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Story of the Week, Nay, Year!
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Soooo...as I'm sure everyone has heard by now, an astronaut was arrested and charged with attempted murder. But I love relishing in the details, so let's relive the madness! Picture this, if you will: A 40ish female astronaut, married, is in love with Shuttle Commander. Shuttle Commander not interested, possibly in love with other astronaut. Astronut dons adult diaper, wig, Columbo trenchcoat, and drives 900 miles from Texas to Florida to confront the b*tch. Cuz, you know, you can't stop to pee when you've got homicide on the brain and a good two day drive ahead of you. At her side is a trusty BB gun, pepper spray, steel mallet, 4-inch shiner, four feet of rubber tubing, garbage bags, and $600 in cash. Murder plot , or murder mystery weekend a la Saved By the Bell? You decide. Astronauts are crraaaaaaazee!
baseball!!
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Finally, football is gone with the wind and baseball is fast approaching. The Red Sox boast the best rotation in the Majors!! I'm going to spring training in Ft. Myers with my best friend next month. I'm going to learn a slew of dirty phrases in Japanese just in case I run into Daisuke in a bar. I'm hoping they pitch him on that Monday, when they play the Yankees....dum dum dummmm. So excited.
Early Spring!
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Hm...interesting Punxsatawny Phil would not see his shadow and declare early spring on the same day a report is released that says humans are "very likely" responsible for global warming, and we'll probably all die in 30 years, or whatever. The good news is, with all this new heat, there is no excuse not to run around nekkid! That's hawwt!!
WHY Pirates Makes Me Want to Shove Hot Pokers in My Eyes
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Wanna know why your favorite movie sucks? Here's why. 1. Pointless, Motive-less Villain Vague villains in 18th century gear with fancy wigs and pocket watches spittin' mad about Cap'n Jack and his dreamy mascara-draped eyelids makes no sense. Having an enemy for the sake of a storyline doesn't help anyone if the villain has no motivation. Or any means of transport and prefers hanging out in his posh library dictating orders to underlings. Boring. 2. CGI will not save you. Tentacle face was admittedly cool, as was the ship of the dead, but that alone is only a distraction from the one dimensional characters and lack of story arc. Do you really want to sit thru a three hour sh*tfest for thirty minutes of worhwhile CGI? 3. Orlando Bloom really, really sucks Yah, he's pretty. But talk about dumb and lifeless. He delivers a line like a take a poop, which is to say he pushes it out forcefully and it f*cking stinks. Nice eyelashes, boy wonder. Stick to the cover of GQ and stay the hell out of my local moviehouse. 4. Even dumber, vaguer romantic storylines to distract you from the fact that there is no story left to tell and hoping you won't notice they're killing time before you demand a refund. I think that one speaks for itself. 5. Too long Most movies are too long now. It's become a cinematic pandemic. Ideal running time is always 90 minutes, and only sneak a toe over the line if you're damn sure its worth it, in my opinion. POTC 3 wasted so much time, had so much slow and pointless and fully non-entertaining subplots I wanted to take a nap under the seat and wait for the fun crap-covered ship to return. But I left instead. I can't wait to trash the third one, which no doubt all of you and the rest of the world will go and see, making a lot of talentless hacks into very, very rich people.
Pirates of the Carribean Makes Me Want to Shove Hot Pokers in My Eyes
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I don't get it. Johnny Depp takes a dumb script and tries to have some fun with it to keep from sucking down rails of blow during the tedious filming process, and the entire country goes freakin crazy. The American public, as a whole, have the worst taste in movies. I walked out on both Pirates movies after sitting there a solid 40 minutes for the first one, and nearly all unbearable 3 hours of the second one. And now you all are chomping at the bit to make me suffer a third time! And if you had your way, probably a fourth and a fifth and a sixth until the polar ice caps melt and we all drown and have to eat baby seals and rat sh*t to survive. I don't want to tell anybody what films to enjoy, but when an entire nation shells out ten bucks a pop twice for a couple of films that suck so, so very much, I lose hope in humanity. This is falling on deaf ears, isn't it?
WiiKend
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Kidding. I don't own a Wii. I've been playing Bully for a couple weeks, but still only a mere 20% done, which is fine by me cuz its the most fun I've had with a controller in my hands since I destroyed Guitar Hero. I've still got CoD 3 and Project 8 on deck, but from what I hear Project 8 sucks. Hopefully by the time I get around to it the next one if the THPS series will be out and I can just skim thru it.
It's been awhile
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Hey everyone. Been MIA from GS for a few months due to a move, job change, school applications, and a lot of other crap. But, I got a ps2 for christmas, so I'm finally back. Never had a playstation before, but I have to say I'm pretty happy with it. I've always considered myself to be a Nintendo loyalist, but that quickly faded once I started using it. I'm gonna hold on to the gamecube (can't give up smash brothers) but I doubt I'll use it much. In other news, I found a trunk full of old game stuff (original NES system and about 30 games, sega genesis and four games) and I'm not sure if I should hang onto it or sell it all. Anybody know how much all of that could possibly go for?
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