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Twilight Golf

So Joe was supposed to make a post Monday. Its now almost Friday and he still has his thumb up his you know what.

Who is up for Twilight Golf Tuesday? West Seattle? Say about 6pm?

This would not be considered a "Major" like the Bruno Kirby or Alec Guiness Memorial. We can call this the Dodge Charger Classic.

Jayne's 2007 SIFF Reviews & Power Rankings

The 2007 Seattle International Film Festival has come and gone. Here's a power ranking of the films I saw.

1. The Ten
Grade: A
The gaggle or guys who are all or at least in part behind “The State”, “Wet Hot American Summer” & “Reno 911” are out with a new film. This flick is 10 short stories, each about one of the Ten Commandments.
How was it?
More than once, I laughed so hard it hurt (I had no idea Liev Schrieber could be so funny). I don’t think I stopped laughing for the entire 90 minutes of the film. I’m not going to ruin it, because it’s so much better to see it without knowing what to expect. Fox Searchlight won a bidding war on this film at Sundance, so you can probably expect a limited release this fall.
I was really reluctant to give this film the number one slot, but at the end of the day, I really just enjoyed the hell out of it.

2. Paris Je Taime
Grade: A
Yep, another short film compilation. Crazy, isn't it?
I was completely charmed by this collection of 18 love stories set in Paris. Normally when you see short film collections it’s an uneven affair. Some shorts are awesome, some suck, and some lie in the middle. With Paris, I enjoyed every single short to some degree. I found myself appreciating the more complete stories more, but even the scene vignettes were really good. This is probably the first film compilation I’ve seen that I’d be really hard pressed to pick a favorite out of.

3. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Grade: A
I loved Julien Temple’s other punk rock documentary “the Filth & the Fury” and this film is even better. I only had one worry about this movie going in. Temple & Strummer were very close friends and I was a little worried that this movie would just feel like a puff piece. I was happy to be wrong. This is truly a warts and all story about one of the all time great rock and roll pioneers. This film doesn’t over glorify Joe or degrade him. It’s just an honest look at a man who happened to do really great things.
Any fan of the Clash, Punk Rock, or just music in general owes it to themselves to see this movie.

4. Severance
Grade: A-
Britain is really starting to corner the market on the Horror/Comedy genre. While this film may not be as good as ‘Shaun of the Dead’ (And really, how many movies are?) it’s up there. More horror tinged than ‘Shaun’, the over the top violence reminded me a little of ‘Slither’ in tone. A great cross between 'The Office’ and ‘Deliverance’.

5. Sakuran
Grade: A-
This was described as ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ done right. I actually saw ‘Memoirs’ after this film just to see what they meant. Boy...they weren’t kidding.
I actually added this film as a last minute addition, and I’m really glad I did. It was a very pleasant surprise. I really hope this movie finds a way to get a theatrical release in the states, because it really benefits from being seen on the big screen. I really dug the way this movie was put together. The cinematography was beautiful, and had a unique feel to it; the editing was really fresh and didn’t feel like a period piece. And then there was the music. Instead of doing period music or a traditional symphonic score, they actually used a lot of modern styles to tell the story. There was some big band, jazz and even rock spread throughout. I’ve read some reviews that really bashed the songs used in this film, and I get what their saying, I just don’t agree. I found it to be a really effective story telling device.

6. Son Of Rambow
Grade: B+
If you remember what it was like being a little kid in your backyard playing war with your friends then you should be able to at least appreciate this film. I hate to use the term family friendly, but this really is a sweet film that has enough adult humor and nostalgia that most age groups can take something away from it.

7. Interview
Grade: B+
Steve Buscemi directed, co-wrote and stars in this remake of a Theo Van Goh film, co-starring Sienna Miller. Primarily taking place in one location, this film does a great job keeping things visually interesting as we progress through 90 minutes of a journalist and an actress verbally sparring. Great performances from Buscemi & Miller really keep the energy up, which you really need in this kind of two actor/one setting type movies.

8. Eagle vs. Shark
Grade: B+
This movie is going to draw a lot of comparisons to ‘Napoleon Dynamite’, which is understandable, but not necessarily fair. While both films share the really oddball casts that could be distant relatives of each other, ‘Eagle vs. Shark’ is a much more adult story and I found that more appealing. I also found the humor in ‘Eagle’ to be much funnier than ‘Napoleon’. “Gimmie your tots” is only funny the first couple of times.

