Brokeback Doogie

So I'm committing to writing some actual "Web journal" type content this week, since it's been a long freaking time. Today's topic: The un-closeting of Neil Patrick Harris. The big question floating around about all of this is "Were you suprised?". Me? Actually, I was and I wasn't. Afterall, the guy have been a broadway actor forever. But it's still hard to picture Barney, his beloved gigelo character on How I Met Your Mother (Mondays at 8:00pm, CBS), taking it up the tailpipe.

And then George from Grey's Anatomy came out the same week. That one was strange because I wouldn't expect it. Here's to hoping that they don't go and change their characters in anyway on their shows. That would be stoopid.

Friday Random Ten

1. Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me - Pearl Jam from Vitalogy
2. Helter Skelter - U2 from Rattle and Hum
3. Silent All These Years - Tori Anus from Star Lounge Collection 1996
4. Miami - Will Smith from Big Willie Style
5. Lovesong - Mars Hill from The Scenic Route
6. Little Man Big Man - Toad the Wet Sprocket from Coil
7. Idiot Box - Aquabats from The Fury of the Aquabats
8. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan from Bootleg Series Volume 4
9. Grand Illusion - Styx from Return to Paradise
10. Stand Inside Your Love - Smashing Pumpkins from Rotten Apples

T.R.T.

Hey remember when we all used to do a Friday Random Ten? Yeah, it's been a while. Here's one for this week, a day early.

1. Emily's Love Song - Skypark from Am I Pretty?
2. Disappear - Hoobastank from The Reason
3. Thirty Three - Smashing Pumpkins from VH1 Storytellers Bootleg
4. Rag Doll - Aerosmith from Big Ones
5. I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles from Anthology
6. Shut Your Mouth - Garbage from Beautiful Garbage
7. We Dance Alone - Beck from The Information
8. Losing My Religion - R.E.M. from SNL 25 Years of Performances
9. Run Around - Van Hagar from The Best of Both Worlds
10. Ground Beneath Her Feet - U2 from Live at Irving Plaza

Even Fatter Than the Real Thing

Taking his title as the world's biggest rock star a little too literally, the U2 frontman proudly showed off his ever-growing food baby that he's stored in his midsection while vacationing in Croatia. The 46-year-old rocker was with his wife of 24 years enjoying the Adriatic sun when onlookers spotted a beached Bono relaxing by the shore. No rescue efforts were made to return Bono back into the ocean.

Happy Lost Day!

Season Three starts tonight at 9:00!!!!!!

List of the Day: Favorite Lost characters

1. Kate (was there ever any doubt)
2. Hurley
3. Charlie
4. Locke
5. Sawyer
6. Jin & Sun
7. Jack
8. Desmond
9. Mr. Eko
10. Alvar Hanso

Farewell, Fish!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2604570

One of the best players and best character guys in the history of the Anahiem Angels is going to retire on Thursday. Tim was such a great player and I've grown up watching him since he won AL Rookie of the Year when I was 15. He will go down as my second favorite Angel ever. #1 on my list was the other player I grew up watching. He stays #1 because I have a more romantic take on things from when I was even younger. I was 9 when he was a rookie and he hit back-to-back home runs when I was there for my 10th birthday the following year. That kind of memory can't be beat. My favorite Halos of all time (in my lifetime, that is):

1. Wally Joyner
2. Tim Salmon
3. Chuck Finley
4. The Wonderdog Rex Hudler
5. Dick Schofield
6. Gary Discarcina
7. Mark Langston
8. Troy Percival
9. Troy Glaus
10. Darin Erstad
11. Kirk McCaskill
12. Jim Edmonds
13. Adam Kennedy
14. Bob Boone
15. Vladomir Guerrero
Honorable Mention: Mike James' Sideburns, Jack Howell, Mike Witt

Dishonorable mention for my least favorite Angel's - Mo Vaughn, Cecil Fielder, Tony Phillips, Brad "Roids" Fulmer and of course..... Mr. Clean - Garrett "Friggin" Anderson.

