1-10-03 - My Life, Up Until Now
12-22-02 - Christmas Thoughts
10-21-02 - Man-Eater
9-22-02 - Last Thoughts for a while
9-19-02 - Questions
9-18-02 - My Pets
9-17-02 - The Mind of the Married Man
9-15-02 - Sunday Musings
9-10-02 - Cheating on My Wife
9-9-02 - How to lose Money W/O Even Trying
9-8-02 - Summer Recap
7-25-02 - Randomly Collected Thoughts
7-23-02 - Rice Standards
7-18-02 - Thursday Musings
7-17-02 - Life Decision
7-16-02 - GAY CLUB Rules
7-15-02 - Cell Phone Roulette
7-12-02 - Friday Thoughts
7-9-02 - Vacation Rules
7-5-02 - Threesome Etiquette
7-2-02 - More Reader's Mail
7-1-02 - The Tubing Trip
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Did you all hear that Fred Durst and Britney Spears are dating? I'd be speechless if it wasn't so predictable. Didn't we already see this plot in the Melissa Joan Hart vehicle Drive Me Crazy? Hot good girl (Hart, Spears) gets dumped by pretty boy (Kris Park, JustinTimberlake) and runs into the arms of misunderstood pseudo badboy (Adrien Grenier, Fred Durst)? Come on, show some originality!
I love the NFL Final Four this year. Each of the four teams has been good for the last five years or so, but none has yet broken through for the Super Bowl Title. Football fans have watched each of these teams have success for years and most of the key characters are familiar. This is a lot more interesting than the upstart champs of the last three years. We know these guys.
My predictions: Titans (+7.5) over the Raiders. Eagles (-4) over the Bucs. Rationale: Oakland and Tampa Bay are this weeks hot teams because of their dominance last week. Smart money always bets against the overhyped team. People are talking about the Raiders like they're unbeatable, but they have been beaten...5 times!!
2 Notes Before Taking My Betting Advice :
1) I am a huge Titans fan. My unresolved feelings were confirmed when they played the Texans in Week 8. I didn't know who I'd root for, but my body told me Titans in a huge way. Anyways, this means I'm obviously lovestruck and blinded.
2) I'm the guy who didn't like the Yao Ming pick, but raved about the Knicks picking Frank Williams. Yao Ming - All-Stat starter. Frank Williams - 0.2 PPG, 0.5 APG. Umm..mulligan.
My bedroom looks like it belongs to a 13 year old girl. I have 4 stuffed animals (out), a hamster, a three-layered "princess" bed, and a Norman Rockwell calendar. That combination ought to get me laid.
You know the Miller Lite commercial where the Tastes Great/Less Filling girls get in the fight in the water, mud, etc.? Of course, you know the one. Do you realize that at the end of the commercial, they originally said "Let's make out". Unbelievably, some group protested, so the fine folks at Miller took it out. How shocking.
How about my two favorite teams in the land, the Rice Owls and the Creighton Bluejays. Rice has got themselves a competitive team for the first time since Smokin' Rob Johnson was pouring in his 20 a game. Creighton is tearing it up at 13-1. Every pundit is tripping over himself to call them the "Next Gonzaga" and they are actually rated ahead of such perennial powers as Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisville. I'm loving it..
BTW, does everyone realize former Rice guard Mike Wilks is a part-time starter for the Atlanta Hawks?? And T.J. was on ESPN2 yesterday with his NBDL team.
Don't you want to meet the sick genius who came up the concept for FOX's Joe Millionaire? You know some girl left him for an I-banker when he was a struggling mail room clerk at the network. And now he's taking it out on 20 women on national tv.
You know I love me some Reality TV, but that new show Man vs. Beast is too much for me. If you haven't seen the commercials, Fox is pitting a man vs. a giraffe in a race, a man vs. a grizzly in an eating contest, and 50 dwarves vs elephant in a contest of strength. You know that the phrase "decline of Western Civilization" will be used in a few television columns.
One more FOX note: Anyone else notice that Rupert Murdoch heads the network that has brought us such family-values friendly shows as Married with Children, Temptation Island, and Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? also created the decidedly conservative FOX NEWS channel? Ahhh, the ideology of the almighty dollar.
1) "Our Love" - Rhett Miller
2) "Make You Feel That Way" - Blackalicious
3) "Dressed Up Like Nebraska" - Josh Rouse
4) "Geezers Need Excitements" - The Streets
5) "NYC" - Interpol
6) "You Were Right" - Badly Drawn Boy
7) "No One Knows" - Queens of the Stone Age
8) "A Stroke of Genius" - Freelance Hellraiser
9) "The Way We Ball" - Lil' Flip
10) "Yao Ming Song" - Chance McClain.
Late one Friday night during my junior year, I was awoken to the sound of rocks hitting my bedroom window. Curious, and admittedly hopeful, I walked over to my window. Sadly, the only thing waiting for me were four of my friends. Their reason for waking me: they were out of money/toilet paper and they were hoping I could help out so that we could go TP this girls house. Being the understanding friend that I am, I gave them the finger and went back to sleep. My reward for such a cavalier attitude...a plastic novelty snowman, freshly stolen from some old ladies lawn, found a new home in my basketball hoop. I think my mom still has it.
