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Dragon*Con: Adventures in Star Wars Light Speed Dating

10 Friday Sep 2010

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What does one do on a random Friday night during Dragon*Con when you have an itching for a true people watching experience?  Pretend you’re an urban anthropologist and partake in Star Wars Light Speed Dating, of course!  Why sit at a hotel bar when you can interact with people who may not have all of their people skills??  Count me in!  Ok, ok…I have to admit, this was not my idea.  Walking Girl was set that it would be an EXPERIENCE (all caps) while I was more concerned about some of the people we were going to meet and their personal hygiene.  It turns out I was both pleasantly surprised and also completely right.  But I’m getting ahead of myself…

So as we trekked over to the Marriott Marquis (yes, I said Trekked – see what I did there?) we maneuvered through the crowd and saw a long line of guys along a wall.  Surely this wasn’t the line for speed dating?  Where are all the girls?  After about 300 feet, we finally got past the people posing with R2D2 and mouse droids to see that there was, in fact, a girls line.  About 1/3 of the length of the guys line.  :::gulp:::  We got into line behind 3 adorable collegiates who weren’t even old enough to drink.  Walking Girl and I are skilled in the art of conversation with random strangers so it wasn’t long before we were like, BFFs, with our new girlfriends who went to an all girls college and BY GOD they were going to meet some mens while they were at Dragon*Con.  One of them had made her own True Blood tank top with sharpie pens the night before.  "We got high on the fumes!"  Bless!  I wanted to turn around and yell, "JAIL BAIT!"  So after a lot of yelling about numbers and letting the girls go first (and telling some of the guys to get back in LINE – stop checking out the girls!) we were finally granted entrance to the room.  It was like stepping into a 2nd grade classroom.  Bless their geeky hearts, they had decorated each wall as a different planet from Star Wars!  Tatooine, Hoth, Dagobah, some other stuff I didn’t know, and the Cloud City where I’m not geeky enough to know what planet it was on?  Ok, yes, geeky enough to know most of the other planets yes…  We were seated in a row of chairs that formed a circle, the ladies on the inner row facing outward.  The ladies were to remain seated while the gentlemen rotated.  Walking Girl and I were somewhere between Dagobah and the Cloud City, next to the college girls on one side and some VERY enthusiastic late 30-somethings on our other side.  They were loudly asking all the ladies around them how old they were.  When they asked me I asked them how old I looked and they said 28 without batting an eyelash.  WHOOT.  I could have left right then and there.  That made my night!  Let the games begin!

The guys and gals were each given numbers as they entered and you were supposed to write down the number of the girl or guy that you liked and leave your list at the door when you left.  If you had a match, you’d get that persons email address sent to you.   After looking around, I realized that the odds of that happening for me were slim to none.  However it was a nice self confidence boost to realize that even being in my early 30′s, I still felt that we were easily in the top % of ladies in that room.  There was, amazingly, not a single girl dressed as any version of Princess Leia, but there was an AWESOME Codex from the online web series, "The Guild".  She was amazing!  I’d rank her as #1, hands down.  There were probably 80+ people of each sex, and I’m fairly certain guys were being turned away after we ran out of seats (and they added extras).  We had one minute to speak to each person and it was REALLY LOUD, so half the time we were yelling.  Here are some of my conversations:

