Welcome to the Fab Five blog! A daily... well weekly... well somewhere in between column on 5 talking points, happenings, highway directions, and/or meaningless dribble. 5 not 4 not 7 just a nice round number to satisfy the mind and that little bit of OCD that everyone has. Lets begin:
1) The Vikings
- The team starts out perfect at 2-0 so can you really complain ? Well Yes but at the current time whats the point. One thing I do like is the team doing 2 things that they haven't done in a long time. Pounding inferior competition (2 for 2 on covering the point spread this season) and playing as a second half team. The number one knock on Childress from people who actually know football is that his teams get beat in the second half. This year so far that is not the case, in fact the Vikings are excelling in the second half. We will just have to wait n watch if this continues, but I don't see Sean Hill running up and down the field at Metrodome this weekend.
2) Television
- I live in a large house with a bunch of college guys, so I get to see what people watch. Obviously this is one age group or "demo" but there is some variety. What I don't get is why don't people like good television unless your a critic. People watch mindless shows like Real World (which is so dead, used to be good, now so so dead) and The Biggest Loser... yet shows like Arrested Development get canceled and Mad Men gets crappy ratings. Yet a large majority of people and intellects see any TV as mindless. I say why cant watching quality shows, sports, and a little History Channel and HBO be just as mental as reading the new Michael Crichton novel ? Just as much as TV can be mindless it can also be a 3x10 on the mental bench press... plus ya can't enjoy some Taco Bell while reading War and Peace. TV SHOW TO PEEP : Real Time w/ Bill Maher --- Don't agree will all of his points, but the show gets you thinking, keeps you informed and will make you laugh... 10 times what Katie and the CBS Nightly News will bring you.
3) Only in College
-My only in college moment of the week happened last Thursday. I was one house down the street walking to class and a G-Unit looking kid pops out of a house runs down and asks me if he can buy a cigarette from me ( Great move the ask if you can buy the cigarette because no true smoker will charge you and it just sounds nice, best empty gesture yet). I gave him a naw man all out, and got to catch him 20 seconds later dancing by the side walk. Now this same kid shows up at a party at my house that night and he is slamming Budwiser and asking if a roomate of mine is gay and wears eye make-up (Which he doesn't but its the kid who asking that question gets a great laugh out of the whole room). What took the cake was when I found out this kid, G-Unit sneakers and all is like 16.... only in college.
4) Facebook
-Your mom has facebook. She has friends who have facebook. Hell your Grandmother might have facebook. Why has no option come up to replace it ? Yes most people run in seperate social circles but every once in a while you see your friends wall and his Aunt wrote on it. How are you supposed to write how drunk he got Saturday Night or comment on how great any local sports team is or in it when you see Aunt Cathy saying how great it was to see the person at Grandma's last weekend.... you cant! Just do what I do, what Bill Clinton would do. Don't ask, Don't tell. My mom does have facebook, and I have never asked to be her friend... and she has never asked to be mine. And thats the way it should be.
5) Gambling
- I love gambling. The idea that the mind can be used to risk money to gain money by nay luck, but cunning, skill, and bravado.... this is what gambling does to me. Now I love many forms of gambling but that would take up a whole Fab Five coloumn and Football picks will come later in the week. Let me just say this, the 2 forms of gambling that dont do it for me ??? Pull Tabs and Slot Machines... I would rather bet the color of car coming down the street or on youth sports then these things, then again betting on youth sports could just be the future.
