-Kyle Busch just won the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, edging Carl Edwards on the last lap of a green-white-checkered finish as the caution flag came out when Michael Waltrip, Sam Hornish Jr., and several others wrecked.

-It was announced yesterday that Gundam 00 will be airing in the U.S. on Sci-Fi Channel Monday nights starting November 17th, two episodes per week for 13 weeks. Gundam 00 will be the first Gundam series to be broadcast on American TV since Gundam SEED on Cartoon Network.

-I got the other three volumes of the GTO manga(Volumes 2, 3, & 5) that I ordered at Books-A-Million today. The clerk happened to find them in another place not long after I had left there last Wednesday.

-From the "How dumb can they be?" Department: I went to Wal-Mart to get the GTAIV guide(I got the game for my brother last week) for $9.99 using the Circuit City ad. So I bring the guide from electronics in the back of the store to the front checkout. I show the cashier the ad and she takes the guide and the ad all the way to Customer Service while stopping at other cashiers. She comes back to the counter and thinks that the guide cost $54.99 and the game cost $9.99 and then says that six other employees told her the same. I did explain to her that no, the guide was $9.99 and the game cost $54.99, but she wasn't hearing it, so I decided that I wasn't going to argue and decided not to get the guide there. So I'll just go to Circuit City tomorrow instead.

What kind of morons do they hire at Wal-Mart? My mistake was that I should have just checked out in electronics, since they'd know more than the people at the front of the store.

-Some WWE news: CM Punk is now the World Champ after cashing in the Money In The Bank and beating Edge with the Go To Sleep not long after Edge was destroyed by Batista, then he beat JBL in the main event tonight on Raw.

-Danica Patrick finished 6th again tonight just now at the Suntrust Indy Challenge at Richmond. Danica's Andretti Green Racing teammate Tony Kanaan won the race, while Danica moved back into 5th in the points standings, 4 points ahead of teammate Hideki Mutoh and 9 ahead of teammate Marco Andretti. Scott Dixon leads Helio Castroneves by 43 points for the points title going into next week's race at Watkins Glen.

-I got one of the GTO volumes I ordered from Books-A-Million earlier this week, but I got Volume 4(Which makes no sense, considering I ordered Volumes 2 through 5 at the same time; you'd think Volume 2 would have come in first). Oh well, just have to check back with them.

-Watching the George Carlin marathon that's running on HBO Comedy right now. Basically, they're airing all the specials that HBO2 ran on Wednesday and Thursday(which I taped; HBO2 ran 11 of the 14 he did for HBO, including his last one; HBO Comedy also ran "The Envelope"). Hilarious. He will be missed and as phantomlord_lop said, Open Mic night is fun with him, Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, and a host of others(and at the same time, they're throwing rotten produce at Steve Allen for Allen being in a pro-censorship group known as the Parent Trash Cult).

A Carlin-related side note: On one of the cKy videos(Bam Margera and his group of friends for those not knowing), they ran one of Carlin's jokes from "Doin' It Again" about never seeing a grown man taking a shit while running at full speed, and Bam got Raab Himself to do just that(Raab took like 18 Ex-Lax to do it).

-Danica Patrick finished 6th today at the Iowa Corn Indy 250 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa(won by Dan Wheldon).

-I got The 40-Year-Old Virgin on DVD the other day.

Not much to talk about.

-The LSU Tigers rallied from a 5-0 deficit to beat Rice 6-5 on a 3-run double by Blake Dean with 1 out in the bottom of the ninth inning earlier today in the College World Series in Omaha, their 30th come-from-behind victory of the season, avoid elimination from the tournament while eliminating the Owls. It was also LSU's first win in Omaha in six games since former coach(and soon-to-be-retired athletic director) Skip Bertman retired as coach after the 2001 season(and won 5 championships, the last in 2000).

LSU will play North Carolina(losers to Fresno State earlier 5-3) Thursday in a rematch from Sunday night(UNC won 8-4 partly because of a retard umpire) with the loser eliminated.

ETA: Boston whipped the Lakers 131-92 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to win the championship 4 games to 2. Mentioning it because former LSU Tiger Glen "Big Baby" Davis plays for the Celtics.

-I bought The Rock: The Most Electricifying Man In Sports Entertainment DVD today for $17.99 at Wal-Mart using Circuit City's ad.

I'm halfway through the first disc, and I'm kinda disappointed that they didn't interview The Rock for the DVD, cause it would have been nice to hear his thoughts on some of his matches. But still, it's good.

Now they need to do a Chris Jericho DVD or an Owen Hart set.

-I also ordered Volumes 2 through 5 of the GTO manga at Books-A-Million. I'm going to order them four volumes at a time every few weeks(I already had the first volume of the manga; ironically enough, I bought it at BAM years ago when they had it bundled together with the first volume of the anime).

-Vince McMahon's plan to boost ratings by giving away a million dollars a week failed. Raw drew a 3.0 last night, actually losing viewers(they drew a 3.1 last week). I think that if they haven't pushed the panic button yet, they will now.

The LSU Tigers routed the UC-Irvine Anteaters 21-7 just now to advance to the College World Series in the final game played at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge(they move to a new Alex Box Stadium next door to the old stadium next year).

The Tigers jumped out to a 6-0 lead after the first inning with back-to-back-to-back home runs(the team hit 7 HR total tonight) by Blake Dean, Micah Gibbs, and Matt Clark, then got a 7-run 5th inning to take a 16-2 lead.

LSU, making their first CWS appearance since 2004 and will be trying for their first national title since 2000, will play North Carolina Sunday night at 6pm CT.

-The LSU Tigers beat UC-Irvine 9-7 in Game 2 of their Super Regional series in Baton Rouge(the Anteaters won Game 1 11-5 last night), rallying from down 7-2 after the 7th and 7-4 in the top of the ninth inning with 5 runs to force a Game 3 tomorrow night with the winner going to the College World Series in Omaha.

-Last night, Scott Dixon continues his domination of the IRL Indycar Series, winning his 3rd race of the season at the Bombardier Learjet 550 at Texas Motor Speedway, winning under caution as Marco Andretti and Ryan Hunter-Reay crashed battling for 2nd with 5 laps to go. Danica Patrick finished a lap down in 10th. Dixon picked up his sixth top-3 finish in the seven races so far.

-I bought the One Piece Season 1 Uncut DVD set at Best Buy for $39.99 and Airplane! Don't Call Me Shirley Edition at Wal-Mart for $5.00 today.

-Now here's a meme stolen from cutebunny43:

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.

** Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional. **

Okay.....

1) Either an AK-47 or a minigun, as far as real weapons go. For fictional weapons, either Zero's sword(MegaMan X/Zero/ZX series) or the X-Buster. Of course, if you want to take out the zombies in one go, either a Gundam or even the Portable Airstrike cheat weapon from Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction(think rocket launcher with nuclear warheads).

2) Let's see, hard to choose just one. "One Man Army" by Our Lady Peace, "Shot in the Dark" by Ozzy Osbourne, "To Kill A Stranger" by Fozzy, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, "Swamped" by Lacuna Coil, "Image of the Invisible" by Thrice, and so on...

3) Anyone out of Chuck Norris, Eikichi Onizuka(GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka), Tackleberry(Police Academy series), and Clark Kent.

-In the last few days, I bought Grandma's Boy, There's Something About Mary, and Idiocracy on DVD at various places(Grandma's Boy at Wal-Mart using the Circuit City ad to get it for $6.99 Tuesday, and the other two at Circuit City today).

-I also bought the first volume of Rosario + Vampire manga at Books-A-Million. It's great. It reminds me a little of Tenchi Muyo so far. It's about a human boy named Tsukune Aono, who goes to a school for monsters called Yokai Academy(where monsters learn to coexist peacefully with humans and they must maintain their human disguises), and he befriends a vampire girl named Moka Akashiya(who has to wear a special Rosary to keep her vampire powers locked, which she can't remove but Tsukune can and does when he gets into trouble), and later a succubus named Kurumu Korono(yes, she does try to seduce Tsukune, as she considers Moka a rival as she planned to have all the boys in the school fall for her but they fell for Moka instead, but he saves her from Moka's other self).

Here's what the cover looks like(I know it's Japanese, but the U.S. cover's the same):



-So it's down to Obama vs. McCain, eh......I said to myself when the primaries first started, as long as it wasn't Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, or Sam Brownback(all three are anti-First Amendment, I could care less who won.

But I agree with Jesse Ventura that there should be a "None of the above" choice.

-LSU went 3-0 over the weekend to advance to the Super Regionals in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The Tigers ran their winning streak to 23 in a row with wins Friday over Texas Southern 12-1, Saturday over Southern Miss 13-4, and tonight over Southern Miss 11-4.

LSU will host Lincoln, Nebraska regional winner UC-Irvine in the best-of-three Super Regional next weekend.

-Ryan Briscoe won the ABC Supply/AJ Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile in Milwaukee, becoming the 15th different driver to win an Indycar race for team owner Roger Penske. Danica Patrick finished a lap down in 9th.

-I bought The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift today.

-LSU is the #7 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament and is hosting a regional this weekend(it's double elimination). They will play Texas Southern Friday, while the other game will be between the University of New Orleans(UNO) and Southern Mississippi.

The only other Louisiana school to make it into the tournament was Tulane, who will play Florida in Florida State's regional.

-I bought World Heroes Anthology and Taito Legends 2 for PS2 today at Wal-Mart for $9.82 each.

-The LSU Tigers baseball team beat Ole Miss 8-2 today to win the SEC baseball tournament in Hoover, Alabama for the first time since 2000, the last time they won the College World Series. The Tigers won their 20th straight game, breaking the school record set in 1997.

-Scott Dixon won the Indy 500 today, leading 115 of the 200 laps. Vitor Meira finished second while Marco Andretti was third. Danica Patrick finished 22nd, 29 laps down after making contact with Ryan Briscoe's car in pit lane during the final caution for Milka Duno's spin with 31 laps to go.

-Kasey Kahne won the Coca-Cola 600 tonight, after Tony Stewart cut a tire and hit the wall with 2 laps to go. Kahne became the 6th driver to win both the All-Star race the weekend before and the Coke 600.

-LSU signed a deal to play Washington next season in Seattle and in 2012 in Baton Rouge.

-The LSU baseball team(now 42-16-1 on the season) tied a school record with its 19th straight victory in a 12-8 win over Alabama in the semifinals of the SEC baseball tournament in Hoover, Alabama. The Tigers will play either Ole Miss or Vanderbilt in the final tomorrow.

Tomorrow's the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600.

I hope the Spurs(or should I say the Snores) get their asses kicked by Kobe Bryant and the LA Lakers.

And David Stern should look into whether there is more gambling among the refs since the fix was in since the 3rd quarter of Game 6.

-The Hornets rout the Spurs in Game 5 of their series 101-79, taking a 3-2 lead going back to San Antonio for Game 6 Thursday night.(I skipped Game 4 because I was so aggravated with how the game went that I quit watching midway through the 3rd quarter)

David West had 38 points(1 short of the franchise record) and 14 rebounds, and Chris Paul had 22 points and 13 assists.

Problem with Game 6 being in San Antonio: in the conference semifinals, all eight teams(Hornets, Spurs, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, and Utah Jazz) are a combined 17-1 at home.

-Danica Patrick qualified 5th for the Indianapolis 500 in a couple of weeks.

-In TV show news, Reaper has been renewed for midseason, but One Tree Hill will stay on Mondays(which means I'll tape it on another VCR while watching and recording Heroes).

The Hornets lost Game 3 to the Spurs tonight 110-99, still holding to a 2 game to 1 advantage with Game 4 Sunday night in San Antonio. Hope Tony Longoria and the rest of the Spurs enjoyed the gift the idiot referees gave them tonight.

-New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson bought WVUE Fox-8 for $41 million on Monday. I'm already wondering when he's going to start using the station as a mouthpiece to push for a new stadium to replace the Superdome.

Also, I ordered new copies of Final Fantasy Chronicles and Final Fantasy VIII for PSone at Radio Shack on Tuesday.

The Hornets beat the Spurs 102-84 in Game 2 to take a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference Semifinal series. Chris Paul had 30 points and 12 assists and Peja Stojakovic added 25 points(5 of 7 from 3-point range). The Hornets are now 5-0 at home in the playoffs. Game 3 is Thursday night in San Antonio.

-The Hornets beat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of their Western Conference Semifinal series 101-82 to take a 1-0 lead. Game 2 is tomorrow night in New Orleans.

-The VooDoo lost to the Georgia Force 66-39 to fall to 7-3 on the season.

-The Saints, according to the Times-Picayune citing league sources, still want to trade for NY Giants TE Jeremy Shockey and that a trade might be finalized within a few weeks. Shockey wants out of New York(and wants to be in New Orleans), and Saints coach Sean Payton thinks Shockey would be a perfect fit for the Saints' offense.

The Hornets just advanced into the Western Conference Semifinals(despite the refs trying to give the game to Dallas), beating the Mavericks 99-94 in Game 5 to win the series 4 games to 1. Chris Paul, in the words of Ice Cube, fucked around and got a triple double, scoring 24 points, 15 assists, and 11 rebounds.

The Hornets will most likely play the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs next(the Spurs hold a 3-1 lead in their series with the Phoenix Suns with game 5 tonight in San Antonio).

Hornets coach Byron Scott was also named NBA Coach of the Year today.

Also, I got my GTO box sets in the mail today.

I blatantly took this from pojoto:

01 - Make a list of 10 female characters that make you want to say 'fuck you, she's awesome'.
02 - People can comment on your list (duh)
03 - Tag at least 5 people to do this meme.

I went ahead and made a top 20 list.

( Top 20 Female Characters )

Tagging anybody, I guess.

-Day 2 of the NFL Draft basically saw the Saints add depth:

Round 5, Pick #144 DeMario Pressley, DT, NC State

The Saints traded up two spots with the Detroit Lions, also giving up their 7th round pick, to draft Pressley. Adds depth to the D-line.

Round 5, Pick #164 Carl Nicks, OT, Nebraska

Another pick that was for adding depth to the O-line, provided he can stay out of trouble off the field(apparently, he wasn't allowed to participate in Nebraska's Pro Day). According to ESPN when the pick was made, he's played on both left and right tackle spots and only allowed 1 QB sack in the last two seasons, so this could be a bargain pick(again, if he stays out of trouble).

Round 6, Pick #178 Taylor Mehlhoff, K, Wisconsin

The only thing I could think of regarding this pick was that the Saints were giving Martin Gramatica some competition for training camp.

Round 7, Pick #237 Adrian Arrington, WR, Michigan

Yet another depth pick. They gave up their 6th rounder next year to Green Bay. Another big physical target. Might be interesting to see if he'll be like Marques Colston.

In other draft notes, LSU players taken in the draft included CB Chevis Jackson(Atlanta, Round 3, #68), FB Jacob Hester(San Diego one pick later), WR Early Doucet(Arizona, #81), S Craig Steltz(Chicago, Round 4, #120), QB Matt Flynn(Green Bay, Round 7, #209), and TE Keith Zinger(Atlanta, #232). Also Nicholls State safety Kareem Moore was drafted by Washington in the 6th round with the #180th pick.

-The Hornets beat the Mavericks in Game 4 97-84 to take a 3-1 lead in the series and can knock out Dallas with a win Tuesday night back in New Orleans. David West had 24 points and 9 rebounds, and Chris Paul had 16 points and 8 assists. The Hornets also beat the Mavericks in Dallas for the 1st time since January 1998.

In motorsports, Dan Wheldon won the IRL Road Runner Turbo Indy 300 at Kansas Speedway. Danica Patrick dropped out due to mechanical problems on her car(the bolts holding the wheel on the right rear side of her car wore off) and finished 19th.

And Ashley Force became the first woman to win a NHRA Funny Car event, beating her father John Force in the final.

Round 1, Pick #7 Sedrick Ellis, DT, USC

The Saints moved up three spots, sending the #10 pick and their 3rd round pick(#78 overall) to the New England Patriots for the #7 pick and their 5th round pick(#164 overall), to draft Ellis.

Ellis was one of two players(other being LSU DT Glenn Dorsey, who was taken by the Kansas City Chiefs with the 5th pick) the Saints were looking to trade up to get to boost their pass rush(the defense was ranked 26th last year).

Round 2, Pick #40 Tracy Porter, CB, Indiana

Apparently, the proposed trade with the NY Giants for TE Jeremy Shockey fell through, as the Saints kept the 2nd round pick they had offered them for so long and decided to add to and improve the secondary(as Mike McKenzie is still recovering from the torn ACL he suffered in the 2nd-to-last game of '07 against Philadelphia).

-I bought Xenosaga III today at Wal-Mart, now I just need to finish Xenosaga II.

-I also ordered the 2 GTO(Great Teacher Onizuka) sets at Circuit City yesterday(cheap, $39.99 each), I should be getting them through the mail sometime after Tuesday.

-The VooDoo are now 7-2 on the season after beating the winless Utah Blaze 70-56.

-The Hornets lost to the Mavericks in Game 3 in Dallas 97-87. The Hornets still lead the series 2-1, with Game 4 Sunday night.

-The Hornets easily beat the Mavericks in Game 2, 127-103, to take a 2-0 lead in their series. Game 3 is Friday night in Dallas.

Chris Paul had 32 points and set a Hornets playoff record with 17 assists(previously held by Muggsy Bogues), with David West adding 27. The Hornets also set team playoff records for points in a playoff game(127), points in a half(67 in the 1st half), and most 3-pointers in a playoff game(10).

-I predict the Saints will pick Tennessee State cornerback Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie with the #10 pick should they stay there(Saints GM Mickey Loomis has confirmed that the Saints have talked to some teams about trading up, plus there are rumors that the Saints were interested in trading down with Philadelphia for Lito Sheppard).