President Barack Obama

Nov. 4th, 2008. 10pm. Today I watched history. Today this country elected the first African American into the White House. Fifty years from now, I get to tell my grandchildren "I was there when...". But now its over, the love affair with the race card needs to end. Here is the most important thing: we elected someone who promises change and hope. Let's make it happen; let's free this country from the stifling confusion and uncertainty we have lived in for the last 8 years. Let's hope, that his hope rings true.

Congratulations Mr. President.

OSU VS. TEXAS

Hello there blogging world. It's been a while since I have been on. I have had a lot of things going on in my life lately, so I haven't had the time nor the desire to blog. Well I have my desire back.

So today I would like to talk about the showdown for the #1 Idiot Head Coach in the Big 12.

Candidate # 1, Mack Brown:

Now as all of you know, Mack Brown is the defending title holder of the Big 12 Idiot Head Coach of the Year award. Mack has diligently defended his title for six years in a row now. He has consistently put away the competition. His persistence has impressed me, especially last year when he felt some pressure late in the year from Dennis Franchione and Bill Callahan. Luckily both of those coaches are gone and it looked like Mack may have had an easy rode to his 7th straight title.

Unfortunately for Mack there was a huge shake-up in the polls today and it looks like he is in great jeopardy of losing his prolific crown. This leads us to our second candidate: Mike Gundy.

Mike Gundy, who finished 4th in last year's contest with his "I'm a man" tirade, looks to dethrone the dim-witted Brown. Gundy earned major accolades in this evenings game against Texas. The major accumulation of these points came late in the the game. Oklahoma State was down 28-24 and they had just recovered a Texas fumble around their own 15 yard line. There was a little over 4 minutes left in the game and OSU had all 3 timeouts left. Mike Gundy, who doubles as Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator, ran the first two plays of the drive for significant gains. Kendall Hunter had been explosive all day running for 161 yards on the day. After the second run, Mack Brown threw his trusty idiot stick across the field and smacked Mike across the face. Gundy decided to go away from the offensive scheme that had been working all day (over 200 yards rushing) and thought it was a good idea to throw the ball twice, for no gain and a turnover on downs. Good job!

So apparently Gundy's plan was to have his team bust their asses all game, only to step in at the end, with his "man" pants on and destroy his teams chance at winning.

So congratulations Mike, you win this week's Big 12 Idiot Head Coach of the Week award and you have taken a monster lead in the race for the yearly award. I am sure T. Boone Pickens is proud.

Michael Phelps is #1

Another banner day for Michael Phelps. He showed up tied for #1 all-time career gold medals. He walked out #1 all by himself.

Things started off in Phelps' top event the 200m Butterfly. This race was actually a lot closer than most people would have thought. We later found out that Phelps had a crack in his goggles and it caused them to continuously fill with water. (Hence the irritated toss of goggles and head gear at the end of the race) Phelps did not finish the race in the time he had hoped for, but he still broke the world record and still won gold.

Later in the morning (or evening, depending where you are) Phelps swam the lead leg in the 4x200m free relay. He gave his team a tremendous lead, almost a full body length. By the time the third leg started, the US team was almost a full two body lengths ahead. They crushed the old WR by 5 seconds. They became the first team to ever finish under 7 mins.

Phelps now has 11 career golds. Five golds in this Olympics. He has 3 more events to break Mark Spitz record of 7 golds in an individual Olympic. And he is winning his events in a Spitz like fashion.

5 events. 5 gold medals. 5 world records.

Should be an exciting week. Congratulation Michael.

Day 3 is AMAZING!!!

If you missed any of the pool action for day 3 of the 2008 Olympics games, you missed some of the best swimming in history.

To start things off, there was some really good swimming on the women's side. Christine Magnusson had a strong showing in the 100m butterfly snagging Silver in her first Olympics. Not longer after that Katie Hoff had a great race in the 400m Free. Hoff lead nearly the entire race, only to lose by 7 one-hundredths of a second. She grabbed the silver, but lost her grip on the gold by a fingertip.

