Pillow Bites

The title is a cross between "Pillow Talk" and "Dog Bites," from the Wood Dog Blog. Someone tell Dr. Freud to hurry his ass up (pun intended?)...

Why is it that McCoy still gets angry when he says something heartfelt to Spock, and Spock replies with a logical answer that misses the point of the original sentiment? You'd think after all this time, McCoy would have figured it out. Spock may be half human, BUT HE IS ALSO HALF VULCAN. HE IS LOGICAL. It WOULD NOT, HAS NOT, AND WILL NOT occur to Spock to say something emotional or "mushy"...

"Missed the Boat" by Modest Mouse is the best song of 2007 so far...

There are movies that, although I didn't like them in the theater, I always seem to flip to and watch for awhile if they are on cable. These movies include "Sideways," "Password: Swordfish," "Flight of the Intruder" and "The Last Castle"...

There is about 15 minutes of footage in Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace that stands up against anything in the Star Wars films. This 15 minutes includes most of the pod race, all of the Darth Maul fight scenes, and no Jar Jar...

Movie Trivia: What are the full character names of at least two of the three male leads in "Old School"? No Googling...

WTF does "soup to nuts" mean? I mean, I know what it means, but why does it mean that?...

For Halloween, I had planned on dressing as "Wedding Crashers" with a friend who looks a bit like Vince Vaughn. Following Owen Wilson's suicide attempt, I can't decide whether to scrap the idea, or just wear bandages around my wrists in addition to the tuxedo and blond wig...

I will play another game of sloshball (the softball kind, not the kickball kind) before I die...

I sometimes change the name of my fantasy team to mock that week's opponent. In the past I have called my team at various times "Hanford R2 Units", "Jell-O Fever", "Dude, Where's My Hot Tub?", "My Big Fat Homoerotic Greek Wedding", and "Sailor's Ball 1991"...

I was sixteen when I first kissed a girl. It was after prom. Her name was Emmie. It did not go well...

My brother and I were once out in Hollywood on a Saturday night, and he was wearing a Drew Bledsoe replica Patriots jersey. He somehow managed to convince people at the Cat & Fiddle that he actually was Drew Bledsoe. This despite the following: (i) Drew Bledsoe probably wouldn't wear a $40 replica of his own jersey to go out on a Saturday night, (ii) the Patriots were playing in Buffalo the following morning, and (iii) my brother looks nothing like Drew Bledsoe (I know this because one of my bosses has a picture in his office of himself with Drew Bledsoe, and I have also seen Drew Bledsoe on television). None of that stopped him from signing autographs that night as Drew Bledsoe...

Dear Obnoxio: a concession speech is made when the outcome of a contest is still technically but not realistically in doubt, as a courtesy to the winner and to show the good sportsmanship of the loser. The outcome of TATJ is not in doubt, I'll be damned if I'm going to show you any courtesy, and I'm not much of a sportsman...

I've added the Boston Sports Guy to the Ultimate Cup tracking to the right as something of a benchmark, and I've stopped counting ties as wins so the win percentages are no longer inflated. I may not have done this if I were not still above 50% when calculated this way. And, just as suspected, the Anti-JYW is a sure fire money maker...

I plan to put together a bunch of trivia questions to use on long trips as something of a Jeopardy! style game. Like the question above, a category might be "Old School" trivia, with questions of varying degrees of difficulty. However, this game would only be useful under specific conditions, like a long car trip with two or more other people, or a plane flight where I know the two people next to me. The chances of either happening since I moved out of SF are pretty slim...

Two possible responses to the golf question "What's your handicap?" are "Bad breath and a short peter" and "Short stick and lots of strokes." I just learned the second one on IM...

I have two friends that are both often told they look like Vince Vaughn. One of them apparently looks so much like Vince Vaughn that when he goes places restaurant managers thank him for stopping by, and trashy LA newspapers write that he was spotted at that restaurant the next day. I'd like to get these two guys in a room together for a Vince Vaughn-off...

I am pretty sure we once thought hair metal bands were really cool, both for their music and their appearance...