Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

We've got the potential to make a little magic here. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. Just sit back and relax and see where the night takes us.

I'm fascinated with Wikipedia. Completely fascinated. People just built this whole thing in some weird collaborative effort. Anyone can jump in and edit something, and nobody knows who has done that to anything they've read. But everyone uses it, except maybe this guy who is scared of it. He's got some good points. I don't know what to believe. I think my fascination with Wikipedia is because it combines free information and voyeurism and free-association.

Anyway, after cruising through the Wikipedia article about Mitch Hedberg, I decided to check out Fight Club (the movie not the novel). Some things that struck me:

• I had no idea that it wasn't a huge blockbuster. The article says it opened hot, but then it didn't do very well in the theatres, but eventually did pretty well on DVD.
  
• I didn't know, but I'm not surprised that it received wildly mixed reviews from critics. The comment that interested me the most is that some critic compared it favorably to American Beauty, which was the other movie that year that really "moved" me (and I still call my favorite movie). I loved both of those movies and remember vividly feeling like they reached me in opposite ways. I was in my freshman or sophomore year of college, but I must have been home on some break because I remember coming home to my parents' house after seeing Fight Club. I was so full of ideas that I couldn't sleep, and foreshadowing my blogging efforts, I wrote this long letter by hand on notebook paper ostensibly to my college girlfriend but it probably was really just throwing down all my thoughts. I don't remember what I wrote except to compare and contrast Fight Club with American Beauty. Yeah, whatever.
• "In the scene where Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are seemingly drunk and striking balls into neighboring factories, the two actually are drunk and hitting balls at catering trucks." Quite a life these actors have.

High Stakes Poker on GSN is by far the greatest poker TV program ever. If you've ever watched any poker and thought it was good television, you need to tivo this shit immediately. Tournament poker is just a bunch of donkey amateurs occasionally tangling with pros. This show is a table full of the best in the world going to war against each other. Fascinating shit. Maybe more fascinating that its wikipedia entry. All players are paid $1250/hr by the producers to sit and play with their own money (minimum buy in is $100,000).

Why does everything have to flow evenly? She don't know, so she chases them away.

Just when I'm about to give up hope... regardless of how you feel about my atheism, this is some interesting shit:

"Attorneys and jurors in the Smalkowski case did a remarkable thing,"” added Kagin. "They checked their opinions about religion at the front door of the court house and looked only at the evidence."”

Good stuff. On that subject, dead pope JP2 told scientists not to study the origin of the universe. Luckily, those that defy him probably won't be burned alive.

Fine. That's it. I can't live up to the hype tonight. Butter.