  • Some dude:  "So, why are you at Dragon*Con?"  Sassy:  "I’m a geek.  I love most of the movies, television, and author panels.  The costumes are amazing.  The one thing I don’t get is the gaming.  Not into that.  What about you?"  "Gaming."  "What else?"  "Nothing."  "Oh."
  • Some creepier dude:  "Wow, you’re from Atlanta too?  Do you like cats?"  :::I can literally see this guy mentally planning out our future lives together, he was practically telegraphing it at me:::  "Um, I like cats but I have a dog."  "A dog?  Hmm, that could be a problem.  I have THREE cats.  I’d have more but I live in an apartment and they won’t let me have more."  "Yes, my dog hates cats." 
  • :::dude sits there staring at me:::  Sassy:  "Ok, I’ll go first?  Hi, I’m so and so, and you are??"  "You’re PRETTY!"  "Uh, ok.  Thanks?  Your name?"
  • "I love your dress."  "Thank you."  "Its really pretty."  "Um, thanks."  "I especially like your necklace."  :::staring at my boobs the entire time, if you’d asked him what color my eyes were he wouldn’t have been able to tell you:::
  • Sassy:  "Wow, you’re brave to be wearing a Star Trek costume to Star Wars speed dating!"  Scary dude:  "I just got out of the military, no one here will mess with me."  :::seriously a bit of a scary look flashes in his eye for a second:::
  • :::dude grabs his chair which is only a few feet from mine and pulls it forward till our knees are touching and then LEANS in:::  "You’re GORGEOUS."  "Well, thank you!  You just made my night."  "Where have you been all my life?"  "Um, here?"  "Do your feet hurt, because you’ve been running through my mind the entire time I’ve been in this room."  Ok, seriously, someone needed to tell this guy that you use only ONE pick up line and then you have to actually carry on a serious conversation.
  • Guy:  "Where are you from?"  "Here."  "Really?  I’m from Kennesaw, do you know where that is?"  I stare back at him and reply sarcastically, "No, tell me about it."  He did.  And there were at least 10 guys from Kennesaw there but only one who didn’t have the wherewithal to realize that a local would know where it was.  Apparently Kennesaw is a mecca for geeks.  Who knew???   This whole time I just thought it was the redneck version of Alpharetta!
  • Socially challenged individual who basically made me talk the whole time while he sat there and twitched.  Seriously.
  • "Hi, my name is, " :::interrupted by SHRIEKING of the woman next to me who jumps up and hugs the guy she’s talking to for no reason:::  "She’s really excited."  :::cringe as she shrieks again:::  "I’m sorry, what did you say?"  Trust me when I say that it wasn’t just the guys in that room that were highly entertaining.  Like, whoah girls. 
  • Dude # I’ve lost count by now, "Why are you all dressed up?"  "I’m not, I’m wearing a sun dress.  I normally dress like this when I go out during the summer."  "Oh, well its really fancy."  "Thanks!"  "No, I mean you’re, like, the dressiest person in the room."  "Except for the people in costume, right?"  "Well, yeah.  Them."  (That’s me, y’all!  FANCY.)
  • "Well, I just graduated from LSU."  (Sassy’s inner monologue:  "Finally, a fellow football fan!")  "What did you study?"  "Astrophysics."  "Wow!  I’m impressed.  So are you going to the game tomorrow night?"  "What game?"  :::pause for stunned amazement:::  "Um, the Chick-Fil-A College Football Kickoff Classic.  LSU plays North Carolina a few blocks from here.  Its a HUGE game.  There are fans everywhere…"  "Oh, I never knew it was game day unless someone in my dorm handed me a beer."  And at this point, I realized that I was talking to the Southern version of Sheldon from "Big Bang Theory." 
  • Hot guy in a Scarecrow outfit with freaky blue contact lenses, "Wow, you’re beautiful."  (for the first time that night, I’m truly flattered because this guy was HOT.)  "First time at the Con?"  "No, its my 2nd year."  And just when the conversation was getting interesting, the damn whistle blew.  Stupid nerf herders in charge!  Boo!
  • Smelly dude.
  • Dude with bad breath.
  • Mr. Close Talker

Etc. Etc. Etc.  This went on for over an hour since there were far more than 60 people in the room and after a while everyone started to blur together.  By the end I had about 6 numbers written down on my piece of paper.  Yes, that was it.  Sadly, I’m not sure any of those guys were from Atlanta but it didn’t matter because I didn’t get an email saying that I’d matched with anyone.  I wasn’t surprised because it was pretty obvious who was going to write down my number and 99% of the time they were NOT guys I’d be interested in, um, ever.  Walking Girl did report that the college girls next to her were blatantly being asked for their numbers while they were sitting there and that some of the things being said to them about, ahem, "meeting up later" were so distracting she sometimes lost track of her 1 minute conversations.  Damn, why did I have to be next to SHRIEKING WOMAN??  As for matches, both Walking Girl and I had our hopes up about the Scarecrow dude.  She ended up getting matched with one guy (she wrote down a few more numbers than I did so her odds were higher) but they didn’t send her the match email till overnight Saturday night so she didn’t get a chance to email him till later in the day on Sunday.  As far as I know, they still haven’t connected so his identity is still safe.  I don’t know if she would have even gotten in touch with the guy except I kept asking if she’d contacted her true love and asked him to meet for drinks yet.  I know, I’m such a pushy beotch.  Its why you love me.  

