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Mike Tyson wants to play B.A. Barracus? Mike Tyson as B.A.? Tyson replacing the baddest mutha alive, Tyson with his sissy voice and taste for ear? No. No, no, no, no, no. Mr. T could kick Tyson's sorry hiney eight times a day and still have time to drink his milk and stay in school.
Fortunately, the article says Clooney wants Mr. T back for the upcoming A-Team movie, and that fills me with glee. The idea of Clooney in an A-Team movie also makes me happy. If we can't get George Peppard back, the least we can do is have someone with a great deal of charisma playing Hannibal Smith, and Clooney's got that in spades.
I just wonder how Clooney would look with a cigar between his teeth... please oh please don't go PC on us now and get rid of it in some misguided anti-smoking campaign.
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It's currently 3:47pm here in Pasadena and it looks like early evening. The smoke blowing in from the wildfires is making the sky overcast, and there is a yellow, sulphury haze floating about. The air doesn't smell any different - Pasadena isn't anywhere near the fires - but it's a very surreal thing.
Hopefully the fires won't delay flights going out of Burbank on Thursday...
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A brief message for Fred Phelps:
Mr. Phelps (I'm not going to use the honorable title of "Reverend" to describe you), please shut up. Your hate and judgment are utterly and completely out of line with the teachings of Christ, and as a Christian who tries to follow Christ I ask you to please either take a long hard look at whether Jesus would truly condone your actions and speech, or whether you need to either repent of your views or your acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as Lord.
If he doesn't disown us, I think the rest of Christianity needs to disown him.....
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Well, the Marlins won the series... at least evil didn't completely triumph in baseball this year. Yeah, I would rather have seen the Cubs or Sox in it, but all in all, as long as the Yankees lose it's not that bad at the end of the day. And I have to respect the Marlins for winning with a really young team and one of the lowest payrolls in baseball. The fact that the Marlins and the Cubs are both really young means that there will probably be a rematch of this year's NLCS somewhere down the line.
And Jack McKeon should at least be in the running for Manager of the Year... but in the end, I think it should still go to Dusty.
Recently I've been attending the City of Angels Film Festival and the associated seminars called Mere Entertainment. My friend David, who has some experience in Hollywood, has been talking me around and introducing me to muckity-mucks, which I really appreciate. I've done a little networking now... not too much, I tried to avoid blatant networking at a conference like this, but hopefully my name's out there a little. David also introduced me to a few people who can help me get started, because I have no idea what to do. So things are going well out here in Tinseltown. I'm still not 100% sure that this is the direction I'm supposed to head in... but that's going to take some prayer and introspection anyway. I need to beef up my spiritual disciplines at the very least.
Maybe then I'll achieve my lifelong goal of marrying J-Lo...
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Ever wanted to see what Sir Mix-A-Lot's Baby Got Back is like in Latin?
Oh, and who wants to marry a Founding Father?
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"The Mix-A-Lot thing may be unsuitable for viewers under 18," he said, pretending for a moment that anyone actually read this page...
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Tidbits....
Another reason to vote against the Bushies in '04. Why can't we Christians ever be represented by rational people who take Jesus' teachings on peacemaking and social justice seriously? Why, instead, are we represented by morons who think that the USA is somehow God's Favorite Country Ever, and that Muslims are going to lose because God is stronger than Allah? the RNC loves to kowtow to those morons, millions of whom are in the "red states" whose electoral votes induced the Supreme Court to pronounce GWB the president. Seriously... he has a right to his religious beliefs, but do Muslims really need another reason to feel hated and persecuted? Couldn't the Bush administration use a little common sense?
Oh, and if anyone knows where this guy's bookstore is, please tell me, so that I can never buy a book there and urge everyone I know near Rockport, TX never to buy books there either.
Since when is it one's patriotic duty to assist Johnny "Public Enemy No. 1" Ashcroft in his persecution of those who disagree with him?
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Grrrrrrrrrrr. Is there any kind of mechanism in place to impeach John Ashcroft?
