Yet Again, Alec Baldwin Proves He's a Comedic Genius

Absurd Link of the Week, The People Making Bad Choices Edition

Have fallen behind in the 40 posts in 40 days challenege I clearly need to double up.

In other news, what do you do when your significant other physically abuses you for the whole world to see? Well, if you're Rihanna you clearly get back together with him. According to People Magazine, they have gotten back together after 3 weeks of being separated. Way to set an example to millions of girls. If your boyfriend beats you, it's probably something you did. Thank you for perpetuating the subjugation of women and justifying domestic abuse . Here's how I imagine the conversation they had:

Chris Brown: Hey babe, happy birthday.
Rihanna: who is this?
CB: It's me, Chris Brown, just wanted to call and wish you a happy birthday
Rihanna: oh, uh....thanks.
CB: And I also wanted to apologize for that....you know, whole beating you up deal. I'm sorry, I truly am, but sometimes you just make me so mad, and you're so pretty that I don't want to lose you. You know how it is in the rap world. I need to build up my cred, and I can't have my bitch disrespecting me in public. I had to make an example out of you. It hurts me more than it hurts you. So what do you say, you forgive me?
Rihanna: Oh Chris, your'e such a romantic.

And, end scene. Yup, our world's going down the toilet.

Greatest Films of All Time, According to Roger Ebert

Pretty interesting list.
Some highlights:
Annie Hall
Le Samourai
El Topo
Manhattan
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia

There are some interesting titles in this list. The inclusion of 'Say Anything' surprised me. Good for John Cusack.

Writing 40 entries in 40 days will prove to be a challenge. I'e decided that my original challenge was 40 entries in 40 days, but this doesn't mean that I'll have to post one a day. I just have to average one entry per day, but if I miss one, I'll double up, and so on and so forth.

Pre-Spring Cleaning

Cleaned up the layout. New Experiment. I'm not catholic but I played one as a child. It's Lent. What does this mean, you ask? Well, for me it means 40 days, 40 posts. Should be interesting, should be difficult. I don't even think I had a total of 40 blogposts last year. Hell, I don't even think there are a total of 40 blog posts since I first started. We'll see how it goes.

A quick pimp out to the new blog , Around the Couch. Interesting stuff from different collaborators (myself included). My latest entry is about television portrayal of nerds and why it's bad. Pretty heavy stuff.

I like chorizo. Actually I like any Mexican food. Over the weekend, to cure a nasty hangover I went over to Fiesta! Supermarket (I don't think the exclamation point is there, but it should be) and ordered myself some Menudo. No, not the band, the dish. It was glorious. It's historical roots are also very fascinating.

In pre-revolutionary Mexico, poverty among the campesinos was chronic, and little if anything that might be prepared as food was left to waste. Usually, the best cuts of meat would go to the hacienda owners while the offal went to the peasants. These leftovers consisted of organ meats, brains, head, tails, hooves, etc. As cattle and sheep are ruminants that require lengthy intestinal tracts to digest their diet of grasses and raw seeds, the stomach is one of the largest pieces of offal available from these animals.

History and politics of food are neat. Off to Vulcan Video for 2 for 1 Wednesday.

1) After discovering my roommate had a French press, I have decided to join the ranks of those that brew their own coffee at home. Today was the first time, and although there were some glitches, it went quite alright. I'm gonna dig this whole not paying 2 bucks for a cup of coffee thing.

2) I'm reading the Sandman series. It's wild. I'd recommend it.

3) Today, I start my new job. Not looking forward to it. The hours are going to kill me. We'll see how things work out.

4) I really am making a concerted effort to write more and more.

New Home

Every other week, I will be posting on www.aroundthecouch.com, a collaborative blog started by one of my good college friends. This does not mean that I will stop writing here, though because the rate of blogging is less frequent than twice a week here, it'll mean that I'll probably write even less. I'm going to make a concerted effort to write more, though. New content will most assuredly be posted here. After all, www.aroundthecouch.com has a rule about keeping the language clean, and I most certainly need an outlet to swear my pretty little head off. Cunt, cock, shit, balls. Penis Holster. See, there. I feel better already

TORN #3

I'm sitting at a half empty bar, about to watch the Dallas Cowboys game. I couldn't watch it at home because Time Warner cable does not carry the NFL Network. So far this season I don't think I've missed a Cowboys game and I didn't want to miss this one. It's the last game to be played at Texas Stadium, a place so deeply rooted in the American sports consciousness that it's a bit difficult to not get a bit sentimental about it. Add to that the playoff implications and this easily becomes one of the biggest games of the regular season. One thing I've always regretted is not attending a game at such a historic stadium, but so it goes...

1.Question: Why is there a hole in the roof of Texas Stadium? Answer: So God can watch his favorite team play on Sunday.

2. Earlier this week, there was an article on ESPN.com about the reporter's most significant memories from Texas Stadium since it first opened. Interestingly enough one of my favorite memories as a Cowboys fan made the list, and it's not particularly a victorious moment. The late 90s and the first part of this decade has been rough for Cowboys fans. The last Super Bowl win happened in January of 96, nearly 13 years ago. That's more than half my lifetime. Similarly, the last time the Cowboys won a playoff game was in December of 1996. So, again, more than a decade since a playoff win. The time spanning from 1996 to about 2004 has been a dark period in Cowboys history, and yet those were my most formative years as a sports fan. Things don't seem so grim now with Tony Romo (our Holy Savior) at the helm of the team, but it's been rough. In September of 2000 the Cowboys played the San Francisco 49ers at home. The 90s were all about this particular rivalry, with 5 of the 10 Super Bowl victories won by either of these two teams (The 'Boys won 3, and the Niners won 2. Conversely, these two teams are tied for most Super Bowl wins, 5.) During that game, the Niners were beating up on us, and it wasn't pretty. That Niners team featured a young megalomaniac named Terrell Owens ( haha,he now plays for the Cowboys) who after scoring his first touchdown ran to midfield from the end zone and posed on top of the star. Later in the game, he ran and did the same thing, only he spiked the ball, adding insult to injury. That didn't last long, however. As Owens ran towards the middle of the field, Corner George Teague ran after him and just knocked him out cold. Teague sent a message. This is our house. Do not disrespect us. I think that did more for me as a fan than anything else. Even at our lowest moment, the players were proud to wear the Blue star on that silver helmet and that meant alot to me.



3. Tracy Morgan is a funny motherfucker. I think what makes him funny as shit is his lack of social tact. Earlier today, in between laundry and cleaning my room, I found this. If ay of you get a chance, you should check out Werewolf Bar Mitzvah. It's transcendental.

4. I'm drunk. Bars with wireless internet=brilliantly evil.