Really?

Another "no shit" study:

From their relationships to their jobs to their money — even from they time they first roll out of bed — young white Americans are happier with life than their minority counterparts.

FX

I cannot take another month of the commercials. Please start Dirt now.

If you do not, I will be forced to ask again.

You have 36 hours to make your decision.

[End Transmission]

Empathy

I'd be pissed:

18.7

Take that times one million and you have the weight of the retractable roof of the newly named University of Phoenix Stadium. 18,700,000 pounds or 9,350 tons . No matter how you count it, that's a lot of fucking roof. Plus, it seems like it caving in is the only thing that could stop the Chicago Bears from destroying the Matt Leinart lead Arizona Cardinals tonight.


It's a weird time being a Bears fan (maybe only for me). They are off to their best start in 20 years, the year after they won Super Bowl XX. Sexy Rexy, as Tony Kornheiser (who's calling the game tonight) likes to call him, is on fire after 2 years of basically season ending injuries. The running game is finally clicking and the defense looks like they are trying to kill the chances of opposing players being capable of conceiving or raising children with some of the hits that they lay. I get to watch them on television more than I can remember happening in the last 10 years, though it might not happen much if they keep crushing people as they have been.

With all that going down you have people in Chicago already giving them the Lombardi Trophy (then renaming it the Lovie Smith Trophy), but I'm not there yet. I could be because I live in Los Angeles which, beyond the front page story of this morning's LA Times sports section, doesn't care about anything other than their sports teams. Seriously, I can only find small blurbs on the past couple of Bears games, after combing it over a couple of times. Also I'm a Cubs fan so that might have some bearing on on it. [About the pun, it wasn't intentional, I'm just dumb. I was going to use affect, but I couldn't remember if it was actually effect.]

Being a Cubs fan, they have taught me that you either will be highly disappointed (66-96 this year, haven't won a World Series since 1908) or elevated to a high unknown to you as a sports fan and then kick you in the junk (I'm looking at you 2003 Cubs).

That's why I'm hesitant to hand them the trophy right now. Secretly I think they will win - but secretly I don't know jack shit. Plus, last years Colts were undefeated for the first 12 weeks and then blew it all. I don't need to pump myself up to go through that shit. I'm content to just let the Lovie's Bears play each week and, hopefully, prove a that my doubts are silly.

Belated

Sorry about taking so long about this:

Dear New York Yankees & Los Angeles Dodger fans:

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...

Ah, man that feels good.

Love,

All of us here at Bohnc.com

Castration

Sometimes you need to really think about whether or not it's the right thing to do?

Sometimes you don't:

Leann Real promised her husband, an avid sports fan, that if they ever had a son he'd get to pick the name. ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center.Rusty Real, of D'Iberville, chose ESPN (pronounced Espen) after the sports network and Montana after football legend Joe Montana.

Baby ESPN isn't alone.

Three others were cited in a 2005 report on tivocommunity.com about the network's 25th anniversary. They are Espn Malachi McCall in Pampa, Texas; Espn Curiel in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Espn Blondeel in Michigan.

R.I.P.

Buck O'Neil, who broke Major League Baseball's managerial color line 15 years after Jackie Robinson broke the player's, died last night. He was 94 years old.

Sadly, it is probably only now that he'll be voted into the Hall of Fame, having only missed by one vote.

"God's been good to me. They didn't think Buck was good enough to be in the Hall of Fame. That's the way they thought about it and that's the way it is, so we're going to live with that. Now, if I'm a Hall of Famer for you, that's all right with me. Just keep loving old Buck. Don't weep for Buck. No, man, be happy, be thankful."

Comics

Every Wednesday I go to what my grandmother would describe as a "funny book store" to get my weekly nerd on. From now on, I'll list what I got and then hopefully, at a later time, I will review them. And since I still have last weeks stack sitting around, I'll list those, too.

From this week:

52: Week Twenty-Two

I'm really enjoying this series, even though sometimes it seems like it seems like nothing is happening. Then again, it will all lead to something, and with Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid, I'm safely assuming that it will be something quite excellent.

Slight warning: if you are not really up on the whole "DC Universe" (or that there is one), this might not read that well. Or it might, I can't tell cause I have sectioned off a small part of my brain to house that information.

The Winter Men #5

This is a series that is best described by Warren Ellis: "John Paul Leon Turns in the art job of his career, but the standout, even in that company, is writer Brett Lewis, who is writing some of the best dialogue I have ever read." Amen!

Sadly, this is coming out in drips from what I assume are rewrites from having some dumbass editor cut the book from 12 issues to 8.

Read it.

Elephantmen #3

Really enjoying this book. And the title doesn't lie.

Criminal #1

He wrote Scene Of The Crime, Deadenders, and A Complete Lowlife, so it was easy to pick this up.

The Other Side #1

New writer/"rookie sensation" and Cameron Stewart, who was so excellent on Seaguy that my friend, who is quite sane, was debating on whether to get a tattoo of a tuna.

I think that warrants giving this book a shot.

Get a Life

I like the art and decided to give the plot (described by Publisher Weekly as "Jean is a smalltime literary figure—a novelist, translator and jazz collector—on the cusp of 30, realizing that life is moving faster than he is. He's got an apartment too cheap to leave, with a landlady he can't stand; his old friends are getting married, having children, casually revealing long-ago betrayals and inflicting their own life disasters on him. He's fine at attracting women, but can't sustain a serious relationship for long. By the end of the book, he's repeatedly playing daddy to other people's babies and recalling the days when the life of an artist and culture-vulture seemed a lot easier.") as shot.

Invincible: Eight Is Enough

I was told buy one of the guys from the shop that this reads like an excellent spider-man clone at the beginnig, but by the end of book two it twists and then explodes. I have the first book lying around the house from the guy who used to live in my apartment (haven't read it yet), so I picked this up to see if it's true. I'll let you know.

Lullaby: Power Grabber

Kinda the same situation. I have the first book, this time I bought it, but haven't read it yet. My friend Kesi, who always claims I don't like anything that he reads, goes batty for this book, so I'll have to see if he's right.

DC One Million

Mini series from 1999 written by Grant Morrison. Those last two words are enough to get me to buy it. That, and it was $6.

Superman: The Man of Steel

Confession: Superman Returns really had an affect* on me, maybe someday I'll get into that, so I find myself actually buying the comics. This book is the John Byrne revamp form 1986 that I haven't read in, oh, about 20 years. I just wanted to re-read it.

* Here's how much I liked the movie:

So, that's what I got this week. I'll give something resembling a review, probably as if written by a highly intelligent rock, about each of them sometime soon. I'll also get around to writing about what I got last week.

Disallow

Dennis Miller can still be funny, so if you want to watch the whole interview you might find yourself laughing (if you can get over obscure references and words for the sake of looking intelligent while telling fat jokes). Or, you can jumped to around 5:11 and see him compare George W. Bush to Lincoln and Truman and the proper response one gives when presented with something so inanely puerile.

Hey, would you look at that, I too can use a thesaurus.