Then later in the evening, we had the real fireworks! The men's 4x100m Free Relay!

All day long the French team had been talking smack. All day long they said they were going to "smash" Michael Phelps and the Americans. Well the French team did break the world record. They were one of 5 teams that broke the world record in this race. But the team that broke that record by the most?

You guessed it. Good ole' American boys "smashed" everyone and every record. The destroyed the old record by nearly 4 seconds. This race, which had 5 WR breaking runs, was probably the greatest relay race of all time. If you didn't see it, find someone who DVR'd it, rush to their home and immediately watch it.

Michael Phelps was the highlighter for this race, winning his 2nd Gold in these Olympics. He is still locked in and on pace to break Mark Spitz record of 7 Gold's in one Olympic. As great as Phelps is and was in this race, he wasn't the key for this team.

Jason Lezak, the oldest man on the swimming team, anchored this race and swam the fastest 100m split in history. The amazing thing is that the French were actually ahead by nearly half a body length in the last 50m. But Lezak finished his historic leg of 46.06 to beat France's Alain Bernard by a hand giving the U.S. a win by 8 one-hundredths of second. Lezak's teammates reactions is exactly the same as the reaction in my house, and hopefully millions of others.

After this day the U.S. is on top of the total medal standings with 11. We are behind in the total Gold's though. I think after seeing this though, there is no question that with swimming alone we are going to make major leaps on medal podium. Phelps, 200m, Monday night. Watch it, or you will hate yourself!

2008 Olympics

It's that time again. The Olympics are here. I tell you, I don't know how anyone cannot love the Olympics. It's just such a beautiful event when all that matters is peace, unity, winning, countries coming together, strangers becoming friends and well winning!

What I really love is that its the time when we get to see all those obscure sports that no one ever talks about except on an Olympic year. I love the talk that has been going on about this year's men's basketball team. All the talk about how they are going to win it all this year. No embarrassments like last time. You know what I have to say about that? WHO CARES!!!

Why would anyone give a damn about basketball when we have sports like swimming, gymnastics, track and field, volleyball and water polo. That's right Kobe I said gymnastics is more important than your sport. I mean come on people, this is when it really matters. This is a representation to the whole world. Who didn't cry in 96' when Kerri Strug landed that vault. I know I did.

I personally can't wait to watch gymnastics. I think we have a good chance this year. I can't wait to see Michael Phelps destroy every record again. I can't wait to watch Tyson Gay sprint to victory. Hell, I even watched a Cuba vs Norway volleyball match today just because it was on.

I love the Olympics!!!!! More to come!

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The Host

You wake up and see through eyes that are no longer yours. You hear a voice in you head, that isn't you. And worst of all, that voice talks to you.

This is the setting for Stephenie Meyer's first adult novel The Host.

Planet Earth has been occupied by parasitic aliens that attach themselves to host bodies, meaning us. Melanie Stryder is one of the few humans to survive the invasion until a risky plan to save a loved one sends her into the heart of the beast. She is captured and becomes the host body for the alien Wanderer. But Melanie does not go away lightly. Melanie becomes a nagging presence in her hijackers mind.

The two slowly from a bond to find the one that they both love, Jared. Through this sci-fi love story we learn a lot about perseverance and what it means to be human. Melanie and Wanderer's shared love for Melanie's lost flame, Jared, unites the two unlikely allies.

This is the first Stephenie Meyer book that I have read. I have heard a lot of great things about her Twilight series, so I thought I would give this a try. It has it's ups and downs. The first couple hundred pages are an exciting thrill ride, that mixes past and present in unfolding the story. The middle of the book can be a slow read. Some parts of it had me yearning for the end. However, once the book starts to race towards its somewhat expected ending, the love comes back and you don't want to put it down.

This was a very interesting twist on the whole body-snatchers/alien invasion genre. I thought it was well written and well thought out. There could have been some parts nixed in the final draft, but all in all it is a solid book.

I give this book high B. If it wasn't for some tedious parts in the fat of the book, it would have probably received an A.