Alas, no true love for me.  Gator Mom was VERY disappointed that I didn’t match with a single guy.  Me?  Not surprised.  Yet I still have faith.  Heck, next year I may even do it again!  You never know when your Han Solo is waiting just around the corner!  Its been two years of Dragon*Con shenanigans and I’ve loved every minute of it.  So if any of you college football loving, socially adjusted, geeky guys are out there…holler at a girl next year, will ya? 

**As a side note, both Walking Girl and I were told by some guy with questionable hygiene (in hindsight, this may have been a sign) that we HAD to attend the BEST panel of the Con the next day, "Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow – 7th Annual Recruiting Session and Bake Sale".  I shit you not.  We decided why not?  Sounds like fun!  It was, hands down, the WORST panel we attended.  4 scientists on a panel all talking about their work and how it could save the world, or why it could BUT the stupid bureaucrats they worked for should die many times, blah blah.  At certain points they did talk about technology that was coming that could take over the world, but then there would be a tangent or some monologue by one of the panelists and we were off on a tangent again.  The only guy who seemed happy worked for NASA.  The guy that was a professor at Vanderbilt talked about setting things on fire for fun (which could be cool) and then went on rants about "the man" at his school (highly alarming, faculty of Vandy, consider yourselves warned!) while he played with his fake rat.  The guy from Harvard (and he only mentioned it in EVERY OTHER SENTENCE, "At HARVARD where I’m in neuroscience, "  "At HARVARD, where I study brains,"  "At HARVARD you can donate your brain to science!") was about as pretentious as you can get when you’re also socially unaware that you’re overcompensating for being nervous.  Bless his little heart…then again, he was a neuroscientist so shouldn’t he have been self aware of said behavior??  Now being a professional organizer of all things geek, this entire panel made me itch.  They were all OVER the place, and on top of the random topics there was a group in the back making ice cream so people kept getting up and going to get some.  Chaos!  You can guarantee that scientists as a collective will never take over the world.  

Till next year!!  May the force be with you!!

***I apologize if this blog rambled a bit.  I’ve been home sick for 2 days and someone told me I could have what they call *Con Crud, whatever the hell that is.  I just want it to go away.  I’m tired of feeling like poo!

****WDE!  Did y’all see Cam Newton last night?  Even on cold meds he looked like a badass!  And our O-line was fierce!  This is new!  More football bloggery to come!

Release your inner geek!

10 Friday Apr 2009

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Alrighty folks.  "Watchmen" has come out and now we’ve just had "Fast and Furious" thrust at us.  What?  No unique naming?  Faster and Furious-er-er?  Fastest and TOTALLY Furious.  ZOOOM!  No, "Fast and Furious".  Thats like Alex P. Cheatin’ telling us all about the new movie coming out called "Fighting".  Whats the movie about?  Fighting.  Genius.

Despite all the stupid crap we have to put up with, there is some awesome comin’ our way this Summer so without further ado…here’s my hit list.

X-Men Origins:  Wolverine – May 1st – Why, you ask, are you going to see a movie for $10 or more when you can see it for FREE on the internet?  First, I don’t illegally download (for shame, people!  Besides, half those sites give your computers cooties).  Second, have you SEEN how friggin’ hot Hugh Jackman is?  I mean really.  Ooftah.  

Doesn’t that girl in the trailer he’s getting all hanky with look like Dawn from "True Blood"?  IT IS!  IT IS!!  She plays Silver Fox. Whoot!  Before you ask, I don’t KNOW who Silver Fox is because I don’t read comics…but she certainly SOUNDS cool, doesn’t she??

