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This blog post goes out to my wife. She perpetually gets me off my ass to do things that she knows I enjoy doing. I haven't written in my blog in a little over a month even thouhg I really enjoy the outlet. I won't get cheesy, although I could. I just wanted to say I love you.

okay okay... on to something more substantive, well maybe not.

Dub is now a 'dynasty' if this were professional sports. 2 championships in 4 years!! Now the most famous recipient of the "Person of the Year" award was Adolf Hitler. So all you haters, take a breath since its not necessarily a positive award. Personally I think I have to agree. So the real question is:
Did the people @ Time consider this a Hitler/Stalin award, or a Charles Lindbergh/Eisenhower award? The article is very interesting and I agree with it wholeheartedly. At the end of the day, the world has shifted on his words for the past few years.

One more question...is this better than that bullshit cop-out "American Soldier" one from last year. Now, I completely believe in supporting the troops but I hate those crappy generic gift awards. If it is to continue to be a relevant award in the world, you can't mail it in once in a while.

Arch Stanton

I just watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and I have a few observations/questions:

1) WTF takes a gun into the tub with them?
2) YoY would you start wearing a poncho that required you to fling it over your shoulder everytime you had a pistol fight.
3) If you made $100k during the Civil War would you really need to keep being a bounty killer (tGtBatU was supposed to be a prequel)?
4) Isn't it slightly odd/confusing to use the same actors for different roles in two movies of a trilogy?
5) When did it get so hard to get to the label of a 1L bottle of Beam?

Badass List Revisited

I just watched For a Few Dollars More, and The man with no name and Col. Mortimer reminded me of the list of badasses that I started in grad school. I managed to find it on my computer, but a lot of the individuals no longer seem that badass, so I updated the list and posted it here:

The "Badass List" (still no order yet)

Politics:
-James Forman

Entertainment:
-John Henry Bonham (Bonzo to his mates)
-Robert Nesta Marley
-Brad Pitt's characters (Tyler Durden, the Piker and the dude from Ocean's 11)
-Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone
-Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke
-John Wayne (take your pick of roles)
-Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in For a Few Dollars More as 'Monco' and Col. Douglas Mortimer respectively

Athletics
-Vladimir Guerrero