He's Still a Genius (in France)

Weird Al's new album is coming out next Tuesday. I know I'm a nerd, but he's still REALLY good at what he does. He did a spot on rendition of You're Beautiful, that won't be on the album:

http://media.thechrispirilloshow.com/mp3/yourepitiful.mp3

And the newest video is for "White and Nerdy" An amazing Chamelionarre parody:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1194164636&n=2

He will also have a Green Day parody: "Canadian Idiot" and parodies of Usher, Taylor Hicks and R.Kelly (Trapped in the Drive Through), which is sure to be funny.

Life with Coaxial

First off: I'm going to my Bosses house to watch the finale of Rock Star: SUPERNOVA tonight. I really don't know who is going to win. Last year we knew for a few weeks. This year Dilana was the shoo-in, but Toby has made a serious case for himself and I don't think Magni is out of it. As far as who I WANT to win: EVS!!!!!! I'd be happy with any of the four.

The good news is that I did get cable in time for September and the new season of television. The bad news: I have more than one conflict in need of resolution, having only one tv and one tivo. The following is my nightly breakdown of what I'll be watching this fall, or at least, what my Tivo will be watching. When I start my early mornings at Target, I'll be in bed at 9:00 (except Wednesdays for LOST, of course), so I'll have alot of TV catch up to do on the weekends.

Sunday (while watching Sunday Night Football during commercials)
8:00 - The Amazing Race (I'll have to catch Makeover: Home Edition and the Simpsons in reruns).
9:00 - ESPN
10:00 - Without a Trace

Monday (whilst watching Monday Night Football during commercials)
8:00 - 1st half of 7th Heaven
8:30 - How I Met Your Mother
9:00 - The Bachelor: Rome or Heroes. If one sucks than it'll be the other. If Heroes rocks, then I'll be watching that.
10:00 - What about Brian (although I might be watching Studio 60 if it blows my mind).

Tuesday (my go-to-bed-early night)
8:00 - Gilmore Girls
9:00 - ESPN
10:00 - ESPN

Wednesday
8:00 - 20 Good Years
8:30 - 30 Rock
9:00 - LOST, baby!!!!!!!
10:00 - coinflip: The Nine or Kidnapped, which ever pilot I like better

Thursday
8:00 pm - Survivor
9:00 pm - Grey Anatomy
10:00 pm - Shark

Friday
8:00 pm - The Ghost Whisperer
9:00 pm - Close to Home
10:00 pm - Numbers

TOP FIVE MOST ANTICIPATED RETURNS:
1. LOST
2. Gilmore Girls
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Amazing Race
5. Survivor

TOP FIVE MOST ANTICIPATED PILOTS:
1. 30 Rock
2. Heroes
3. Studio 60
4. The Nine
5. Shark

5-0

Being a temporary "bachelor", I took part in five fantasy football drafts this year. I had a pretty good start this weekend as all of my teams won. I have the Bankers Bunch, which you can link to from the right hand column. I've been in this league with a bunch of Biola grads for eight years. I've never won and I've only come close twice, but it's the best league I've ever seen. I got criticized big time for one of my early picks this year, but so far so good. I beat Josh! Then there is the Cramer league, which I've been in for eleven years, since my junior year in high school. I also have a four-man league with the Hutch Bros. and Mark, which we draft through email every year.

This year I added two more leagues, since I'm solo up here and didn't have any reason NOT to. I am in a league with people from work and a league with people from church.

A New (old) Look

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A SECOND JOB!

Yup, I just got hired at Target to work the Flow/Truck Unload shift, 4am-9am!

It's Been Awhile

So I haven't posted any actual text on this blog in ages...Still kickin' it in Eugene solo. I love my job and love the people I work with. I just hope that I can have my family with me soon! Outside of work, I've had a little extra free time, but no money, so that has translated into the following activities:

1. Fantasy Football - This season I am in five leagues - The Bankers Bunch (see link on the right) which I've been in for 8 years, the Cramer League, which by my count I've been in for 11 or 12 years (I don't know if we started my junior or senior year in high school), a church league up here and a work league up here. Plus with The Hutch Bros and T-Boy we do a four-man league that we draft over the internets. The other four we all do live drafts for (two this weekend!). Needless to say, when my family and i are back together, I won't even dream of doing this much. Too much time away from home for the drafts. I'll stick to the SoCal ones, where I'll be drafting on-line anyway.