Any at all?
Oh, and the FREAKING YANKEES won. This seems to be a good week for PURE, UNADULTERED EVIL. Stinkin' George Steinbrenner.
But I did find a job for GWB that I wouldn't actually mind him in... the next Commissioner of Baseball. See, when we kick him out of the Oval Office next year (God willing), we can put him in a job he actually knows something about - and lend prestige to the game. I know Dubya wouldn't have tolerated that fan catch... wait a minute, his brother's the governor of Florida. Of course he would have tolerated it.
But still, think about it... ex-owner of the Texas Rangers during some of their good years, guy who actually knows a thing about baseball, guy who isn't Bud Selig (whose Brewers are profitting royally from baseball's dirty revenue-sharing agreement), ex-President who could lend a lot of the public eye to a sport that's regaining popularity... I think he'd make a great commissioner. If nothing else, he loves baseball, and will already be guaranteed the posh life of an ex-President for the rest of his life, meaning that unlike Selig he wouldn't be looking just to profit himself.
All the more reason to vote Democrat next year...
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So I'm thinking of trying to do some stuff in Hollywood.
I don't know why I have this compulsion to start working in film, but as I've been meeting with arts people at Fuller (some of whom have connections in the industry) and contemplating the upcoming City of Angels Film Festival, I've just felt compelled to try to do something in Hollywood.
The time is ripe. I'm young, I'm in LA, I've got a backup gig (the whole "school" thing I mention on occasion), and Hollywood needs good Christian folks. One of the guys I've been networking with has some connections to Christian groups in Hollywood, and I'm hoping to get involved in those somehow. I guess the most rational course (if anything someone does to try to get into Hollywood can be called a rational course) is to talk more with this guy and see if he can get me hooked up with some auditions or a talent agency or something, and to start networking at the Film Festival and the various panels I'm attending.
So yeah, there's that. In other news, Alisa's going to be here in about three hours, and I'm really excited, because I miss her quite a bit. She's spending the weekend up here. That makes me happy.
And there's always next year for the Cubbies...
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It's all over. The Cubs lost tonight, 9-6.
This just makes me angry, because Florida didn't win by being the best team on the field. If that fan hadn't gotten in the way of Moises Alou, he would have made the catch, there would have been 2 outs, and the game would have been much different. That's the curse, right there. Sure, we lost tonight, but if we'd have won last night we wouldn't have had to even play tonight. Alex Gonzalez making the error I can sorta forgive, because it didn't ruin the integrity of the baseball game... he was one of the players whose skill was being tested. The best team is supposed to win. But that fly ball ruined the integrity of the game, because it cast in doubt whether the best team truly won. It's quite possible that the Marlins would have won that game anyway; but now, we'll never know. Despite the fact that the record books won't have an asterisk there, it'll always be present in our minds: *=Cubs lost Game 6 due to a fan.
Major League Baseball needs to take a serious look at their rules regarding fan interference... I think that if, in the umpire's opinion, the fan interfered AT ALL with the outcome of the play in question, regardless of whether or not the ball was in the field or not, then it should be reviewable. Clearly, if the fan's hand hadn't been there, Alou would have successfully made the catch; nobody who can see the trajectory of the ball and Alou's glove right there can dispute that. Therefore, under my rule, the umpire would be free to call that an out on fan interference, and the integrity of the game would have been preserved. Under current rules, the injustice was allowed to continue. This is troubling.
I'm really disappointed. I thought we had a shot this year. But a 26-year-old consultant took it away.
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ALCS Game 5: Yankees 4, Red Sox 2.
NLCS Game 6: Marlins 8, Cubs 3.
