Kicking Off 2007 With Some Not-So-Deep Thoughts

It's a new year and I haven't gotten around to blogging in 2007 yet.
I seem to have come down with the plague, leaving me with nothing but free time on this long weekend to wax philosophical on my only world-wide-venue.
I have some random thoughts I'd like to share and then I have some more lengthy things that I will devote entire entries to later on.
But first, things of little consequence:

• Justin Timberlake: I've always considered this guy a bitch. Mickey Mouse Club. N-Sync. Getting "Punk'd". Bitch. Bitch. Bitch. See the thing is the guy is obviously such a cornball, which I don't have a problem with really but he tries to act like he's mad hard. Case in point, when he was 'Punk'd'. Justin comes home to find everything in his house was being seized by the government because his accountants didn't pay his taxes or whatever. JT flips out. But not like, he's going to fuck anyone up flipping out - more like Steve Erkel getting kicked in the balls. Anyway, he's whining and shit but then eventually Ashton Kutcher and his cameras come out and Justin turns all tough-guy "Yo, dawg! You had me trippin, yo! YouknowwhatI'msayin, kiiiid?!". Give me a break. Anyway, that being said - Sexyback is a great song. I have it on my mp3 player and I listen to it all the time. Well, not so much anymore but it definitely had song-of-the-week status for maybe two weeks. The guy is talented. His 'Dick in a Box' skit on Saturday Night Live is very funny. If you haven't seen it follow the link. Also, dumped Cameron Diaz and fucked Britney while she was hot.
  
• New Jerseyans are Retarded on Subways: I lived in New York City for over four years and spent hours upon hours on the 1/9 and 2/3 trains. Whatever. I moved here to Jersey City because I bought a condo and I work downtown in Manhattan, so now my commute is on the Journal Square/Newark to World Trade Center PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson, if you don't know, now you know) line. I was born and raised in Jersey and I do love my home state but people from here are fucking retarded on subways. First of all, they have no sense of spacing on the train. You look in a PATH car and it looks mad crowded but when you get it, you see mad people bunched up around the door but on the ends of the cars there is a ton of free real estate. Why don't they just move to where people aren't? I don't get it. It really confuses me. I mean if these same people were in an elevator together, I'm sure they'd spread out. Four of them wouldn't just be all up by the floor number buttons. Anyway, while that's confusing, it's not that bad because as someone that will go to open space it actually works to my advantage. What drives me crazy, though, is that people getting on the train don't understand that it is in everyone's best interest to let the people off the train before they get on. It really makes me furious. Here's how it goes: you're either end of the train; it stops; you start to make your way to the door; there are people to avoid but then when you get closer to the door people are just streaming in while you (and others) are trying to get off. It's like you're a running back but with no offensive line. You juke past the first person, spin around the next, side step the next but after that you put your head down and just ram through for the first down. People of New Jersey, what is wrong with you? Let the people off. Then you can get on. Is this hard?
• Sports: Now that the Knicks are horrendous, I really don't regularly watch many sports. I still enjoy them but I seem to prefer my sports in print. I love Bill Simmons. I read the NY Times Sports Page every day. I read CNN/Sports Illustrated and ESPN.com. So, I'm fairly well informed of happenings in the sports world but I don't really watch them. Is that unusual? Anyway, I don't know what the Giants were thinking. It seems to me that Coughlin lost this team. You get the feeling that the players all think he's just a big idiot and tuned him out. I don't know what they were thinking giving him an extension, except that they thought he deserved another year due to all the injuries and thought he wouldn't be respected if he was a lame duck. Also, Tiki Barber is a bitch. Fuck that guy. Now, I respect his right to retire, in fact I understand and commend him but why did he have to announce it? Why did he volunteer to the news media he didn't pay attention in team meetings? He wanted it to be a story, that's why. By the way, he's not going to be half as succesful as he thinks he is. You heard it hear first. For a football player, he's good on TV and radio, I'm sure. For a TV/radio star, does he cut it? I'm guessing no. I think Bill Simmons said, you'll see him on the preview channel in five years telling you not to check out the WE channell in that little box on the upper left hand corner with a look on his face like, 'man, I should have played a little longer." I mean is it really going to be that great being the fifth host of 'The View'? Granted, I haven't seen him much but that's just my gut feeling - we'll see. I don't know how to indent bullet points for sub-points, so this paragraph has too many thoughts for one paragraph. I'm like the James Joyce of the blogging world with this stream-of-consciousness thing going on right now. Moving on, the Mets were right to not sign Barry Zito. Omar Minaya was right to walk away, he got way too much money which may end being bad for Zito because it creates unrealistic expectations. He got Roger Clemens in his prime money but he's really Andy Petitte at best. Speaking of Petitte, the Yankees are looking better and better. Now that George Steinbrenner is spending most of his time in Tampa Bay eating baby food, Brian Cashman is going to get their house in order. They've got the money and if they have the discipline, they're going to put together some very good teams that will win championships. Remember, their dynasty of the 1990s was built when 'The Boss' was away on suspension. The Knicks suck. I don't know their record right now. I don't care. Eddy Curry was The Man for about a week and a half. They're going to do well enough to make the playoffs in the Atlantic Division which just may be the worst division in all of sports and Isaiah is going to keep his job. The fight with Denver wasn't that bad and it got way too much attention. Carmelo really bitched out. Not because he got into the fight but because he smacked Mardy Collins and ran away. Ew. I don't mean to snitch, but that was a real pussy move.
  
• Britney Has Lost Her Mind: What is going on here? Doesn't she have people telling her to chill out? Can't see just have people go to her house and get wasted there? I mean, she knows the paparazzi is going to follow her around? Does she enjoy being in these magazines? Has she just gone Whitney-and-Bobby Crazy?
  
• Rick McKay: He is, by far, the worst blogger ever. Rick came over my place about a month ago or so and wanted to start a blog. I helped him set it up. Now he has one. The man has, not counting titles, two words written since his blog's inception. Two. One, two. Actually, I haven't checked it in a long time. Let's see. Yep. Two words. I guess he just really busy these days.

That's all I have to say about that.