Candi, The Porno and The Superbowl

Ok so part of my bet with Candi involved her first watching of an "adult" film. I put that in quotations because the plot, acting, dialogue, etc is(or since this one was from the mid 90's early 00's)/was far from adult. Candi wasn't really shocked, but the scary thing is as hookie as the film was the writing and plot really wasn't that subpar compared to mainstream hollywood. That is all we are going to say about that.

The superbowl. Thanks to the efforts of a few dedicated SI writers and some others, the Giants are a chic underdog pick. As much as I would love to see it happen, it won't. The 'Pats do just enough to win 32-28. The commercials will have Iron Man, maybe the Incredible Hulk, but the Dark Knight commercials were probably pulled. They have decided to rework their whole ad campaign in the wake of what happened. Who knows what else those Madison Avenue genius will create!

Comics. Been pretty sucky lately. I started reading the Forgotten Realms series based on RA Salvatore's novels and it made me actually want to start reading his novels. They are good. Speaking of novels I read Harry Turtledove's Conan book. It was great because it was alternate Conan history. It was a good novel, and in the end the Aquillonas looked just as chivalrous as the Cimmerians(maybe even more), I had some fear they were going to look depraved. Speaking of alternate history, there is a new FPS called "Turning Point:Fall of Liberty" where you play a NYC skyscraper worker trying to survive a Nazi invasion of the US. The concept is good, the graphics ok, but it is just another FPS, the world needs those like it needs politicians who say nothing (yes, I am looking at you Obama and McCain).

The first pick. No this part isn't some tirade about how I took Rudi in both FF leagues and he stunk, and now in FBsktB I took Jason Kidd and he wants to be traded. This is about my ultimate football team and who I would take with my first pick overall. All you people that know(or think you know) something about football should respond. OK, I was close, so close to either Bob Lilly or Mean Joe Greene, simply because I believe the ability to dominate the LOS is so so important and both of these guys could do that. Then I thought on the other side of the ball and was going to go with Mike Munchak or Russ Grim or Gene Upshaw or Forrest Greg but ultimately you need to go skill position, just because hey I can build OL and DL later. So sticking with the pics on the side, I'm going with probably one of the few players who could impact all three parts of the game. That's right folks, I am going with Slingin Sammy Baugh. Let see dude lead the league in punting, picks and passing, the same year, with a ball that was about ten times closer to a rugby ball than a current football. I still think he'd be probably a top five punter, top five passer, and a top five corner. Oh, and did I mention he actually came close to leading the league in rushing one year. He was incredible, and the first building block on the all-E team.

Giant-Sized Avengers and Law and Order Premiere

Ok, I've read only a handful of comics where a single panel can bring me to tears. Giant-sized Avengers had one. It occurred at the end of the Spiderman story where Cap says to SM, "You know with this power comes great responsibility." I might be paraphrasing but it was something to that equivalent. Man, I was choking up already. Then Peter's thought bubble is something like, "First Uncle Ben, now Cap. What is it with that generation?" Then after this story when Wasp, Ms. Marvel and Black Widow(all in bikinis no less) are all sitting around they talk about no one ever being able to fill Cap's shoes. It's trite but good. You read it and realize Cap had to die, not because those values aren't pertinent or worthy, we don't want to live up to them anymore. We want our shades of comfortable gray, we don't want to think what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong. Needless to say, this was one of the best comics I have read in months.

Law and Order is on now and I alreaady miss the big man, Fred Thompson. Where is Elizabeth Rohm anyways? The new female lead lawyer just isn't all that. It's pretty bad when the female police captain is maybe the best looking female on the show. I guess we still have Mariska Hargitay on SUV, oh wait, they make her look far too butchy for my tastes. Oh we still have Kathryn Erbe on CI. Sam Waterson just plain sucks as the DA. Yet another show that will probably stink it up in the new season. So NBC has Las Vegas, I guess USA has L&O:CI, and after the first week in February that's it until next year. Where is Dave Chapelle when we need him? Man, that Black White Supremacist is the funniest thing ever. Not to mention the whole Ribs thing, but hey they give me the itis too...