If anyone knows the address of that stupid freaking kid who messed up the Cubs' win in the 8th, please, for his sake, don't tell it to me, because I would be on the next flight to Chicago to kick him very hard in a very unpleasant place. I am so angry at that kid right now, because if he hadn't put his hand in the way of a ball that was heading RIGHT INTO ALOU'S GLOVE, that 8th inning rally wouldn't have taken place, and the Cubs would have the National League pennant right now instead of going into Game 7 after a disheartening loss. I mean, he could see Alou right there, could see his glove, knew he was in the front row, knew that Alou had a shot at that ball, and what did he do? His stupid greedy self put his hand in the way, because his wanting a souvenir was apparently more important than the Cubs winning the pennant. I can't believe this.
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ALCS Game 4: Rained out. Meh.
NLCS Game 5: Marlins 4, Cubs 0. Cubs lead 3-2.
We got beat, plain and simple... Beckett had the Cubs' number. Can't argue with that. It's still okay, though... they're going back to Wrigley where the Cubs have Prior and then Wood on the mound. If the Marlins are going to win this, they're going to have to prove themselves worthy by going through the two strikeout kings of the NL in their home stadium before a wild Chicago crowd. I still have a good feeling about this.
And it's also kinda nice that the Cubs could win the clincher at home now instead of in Florida....
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Speech in America is dead. What do we do?
The political speech of the future: Pols text their messages directly to our mobile phones, thus cutting out that whole "verbal expression" quagmire entirely.
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First, the bad news.....
ALCS Game 3: Yankees 4, Red Sox 3. Yankees lead the series 2-1.
I have the utmost respect for the Yanks as an organization, at least before, say, 1973 (when Steinbrenner took over the team), but seriously, who with any kind of pulsing heart in their body can root against a Red Sox-Cubs World Series? This was an ugly game, to boot... a bench-clearing brawl and an incident in the bullpen. Wow. Now for the good news.....
NLCS Game 4: Cubs 8, Marlins 3. Cubs lead the series 3-1.
I had a good feeling coming into this game, that me watching was going to be good luck for my Cubbies tonight... and my gut feeling was confirmed as I watched Aramis hit a grand slam in the first. There was no looking back from there... a wonderful game by all, particularly my boy Aramis, who had two homers, a clutch single, and 6 RBIs, tying a NLCS record.
Now all we have to do is win one more game, be that tomorrow in Florida or back home at Wrigley, where Prior and Wood will be pitching. Things are looking good for dem Cubbies...
...knock on wood...
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a tribute to baseball
This year's baseball playoffs have awakened in me a long-slumbering giant, have moved feelings that I thought permanently stilled long ago. They reawakened my love for baseball.
Let those who don't understand the game call it boring, or slow, or uneventful, or not a sport. Let's look at the track record... these are the same people who say we should care about soccer, that it's the world's sport. But we in America already have a sport that is completely our own, a sport this country made great, a sport that is synonymous with our country, and that is baseball.
One cannot think of baseball without thinking of America. As much as I like to think of myself as above any form of patriotic zeal, to see two teams out on the diamond playing their hearts out stirs something uniquely American in me. It's the love of the underdog, the knowledge that no matter how good one player is he cannot win the game alone, the fact that in every game, at every at-bat, with every pitch, almost anything is possible. It's seeing a no-name second-baseman who barely made the roster pinch-hit in the 11th, hit a triple, and score the winning run. It's seeing a pitcher who bats under .200 pick up 2 RBI's. It's bases loaded, two outs, full count, in the bottom of the ninth when you're only up by one run. That's America. That's baseball.
The reason I love baseball is because it's as much a mental game as it is a physical one. Every play, every pitch, means something, and every time you think you get it, you don't really. Those who think baseball is boring think so because they don't realize exactly how psychological a game it is, because they don't understand the inner complexity that makes the outer simplicity so beautiful. They see nine men standing out on the field and see only the standing; they see a 2-2 count and see only the balls and strikes. They don't see that the count is exactly where the batter wants it because he can keep fouling it off until he gets the pitch he wants. They don't see the infielders shifting subtly to the left knowing that this is a guy who will go to the opposite field. They don't see the man on first make a break to pull the shortstop off his base and allow a hit into the gap. All they see is ten men on a field, not moving. That's boring to them; it's infinitely interesting to those who know the game.
