Apparently some large sporting event is taking place this weekend? The Super Bowl I hear… But not just any Super Bowl. No. This year it’s Super Bowl: Xtreme Lesbian edition! At least I’m pretty sure that’s what the XL stands for. Last year it was the Xtra Xtremely Xotic, Including Xtremities edition.

I for one, am looking forward to seeing how they’re gonna handle all those xtreme lesbians on the field at one time. I mean, that’s a lot of competition to contend with. I guess we’ll see.

Even if it sucks, which I’m sure it will, there’ll be commercials to watch. I hear Emerald Nuts is having a new commercial about machete enthusiasts. He’ll be a super dorky white guy, so that should be interesting.

I know his birthday was yesterday, but since we don’t work on Monday’s we had to move the celebration back a day so we could have an excuse for the government to not have to go to work. So Happy Belated Birthday Marty!!

If there’s one day I think everyone should take time to reflect upon, it’s Martin Luther King Day. I mean, next to Loyalty Day, it’s definitely the most important secular holiday our country celebrates.

It’s kind of ironic that, after working so hard to end segregation and racial discrimination, society segregates itself a lot of the time. Just go to any high school in America to see this in action. Maybe it’s just human nature to separate ourselves, or maybe Dr. King didn’t get to finish his quest because he was shot (or was he…?). It’d be interesting to see what Marty would say today if he saw our society. Would he be happy with how the whole desegregation thing turned out?

(Caution: blasphemy to ensue. If you’re easily offended, you might want to stop here.)

I’m gonna go ahead and say that he wouldn’t be very happy with it, but would have four platinum rap albums and a soon to be released movie with Tupac and Notorious BIG. He’d be a rapper on Diddy’s label (Bad Boy Records) and rap about how hard life was back when there were lynchings everyday and people had to eat sand to survive. There’d also be a rap companion to the “I Have A Dream” speech.

Luckily for you, I have a time machine and went back in time, prevented Big Marty K. (as he goes by in the rap community) from being shot, went back to the future, and downloaded an mp3 of his hit single, “Ya’ll Best Be Dreamin’ Bitch”. I’ve transcribed the lyrics below:

Yeah, word, yeah
I gots a dream and all these wiggas be frontin’
Theys think they bad but the brothas they huntin’
The U.S. got a creed that I’d like to address
All men is made equal that is what it profess
Ya’ll must be dreamin’ bitch, cause you know dat ain’t true
Brothas shootin’ brothas in the ghettos and zoo

I gots a dream ya’ll, I gots a dream (okay)
From the 229 to the 601 (yeah)
Every brotha will be brother to all the white
sons with dads who used own slaves
And my kids won’t be judged by color of they skin
But rather by the character of who they bein’
And I want the little black boys and girls to play
With all the little white boy and girls today

I gots a dream ya’ll, I gots a dream (yeah)
I gots a dream ya’ll, let freedom ring (word)
I gots a dream ya’ll, I gots a dream
I gots a dream ya’ll, let freedom ring

Big Marty K. for life (Bad Boy!)
770 represent ya’ll

These are two of the most amazing images I’ve ever seen. They’re super hi-res pictures of the core of the Milky Way that NASA took with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Check it out!

http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-02a1.jpg (7002 x 5050)
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-02b1.jpg (7002 x 5050)

Link to press release

I took the list of the 42 movies I saw in the theater in 2005 and have narrowed it down to my top 11. But first, since I had a hard time choosing, here are the honorable mentions (in no particular order) that didn’t quite make the list for whatever reason I deemed: Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Walk the Line, Jarhead, Waiting…, Lord of War, Corpse Bride, The Aristocrats, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Devil’s Rejects, The Family Stone, and Chicken Little.

11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Johnny Depp is definitely one of the most versatile actors ever. He’s also a little like John Cusack in that it’s hard to think of a bad Johnny Depp movie. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no exception. I never saw the original or read the book, but I enjoyed this movie all the same.

10. Sin City – I never read any of Frank Miller’s graphic novels, but this movie was very enjoyable all the same. It’s very intriguing visually with a good story to boot.

9. Red Eye – Rachel McAdams did an awesome job in this movie and Cillian Murphy does a good job in a villain role. Very well acted and pretty intense.

8. Capote – A biopic about Truman Capote during the time he was writing In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman did an amazing job playing Capote and I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a best actor award for it. Definitely a top notch film.

7. Mr. and Mrs. Smith – Full of action and some comedy…and Vince Vaughn! It’s a lot of fun and definitely one worth watching.

6. The 40 Year Old Virgin – We loved Steve Carrel on The Daily Show and The Office, and now we can love him in the movies. Written and directed by Judd Apatow (executive producer of two amazingly great series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared), how could this movie not be good?

5. Saw II – Awesome. Saw it twice in the theater (no pun intended). I like that there was a sweet twist to it while still managing to not feel rehashed. I just hope the next one can keep the franchise up to par. I’m thinkin’ it’ll come out in October 2006 if they keep the schedule they’ve been on for the first two.

4. Batman Begins – I was never a huge Batman fan, but this movie converted me I think. And everyone said Christian Bale wouldn’t be a good Batman….how wrong were they?

3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Year four was jam packed with plot elements, and thusly felt a bit disjointed at times. I’m sure it was awkward if you hadn’t read the book. But it was great nonetheless. The only complaint I have is that we didn’t get to see more of the Quidditch Championship match.

2. Wedding Crashers – Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, and Isla Fisher. Hilarity combined with really hot chicks and Christopher Walken. It couldn’t get much better.

1. Serenity – So freakin’ sweet that I saw it twice in the theater. If you watched Firefly (which you should have) you’d know what this is about. Joss Whedon’s awesome space cowboy show hits the big screen and is just about as good as the show.

There you have it. Feel free to agree with me completely.