You’ve heard of the movie coming out, Snakes on a Plane?

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Trust me, it’s worth it!

I’ve been so busy lately, and it’s been SO HOT (about 100 yesterday), and I’ve just not had that posting bug.

Some quick hits, though…

* We’re in pre-production at Williamston Theatre for Rounding Third. It’s going to be very funny, and very moving! Plus, and I’m very excited about this, this one is a lot more theatrical than the last one. I loved Additional Particulars, but in this one we get to do some of those things that I love about theatre, like move thru time and space, talk to characters who aren’t there, and generally push the audience to use their imaginations and theatrical senses a little more!

* Speaking of Williamston Theatre – next week we get our Theatre Seats. Excellent! No more folding chairs!

* Good Lord it’s been hot. I have a car built in 1907, with no air-conditioning. I had to take an almost 90 minute drive in it yesterday, in 99 degree weather, and even though all the windows were open, I thought I was going to pass out. Rather than being “refreshing” , the wind from going 70 miles an hour was more what you’d call “blisteringly hot”. Of course, that resulted in me feeling icky last night and today.

* Got to go swimming with the family last night, though, which was very fun! My kids inherited their mother’s massive love of the water, and it’s so great to see them having so much fun. I’m not nearly as much of a swimmer, but we had a great time.

* The Detroit Tigers made a great trade – picked up Sean Casey, a great first baseman, to help get through the playoffs (knock on wood, quick!) As of right now they’re 71-35! Go team!

* I still have not won the Michigan Lotto. Clearly the fates are toying with me. Have I not explained to them my financial situation?

* Both Stargate: SG1, and Stargate: Atlantis are back, and thanks to my friend Chris I can see them on tape! Yay!

* Gourmet Garden, the Chinese restaurant on Maple/Miller in Ann Arbor Michigan, has the best Kung Pao chicken and shrimp in the entire world.

Don’t find fault.
Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford

The Detroit Tigers are now 70 – 33.

That’s 70 wins. 33 losses.

That is an amazing number, folks.

In the last 50 years, only 6 MLB teams have won at least 70 games in their first 103, and the 2006 Tigers are one of them.

This season has an air of magic around it that is absolutely thrilling – it’s like the Baseball Gods looked down and said “Oh, boy – they’ve really sucked the last 15 years. Let’s help ’em out.”

Of course, it’s a long season. With 103 games down, that means there’s still 59 to go – over a third of the season. But even if something horrible happens, and they start losing every other game and go 30-29 from now until the end of the season, they’ll still finish with 100 wins!

The game on Friday was so good – The top team in Baseball playing one of two teams closest to catching them. The Tigers -vs- the Twins, who have been On Fire lately, winning 32 of their last 40 games to come from under .500 to pull themselves into the pennant race. The way they’ve been playing, many people said “They’re so hot – Detroit will be lucky to get 1 of 3 from them.” Talk about exciting baseball! Well, the Friday night game was so well played by both teams, that it prompted Tiger Manager Jim Leyland to say “This was tremendous, tremendous baseball. Anyone who thinks baseball isn’t alive and well wasn’t in Minnesota tonight, I can tell you that.” And, the Tigers won it. In fact, they’ve won 2 of the 3 so far, and the 3rd will be played today at 2pm.

In the last 10 years, I’ve been to games in the middle of the Summer, in perfect weather days, where I had an entire section of seating to myself. Games in the middle of seasons that were SO BAD that you literally bought a ticket and wandered around and sat wherever you wanted, because out of 40,000 seats about 6,000 were sold and the ushers didn’t care where anyone went. I went, with my friend Mike to an afternoon game in mid-April that was so cold we wore our heaviest winter clothes and changed our seats every inning so we could stay in the sunshine, and the stadium was so empty you could hear the players yelling to each other.

I sat thru the dismal ’96 season, and even had a mini-season-ticket plan in the 2003 season, when the team went 43-119. Yes, 43-119; Baseball fans left, literally sold their homes and moved from the state and took up residence anywhere else, the season was so bad.

And now…they’re 70-33. 37 games over .500, and the closest team to them is 8 and 1/2 games back.

Nobody wants to get too excited and jinx it, but…this team is headed for their first playoff berth since the year I graduated HIGH SCHOOL! (Knock on wood, throw salt over my left shoulder, do three Hail Mary’s and wake me in the morning.)

This is an exciting time to be a baseball fan, and an even better time to be a Detroit Tigers Baseball Fan!

Sadly, Prince is getting a divorce.

Reportedly, his ex-wife-to-be has issued a statement:

“He’s just too funky for one woman to keep to herself. I mean, he’s Prince. He’s playing the next Superbowl! He belongs to the world.”

Okay…I may have made that statement up.

But I bet she said something like that.

Then, as the purple rain fell, she finished with a high pitched scream, spun twice, did the splits and came back up into another double spin, dropped her mic stand and walked offstage as a flock of weeping doves passed overhead.

…So here are some general thoughts on the news from this week.

Scotty’s ashes are being sent into space. Excellent. Appropriate. Touching.

Lance Bass, from N’Sync, is gay. Huge shock, I know. Can’t think of anything I care less about…except in how it relates to Mr. Scott. I mean, didn’t Lance try and get onto a space shuttle a couple of years ago? I think it’s just as well that he didn’t make it. I don’t think he and Montgomery Scott would’ve hit it off, and I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason Lance was going.

The Rolling Stones are bringing their tour back to the U.S. Rumor has it this is because the rest of the world asked them to leave.

Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings is in the news again…for bashing Alex Trebek in his blog. Because after winning 2 million dollars, he’s decided to sit around and write a blog about his time on Jeopardy. Dumbass. Go buy a girlfriend and an XBox.

Gillian Anderson is pregnant with her second child. She’s just a girl who claims that I am the one, but the kid is not my son. She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son. She told my baby we’d danced till three, then she looked at me, then showed a photo my baby cried his eyes were like mine (oh, no!) She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son.

I’m spent.

I love this story.

Mr. Scott’s ashes are being sent into space.

Very nice.

Well, I just bought a sheet of these….

Check ’em out!

I’ll be framing them for my wall…right next to my framed Justice League of America jigsaw puzzle!

Click the pic for the big, readable version!

There are times when, even as a comic book fan, I wonder “What the hell were they thinking?!”

I’m an Uncle again!

My sister gave birth to a beautiful, healthy boy on Friday! Mitchell William Phipps joined the planet, and looks like a mighty fine addition!

Mother and son are doing fine!