Rams do it again.
This was going to be one of the hard ones, SD leads there division and are playing well. We come in 5-3 with a 3rd string quarterback. We dominated this game. But every trip to the red zone-except the first one. Resulted in a fumble recovered by SD. We fell behind in the first and it just got worse til the 4th. Then something amazing happened. The Rams from 1999 showed up. We didn-t skip a beat, Issacc did his best catch ever for a touchdown. Wilkins and Bly did the most perfect onsides kick ever, followed by another touchdown strike. When the dust settled, the team I gave up on at the half performed one of the best games of the season. And 3rd stringer Bulger threw for 450 yards. Zowwie!

I Spy (1.5 of 5)
Little hint; Never see a movie at the South Bay Galleria on a Saturday when a Hip Hop (8 mile) is playing. This many black people don-t live in Redondo or Torrance. I guess since they destroyed the theaters in Hawthorne during the riots and cant find a place to park at the Pacific this is the only theater they can goto. But good god, there were 300 people in the lobby and Deb and I were the only whites there-almost in the whole mall, we apparently didn-t get the memo. Anyways-even the added excitement of 4 crying babies and Deb getting hit from flying projectiles (Skittles) couldn-t save this movie. Betty Thomas is a journeywoman director that needs a script, she didn-t get one. She goes out on a limb for no one, and that-s how the movie felt. It was very cheesy throughout, Eddie was over the top and irritating just like METRO and SHOWTIME. Owen is Owen, he has the range of a single pump daisy air rifle from the 60-s. So if you can believe he can play a RIO on an f-18 then I guess he can be an insecure spy. Chases were lame, Famke was hot, but the real surprise was Gary Cole. He was hardly used but very neat when on the screen. So it was in focus and had 3 good lines:-Smells like ass soup in here- was one, otherwise is was not worth the matinee price. I don-t know maybe I-m just bitter about writing a short story about 15 years ago about a stolen optical pass though camouflage airplane called the Chameleon, and that-s what the main spy gadget is-grrrrr!

Everything looks broke, I thought the defense would step and make it a real tight game. Nope didn’t happen, may never happen this year. Dammit. So from this point on…I would like a win against Oakland and really want a win against Washington (Only cause I am going to the game) Other than that…bring on the draft!!.

Latest dose of the democrat mentality:
NY Times Pool: When asked whether it was fair for Lautenberg to replace Torricelli on the ballot, 54 percent in the Quinnipiac poll said no, but only 30 percent said they would not vote for Lautenberg because of the switch.

Red Dragon (4 of 5)
A closer adaptation of the book than Mike Mann-s MANHUNTER, but creatively it was on the same level. While Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watson kicked ass over Manhunter (sorry Joan Allen but she did- The BJ sealed it for me), everything else goes to Mann-s version. Yes Cox-s Hannibal was very good and creepier because he was just like you and me. While it sounds negative, I give both films above average marks. The ending in red dragon was more fun. Edward Norton is fun watch, but lacks the intensity that William Peterson brought to the character. And I would hope that the someone like Farina would be my FBI contact, not the drab Keitel. Most of the movie was an on going comparison for me. Until Emily and Ralph were onscreen, then all comparisons were turned off and I just enjoyed the film. Went to the AMC 30 in Ontario Mills, they have 4 big theaters and this was one of them. A perfect presentation, considering AMC was the source.

Well, it got as bad as it could get. We play Dallas, who looked bad opening day as well as on Hard Knocks on HBO. Should be the easy team we need to get back on track. First play hand off to Marshall, 20 yard run-. and-fumble! My god, could this get any worse-Warner back to pass-picked off under pressure then compound fracture of pinky (out 8 weeks)-ahhhhhhhhhh!!! It-s only the first drive!!! Enter Jamie Martin- 4 beautiful passes-.all dropped by receivers. The Superbowl run is over. After the half the defense plays perfectly and Jamie controls the clock. But we lack High-Octane. Then we lose to the 3rd worst team in the last 2 seconds.
Good News: Ummmmmmmm-maybe more reps for Jamie can make us a .500 team. And rooting for a .500 team to win is usually fun (no high expectations). I would feel better if Pace on O and Williams on D were back. But maybe we can slide by till they are ready. If we can get Warner back by Philly game in December and the defense does what it has been doing all year, we can win our weak division.

P.S. 4 and 0 Chargers are looking good and fiesty!!

Deb and I celebrated our 3-year anniversary on October 1st, she bought me Outback and I got her 2 hours at DuBunne.

The pic comes from the Orange County Register. The monday after the LA Rams played the LA Raiders in 1994. It was from a fight 4 sections away from my season tickets. And yes the Raider Fan (Dock Worker) is the one getting the beat down. 10 years later…it happens again..this time on the field..GO RAMS!!

“THE” Big Chinese flick of the new century. Nominated for an Academy Award for foreign language film (lost). The film draws a lot of its interest from the Sony media blitz that was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And while the scale of the film is 10 times that of CTHD, the action and overall fascination falls short of the Ang Lee film. It tells the legend of an assassin sent to kill other assassins sent after his king, a king trying to unite china. It-s big, it-s grand, and almost none of the fights are full speed. Cool at some times, and just plain monotonous at others. Visuals seemed more important than the pace and story. It is a good legend, and was the defining moment in the unification of china and the domination of the Qin dynasty (The ones who built the wall). The one thing that pulses through both films is the overall tragic feel of all the situations…and the lack of blood. Saw this on DVD. Loaner DVD from Jimmy.