QB Terrelle Pryor after Ohio State’s the 2008 home loss to Penn State

I saw a story on ESPN last night about Ohio State’s QB Terrelle Pryor being the key to the OSU/USC game, and how the last time USC played against a QB like Pryor, Vince Young in a National Title game, USC was unable to stop Young, and lost the game.  In the comments on that page was a guy, an OSU fan, calling the other OSU fans “pussies” for saying OSU would most likely lose, or if they did win, that it would be close, and not an out right ass-kicking of USC.  Basically saying these people aren’t true Ohio State fans, or something to that nature, because they apparently don’t think OSU will always win, every game, ever.  Someone did call the guy out, telling him something along the lines of “it’s called being realistic.”  It kind of reminded me of a friend of mine, and his die hard approach to saying OSU is going to easily beat USC.  As much as I’d love to believe that, it’s just not that realistic.

Dear God, if they get blown out again, can you imagine how bad that will be?  Not just for Ohio State, but the entire BigTen.  Not only will any national respect for OSU be completely gone; for the team and the program, but for the BigTen as well.  Do you realize Ohio State has lost three straight bowl games?  Christ.  That’s simply not acceptable.  Couple all that with Iowa’s by the teeth “win”* over Northern Iowa, whom they should have destroyed, and Illinois’ embarrassing loss to Missouri (again), when their QB, Isiah John ‘Juice’ Williams, is supposed to be one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, not just the BigTen.  People are going to start looking at the BigTen like they do the MAC or Mountain West Conference (except the MWC actually has a few teams on the rise!).  No one will think the BigTen is worth their time.
* I put win in quotes because I think that even in losing, that game was more of a victory for Northern Iowa, than Iowa.

Also, if Ohio State loses to USC again, I give [coach Jim] Tressel two years tops, before he’s ousted by the school, as I’m sure the backlash from the fans, alumni, and the media will be huge.  Think about it; former OSU head coach John Cooper won games, sure, but he couldn’t beat Michigan: Fired.  Coach Tressel wins games and beats Michigan, but can’t seem to win big non-conference games: Hot Seat?  Fired?  If OSU loses to USC, then loses another bowl game this year, I’m not entirely sure Tressel will still be the head coach at Ohio State next year.  Don’t get me wrong, I like Jim Tressel, but people are going to look at him like he’s not getting the job done when it counts.  This is a very important season for coach Tressel.

On top of that, people can even start making the argument that a lot of the recent wins over Michigan don’t mean as much as once thought, as the last three or so seasons have shown (with exception to the 2006, #1 vs #2 meeting) Michigan’s program has been falling apart, and they may not have been as good of a team as everyone had thought at the time.

Taking a look at the rest of the BigTen, there are still some other question marks floating around.  I’ll start with Michigan, as I already touched upon them above.  They had a great season opener, the first win in a season opener in three years, a dominant victory, and great play on both sides of the ball, but that’s one game.  This “new” Michigan team has only played one game, only looked good in one game, and only won one game, so far.  The uncertainty shouldn’t last long, one way or the other, as they will be playing a newly invigorated Notre Dame team, in the unofficial “Best of the Former Worst” game of the week.  Next we’ve got Illinois, with a QB that had a legitimate argument about being overlooked as the preseason BigTen Offensive Player of the Year (which went to Ohio State’s Sophomore QB Terrelle Pryor), until this past Saturday after losing to Missouri, in a pathetic showing.  Penn State, Michigan State, and Purdue all look promising, but like Michigan, they have yet to really be challenged.

Finishing up my thoughts on Ohio State, I don’t want to be all negative, because there really is potential there.  OSU has a lot of talent, but they’re still a young team, without a great deal of experience as a whole unit.  Ohio State also doesn’t get enough credit for what they did in the Fiesta Bowl last season against Texas.  Texas had a strong argument to be in the National Title game, but instead got lowly Ohio State for an opponent.  An Ohio State team who was embarrassed by USC earlier that season, and lost to Penn State at home, for the first time since Penn State joined the BigTen, in a game where OSU was favored.  Not only did Ohio State show up to play in the Fiesta Bowl, but they damn near won.  One could even argue that OSU should have won that game, if not for one small breakdown on defense, which lead to a big play.  Sadly though, a lot of the talent OSU had in that Fiesta Bowl is gone, replaced with new, unsure talent.  Honestly I think this will be a rebuilding year for Ohio State.  There’s a lot of young talent that needs time and experience to improve, and that’s going to be over the course of this season.  With that said, if OSU can somehow beat Southern Cal, that will be a huge step forward for the team, the program, Terrelle Pryor, and coach Tressel.

I am keeping my fingers crossed this weekend, hoping that the BigTen comes out of Saturday still breathing, strong, worth the attention of the rest of the country, and not little more than a polished turd.  In two day’s time, we will see.  God help us all.

In the Navy

I’ve also completely reconstructed my DVD List site, complete with brand new PHP/MySQL backing.  All dynamic, baby.  Shortly after I implemented the database driven content on there, I also rebuilt the layout, which I am now much happier with… For now.

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Every time I close my eyes

Then you’ve got all the releases coming on the home front for the holidays, can anyone say The Dark Knight? There is always a minimum of, at the very least, ten DVDs I would really like to purchase at any given time.  Maybe someday I will get them all, maybe not, who knows.