The Dark Knight

Before I get started on a review I want to say something. First off, I think Heath Ledger was an absolutely amazing actor. I think he was sometimes underrated. I also think that, this was his best acting performance ever. He was wonderful and he will be missed. With that being said I just want to say that I am not taking his untimely death in to account with this review.



This was not only the best Batman movie to date, but possibly one of the best movies ever. For starters, Christian Bale is hands down the best Batman. He showed us that in Batman Begins and solidified that in this movie. He brings resounding darkness to Bruce Wayne and Batman unlike we have ever seen. Long gone are the days of goofy leather bound heroes and crackpot villains. This movie is powerful and real and it all starts with Bale. This Batman is deep and depressing. The double persona of Bruce Wayne and Batman begins to tear into his soul. Through the course of this movie he realizes the type of "hero" he must become in order to save Gotham.

As aforementioned, Ledger's Joker is stunning. He is also brilliantly terrifying. This Joker is much darker than Nicholson's role in 1989 Batman and Romero's role in the television series. This Joker is an "agent of chaos". He becomes Batman's arch-nemesis by consuming Batman's world in darkness and death. He is a sociopath, who coats himself in clown paint and is here to bring Gotham a "better class of criminal". Initially the Joker wants Batman to come clean with his true identity and he wants him dead, but later he becomes so enamored with the Caped Crusader that he doesn't want to kill him, because he says to him, "you complete me". Ledger is amazing, disturbing, terrifying and fascinating as possibly the best comic book villain of all time. His performance is worth the trip.

Aaron Echkhart really surprised me in his role as District Attorney Harvey Dent. He first allies himself with Batman and Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman) in order to bring justice to Gotham. He eventually becomes the disfigured Two-Face in a freak accident. This accompanied by a surprise death forces Harvey Two-Face over the edge. The duality of Two-Face is magnificently portrayed. With his trusty coin handy, Two-Face goes on a vigilante rampage intended to destroy(depending on a flip of the coin) those that have ruined his life.

Once again director Christopher Nolan brings us an amazing story, chock-full of interesting characters and excitement. The writing was amazing. The background and settings were beautiful. The acting was superb. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman all did an excellent job reprising their roles as Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox and James Gordon, respectively. The only slightly sore spot in the movie was Maggie Gyllenhaal. Not to say Maggie didn't do a good job portraying Rachel Dawes, her acting just wasn't as good as the rest of the cast. Now I know that this was a dynamite cast and the movie was near perfect, so I am not dogging her too badly.

All-in-all this movie was absolutely amazing. I may even go see it again and I never do that. It was almost perfect; we even got a surprise, albeit short, appearance from Scarecrow. If you liked the first one, you will love this one. If you haven't seen the first one, rent it immediately then go see this one. This movie will make you laugh, it will terrify you, it will make you scream a very Keanu Reeves like "whoa". And if you are a Heath Ledger fan, you might even shed a little tear.

I give this movie a very, very outstanding A.

No Air Conditioning = Very Grumpy Household

So for those of you who may not know; our air conditioning went out Sunday night. This was right on the heels of our water heating going out last Thursday. Yes that's right, we had to take cold showers in a very hot house. What's that you say? Shouldn't that make it okay? Cold shower? Hot house? Well no! Actually, it makes it that much crappier.

Imagine yourself taking an ice cold shower at 6 am. Your tired, your grumpy, you definitely do not want to hop into a 40 degree shower. After your shower is over you step out, you immediately start to dry off (because it is 86 degrees in your house). Within minutes you are dry. And then you start to feel a little more dampness on your body. Miss a spot? Nope that's the sweat building up. Keep in mind it is 86 DEGREES!!!

So now within a matter of 20 minutes you go from half asleep/filthy (you did just sleep with no air) to wide awake freezing/somewhat clean to sleepy/filthy again. Thank God it ends today!

I keep telling myself, it will be okay. We have a pre-approved mortgage and we are buying a house within the next 3 months. Everything will be okay. If I can sleep tonight with air I think that murderous crankiness will dissipate.

