South Central Rain

NP: Saturday Night Live

It was a rainy, depressing day in the 352. For some reason, in the last 2 weeks I've heard the R.E.M. song "South Central Rain" five or six times. Random songs call for random facts and opinions.

Random Opinion 1: Saturday Night Live is a shadow of its former self. Napoleon Dynamite is hosting tonight and the show has just not been funny. Right now, they have a sketch where the full moon causes Napoleon Dynamite to turn into a werewolf....but it really just makes him have a moustache. How this premise got out of the writing room I have no idea. If this is the best idea that a group of comedy professionals could come up with, the humor industry is in sad, sad shape. Maybe weekend update will save it, but I doubt it.

Random Fact 1: Writer's block is gone. I skipped that passage and moved on...and shot out five pages tonight at Starbucks. Unfortunately, I am now too caffinated to go to sleep....so it looks like its time for more FIFA 2004.

Random Fact 2: FIFA 2004 is the best soccer game ever produced. It beats Sony's World Tour Soccer and blows the Winning Eleven series away out of the gate. I'm in career mode and I carried Cambridge United to the League Two championship and the Vans trophy in my first year....then West Ham (!!!) made an offer for me. For some reason, Teddy Sheringham isn't on the roster. I have to keep them in the top half of the table to keep my job...but for some reason Man City and Tottenham Hotspur are in the Championship.

Random Opinion 2: SNL just got even worse. Its Bill Frist and Tom Delay in a Thelma and Louise sketch. The writing is even worse than the werewolf sketch. I remember when political satire used to be funny.

Random Fact 3: I need to do laundry.

Random Fact 4: The Braves and Vols let me down. Now, all I need is the Dobyns-Bennett Indians to lose in the playoffs and my fall sports lineup is complete.

Random Opinion 3: R.E.M. was so much better with Bill Berry.

Random Fact 5: R.E.M. was so much better with Bill Berry.