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I’m rooting for David Ross this year

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It’s funny how my sports allegiances change throughout the years.  There was a time when I was all aboard the Red Sox bandwagon, and was clinging on every at-bat and pitch in the 2004 playoffs.  I used to detest the Houston Astros because they kept knocking the Braves out of the playoffs, and Roger Clemens pitched for them, but now I don’t have any gripe with them at all.  There was once a time where I loathed the Chicago Cubs, and rooted vehemently for the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series.  One thing, however I don’t think stands much chance at changing, and that’s that I still detest the San Francisco Giants.

However, I’m warming up to the Cubs lately.  Now, I’ll still be pulling for the Braves, ironically, since this is the last year at Turner Field, but the reality is that they’re just as likely to lose 90, and hopefully 100+ this season, no matter how much I may or may not want them to do well when I go to see them.  And so since it’s actually nice to have a team to pull for that actually has a chance at doing well, I think if there’s any team out there that I might root for on the side, it might just be the Cubs.

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GDOT is the worst

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I spent an inordinately large amount of time sitting in traffic over this weekend, because the Georgia Department of Transportation is shit, and at this very moment I am writing this, the worst organization in the history of mankind, over the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and ISIS.

For whatever reasons, GDOT decided to perform road construction to every single interstate northbound route in order to get to/pass through Atlanta.  Want to get to/pass through, Atlanta via I-85/I-75?  Three lanes closed.  Want to circumvent Atlanta on I-285?  Two lanes closed on the west side of 285, and construction and a lane shift on the east side of 285.  The result of trying to take any major route to or through Atlanta is sitting in tragic standstill traffic and the desire to pull your hair out of your head.

Seriously, who the fuck decides to do this much road construction in the middle of the weekend?  Sure, there is undoubtedly one worse time to do any sort of road construction, which is during the middle of any weekday work rush hour, but in the middle of the weekend afternoons has to be easily the second worst times to do traffic.  And to every single major northbound vein, at the same time?  That’s not just lunacy, it’s downright idiotic.

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Jorb update

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If there are any things at all that I miss about my old job, I can think of two things:

  • My old Macbook – seriously, that thing was a beast, even if the impetus for having it meant that I was capable and expected of working remotely during hours not considered work hours more often than necessary, I miss the hell out of it.  It was stronger than what my new job has provided to me, and a monumental majority of 2015’s brog posts were written on it.
  • The commute – I did not have to touch a single interstate in order to get from point A to point B.  Sure, I worked on the moon, relative to the rest of Atlanta, and dealing with the red light district known as Fayette County was infuriating, but I still made it home and back consistently within 20-30 minutes.

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Until Dawn was pretty great

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Mythical girlfriend and I just finished our first playthrough of Until Dawn, and aside from the obvious thoughts about analyzing the story, and the directions and paths we took, my first thought was how I want to play through again, immediately.

I haven’t felt this way about a video game since like, Mass Effect 2, and how eager I was to go through the game a second time, but as a complete renegade decision-making asshole.

That being said, I thought Until Dawn was pretty awesome.  To no surprise, the obvious comp to what it felt like playing was Heavy Rain, also another fantastic game that broke the mold of what typical video games were up until that point.  But due to the butterfly effect concept that the game adopts, it basically means that the game has the potential for replay value that hasn’t been seen since like, Chrono Trigger.

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Black people double standards

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In spite of everything I may or may not write out, I’m a fan of Chris Rock.  I have enjoyed most every one of Rock’s standups, and I think he’s a step above most other comics out there; dare I say almost on a Seinfeld-like plane in which he makes observations and turns it into material that most people can relate to, but just don’t think about, until presented in a routine.

I don’t view him as “a black comic,” but as “a comic,” and one that is funny, witty, intelligent and genuinely good at his craft.  Furthermore, as he’s aged, he’s flexed his creative wings and done some solid writing, as well as being pretty much the token A-list black guy for Adam Sandler (Tim Meadows being the B) films throughout the last few years.

But his choice of material at the Oscars, where he basically made several tasteless jokes towards Asian stereotypes, was pretty pathetic.  They reeked of strawman deflection, where Rock attempted to distract attendees and viewers away from the elephant in the room, which is the purported black boycott of the Oscars, and make wise cracks about Asians as a means to draw attention away from the elephant.

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Thoughts on 90 Day Fiance, season 3

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At long last, mythical girlfriend and I finally caught up and marathoned through the rest of season 3 of the TLC classic, 90 Day Fiance.

To no surprise, as predicted, in spite of some of the seemingly overwhelming relationships blocks that formulated between some of the couples, all of them still managed to successfully make it to the altar and say their vows in holy matrimony, in spite of the fact that most of them will probably not make it even a year with one another.  But for what it’s worth, it was still an entertaining season of futility, even if I feel like after three seasons in the books, the formula is running the greater risk of becoming stale and running its course.

Everyone succeeded, regardless of what dealbreakers were broken, because nobody wants to look like a failure on cable television, and the derpiest Mormon couple wed with no real hitch and is naturally the first to announce pregnancy on the post-season tell all episode, again.  I think if this show wants to have any success next season, they need to finally have a couple that doesn’t succeed, just to give sadistic fans like myself some sort of proof that not all endings have to be roses and happiness, because that isn’t necessarily reality.

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Fuller House, first impressions

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I’ve stated in the past that I didn’t really have high hopes for it, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for nostalgia, not to mention it’s a great way to passively sabotage mythical girlfriend’s Netflix queue with the garbage that I decide to watch in lieu of creating my own account locally.

But I’m three episodes into Fuller House, and here are some of my knee-jerk reactions:

  • Dear god almighty did Stephanie Tanner get some fake tits
  • DJ Tanner looks better now than she ever did back in the show’s original run
  • Kimmy Gibbler has barely aged
  • Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky have barely aged as well, and honestly I’d take Aunt Becky over any of the other girls on the show, even now
  • Amusing for the show to immediately address the Olsen twins elephant in the room within the show’s first two minutes

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