9. Death at a Funeral
Grade: B
As much as I want to rag on Frank Oz for being a douche bag in person, I’ll restrain myself and admit that this is a really enjoyable black comedy that is a nice return to form for Mr. Oz. This is the Frank Oz that made ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ instead of ‘The Stepford Wives’. And I have to give a shout out to Alan Tudyk who nearly steals the show with a character that could have easily been the most annoying in the wrong hands.

10. Red Road
Grade: B
I was ready to hate this film. As soon as I read comparisons between this film and the works of Michael Haneke I went to Def-Con 2. But truth be told, I found it to be a very un-Haneke like engaging character drama. It’s very well acted and the story unfolds beautifully. I have one gripe though. Why oh why did this movie have subtitles? Everyone is speaking English the whole time, and it’s so bloody distracting to have subtitles up when you don’t need them.

11. Fido
Grade: B
Take an episode of Lassie. Swap out the dog for a Zombie. Add dark humor and a body count. Blend.
This is a pretty enjoyable movie that only suffers from having a fairly uneven script that causes the movie to drag in a few points. It's still worth checking out, especially for any zombie lovers.

12. Blood on the Flat Track
Grade: B-
I really struggled with ranking this documentary & giving it a grade. On the one hand I really enjoyed this documentary about the Rat City Roller Girls. I found it very enjoyable and under different circumstances this would have made it higher on my rankings. But technically speaking this film is car wreck. Honestly it looked like a rough cut of the film. The editing was off in places (i.e. Weird moments of black screen that last too long), the audio didn’t sound like it had been properly mixed and the lighting during interviews was completely non existent at times. You’d have somebody taking lit really darkly while the background behind them is lit up. Because of these kinds of basics seemingly getting ignored, I had to knock it down a few notches. Again, the actual material is really interesting; it’s just the execution that really suffered.

13. The Ferryman
Grade: B-
A solid flick, but make no mistakes about it. This is a pure B-movie fare. It’s got it all, slightly cheesy premise, sex (one scene in particular was had me practically falling out of my seat laughing, over the top violence and ultra dark humor. The film takes a while to really get going, but once you get to the scene between the serial killer & a dog, it’s an over the top good time.

14. Black Sheep
Grade: B-
A really funny outrageous B-horror flick. You can’t say “Killer Sheep” without cracking a smile. The only real problem with this flick was that it really drags in the middle. Of course that could partially just have to do with my perception. I believe the term is ‘three sheets to the wind’.

15. Alien Autopsy
Grade: B-
A quirky British comedy about the fictional story of footage released in 1995 showing scientists performing an autopsy on an alien. You may remember that cheesy Fox special hosted by William Riker. I loved seeing the supporting cast filled with people famous for being in Alien movies, including Bill Pullman (ID4), Harry Dean Stanton (Alien) and Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek).

16. Paprika
Grade: B-
I’d be doing a disservice if I didn’t first point out that this movie is absolutely visually stunning. Still beyond that, my interest seemed to fade in and out throughout the course of the movie. It would start to get really interesting, and then it would drag for a bit, before getting interesting again. After reading so many other great reviews of this movie, I think it’s just safe to say that this just isn’t my kind of movie. I can’t really fault it for much besides just not keeping me interested, and I can’t even really pinpoint why.

17. The Banquet
Grade: C+
A movie that is very much in the tradition or ‘House of Flying Daggers’, ‘Hero’, and ‘The Curse of the Golden Flower’. All films I really liked. This particular tale is a loose adaptation of ‘Hamlet’. It’s absolutely gorgeous looking and has some great martial arts sequences. So why is it so far down on the list? Well...it’s kind of boring. Even some of the action felt a little on the boring side. I dig martial arts flicks, but this just didn’t do anything for me.

18. Waiter
Grade: C
Similar in concept to the film ‘Stranger than Fiction’, this film follow a character who is constantly bickering with the author of the screen play he’s in over the direction his life is going. It’s hard not to make comparisons to ‘Stranger’, although they are different enough that they don’t feel like copies of each other. While probably the film buff thing to do would be to choose the independent foreign film as the superior tale, ‘Waiter’ just didn’t do much for me. It was amusing at times (particularly when the Japanese gangster enters the picture), but I just didn’t give a damn about any of the characters.