Star Trek – May 8th.  Well, Wolverine better have a damn good opening weekend because in week two its going to get its ASS kicked by "Star Trek".  All phasers are pointed to KILL on this movie, as in its going to KILL its so good.  True geeks are comparing it to "Wrath of Kahn", which in "Star Trek" vernacular, that translates to "OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMIGOD, SQUEEEE!!"  Speaking from the heart, I have a fondness for OLD Star Trek because of Gator Dad.  He used to watch it every night when he got home from work and I, wanting to spend time with Daddy, watched it with him.  When Klingons were still green.  So when I saw on Twitter that the guys at Aint It Cool News had been surprised by a screening of "Star Trek" before the actual WORLD premiere in Australia, I was geeking out along with them.  I actually mailed the link to Gator Dad and informed him we had a Father-Daughter bonding date to plan.  I’ve been keeping an eye on this one since I heard J.J. Abrams was attached.  I’ll forgive "Cloverfield" if this is done well. 

Spock is actually HOT?!  When did THAT happen???  I squee in Geek Girl GLEE.

Angels and Demons – May 15th – I’m really curious to see if they can EFF this one up as badly as "The DaVinci Code" because they took a great book and just mauled the ending and half the plot.  Its #2 on my list of "Best Seller that shouldn’t have ever been allowed to be made into a movie" after "The Firm".  Maybe Dan Brown learned from John Grisham and started insisting on script ovesight and casting input.  Because lord only knows that is the only reason Grisham’s books on the big screen stopped having epic levels of suck associated with them.  (Well that, and Tom Cruise also had a bit to do with it, he was so wrong for the part!)  Anyway, "Angels and Demons" – Its a challenging book, MUCH more controversial and bloodier than "The DaVinci Code".  The body count is a lot higher and really gory.  Oh, and they are killing Catholic Cardinals.  Let the outcry begin!  Free publicity, huzzah!!  Hell, its a prequel to "The DaVinci Code".  I wonder if they’ll work that in or just roll with it.  The reason I’ll go see this one?  Two names:  Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor.  Although they have GOT to fix Tom Hank’s hair in this…it was total STACHE in the last movie.

Looks like Tom Hanks gets to run around having his life threatened with another hot brunette with an accent.  His life is so hard, y’all.  Oh, and it looks like the hair may even be worse in this.  How is that POSSIBLE??  Is the Hair Club for Men an official sponsor?  At least college professors can add one more adventurer to their (very short) list of characters.  :::pulls out her white girl Moleskin notepad:::  Check:  Robert Langdon, right after Indiana Jones…

Terminator:  Salvation – May 21st – I waffled on whether or not I wanted to see this one and landed back on, "Ok…fine.  BE that way."  I still haven’t seen the last "Terminator" movie, I will have you know, but this isn’t associated with that one, so I hear…  Anyway, this one shows a new kind of Terminator?  More like a Cylon?  Apparently Battlestar Galactica geeks across the world sat up in this chair and screamed, "FOUL!!" when then saw this trailer.  Heh, maybe I should finally watch that show?  

Ok, did anyone else start to mock him when he said, "You killed my mother, you killed my father…"  I immediately went "Princess Bride":  "HELLO!  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to DIE!"

Up – May 29th – I’ve made the mistake the past two times a Pixar movie has come out and not seen it in the theatres.  Both times I’ve seriously regretted it.  So since I’m trying to live with no regrets in 2009 (surprise!) I’m going to try to see this one.  It looks really cute, y’all.  I bet I can take Little Sassy with me… (Please note I didn’t include the new "Hannah Montana" movie in my must see list…I will probably end up going to see that with Little Sassy, but it will not be my choice!)

When the little boyscout knocks on the door and asks to be let in I literally clapped and giggled.  So cute!

Then there are a few movies that I’m just not all that enthused about ("Year One" looks like it could be funny, if I’m in the mood for it) but nothing worth blogging about (i.e. I’ve been keeping track of when this movie will come out and SQUEE!).

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – June 26th – I have to wait almost the ENTIRE month of June for another BIG movie?  Come on!  I just watched "Transformers" today when I got home from work.  My favorite scene?  When all the Autobots come to earth and they play the "Armageddon" style music and its a Geek Montage of Awesomeness.  There are so many tongue in cheek moments during that movie.  It freely admits its corny – hello, John Turturro as Sector 7 Asshat?  GENIUS.  All the little moments (including "Buffy" alum Tom Lenk – ANDREW, we love yew!) of funny.  "I’m just a cousin!  I’m just a cousin!"  The geeky family.  Ok…so this is supposed to be about "Transformers:  Revenge of he Fallen" – about which I know very little other than Shia LeBeouf apparently broke his wrist (off set, in a car accident) while filming and they had to write it into the script.  And Shia loves the cigarettes.  And apparently no robot is safe in this movie.  actors be warned, the director is willing to write you OUT of the movie…even if you’re a very special CGI enhanced pink girlie robot who is a fan favorite…  All I know is that there will be more explosions, more Autobots, more Decepticons, and MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!!!