But that’s all to come, and this is now, and right now we have a great many movies that have come out over the last year that we can talk shit about, so lets do that, right?  Right!  Well then lets get started…

I’ve seen a great many films this year so I doubt I will be able to hit them all equally, but I will do my best to get as many as I can.  Also from now on I will attempt to do a more monthly coverage of these things we call “entertaining cinema” as well as TV rap-ups as well… Maybe… Yeah.

I’ll start from latest and go backwards, I feel that will be the best way to go about this.  So to start off we have Quantum of Solace, the follow-up to Casino Royale in the newly revamped James Bond 007 franchise.  This movie picks up, literally, within minutes of the end of the last film, and it starts quickly.  The film wastes no time jumping right into the action, and for the most part keeps it going pretty well throughout the film.  I enjoyed this, as it all seemed to be very well done, it was very entertaining and drew me into it as a result.  With that said, I did find myself missing some of the more subtle and cerebral moments from the earlier films in the franchise.  It was always fun watching Bond get the upper had on his enemies by merely out-witting them.  Not to say that there is none of that in this film, as there are some moments that are just fun, but they have clearly decided to go with a more action-oriented style of story telling for these new films.

Personally I wasn’t very excited about the casting of Olga Kurylenko as the female lead, or “Bond Girl” if you must, as I just wasn’t that fond of her.  Don’t get me wrong, she is a gorgeous woman, I just didn’t think she was a good choice for the film, but I will admit when I am wrong, and I was.  Olga did a great job in this part and her interaction with Daniel Craig as Bond was, in my opinion, great as well.  I still feel Daniel Craig is a good, if not a traditional, Bond.  I understand the direction these last two films are going with, and he plays the part well with that.  All in all, I enjoyed Quantum of Solace, even though it was only a mere 106 minutes running time.  For those who are fans of the Bond films, this one is a definite go and see, especially in theaters, but I am always an avid “go to the theaters” guy, it’s just the best way to enjoy bigger movies.

Alright, that was longer than I was expecting so I’m only going to do one other movie right now, and to mix it up a bit, that movie will be Role Models.  To make it short, I really loved this film.  It was just great.  Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd are amazing in this movie.  They work perfectly together and separately, as well as with the kids.  The chemistry between the actors in this film is very good, they all really feel like they’ve known each other for a long time and get along great, or horribly, depending on what is called for.  I would recommend this movie to anyone who really enjoys a good, dirty and at times, blue comedy.  Though it is definitely not for a younger audience.

I feel as though I should throw something in about a movie I saw that I didn’t really care for, since I basically just made mad-love to the two films I just wrote about, but I think this post has gone on long enough, and I will try and throw something negative in about something else, in the weeks to come.

That’s it for now.

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I was wrong about you.

With that said, I will… Not begin. Not yet. Right now I’m just making a general post. Speaking of making a general post, I have decided to discontinue the use of my DeadJournal in favor of just using this site. I mean what’s the point in having this one finally working all spiffy and the way I want it to when I don’t even use it? And as far as the DJ is concerned, I’ve really not been keeping up with it anyway, so I figured it was just a good time to move on. So with that in mind, moving on…

Last week I went back home to Ohio to take care of some things, mainly a doctors appointment and to VOTE. So I left Indy Friday night to head back to… (Walks away to blow out a candle) …Okay sorry about that, anyway, I got back to Ohio Friday night (Halloween, woohoo!) and took it easy for the weekend, though I was dismayed to find that Ohio State was on a bye-week, bah! So Monday I got up about 11am and got ready for my doctors appointment at three o’clock. The point of this appointment was to get a blood test, and I was nervous about doing it, so Annie came along with me, mainly because she talked me into it. That all went well, even the needle part. (>_<) No worries though, the test came back negative, I’m not pregnant! Seriously though, everything came back normal, I’m good and healthy. It was overall a pleasant trip to the doctor’s office, with exception to some of the ‘discussion’ Annie and I had.

After Monday comes Tuesday! Right? Got up early Tuesday morning, and yes I realize that 11am is usually considered early for me, but mother and I got up and went to vote at about six o’clock, that was fun! It actually wasn’t that bad, it only took about an hour. The rest of the day was spent waiting and the night was spent watching. Luckily it was a short night, and by eleven o’clock that night, we had our first black President of the US.
The rest of the week was spent working on various school work and just relaxing. Friday afternoon one of the guys mom used to work with came over and I helped him build a nice new big shelf in the garage. Saturday I got up and watch OSU trample Northwestern, again, then packed up the car and drove out to Kaska’s for the day/night. It was a nice time, except for Iowa being dick-heads and ruining it for the rest if the BigTen, but I digress. Sunday we watched football, in-between video games, and then I departed for Indy once again. That about brings me up to date.

In other news, I’ve started working a, soon to be paid hopefully, intern position at a local web design firm here in town. I’ve worked about four days, and so far I really enjoy it. It really helps having great people to work with as well. Oh, I also went to see Role Models (CLICK) last Friday night. Great movie, VERY funny, recommended.

That’s about all for now.

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The Bible is a great story

On that note, here are a couple of little things I’ve done in the PHP class so far:
Lab1
Lab2

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Chewbacca