Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Rock's New Movie

Looks like the casting director for The Rock's new movie, "Faster," was a lost fan - Shannon (Maggie Grace) and Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) both are in the film!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Rest of the Jets Season

Barring injury, the Jets have a pretty tough schedule to close out the season. It's a good thing they've started out well, even if some would say they were lucky.

Texans at home
Benglas at home (Thanksgiving)
Patriots on the road
Dolphins at home
Steelers on the road
Bears on the road
Bills at home

Looking ahead, their biggest trouble is going to be the lack of pass rush. The Texans and Bengals home games are games they are supposed to win. The Patriots will be tough. Wasn't it just a few weeks ago people said that the Patriots were throwing in the towel by getting rid of Moss? Let it be known that I wasn't one of those people. It would be hard to think that just one WR could offset an entire offense. The Dolphins are always a tough game, even if they are down to their 3rd string QB. Steelers and Bears on the road could both easily be losses. Bills at home should be a win.

If they win the "should" games - Texans, Bengals, Dolphins and Bills, and lose the others, it would mean an 11-5 finish. Looking at the Patriots, they have a pretty tricky schedule as well - Colts, at Lions (Thanksgiving), Jets, at Bears, Packers, at Bills and Dolphins. They have 3 games they "should" win, and if we use the formula above and they beat the Jets but lose the others, they would also finish 11-5. I do have a feeling they'll beat the Bears on the road. I think the Lions game is tricky for them, but if Stafford is out, then it's less so.

My prediction - the Patriots win the division and the Jets come in as wild card. The remaining games they don't have in common - Jets face Texans, Bengals, Steelers, and the Pats have the Packers, Lions and Colts. Slight edge to the Jets there, but I think the Pats will win the head-to-head match up which will make the biggest difference.

The Death of Spider-Man

Marvel teased a storyline called "The Death of Spider-Man" for their upcoming books. Turns out the story is in their alternate universe, the Ultimate Universe. Hard to get too excited about this - after all, "anything can happen" in the Ultimate Universe and nearly anything does - even Wolverine is dead in that universe! But since anything can happen, it feels irrelevant and I don't think anyone is really going to care.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Beard Papa's

Beard Papa's, the great cream puff store, is opening in Miami. It opened about 6 years ago in NY, and has already gone through the "cool-> hip-> really popular-> no longer cool" phase. Their cream puffs still are quite delicious.

Monday, November 01, 2010

Poor Cubs

The last time the Giants won the World Series was 1954. That was 56 years ago. When they won the World Series, the Cubs had not won for 46 years (1908).

The Texas Rangers have never won the World Series, even when they were the Senators. That team was founded in 1961. That's a 49 year span. But in 1961, the Cubs streak was 53 years.

Poor Cubs.