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I am not sure why I am posting another blog, it has been a month or so since I last posted. I just felt like it I guess. I should be working on my 15 page World History essay. It will take me about two years to get two thousand or one thousand views, so this blog doesn’t really matter, I just was worried that my account would be erased. I want to get my check eventually. Maybe I will get a check by graduation. I think I might see Slumdog Millionaire. It obviously got a lot of awards so I want to see what thats all about. I honestly have no clue what the movie is about except there is something about India. I wonder if this is 100 words yet. Oh, the Lakers are looking really good, which worries me as a Celtics fan. The C’s are still looking like a contender, but the Lakers seem untouchable. I guess that Kobe guy is good. Well I think that is enough for now. I’ll check back in in a month

Well this will be my 50th post, so I should be getting a paycheck for 50 bucks, but my payrate was changed so now I have to get 2000 views before I get paid. Anyways, I wanted to talk about yesterday’s amazing Super Bowl game. Super Bowl XLIII was one of the most exciting game’s I have ever seen, without a doubt. I do not know if it was the best super bowl ever, since I haven’t seen them all, but it is definitely up there for me. I was personally pulling for the Cardinals to win, but I was happy with how well they did (final score was Steelers 27 to the Cardinals 23). Larry Fitzgeral was almost a ghost in the first half, but he got two touchdowns in the second half, including a huge 64 yard breakout for the go ahead touchdown with a little over two minutes left in the game. Unfortunately, the Cards left 2 minutes on the clock, and that was enough time for the Steelers to make a great drive and end up scoring a touchdown to give them the lead. The Cardinals got the ball back and had a chance to score, but Kurt Warner had the ball knocked out of his hands and the Refs ruled it a fumble. Personally, I think it was an incomplete pass, which would have made it the Cardinals ball again, but the Refs didn’t. What I thought was strange was the fact that the officials didn’t even review the play. It was a huge play, the deciding factor of the game, and they didn’t even call a booth review. If the play had been overturned and ruled an incomplete pass, it would have been Cardinals ball again, plus with the 15 yard penalty for Farrior taking off his helmet they would have been on the 29 yard line. That would have been enough of a chance for the Cardinals to pull off the win. Whatever.  Speaking of controversies, today.com ripped me off with my payrate. I should be getting fifty bucks in the mail after this post, but instead, I will never be paid. They say that there are ways to increase traffic to your domain, but there is no way I am going to get thousands of people to go to my site. THANKS TODAY.COM : )

Change. Hope. A New Chance. This is all we were promised by our newly-inaugurated president, Barack Hussein Obama. Let’s hope he wasn’t just trying to get our votes and he actually fulfills these promises. Anyways, congratulations to Barack for doing all he has done, and for now being the most powerful man in the United States government. With the exception of slightly stumbling on the oath, he delivered a eloquent and powerful speech on Inauguration day. Oh, and by the way, some idiots were claiming that Barack wasn’t the president because he made a mistake on the oath. These people obviously don’t know anything about the consitution or the way our government works. Obama was president at noon on January 20, with or without saying the oath. But, just to be safe, Obama repeated the oath flawlessly in private later that day. I thought the ceremony itself was very well done. It was very extravagant and exciting. I watched it on tv, obviously. I was not one of the two million who swarmed into our nation’s capital for the historic inauguration. The performance by Yo-Yo Man and company was great (although it was a recording, NOT LIVE, due to cold weather). The poem read by Professor Alexander of Yale has been criticized a lot. However, if you google the poem and read the actual lyrics, it is a good poem. Reading it makes it seem a lot better than when she read it. Also, the lady who sang was good (so I have been told). I do not have much taste for that kind of music, but people said it was good so whatever. All in all, the inauguration was great, good luck to Obama, and I am hoping he will fulfill at least half of what he promised. Thanks and sorry for the ten day absence, I am still getting over my anger at Today.com for ripping me off. Keep reading and email this link to people so I can get more hits.

