Saturday, November 12, 2005
Suns off to a rocking 2-3 start!
Ugh.
Well, they've got 3 new guys on their starting line, Amare is out, and Steve is falling apart.
Ugh.
Luckily, this Bell guy is really good and Diaw seems to be working out. We're not getting killed out there, but, still... it's a 2-3 start.
Gotta stick with my boys. I know they'll turn it around.
2:57 PM |
Thanks, Moms
Word to our mothers.
The League and Mrs. League have been having a hard time of late, and due to some unforeseen difficulties, we were in need of some extra help around League HQ.
Special thanks to Judy and the KareBear for coming out to the miserable desert for a week each and offering a helping hand.
The League especially enjoyed the visits as The League got away without cooking for two weeks and only occasionally doing dishes.
The League has a theory. Here it is (hold on to your hats):
Good looking people in swimsuits sell ad-space.
Aquaman's comics do not even begin to lend themselves to being a good idea for TV. They mostly take place underwater and involve a complex monarchy system, losses of limbs and dead babies. And a sidekick named "Garth".
My guess is nobody but about a handful of comic nerds knows or cares about Aquaman's story, and we can expect for all of that to be scrapped for a beachside resort which constantly faces crooks and criminals of the supernatural variety.
Yes, Aquaman is being turned into Baywatch Nights. (And, yes, at the height of X-Files' popularity, Baywatch Nights became a show about supernatural menaces).
Oh, Leaguers...
The League supposes we will watch the pilot as we are often wrong, and we are always curious to see how mainstream supoerhero properties will be mangled in the wrong hands.
6:28 AM |
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 Famous DJ not only Rocks San Antonio's Face Off, Also Rates Game
Nathan C. writes in:
Game? What the heck...?
I don't even think I had any game at all while at TU. This is going to sound really nerdy, but while I was in school, I had little to no interest in a relationship. Therefore, I went on few dates. Make that almost NO dates. I had a girlfriend for a few months during my sophomore year, and decided I'd rather be playing music with the Stray Toasters and inventing new cocktails with Frank in my spare time than dating. It was only after I graduated that I took any interest in such things.
So, Game during college? I'd rate it a 2.3. I am pretty clueless, and so I didn't really know if someone was interested in me or not unless they hit me over the head. And then there was the time a good lady friend flat out told me, "Look, we can't take it any farther than friends," and that was that.
--Nathan
Come on, Leaguers! Write in with your tale of college-era dating woe!
11:33 PM |
With Aplogies to Doug... from whom I am stealing a great idea.
We're not to Christmas yet, but I need to do some shopping soon. I don't want to shop in the middle of mark up season.
Monday, November 07, 2005
Yesterday the doors of The League's past were flung wide open, and who should come popping out?
Denise!
It's been years since The League heard from Denise, but we were pleased as punch to hear from our old college and high school buddy. If not for Denise's excellent driving skills one fateful night in 1993, I would never have been in San Antonio and never met the future Mrs. League. For that contribution, we're all eternally grateful. Mad props to Denise for her part in crafting The League's future.
Denise also took me to see L7 in high school. There was an all day music fest at UofH, and one of the opening acts was early 90's Canadian rapper "Snow". Remember Snow? I do.
Folks at the show noticed Snow was lip synching and called him on it. I'm not sure how it happened, but it ended with Snow being pulled into the crowd and security needing to rescue him.
Sometimes I really miss Houston audiences. I ask you, where else are they going to beat you up for lip synching?
Anyway, Denise is apparently now kicking it old skool in Pearland, Texas with her husband where she's a pharmacist. I shall soon be hitting her up for my oxycontin.
8:38 PM |
Sunday, November 06, 2005
The next Spidey movie is supposed to feature 2 villains instead of just 1. We'll see how that works in practice.
The Batman movies did this for the last three installments, and Batman Begins did it as well. Prior to batman Begins I thought this was a fairly dumb idea as it burned through the characters twice as quickly without really providing much more than a lot of one-upmanship in the scenery chewing department (see Batman Forever... or, rather, don't...).
At any rate, looks like occasionally popular actor Thomas Hayden Church will be playing Spidey mainstay, The Sandman. he was signed a long time ago, but it was never made public which character he would take on.
Well, please see below:
Comic Sandman
Movie Sandman
Who is the other villain? Surprise, surprise... the rumor mill is saying "Venom" as played by Topher Grace.
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