OK, time to talk about something besides Brandon Routh and “Superman Returns”.. Last night, well actually, very early this morning we went to the drive in to see “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”

If I had to give you a one word review of it, it would be convoluted. But maybe I should just give you a one syllable review - don’t! Actually I could go on & on (the movie certainly did) and try to be funny about how bad it is, and I swear I don’t just think it’s bad because I’m resentful that it’s stealing money out of Superman’s pocket (by the way, it didn’t start ’til 2 a.m. and it was raining so they were no longer charging admission so my movie-going dollars did not go to this disney debacle); but I read a review that is so frickin’ funny I know I can’t top it, so you should really, really click here to read it. It starts with..
“If you have to see one movie this summer, for the love of God and all that is holy, do not see this movie.” And it ends with, “All in all, this movie really sucked. Out of 5 cowbells, I give it a 1.5. The Bruce Willis cameo was just gold. Other than that, I felt I was justified to shoot at least two elderly women on the way out to my car.” Everything in between is far more entertaining than the actual movie so save your $10 bucks and read it! Then take your $10 bucks and go see “Superman Returns” (sorry, I’m not supposed to be talking about SR am I).

In sports news.. I just happened to see the Italians win the World Cup today, well sorta. The game was tied 1-1 and they ended up in a “shoot-out”. They just started doing this in the NHL and I think it’s retarded, but at least in Hockey they didn’t go to a shoot-out in the playoffs. In the playoffs you go to overtime after overtime until somebody scores a god damn goal. And if you ask me, a shoot-out in soccer/football is really stupid because the goal is as big as my bedroom and the poor goalie isn’t even wearing skates! I mean, in Hockey the goal is only about six feet wide and the goalie with his equipment is about three feet wide and he can move back and forth really fast on his blades. It’s pretty tough, even for your super star, power forwards to score on an NHL goalie (unless it’s David Aebischer) in a penalty shot / shoot out situation. But in soccer the goal looks to be about as big as my house and the poor goalie usually looks like he weighs about a buck-fifty and they don’t even give him a stick, the poor schmuck! It seems like even a mediocre player should be able to score about 4 out of 5 times like that. But 4 out of 5 was not good enough today. Now I’m not one to feel sorry for the French, but it sucks to lose a championship like that, basically on a technicality (just ask the Buffalo Sabres, right Kevin?), or to win like that for that matter. Then again, a win’s a win; a hollow victory is a victory nonetheless. So congratulations, Italy!

OK, so I made it thru a whole post without rambling on about you know who. But I never said anything about not looking at him…