Well I promised to never blog on this site again if the Tigers didn't win the national championship. So this is my last post on here ever...
But never fear, my new blog is bigger, better, and more awesome than ever before. Also I hope the address is easier to remember. You can add it to your bookmarks and start reading it now!!!
www.chriscarwile.blogspot.com
Thanks for reading. I had over 850 original people read this blog over the last 5 months and from 18 different countries. Pretty cool if you ask me. Pass the new address off to your friends and make sure to leave me lots of comments.
And one last time I type it:
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Monday, April 07, 2008
Housewives Correction
Marc Cherry, creator and executive producer for Desperate Housewives says that the rumors about the time shift were not true. The show plans to pick up where they left off before the strike and that there will not be a time jump in the last few minutes of the season. He did say 2 other interesting things. The first (non-spoiler) is that they will solve the Mary Katherine mystery by the end of the season. We will know why she left Wysteria Lane and the secret about her husband child. The second thing Cherry said (VERY SPOILERY) is that one of the main 5 ladies would likely not be with the show next year. He said who that person is and to find out, just hightlight the rest of this line... Edie Brit (Nicolette Sheridan)
Sunday, April 06, 2008
When Will They Learn?
I am pretty much tired of great movies being produced into shitty, get-rich-quick, remakes. The latest in a long line of movies being optioned for a re-do is one of my favorite movies. The flicks: Short Circuit. Has Hollywood run out of original ideas? Are they just lazy? Have moviegoers really turned their backs on going to the theater so much that the big wigs think that the only way to draw us back in is by reheating something we used to like? What's next, a Goonies remake? What about Stand By Me or The Breakfast Club or god-forbid a Big Trouble in Little China update. Make it stop, please!!!
-OUT
-OUT
Friday, April 04, 2008
All Good Things Must Come To An End...
If the Tigers don't win the national championship then I am going to close this blog forever. So Go Tigers....
Rock The Republican Vote?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
If you are male and a Led Zeppelin fan, chances are you may be leaning toward voting Republican in the U.S. presidential election, according to a survey of rock radio fans released on Wednesday.
It found that John McCain, the Republican candidate for U.S. president, was the top pick for the Oval Office for men and classic rock partisans -- those people who tune in to stations playing music from the "original classic rock era" of 1964 to 1975, comprised of bands like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Pink Floyd.
Jacobs Media said the survey, conducted among 69 U.S. rock-formatted stations in markets as diverse as Los Angeles and Knoxville to Buffalo, found 84 percent of the respondents planned to vote in the November election.
"People are clearly engaged by this election, even rockers. A lot of stations tend to shy away from politics because it's so polarizing, but this data suggests they'd better find a way to talk about politics this fall to keep listeners interested," said Fred Jacobs, president of Jacobs Media. He said the company threw the political questions in as an afterthought and was surprised by the results.
About 30 percent of the respondents called themselves Democrats, while nearly 22 percent described their politics as Republican and 21 percent declared they were independents.
About 26 percent of the respondents either named a different party, preferred not to answer, or refused to categorize themselves.
The survey found women and fans of alternative radio, featuring '80s and '90s rock, tend to be Democratic, while men and classic rockers lean Republican.
Asked about their overall presidential preference, Democrat Barack Obama led the pack with 26 percent support among those planning on voting in the November election.
McCain ranked second with 22 percent and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton drew 18 percent.
There were also a fair share of write-in votes. Mickey Mouse ranked as the top presidential choice of 11 respondents, and singer Ted Nugent was written in by three members of the Rock sample.
If you are male and a Led Zeppelin fan, chances are you may be leaning toward voting Republican in the U.S. presidential election, according to a survey of rock radio fans released on Wednesday.
It found that John McCain, the Republican candidate for U.S. president, was the top pick for the Oval Office for men and classic rock partisans -- those people who tune in to stations playing music from the "original classic rock era" of 1964 to 1975, comprised of bands like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Pink Floyd.
