I’ve come to the realization that the Cardinals this season are much like my ex: immensely frustrating at times, but always tempting enough to lure me back from time to time. They also never cook for me and pretend they don’t know me in public. With 39 games remaining, the Cardinals have essentially backed themselves […]
Having seen nearly every romantic comedy that’s come out in the last couple weeks, I needed a break. Not that the rom-coms weren’t good, but I needed a manly movie with violence and women wearing less clothes than a spring break beach. Enter Danny McBride and 30 Minutes or Less, a comedy based loosely on […]
With all the drama surrounding the Cardinals and the flurry of activity before the trade deadline, people have a tendency to overlook the River City Rascals. I’ll admit, I pretty much did the same thing while I was coaching this summer. Imagine my surprise when I checked the standings last week and the Rascals weren’t […]
“I have loved her, even when I hated her.” Hollywood movies nowadays rarely surprise me. They might shock me in regards to how appallingly bad they are (I’m looking at you, Splice), but generally they don’t really have the wherewithal to leave me speechless. I’ve always been a Steve Carell fan. The Office remains one of my […]
When it comes to baseball, I’m typically a traditionalist. I truly believe I was born in the wrong era. I would have loved to have grown up in the 1940’s (well, minus that ginormous little thing called World War II) and seen some of the game’s legends in their prime. I would have loved the […]
Various news outlets are reporting that Cardinals center fielder Colby Rasmus has been traded along with P.J. Walters, Brian Tallet, and Trever Miller to the Toronto Blue Jays for three pitchers and an outfielder. In exchange, the Cardinals will receive starting pitcher Edwin Jackson and relievers Octavio Dotel and Marc Rzepczynski as well as Corey Patterson. My […]
Well, what a busy weekend. We’ll start with the Cardinals’ fight for first place with Pittsburgh (when’s the last time anyone could write THAT?), and go through some of the trade rumors, and discuss baseball’s Hall of Fame, which inducted three new members over the weekend. * note* I was going to do a football […]
In pop culture, there are a few iconic symbols of all good things American. Baseball. Football. Apple pie (even though it originated in England). Bald eagles. Representing all of these symbols rolled into one idea incarnate, Captain America was a hero born in the fires of World War II. As the hero of the eponymous […]
Seeing a chick flick is usually comparable to reaching into a mixed bag. On one hand, you have super cheesy, philogynistic Nicholas Sparks-esque films like The Notebook and A Walk to Remember. On the other hand, you have the more (relatively) recent, next-gen films like Love and Other Drugs which tend to throw a bone to the […]
I still remember years ago when the first Harry Potter novel was taking the world by storm. Not being a huge fantasy fan, I basically brushed it aside. Now, a decade later, we are at last reaching the end of the series in terms of films. Were this series analogous to a date, this film […]