Those who call baseball the thinking-man's sport are right. It is. But it's not the "ivory-tower-college-professor" thinking-man's sport, it's the "construction-worker-who-can-tell-you-how-many-RBI's-Gonzalez-had-last-year" thinking-man's sport. It's the thinking-man's sport for those who will surprise you with what they know. Almost since its inception, baseball has been the sport of the working man. Baseball is the bleacher seats at Wrigley, it's Southies at Fenway, it's bums in Brooklyn and the day-in-day-out bus tours of the bush leagues. It isn't luxury boxes and limousines... it's buying your ticket from a shady-looking guy outside the stadium on game day, sitting amongst the common folk (at least at the parks where the common folk can still afford to see a game), giving high-fives to the kids around you when your boys hit a homer.
In short, baseball is America, because baseball means that anything can happen. This year, two of the final four teams in the playoffs haven't won a World Series in 75 and 95 years... and they both have a shot. That's what baseball's all about... the "lovable losers" coming back and surprising everyone, the "curse of the Babe" being lifted, the big guys getting upset yet again.
Baseball is beautiful.
Go Cubs, go Sox... but mostly go Cubs. Give it another twenty years, Sox fans... maybe then I'll root for you.
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NLCS Game 3: Cubs 5, Marlins 4, 11 innings. (Cubs lead the series 2-1.)
Wow. That was a nailbiter. Since I was bad luck tonight, I only changed channels to the game from time to time, and every time the Cubs would go ahead the Marlins would turn around and tie it up again, so I was a bit tense and now I'm a bit hoarse.
Only two more and we're in the Series...
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I hate laundry day.
I don't know why I hate laundry day. I mean, it's not like it really involves me doing much - I go downstairs with my clothes and detergent, put them in the washer, and then come back up - and do it again a few times. I don't have to sit down there and watch it, or wash the clothes myself on a washboard. I just turn a machine on. Usually, I even take the elevator, so I don't even have to climb a flight of stairs.
But the fact remains... I hate laundry day.
Maybe it's just the folding at the end that gets me. Maybe it's having to go through all my clothes and decide which ones need washing and which ones don't. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the fact that, by some queer coincidence, every time laundry day rolls around it's cloudy and a bit chilly outside. Maybe it's the fact that I'm spending my day off at home washing clothes, instead of... well, at home not washing clothes is what it would be.
It's all a mystery.
But for some reason, I hate laundry day.
This can be read as a dramatic monologue for auditions and acting classes, if need be, but don't blame me if you don't get cast... blame my dirty blue jeans.
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NLCS Game 2: Cubs 12, Marlins 3.
Sammy is the man. That's all I have to say about that.
Oh, and Mark Prior should seriously be considered for the NL Cy Young...
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So yesterday was a bad day for "causes I support."
First, the Cubs lost the opener of the NLCS, 9-8, in a heartbreaking 11th inning. They went down 2 in the top of the ninth, Sammy hit a homer in the bottom to tie it, but eventually they still lost. Disappointing, but considering that the Cubs didn't play at the top of their game, suffered a 5-run 2nd inning, and the worst starter on their rotation was pitching, not terrible. They still reset the score to 0-0 for tonight, and there are still as many as six games left in the series. We can do this.
Second, Ahnuld Schwarzenegger won the recall election, so that big dumb woman-groping oaf of a man just won the governorship of the most populous state in the union by the mere power of his celebrity, without having to actually make a statement on any issue. As a follower of American political culture, this is very troubling to me - not just because Ahnuld's a Republican and I'm not, because he's allied himself with the social centrist wing of the Republican Party which is much less insidious than the Self-Righteous Religious Conservative Theocracy wing to which our president and others in his administration (ahemJohnAshcroftahem) belong - but because political dialogue in this country has devolved to the point where someone with no prior political experience has achieved major elective office by blaring Dee Snider tunes and quoting Terminator movies rather than discussing concrete issues. Despite the controversy surrounding Jesse Ventura, at least he came out and stood for a lot of things, and a lot of very concrete and real things - the whackishness of some of these things notwithstanding. Schwarzenegger didn't take a stand on anything, except that Gray Davis had put the California economy in the crapper (despite the fact that most other states' economies are in the crapper too) and that Indian casinos should pay taxes to the people who killed their people and stole their land. So I'm deeply troubled.