Jacobs Media said the survey, conducted among 69 U.S. rock-formatted stations in markets as diverse as Los Angeles and Knoxville to Buffalo, found 84 percent of the respondents planned to vote in the November election.
"People are clearly engaged by this election, even rockers. A lot of stations tend to shy away from politics because it's so polarizing, but this data suggests they'd better find a way to talk about politics this fall to keep listeners interested," said Fred Jacobs, president of Jacobs Media. He said the company threw the political questions in as an afterthought and was surprised by the results.
About 30 percent of the respondents called themselves Democrats, while nearly 22 percent described their politics as Republican and 21 percent declared they were independents.
About 26 percent of the respondents either named a different party, preferred not to answer, or refused to categorize themselves.
The survey found women and fans of alternative radio, featuring '80s and '90s rock, tend to be Democratic, while men and classic rockers lean Republican.
Asked about their overall presidential preference, Democrat Barack Obama led the pack with 26 percent support among those planning on voting in the November election.
McCain ranked second with 22 percent and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton drew 18 percent.
There were also a fair share of write-in votes. Mickey Mouse ranked as the top presidential choice of 11 respondents, and singer Ted Nugent was written in by three members of the Rock sample.
How We All Became John Calipari
When this 2007-2008 basketball campaign was about to kick off I wrote a post on my blog about how I felt that the next 3 months would bring this city together in ways that we never dreamed possible. One of the most racially torn, rags to riches cities in America would band together for what was for sure to be a magical run. It seemed like all of the pieces were finally in place. After back to back elite 8 runs it was the the Tigers' turn.
Driving in to work this morning on Sam Cooper Blvd I saw a giant tent set up on the south side of the road just east of Tillman. Under this giant blue tent was a man (woman?) dressed in a Tiger suit waving a huge Go Tigers flag. As car after car passed by each honked, waved, and shouted. This city is on it's feet glued to what's about to happen in San Antonio, Texas and I'm loving every minute of it.
When John Calipari came here after the firing of Tic Price following the 1999-2000 season I felt like a savior had been brought to us from the heavens of the NBA ranks. Five years later many in Memphis had turned on Coach Cal. We had only won one NCAA tournament game, we had just finished in the bottom ranks of the C-USA standings. Radio sports-talk guys were ready to crucify the man. At that time I didn't get it, but Cal did. He told those that begged for his resignation, that put for-sale signs in his yard, that moaned about the Big East raid on C-USA that we were close and that in the next year or two Memphis would be back on the map. He told us that the world was against us, but that we were going to do it.
That attitude, the world against us, is Cal's philosophy. And over the past four years following an NIT Championship, two Elite 8 appearances, and now a Final Four this city has bought into the madness. Every place I turn I hear about how ESPN hates us. I hear that the pundits all want us to lose because we don't represent a BCS conference. I hear from people that refs make calls against us because we aren't one of the storied programs. We have all become the man that so many hated earlier this century. We've all become Coach Cal. We've all become believers that this is our destiny and that everyone and anyone wants to stand in our way to get it.
Pittsburgh is known as the steel-city. Their sports fans are known for their blue-collar attitudes and their take no prisoner mentality. Philadelphia is know as the city that boos even Santa Claus. They will boo anyone if you aren't leading them to a championship. And now Memphis has become the loner city; a city on an island out there defending itself against the rest of the world. And this mentality has brought us all together and for once we're all fighting for the same thing. Our neighbors, once foes are now friends. And our enemies are now common among us. Our leader is the most polarizing man in the sport and we owe him big time for taking us back to the Final Four, which was his promise to us when RC Johnson brought him here.
Go Tigers Go!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
1985 Tigers - From USA Today
SAN ANTONIO — Once upon a time, they were the toast of Memphis. A hometown college basketball team composed nearly entirely of hometown kids, stubborn and proud and hungry in the way they played, clawing their way to a men's Final Four, as a city around them fell in love.
"It was," point guard Andre Turner would say 23 years later, "like a big, huge family moment."
