This is a Man's Haircut, Right?

RIGHT??!!

American Gangster

Saw American Gangster last night. I loved every second of it. Mike wasn't as siced, because it wasn't violent enough for him. Bloodthirsty ass.

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, not sure what else you need. The story was great. Denzel plays a dude (an American gangster, if you will) who turns into a 1970's Harlem drug lord by buying heroin direct from the manufacturer and selling it purer and cheaper. Kind of like Wal-Mart I guess.

The thing that always gets me in these gangster movies is the wife. They love it when they can have amazing houses, cars, jewelry, and clothes, but the second something goes wrong the bitches freak out. Where did you think the money was coming from, slut? So the movie has those kind of mobster-movie cliches, but I still love it.

This Makes Me Bitter

With the writers strike under way, FOX is switching up its 2008 schedule.

The biggest news is that Day 7 of 24 is no longer on the schedule. Originally slated to have a three-hour, two-night premiere on January 13 and 14, the writers' strike has left FOX in a bind: air the first eight hours, then pause until the strike ends, or postpone the season so fans can get one continuous 24-hour adventure. FOX blinked, and now fans will have to wait even longer to see Jack Bauer take on Tony Almeida and the FBI.

Meanwhile, those Prison Break fans worried about a break from December until April can settle down, as it will come back to its Monday at 8pm time slot on January 14.

This is a Woman's Haircut, Right?

RIGHT??!!

B&C League Report: Week 9

Fantasy Football sucks! The Ravens suck!

OK, now that that's out of the way....

Congratulations again to the Losers, who are an awesome group of people: Wide Stance (I'm on a streak!), Hot Mama, Sex Panther, Grillz, and ManBearPig (thanks for seeking revenge on my loss, dude!).

The rest of you can suck my balls. As can the Ravens defense and offense. I'm tempted to cut all my Baltimore players, but then I'll be like Mike, switching QBs every week and still not getting results.

Heroes Getting Back in the Groove

It's like this whole season up til now has been this massive set-up with no release. But finally next week we'll be getting the What-Happened-During-The-Past-Four-Months episode. Yay answers!

This week, Matt's powers expanded - Bob told him he has his father's abilities, the ability to control anything within the mind. So Matt enters Molly's nightmare, Freddy Krueger-style, traps his Pops there, and escapes with Molly. Papa Parkman had been working for the real mastermind behind the killings - Adam Monroe. And who does Adam turn out to be? Kensei, of course. Maybe he doesn't age on top of being able to regenerate. Cuz he's looking like he did in 1671.

Peter began this episode in 2008, being hosed down in decontamination. The Shanti virus spread and killed 93% of the world's population. Peter meets his mom in the future, and she helps him get his memory back. Well, really, she GIVES him his memory back, at least the memories of his family. He teleports himself Back to the Present - as does Hiro (thank you Jesus!). Hiro and Ando are all giddy and reunited and feeling so good - until Ando tells Hiro his pops is dead.

West finds out it was Claire's dad who abducted him. Bennet finds out Claire's been dating and using her powers - and says it's time to pack up the family. In Sanders Family news, D.L. returns - as an illusion created by Papa Parkman. It makes Niki rage out, and she injects herself with the virus to stop her from killing everyone. But Mohinder says this virus has no cure. Dun dun dun! Bob tells Mohinder to get Claire - "her regenerative abilities are the key." That's when Mo decides to confess that he's been working with Bennet to take down the Company. He doesn't know which side is the right side. Hell, I don't know which side is the right side anymore!

Next week should be good. Better be good! This football game stinks. I'm out.

Prison Break: Two Times the Fun?

A two-hour episode today that really packed a lot in. There were definitely some great tense moments, but a lot of the usual Prison Break Fake-Outs as well.

Lechero killed one of his dudes, pretty much slit his throat on television, and then strung him up in the prison yard. That didn't really have a point - I just thought it was cool.

Lincoln finally told Michael that Sara is dead. Michael blames Whistler for this (right, dude, it's not your fault that she helped you escape and got caught up in everything). He calls Whistler out with the chicken foot. Remember: chicken foot = fight to the death. Michael uses the time leading up to the fight as a distraction for the boys to set up their escape. They start down the window - Michael even touches the ground - but a freaking CLOUD ruins their plan, which hinged on a guard being blinded by reflecting sun. Way to account for weather, Scofield.

So they have to fight, but of course are interrupted by alarms. The guards discovered a guard that they drugged. Prisoner #2 is blamed for the escape and killed.

