So what does a guy do when Saturday rolls around and there is no college football on that he cares about?  Easy...watch a new horror movie...haha.  Oh man Saturday was depressing.  The only college football on was Division II playoffs...which isn't horrible...but I know nothing about any of the teams.  I decided to check out "The Mist", the latest Stephen King story to hit the big screen.  I've read a ton of his stuff, and usually the movies suck.  It had been about fifteen years since I read "The Mist", and from what I could remember, I think the original story was like you're reading a guy's journal about everything that happened, and it didn't really end.  Based on what I could recall, I was interested to see how this was going to turn out.  Holy crap what an ending.  Now I don't personally like Stephen King because he's another "celebrity" who feels we need to know how evil this country is because we want to kill those who are trying to kill us, so I'm very tempted to spoil the movie.  Why?  Because he said something like anyone that leaks out what happens should be hung...or something like that...I'm not kidding...so it's tempting to do it just for my own personal satisfaction knowing it would piss him off if he ever stumbled across this.  Don't worry, I'm not going to ruin it.  But I can say it was THE darkest ending I've ever seen in a horror movie.  Now I know "Seven" isn't considered a horror movie, but it's pretty close, and until I saw "The Mist" that movie had the darkest ending I've seen.  "The Mist" has an ending where you are literally just sitting there going "holy shit...." and can't think of anything else to say.  Plus the rest of the movie was cool too...and of course I was getting ticked off a little bit watching Thomas Jane act like somewhat of a badass knowing he won't be in the next "Punisher" movie.  Man, that just blows.  Go see "The Mist"...it's definitely worth the time if you like that kind of movie.  Also, I saw today that the Rob Zombie remake of "Halloween" comes out December 18th...that is a definite must-see.

I also did something I really didn't want to do, and that was actually buy Christmas presents on a weekend.  I usually do my shopping on some weeknight like a Tuesday and usually have good luck avoiding crowds, but we've got an Angel Tree at work, and all the presents had to be in on Monday morning.  No, this isn't so I can brag about how kind and whatever I am by doing this, I just have what I think is an amusing anecdote about it.  If you don't know what the Angel Tree is, every year The Salvation Army puts these up at different places like malls and grocery stores, and you pick a card from a child off of it and buy them presents.  I swear, reading some of those cards is heartbreaking.  The cards will have what they need, which usually includes clothes with their sizes, and then their wants...and sometimes it's a simple as a toy car.  Anyway, the one I picked at work had a need of clothes and a want of Spider-Man toys.  Now who better to hook a kid up with Spider-Man toys than yours truly?  If you don't believe me, then read on.  I went to Wal-Mart since I was going to buy the kid clothes and figured I might find some good Spider-Man stuff in the toy section.  I found the aisle where the guy toys would be...stuff like soldiers and cars and comic characters...and found the Spider-Man stuff.  I first picked up a Spider-Man figure that launches a web with this hook-looking thing on it and knew it would be perfect.  I flipped the package over and it showed a picture of how to use it, and had the web capturing Venom.  Well then I knew it wouldn't be any fun without a Venom figure, so I grabbed one of those too.  After all, if you have the hero and no villain, what fun is that?  So I start looking through the other stuff and saw a cool Spider-Man figure that came with suction-cup tipped webs that you can attach on walls and stuff to make him swing.  Oh yeah, I had to get that...heck I should have picked up two...hahaha.  I flipped that package over and it showed a picture of Spider-Man swinging into Sandman.  Guess what, I had to get a Sandman figure too.  And then I was wondering if the kid saw "Spider-Man 3"...because if he did then he would know that Harry Osbourne, aka the new Green Goblin, helped Spidey battle the Sandman...so I had to get a figure of him to complete the set because I know if I was that kid, I'd want to re-enact scenes from the movie and would need all the characters.  That stuff is important to a kid!!!  And then I saw the Holy Grail of Spider-Man toys.  Now when I was a kid, I had a toy called The Spider-Man Webshooter.  It was this huge plastic thing that went on your wrist with a picture of Spidey on it...and when you hit the button a suction-cup tipped dart would launch from it with a string still attached the the shooter.  I thought it was badass as a kid...but NEVER was there something as cool as what I saw.  It's called "The Spider-Man Mask and Web Blaster".  First off, this comes with a Spider-Man mask...but not just any mask...it's actually reversible to where you can wear the symbiote mask!  That's the black one in case you didn't know.  On top of that, you get a web-shooter that shoots projectiles as well as webbing!  It actually comes with this big can of web fluid that I can only assume is like some kind of silly string...I really don't know...but the pictures on the box looked VERY cool.  I actually wonder now if I should have picked up two...haha.  I ask again, who better to hook a kid up with Spider-Man toys than me?  It's probably because I knew what I would want to play with if there was no chance anyone could ever see me do it...hahaha.  Maybe I can find out what kid is getting these toys and show up to demonstrate how to use them?  Haha...but that's why I picked this kid because I knew if anyone at my job would know what toys it takes to help create the world of Spider-Man, it would be me as sad as that is.  And all these years people have been telling me to grow up...if I did then this kid wouldn't get the right toys he needed to truly act out the Spider-Man universe, SO THERE!