Memphis had not seen another Final Four team until this year. But during that golden March of 1985, it seemed as if the good times might never end.
They would, however, for so many of those Memphis State Tigers.
For William Bedford, the 7-foot center who was led by drugs from so much promise in basketball to a cul-de-sac in prison.
And Baskerville Holmes, the happy-go-lucky forward with the unforgettable name who died in a horrific moment of rage.
And Dana Kirk, the affable coach who might have become a national champion with a couple more timely baskets but instead ended up dismissed after one more season and later briefly jailed on a tax evasion charge.
And Keith Lee, the star forward whose highly anticipated NBA career faded so quickly, as if it never happened.
And Aaron Price, the reserve guard who was shot down in a carjacking.
And Larry Finch, the assistant coach who was robbed of so much of his life by a series of strokes.
"You want everyone to go on and lead a good life, the American dream," Turner said over the phone from Spain, where he still plays professionally at 44. "Life isn't like that a lot of times. We're all dealt different cards."
Hoop dream
But it was such a joy while it lasted, wasn't it? To have been part of this native-son mission — 11 of the 12 players were from Memphis or across the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark. — and have won the second-round game against Alabama at Birmingham by one point in overtime, the regional semifinal against Boston College by two, the regional championship against Oklahoma by two.
"Basketball was their life. That's what they were all about," said Lee Fowler, then an assistant coach and now director of athletics at North Carolina State. "They played all through Memphis on concrete courts. That was their way out."
"It was the best time of my life," said Vincent Askew, another starting guard and now a coach in the CBA. "Those guys were the guys you grew up with when you didn't have a penny. We all had a common goal, and that was to win."
Win they did, until Villanova, a destiny-touched Cinderella, beat them 52-45 in the national semifinal. Two nights later, the Wildcats stunned Georgetown.
"I was two games away from shaking hands with President Reagan," said reserve guard John Wilfong, now a senior vice president for a Memphis investment firm. "I got to shake hands with the ball boy and the manager."
Still, there was much to be proud of. They were from different backgrounds, and some were not that close off the court. "But they would always pull together for Memphis," Fowler said.
But soon after, the shadows began to fall upon the Tigers of 1985.
Kirk was let go one year later, with NCAA probation on the way for recruiting violations, a penalty that included vacating the records from the 1985 tournament. Officially, 1985 never happened. Later would come Kirk's legal problems.
Lee went No. 11 in the 1985 NBA draft — "Any game that mattered, he would score 25 points and get 15 rebounds," Wilfong said — but was gone in three years.
Bedford was the No. 6 pick in the 1986 draft and a member of the Detroit Pistons' champion "Bad Boys" in 1989 and '90. But drug use hastened the end of his career and the beginning of several incarcerations. Bedford was No. 50 in the 1985 team picture. Bureau of Federal Prisons officials in Washington report a 7-foot-1 male born at the same time in Tennessee is inmate No. 16426-179 in a facility in Fort Worth, on a cocaine charge, due for release in 2013.
Wilfong was Bedford's freshman roommate. "He was a great kid. We played against each other in the state championship game, and I had a lot of fun putting my MVP trophy over his bed in our dorm room, and he had fun telling me about winning the championship.
"I visited him once when he played for Detroit, and Dennis Rodman grabbed me by the lapel and told me to tell William to grow up."
Holmes was considered one of the team's most likable players. "Baskerville Holmes," Askew said, "was the heart of our team." March 18, 1997, after an argument, he shot his longtime girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself, according to several news accounts.
Holmes' grave is in a small, neglected cemetery in Mississippi, and by his headstone is a vase with his nickname from the Memphis days: Batman.
Price was killed in November 1998, the victim of a West Memphis carjacking that has never been solved, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Two years later, his brother was murdered.
In 2002, Finch — who scored 29 points for Memphis State in the 1973 national title game vs. UCLA and was head coach for 11 years after Kirk's dismissal — suffered his most debilitating stroke. Since then, he has spent much of his time in a Memphis nursing facility. Wife Vickie did not return a message.