19. The Aerial
Grade: C-
In retrospect, I liked this movie a lot more than I thought I did. I actually have a lot of respect for most of the film, and I dug a lot of its silent storytelling techniques. Now having said that, the last 1/3 of the movie completely ruins everything. It’s that bad. You have two thirds of a movie constantly playing with metaphors; in fact the entire premise is 100% metaphor. But suddenly at the climax of the film they throw all that out the window and decide to spell it all out so explicitly, a blind man watching this silent movie could probably figure it out.

20. The Perverts Guide to Cinema
Grade: C-
While it was interesting getting a new point of view as to how to look at certain films, this movie was just too damn long and there was just too much repetition in the points being made. There was no reason for this to be as long as a ‘Lord of the Rings’ film.

21. Expired
Grade: D+
I will give this movie props for having great performances from Jason Patric & Samantha Morton and for being kind of funny at first. Beyond that, I totally disliked it, and found it to be completely un-enjoyable. It’s a love story where Patric plays a purebred asshole. You’d think the guy would have at least a couple of redeeming features so you could understand why Samantha Morton’s character is even giving him the time of day, but no. At first his demeanor is so over the top that it’s actually funny, but by the halfway point I just wanted them to hurry up and break up so the movie would be over.

22. Yella
Grade: D+
When the end credits rolled I blurted out the very first thing to come into my mind: “Well, that was retarded.” The movie may have been well shot and had fine acting. But this is just a stupid movie with a ‘twist ending’ you see coming from miles and miles away. I’m annoyed just thinking about this movie. Banking?!? Seriously?!?

23. Glue
Grade: D
There’s nothing like watching a movie where nothing happens! There’s no real story here. It’s just a kid bumming around. Let me sum up:
Went swimming. Got athletes foot. Went to a girls house and drank milk. Huffed some glue. Made out with my best friend. Played in a band. Made out with a girl. Went camping. Listened to the Violent Femmes.
Fin.

24. The Last Winter
Grade: D-
This movie starts out kind of promising. It looks like it’ll be cheesy, but there should be some fun horror/gore elements ala John Carpenter’s “The Thing”. Sadly, there is absolutely no pay off. There’s something scary out there killing people and it’s...drum roll please...a giant ghost antelope! I want to start polluting the earth just to spite this movie.

25. Strange Culture
Grade: D-
If you are going to do a documentary about an interesting subject don’t ruin it by doing really crappy ‘re-enactments’ for half of the bloody film. There were many different things they could have covered that would have been really interesting to learn about. Instead we have a bad episode of ‘Unsolved Mysteries’. At least that had Robert Stack.

26. Aachi & Ssipak
Grade: F
I am now stupider for having watched this film.

27. One Day Like Rain
Grade: F
I was so ready to like this movie. I was down right excited. Two weeks later I’m still pissed that I wasted 90 minutes of my life watching this thing. This is what happens when you do drugs and watch Donnie Darko. You start to get really stupid ideas for movies. I really hated this stupid, stupid film.

Bring Your ADD Everywhere

Now officially better than a blackberry too.

It has Wi-Fi hotspot access too, so you can skip the EDGE system if you want.

Sha la la la

It dawned on me that this blog needs an injection. Of what you ask? Well I don't have all the answers and don't even have an answer to my own question.

I did find a little inspiration last night. Enter the Andy effect. Can you think of a better way to shoot this blog full of new energy? Anytime you feel like you just can't come up with something. Go to the well. just like most TV sictoms. Writers get bored. If it worked for Family ties it can work for me. This is what I know...


Anyone catch the Copa Ora (Gold Cup) final on FSN or UNIVISION? I'm sure most missed the game. Honestly, CONCACAF isn't mutch better than MLS on ESPN2. Even Goose could guess who was in the final. Any guess? Mexico played awesome against the US. El Tri just ran out of gas. A 2-1 final and one broken hearted half mexi-CAN on the west side. Mexico mystifies me. They obviously have major talent (see picture to the right and new train man crush) in the form of Rafael Marquez. They're quick and have great ball skills. Marquez is a great leader and keeps his back line in order. Their keeper is capable of some magical saves. He performed a few miracles this past Sunday. Mexico needs to make that jump the a top 10 FIFA team. They gave all the ingredients. I hope for a strong COPA AMERICA showing.

