Zombie Santa?

So, I'm woken this AM by my Mom who is petitioning Hallmark for the inclusion of a new holiday; '6 Months Till X-Mas Day!' To date there are no official cards, however last year I photoshoped up my own to send to my Mom, who had for the first time forgot. Today, she got me. To celebrate, Liz and I went to go see Romero's 'Land of the Dead'. We had just previously rented 'Day of the Dead' and were ready to get served up a couple-a hours of pure cheeze. We were not dissapointed. Although it's hard not to like a movie where characters kill zombies with shotguns in their spare time, I'll be the first to admit it was on the 'cult' side of good. However, the cheeziness actually staved off the Hollywood factor that was the only thing I didn't like about the remake of 'Dawn of the Dead'. Well, that and the fast zombies. I don't care who ya'are, slow zombies a better movie make than fast zombies. What I will say for 'Land' is that the setup actually got me interested. I don't particularly like the actor playing the lead which imdb.com tells me is named Simon Baker, but I did like his character and his slow witted, sharp shooting buddie. I dug the big Samoan dude who teamed up with them in the end, and there was a cameo by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the lead actor/co-writer and director of 'Shaun of the Dead'. So that was cool. I think I'll start a tradition myself. I'll make 6/25/2005 a day to watch zombie flicks, just to help remind me that it's only 6 months till X-Mas... Mom's right, there's no good holiday in June.

A League of My Own

Ok, so not many people are aware of the fact that I am actually on a Bowling League. This is most likely because I don't find it a fact worth bragging about. The sport of bowling has but one outstanding hero and that's Jeff Lebowski. I bowl for Gumby's Pizza / Court of Hero's, my local sports bar / pub. Take a lookit the website I made for them that they still haven't picked up yet. If I had known better, I woulda held out for the new Jedi League they're starting up. However, we are actually defending our title as the reigning champions of the "hospitality night" at Alley Katz. I was there last... um wouldja call it a 'season'? I played 2 actual games as a sub-in player, got to present the winning 'loving cup' to an applauding bar-crowd, but dipped before everybody started drinking Yagerbombs from the trophy. I heard they all got sick ;) Anyway, defending a title totally sucks. Especially when all the other teams suddenly decide to show up. So I was more than relieved when I noticed this last Monday that our opponents were strangely absent. It took us a while, but we soon figured out they had made it out the Monday prior, which was Memorial Day, which meant no league play. Their team was given the option to 'pre-bowl' and they took it. They played their 3 games which was electronically recorded and stored for us the following week. Then we saw their team name; 'Rick James'. We quickly changed that to "Rick James Bitch" and of course re-listed ourselves as 'Gumby Damnit'. Then, as we played their scores magically appeared as if the ghost of Rick James were actually knockin' down the pins. This also meant that we could bowl a lot faster, rolling on both lanes at a time. This didn't help. Instead of staying in the zone, it amplified our mistakes, and there was just something eerie about getting schooled by a ghost. Well to be honest, we didn't all get screwed. Sam was gleaming the cube with his knee-cap shattering ninja-rolling style. He literally dropped to the ground before releasing the ball each time resulting in a resounding crack from his right knee, but he bowled like a demon! My final round, I didn't close a single frame; No strikes, no spares. Last time I did that, I was like 12, bowling in a kids league for an action figure as a prize... come to think of it, that Star Wars league might not be sucha bad idea =)

BeeBeeQueue

Hello Everybody! Liz and I had such a good time last weekend, and we hope you all did as well! The Meeting of the Clans Barbeque went off without a hitch. In fact, we don't think it could have gone better! The weatherman predicted rain, and yet it held off 'til Tuesday. This allowed us to extend the festivities through the Monday holiday when our friends arrived with Meat and Beer! We quickly gobbled up the rest of the leftovers (save for the potato salad which has been gobbled at by a total of 20 hungry BBQ'ers and has so far only sustained a shallow dent - Thanks David and Joyce =) I've got the pictures taken from both events posted here for everyone to take a gander: http://dobieville.com/clans/home.html We're just so happy that our families got to meet and hang out, and for those of you who haven't met yet, we look forward to the March introductions in West Palm Beach! Thanks again to the families for making the trip out, and thanks to our friends who made Monday a real blast! We hope we can do it again real soon... but maybe next time it'll be at your place! Much love to all, Mark and Liz :)