"For a guy who had so much life," Fowler said, "it's so sad to see him this way."
Ups and downs
Misfortune, piled upon tragedy, piled upon trouble. The legacy of the 1985 Memphis State Tigers became a tale of two morals, as different as sunshine and darkness: How much could be achieved together and how much could go wrong once the cheering stopped.
Turner: "I think more than anything people will look back at it as a family event. Guys from pretty much one hometown went to the Final Four. When we played, people would stop working; in the barbershops, they'd stop cutting. It was all about us."
Wilfong: "What people don't realize is it's really hard to get through that glamour at such a young age. You can end up living your life looking back instead of forward. Some guys ended up looking backwards."
Askew: "Every team, every corporation has things that go wrong. Success and failure are not that far apart."
Memphis cheers for another Final Four team this weekend, composed of many players not born in 1985. The new Tigers should know one thing.
The old Tigers are watching.
Turner will be, from Zaragoza, Spain, where he's in a tournament pool. "And I'm in the running for it, because I picked my boys all the way," he said
Askew will be, from somewhere in the Alamodome, his season done as coach of the Albany Patroons. He senses a familiar fire in these young Tigers to prove the critics wrong. "It's an us-against-the-world mentality," he said. "But that's Memphis." During this interview, he pleaded that his certainty of a Tigers championship be included. So included it is.
Wilfong will be. He took his three young sons to the airport last Sunday night to greet a triumphant Memphis team, just as a crowd greeted his team 23 years before. "It probably meant more to me than to them," he said of the moment.
Kirk will be. He still is a friendly presence in Memphis, so long as the subject is not the past. "Leave me your number, I'll get right back, because I look forward to talking to you," his answering machine chirps.
Well, maybe not all that much forward. Asked about 1985, Kirk said he would have to check with his attorney to see if he could discuss the matter, and he never called back.
Lee, still the school's all-time leading scorer, likely will be watching. He lives in Memphis, occasionally attends games and works at a Christian center. He did not respond to a request for an interview left there. "That's always been him," Turner said. "A very private fellow."
While there has been conspicuous misfortune, there are conspicuous bright stories to share, too.
Take Turner. "The Little General" was his college nickname. He is a physical marvel, playing at 44, married with five daughters.
And May 3 he plans on having one of the best days of his life. He'll get his degree from the University of Memphis, so named since 1994.
"The heart and the head — everything is going to be full that day," he said.
Turner, Askew, Wilfong. They sounded happy and young. The subject was the Final Four, the Memphis State Tigers were together. It was 1985 again.
"It was," point guard Andre Turner would say 23 years later, "like a big, huge family moment."
Memphis had not seen another Final Four team until this year. But during that golden March of 1985, it seemed as if the good times might never end.
They would, however, for so many of those Memphis State Tigers.
For William Bedford, the 7-foot center who was led by drugs from so much promise in basketball to a cul-de-sac in prison.
And Baskerville Holmes, the happy-go-lucky forward with the unforgettable name who died in a horrific moment of rage.
And Dana Kirk, the affable coach who might have become a national champion with a couple more timely baskets but instead ended up dismissed after one more season and later briefly jailed on a tax evasion charge.
And Keith Lee, the star forward whose highly anticipated NBA career faded so quickly, as if it never happened.
And Aaron Price, the reserve guard who was shot down in a carjacking.
And Larry Finch, the assistant coach who was robbed of so much of his life by a series of strokes.
"You want everyone to go on and lead a good life, the American dream," Turner said over the phone from Spain, where he still plays professionally at 44. "Life isn't like that a lot of times. We're all dealt different cards."
Hoop dream
But it was such a joy while it lasted, wasn't it? To have been part of this native-son mission — 11 of the 12 players were from Memphis or across the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark. — and have won the second-round game against Alabama at Birmingham by one point in overtime, the regional semifinal against Boston College by two, the regional championship against Oklahoma by two.
