1 Death, 1 Warning

Two major changes to my Dead to Me and On Notice Board Today:


First, Michael Jackson songs are dead to me now. I am tired of people playing his music everywhere now that he is dead. Its been 3 weeks now people. After he died he had 4 of the top 10 selling albums that week. Why would you go out and buy his music now that he is dead. If you liked his music, you would have already owned it, and if you didn't own it and didn't like it, why go out now and buy it? Makes no sense. Then there is the playing of his music on the Jukebox at bars. I understood that the weekend after he died, it would be everywhere, but three weeks later, it is still everywhere. Yesterday I went to grab a bite to eat and a beer at 2 pm at my local wateringhole, and some women put money in the Jukebox and played 45 minutes of Michael Jackson songs. Really?? On Saturday as well, I went to a bar with a buddy, and the bartender was choosing to play Michael Jackson songs all night. We left after 15 minutes. He's gone people, nothing has changed.

Second, the MLB All-Star Game Rules are on notice. If they want the game to mean something, like home field in the World Series, that is fine, but make it so those players who might make it into the World Series are playing at the end. The game is really only interesting in the first 6 innings, when the starters are playing, and then their immediate backups. After that it is scrubs who should have no determiniation of the outcome. It shows by the NL making 18 straight outs and 22 outs to end the game (minus one walk and a double). Look at some of the players in the game at the end and their team.

• Adrian Gonzalez (Padres)
• Health Bell (Padres)
• Justin Upton (Diamondbacks)
• Brad Hawpe (Rockies)
• Miguel Tejada (Astros)
• Brian McCann (Braves)
• Jayson Werth (Phillies)
• Ryan Zimmerman (Nationals)
• Orlando Hudson (Dodgers)

Only Werth and Hudson are on teams that have a shot at the World Series. Why are the rest of the a**-clowns allowed to determine the home field of the World Series? I knew it was a joke when they took out Pujols for Gonzalez at first and Fielder and Howard only pinch hit. If the teams really wanted to win, Pujols would have never came out of the game. They need to change the rules. Either don't have the game matter for s**t, or allow the best players to play at the end. Maybe once a player comes out, he can come back in the game later. Or softball rules, everyone bats in order, regardless of who is playing the field. They could even consider getting rid of the rule in which every team must have a player represented. I also thought it was a joke that Tim Wakefield doesn't make it into the game (unless the Red Sox didn't want him to). The guy is pitching great this season and has waited 20+ years to make it, and then he doesn'e even play. Joke.

On Notice

I haven't updated my Dead to Me and On Notice list in a while so here we go (there will be more at weeks end)

The Screen Actor's Guild strike has made its way off the On Notice list since it has been over a year since it ended. To replace that I have nominated Hollywood Movie Ideas.

I was trying to numb my senses again tonight by turning on the television and had to sit through this extended preview for a new movie, called "Fighting." Not only is it a terrible movie, they spent about 15 seconds thinking of a title. (he let's call Shawshank Redemption "prison" Saving Private Ryan "war" and Pulp Fiction "drugs and violence.") Check it out:



Wow, that movie is basically a mix of Fight Club, Fast and the Furious, one of those shitty dancing movies, and a hip hop video. Why is Academy Award-nominee Terrence Howard in that? I love the message; if you are struggling to get by and can't find your place in this world, beat the shit out of each other in an underground fighting competition. I hope all the kids out there see this and learn this valuable lesson.

On Notice....

So this morning I woke up (I know a lot of you are already disappointed) and turned on the local news while I had my orange juice. The local news did this story on the growing problem of potholes. Then there was this story a week ago. We all complain about pot holes but it seems that here in Milwaukee most of these new ones are not because of old and decrepit streets, it has everything to do with the weather. We have had consecutive days of of warm and cold back to back. The water has been getting into the pavement on warm days and then on the next cold day it is turning into ice and tearing the street apart and creating pot holes. I am putting these weather potholes On Notice. I swear if I hit one of these (and I have seen them) and it does anything to my car, even if it makes my Ashley Simpson CD skip, I will put them on the Dead to Me list.

On Notice.. (Update)

I am creating this blog to draw attention to the newest member of my On Notice list....Mother Nature. On Saturday it was 45 degrees, a beautiful day for mid-December. At night it started to rain, but at least it wasn't cold. Then 6 hours later when I awoke on Sunday it was down to 15 degrees. It fell 30 degrees in 6-10 hours! Since it had been raining all night and now was freezing, there was a nice lick layer of ice everywhere on Sunday morning, including my car. All my doors were iced-frozen shut and I could not open any of them. I had to open my trunk and climb into my car, a task may extra difficult due to the "contents" of my trunk (wink wink). Mother Nature was also to blame for the horrific Packers' game and thus many northern-Wisconsin housewives feeling the wrath of their drunken-husbands. The Packers losing is one thing, but that was just a horrific game to watch. Shame on you Mother Nature, you are officially on notice.

(UPDATE)
It turns out that the ice actually broke my driver's side door handle. I can now unlock the door but when I lift the handle nothing happens, the ice broke it by dislodging it from something inside the door. So now I cannot enter my car from the driver's side, real classy. That's already 2 strike Mother Nature, one more and you are dead to me.