After shopping and the movie, I came home to chill out and was involved in playing the latest wrestling title for the Xbox 360, "Smackdown v. Raw 2008".  Don, the shredder of Noisecult, stopped by that night after work and found me embroiled in a huge feud with Edge.  My character of Skullkrusher, which seems to resemble me...haha, had stolen Edge's woman Candice away from him and he was pissed.  When Don got there, I was showing him some of the game and how the career mode I was in works, including text messages and voicemails you get on various days of the week to further the stories along.  The one I received was from Candice, and she left a message stating how confused she was, maybe she did the wrong thing, she still thinks about Edge, and other typical girl stuff...haha.  Don was joking about how uncomfortable that was, almost like things he's heard in real life and I had to agree because I've heard it too.  This led to us talking about how why neither one of us can ever be the guy that the girl just can't ever get over and still thinks about and why can't the ex screw up someone else's mind by wanting to get back with one of us...haha.  And then we both came to the conclusion that if we broke up with someone, the last thing we would want is for them to start going out with other people only to realize they wanted to be with one of us.  Basically, if I wasn't good enough the first time around, then buh-bye.  Yes, I have to admit once or twice I've contacted someone down the road to try and rekindle the flame...we've all made that mistake.  Wait a second...I know people where doing that worked.  Hmmm...I wonder why it worked for them and not for either one of us.  Wait, I think I know.  After we got done with that conversation which lasted about two minutes, I was like "Yeah whatever...hey man check out this new ECW DVD I got where Sabu and Terry Funk are in a barbed-wire deathmatch" and then after that we watched zombies rip people apart in "Planet Terror".  I'm serious, that's really about how it went.  Honestly, when you watch an old wrestling match were two guys are bloodied and wrapped in barbed-wire, and Sabu even ripped his bicep open and taped it together during the match, romance and crap is out the window!

Oh, a confession.  I hate the Florida Gators since they're the bitter arch-rival of my Georgia Bulldogs.  All year I have cursed Tim Tebow...the QB of Florida.  I couldn't stand that guy since I hate Florida so much and he was treated as a golden boy by the sports media.  The Heisman Trophy was given out this past weekend, and personally I thought Colt Brennan of Hawaii should win...and I ESPECIALLY didn't want to see Tim Tebow win because of how much I hate the Gators.  Well Tim Tebow did win, and when he got up there to give his speech he started it by thanking his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for surrounding him with a great team and great coaches and the chance to do what he loves doing.  Well great...now I felt bad.  No, I'm being serious, I felt bad for disliking this guy after I hear him giving thanks to The Lord at the start of his speech.  He repeated that a couple of times as well.  So next season I'll only dislike him for on the field play...hahaha.  Man I felt bad...I really did.  It was just one of those times where I was slapped in the face with how unimportant some things are in the grand scheme of things.

I know I said last time I was going to go over articles about the attack on Christmas...and I still may in the next week or two...but I should quit saying what I'm going to do next time because it's too big of an obligation...ha!  And now to go watch some more of ECW's bloodiest matches on DVD before bed.  I love those quiet times.