"Basketball was their life. That's what they were all about," said Lee Fowler, then an assistant coach and now director of athletics at North Carolina State. "They played all through Memphis on concrete courts. That was their way out."
"It was the best time of my life," said Vincent Askew, another starting guard and now a coach in the CBA. "Those guys were the guys you grew up with when you didn't have a penny. We all had a common goal, and that was to win."
Win they did, until Villanova, a destiny-touched Cinderella, beat them 52-45 in the national semifinal. Two nights later, the Wildcats stunned Georgetown.
"I was two games away from shaking hands with President Reagan," said reserve guard John Wilfong, now a senior vice president for a Memphis investment firm. "I got to shake hands with the ball boy and the manager."
Still, there was much to be proud of. They were from different backgrounds, and some were not that close off the court. "But they would always pull together for Memphis," Fowler said.
But soon after, the shadows began to fall upon the Tigers of 1985.
Kirk was let go one year later, with NCAA probation on the way for recruiting violations, a penalty that included vacating the records from the 1985 tournament. Officially, 1985 never happened. Later would come Kirk's legal problems.
Lee went No. 11 in the 1985 NBA draft — "Any game that mattered, he would score 25 points and get 15 rebounds," Wilfong said — but was gone in three years.
Bedford was the No. 6 pick in the 1986 draft and a member of the Detroit Pistons' champion "Bad Boys" in 1989 and '90. But drug use hastened the end of his career and the beginning of several incarcerations. Bedford was No. 50 in the 1985 team picture. Bureau of Federal Prisons officials in Washington report a 7-foot-1 male born at the same time in Tennessee is inmate No. 16426-179 in a facility in Fort Worth, on a cocaine charge, due for release in 2013.
Wilfong was Bedford's freshman roommate. "He was a great kid. We played against each other in the state championship game, and I had a lot of fun putting my MVP trophy over his bed in our dorm room, and he had fun telling me about winning the championship.
"I visited him once when he played for Detroit, and Dennis Rodman grabbed me by the lapel and told me to tell William to grow up."
Holmes was considered one of the team's most likable players. "Baskerville Holmes," Askew said, "was the heart of our team." March 18, 1997, after an argument, he shot his longtime girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself, according to several news accounts.
Holmes' grave is in a small, neglected cemetery in Mississippi, and by his headstone is a vase with his nickname from the Memphis days: Batman.
Price was killed in November 1998, the victim of a West Memphis carjacking that has never been solved, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Two years later, his brother was murdered.
In 2002, Finch — who scored 29 points for Memphis State in the 1973 national title game vs. UCLA and was head coach for 11 years after Kirk's dismissal — suffered his most debilitating stroke. Since then, he has spent much of his time in a Memphis nursing facility. Wife Vickie did not return a message.
"For a guy who had so much life," Fowler said, "it's so sad to see him this way."
Ups and downs
Misfortune, piled upon tragedy, piled upon trouble. The legacy of the 1985 Memphis State Tigers became a tale of two morals, as different as sunshine and darkness: How much could be achieved together and how much could go wrong once the cheering stopped.
Turner: "I think more than anything people will look back at it as a family event. Guys from pretty much one hometown went to the Final Four. When we played, people would stop working; in the barbershops, they'd stop cutting. It was all about us."
Wilfong: "What people don't realize is it's really hard to get through that glamour at such a young age. You can end up living your life looking back instead of forward. Some guys ended up looking backwards."
Askew: "Every team, every corporation has things that go wrong. Success and failure are not that far apart."
Memphis cheers for another Final Four team this weekend, composed of many players not born in 1985. The new Tigers should know one thing.
The old Tigers are watching.
Turner will be, from Zaragoza, Spain, where he's in a tournament pool. "And I'm in the running for it, because I picked my boys all the way," he said
Askew will be, from somewhere in the Alamodome, his season done as coach of the Albany Patroons. He senses a familiar fire in these young Tigers to prove the critics wrong. "It's an us-against-the-world mentality," he said. "But that's Memphis." During this interview, he pleaded that his certainty of a Tigers championship be included. So included it is.
