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First Obama general election ad…

I wrestled this guy a few times in High School. He wrestled for Lincoln High and was a really cool guy. Needless to say, he always beat me.

Probably the closest I came to beating him was when he pulled an illegal move (he claimed he did it accidentally and I believe him). The move is illegal in collegiate/HS wrestling because if it is done wrong it could paralyze someone. He did it perfectly so I wasn’t hurt in the least. If I had claimed that I couldn’t continue the match I would have won since you can’t win a match my injuring someone with an illegal move. It wasn’t an important match and I wouldn’t pull that anyways so I continued the match, and lost.

I had no idea he was into MMA, let alone one of the stars. A friend started telling about this bad ass featherweight from California and I realized it was the same guy I remembered from High School.

Yet another reason to vote for Obama. It takes some chutzpah to oppose something that will likely be popular among the misguided masses. Good for Obama for calling bullshit on this one. As much as it hurts every time I fill up my gas tank (or buy anything that had to be transported) I think the government should increase the gas tax and use the money for alternative energy research. We’re at peak oil consumption folks; it’s time to make some sacrifices to get us out of this mess.

I finished season 1 of Flight of the Conchords. Hopefully season 2 will be available soon.

The majority of movies are not intended to be period pieces. They take place in “present time.” There is one technology that dates almost every movie that predates it, killing any illusion that the movie occurs presently: the cell phone. There are now many movies that you have to accept that they took place before cell phones (BCP) were invented or their plots make little sense. Last night I watched a movie that was made during the transition between BCP and current cell phone ubiquitousness. The Long Kiss Goodnight was made in 1996 when low-rent private detectives like Samuel L. Jackson’s character didn’t have cell phones, but upper class house wives like Geena Davis’ character did. Jackson’s character resorted to using a pay phone (do those still exist?) to make contact with his partner. Since there was no explanation of Jackson’s character being a luddite, or some such character development, the film was instantly dated. I can’t think of another technology that so quickly had such an effect on movies’ time periods.

BTW, if you missed The Long Kiss Goodnight the first time around don’t bother to watch it now. The few really good lines Samuel L. Jackson has don’t make up for all the terrible ones Geena Davis is left with.

In memoriam of Jeff’s radio antennae: