I love Halloween.

Enjoy.




Happy Halloween, everybody.

If the vehicle for your procrastination becomes something that you put off doing, what is that?

So, after starting off strong, I took 12 days off. I do plan on more regular bloggin'. Honest.


Adrien and I are knee deep into our annual Halloween Month Long Movie Marathon. Last night we watched Near Dark, an eighties movie that I had heard of many places, but had not been able to see until now. It had been in an article that I read many years back about the "25 Scariest Movies You Have Never Seen," which yielded such greats as Session 9 and The Exorcist III (both of which I highly suggest).

I'm not sure that Near Dark was scary per say, but it was interesting, and it had a young Nathan Petrelli from heroes as the lead character. Essentially it is a vehicle for Bill Paxton to go crazy. This led A and I to conclude that Bill Paxton has two kinds of performances: awesome and craptacular (the kind of crapulance that makes you wonder how he can get any acting job - Nicholas Cage falls flatly into this category).

Near Dark constitutes one of his awesome performances. I wouldn't say that the movie is awesome, but it's interesting.

that's all.

Politics.

Having been a social studies teacher for 4 years, I think that politics are very important, regardless of who you support, you should educate yourself and support something.

After two and a half years in seminary, this clip has resonance on both my prior occupation and my intended one.

The clip is a bit long, so find some time, or simply let it run in the background as you work on other things. But listen to it, and tell me what you think.

It's okay to agree or disagree. Just think.

Baseball is Great

I am a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, which, for the past 15 years has been about the hardest fan in sports history to be.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are a terrible, terrible team.

I love them, but they are terrible. Part of this reason (the easiest one to blame) is the ridiculous financial make up of MLB, which allows teams like the Yankees to have a salary that is over 200 million dollars MORE than Pittsburgh's. But I digress.

My only joys in recent years have therefore come by way of hating the team that represents everything that is keeping the Pirates down: the Yankees.

I hate the Yankees.

I hate the way that Yankee fans moan at a season like this one in which they don't make the ALCS, as though the world is going to end.

The Yankees have made the playoffs for the last 13 years. Guess what, they will probably make it again next year, too.

Guess what hope the Pirates have of making the playoff next year: slightly less than Michael Vick has of playing football next year.

But for now, I can take joy in the simple fact that both the New York teams are out of the playoffs. I believe that I will be rooting for Cleveland, mainly because they haven't won a World Series in nearly 50 years, but when it's all said and done, I've already gotten my victory.

Baseball may have a lot of issues right now, but at least the bad guys won't win this year.



My only other hope is that stupid Joe Buck and Tim McCarver aren't the announcers for the world series this year now that it's on TBS, but I'll take what I can get.




go steelers.

Alas, it begins...

So long as I'm not doing what I should be (homework/reading for homework), I figured I would jot down some virtual thoughts as opposed to simply reorganizing my iTunes folder yet again.

Thus, an official Tyler blog is born - to be updated semi-regularly, as often as I procrastinate, with random thoughts, some with points, others with no substance whatsoever.

Today's Entry:

"Been around the 'World' and I-I-I..."



So I just got back from a week at Walt Disney World, and I already miss it. I feel torn between not having taken enough pictures (a cast member took Adrien and I behind the velvet rope in the lobby of the Tower of Terror and I only took three pictures, none with me or A in it), and having taken so many pictures that I missed out on being there (when it is all said and done, I came away from the week with nearly 3500 pictures - yeah, I know, obsessive).

I am constantly torn between living things and collecting things, in this case, memories. At what point does my cataloging of the events that are happening interfere my participation in the events as they happen? Do the pictures I take at Disney distract from my memories of the experience or enhance them?

Anyway, I had an awesome trip, and I want to go back... and to take more pictures.