On the plus side, the All-Seminary chapel service this morning, for which I did production design, lighting design, and media, went really well, with but a few technical hitches. A lot of people really encountered Jesus this morning through the service, which was awesome for me since I was basically stage-managing the thing and had to keep my head in the game. I'm doing the same thing next week, only hopefully this time I'll have a small corps of tech volunteers to help me.....
And it's 85 and sunny - AGAIN!
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ALDS Game 4: Yankees 8, Twins 1. The dream is dead.
NLDS Game 5: Cubs 5, Braves 1. THE DREAM IS ALIVE AND WELL.
CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! Holy cow! The long postseason drought is over. Let the long World Championship drought be the next to fall.
I think it had something to do with the fact that I was at church while they were playing.....
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ALDS Game 3: Yankees 3, Twins 1.
NLDS Game 4: Braves 6, Cubs 4. (Series tied 2-2)
One more, guys... you can do this. Win one for all of us. Keep hope alive.
Let's go Cubs.
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ALDS Game 2: Yankees 4, Twins 1... ah well, can't win 'em all.
NLDS Game 3: Cubs 3, Braves 1. (Cubs lead the series 2-1.)
Only one more to go and then we're off to San Francisco/Florida.... it's not like it's a done deal yet, though. But the Cubs seem real hard to beat right now. I only hope SF comes back in the other series, so that if the Cubs beat Atlanta tomorrow night I can maybe pay mucho dinero to go up to Frisco and see my beloved Cubbies in the postseason in person.....
In other news, it looks like the people I played with last Friday are going to turn into a real-life band. The lead singer Kara hit up another guitar player and a bass player tonight, so we might have a full five pieces, which is awesome. We just have to find a time to get together and practice... and get some more songs... and a name... and some gigs. But it's cool to be a part of this.
I just came back from a very pleasant evening on the rooftop of the Pasadena Museum of California Art, where the Brehm Center (arts department at Fuller) put on a "meet and greet" night. I got to schmooze with the Worship, Theology, and the Arts director and his wife (who are both really cool) and bounce some ideas off of them, as well as hang with Kara and all my compadres in the arts. It was a really good time... I'm getting more and more excited about doing arts here. I'm designing this and next Wednesday's chapel services, too, so that'll be a good time... I'm hoping to take some pictures and put them up on the site at some point. I'm also hoping to take a leadership role on a theatre subcommittee for the Arts Concerns Committee, to bring lots o' good theatre to the Fuller community.
I bet you're wondering how things are going with Alisa. Well, they're going quite well. She's coming up again in a couple of weeks, and I can't wait. She got to go to BG tonight and hang out with a bunch of the old Huron gang, and I was jealous of that, because I miss those folks. I especially miss Chris and Ben, two of the nicest guys in the whole wide world... and I hear their house is incredible. Sometimes I wish I was still back in the Midwest...
...and then I look at the weather reports. Brrrrr.
Hey, I figure that I'm paying so much for rent out here, the least it buys me is weather bragging rights....
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NLDS Game 2: Braves 5, Cubs 3.
Oh well... they're coming back to Wrigley on Friday, and Mark Prior is pitching. Plus, they had to pull out all the stops to beat the Cubs. Pretty soon they're going to run out of stops. Hopefully they'll run out in Chicago.....
More news: It was cold today... there were some clouds in the morning and the temperature must have gotten at least as low as the high 60's as I was walking to school. Fortunately, it got nicer, and became a mild day with a high around 80. That's about where the high is supposed to be for the next ten days or so.
Have I mentioned that there hasn't been a single non-sunny day since I got here?
I love California.
I'll love it even more when it's snowing out East.....
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