Giddyup.  Lets go blow up some shit!

Bruno – July 10th – Girlyfriend and Mr. UGA, you are officially ON NOTICE.  Sascha Baron Cohen is back and he’s got a character that is possibly more offensive than Borat!  I KNOW!?!  HOW??  He’s gay.  He’s fabulous.  He’s totally cluelessly over the top and will make "Zoolander" look like a Nobel Laureate. 

OH MY GAWD.  Or, as "Gossip Girl" would say, OMG.  OMMFG.

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince – July 17th – WHEEE!!!  Y’all know I love me some "Harry Potter" and this book, in my humble opinion, is where the shiz gets SERIOUS, y’all!  The movie looks to be a pretty faithful adaptation of the books and we get even further insight into how twisted Voldemort is.  I am SUPER stoked for this.  It got bumped from last fall to this summer because the studios were afraid they wouldn’t have any big blockbusters…and a little movie called "Twilight" took its weekend spot and y’all have been hearing about sparkly vampires that look like defrosting chicken ever since…  So without further ado…  

Doesn’t this look awesome?  Darker and spookier and more grown up…just as the books progressed.  I am so excited!

GI Joe:  Rise of Cobra – August 7th – OH HELL YES!!  When the trailer for this movie came on during the Super Bowl this year at German God and Teacher Girls party, I was the only person in the room to instantly know what movie it was.  I sat straight up in my chair and yelped, "GI JOE!  GI JOE!!"  I am a GI Joe geek.  I loved the short lived cartoon as a kid and still have memories of those underwater tube things that were like giant worms or something.  Anyway, I wanted to BE Scarlett.  It doesn’t hurt that Channing Tatum is in this.  He’s been in a few of my guilty pleasure movies (ahem, "Step Up" and "Step Up 2:  The Streets") and he’s just damn, DAMN. 

YO JOE!

Giddyup.  Lets go kick some Cobra Command ASS. 

Honorable Mention:

Little Ashes – May 8th – Its Robert Pattinson before he became our favorite Sparklepire, Edward, playing SALVADOR DALI?!?!  You guessed it.  He’s a tortured artist who is playing a tortured artist.  I’m guessing he’s brilliant in this.  He certainly has the wacko stare down in the trailer:


Public Enemies – July 1 – What more can I say?  Its a gangster flick with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Billy Crudup in it that is directed by Michael Mann. 

Balls. BALLS I say!

…and the boys can now run away because its CHICK FLICK TIME!!!  Whoooo!

The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – May 1 – Who wouldn’t want to see my girl crush Jennifer Garner with the ultimate hot bod "I play the SAME dude in every movie, yet you STILL come see me because I’m AWESOME" Matthew McConaughey?? Hey look, its "A Christmas Carol" told for the zillionth time.  I seriously think this story has been told in more ways than any other.  But here it is as a romantic comedy.  Which of COURSE I want to see.

The Ugly Truth – July 24th – Yey!  Just after my birthday.  She was great in "27 Dresses" and once again, she’s playing a character who seems a little too close for comfort.  Ouch.  :::Fetal Positions:::

Oh, chemistry!  Yey!  And Gerard Butler…mffffrrrrggghhhhh…

I’m sure I missed a few, which I’m sure you’ll gleefully inform me of.  Till then, stay tuned, stay locked, and get ready for a Summer of Geek filled sensory overload.  We always told you to be nice to the nerds and geeks.  We DO rule the world.

Cliff hanger…

02 Tuesday Dec 2008

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Had a lovely dinner tonight with Neighbor Girl and got to see Walkin’ Girl briefly.  :::waves to them both:::  I love M&T, especially when dinner was free because I had points!  Yippee!  I even got a new jar of Riverview Farms Grits.  Best.  Grits.  EVERRR.