2. $1.50 Movies - We have a cheap theater here, so i've actually been able to see quite a few movies this summer. I usually sneak into a second movie, so really, my movies are costing $0.75. Not bad.

3. Poker! - I actually got to play poker on Sunday night for the first time in MONTHS. A person I work with does a $5 buy-in tournament with her friends from Church and they invited me this week. Only four of us showed up and I finished second, so I kept my $5. Sucky the way I got eliminated. We were heads up and our chip stacks were pretty even. After some agressive betting on both parts, the board read 8-10-J-9 (the 9 came on the turn). I had 7-J suited, so I had been agressive with top pair. I got my straight on the turn and went all-in. The second she called me, I knew she had a queen for the higher straight, and that was all she wrote. She had Q-10 off-suit, so I was suprised that she was keeping up with my agressive betting the whole way.

4. TV - We're getting cable in the apartments today! (I live in a campus apartment right now). I have been living off of high-powered rabbit ears since I got here. I have a good signal on ABC, CBS and NBC and a decent black-and-white view of Fox. Now I'm going to have a clear picture on all of those, just in time for the fall seasons to start! Oh yeah, and a little thing called ESPN...just in time for football season. I'll have another TV post at some point.

5. Church stuff - I was blessed to walk into an awesome church group right away up here, since our friends Katie and Craig are already here and Craig is the Associate Pastor at Calvary Fellowship. On monday nights a bunch of people get together and do some fun activity at the church (Bocce ball, frisbee golf, etc.) and then we go to the music leaders house for a firepit, roasting smores and dogs. Then we usually play some sort of group board game. That has been fun and a great distraction my loneliness.

It's not Louie at the last supper, but it's good...

Flashback of the Day

Season Ocho

For my birthday last month, I got a handful of giftcards for best buy (and I've had some Itunes giftcards for a while), and they've been burning a hole in my pocket! Tommorow I'll finally use some of them as the Simpsons Season 8 DVD set comes out. I've been saving my gift cards for this and a few other things that are coming out soon: a new Weird Al album, the new Killers album, the new Bob Dylan Album and the U2 ZooTV Live from Sydney DVD.

Wisdom of a Friend

My friend Kate said something remarkable on her Blog that really hit home with me: Transition is Tiring. When I first left home to come up here to Eugene, I had a very tough few weeks of depression. I was just tired all of the time. Then we got word of the house selling and we were in a happy transition period, anticipating and planning for the move. Then we fell out of escrow and the bottom fell out again. I still got to go home for six days and spend some time with the kids and with Melissa, but then I had to come back, alone, again. Since I got back almost a week ago, back into this period of transition and an unknown future, I again feel tired all of the time. I didn't get out of bed until 1:30 in the afternoon on Saturday. I've had to drag myself out of bed every day.

I'm ready, Lord, for this transition time to be over! I'm ready to have my family all back together again! I'm ready for answers!

New Bat? Saunders Out?

All of a sudden, this is turning into an Anaheim Angels blog, because that's all I seem to be posting about lately....

Regardless, I'm intruiged by the news today that Andruw Jones has been claimed on waivers by an unspecified team. Could it be the Halos? I would be pretty happy if it were, and if the trade got worked out for Saunders and/or Bootcheck. As long as Weaver isn't part of it. Weaver would have been worth it if we had pulled off the Soriano deal, but not for Jones.

Here's to hoping that we get a bat, so that we can stick with the A's for the next two months...

What happened to Chip?

Lazy Eye and Reichen sitting in a tree....

First Place, baby!

The good son is 7-0 and the Angels are back in first place in the AL West...It's good to be a halo fan!