Friday, 10 September 2004: Sometimes you just lose all faith in humanity and last night was one of those nights.

While working at the gym, I was informed by another employee that a mutual friend of ours (who also worked at the gym but is now back at school) had his Camaro stolen from the parking lot at a auto body shop.

I can't even begin to enumerate just how uncool that is. He loved that car with a passion and had been saving up money the entire summer and was saving up more over the school year and into next summer to buy a new engine for the Cam.

People like these thieves need to have something very terrible happen to them. What, you might ask? Well, my ideas may be a bit extreme so I won't really go into them.

Thursday, 9 September 2004: It's about damned time. That's all I can really say about finally getting to the kickoff of the NFL season.

The first game of the season featured the New England Patriots against the Indianapolis Colts and that's a helluva matchup for the opener. Two great teams just duking it out.

Well, as you know, the Pats won, but only barely. They won because Colts kicker Mike Vanderjagt was wide right on what would have been the game-tying field goal with 24 seconds left. Ouch, that's gotta hurt. He'll remember that for a while. At least his name isn't Scott Norwood and this isn't Super Bowl XXI. 'Nuff said.

Wednesday, 8 September 2004: By Joe, I think I've got it! I know the cure for all the world's ills.

Want to know what it is?

... it's bubble wrap!

Yes, the translucent plastic sheets with bubbles on them intended for packing. Think about all the fun you've had with bubble wrap in your life. Even when you feel like complete and utter crap, sitting around and playing with bubble wrap, I'm sure, has always made you feel better. At least it has for me. And, apparently, it has the same effect on other people or it wouldn't have been featured so prominently in last night's episode of Scrubs.

So, join in with me! Stock your houses and offices with bubble wrap. Let's send pallets of bubble wrap to Al Q'aida. Maybe Osama bin Laden would even forget about his sexual chastising by an American woman (from Chicago, no less) if he had bubble wrap to make him feel better.

Yeah, I must be on something.

Tuesday, 7 September 2004: This morning had to be one of the easiest mornings I ever had waking Katie up. I simply took her hand and ran it down over my mouth and over my chin. She spun over incredibly fast with wide eyes and said, "oh shit!"

Yep, this morning I actually shaved off my goatee. For only the third time in 11 years, and the first time since 2000, it's gone. Katie had dared me a week or so ago to do it and doubted that I actually would. I figured this would be one of my safer dares. Hell, it should grow back relatively quickly. Unless it goes the route of my hairline, I should be set. We'll see. Maybe I'll even give you all a photo sometime soon.

Monday, 6 September 2004: I'm not entirely sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Chasing Amy, et al) has announced what his next film will be. And, unlike the original rumors that he would be directing either Green Hornet or the next Fletch film, it turns out he is returning to the roots that he said he was leaving behind forever. Yep, his next film will be entitled The Passion of the Clerks. Okay, so it is a blatant jab at The Passion of the Christ, but what would you expect from the guy that wrote and directed Dogma — a movie still blasted by religious fundamentalists as sheer blaspheme? (personally, I love the film).

I know that Smith heads are gonna be loving every moment until this film is released. I know that I am going to be excited to see Dante, Randall, and Jay and Silent Bob as well. But it scares me that he is doing a sequel of one of his earlier films. Sequels never seemed like Smith's MO in my humble opinion. Cross references in his films are one thing, but creating a true sequel is something else altogether and I hope to hell this script is fantastic.

My next question is, will this be another black and white like the original or will he be giving it the full-color treatment. You almost need the black and white in this. God I hope he does use B&W.

If you'd like some more information about the new movie, check out Yahoo! News.

Sunday, 5 September 2004: Well, I definitely won't be receiving any awards for consistent updates this past week, will I? All nine of the reviews in the Recent Updates box are new and have been piling up for over two weeks now. That's pretty sad. It took so much self convincing to actually open up Dreamweaver and begin to tackle all this crap that's waiting to be reviewed.

I gotta be more regular and not in an Ex-Lax sense, either. Katie and I watch too many movies for me to not update the reviews regularly.