, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Shaq-daddy, Magic Johnson or Other?

I think I’d take Kareem, but I’m not really sold on my choice.

Laura and I had the displeasure of watching one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen last night. Land of the Lost. Wow. Horrible. Right from the beginning. The jokes were stupid even for a little kid, the story was just plain moronic, and the special effects even stunk. I’m not sure if it was worse than Gone Fishin but it was close. Will Farrel, I don’t know what to say to you right now. That really sucked. I finished it kinda fast forwarding through some parts just to see if maybe it would get better. Nope. And it wasn’t one of those Farrel movies where I don’t really think it’s great at first and then start to like it later, aka: Anchorman. No, this movie was horrible the first time and will continue to only get worse.

But, i thought it very interesting to relive the last 7 or so years of Brett Favre’s Play-off Career. this was posted in a comment on nationalfootballpost.com, a good site Unreal has mentioned before led by Michael Lombardi & Andrew Brandt, both former Packer employees.

Jan. 20, 2002
The storyline: The 12-4 Packers have a shot to reach the conference championship game for first time since the 1997 season if they beat 14-2 Rams in the divisional round.

The result: BrettFavre throws 6 picks – tying the single-game NFL record for postseason picks last matched by a passer back in 1955.

Jan. 4, 2003
The storyline: The 12-4 Packers were one of the best teams in football, playing at home against the tepid 9-6-1 Falcons.

The result: Brett Favre sinks like a lead weight, reserving one of his worst performances of the year (20 of 42, 47.6%, 247 yards, 5.9 YPA, 1 TD, 2 INT, 54.4 rating) for when it matters most in a 27-7 loss. It was Green Bay’s lowest offensive output of the season. The Packers suffered their first-ever home playoff loss in franchise history.

Jan. 11, 2004
The storyline: The Packers need to produce just one drive in overtime to beat the Eagles and then battle the Panthers for a chance to go to Super Bowl XXXVIII.

The result: On Green Bay’s first play of overtime, Brett Favre tossed a bad pass into the hands of Eagles defender Brian Dawkins. Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb quickly drove his offense into easy field goal range for the victory. Brett Favre passed for 180 yards, one of his lowest outputs of the year.

Jan. 9, 2005
The storyline: The 10-6 Packers draw a gimme, landing the 8-8 Vikings at home in the wildcard round of the NFC playoffs.

The result: Favre turns out a gruesomely disfiguring playoff performance (22 of 33, 66.7%, 216 yards, 6.5 YPA, 1 TD, 4 INT, 55.4 rating), as Packers suffer a humiliating 31-17 loss to one of the worst teams ever to reach the playoffs. Had the Seahawks not lost to the Rams just one day earlier, Favre would have been the first quarterback in history to lose a playoff game to a .500 team.

Jan. 20, 2008
The storyline: Brett Favre’s 13-3 Packers were favored at home against the 10-6 Giants on one of the coldest nights in Lambeau Field history.

The result: Brett Favre, and the Packers offense, suffered one of the most colossal collapses in history. In the fourth quarter and overtime, Favre completed 4 of 10 passes for 32 yards with 2 INTs. Green Bay’s final four drives, with a Super Bowl appearance easily within their grasp, went for 0, 7, 0 and 2 yards.

Favre’s final pick, on the second play of overtime, led directly to the Giants’ game-winning field goal.

The 2008 season
The storyline: Brett Favre moves to a new team and leads the Jets to an AFC East-best 8-3 record through 11 games.

The result: Brett Favre was dreadful during the team’s stretch-run collapse, throwing 2 TDs against 9 picks. INTs lead directly to losses, and the Jets went 1-4 over the final five games, and missed the playoffs despite their hot 8-3 start.

Jan. 24, 2010
The storyline: Brett Favre’s Vikings totally outplay the favored Saints in New Orleans for four quarters in the NFC title game.

The result: Brett Favre’s Vikings are tied 28-28 with 19 seconds to play and face a 3rd and 15 at the Saints 38. They need a mere five yards to get a shot at a game-winning field goal to send Minnesota to the Super Bowl for the first time in 33 years and fulfill all the hopes and dreams that the organization put in the quarterback when they hastily signed Brett Favre during training camp.

The only thing Brett Favre can’t do is throw an interception.

So … BrettFavre throws an interception right into the hands of Tracy Porter. The Saints get the ball in overtime and proceed to go down and kick the game-winning field goal.

Below is the link of Paul Allen’s call of Fovra’s INT with 0.19 seconds left……I love it…

Enjoy!1

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/images/01/25/FavreINT.mp3

Wow, what a great game. Such Deja Vu. It was some great drama for Packer fans in my opinion who all feel pretty great that the game ended in that fashion. It was hardly all Brett’s fault but he did NOT need to make that throw and the timing was impeccable! I loved it!

Brad Stanley said on Facebook that he read in the Press Gazette that Brett’s final pass for the Falcons, Packers, and Jets were INTs. I guess you can add the Queens…..for now…..

So, I’ve made it clear I was thrilled with the outcome. I don’t hate Brett and I think he was the MVP of the NFL and the Queens. I don’t blame him for wanting to play, he obviously can. That being said, he is a Queen and I LOVED watching him fail as one today and watching that team fail as a whole. Any thoughts?

I believe he will definitely be back next year. Why not? He’s playing fantastic and they have a young talented team. I can’t imagine he’d want to end it like this, not again! HA! I hope he does though!