Weekend Highlights

I'm not going to give you a whole weekend update because I don't think you need to know that Jamie and I went to Big Lots...

Friday was a holiday.  Not Good Friday, but Braves Home Opener Day!  As you may or may not know I am a huge Braves fan so this is a big deal to me.  We got to the game early because we didn't have tickets.  Once we scored those (from the box office, there was not a scalper in sight) we tailgated for a bit before heading in to Turner Field.  I ran straight to section 203 (we had standing room tickets) to see our good friend Mr. Franklin.  Mr. Franklin is an usher and he is the man.  His section is right behind home plate so we always go and stand at one of the high top tables behind his section.  By the 7th or 8th inning he lets us down to seats.  We exchanged hugs and got ready for the game.  The Home Opener always takes a while to get going because they have to introduce the opposing teams starters, the entire Braves roster, and do a bunch of stuff with kids on the field.  The first pitch was thrown out by retired Braves radio announcer Pete Van Wieren.  Before he tossed out the ball (to Greg Norton!) they showed a video retrospective, which was very nice even though we couldn't hear the audio (it was muffled sounding).  He also got a cool looking award and something in a Tiffany's box (that made me jealous and curious, was it something from the Elsa Peretti collection?).

The ironic part of the night is they were giving out "rally rags" (towels) to people as they walked in.  What a bit of foreshadowing...  After the 4th inning the game was put in an two hour rain delay.  Thank God for the rally rags because those little towels made great seat drying off tools.  We (the Braves) were up the whole game until we played our endless game of pitcher swap out (Lowe to Carlyle to Moylan to O'Flaherty to Bennett to Soriano to Gonzalez and then to starting pitcher Campillo) and let the Nationals take the lead.  Bottom of the 10th inning (1:25am) the Braves finally won!  We went on to sweep the Nationals and are now 5-1.  

Flash forward to Sunday.

We went to see Observe & Report last night at the drive in.  I had high hopes for this movie because Seth Rogen is in it and I love him.  How disappointed was I that an hour and a half later the movie was over and I had barely chuckled (and I'm one of those annoying laugh out loud hysterically people in movies).  There wasn't much of a plot.  There was no good story.  I wonder if he did this movie like between projects just to have something to do with his time?  I'm going to tell you to see it because I want to support Seth Rogen and he hasn't let me down until now, but wait until it comes out on DVD.  We were going to stay for I Love You, Man (always a double feature at the drive in) but it was late and I wanted to get home to catch the second showing of the Rock of Love finale.

I was let down AGAIN!  I didn't love either of the girls Bret had in the final two (Mindy and Taya).  But I really disliked Taya.  I don't know why, maybe it's her endless quest for perfection and she lied a lot (like about being a stripper - when on this show, that's a good thing, everybody else is), but something about her rubbed me the wrong way.  If he had picked Mindy I know it wouldn't have lasted, but at least he wouldn't have picked Taya.  The reunion is next week.  I'm excited to see what gets revealed (if anything).  I did see that some of my fave ho's from Rock of Love Bus are going to be on Charm School with Ricki Lake (?) so I'll def be watching that.  I know there won't be any more Rock of Love's with Bret Michaels (he said so).  I'm just sad for him that after three seasons of additively trashy TV he didn't find his Rock of Love.

One more TV note before I wrap it up for today...

My number one hero, Billy Mays, has a new TV SHOW (not a commercial) debuting on Wednesday (April 15) on the Discovery Channel called Pitchmen.  I don't really know what it's about, but believe I will be watching.  More on that later.