Wilfong will be. He took his three young sons to the airport last Sunday night to greet a triumphant Memphis team, just as a crowd greeted his team 23 years before. "It probably meant more to me than to them," he said of the moment.
Kirk will be. He still is a friendly presence in Memphis, so long as the subject is not the past. "Leave me your number, I'll get right back, because I look forward to talking to you," his answering machine chirps.
Well, maybe not all that much forward. Asked about 1985, Kirk said he would have to check with his attorney to see if he could discuss the matter, and he never called back.
Lee, still the school's all-time leading scorer, likely will be watching. He lives in Memphis, occasionally attends games and works at a Christian center. He did not respond to a request for an interview left there. "That's always been him," Turner said. "A very private fellow."
While there has been conspicuous misfortune, there are conspicuous bright stories to share, too.
Take Turner. "The Little General" was his college nickname. He is a physical marvel, playing at 44, married with five daughters.
And May 3 he plans on having one of the best days of his life. He'll get his degree from the University of Memphis, so named since 1994.
"The heart and the head — everything is going to be full that day," he said.
Turner, Askew, Wilfong. They sounded happy and young. The subject was the Final Four, the Memphis State Tigers were together. It was 1985 again.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Too Interesting Not To Post
From CNN.COM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.
Sex takes 3 to 13 minutes, study says
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.
It's difficult for men of all ages to make sexual intercourse last much longer, a psychologist says.
A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.
If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."
Researcher Eric Corty said he hoped to ease the minds of those who believe "more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner, you should last forever."
The questions were not gender-specific, said Corty. But he said prior research has shown men and women want foreplay and sexual intercourse to last longer.
Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cited a four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 that found the median time for sexual intercourse was 7.3 minutes. (Women in the study were armed with stopwatches.)
It's difficult for both older men and young men to make sexual intercourse last much longer, said Marianne Brandon, a clinical psychologist and director of Wellminds Wellbodies in Annapolis, Maryland.
"There are so many myths in our culture of what other people are doing sexually," Brandon said. "Most people's sex lives are not as exciting as other people think they are."
Fifty members of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed by Corty, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and student Jenay Guardiani. Thirty-four members, or 68 percent, responded, although some said the optimal time depended on the couple.
Corty said he hoped to give an idea of what therapists find to be normal and satisfactory among the couples they see.
"People who read this will say, 'I last five minutes or my partner lasts eight minutes,' and say, 'That's OK,' " he said. "They will relax a little bit."Big Brother Is Still A Hot Tranny Mess
James, James, Crazy ol' James. You my friend are a cat. One that has spent 5 of it's 9 lives, but a cat you are indeed. What really makes me laugh is that Natalie, A-Baller, Ryan, and Sheila still haven't figured out what James has known all along. He's the best player in the house and the only way to get him out is through the back door. And from what I hear, he really likes it in the back door. Ok, enough gay porn past jokes, that's the last one, I swear.
Sheila is both the smartest and dumbest players in the game. She is part of the strong alliance, but it determined to make sure that when they start turning on one another, she's the first one to get dropped.
The editing on Big Brother last night was amazing. Watching Josh completely turn on yet another friend in the house while Sharon gets a pep talk about how holy Josh is and that they will be friends outside of this house forever. Great job Big Bro.
Funniest moment of the night was for sure A-Baller hearing James and the others mention his name while he was reading the Bible. What does he do? He burst in, speaking as fast as humanly possible, screaming about something that should have been translated at the bottom of the screen but wasn't. And then as soon as he realizes that he wasn't being thrown under the bus (an over-used big brother cliche) he smiles and goes back to his Bible.
Does no one in the house remember that Sharon has already lost once? James got evicted and brought back in...but so did Sharon. And Sharon wasn't even a houseguest vote it was decided by Joshua and only Joshie poo. Why is James held to a higher standard? Oh yeah, because he is the best player in the game.
