Odds And Ends

Well, it's a late Sunday night, and I don't have much in the way of motivation. However, since I've only had two perfunctory posts today, I wanted to encompass the thousands of thoughts running around my psychotic mind. Fasten your seatbelts, my friends; it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

* The Philadelphia Sillies made sports history tonight. My hometown baseball team is the first team EVER to suffer 10,000 losses. And how do the idiots that share my air react to this complete and utter embarrassment? They celebrate it! The sportswriters celebrate it. The moron baseball bloggers celebrate it. The frakkin' team celebrates it! They are wearing it like a Red Badge of Ineptitude! Well, it's not a World Series or anything, but it's something, right Philly? Jackasses.

* Tony Stewart won today's NASCAR event in Chicago. Immediately after he crossed the checkered flag he made a bee line for the fence. I heard myself saying, "Jesus Christ, don't climb the damned fence again. NOBODY CARES!" Luckily, the kids were upstairs at the time. Well, fat boy climbed the fence, and it looked awfully difficult, even with his sloth-like reflexes. So, when someone from TNT - their NASCAR coverage sucks ass, by the way - asked him about the climb, Stewart responded thusly . . .

"I'd like to see your fat ass get up there!"

He actually said this to a reporter on live TV - and he was dead serious. How can anyone cheer for this obnoxious asshole? Then again, I'm kind of an obnoxious asshole, and 103,000 people have stopped by here. Hmm . . .

* I just finished watching Clerks II - courtesy of my brother, Randal Graves. It is easily one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. And, it does the impossible: it's better than the original. TransFormers. Heh. I don't know why, but I never thought Rosario Dawson was all that attractive until I saw her in this film. Weird.

I wonder if she has a Pillowpants?

* And finally, I wanted to mention Ron Paul. I don't know who this guy is, or why he's so damned popular, but Rachel said that any time someone mentions him on the 'net, it creates guaranteed hits. And I'm nothing if not opportunistic. Heh.