So still no OFFICIAL news on the Tuberville front. I think this is good news because if they were going to fire him they would have done it by now, right? Right? Tell me I’m right! Damnit, I don’t want Auburn to fire Tubs. I like him. I know Jager and a few others have their own opinions and they are welcome to post a comment with them :::still haven’t seen that commentary, AHEM…:::

And in other coaching news…as if y’all hadn’t heard this…Lane Kiffin is now the coach at Tennessee. Really. :::whispers: He’s kinda hot!::: He got fired by the Raiders and now he’s at UT. Spurrier is already taking shots at him. :::whispers: Go Stevie!::: Welcome to the SEC, Kiffy! Charlie Weis is keeping his job at Notre Dame…annnnnnnnd Sylvester Croom resigned from Mississippi State. Another class act but its practically impossible to recruit people to Starkville.

Need evidence? Ladies and gents, I present the literal definition of Starkville:

Stark:

  • blunt: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
  • austere: severely simple; "a stark interior"
  • complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
  • arrant(a): without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain …
  • completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
  • bare: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

Ville:

  • Ville is the French word for city or town. The derivative suffix "-ville" is commonly used in English in names of cities, towns and villages. …

Stark. Ville. Stark. Ville. Desolate Bare or Austere Village = Starkville…sounds great! I wanna live there, coach! Sign me up.

Update:  Looks like Saxby Chambliss won the sleaziest most over blown and ridiculous campaign war I have ever witnessed and I lived in Alabama for 8 years – they define "dirty campaigning" there. 

So lets talk about something fun! Guns and Roses are suing Dr. Pepper (All together now, "WHAT THE F!?K?!!") OOH! I know! The first trailer I’ve seen for "Star Trek" the movie that actually has people in it (not just a wide shot of the Enterprise) is finally online!!! I grew up watching this every night with Gator Dad…when the Klingons were still green.

Mondays – Mrrrrgh

15 Monday Sep 2008

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Normally Mondays aren’t as draggy, boring, and just plain mmmmmrrrrgh as this one was.  Wait, sorry, they are.  I’m just not suffering from a weekend hangover so the physical effects aren’t as bad.  Today was one of those days when nothing much happened but soooo much was spinning in my head.

So, what say the experts on college football regarding this weekend’s activities?  USC is now number 1.  Shocking.  After the can o’ whoopass (Patent pending – Buckeye flavor is the most popular) that USC opened this weekend, thats not surprising.  Oklahoma is #2.  (This makes me grin because I can’t look at their team running across the field with the big Sooner Conestoga Wagon and not starting humming Broadway show tunes…."Oklahoooooma!!!  Oklahoma OK!!!")  And #3, Georgia.  Georgia fans are still pissed about this.  I say the top 5 is JUST FINE.  Lie in wait and POUNCE when opportunity strikes.  Oh wait, what am I saying?  You CAN manage to go undefeated in the SEC and not be in the national championship game.  Who was the team that got to go that year?

FUCK!  It was Oklahoma!

:::runs to grab her DVD of "Conspiracy Theory":::

Start screaming NOW Mark Richt!  UGA, do you hear me!???

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!  Sic UGA on ‘em.  Don’t let those bastards screw the SEC again!!

Deep cleansing breaths.  I am zen.  I am calm.  I am NOT bitter.  I am NOT bitter. 

Ok, so one of my favorite sites is The Auburner because they are just as twisted about Auburn as I am.  Sometimes more absurd, if that is at all possible.  Their current synopsis of the Auburn vs. Mississippi State game includes a reference to the Auburn Offense as a helpless baby and the Auburn Defense as a 200 foot tall Tyrannosaurus Rex.  I shit you not.  theauburner.com/mark_missstate08.html Its AU-some (Yeah, I just did that.  Did you see it?  Cuz I just did.)  Their description of the Mississippi State QB’s internal thoughts is very similar to what I surmised Bob Davie was thinking during his commentary on that game.  We must be on the same wave length!

Onto my 2nd favorite topic, after college football – POP CULTURE.

Wheeee!

