Catching Up

(listening to: Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones)

It's been a week, I guess, since I last posted, so let me bring you up to speed on what I've been doing since then.

One. Last Saturday, as you probably know (and if you don't, let this serve as notice), my Texas Longhorns pulled off what seemed like a huge upset over the #4 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. I say seemed like because the Longhorns were actually ranked #2 at the time, and still are, incidentally, so technically, it wasn't an upset, although it sure felt like one at the time. We jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, then our offense seemed to fall asleep. The 2nd and 3rd quarters were defensive battles, and theirs did a much better job, for the most part. The final three minutes of the game, which we started down 22-16 (it really is a testament to our defense that we weren't down 34-16), were probably the most exciting three minutes of football I've ever watched. We were held to only 2 field goals until the final three minutes of the game, at which point Vince Young woke up, pulled on his cape, and completely owned yet another Big 10 team.



My apologies to Jeff, Kristin, Spencer and Lani.

Two. Monday, my roommate Josh (not Amanda, the other roommate) came home from the gym with 2 free tickets to the Dodger game that night. $50 face value, field level, directly behind home plate. Here I am at Dodger Stadium.



So that was pretty cool.

Three. Tuesday night was another great night on what has now become my favorite reality show of all time, Rockstar: INXS. Everybody's giving such great performances at this point in the competition, which is just making the show better. They're down to the final three, with the finale coming next week, and I'm sort of proud to say that my initial pick to win it all, J.D. Fortune, is still around and getting stronger each week. As if my obsession with this show wasn't strong enough already, I have recently discovered that all of the contestants have their own blogs about their experiences on the show. Come on, like I'm not about to link to them.

The remaining three contestants' blogs: J.D. Fortune, Marty Casey, Mig Ayesa. Here's a little nugget from Mig's blog:

"People have asked me why I wear military jackets on stage and my answer is this - I think they look great and that just for the fact I am wearing them while on stage instead of on the battlefield is my little statement of make love not war."

Thanks, Mig. You're pretty weird, dude.

Four. I saw a commercial last night for some menopause medicine, and the spokeswoman was Cheryl Ladd. Cheryl Ladd is doing menopause commercials?? I mean, she's a little (but just a little) before my time as a premiere hottie, but I've seen the re-runs, and I've heard the stories, and even though she's not one of my generation's bombshells, it was still a little unsettling.

The strangest thing about the commercial was the website that they advertised. It was "www.talkingtoyourdoctor.com". Come on, is that the best you can do?? This is a completely ridiculous website to put on a commercial. It reminded me of that old Saturday Night Live fake commercial for Dillon/Edwards Investment Company, whose website, repeated over and over again, was www.clownpenis.fart. Maybe we're not too far away from that.

Five. The perfect complement to Cheryl Ladd pimping menopause pills to my mom's friends must be this: Britney Spears is now officially a MILF. (If you don't know what a MILF is, please don't ask me. It's not a conversation I want to have. You know who I'm talking to.) I'm sure both mother and baby are doing fine. Gross.