Here's hoping.
Anyways, I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing and/or productive weekend (which ever you needed most). Here are a couple of my rambling thoughts from this past weekend and the week ahead:
> Gray sent me the following text message on Friday about the new Greg Kinnear film "Flash of Genius" (Kinnear plays the guy who invented the windshield wiper back in the 60's): "Dude, how badly do you wish [that movie] was titled 'Blades of Glory.'"
Hilarious.
> My apologies for failing to mention that Fox premiered the season debuts of "The Simpsons", "King of the Hill", "Family Guy" and "American Dad" last night (Sunday). I honestly didn't know until I was watching football during the day and was lucky enough to remember to record "Simpsons", "King of the Hill", and "Family Guy" during the Eagles game (could care less about "American Dad"). I watched "Family Guy" after the game (nothing special) and plan to get to the other two today. Is this really the 20th season of "The Simpsons"? Say what you want about the show, that's way impressive.> Speaking of the Eagles game: this is one of those rare Mondays in my lifetime that I'm not devastated by a loss from the day before. The Bears' D was suffocating, Correll Buckhalter is no Brian Westbrook, and despite what the Eagles management will tell you, we STILL DO need a wide receiver that can get open and make a play. If only the Lions can keep losing... well, I'm not going to go there... yet.
> AND, more importantly, I'm not broken up by the Eagles because the Phillies have me in such a good mood (It's really rare for the Eagles to take a back seat to the Phillies in Philadelphia but after this weekend, I think the city is starting to come down a bad case of Phillie Phever). It was just so nice to watch them do it right this year. They didn't make it come down to the last day, they clinched on Saturday so that they could rest Cole Hamels on Sunday and have him ready for Game 1 on Wednesday against the Brew Crew. Wow. It can be done!
> I'm stoked that the Phillies have the afternoon game (3PM) on Wednesday. For whatever reason, I have always loved the October playoff games during the day. I wish MLB would throw us a bone and schedule just one of the Saturday games of the World Series during the afternoon. Never going to happen but it would be nice.
> Anna Farris hosted "SNL" this week and she was certainly better than Michael Phelps a few weeks ago; but it's becoming painfully obvious, however, that "SNL" needs a star again. As I've said before, I really do like the current cast but there's no one that carries the show. I was flipping through the channels the other day and found a 2004 rerun; and even though Farrell was gone, you could tell Jimmy Fallon was the star of the show. Whoa, wait a minute... How sad is this? I'm actually missing Jimmy Fallon.
Moving on...
> And speaking of "SNL", The Killers will be the musical guest this coming Saturday (October 4) along with host Anne Hathaway (Oh, and The Killers' new single "Human" will be available for download tomorrow, September 30).
> "Iron Man" will also be available on DVD tomorrow. That was one of the best surprise movies in recent memory for me. I knew nothing about it going in but really enjoyed it (I saw it twice in the theater). I need to see the list of special features before I think about owning it - who am I kidding, I'm going to own it. It was that good.> Of all the movies coming out this weekend, the one I'm most looking forward to seeing is not "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist" (saw the whole movie in the trailer, thank you very much) but "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" or "The Josh Mahler Story".
Have a great week and don't forget to tune in for an all new Hour of Power tonight at 8PM on CBS!
- Josh Mahler
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