Speaking of James, his break down was quite difficult to watch. Was it just me or did he not look like some sort of sea creature when his lips pouted outward and his eyes welled with tears? He kind of looked like a sponge. I was disturbed by the whole thing. Honestly, it was the first time in the house that I didn't enjoy watching him.
We're getting close to the end of the season and that means an inevitable double elimination week looms in the near future. Could it be that James is nominated and pulls out of danger two times in one week? I would pay to see that. From what I hear, if you can't get enough of James on Big Brother there are some other places you can go an pay to see him pull out again...okay, sorry. I promised no more porn jokes, but this is Big Brother and no one keeps their word, right?
OUT!
Sheila is both the smartest and dumbest players in the game. She is part of the strong alliance, but it determined to make sure that when they start turning on one another, she's the first one to get dropped.
The editing on Big Brother last night was amazing. Watching Josh completely turn on yet another friend in the house while Sharon gets a pep talk about how holy Josh is and that they will be friends outside of this house forever. Great job Big Bro.
Funniest moment of the night was for sure A-Baller hearing James and the others mention his name while he was reading the Bible. What does he do? He burst in, speaking as fast as humanly possible, screaming about something that should have been translated at the bottom of the screen but wasn't. And then as soon as he realizes that he wasn't being thrown under the bus (an over-used big brother cliche) he smiles and goes back to his Bible.
Does no one in the house remember that Sharon has already lost once? James got evicted and brought back in...but so did Sharon. And Sharon wasn't even a houseguest vote it was decided by Joshua and only Joshie poo. Why is James held to a higher standard? Oh yeah, because he is the best player in the game.
Speaking of James, his break down was quite difficult to watch. Was it just me or did he not look like some sort of sea creature when his lips pouted outward and his eyes welled with tears? He kind of looked like a sponge. I was disturbed by the whole thing. Honestly, it was the first time in the house that I didn't enjoy watching him.
We're getting close to the end of the season and that means an inevitable double elimination week looms in the near future. Could it be that James is nominated and pulls out of danger two times in one week? I would pay to see that. From what I hear, if you can't get enough of James on Big Brother there are some other places you can go an pay to see him pull out again...okay, sorry. I promised no more porn jokes, but this is Big Brother and no one keeps their word, right?
OUT!
NBC has Big Plans...Housewives Has Bigger
Ok, so a good bit of TV news coming out of Hollywood today as we get NBC's year round programming announcement.
The Good:
The Office will be back. Medium will be back at mid season. Earl is back. 30 Rock will keep rockin'. SNL will have 4 half hour 'TNL' episodes to air in the fall after The Office to make fun of the election process, because obviously they think Hillary hasn't made enough of a mockery out of the whole thing by herself. Lastly Chuck and Friday Night Lights are both back. Chuck will return in the fall and so will FNL. The catch, FNL will be on in the fall on Directv only and then reair in the winter on NBC.
The Bad:
ER, yes that show is still on, will be back for its 15th year. I guess it is trying to outlast The Simpsons.
The Crazy: An Office spin-off will debut after the Super Bowl in early February and will then begin airing after the original Office on Thursday nights. HUH? Yeah, that long rumored, never believed tale about the best comedy on tv getting a sibling turned out to actually be true. Whether the show follows a current character like Dwight or ends up going to another Scranton branch altogether (with Karen?) remains to be seen. I'll let you know more as I do.
New:
Knight Rider will be a show again, airing on Wednesdays. Kings, a Biblical drama will be a back door movie pilot and if successful will be picked up as a series to air on The Lord's Day after Medium. Christian Slater's Jekyl and Hyde style show My Own Worst Enemy will also debut. Plus a new sitcom starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair will be in play.
Now The Desperate Housewives news from ABC. When the show returns in late April it will pick up 5 months after the last aired episode...but that's not the scoop. The truth is the show is likely to jump forward 5 years into the future in the season finale...and stay 5 years in the future when it returns in the fall. That means major cast changes and WHOLE NEW MYSTERIES. What do you think???
