This Sunday several more actors and actresses will get to add "Emmy Award Winner..." before their name. Such as "Emmy Award Winner Jennifer Love Hewitt." It'll happen someday Jennifer. So here are my picks:
Drama Series - Lost
Comedy Series - Desperate Housewives
Lead Actor, Comedy - Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond
Lead Actor, Drama - Keifer Sutherland, 24
Lead Actress, Drama - Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under
Lead Actress, Comedy - Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives
Supp Actor, Drama - William Shatner, Boston Legal
Supp Actor, Comedy - Jeremy Piven, Entourage
Supp Actress, Drama - Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy
Supp Actress, Comedy - Megan Mullally, Will & Grace
Reality Program - There are no winners in this category.
I'm finished,
Nate
Friday, September 16, 2005
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
The First Weekend of Pigskin!
What a grrrreeat weekend, sports fans! College football is in full swing and I was loving it. Gotta get to some things, so without further ado:
Wisconsin v. Bowling Green - I went to my first college game involving a Big Ten team (I go to my second in a few weeks with Grant.) My uncle had an extra ticket for the game, so I rode down with him and my cousins Dillon and Duncan. I was a Wisconsin fan for the day, but I've got a feeling that my more beloved Wolverines of Michigan will destroy Bucky this year. The defense for Wisky played very poorly in my humble opinion, but they did win the shootout 56-42 in a game that saw over 1000 total yards. Grant's boy, Brian Calhoun rushed for over 250 yards and 5 touchdowns. Grant once used Calhoun (who at that time played for Colorado) to win multiple Heisman's on the 2004 version of the NCAA video game. He transferred to UW last year and the nostalgia almost brought a tear to my eye.
Camp Randall Stadium was an average stadium that has horribly designed concourses. At halftime, I went to get a meal (my first of the day) at the concessions. By the time I needed to visit the restroom and get back to my seat, the area around the concessions had turned into an unpenetrable mob that took me until a few minutes into the third quarter to traverse.
After the game we walked up and down historic State Street in Madison. We stopped at B Dubs to have a drink and then got some chips and salsa (with a couple of cerveza's) at a Mexican restaurant. I voted that we should make the two mile walk back to the the van. About half way there, I stepped on the edge of the sidewalk and rolled my ankle, dropping me face first on the concrete. It's one of those stories that nobody will believe happened sober. "Sure, you were walking back from a Badger game, you rolled your ankle, and you weren't sauced? Riiiiight."
Michigan v Northern Illinois - I saw about five minutes of this game at the bar after the UW game. I did see a guy from a MAC school break off a 76 yard TD run on the Michigan defense. That's a little unnerving. They need to get good for the usual letdown game coming up against Notre Dame.
Florida St. v. Miami - So you're Miami, you're driving late in the game, you throw a pass for a 3 yard loss, a player from Florida St takes his helmet off and starts jawwin' with one of your guys, refs throw flags, and then they pick them up... how are you not furious? How did Miami coach Larry Coker not go out and beat the ref with the first down stick? It's clear from the replay that the Florida St player gets up and rips his helmet off. It was a penalty. Of course, Miami did blow the game on the next play when they fumbled the field goal snap, but they should've had first and goal at the four yard line.
Northern Michigan v. Mercyhurst - Northern got it's first win. They had the GLIAC conference player of the week on offense and defense. Linebacker Chad Kurian was named D2Football.com Defensive Player of the Week. Wait, is this the same Northern Michigan University that I went to?
The CFF10 Fantasy Draft- Let's put it this way, my cousin, who is the commissioner of the league was phoning in his picks from the bar so that the other commissioner could enter them. Yeah, it was that kind of draft.
I'm finished,
Nate
Wisconsin v. Bowling Green - I went to my first college game involving a Big Ten team (I go to my second in a few weeks with Grant.) My uncle had an extra ticket for the game, so I rode down with him and my cousins Dillon and Duncan. I was a Wisconsin fan for the day, but I've got a feeling that my more beloved Wolverines of Michigan will destroy Bucky this year. The defense for Wisky played very poorly in my humble opinion, but they did win the shootout 56-42 in a game that saw over 1000 total yards. Grant's boy, Brian Calhoun rushed for over 250 yards and 5 touchdowns. Grant once used Calhoun (who at that time played for Colorado) to win multiple Heisman's on the 2004 version of the NCAA video game. He transferred to UW last year and the nostalgia almost brought a tear to my eye.
Camp Randall Stadium was an average stadium that has horribly designed concourses. At halftime, I went to get a meal (my first of the day) at the concessions. By the time I needed to visit the restroom and get back to my seat, the area around the concessions had turned into an unpenetrable mob that took me until a few minutes into the third quarter to traverse.