Hancock is not your parent's super-hero. Hell he isn't even your super-hero. This film is a very interesting take on the super-hero genre; that I found both keen and refreshing.



The story follows John Hancock (Will Smith) a regular Joe with super human abilities and a complete lack of respect for...well respect. We discover that Hancock woke up in a hospital bed some 80 years ago after a crack in the noggin, shattered his skull. Miraculously his skull heals seemingly by itself, but he has a hard case of amnesia. Within a few hours of his regeneration he develops the powers that make him the Hancock of our time; a drunk, under-eager, destructive pinball that has fallen far out of the public's favor.



Will Smith delivers another dynamite performance. He completely becomes the character of John Hancock; a man who is not a man and is hopelessly alone in the crowded world. Smith is magnificent at snatching the essence of the character and making it his own. The lonely Hancock did not smile even once throughout the flick.







Hancock develops his first real relationship when he rescues quirky and pensive PR professional Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman). Embrey is on a quest to save the world, one donated product at a time. Embrey feels that he has stumbled on a feel-good gold mind when Hancock saves his life. Embrey steers his focus to reshaping the public image of the abject super-hero.





Bateman provides a dry comic relief to this sad story of a lonely man. His character helps mold Hancock into the kind of hero the public wants him to be. He takes baby-steps with Hancock, pushing him like no else would dare to.

Embrey's wife Mary, (Charlize Theron) has a very dark opinion of Hancock. She doesn't hide this either. We later learn that she has a little secret of her own, that both progresses the movie and puts an unforeseen twist on its outcome.

And of course as you can see from the picture below, Charlize Theron was smoking hot in this flick.


The movie carries an overall sense of grief and sadness, but it tries very hard to be funny. The first half was actually pretty entertaining. There were a few scenes that were over the top; but what a Will Smith Summer blockbuster be without that?

The second half careens to a much darker side and the turning point will be something you either like or really hate.

The film lacks a central arch nemesis that we normally find in this genre, instead it kind of portrays all the evil in the world as Hancock's villains. The few villains that they try to incorporate for a brief period feel forced. It almost felt as if they threw them in their just to have the feeling of a good vs. evil.

If your in the mood for a pretty decent movie, with really good acting and an interesting story; I would suggest checking this one out. It probably won't be what you expect, but it won't be terribly disappointing either.

I give this film an overall grade of: B

Great acting. Great idea. A little bit of a falter on the story and the portrayal of it.

YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY SUCKS?

Not having any hot water. That's what really sucks. Although there is nothing to wake you up and get you going like an ice cold shower in the morning...it is still no where near worth it.

I will take a nice warm, moderately comatose shower over an ice picks in my skin, drenched in Mother Nature's Red Bull shower any day.

You know what else sucks? When it's like pulling teeth to get your water heater fixed! Or anything else for that matter. I swear I will never rent again! (For those of you who may not know, Melody and I just got approved for our first mortgage. YAY!)

Ahh, the Rant is off my chest. I feel better now. Happy 4th!

Sell Your Life, Right Now!

So did anyone else hear about this? http://www.alife4sale.com/

This guy in Australia named Ian Usher, after ending a five year marriage, decided he was going to sell his life. So Mr. Usher put his life on auction on ebay. And when I say life, I mean everything. He put the whole package down. His house, his car, his motorcycle, all his personal belongings (with the exception of the clothes on his back and his wallet) and even his job and his friends!

So the bids got as high as $2.2 million dollars, only to find out that there was a hack on the ebay server and people were making bogus bids. So although Mr. Usher had his hopes and heart set on that $2.2 million dollar mark, his life actually sold for a mere $380,286.00.

Now, that is still a large amount of money in a lump sum. But if you really think about it; surely with a home, car, personal belongings, etc, it's gotta be close to the same. I mean the lump sum coming at you like that has to feel good, but what do you do from here?

