Dear NBA Finals Announcers,

Please tell me again how great/outstanding/spectacular/talented/a man among boys/BEST EVER!!!! Kobe Bryant is. I mean, you have not told me in .04 seconds, I am in danger of forgetting. You, almost to a man, are so far up on Kobe that I am wondering how you can even speak you are making me like Shaq... and I have hated Shaq since the early 1990s. Soon you will make me like LeBron. I am afraid that by the end of this game I will be wearing a Michael Jordan jersey. When you just now said that they should make a new Finals MVP Trophy called the Player Not Named Kobe Bryant MVP Trophy? That was genius! No, wait, that was disgusting. I hate you all. The Magic are up by 5 and SHOOTING 75% AS A TEAM!! TALK ABOUT THAT!!!

And now... quizzes, because this post has been sitting here all day waiting for me to have something non-quizzy to add. I slacked off on my catch-up post, then I deemed the "books I bought" post not interesting enough to carry things. Then it was game time. Then then there were more quizzes. So instead you get a small taste of my disgust at the 2008-09 Kobe Bryant Finals featuring the LA Kobes and the Orlando Not-Kobes
( There's no sports in here. Only quizzes... )

From this week's Behind The Eclipse
"In a previous BTE interview, it was stated we would see in ‘Villains’ why Sylar was able to keep his telepathy despite being infected with the Shanti virus. However, we didn't seem to get any explanation last night. The only conclusion I can deduce is that it's all in his head, and somehow related to the extreme amount of guilt he felt over Brian."

Kyle, we assume you mean telekenisis, and not telepathy and if so, you nailed it. Brian was Sylar’s first kill and his power is connected to emotional empathy. In fact, we’ll be exploring that very sentiment tonight. In chains. With electricity.

How much do you want to bet that they had no idea, but this guy offered an explanation, they read it and went "Sounds good! Let's go with it!" Ever week someone goes, "Hey guys, what about [insert glaring mistake here]? Is it [insert rampant fanwankery here]?" And the writers go, "Yes! You are correct! Thanks for pointing that out!" It's like the show is becoming some some crazy retroactive interactive fan-writing project. Really, are they even trying anymore? (No.) Of course it's not as infuriating as that whole "HRG getting into the cab in a time when he should not have have been able to get into Mohinder's cab" thing, but still...

Somebody give me a reason to watch last night's episode. Like, a good reason. Something positive. I haven't watched it yet and I'm thinking that with basketball season and the holidays coming up, this is as good a time as any to just let it go.

You know that whole "I need an Obama sign" thing I was all on about last night? Yeah, thats' a wrap.

I walked to a cookout up at a friend's house last night, and made an effort to see how many I saw around the neighborhood. I saw a grand total of two. The entire trip took us through an area of about fifteen, over about five streets, two of them pretty major ones for the area. That's not really good coverage. With the neighborhood (full of old people) I live in, there should be way more than that. When the local elections start, the place is blanketed with them. It's kind of ridiculous. My mom's suggestion was, "You could always just wait until they go up on the corners and take one from there." Which, at the time, sounded like a not-so-bad idea. I mean, I can't take one from someone's yard, that's messed up. But a random street corner? That's not so bad.

Cut to just now. I was messing around on the internet just now and decided to Google "where do I get a Barack Obama yard sign?" (You have to do all of that because just going with "Barack Obama sign" just gives you a lot of cafepress links.) Anyway, it turns out that, contrary to what I believed, those jokers are not free. What? This fails for two reasons. First off, I am cheap. Secondly, I am not a big fan of advertising for things. (This is why I don't do shirts with logos. I am not a billboard.) I figured that this would be one case where I could make an exception, but so much for that. Why? Because I am also not a fan of paying for the "privilege" to advertise things. I just don't see it happening. You even have to pay if you go to the HQ to pick one up. This may be worse than that whole playing with the Tarholes thing.

So my quest for two Obama signs (I was gonna cut one up and make a few changes on it. You know, reverse some things) has come to an abrupt end. (McCain signs are free!) My mom mentioned that Obama does not take money from... I can't rememebr what she said now. I was just so shocked that she knew that. Plus, I was kind of yelling about how I'm not going to be paying for any signs, that's just craziness! I won't even take one from the corner now, because then people passing by will think I actually paid for a sign, and that is also unacceptable! Plus, I am mad that now when I try to go to joebiden.com, it forwards me to barackobama.com. This is seriously putting a damper on my whole "trying to show people who Joe is and what he's about" thing. That's two strikes in one day!

So, the ATM ate my card. That's not cool. How am I supposed to get my money? Will I get my card back? I hear that sometimes the machines shred the cards, meaning I will have to wait for a new one? What about my money? Also, what kind of deal is it when you go to make a simple withdrawal, the machine says something about "Unauthorized card usage" and refuses to give your card back? I could see if I had reported the thing stolen, but I did not. You know why? Because I had it in my wallet. You know, where it usually is. This is a great middle to a week in which the bank has done about 15 things to piss me off. It may just be time for a new place to do my banking. What makes it worse is that in about 48 hours my paycheck is gonna be direct deposited... I am pretty sure that the only thing worse than having no money is having money you can't access.

Oh, and I forgot to pay the bill again, so I pretty much have no internet. Do you know what I was gonna use to pay the bill? That's right, my credit card. The one currently in the ATM machine.