The Extra Point

Thanks

I'd like to take a moment to say thanks to all the people who have visited this site. We just received our 50,000 hit last week, and I think that's pretty good for a website updated once a week if I'm lucky. So thanks to all the people that have taken a look at my little baby over here.

Last week I worked on Sportscenter commercial. It was fun, but getting up at 3:30 in the morning to catch the crew van from NY to Bristol, not so much fun. It was pretty strange to stand in the studio where they actually shoot Sportscenter. The words "Sportscenter" or "ESPN" are written on every spare inch of wall space, like the Cthulu monster, as Orson likes to call it, went crazy and wrote all over the walls like Homer did in the Treehouse of Horror "Shinning" episode. But Cthulu can't write "No beer and no tv make Homer go crazy." It can only write its name over and over. Cthulu may have many arms, but not much brains. Although I realize I may be risking my life by writing this post, exposing the inner workings of ESPN. The Worldwide Leader has grown powerful indeed.

Being a lifelong New Yorker, I've been a Yankee fan since I was a kid. So it was pretty cool to be shooting a couple of spots with Jorge Posada. Nice guy. Yep that's me with the slate. I won't tell you what the commercial's about, no spoilers here, I know that the Leader is watching, always watching.

Oh yeah, GO IRISH! BEAT SC!

So enjoy some crappy cameraphone pictures, and Happy Thanksgiving.

What a wookie!

I wanted to give a shout out to the guys at Blue-Gray Sky and Her Loyal Sons for linking to my site, driving up my minimal web traffic.

It's also interesting to note, as the hours wind down to the OMG 4real biggest game of the fucking century which is only 6 years old, the difference between Notre Dame and other campuses. Compare my video below to what surely will be one long episode of Cops: live from Columbus. I cannot imagine any school ever sending it's alumni an email like this about a Notre Dame game. I'm just waiting for the photoshop job that replaces burning oil fields with burning couches, and war torn soldiers with football fans.

Also, Cinemax is showing a marathon of the Star Wars trilogy. The real Star Wars. While caring for the gfriend who now has two bloody sockets in her mouth instead of wisdom teeth and looks sorta like a mild stroke victim, I watched 6 hours of storm troopers, gay interpreter droids, and of course, wookies. Check out Chewies blog, it's friggin hilarious, and also consider that you may be having sex with a robot in the next 5 years. Favorite human-robot break up line: "It is not you. It is my AI 23000 central processing unit. "

Yeah! Woo Nostalgia!

A couple of weekends ago I went out to the ND-North Carolina game. I scraped together a little vignette of a Notre Dame football Saturday, yet another ND video that capitalizes on your feelings of wistful nostalgia and bittersweet longing for a time you can never go back to. Enjoy! Fear not, there's no parque dance floor, no poetry, and you won't see the worm, but there is an excessive amount of woo-hooing. I've slowed down since I was a student, my poetry slams aren't quite what they used to be. Hope you like it, and that I'm not too embarassed by this sometime down the road. Oh yeah, and the song is "stay where you are" by Ambulance ltd.

Holy Crap. Rutgers???

I just think of Charlie head banging along with some Jovi, jumping around his office as he celebrates New Jersey, and I smile. Other people that are smiling--well, all of Jersey for one, and fans of florida, texas, auburn, nd-- everybody except Louisville fans and the BCS committee. the bloggers are gonna love this one, too. cue hairspray, gangster, and springsteen jokes. That smell coming from over the Hudson, no that's not a chemical plant, that's the smell of burning couches. How much money do ya think Gandolfini had on the game. And what did he have to do to get the Ville to throw the game? Was it a simple flash of the piece, or a promise to Brohm that his chances of going pro would be in serious doubt if his hands were to be broken in 12 places? When you put Gandolfini in your commercials, youLre just asking for it. But what a way for Rutgers to join the scene. You light up the Empire State Building red, and then pull the biggest upset in jersey since... well, ever. The biggest game for Rutgers since they started this whole thing back when there were still carpetbaggers around. For a cfb game to make the New York papers, now that's big. If wish there was a playoff system- you know how many people would be watching RU?

Fuck You, Rule 3-2-5-E

Take that, motherfuckers! Finally, we have a coach that will not take it anymore. Someday a real rain will come down and wash all the trash NCAA regulations off the streets.



It's a good thing they didn't include rule 325e on NCAA 2007, or you know that all you cheating bastards would be doing the exact same thing. It's like the opposite of that time you were down by 14 with 2 minutes left in the Championship game and played the "unlimited timeouts" penant and ended up winning the game. Except it's real.



To think that the rules committee was dumb enough to not forsee this happening furthur exposes their ineptitude. For a committee to purposefully take away a portion of the product that millions of people love, to make me watch more advertising and less football, that's just evil man, E-V-I-L! Which is why Bret Bielema should be considered a hero, a champion of all that is good and right in the world. And considering that College Football is a great American sport, we should consider Coach to be a Great American Hero as well. A peer to Thoreau.



I just love that McGuire is the first to figure out what's really going on. Sometimes the most abnoxious guy in the room really is the smartest. Wooo!

Just got back from Chicago

I was able to catch a minute of the Monday Night game after getting back from a long weekend in Chicago, and woah! Lookout! Welcome back to the real world, Danny. Here's your knee to the balls.

It's a pretty good penalty when you get the whole Monday Night crew going "woah!" in unison.

Coming to you Live from South Bend

While my girlfriend does this thing called "work" at a public computer in the Library on the campus of Notre Dame, I do this thing called "play", which involves cruising, in rapid fashion, the cfb blogs, going way over the allocated 15 minutes for this workstation, but which is vital to my health and mental well-being, and absolutely necessary, so eat shit, nerds! 

But yes, I bring you a post, live from South Bend, where I'll be giving you constant updates possibly a brief, crappy update on Tuesday when I get back.  Oh yeah, we'll be breaking it all down. 

But until then, I'll be the guy in the stands with the Irish wig on, scaring small children and the elderly, not to be confused with an angry, aggressive, drunken muppet.  Go Irish!

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