I do admire his bravado and his balls for taking this plunge. I don't know if I could ever do it. I would like to think that I would. The idea of being so free is so intriguing. I wish that I could do what he did, but I just don't know.

I think this is a pretty amazing story. I thought other people might like to hear about it, if you haven't already. I don't know what awaits you Ian Usher, but I wish you well. May your $380K and carefree attitude lead to your hopes and dreams. Good luck sir.

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TOAST TO THE NEWLYWEDS

As many of you know and many of you don't, my brother got married this past Sunday the 22nd. The chapel was beautiful, the bride was beautiful, the groom was mighty handsome and everyone was in elated spirits. Unfortunately things didn't go exactly as planned. Doo-doo happens as I like to say.

So, I never had an opportunity to give my toast at the wedding. So I decided to give it here, what the hell.

To Shane and Lauren:

I look at you two, looking at each other and I know that you two will have that look always. You have that look of foreverness. I am so happy for you both and I am so happy that I could be a part of this.

Lauren: We may have not always seen eye to eye. Maybe it's because I am taller than you. :o) But I do know that in the last couple of years you have become such an important person in my life. You went from "that's the girl my brother is dating" to "that's Lauren, she's one of my best friends and I love her." I am so glad that you are a part of my family. ( I know that thought is scary; deep concentrated breaths make the fear go away.)

Shane: What can I say? You are my brother, my everlasting bane and my best friend. I remember tying you up as a little kid. We could use 100 ropes and you would always get out somehow. (This may be too R-rated for this blog. Trust me folks, he always wanted to be tied up. That's a topic that I we leave off the table.) Well needless to say, you have broken through the ropes of childhood and stepped into the realm of manhood. I am so proud of you and I will always be here for you, because... "It's guy love, guy love, it's love between two guys". Sorry broke out into a little song and dance. Anyway, you're my brother and you will always be more important to me than you can ever know. I love you; I am so happy for you.

You guys are great. I'm blown away with joy for you two. I can't wait to take our first totally extravagant, completely too intense couples anniversary sabbatical.


Congratulations guys. I love you both so much

Random Thought

So I received one of those random emails at work that wants you to put in your age and it calculates how many breaths you've taken, how many days you have lived, etc.

It was pretty cool. It even allowed you to click a button repeatedly and it would keep track of your current heartbeat and things like that.

Although I enjoyed it, it got me thinking. There should be a formula that can calculate how many minutes we each spend on the internet. This may be an extremely horrid idea, but I would really like to know. It seems that the internet has become a steadfast in all of our lives. It is kind of sad if you think about it. Most of the children in this country will read blogs, articles and stories online daily; but they will be lucky to read 3 or 4 books a year for pleasure.

And hey don't get me wrong, I love the internet too. Obviously. But I do enjoy the reading too. Take book, insert into face and you make a happy Shaun.

Anyway, just curious as to what other people think about this. Feel free to let me know. If you want to check it out let me know. It is in excel format so I need to email it to you.

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The Happening?

This post is a bit over due, but as the saying goes, better late than never:

So, I went to see The Happening with wife and my brother. I was very eager to see this movie. I had been bombarded with flashes of violent deaths, supernatural events and the ever present R rating. At this point, I am not sure if that R stands for the rating or if it stands for REALLY?!?!

This movie was far and beyond everything I expected. Keep in mind my expectations were; I would see a good movie, I would enjoy it and I would come out talking about how wonderful it was. Instead I was left wondering why? Why? Why would anyone put that Thing ( I don't like referring to it as a movie) on the big screen.

The Thing starts off with a beautiful day in Central Park. On a bench we find two young women reading and having pleasant conversation as the park-strollers pass by. Then the world seems to freeze. A scream is heard, everyone seems to stop dead in their tracks. Everyone except for one of our lovely ladies reading a book seems to lose all awareness and motor skills. (Why did it effect everyone but her? Who knows!) The other bench reader decides this would be a good time to remove a pin from her hair and thrust it into her neck. (Something I contemplated myself, within a mere hour).