"Thierry, did we mention that you get more than a paycheck in Barcelona?"

32$ million is alot for anyone but Henry is still in his prime and really goes from Arsenal North to Arsenal South. Arsene Wagner is no doubt crying as he looks over his roster. Cause he knows the Dutch ain't much.




I have to give a big thank you to the government of Germany. They seem to be the only nation who understands the threat that is TOMKAT. The reason? Because Cruise, as the Defense Ministry puts it, "has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult." Apparently Germany just got South Park.

That's all I got. Not much here but it's what I know...

SHA LA LA LA

Goose in the 619 (Pt 2 and conclusion)

New Day, New San Diego based movie
On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world. They succeeded. Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School. The flyers call it: TOP GUN.

Days 2 and 3 fell into a blur as I actually did a couple of days of work.

I did get a chance to tour the USS Midway. (Actual Goose pic). What a Monstrous Ship. I almost felt like standing on the side of the ship, staring out into the water, and throwing 2.0's dog tags out into the sea, accepting the fact that his being in California will mean that he is dead to me. A couple of Sprint folks were with me and didnt even chuckle when I sat in the Admirals office and said, What you should have done was land your plane! you don't own that plane, the tax payers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!

Travelling sans the Lodge is sometimes a barrage of quotes that go nowhere.
I did get a great pic of a plaque on the Chief Petty officers wall. Check it out
I did have a mishap on day #2, Stepping off of a curb into a pothole, I twisted my ankle. Massive swelling but I pressed on. My sock did not bleed ala Curt Schilling but I am a gamer. That didnt stop me from touring San Diego's Gaslamp district. Its like a mini Bourbon Street.

Gooses Final Observations of his latest trip to California

• The Sundress is a like the Holy Grail of Seattle, Seeing a woman in one is about as rare as a Bigfoot sighting


• The House of Blues in 3 Years will have gone the path of Planet Hollywood, and be extinct (Yet they make an excellent Jambalaya).


• Goose will make at least 1 pilgrimage to Cali to visit 2.0, and will try to bring the Lodge with him. Even through the Day 2.0 leaves, he will be dead to me


• Room Service rocks


• Non State Run Liquor Stores Rock as well. Picking up Rum in a Rite Aid is frickin awesome


• The Hooters in San Diego should be like the Top Echelon of all Hooters Girls (Matching the Hooters in Vegas). It should be like visiting a Hooters Hall of Fame. However I fount it to be simply average. This makes my Hooters City Tour 8 and counting. I did not pay for tit however I did get free tit with my purchase of Chicken Wings.
  
  

Goose in the 619 (part 1)

Good evening, San Diego. I'm Goose. Tits McGee is on vacation.

So work takes me to San Diego. I figure why not quote one of the Greatest movies ever to be based in San Diego, Anchorman

Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.

So I get in this morning and manage to ugrade the vehicle to a Mustang convertable (for those of you who have jobs at some point that allow you to travel, Hertz Gold, Marriott points and crap that that pay dividends.

We are here for a Qualcomm conference showing the new Nextel-like Push to talk on the Sprint Network.

Champ here. I'm all about havin' fun. You know, start a fire in someone's kitchen, maybe go to SeaWorld, take my pants off... Anyway, I've become kind of famous for my signature catch-phrase ? whammy. Like, Gene Tenace at the plate... and whammy.

San Diego is an amazing city, miles of amazing coastline and a downtown district that rivals any city. Lots to do. Tommorrow I am taking a tour of the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier, Should be a great sight see on my Tour of Manly things 2007

So tonight I got to see Jake Peavy and the San diego Padres (the Mariners arch rival) vs the Orioles. Its amazing seeing NL Baseball again as its been a while. I saw the Mariners reunion tour as I was able to see Mike Cameron, Jose Cruz Jr, and Mariner cult legend (behind Bucky Jacobson), Hiram Bocachica.

Petco park was incredible although I am disappointed that Petco does the same crap on the screen that Safeco does (Sailboat races instead of Hydros and Hat trick). Same crap different league

The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show...

