Check out the Qualifying/Elimination Match Highlights (6-8 min in length) below, ordered by the closest matches to the blowouts.
See the complete Qualifying/Elimination Match results at FinalSiren or ESPN.
A little bit of Fat-Ass news this week…Holy Crap! South Park has been around for 25 years already.
It seems like it was just yesterday when Stan, Kyle, Kenny and their Fat-Ass friend Cartman entered our lives. But not, it was August 13, 1997. 318 episodes later, it’s still going strong.
Spin Magazine has a nice archive of articles about South Park.
I am a fan of the AFL’s Port Adelaide Football Club (the “Power”), and they have a great, spine-tingling tradition during home games. It all started in 2014 when a highlight package was shown before the Round 2 match vs Adelaide, which was the first game Port Adelaide played in the Adelaide Oval. At one point, “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS played, and Port supporters sang along, then requested the song be played in future games, and the rest is history.
When the siren sounds signifying 1 minute until first bounce, the song starts to play with the 2nd verse and the fans start to sing. This culminates in a crescendo during the chorus as the song cuts off and the fans yell “Never! Ever! Tear us Apart!” It’s an awesome tradition and game time show of unity. Check out some of the instances below:
Simply Awesome.
I should be a fan of the Syfy series “Resident Alien”. It’s a comedy-drama-mystery-scifi show, which checks off most the boxes on genres I enjoy. I like Alan Tudyk in everything he does. The show is based on a comic book and I like most of those. I watched the pilot episode then had zero desire to watch any more. The promos I see for the 2nd season look nice, but stir nothing in me.
I should be watching this show, but I just can’t enjoy this show.
The Resident Alien comic book is about an alien biologist who crash lands on Earth, then poses as a doctor while he awaits a rescue. He is pursued by a government agency and passes his time solving murders and other mysteries.
The TV show premise is that after crash-landing on Earth, an alien sent to wipe out humanity kills and takes on the identity of a vacationing pathology physician. He is asked to do an autopsy on the town’s doctor, who has died in unknown circumstances. He wrestles with the moral dilemma of his secret mission, while also dealing with a nine-year-old boy who can see his true appearance.
The issue I have is that the alien just murders someone and takes his identity. I just can’t get behind an amoral protagonist who randomly murders a guy. The Executive Producer, Chris Sheridan, wrote the pilot episode as well as the season 1 finale, where it is revealed that the Doctor the alien killed was corrupt and an assassin involved with a crime syndicate who was the murderer of the town’s doctor in the pilot.
This kind of information presented before the doctor’s murder would have made the series palatable. Instead, it was too little, too late. It was also a weak, manufactured reveal for the season finale. There were 8 episodes between the pilot and season finale. Poor writing, IMO, since I could not get past the distaste of the pilot show and never watched another episode. Maybe I’m the only person in the US who has this problem with the show. I think changing the premise from the original comic premise was a dumb idea that makes the show weaker than it could be. But I don’t care anyway, I don;t watch it.
Check out the Round 23 Match Highlights (6-8 min in length) below, ordered by the closest matches to the blowouts (The Carlton-Collingwood Match was EPIC!!!).
See the complete Round 23 results at FinalSiren or ESPN.
The regular season is complete, the top 8 teams are set and the Finals begin next week.
See the FinalSiren 2022 Regular Season Ladder here. and on ESPN.
Paleontologists have determined that a 540-million-year-old fossil of “a hard-shelled, spiky, bum-faced critter that looks all the world like a nightmare version of Pac-Man pitched by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro,” and has no butt is not one of our ancient ancestors.
“We considered lots of alternative groups that Saccorhytus might be related to, including the corals, anemones, and jellyfish which also have a mouth but no anus,” says University of Bristol paleontologist Philip Donoghue, who co-led the study.
That whole ‘no bum’ thing was eventually considered a red herring.
“Weird Creature With No Butt May Not Be Our Ancient Ancestor After All” Nature 8/18/22
Whew! That was a close one!
Yeah, this story has the wrong headline, but I corrected it:
Tomorrow at 9pm, on Vice TV is the final episode of “Icons Unearthed: Star Wars”. I highly recommend this 6-episode series recounting the behind-the-scenes drama with the first 6 episodes of the Star Wars saga (all episodes are free on Comcast On Demand). It is very enjoyable and presents some new perspective on Star Wars.
I think the most important revelation was the near-unanimous opinion that Marcia Lucas was the heart of the original Star Wars trilogy. It was her who re-edited scenes to add emotional & dramatic substance. Without Marcia Lucas, Star Wars might not have been the phenomena it became.
In the 4th episode of the series, it was said that in writing Return of the Jedi, Lucas admitted to others that having a 2nd Death Star was the result of him running out of ideas. The fact that JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan had yet another “Death Star” (Starkiller Base) in The Force Awakens, underscored how derivative and bankrupt of new ideas that film was.
It was interesting to see the reactions from the crew toward Phantom Menace (universal disappointment), and it was apparent that had Marcia Lucas and Howard Kazanjian been involved, the films would have had heart to them. Confirmed was the assumption that in all stages of production, George Lucas had “yes men” around him rather than people who would push back against his ridiculousness.
The final episode (#6), covering Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith , airs Tuesday night at 9pm CT.
Check out the Round 22 Match Highlights (6-8 min in length) below, ordered by the closest matches to the blowouts. See the complete Round 22 results here.
With 1 week left in the season, 3 teams are still alive for the final post-season slot. The Geelong Cats have clinched the top slot and 5 teams are in the running for the 2-4 slots. Fox Footy has a great breakdown here.
See the updated Ladder here.
While grocery shopping Friday night, we were in the cookies aisle and I saw this:
Which made me think of this meme by adam.the.creator:
Oreo is owned by Mondelez International – the former snack division of Kraft Foods spun off in 2012 and given a spanish-sounding name to soften the PR blow when they closed US plants and moved production to Mexico, where the labor if cheaper (essentially, they are an anti-American company).
Anyhoo, the fact that they have not yet introduced an “Oreo Middles” or “Oreo All Stuf” product is insane. Not only is this a product we want, it’s a product we need.
C’mon Oreo people! Get this done!