Well guess who did her first triathalon this weekend?  JLo!  Seriously!  She’s a triple threat in movies, music, and the fashion industry!  Now she is also a threat running, swimming, and biking!!  I have a serious JLo complex.  I want to be her.  Only a serious Diva can manage to have a moniker like "Bennifer", marry 3 men (only one of whom was cute), have twins, run a fashion empire, make movies (haaarrrible ones lately) and almost marry Ben Affleck.  Wait, maybe I want to be Jennifer Garner?  Cuz she’s having his babies?  Sorry?  Where was I?  OH.  JLo ran a triathalon,  y’all!  And when she was training for it she got all bent out of shape that NO ONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO HER BECAUSE OF SOME STUPID SWIMMER IN BEIJING.   I think Michael Phelps needs to create a piece of flair on Facebook of his bulldog peeing on one of her DVD’s.  I nominate "Maid in Manhattan" because that movie has a BIG picture of her face and could smell like pee and I’d still be mysteriously sucked into watching it

EVERY DAMN TIME IT APPEARS ON TELEVISION. 

Yes, JLo is so mysteriously fascinating to me that she can still act like a psycho DIVA and I’d still run to watch her whenever she’s on television.  But then I also heard that she skipped out on judging the Project Runway finale because she had to rehab in order to run in the Malibu Triathlon.  For real?  YOU PASSED ON BEING A JUDGE ON PROJECT RUNWAY TO RUN IN A TRIATHLON?  

I think she just lost DIVA status.  My girl crush is OFFICIALLY transferred to Jennifer Garner.  Done.

Obsession Time – "True Blood" was on last night.  It just keeps getting better, y’all!!!   The 2nd episode was better than the pilot and I’ve been hearing from verrry reliable sources that it just gets better with every episode.  My favorite moments from last nights episode?  In no particular order:

  • Jason POINTING at himself in the mirror while having sex.  Only he can be THAT big of a jackass and still look hot doing it.
  • Gran telling Jason that he didn’t need anyone to help make him look stupid.  Perfect delivery of the sweet old Southern lady line in such a nice tone that the person who has just been insulted can’t say, "HEY!!  Wait just a flippin’ minute!"
  • Sookie making fun of Bill at the front door. 
  • Sookie and Bill’s entire conversation after she drinks his blood.  Tension building!  Might need cold shower after future episodes!!
  • Jason realizing he didn’t kill Maudette after watching the tape and then telling Andy Bellefleur and Bud Dearborn (Detective and Sherriff) that he’s not that smart!  And Andy just shrugging like, "Yeah, we know…"

Another new show I’m liking lots – FRINGE.  I finally saw the pilot last night and it was SO JJ ABRAMS FANTASTIC.  JJ, I love your shows Pilots.  They rock.  I always love them until you start having your characters time travel.  Which seems to happen EVERY DAMN SHOW.  Yes, even FELICITY time traveled to save Elena.  Fo’ Real.  A college student time traveled?  The Shark was just JUMPED.  So please, stop ruining my favorite shows with this time travel shiz.  Alias was GREAT untillllll…drum roll, the TIME TRAVEL.  Mrrrrrgh.  So let me love this new show, please.  Let me have time to adjust to actually thinking of Pacey as sexy. 

Moments I loved:

  • Crazy old man announcing in the car that he’d just peed himself.  Just a little.
  • The cow.
  • Crazy old man waxing poetic about his favorite tank still being in the basement laboratory 17 years later.
  • The TWIST (cuz there is ALWAYS a TWIST with M. Knight Shyamalan JJ Abrams shows!)

And finally, a big shout out to SULU from Star Trek who just got married!!!  Check out this picture.  Its priceless:

They are all doing the Vulcan "Live long and prosper" hand signal.  Word UP you Star Trek homies!  I :::heart::: you!!  Uhura still looks good and Chekov is like, "Hell yeah!  I can’t do the Vulcan thingie so I’ll do a fist pump!"

That made my day.

And finally, I close with saying that after reading cleolinda’s blog about "Breaking Dawn" I re read it for the THIRD time because the Twlight books are like crack.  You know they are bad for you but you just can’t stop reading them.  After my third read, I declared myself now immune to the crushing emo roller coaster that is Twilight for at least 1 year.  So 364 days to go before I can read the books again…  In honor of this, I posted today’s picture flair.  :D

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