We then move to a scene in which construction workers are lunging themselves off of buildings. While watching this, one gets the sense that this is foreshadowing for how violent and frightening this movie is going to be. After sitting through the entire thing, you realize it was only a premonition of things to come inside the theater; as movie goers began throwing themselves from the balcony to escape this horrendous flick. If I had not such a frugal nature, I myself may have joined the pack rushing towards the doors. However, I paid my $7.00 and by God I was going to sit there and watch ever minute of the Thing. I am surprised that I survived to make this post.

Mark Wahlberg plays Elliot, a high school science teacher, who through the course of this film discovers the cause for the mass suicide. By mere "coincidence", Elliot stumbles upon a greenhouse owner who explains to him that plants can emit a neurotoxin whenever they feel threatened and that they react to human stimulus. To make a long story short: the plants got tired of us wrecking the world and decided to take vengeance.

Mark Wahlberg delivers ( in my personal opinion) the worst performs since he, walked with a limp, talked like he was from the hood and dropped his drawers on stage as one of the members of the prestigious Funky Bunch. I have to say that I was completely distraught after watching his performance. I am huge fan of Marky Mark, oh excuse me, Mark Wahlberg. I think he is an excellent actor, but his performance in this flat out stunk. It's as if M. Night Shyamalan said, "Okay, you have a condition that causes you to speak with multiple, interrupted pauses and the pitch of your voice never coincides with what is happening around you, GO!"

But I do not want to completely trash Mr. Wahlberg. I can understand that it must be difficult to function properly when you have to work day-in and day-out with Zobot Deschanel 1.0 (Zooey Deschanel to the uninformed). Deschanel, from the tribe of "Deer Lost In Headlights" (see pic below) steals the show for bad acting in this film. She was not the only reason this film sucked, but she did help facilitate it into sucky-land. Proving again that she can destroy any good idea that she becomes associated with. (See Tin Man)

Once again I must ask the question; how does this robot ^ keep getting work?!?!

All-in-all, this movie was really bad. There was a scene where the characters ran away from the wind... and actually beat it! Obviously no one on the production crew has ever been to the Midwest, because you cannot run from wind. It doesn't chase after you like a freakin' animal. It hits you before you know its even windy.

I will admit that I like the idea. Mother Nature getting pissed off at us and taking out her wrath is a scary thought. I think it could make a good movie, but only if a restraining order is placed against everyone that was involved in this movie.

The best part of the whole movie, (with exception of when I could finally leave) was when Mark Wahlberg is in an abandoned home and finds himself face-to-face with a Ficus. He talks to the tree, tries to soothe it; hoping that the tree will not release the toxin that can kill him. Only to realize the tree is plastic. This got a few chuckles from the disgruntled audience.

The worst part of the movie, was every part that did not include Mark Wahlberg talking to a fake ficus. The movie needs to be renamed from M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" to M. Night Shyamalan "What's Happening". As in what is happening to your career? Don't drop the rated R bomb on us and then deliver something that isn't even worth the 99 cent bag of peanuts I sneaked into the theater.

In the end I did leave with one happy notion. I now know, that if ever the mood strikes me, I can take a bucket of wet dog crap, film it for 90 minutes, slap a title on it and call it a movie. Maybe I will call it "The Crappening".

You always remember your first.

So here it is; the very first of what I hope to be a long line of blogs. I feel a bit apprehensive and excited about doing this. I have been told countless times to join the blogging world and I have shied away from it until now. I'd like to say something along the lines of "watch out blogging world, here I come", but I think it is actually me that is not entirely prepared for what is to come.

I hope to use this blog as an outlet for several different things.

First off I want to use this to review everything I get my hands on; books, movies, games, music, everyday life, you name it.

I would also like to use this as a source to get my creative juices flowing. My creativity has been on the mend ever since I finished school and now I need to kick it in the butt and get it back into gear. I hope that through this blog and attending graduate school that I can do this.

Well thanks for looking. I hope that you will continue to be involved in my blog, look for more soon, possibly tonight.

Thanks!

Shaun