The Various Levels Of Suck
Oct. 13th, 2002 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrkilbornIt began I went down to Anaheim to watch the Minnesota Twins battle the Angels in game 4 of the American League Championship Series.
As you must know by now, I'm not an Angels fan, and everyone there knew I'm originally from Minnesota, and that I keep a bobblehead doll of Kirby Puckett on my desk at work. So I got a lot of doubletakes and raised eyebrows, like I shouldn't be allowed in to the stadium. Well, if Jack Nicholson can stroll on into Edison Field with a Yankees Cap on, I can certainly go see the game. I didn't wear any Twins paraphenalia. Just very casual.
I don't think I got any screen time from the Fox Sports cameras. They were focused on John Travolta, who was talking to everyone non-stop. He should have his own talk show, he talks so much. And he's an Angels fan, since "I love to fly... Soooo much!" yep, that's a direct quote.
So, the game was great until those last couple of innings. Then the people and their primates The "Rally Monkees" started screaming for blood and the Angels won, 7-1. Great. I'm going back tomorrow to see Game 5... which might be the last game of the year for the Twins, unless they can win. Luckily, they'll have Joe Mays, who beat the Angels in Game 1, and you really don't care about that, do you?
Afterwards, a couple of people in the know made a joke or two about "![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kilbys_angels" Angels... MY angels and the Anaheim Angels. Ha, ha! Well, That was just the start of the sucking.
Next cames_m_gellar's episode of "Saturday Night Live," which was staggering in its lack of funny. Episodes of "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under," EVEN "The Anna Nicole Show" were more amusing than this episode, which featured such brilliant sketches as Lorne Michaels trying to trick sex money guns and musical guest Faith Hill into wrestling each other.
The "high" point was Sarah's vamp on Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" video, and even that wasn't wonderful. No blame to Sarah, since she was quite a sport for doing all of that, but I have to say her appearance on thelate_late_show was a brilliant performance compared to that!
Finally, a certain person I know came to me to talk about being attacked. It was a very, very disturbing thing, and I believe it is a job forkilbys_angels.
Certainly, this was the suckiest ending imaginable, and made such stuff as baseball games and TV shows seem as trivial as they are.
I promised I wouldn't say any more about this until other people have been notified.
I'll have more details later.
As you must know by now, I'm not an Angels fan, and everyone there knew I'm originally from Minnesota, and that I keep a bobblehead doll of Kirby Puckett on my desk at work. So I got a lot of doubletakes and raised eyebrows, like I shouldn't be allowed in to the stadium. Well, if Jack Nicholson can stroll on into Edison Field with a Yankees Cap on, I can certainly go see the game. I didn't wear any Twins paraphenalia. Just very casual.
I don't think I got any screen time from the Fox Sports cameras. They were focused on John Travolta, who was talking to everyone non-stop. He should have his own talk show, he talks so much. And he's an Angels fan, since "I love to fly... Soooo much!" yep, that's a direct quote.
So, the game was great until those last couple of innings. Then the people and their primates The "Rally Monkees" started screaming for blood and the Angels won, 7-1. Great. I'm going back tomorrow to see Game 5... which might be the last game of the year for the Twins, unless they can win. Luckily, they'll have Joe Mays, who beat the Angels in Game 1, and you really don't care about that, do you?
Afterwards, a couple of people in the know made a joke or two about "
kilbys_angels" Angels... MY angels and the Anaheim Angels. Ha, ha! Well, That was just the start of the sucking.Next came
s_m_gellar's episode of "Saturday Night Live," which was staggering in its lack of funny. Episodes of "The Sopranos," "Six Feet Under," EVEN "The Anna Nicole Show" were more amusing than this episode, which featured such brilliant sketches as Lorne Michaels trying to trick sex money guns and musical guest Faith Hill into wrestling each other.The "high" point was Sarah's vamp on Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" video, and even that wasn't wonderful. No blame to Sarah, since she was quite a sport for doing all of that, but I have to say her appearance on the
late_late_show was a brilliant performance compared to that!Finally, a certain person I know came to me to talk about being attacked. It was a very, very disturbing thing, and I believe it is a job for
kilbys_angels.Certainly, this was the suckiest ending imaginable, and made such stuff as baseball games and TV shows seem as trivial as they are.
I promised I wouldn't say any more about this until other people have been notified.
I'll have more details later.
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Date: 2002-10-13 07:23 am (UTC)Can I be an angel if I dress in drag?
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Date: 2002-10-13 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-13 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-13 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-13 12:30 pm (UTC)And you don't necessarily need to dress in drag. Unless you want to. Oh well...
Mel
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Date: 2002-10-14 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-14 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-14 12:31 pm (UTC)You're in. Welcome to the Love Boat, Casey. *winks*
Mel
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Date: 2002-10-13 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Between
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Date: 2002-10-13 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-13 12:34 pm (UTC)*strikes a pose*
Steady. Ready. Go. Yes.
Mel
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Date: 2002-10-13 01:52 pm (UTC)I should have the client later today.
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Date: 2002-10-13 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-13 01:55 pm (UTC)We're sort of outside of Encyclopedia Brown's territory with this case, but I think we can handle it.