action-packed.

i worked from 10-6.

got 13 people to sign up for scorecards. shattering my previous record of 5.

had this exchange with a disgruntled old man:

me: "hows it going?"
old man: "terrible."
me: "haha. oh yeah?"
*silence*

needless to say, i didnt ask him if he wanted a scorecard.

then i went to the annual coach's meeting for the softball league i am in-- where i was the youngest coach by atleast 15 years.

we went over some issues. basically our team is going to get crushed more frequently because there are only 2 divisions this year, and i dont think we will be as good as we have been in the past, but oh well. i cant wait.

and now i am about to watch 24 which i had to record.

i hope noone dies. i cant take anymore deaths.

a slippery situation.

what happens when you put cooking oil, nunchucks, a nude man, and a 61 year-old woman in the same old house.

st. patrick's day.

One of those holidays I really don't understand.

You wear green and drink alot of beer. All this to celebrate the death of an irish saint and to show off your irish patriotism.

However, most of the people who celebrate St. Patrick's Day aren't even Irish. St. Patrick wasn't even Irish. He was British.

But I guess Americans will make any excuse to wear green. And who can blame us...

It's a pretty sexy color.

poker and plastic surgery.

You cannot flip through the channels and not pass through some poker match or some girl getting a new face.

sidenote: i nearly threw up googling pictures of plastic surgery.

Do they really have that substantial of an audience to be on 5 different channels at one time? i cant even imagine the people who like playing cards, and like getting plastic surgery can really enjoy watching these 2 things on tv.

I cant really relate because I hate playing cards and I am only a casual fan of getting plastic surgery. But I can think of a hundred other things I would rather watch than Dr. 90210.

Like this.

or this.

and the only thing worse than watching the World Series of Poker is Celebrity Poker.

if you dont know who any of those celebrities are, well... neither do I, but I wish they would stop playing poker on my tv.

the good, the bad, and the crap.

I genuinely feel sorry for the people who made this movie. I never would've rented it on my own--- Nate and Chris Pike brought it home. If you like movies about a group of cave explorers who venture out in the unknown and get attacked by cave aliens for 90 minutes, then you would LOVE The Cave. I dont and I didnt. Chris Pike did though.



My mom bought this. She is known for buying crappy movies that never leave the packaging, but I watched this and I was entertained. You just have to make sure you don't think about it while you're watching it. Just enjoy it for what it is... a man falling in love with a ghost.



Sometimes I rent a movie just because of an actor or an actress. In this case it was Jennifer Connelly. If she wasn't in this movie I wouldve thought it was horrible, but she was, so I thought it was excellent. Well, maybe not excellent. A movie about demon-possessed water can only be so good.



Yes it was pretty gross. And yes, I had to close my eyes and cringe a few times. But notwithstanding, it was well-written, very creative, and Donnie Wahlberg is my favorite New Kid on the Block.



Guy is in the big city looking for success.
Guy ends up hating himself.
Guy's parent dies.
Guy goes home to the smalltown.
Guy falls in love and finds the meaning of life.
Indie music plays in the background.
Guy is happy again.

Cameron Crowe clearly saw Garden State and thought "Hey, I could make the same exact movie and everyone will fall for it and I will make alot of money." Well I thought it was a steaming pile of lame. Garden State wasn't good because of the story, it was good because of Zack Braff, Natalie Portman and the rest of the cast. I have never enjoyed Kirsten Dunst or Orlando Bloom in any movie. Put both of them in the same movie and you have a trainwreck.



I had never heard of this movie prior to seeing it at Blockbuster, but there was a quote on the cover of the case that said it was more intriguing than Saving Private Ryan - so I had to see it because Saving Private Ryan blew my mind.

It was definitely a side of the war that I have not seen. American POWs being tortured by the Japanese. Normally you see the American army being powerful and triumphant in war movies, not starved, beaten, and burnt alive. It was a good history lesson. My only criticism would be the casting. Tom Hanks, David Schwimmer, or Damien Lewis would've been good additions.

Better than Saving Private Ryan? No. But should you watch it? Definitely.

i hope i never go bald.

Most hairdressers seem to be middle-aged ladies that are desperately clinging to their youth. This is made obvious by the trail of tan-without-the-sun that follows them.

But my hairdresser is special.

My hairdresser is really, really, really attractive.

Its a shame that i have to take my glasses off when i get my haircut.

Another reason I need to get contacts.

So to those of you who get your haircut by an old man covered in other people's hair-- i suggest you head on over to The Right Image in Dover.

... You know your life isn't exciting when youre writing about japanese baseball and haircuts.

That's the smell of desire my lady.

Dear Tag Fragrance Co.,

3 weeks ago it was time to buy some new deodorant and I decided to try something new and purchased some of this:



3 weeks later and I am still single.

Signed,
Bitter in NH.

did that really just happen?

In respect to those who haven't seen it yet, I wont go into detail, but I am still trying to lift my jaw from off the floor because of tonight's 2 episodes of 24.

It is without question the best television show ever comprised.

But I will write more about this later in the week when some people hurry up and watch it.



no, that's not from tonight. but remember when jack bauer cried? ...crazy.

[EDITED: MARCH 13th]
I lied when I said I would write about it more later in the week.

the oscars.

some of tonight's big winners:

BEST MOTION PICTURE:
"Crash"
started it, fell asleep, and never finished it.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Philip Seymour Hoffman for "Capote"
never heard of it.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Reese Witherspoon for "Walk the Line"
never saw it.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
George Clooney for "Syriana"
never heard of it.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Rachel Weisz for "The Constant Gardener"
only heard of this because Andy wrote about it.

BEST DIRECTING:
"Brokeback Mountain"
haven't seen it. homophobe? yes.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
now i just think they have a large dartboard backstage.

huit hommes dehors

Today I was flipping through the channels and saw that one of my favorite movies of all-time was on.

"SWEET. Eight Men Out is on."

and then they started talking.

"CRAP. It's in French."

And even though my last name is Gagné, I never cared enough to do well in French class.

Despite the language barrier, I still watched it for a good 20 minutes before I remembered i owned it on dvd.

Maybe I'll watch it tonight.

My eyes got a little watery the first time I watched it-- and I have been a John Cusack fan ever since.

a Dick's update.

i passed the 2nd interview and much to my chagrin, there will be a 3rd.

the next one will determine which department I will work best in.

i feel like i am trying to get a job with the Counter-Terrorist Unit.

but then again-- they always seem to have problems with moles on the inside, so how hard could it really be to get a job at CTU?