It may be naive, but I always figured Deep Throat outed Nixon because Nixon was corrupt. I thought it would turn out to be a classic case of good vs. evil. But no, Deep Throat was one of J. Edgar Hoover's stooges and helped get Nixon because Nixon didn't make Deep Throat head of the FBI. It was petty revenge. J. Edgar Hoover's ghost vs. Richard Milhous Nixon. It wasn't good vs. evil. It was pure evil vs. pure evil.
But hey, it doesn't really matter anyway because Gerald Ford pardoned everyone anyway so the country never got any closure, right?

God damn Gerald Ford, Dick Nixon, and J. Edgar Hoover. Can't we ever get good people in charge of the government?

“People like you are too stupid to see
there’s no acceptable losses in the land of the free.”

Went to the driving range again today. My mother has come with us the last three weeks. It's cute--me and my parents at the driving range. But hey, my parents met at a golf class so what do you expect? Shockingly, I built off the success of last week. Started off with the 3-wood. It was flying pretty well. Sometime this weekend I saw a slowmotion replay of Justin Leonard driving a ball and I noticed that he doesn't move his legs at all during his backswing. And since my dad's been pointing out that I move my legs too much I decided to try and remove all movement. It was working. I've also improved my grip in the last couple weeks. My grip was slipping a bit. Today when I had my grip right and I would keep my legs still it was going really well. After the 3-wood I wasn't having as much success with the driver but I still managed to hit a couple good ones and most of them were playable.

Eventually we moved off the tees to the grass area. I've been able to hit the ball pretty well off and on off the tees over the years but I've always had problems hitting off grass. You can imagine how this has put a damper on my enjoyment of the game. It's not like you can switch over to playing on clay or the hard court. It's grass or nothing. Last week I was doing all right hitting a wedge off the grass and I was hitting the wedge even better today. I hit some nice high straight ones that carried a little passed the 100 yard marker. Then I was even hitting some nice 6-irons. At the end I was hitting some very nice shots with this strange, metal 7-wood. I may actually be out on the links in a couple weeks.

At the very end we were joking that we'll have to find a left handed-father-son-Pitt alumni tournament to play in.

Converting to Scientology is the ultimate sign of devotion.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Extreme
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Extreme
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

Current music: Stiff Competition - Cheap Trick

Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho.

"These pants would fit perfectly if I didn't have a penis."

The Oaks Theater's Midnight Matinee series starts up again this weekend. Here are some choice selections:

June 18 & 19:
“NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD” (1968) –
“They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!” Directed by Pittsburgh-Shadyside native George A. Romero. One ticket holder at each show wins free passes to catch his latest “Living Dead” movie at Penn Hills Cinemas!
July 2 & 3:
“THE PRINCESS BRIDE” (1987) –
“Scaling the cliffs of insanity, battling rodents of unusual size, facing torture in the pit of despair… True love has never been a snap!” $1 OFF admission with your children’s book donation (to benefit local libraries and schools). (ALL AGES!)
July 23 & 24:
“THE BLUES BROTHERS” (1980) –
“They’re on a mission from God…” Starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker… and many more! One ticket holder at each show wins dry white toast – another wins four fried chickens and a Coke!
Aug. 13 & 14:
“THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON” (1954) – IN 3-D!
“Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this – centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart! FREE old-school anaglyphic 3-D glasses provided! One ticket holder at each show wins a family-sized helping of fresh fish! (ALL AGES!)
Aug. 27 & 28:
“BACK TO THE FUTURE” (1985) –
“He was never in time for his classes… He wasn’t in time for his dinner… Then one day… He wasn’t in his time at all! Featuring Crispin Glover in one of his earliest starring roles. One ticket holder at each show wins an authentic radioactive plutonium trailer placard! (ALL AGES!)

Great movies and hilarious giveaways. The Psycho one is awesome.

Sons bring mom to the movie for FREE! One ticket holder at each show wins a new shower curtain!

And to top it all off they're also having an evening with Bruce Cambell and two nights with CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER.
I love the Oaks Theater.

Uh-oh, Warren Ellis is up to something.

I don't advise reading the "Talkback" section of Aint It Cool News but I've been amused by their take on the finale of Lost.
My personal favorite:

What really should have happened on Lost but didn't: ANYTHING!

I couldn't have said it better myself.

edit: John Rogers makes some good points.

Wait, that's it? It's particle effects?
Now I remember why I don't watch network television.

My prediction for the season finale of Lost: Mole People.

Toby Keith is such a badass.

When the most interesting thing you did today was eat half a sleeve of Premium Multigrain Saltine Crackers you're in trouble.

Patton Oswalt was wandering around Pittsburgh this weekend.
He went to the Andy Warhol Museum.

Current music: Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler