Poker Player Change

There's been a change in my favourite poker player top 10. Although it's gonna be tough to break into my top 3, if someone could do it, it's Gavin Smith. If anyone out there is a poker fan and does not listen to Card Player magazine's "The Circuit" you are crazy. The show is hosted by an amateur player and enthusiast, and man who has the job I want, Scott Huff. The pro co-host used to be Mike Matusow, but "the Mouth" was recently replaced by Guelph, Ontario native, Gavin Smith, and Joe "the Cub" Sebok. These two are funny. Seriously funny. I constantly find myself laughing out loud on the bus, only to be stared at by crazy Scottish people with two teeth. So besides being an awesome poker player, Smith makes me laugh. So, up the list he goes. Current top 10

10. Joe Cassidy
9. Johnny Chan
8 Jennifer Harman
7. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
6. Doyle Brunson
5. Daniel Negreanu
4. Gavin Smith
3. Barry "The Bear" Greenstein (father of "the Cub")
2. Ted Forrest
1. Phil Ivey

Excrement

X-Men: The Last Stand is excrement on a 30 foot screen. What a colossal dissapointment. And this is from someone who wasn't expecting it to be amazing. The direction is bad. The acting is bad. The story is bad. The dialogue is horrific. The screenwriters should not be alowed to make a film again. There is one scene that was freaking hilarious, which I will not ruin here. Besides that though it sucked. I'm even pissed that in the UK we didn't get the preview for the Snakes on a Plane movie that the US audiences got. Apparantly people were laughing their asses off at that. Just imagine Samuel L. Jackson yelling, "There's fucking snakes on the fucking plane". Now that is a movie. Tomorrow I'm going to see "Down in the Valley" with Edward Norton. I'm sure it will be one gagillion flagillion times better than X-Men. That's right, I said Flagillion (crazy words copyright of Joe Sebok). In comic news, I picked up the hardcover of Winter Soldier vol.2 as it just came out this week, and I can't wait for the softcover. 52 #3 sucked. Honestly I am afraid for this thing. There is just too much going on to give everything the attention it deserves. And this is supposed to be "real time" There was no Question and no Ralph Dibny this week. So, if this is real time, what, they just didn't do anything that week? Crap. I may give it a couple more weeks and then ditch it. We'll see.

Bizzle Out.

Fastball Special?

I'm going to see X-Men: The Last Stand in about 2 hours. I'm excited and nervous. Is it going to be good? Is it going to suck? Will Halle Berry ruin the movie? Will the Juggernaut be the stupidest looking character ever in a Comic Book Movie? But the most important question is, will Collosus throw Wolverine at something? For non comic fans, this is known as the "Fastball Special". One of the greatest moves in comics. There's nothing like seeing Wolverine thrown, Claws out, right at the head of a Sentinel. I have a feeling the movie is going to be better than I'm anticipating, which is always good. I'm not expecting it to be as good as X2, but think it'll be as good as the first one. I'll also be picking up my comics today. I'm looking forward to Secret Six. This is the follow up to Villains United which seriously rocked. Big Brother is going on over here and one of the contestants said that she did a porn movie once. Well, I knew it would only be a matter of time before it was on the net, but I didn't think it would be a day and a half later. For the sake of research, I of course have seen said video. She seems to like to say "That's Nice" alot. Like constantly. "Mmm, that's nice. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, that's nice". No wonder her porn career died after one scene. Anyway, I need to start getting ready to go. I'll write again later with my views on the movie.

Bizzle Ouuut!

So Dark the Con of Man

I guess it's time for an update. Last week was extremely busy. Being the week leading up to a Championship we had band practice every night. I also worked 3 days. I did make it into the city on my days off. I bought the new Spain soccer jersey so I'm ready for the World Cup. I picked up more trade paperbacks which were, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Thor disassembled, Fantastic Four 1234, I can't believe it's not the Justice League, and Ocean. Ocean was okay, and I'm on Winter Soldier which freaking rocks. No wonder Wizard called Captain America the best book of 2005. It is really good so far. As for the contest on Saturday, the band tied for 1st but lost on ensemble preference. It's disappointing to lose when it's that close, but we played well which is important. We won best Drum Corp, so that was good. Yesterday I saw the DaVinci Code. Obviously it's not as good as the book, but I still thought it was okay. It's getting bad reviews, which I understand because some of the stuff is cheese, but I'm still glad I saw it. Ooh, before I'm done talking about comics I should mention 52. The 2nd issue was much better than the 1st. I'm still not sure if this thing is gonna succeed or flop on its ass, time will tell. Big Brother has started on TV over here, and it could be the best one yet. One of the contestants has tourettes, so he of course is my favourite. The guy is fucking hilarious. I'm waiting for him to start swearing when they're on live tv. It'll be great. I've also booked my flight home for the summer. I get back to Toronto June 28th and leave again July 18th, so it's almost 3 weeks.

Bizzle Out

Not much new

Not alot happening over here. I was in Glasgow again on Friday to practice and hang about. I went to see "Brick" at the movies. It's a Film Noir mystery set in a high school setting. I thought it was really good and would watch it again. The star is "Tommy" from 3rd Rock from the Son. He was pretty good. And there's a hot chick. Always good. I picked up the first issue of 52. It was okay. I'm actually not convinced this "Real time" thing is gonna work. The story seems to have to move too quickly. It keeps jumping back and forth between characters, and each "day" is only like 3 or 4 pages. Not a lot of room to flesh out a good story. We'll see how it develops. I also picked the 2nd trade paperback of "Girls". I'm halfway through it and it is not bad. I've been playing a bunch of Poker, with modest winnings. I need to build up more Frequent Player Points to score more free clothes. I bought a Scotland Rugby jersey Friday aswell. It's sweet. Blair gets here tomorrow, so we'll have to share the bed :(

Bizzle Out.

My name is Dalton Russell, Pay strict attention to what I say...

Monday was my first day at the store. Fairly uneventful. The sandwich store across the street has slushies, which rocks, because there's not many places over here that have slushies. On Monday night I watched Secretary with maggie Gyllenhall. It was ok. Kinda screwed up, and not funny enough. Gyllenhall does full frontal. Not bad. Yesterday I went back into Glasgow. Lunch was a trip to "Best Kebab" for my first kebab of the trip. It kicked ass. The guy made it huge, clearly sensing that I was a hungry fellow, and that I love my kebabs. It was then back to the movie theatre again. This time the movie of choice was Inside Man. I really liked it. Gripping the whole way, with good performances by the actors, and good dialogue. There's no Clive Owen full frontal, but it kicks Secretary's ass. It was better than MI3 aswell. I'm not sure what comes out this weekend but I'll probably see something on Friday.

The Big G-Bizzy

It's time to come out of the closet Tom...

Well, my first weekend in the the old country is almost over, and it wasn't terribly exciting. On Friday I went into the Royal Academy with Jim. We did some practicing, and a lot of screwing around with the drum meter, which measures speed. Afterwards I went to get comics. The store had the Planetary issues I was missing so that rocked. I was also able to pick up the Teen Titans Annual, and the Villains United special, which I missed getting at home. My trips to the local Cigar shops weren't as encouraging. The prices at one were insanely expensive. Padron 1964 Anniversary are regarded as some of the best cigars in the world, but holy crap man. They wanted $50 a cigar!! In the States these should be between $15-25 a cigar, so you can see the difference. And the other store I went to, Graham Tobacconist, it's closed! There was a sign saying that they're still doing mail order, but the store is under construction. Not sure if they're just renovating or closed for good. Onto Saturday where I left the house exactly zero times. I managed to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Elf. Close Encounters rocked. Everyone told me I'd like it, and they were right. Today I had the opportunity to go to the first Highland Games of the season, aswell as an invite to go hill walking. Seeing as how it was cold and rainy, I did neither. I ended up going into Hamilton this afternoon to see Mission Impossible 3. I don't know if I had read bad reviews or if it was just my friends that said it was going to be bad, but I actually liked it. I still really like Tom Cruise, too bad he's crazy. Oooh, that's what else I did last night. I watched the South Park episode on Scientology. It is good. Tom Cruise may lock himself in a closet and there may be lost of comments about it being time for Tom to come out of the closet. Too funny. Anyway, I start work at the Pipe Box tomorrow. I'll catch up again in a few days.

Bizzle Out.

Scotland 2006

So I made it over. Natasha dropped me at the airport at 3:30 and it was time to go stand in some big line. I knew my bag was heavy so I'm watching the weights of other people at the check in counters to see if they're charging anybody. Apparently not. I get up there and hear "Sir your overweight, you're going to have to pay". To which I reply "I have to pay for being Fat?", "No sir" she says, "Your bag is overweight. Give me $50." Whatever. Once I clear security, which was relatively painless (once you've had a hand up there, a few fingers is relatively painless), It's off to the duty free where I was scheduled to hand out Cigar advice to the morons looking at the humidor. The best deal was actually a full box of H.Upmann Cubans. I didn't really want to spend that much money, so I left them, but man they were a steal. The flight itself was boring, except for one drunk asshole a couple of seats away. He was told off by other passengers numerous times, and then eventually passed out. The movies sucked so I didn't watch them, although I never do. I busted out the iPod and listened to a couple of episodes of The Circuit. Apparently it's good luck to yell "Hasan Habib!!". If you listen to the show with him on you'll get it. Freaking hilarious. People around me probably wondered what I was laughing at. I actually slept a fair bit, which is extremely rare for me, so I was really happy about that. We had to stop in Belfast to let the crazy drunk guy and 150 other people off. And then Glasgow is just another 25 minute flight. It wasn't raining when we landed which was amazing. Once back at the house I jumped on the computer to see how bad the flames whipped the Ducks. Ohh. That didn't go so well. Maybe next year, if you sign some players who can score a fucking goal. Can they trade Tony Amonte for stick tape? I'll trade them the stick tape and Amonte can be y personal bitch. That's a plan. Anyway, Go Sharks!! I've now had a nap, and showered and I have band practice tonight. Tomorrow I'll be into the city to buy a new phone, get comics, and meet some friends. That's it for now.
Bizzle Out.