Dumbass Lincoln lies to Susan every chance he gets, but she refrains from decapitating L.J. Long story short, Hulk!Linc catches up to Susan and L.J. and punches her square in the face. Nice! But he ultimately pusses out, doesn't kill her, and we're back to where we started, with her taking off with L.J.

Long story short back at the prison, Lechero figures out it was Michael escaping and wants in on it. And the Big Reveal is that Susan has been working with Whistler this whole time. Michael sees them talking in the visitation area. Maybe that's not so smart - meeting in public.

As for Mahone, here's his plot: Mahone out. He's offered a deal by his old FBI cronies - 4 years in (an American) prison in exchange for his testimony about the President, the Company, etc. He's scheduled to testify at some hearing but it keeps getting postponed. This makes Crazy, Paranoid Mahone uneasy. He's wigging out and that's where we leave him.

Then I turn on the football game and the Ravens just scored their first touchdown, making it 7 to 35. Gotta go watch Heroes - it has to be better than this game!

24 Dagger of the Week

Just when I'm getting Tony back, they might take him away again. TV Guide says:

An extended work stoppage is likely to mean that there will be no new season of 24. Fox won't start the show if its story can't be completed in the real-time format (and 24 episodes) that viewers expect.

Give me just 7!!! Rename the show!!!! Give me back Tony!!!

STRIKE!

Long story short - if this thing continues for a while, Heroes (and all shows, but I only really care about Heroes) is only going to run 11 episodes this year, 24 will start hella late and wouldn't run a complete season, The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live are in repeats, we'll have to endure reality shows and news programming, and eventually movie scripts will run dry. Chaos I tell you! The end of days!

Hollywood is going to all-out war, after last-minute talks gave false hope that today's strike by the Writers Guild of America could be averted -- or at least delayed for a few days.

Talks collapsed at 9:30 p.m. PST Sunday after more than 10 hours of last-ditch negotiations, only a few hours before the official start of the strike by the WGA at 12:01 am PST.

Picketing will start at 9 a.m. today at more than a dozen high-profile locations in Hollywood with guild members told that they're expected to spend at least 20 hours a week on picket lines. Targets include CBS Radford, CBS Television City, Culver Studios, Disney, Fox, Hollywood Center, NBC, Prospect, Paramount, Raleigh, Sony, Sunset Gower, Universal and Warner Bros.

"The parties are so far apart on core economic issues that it's probably not going to resolved quickly," said Anthony Haller, a partner at the law firm Blank Rome. "The core issues in this dispute aren't the kind that can be subject to the usual sort of horse-trading you see in typical labor negotiations. It looks like the WGA does not think that the DGA will be strong enough to get what the writers believe they need."

Fantasy Football Report

McLovin = Dominance. I don't know how else to say it. ManBearPig has tapped out with 75, while McLovin's Tight End can add to his 100 tonight. Hey, ManBearPig - McLovin's balls are dry.

Wide Stance = Slipping. Ron Mexico is done with 101, but I've got to make up 51 points tonight with 4 Baltimore and Pittsburgh players. Even I don't have that much faith in the Ravens. And Adrian Peterson can bite me.

MacNCheese = On a Roll. She has already beaten Hot Mama 92 to 82, and still has a player tonight.

Sex Panther = A Season of Loser Quarterbacks. Cutler gets injured, netting him a big fat zero. Peterskin has him 103 to 42, with both having players tonight.

Finally, Grillz has to make up 27 points with Mark Clayton to beat KMo's 83.

B&C Arrest of the Week

Chicago police say actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested at the Walgreens at 757 N. Michigan Av. around 2:30 a.m. Sunday after repeatedly refusing to leave the store.

A security guard repeatedly told LaBeouf that he wasn't welcome and had to leave because he appeared to be drunk, police said.

When the actor refused to leave, the security guard detained him and called police.

After he was arrested, LaBeouf was "very courteous and polite," and he posted bond before 7 a.m., police said.

LaBeouf, 21, of Glendale, Calif., was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing. He is scheduled to appear in court in Branch 29 on Nov. 28 at 9 a.m.

He's such a clean-cut kid. He gets arrested and it's for overstaying his welcome at a Walgreens. What a pussy!

Super Bowl Sunday

I'm butt-siced for the game today!! I'll be rooting for Peyton, but I picked the Pats, so I'll be schizoid during the game. I hope it lives up to my expectations - I want the total to be like 76!!!

We (by which I mean Mike) are making Game Day Chili and Sweet Potato Pie and I'll be drinking Woodchuck Cider, since it's Fall-like here.

I Officially Live in Paradise

Apparently November 3 marks the beginning of the season I like to call The Reason I Live In South Florida. It was 70 when we went outside this morning. PERFECT!!!