Some General Observations on my trip today:

• 6 foot blond women grow on trees in California
• The put Avacado on everything, Even my Steak sandwich
• People in the 300 level boo more balls/strike calls even though they cant see Sh*t
• Massively huge guys should not sunbathe topless, chicks with Tramp stamps should
• La Jolla is Spanish for, The Jolla
• Petco Park has a Sandbox in Center field for kids to play in, one good 408ft homer could crack a youngsters noggin while he builds his sand castle
• Dont call it F'n "Arugula". It Lettuce you A-hole
• San Diego has hot weather women
  
  

More tomorrow, its late and Goose needs to catch some Zzzz (And yes, like Vince Vaughn promises me...They are going to give Daddy the Rainman Suite)

You stay classy, San Diego. I'm Goose?
(2.0 - "Dammit. Who typed a question mark on the Teleprompter?")

The continuing Tales of...What goes on in Alexi Lalas's Mind....

This week's episode comes to you courtesy of the finest crack rock in the San Fernando Valley....Apparently the Red-Haired Don King thinks all it took was a little time and patience, but the MLS is ready to join forces with the English Premier League to finally create the "Super League" to battle continental Europe.

"In England, our league is considered second class, but I honestly believe if you took a helicopter and grabbed a bunch of MLS players and took them to the perceived best league in the world they wouldn't miss a beat and the fans wouldn't notice any drop in quality.''

In fact the Galaxy mastermind even pointed something out to me that I was unaware of:

"There's no accounting for bad taste...That a segment of the world worships an inferior product in the Premiership is their business. English football now has the haves and the have-nots. It's just that the Premiership have become so skilled in presentation. They took a page out of American football and so now they have Saturday Showdowns and Super Sundays. I love it. This is high-calibre marketing - taking an inferior product and improving it through packaging."

Well thankfully I didn't finalize that deal to buy Manchester City, so I can revert those funds back in to the Ol' US of A. Crazy or not, at least were talking MLS Football in June.

Happy Friday

Wont be around today guys. Gotta hit the little white ball down in the 253 for work

You will see some daily posts as Goose ventures to the 619 next week on assignment

For by brothers with team Chewbacca, I give you this

Just Wrong

This might be the most disturbing picture I've seen period, in quite a while. Chewbacca, that stuff must grow back fast! I think an explanation is in order, big guy. You are our mascot, for f*ck's sake! Although it does make me laugh when I think of Paulie Walnuts pointing out the "nice gam's" on AJ's girlfriend in the middle of a crisis during the Sopranos finale on Sunday.

“The Poohbah needs to get back in the game”

Re-worked quote from another promising HBO series, “John from Cincinnati”, and I’ll quote the sports guy that yes, it’s great to have Luke Perry back in my life, not since his short stint on Oz has my Luke Perry gland been so happy. Seriously though, I did enjoy the over the top surrealism of Luis Guzman’s stomach and the amazing cinematography of the beaches of SoCal, between J f C, The Making of Medellin and Flight of the Concords, Sunday night on HBO looks like its about to drive the DVR box for a couple of months.

Needing a boost of inspiration I finally realized during the morning shower, which has been THE biggest let down since my stay in room 232 and “The Felix”, coming home to the “The Jarrod” (never gets the H20 pressure up over 88, only gives you maybe 10 good minutes and the drain is constantly clogged) I felt the need to elaborate on a topic that donned on me after watching the last 10 minutes of game three or as I like to call it, the worst Championship Series of my life time.

The topic…..

Top 10 Worst Teams to ever play for a Championship

*disclaimer: This will only cover my conscious years of watching televised championships beginning in 1985, so the Redskins from “Black Sunday” will not be on this list, although I am giving them honorable mention. Also, only sports that I have watched, so sorry Dude, but only this years Stanley Cup Playoffs apply.

#10: 2004 St Louis Cardinals 0-4 sweep to Boston

It was destiny’s year and after the Dave Roberts steal and defeating the arch nemesis this series was basically over from the first pitch, but La Russa’s crew could’ve at least moved around a little and pretended to be alive. St Louis didn’t have a single starting pitcher to last into the sixth inning until game four and by that point destiny’s child was on the verge of the overrated beast they’ve become today.

#9: 1985 New England Patriots 10-46 loss to the Super Bowl Shuffle

Total Net Yardage: 408-123, Avg Yard Per Offensive Play: 5.4 to 2.3, Rushing Attempts: 49-11, Net Rushing Yards: 167-7, T.O.P: 39:15 to 20:45, result….thanks for playing Stevie Grogan we have some lovely parting gifts.