It has been a while since I posted a blog. About two weeks maybe. I sort of lost the motivation to blog when I got an email from the website telling me I will no longer be paid a dollar per post, but rather per thousand views. I am never going to get one thousand views, so I will never get a paycheck. I was only four posts away from my first paycheck when I got that cheery email, so I kind of gave up for a while. However, I decided to just keep blogging and hopefully in the next year or two I will get the two thousand views I need to get a paycheck. Any help would be great (i.e. reading and checking the blog constantly, emailing the link to friends, etc)

 Anyways, I am going to write about my favorite team in the NBA, the suddenly slumping Celtics. before Christmas day, the Boston Celtics had a record of 27 wins, and 2 losses. After Christmas day, the Celtics have won two games, and lost seven. What is going on with the NBA champions? I don’t know.

 I tried to post this a week or so ago but I lost the motivation to finish the post (did I mention I no longer get paid?). Anyways, since then the Celtics have stepped up their pace and have won three straight. Paul Pierce is doing great and the Celtics look like they are slowly finding their way back to greatness. Thats all. Talk to you in a month or so…

That is exactly what the Boston Celtics did. They won 19 straight games, and then LOST two straight. They lost on Christmas Day to the LA Lakers, and then yesterday to the Golden State Warriors. I was at the Warriors game yesterday when they beat the Celtics, and it was an ugly game. The Celtics have lost just four games all year, and two of them were in the last three days. How could the defending champs win 19 straight, then lose two back to back? Simple: they are tired. The Celtics are worn out. It happens. They went on a great streak, but all good things must end. The Big 3 was just out of it, which was obvious yesterday. Paul Pierce played well, but the rest of the Celtics starters seemed lethargic, nonchalant, and relaxed. The Celtics took the Warriors for granted, and it came back to hurt them. Steven Jackson had his best game in a long time, with I think 28 points. All in all, it was a great game to go to. I was lucky enough to go; the atmosphere was incredible. Everyone was on their feet screaming and cheering for the Warriors. When CJ Watson hit those two big shots the place went insane.

 Note: I tried to post this the day after Christmas (the day of the game), but my internet was not working. I know this post is no longer relevant, but whatever. I tried. Thanks for reading

The Boston Celtics, reigning NBA Champions, beat the Philadelphia 76ers 110-91 to win their franchise record 19th straight game. However, despite making history the Celtics seem pretty calm about it all. The champs go for their 20th straight victory on Christmas day. In an interview, Doc Rivers stated that he thinks that the NBA champions deserve to be at home on Christmas, but they will not be. They will be on the road taking on a hungry Lakers team. However, despite the fact that they have the best starting record in NBA history at 27-2, the Celtics are not getting cocky. They say they would rather have something tangible, like a Championship ring, than a winning streak record. Still, winning 19 games in a row puts them amongst the elite Celtics teams of the past. If the Celtics win it all this year, they will be comparable to the great Celtics teams of the 1960’s and 80’s. Already, the Celtics have shown they are as good if not better than the Celtics teams of the 1970’s, led by John Havlicek.

The Celtics are winning so easily because they are playing unselfishly. The C’s do not have a single player in the Top 20 in the league in scoring, yet they are blowing teams out every night. They spread the wealth; everyone gets a chance to score. One night it will be Paul Pierce’s chance, the next night Ray Allen’s, the next Garnett’s, etc. Also, like any championship team, the Celtics are playing great defense. The Celtics are truly showing everyone why they won it all last year, and the Lakers just got embarrased. Look for the Celtics to show the Lakers who the champions are Christmas Day.

Like the alliteration in the title? That is my catchy intro to a discussion of the NFL playoff system. The NFL playoff system seems to have some definite holes. I am not usually one to complain about the way organized sports are run (i.e. College football), but this year’s playoffs could turn me into a complainer. The Patriots, if they win next week against the Bills, as they are sure to do, will finish the season at 11-5. That is pretty good for an NFL team. Ten wins is all it should take to get into the playoffs; winning eleven games should GUARANTEE playoff birth. Now, the Pats could win 11 and still not make it. The worst part is, if San Diego beats Denver and if the Cardinals lose to Seattle there will be two teams with .500 records. So, the Patriots will have a .687 winning percentage and not make the playoffs, but the Cardinals and the Chargers will have .500 winning percentages and MAKE the playoffs. That is ridiculous. The Patriots need to win at Buffalo and have the Jets beat Miami to lock the AFC East. I am not sure what they need to get the Wild Card, but that is irrelevant. The point is, the better teams should be in the playoffs. Case closed. The Cardinals aren’t good enough to be there and neither are the Chargers. The Patriots should be in the playoffs. Everyone knows it. They are doing this well even without superstar quarterback Tom Brady. Now that, is saying something about the Patriots team. They play to win championships. How can they win if a faulty system keeps them out of the playoffs?