After the game we walked up and down historic State Street in Madison. We stopped at B Dubs to have a drink and then got some chips and salsa (with a couple of cerveza's) at a Mexican restaurant. I voted that we should make the two mile walk back to the the van. About half way there, I stepped on the edge of the sidewalk and rolled my ankle, dropping me face first on the concrete. It's one of those stories that nobody will believe happened sober. "Sure, you were walking back from a Badger game, you rolled your ankle, and you weren't sauced? Riiiiight."
Michigan v Northern Illinois - I saw about five minutes of this game at the bar after the UW game. I did see a guy from a MAC school break off a 76 yard TD run on the Michigan defense. That's a little unnerving. They need to get good for the usual letdown game coming up against Notre Dame.
Florida St. v. Miami - So you're Miami, you're driving late in the game, you throw a pass for a 3 yard loss, a player from Florida St takes his helmet off and starts jawwin' with one of your guys, refs throw flags, and then they pick them up... how are you not furious? How did Miami coach Larry Coker not go out and beat the ref with the first down stick? It's clear from the replay that the Florida St player gets up and rips his helmet off. It was a penalty. Of course, Miami did blow the game on the next play when they fumbled the field goal snap, but they should've had first and goal at the four yard line.
Northern Michigan v. Mercyhurst - Northern got it's first win. They had the GLIAC conference player of the week on offense and defense. Linebacker Chad Kurian was named D2Football.com Defensive Player of the Week. Wait, is this the same Northern Michigan University that I went to?
The CFF10 Fantasy Draft- Let's put it this way, my cousin, who is the commissioner of the league was phoning in his picks from the bar so that the other commissioner could enter them. Yeah, it was that kind of draft.
I'm finished,
Nate
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Being Naive
It's not supposed to happen here. You see on the news quite frequently how natural disasters devastate regions of other countries, leaving hundreds or thousands dead. Call it arrogance, but many of us chalk it up to the fact that those countries are unprepared to deal with those disasters. Their infrastructure is not set up to adequately set up to handle such catastrophes, we think. In America in 2005, we have the resources to protect the people of our country from natural disasters or at least minimize the casualties which very rarely reach triple digits. Or, so we thought. I felt a strange feeling last night as I watched the aerial shots of the city of New Orleans. It was a lot like sadness, a little like shock but it was a lot closer still to...Anger. I want to believe that we are all safe simply because we live in this great country and that we are better prepared by leaps and bounds than the rest of the world for anything mother nature can dish out.
Then reality called... It wanted to have a word with me.
We are as susceptible to natural disasters as everyone else. I was angry that there were hordes of people trying to get on busses out of town. I was angry that even the people that deal with emergencies for a living were basically rendered helpless. I was angry that it was happening and little could be done to stop the suffering. What always amazed me about America is in our response. We have the American Red Cross, we have FEMA, we have the National Guard and we should be able to save almost everybody. Right? Now I see images of people stranded on rooftops, wading down city streets in shoulder height water, and (most disgustingly) people looting flooded stores.
Not that efforts have not been made to help people affected by this devastating storm, it's just that we came up against something that was just too big. Estimates are that at least one thousand people are dead, there has been millions, if not billions of dollars in damage and the storm contributed gas prices shooting up to European-ly high levels.
There will be talk in the months ahead about how things could have been handled differently, how we could have been more prepared, how we need to have the government do something so that this doesn't happen again. The bottom line is: Sometimes the awesome power of nature is just to much for even the strongest nations.
Time to wake up, Nate.
Then reality called... It wanted to have a word with me.
We are as susceptible to natural disasters as everyone else. I was angry that there were hordes of people trying to get on busses out of town. I was angry that even the people that deal with emergencies for a living were basically rendered helpless. I was angry that it was happening and little could be done to stop the suffering. What always amazed me about America is in our response. We have the American Red Cross, we have FEMA, we have the National Guard and we should be able to save almost everybody. Right? Now I see images of people stranded on rooftops, wading down city streets in shoulder height water, and (most disgustingly) people looting flooded stores.
Not that efforts have not been made to help people affected by this devastating storm, it's just that we came up against something that was just too big. Estimates are that at least one thousand people are dead, there has been millions, if not billions of dollars in damage and the storm contributed gas prices shooting up to European-ly high levels.
There will be talk in the months ahead about how things could have been handled differently, how we could have been more prepared, how we need to have the government do something so that this doesn't happen again. The bottom line is: Sometimes the awesome power of nature is just to much for even the strongest nations.
Time to wake up, Nate.
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