B&C DVR Alert II

Tyra's like a bad car wreck - I can't look away and she always leaves a bloody mess behind. Should I watch this show? I think I HAVE to watch this show.

In what is likely a first for television, Tyra Banks on Monday will devote her entire hour-long talk show to discussing ... the vagina.

"I have wanted to do this show for two years," says Banks, 33. "I know for a lot of women talking about what is going on in our bodies is extremely difficult, but it is incredibly important."

She added, "We should be able to talk to our daughters, sisters, mothers and friends about our bodies and not be embarrassed. I hope after this show women will not be ashamed about what's up down there."

Banks gives her audience an anatomy quiz, welcomes two gynecologists to the show, and shows a segment in which she takes a 28-year-old Plano, Texas, woman to her very first gynecological appointment – all in an effort to educate women about what can be an uncomfortable topic.

She explains: "My mother told me to look at myself because, 'It's just another part of your body that needs to be healthy just like your eyes, your nose, your ears, your mouth and everything else.' "

B&C Fatass Father of the Year

A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.

"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.

"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.

Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in "the 'hood," to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.

O'Neill said that searches of the Reid family's house and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.

While police found only weapons and ammunition -- and not drugs -- at the house, O'Neill apparently based his remarks on Britt Reid's statement that he once mistakenly grabbed a Vicodin tablet instead of health supplements out of a pill drawer at the home.

He said both boys had been overmedicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.

"It sounds more or less like a drug emporium there with the drugs all over the house, and you're an addict," O'Neill told Britt Reid.

Police found a shotgun and hollow-point bullets along with cocaine, marijuana and OxyContin, a painkiller, in the vehicle Britt Reid was driving during a Jan. 30 road-rage encounter, and later found a handgun at the house that they believe he had brandished at the other driver.

They found vials of heroin and steroids, more than 200 pills and a drug scale in Garrett Reid's car the same day, when he injured another motorist.

Both sons lived at their parents' home in the suburb of Villanova at the time of their arrests.

He coaches winners and he raises winners!

B&C DVR Alert

Be sure to watch or record Saturday Night Live this weekend. I predict it will be The Greatest Ever. Because Brian Williams will be hosting. Yes, that Brian Williams.

Feel Good Story of the Week

A 24-year-old New York City man remains jailed after he was found allegedly having sex with a 92-year-old woman's corpse inside the morgue of the hospital where he worked.

Anthony Merino, who works as a lab technician at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J., was arrested Sunday after police responded to a call from a security guard at the hospital. The guard reported witnessing the lab technician sexually desecrating the woman's dead body, according to police.

Merino was arraigned Monday on a charge of desecrating human remains, a second degree crime in New Jersey. A judge set bail at $400,000 with conditions that included Merino surrendering his passport and submitting to a psychological evaluation. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, if convicted.

At least pick a hot, young chick. This is just plain gross.

BABIES!

Here are some pics from our trip up North. Me and Fitz at a museum.

Two cute-ass pics of Owen.


The trip home wouldn't be complete without a cold ride in my dad's "new" VW Thing.

Geek Patrol: Good News/Bad News

X-Files 2 is officially on. Fox announced that it will hit theaters on July 25, 2008 with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson both reprising their roles from the hit TV series. As with the first movie, series creator Chris Carter will direct from a script he co-wrote with Frank Spotnitz. As you might expect, very little is known about the plot and the press release boasts that the only people who know the story are "top studio brass and the film’s principals." What we do know is that it will be a stand-alone story that will take the relationship of Mulder and Scully in "unexpected directions."

Like I've said before it has been a loooooong time since the show was on the air. But I'll still check it out since I loved the show. The release date coincides with Comic-Con. I hope they make an appearance anyway!

NBC has pulled the plug on Heroes: Origins, the Heroes spin-off that was slated to run next April. The network declined comment, but sources said the possible strike by the Writers Guild of America — which could happen after the guild's contract expires midnight Thursday — played a role in the decision.

"Looking at everything in context of the strike, we’re evaluating all of our production commitments," said one insider. "Scripts haven’t been written yet."

Origins was designed to provide fans with six episodes of a fresh Heroes-related show in place of repeats in the spring. If the labor situation changes quickly, the network could revisit the decision to scrap the show.

Dagger! Maybe Kevin Smith and Eli Roth can come direct a regular episode instead. I thought this was a mistake for a new series to do anyway. They were believing their own hype a little too much.

Real Men Use a Bedazzler

Pretty much an average day at work yesterday. Dudes using bedazzlers and running around in short shorts. I carved this pumpkin at my desk.