I don’t have time to write a detailed blog today. I am pretty busy, with it being the holiday season and all. To start off, the Celtics beat the New York Knicks by about twenty points to win their 18th straight game and tie the all time Celtics winning streak record. Obviously, tying a record from the Celtics is going to be difficult, as they are the winningest team in NBA history. Now to football… the New England Patriots routed the Arizona Cardinals 47 to 7. That is pretty embarrasing for the Cardinals, who already clinched a playoff birth. How do they expect to win in the playoffs if they can’t get double digit points in a game? Matt Cassel, the stand in for Tom Brady, through for over 350 yards with three touchdown passes. Wes Welker scored a touchdown for the Pats and so did Randy Moss. The Jets lost to the Seattle Seahawks somehow, which was their third loss in their last four games. The Dolphins beat the Chiefs, which is not good for the Patriot’s playoff hopes.  The 49ers pulled out a 17-16 win over the Rams; it is always nice to see the niners win a game. Even Oakland won today, beating the Houston Texans. The biggest shock of the day was the Redskin’s victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. The Skins won 10-3, with a last second stop on literally the one yard line. Reggie Brown caught a pass from McNabb, but before he could turn to score, he was hit and held down at the one yard line. Tennessee Titans beat the Steelers, and the New York Giants pulled out a close win over the Carolina Panthers. That is all I have time to write. Thanks and check back in tomorrow.

I went to see “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, a scifi movie about the destruction, or near destruction, of the Earth. If you haven’t seen it and you are planning on seeing it, you might not want to read this. I will try to not give away anything important, but basically the theme of the movie is that humans are slowly killing the earth with all our technology and waste, carbon dioxide, etc. The aliens have come to save the Earth itself, not the humans. As Keanu Reeves put it, “If the Earth dies, humans die. If humans die, the Earth survives”. I think playing an emotionless alien was the perfect role for Keanu Reeves. Obviously, expressing emotion, or simply having a soul, is not his strong point. Therefore, playing a role in which he was supposed to be void of a soul was great for him. I think he did well as an alien (his name was Klaatu). The acting was pretty good overall I guess, although there were a few actors that were weak. A lot of the military figures were pretty bad actors (I don’t know their specific names). There were a few blatant plot holes but I do not feel like going into all of them. An ironic part of the movie is when Klaatu, the alien messenger, says that there are only a few planets that can support life like Earth, so in order to save this life-bearing planet, they must wipe out all life on the planet. I did not really understand their thinking behind that. I also thought it was stupid that after Klaatu and the aliens come determined to wipe out mankind, all it takes to change their minds is the lead woman, Helen, to tell them that humans can change. She tells Klaatu that humans will change, and, just like that, he is on her side and he stops the extermination of the human race. At least now we can rest assured that if aliens ever come to wipe us out, we can just tell them not to and they will leave. Thank goodness. All in all, I would give the movie about 2.5 stars. It was very visually appealing. There were great special effects. However, the movie was just a little slow at times and there were a few plot holes that were difficult to circumvent.  It is worth seeing though, since there do not seem to be many great movies out, although “Seven Pounds” starring Will Smith got some good reviews. Thanks for reading and continue to check in.

Reportedly, LeBron James, perhaps the most popular player in the NBA, and Ice Cube, a rapper/family movie actor, are teaming up to produce a TV show. The show is supposed to be about LeBron’s life as a high schooler. The story will be similar to the football show “Friday Night Lights”. The idea was pitched to ABC  and could come out as early as fall of 2009. I think that the show won’t be hugely popular; LeBron is a big name to basketball fans, but will people really want to watch a 15 year old LeBron doing his Algebra homework? Why would that interest people?

Also, Eddy Curry who plays for the New York Knicks is supposedly getting sued by a men’s clothing company, “Casual Male”. Curry reportedly purchased $41,000 worth of clothes two years ago, and still hasn’t paid the tab. That is ridiculous. He is in the NBA, I think he could afford to pay a clothing bill. And why is anyone spending $41,000 on clothes in one day? How many clothes can one person have? As Forest Gump would say, that’s all I got to say about that.