Author: John Kuczaj

AFL Match Highlights – Semi-Finals Round

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Check out the two Semi-Final Match Highlights (6-8 min in length) below.
See the Finals results at FinalSiren or ESPN

First up, on Friday the 6th-seeded Brisbane Lions took on the 2nd-seeded Melbourne Demons at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. This was an exciting match:

Next, on Saturday, the 4th-seeded Collingwood Magpies took on the 5th-seeded Fremantle Dockers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Not as exciting, the outcome was never really in doubt:

Set your DVR, for the AFL Preliminary Finals on FS1 & FS2 in Chicago:

  • FRI Sept 16 FS2 @4:30am Fremantle Dockers (5) vs Geelong Cats (1)
  • SAT Sept 17 FS1 @1:30am Brisbane Lions (6) vs Sydney Swans (3)

JohnK Ass News: Depp’s Ass-Diamonds

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Whatever you think of Johnny Depp, he’s all (cl)ass:

Depp first encountered waifish supermodel Kate Moss, 11 years his junior, at the East Village celeb hangout Cafe Tabac in 1994. He was so smitten, she has said, that he once presented her a diamond necklace stuffed between his butt cheeks.

https://pagesix.com/2020/07/18/johnny-depp-once-presented-kate-moss-a-necklace-in-his-butt/

And another Page Six piece elaborated:

Continued the 48-year-old catwalker, “We were going out to dinner and he said, ‘I’ve got something in my bum. Can you have a look?’ And I was like, ‘What?’”
Moss proceeded to “put [her] hand down his trousers” — and, she concluded, “I pulled out a diamond necklace. That diamond necklace.”

https://pagesix.com/2022/08/31/kate-moss-johnny-depp-gave-me-diamonds-from-the-crack-of-his-ass/

Definitely not something Richard Grieco would do.

The Coolest Match Opening…Ever!

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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.

Why I Can’t Watch Resident Alien

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Film & Video Etc.

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.

JohnK Ass News: Creature With No Butt is Not Our Ancestor

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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!