The Curse Is Broken!

... Humans have all lived through history as it is made - that's how we get recorded history, after all - but it's still pretty darn cool when you witness history being made right before your eyes. And by golly, I just did tonight, when the Red Sox finally lifted the so-called Curse of the Bambino and took home a World Series championship, after ousting the Cardinals in four straight games. This postseason has made me much more of a baseball fan, and while I don't know the ins and outs of every player or anything on that level, it's always great to watch a team work hard and win something they truly do care about. It's also great to watch them trample an Evil Empire on the road to victory, too. It just makes you feel good to watch a deserving team come home with a title that has eluded them since 1918: World Series Champions. Boo-yah, my friends, history has been made, and now the list of sports curses, if there is one, will have to be rewritten.

... I also meant to talk a bit about Saturday night before it became too untimely. Gina and I went to Roanoke for a night on the town, just the two of us. Unfortunately for us, we went after Wesley's Clean-Up Day wrapped up, which put us in the 'Noke at about 7 P.M. For those of you who haven't been to the Star City, they pretty much lock up everything at nine. So, after a dinner at TGI Friday's where Gina found a hair in her salad and ended up eating for free, we headed over to the mall. Our luck didn't improve much from then on out, since we were among the last to arrive and leave at the mall and at Target. With everything else shut down, we decided to catch a late movie...

... And the one we picked, I Heart Huckabee's, just didn't improve our luck at all. I happen to like weird movies, as referenced by my discussions of Eternal Sunshine... or Adaptation, but this one seemed to be too weird for its own good. Maybe it was all the philosophy being spouted that detracted from whatever plot there was. I'm not sure. I could follow what was going on, and there were some really good moments, but as a whole I wasn't too impressed. My official rating is: eh. I wouldn't actively go out to see it or rent it again. Gina and I were mainly embarrassed at some of the stuff that went on in the film.

So there you have it! The week is drawing to a close. Can you dig it?