Sunday Reflections (on a Monday)

Hey everyone who actually reads this blog (I’m not even sure how many of you that is at this stage).

Sorry that I didn’t have Sunday Reflections for you yesterday, I had internet problems.

I promise a week-long post fest with various topics.

They will include:

>My MLB midseason predictions review (damn Mariners)

>My Mixed Martial Arts Update. Two major shows are taking place this Saturday with the UFC and a new promotion, Affliction. I’ll give my thoughts on these shows and the MMA world in general.

>Why your boy won’t have any children anytime soon. It involves finances, straight talking to toddlers and used baby car seats.

>Updated Top-Five Women list.

>Maybe a top-five Family Guy moments.

>My final analysis of the concept of pimping being easy!

>The Josh Hamilton story, from my prospective. BTW, I don’t ever watch the Home Run Derby because of Chris Berman of ESPN. Let’s keep it real out there. Anyway, I flipped over and saw some of the homeruns that he was hitting. He has the most pure swing from a lefty that I’ve maybe ever seen. More on this when I talk about him.

This weekend, which will include Monday for our purposes wasn’t bad. Here were some highlights:

-I played video games with my friend Joel all night Friday and that was awesome. I’m now hooked on playing Splinter Cell, I think that was the name of the game. I love playing video games.

-In fact, that’s how I spent my time early

Actually on Saturday, I started by playing video games until early evening. It’s an obsession at times. I then headed over to the Green Hills Mall to walk around and read some books. That’s something that relaxes me so much, reading books in a bookstore for hours. After that, I was going to head home but two things happened.



First, I saw a long line outside of the Apple store and I later found out that a new IPhone was being released. Why were people waiting for this phone? Someone please explain this to me.

Second, I saw one of the nastiest lightening storms develop and got an up-close view of it from the Mall. It was sick. I call it nature’s fireworks show for a reason.

Because of these things I was there longer than expected, but I did get home.



-I watched The Love Guru, the new movie with Mike Myers, which wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would be. I gave it a chance and I actually laughed at some moments. I had such low expectations for it. Myers is decent and Jessica Alba really, really can’t act. She’s hot and all, but I need more then eye candy. My main man Romany Malco, or Conrad from the TV show Weeds, does an awesome job as a hockey superstar. Even Justin Timberlake does well in his role, especially his nickname in the movie. Plus Steven Colbert and Jim Gaffigan! What more do you need?

The movie is way too goofy to be taken as literally, especially the part about a star Black hockey player. That was the most unrealistic part of the movie. I mean, that can’t happen in real life. The movie lost some marks for that.






-I was kidding about that last paragraph, or was I? You and I will never know. However, its funny how the two players above grew up in Alberta, Canada. What is it about Western Canada and Black hockey players. In fact the one in the Oilers uniform is from the same hometown as Nashville's own Jordin Tootoo and hero to all, Mark Messier.

That’s all for now. See some of you around.

Here’s music from De Facto, the music project of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler and Ikey Owens from the Mars Volta and the deceased Jeremy Ward. It’s a Dub group and they’re amazing. I wished they played under this outfit more, even though Jeremy’s death probably puts an end to that dream. Also, their albums are hard to find, even at Grimeys. Good fight, good night.

Does kissing count as cheating?

I was watching the latest episode of the Real World on MTV and an interesting situation came up.

Will recently started dating Janelle and the two of them were becoming serious very quickly only after a few weeks. So Will is hanging out with Janelle back at the house on the eve of the housetrip to Mexico. Will wants to hook up with Janelle but she rejects him.

So the cast heads out to Mexico and on the first night, Will has a few drinks and kisses a fellow housemate Brittani, who has a boyfriend. The two of them had been flirting for weeks and they are attracted to each other. They only kiss.

Both of them feel like they cheated on their partners. Nothing happens for the rest of the trip between the two of them. Once they return to America, Will calls Janelle and tells her that he kissed Brittani. Janelle gets mad and says that she doesn’t want to see Will. So Will in his infinite wisdom decides to have a foursome with his male roommate and two females they meet at the bar.

Yeah, I said foursome. Its gross just thinking about it.

Anyway, Will then is all sad about it and decides that he needs to see Janelle. The two of them meet up at a restaurant and Will forces some fake ass tears and the two of them decide to try to rebuild the relationship. Of course Will decides not to tell Janelle about the foursome, but that’s not the point.

Did Will’s kiss count as cheating?

I’m not naïve enough to say that the foursome isn’t cheating. That was wrong and very, very nasty.

I’ve never had a serious girlfriend in my life, so I may not be the best source for this, but I don’t think that the kissing was cheating.

I’ve always been under the impression that any sexual activity, however you want to define it, is cheating. I don’t count kissing in that category.

I think that people make mistakes in relationships, especially when you include distance and alcohol. Now, should Will have kissed his roommate? Probably not, but he’s a guy and he acknowledged his mistake.

If I was officially dating someone for a few weeks and she told me that she kissed a guy, I would be upset about it but it wouldn’t necessarily be a deal breaker. I would try to adjust to the situation. I would hope that she wouldn’t do it again. If she had sex with somebody while dating me, that’s a deal breaker.

I was also watching King of Queens tonight and the episode kinda touched on this issue. A guy named Deacon, who was married, was going to see an old female friend behind his wife’s back. He wasn’t having sex or any physical contact with the friend. According to Deacon, they were just talking to each other. However, Deacon’s wife and female friend declared that he was cheating. Of course Doug, Deacon’s male friend, thought that there was no cheating.

This one is a little different because it involves a wife and I’m surely not an expert on that. I guess according to my definition that Deacon wasn’t cheating, but I can definitely see a different prospective on this one as well. At first glance, I would say that Deacon wasn’t doing anything wrong, but I want your opinion on this.

So, does kissing count as cheating? Also, does hanging out with another woman count as cheating? I would love your thoughts.

Here’s maybe the greatest modern song about cheating by Justin Timberlake. His band is amazing in this performance by the way. I also threw in Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood since I'm in Nashville. Its not the actual music video because I can't embed it. The music video

I will say this. If a girl messed up my car like that, problems, that's all I'm saying. I don't condone violence, but she will have to be taken out.