Oldies: Sunday, September 28 - Saturday, October 4, 2003...
Saturday, 4 October 2003: I have updated the Kicker Zero page with Steve's stats from today's game against Adrian College. While I realize that the Wisconsin Lutheran Warriors ain't really doing so well (they are 1-3 overall), it is nice to know that, much like the Chicago Bears, the kicker is the highest scoring player. Steve's got 21 points scored on the season and the second best are two guys tied at 12 points each. That's scary.
Thursday, 2 October 2003: Okay, so far my picks for this year's baseball playoffs that I made back in April are still alive and kickin'. I predicted that the World Series would pit the Cubs against the Twins and both made the playoffs. So far, the Twins have a 1-0 lead on the Yankees in one branch of the ALDS while the Cubs are split with the Braves on the NL side of things. The remainder of the playoff teams are the Giants against the Marlins and the Red Sox against the A's.
Go Cubbies!
Tuesday, 30 September 2003: It's great when you win something. It's even better when you win something that you really want. I've been waiting for months to buy a copy of Scarface. I was going to go online and buy a used copy on DVD because it seemed that all retailers were out of the film. Then, a couple of months ago, it was announced that the reason all these copies were gone was because a Special Edition was going to be released. Well, that release happened today. I was all ready to just run out and buy a copy of it at Circuit City during my lunch or after work. However, I received an e-mail from a list I subscribe to on filmcritic.com about a contest to win a copy of it on DVD. So I entered. Three hours later, I received an e-mail saying that I had won. How's that for turnaround? Saved me $16. Actually it saved me $16 in credit since I was planning to return something to get the money anyway.
Monday, 29 September 2003: Don't you hate when a movie is supposed to come out in theaters and then, for no stated reason whatsoever, it doesn't and you never find out what happened? Well, this happened recently to me. I had been looking forward to the movie Ripley's Game which was to star John Malkovich as Tom Ripley, the older version of the character played by Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley. It sounded like it would be a good movie and, even though it had been pushed back a couple times already, I was under the impression that it would finally be released this coming November. So, last night, I'm flipping through the channel guide and I see that IFC (the Independent Film Channel) is showing Ripley's Game. I couldn't believe that it could possibly be the same one. Yet, when I checked out the program description, it was. So, I taped it because I wasn't planning on staying awake that late. I'll have to watch it and review it here soon. That annoys me, but I guess I get to save the ticket price, eh?
Sunday, 28 September 2003: Yes, I realize that this is now the third season of the show, but tonight, for the first time, I finally tuned in to watch Alias. Now, I know that Jennifer Garner is supposed to kick butt in the show and she really did a good job of said gluteal punishment in the movie Daredevil, but this is the first time I was able to witness some severe butt kicking on this show. She does so very well... and looks good doing it (I'm now ducking awaiting my wife's wrath).
But I do have one thing I want to say about the show. I know that this show was created and written by J.J. Abrams of Felicity fame and he cast Jennifer Garner knowing her from her guest stint in Felicity, but does he really need to make this show a Felicity cast reunion? Alias also stars Greg Grunberg who costarred as Shawn in Felicity and also guest stars Amanda Foreman who was Shawn's wife Megan. How long until we get Kari Russell as a big-haired rogue agent? Ooohhhhh, or better yet, get Garner's ex-husband Foley on and watch them both try to kill each other while Garner's current boyfriend and costar Michael Vartan gets in on the action? Most realistic fight we'll ever see on television, that's for sure.
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