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10:19am: That's Entertainment!
Yay! TV is back!

I haven't had a chance to go through all my favorite shows from last night (Scrubs, The Office, 30 Rock, and My Name is Earl), but man, is it nice to have them back.

"Scrubs" was a little disappointing and was, eh, just kinda strange to be honest. The writing was weak, though I loved JD's note to Turk ("Suck it, bitch!") and the whole Brinner thing was pretty funny (except for bacon/ice cream . . . uh, ew?). The JD/Eliot friendship was overstated here and it looks like we're back on course for a hook-up, which (depending how it goes) may or may not be a good thing. I remember Bill Lawrence stating that he doesn't want to end the show like "Friends" with two people simply kissing. As far as the show ending goes, I'm a little bothered by what I've heard from NBC, though I'd be just as happy with it moving to ABC. Just as long as it gets the ending it deserves.

"The Office" was good. The show has really maintained itself this season, even if it isn't as great as seasons 2 and 3. I expected Pam to be pissed at Jim wanting to abandon her at Michael's. I loved her reaction to Dwight showing up (with his baby-sitter?!) Man, girls love Dwight. Losers are hot these days, I guess. Must be why I'm married.

"Boston Legal" came back on Tuesday and it was okay. Not as great as it has been (was it last season or this season that we had the flashback episode to Shatner's old lawyer-y show?), but it was decent. Allen Shore was great as always. His "I killed my toys" story was very well-delievered.

So that's that.

Things I need to do:
- Post about last Tuesday's adventure in Akron
- Stop myself from calling off work
- Wedding stuff

~W~

10:33am: The Most Boring Akroventure EVER!
I've learned a valuable lesson regarding blogging my various trips to Akron/Kent -- give 'em time to grow into legend and myth. My apologies if my St. Patrick's Day Kentventure blog came across as boring. A lot of the time, the day after these things is always harsh and that bleeds through into the writing. Hence why I've learned to wait a while. While initially, the St. Patrick's Day Kentventure came across as lacking any sort luster or shine, the fact is that now that over a month has passed, it has grown into something awesome in my mind and is far better than I believed it to be the day after. To quote Danny P: "You grew up that night!"

Anyways . . . on to the main event . . .

Last Tuesday, Pete and I were invited to join Danny P in Akron. Seems SCANDAL! has broken out at Denholm Manor. Why's that? Well, the details are not for me to reveal, but it may have something to do with Danny being an adult and wanting to make his own adult decisions regardless of how a certain 100-year-old couple interpret the Bible. HOW DARE HE?!

Anyways, so Pete and I went up to Akron. I did not get lost/mixed up! Yay! I win!

I arrived first and Danny and I bullshited while he put the final touches on a mix CD for me (finally!). Some great stuff on there. Spoon is great, and so are the Decemberists, Wilco, M. Ward, Shout Out Louds, and She & Him ("Uh-huh!"). "Paris Be Mine" by The Bicycles makes me sad, though; Paris won't be mine (for now at least).

Pete arrived not long after that with "LA Confidential." I don't think anyone wanted to watch that. Well, I kinda did, but . . . eh . . . not then.

We talked about the recent SCANDAL! for a while before deciding to head to Blockbuster. "Flesh on flesh! Nothing wrong with that!"

I drove and we spent a great while picking out a movie. As we were debating and constantly picking up movies, judging them and the people that love them, we came across some kid (er, I use "kid" loosely) who I later described as being "very lonely." He talked and talked and talked about movies and television (mostly movies -- "Saw" and "... Of the Dead" in particular) for nine hours. I found him annoying after about two minutes.

Y'know, I love food and I work in a grocery store, but I certainly don't go on and on about Pizza Bites to a random customer, y'know?

Anyways, we settled on "Rushmore." I've become a Wes Anderson fan (I own both "Life Aquatic" and "Royal Tennanbaums") and I absolutely love this movie. I really related to Max for some reason.

The movie was paused often for various discussions of old and present times. We munched on peanuts (Dan was afraid I'd choke on them), Dorito's, and Fruit Jammers (they were Jammin'!).

[Funny side-note: as we were eatting this stuff, I thought to myself "Man, I wish I could buy this stuff without getting shit about buying junk food!" Only to then realize "WTF? I live by myself now and I buy my own groceries!" So the next grocery trip, I bought Gushers and Doritos. Guess I'm still getting used to this]

During the film, Tricia and Rachel called. Both claimed to have forgotten about our gathering. I wholly agree with Dan that women only hear every third word that men say.

After the movie ended, we perused Danny P's archive of movies and pictures. I was completely ashamed my fat drunken self. I can't believe I was/am that fat! I knew I was big, but good night, I didn't know I was that big. Needless to say, I'm glad I've lost some of that weight and I'll be doing everything I can from getting to that size again.

Yikes.

Anyways, after all this, it was time for us to retreat to our respective cities. Dan gave us instructions as to how to get to the Interstate (an alternate route, that is). I followed Pete and we may or may not have fucked up where we were supposed to turn and eventually, we ended up in a parking lot. Pete suggested we just go the way we're used to and thus we did. To quote him the next day: "The long way is also the reliable way."

As I left Akron, I put in Danny's mix, and headed North on 77. Whoops! Damn it!

~W~