Random House

Some random thoughts on this, that, and the other.

The new TV season is starting off as a true suckfest so far, especially on NBC. The Friends premiere was okay but not great for me. That Coupling show was out-and-out terrible. We didn’t even watch the second half of it it was so bad. Most disappointing though was probably ER. I think that was the worst episode that I’ve ever seen. If this keeps up I might actually get my Thursday nights back.

Rush Limbaugh is an idiot that doesn’t deserve the words in this sentence that I’m devoting to his latest completely misguided heap of mouth poo.

I’m pretty glad we’re all still here seeing how both of my fantasy football teams actually won a freaking game this weekend. I thought the fabric of the universe might tear apart at the seams due to this cosmic event. This puts the Squeakz at 2-2 in one league and 1-3 in the other. Note to self: if you’re going to name something after your fallen homey in hopes of honoring him, don’t name him after something that sucks. Sorry, Squeaker. You’re still getting the SFFL Championship Trophy named after you.

I seriously cannot wait for the season finale of Paradise Hotel on Fox tomorrow night. At some point I’m going to have to devote some time to explaining why I think this might be the best reality TV show ever, but I’ll give you the short version: because there is absolutely no point to “the game”. I can’t even believe that the people on the show call it “the game”. Each week there are an odd number of people and everyone has to pick a roommate. The odd-person out gets booted. That’s it. It’s like Musical Chairs but if you leave you don’t get to drink all day, eat great food, live like a pampered king, and make out with other hot people to your heart’s content. I hope Keith and Tara “win”, whatever that means.

Bill Simmons is one of my favorite sports columnists ever. He had a great online column back in Boston a few years ago. Now he lives in LA and writes for the Jimmy Kimmel show in addition to having a column on ESPN.com’s Page 2. Not all of you know this but I was a journalism major for about a semester when I first got to Carolina. I really wanted to do exactly the kind of writing that Simmons is doing now. Maybe I’ll give up this whole software thing one day to take a crack at it.

Anyway, one of the highlights for me is when he reads letters from his readers, like this gem from Dave Reynaud in Chapel Hill in the latest mail bag column: “Are Jay Williams and Grant Hill now officially the best backcourt in wheelchair basketball history?” Ouch. So wrong, yet so funny. Good times.

That’s it for now. Bed time.