The Good:
The Office will be back. Medium will be back at mid season. Earl is back. 30 Rock will keep rockin'. SNL will have 4 half hour 'TNL' episodes to air in the fall after The Office to make fun of the election process, because obviously they think Hillary hasn't made enough of a mockery out of the whole thing by herself. Lastly Chuck and Friday Night Lights are both back. Chuck will return in the fall and so will FNL. The catch, FNL will be on in the fall on Directv only and then reair in the winter on NBC.
The Bad:
ER, yes that show is still on, will be back for its 15th year. I guess it is trying to outlast The Simpsons.
The Crazy: An Office spin-off will debut after the Super Bowl in early February and will then begin airing after the original Office on Thursday nights. HUH? Yeah, that long rumored, never believed tale about the best comedy on tv getting a sibling turned out to actually be true. Whether the show follows a current character like Dwight or ends up going to another Scranton branch altogether (with Karen?) remains to be seen. I'll let you know more as I do.
New:
Knight Rider will be a show again, airing on Wednesdays. Kings, a Biblical drama will be a back door movie pilot and if successful will be picked up as a series to air on The Lord's Day after Medium. Christian Slater's Jekyl and Hyde style show My Own Worst Enemy will also debut. Plus a new sitcom starring Molly Shannon and Selma Blair will be in play.
Now The Desperate Housewives news from ABC. When the show returns in late April it will pick up 5 months after the last aired episode...but that's not the scoop. The truth is the show is likely to jump forward 5 years into the future in the season finale...and stay 5 years in the future when it returns in the fall. That means major cast changes and WHOLE NEW MYSTERIES. What do you think???
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
STP a GO, VR a NO
Velvet Revolver splits with rocker Scott Weiland
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four founding members of the rock band Velvet Revolver said on Tuesday they were splitting with the group's troubled singer, Scott Weiland, citing his "increasingly erratic" behavior.
The announcement came in a terse statement from the group's management company as Weiland, 40, and his recently reunited original band, Stone Temple Pilots, were set next week to announce plans for a highly anticipated summer tour.
The Pilots, also known by their acronym, STP, already have confirmed a handful of upcoming dates, beginning with the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, on May 17-18.
For Weiland, whose career has long been overshadowed by heroin addiction, Rock on the Range will mark his first show with STP since the band played 13 concerts to promote its last album of new material, 2001's "Shangri-La Dee Da."
Following the breakup of STP, Weiland was welcomed as lead singer for Velvet Revolver, the newly formed grunge rock band founded by three former members of Guns N' Roses -- guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum -- along with second guitarist Dave Kushner.
Velvet Revolver was confronted from the start with Weiland's drug and legal problems as it juggled performance schedules, recording sessions and promotional work to accommodate his court dates and rehab.
Last month, Weiland pleaded innocent to a charge of driving under the influence of drugs stemming from his arrest on a Los Angeles freeway ramp in November. He is free on $40,000 bail and is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on Friday.
A public feud between Weiland and Velvet Revolver's drummer already had cast doubt on the band's future when the statement on behalf of Sorum, Slash, McKagan and Kushner was issued under the headline "Velvet Revolver to Part Ways with Singer."
"This band is all about its fans and its music, and Scott Weiland isn't 100% committed to either," Slash was quoted as saying. "Among other things, his increasingly erratic on-stage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on."
There was no immediate comment from Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots or their representatives.
IF YOU VISIT STONETEMPLEPILOTS.COM YOU WILL SEE AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT STP WILL BE BACK AS AN OFFICIAL BAND ON APRIL 7TH 2008 AND ARE EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE A FULL TOUR THIS SUMMER.
Gettin Close...
Cree's second annual photo scavenger hunt is coming up on April 19th. If you haven't RSVP yet, email me soon. Here are some funny images from last year's awesome night...
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