#8: Tie, 2001 Super Bowl, NY Giants & Baltimore Ravens

I didn’t want to include one without the other, following one of the greatest SB of my lifetime that ended on the one yard line at the GA Dome, we received this clash of the titans…I will give credit that Baltimore has one of the top five defenses to ever play for a championship, but thanks to parity, their offense rivaled that of the Rhein Fire. Hey, Tony Banks has a SB ring, but Dan Marino doesn’t.

#7: 1998-1999 New York Knicks, 1-4 to the S.A. Spurs

Not only was this the strike shortened season, so this title should have an * by it, for only being ¾ of a regular championship, but the fact the 90 point margin was only eclipsed once during the whole series, by either team. I just threw up thinking of this series, moving on.

#6: 2001-2002 New Jersey Nets, 0-4 to Showtime 2.0

At least this series involved scoring, even though there was never a moment in any of these games, were Snoop was even the slightest bit worried. Looking back, I feel sad that JKidd never had the low post and bench guys needed to win a title. Oh well…tell it to Johnny Stockton shorts.

#5: 1994 MLB Lockout

I just wanted to remind everyone that we’re only 13 years removed from both the owners and players of MLB bending their fans over with a fistful of shame. Although, the championship game was probably better than….

#4: 1998 San Diego Padres 0-4 to the Wanka’s

I think the sentence, Scott Brosius: World Series MVP, says all that you need to know. Game one actually got the SoCal faithful excited until The Wanks dropped a 7 spot in the bottom of the seventh and effectively crushed any hope Greg Vaughn and the Fathers had. Big props to Charles (Chili) Theodore Davis for hitting DH for the Wanks during this series.

#3: 1993 Buffalo Bills 17-52 to the Dallas Cowboys

“I’ve been waiting for you Obi-Wan…” you knew this one was coming. One of the greatest days on this planet for this estranged Cowboy fan. Most fans remember the effort from Don Beebe not to make it the most points scored by one team in a Super Bowl, but the two defensive TD’s and four total turnovers along with Aikman’s signature game 22-30 273 4td. Buffalo was now 0-3 in the big game after two competitive matches they were made to look like the Abilene Middle School JV squad versus the Mojo of Permian.

#2: 2006-2007 Cleveland Cavaliers soon to be 0-4 to the Spurs

Game three is usually the game reserved for the team down 2-0 to show their meddle and pony up to make sure they don’t go down in history as an 0-fer. Despite a ton of no calls down the stretch in favor of the Cavaliers, they still could not get it done shooting 37% from the field and spectacular 15% (3-19) behind the mark. Outside of #23, there’s not a single player I would recruit for any team I was building and Mike Brown’s inability to get a timeout called with the most important play in Cavs history about to happen was the Coup de Gras for writing this piece.

#1 The Denver Bronco Super Bowl Era v1.0 (1978-1990)

Never has there been a team more consistently unprepared for the “big game” then the Orange Crush during their four Super Bowl appearances these dozen years. From Craig Morton’s 4-15 39yd 4int performance in 1978 to Joe Montana’s clinic in 1990 for 5td passes, both beginning and ending at the glorious Louisiana Super Dome.

While a lot of people place this on the shoulders of men like Elway, Morton and Reeves, I find it hard to believe that one man could be responsible for being outscored by a combined total of 164-50 over 16 quarters of American Football. So here’s to the mile high 11 for taking home the #1 spot, because if you’re going to be bad, why the f*** not be number one.

Train's Pick of the Week:

RESCUE ME, the best TV show on broadcast television.

I know that most of the lodge minus myself and Dude haven’t watched it. I recommend that you netflix the first 3 seasons and DVR season 4. The fourth season starts tonight on FX at 10pm.

Trust me you won't be disappointed in the show. I don't need to say much about the show because it speaks for itself.

I own season 1 and 2 and would love to loan them out to any interested Lodge member.

PS: I wanted to give a quick shout out to MR. WIZARD. He passed away at the age of 89 today. For those who remember the kitchen scientist and his awsome experiments on Nickelodeon circa 1986 it's a sad day. I will always remember when he taught me how to build a home made Barometer.