I started this blog Sunday, right after the game, it's taken about a week to flesh out.

OMG! That game was just, ugh. I can't believe we got trounced by the Cardinals. ¡No me gusta! Did they get complacent or something? The worst part is the other Steelers fans. They are calling for Ben's benching. I know Ben made some bad decisions, but who the hell else do they want? Tommy Maddox? Kordell Stewart? They can't accept that Arizona dominated us on both sides of the ball. I mean, they stacked the box and Willie couldn't run at all, but are they calling for Willie to be replaced? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The O-Line was horribly porous, I mean, Ben did half of that stupid stuff because he only had like 2 seconds to try to do anything because he was getting pressured like hell (he was sacked 4 times in the first half). Nate Washington dropped at least two extremely catchable balls (I was in the middle of panic attacks, so there could have been more). Quarterbacks, too much praise for a win, too much blame for a loss. By the by, Ben TD/INT ratio is 8/3. Still better than last season.

Now, Ben is being a bit much. It's no secret that there is no love loss between Ben and our old OC Ken Whisenhut, who is the new Cardinals head coach, but I did notice that before the game, lots of our players were hugging and laughing with Whiz, but someone was mysteriously missing. I also find it ironic that he said that Whiz made the offense predictable (run, run, pass), which is EXACTLY what they did down at the goal line when our defense that got a huge turnover down on like the 4. We couldn't even get a field goal because they PASSED on the third attempt and Ben threw an interception. Goddamn, this loss hurts so much. It also makes watching ESPN really hard. Ben, I more than adore you, but some things you have to let go and not harp on, plus you are in the N.F.L. (Not For Long), the Cardinals suck, it's in their organization's history to do so. I don't know how long Whiz is going to be the HC there, but don't burn all your bridges, baby. Just shut up and play some ball!

The Bungles got smashed on MNF by the Pasterisks (I like that name, but I probably won't use it much). That whole team is just unraveling. The defense was so pathetic, hell, if I had suited up, I could have churned out a couple of first downs for New England (ugh), it was that bad. Then, right before the half, they showed Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson having a lovers' quarrel. Since we lost, that made me feel a bit better. They said on ESPN this morning that after the game, Cincinnati's head coach, Marvin Lewis, could be heard down the hall from the locker room shouting an expletive-filled rant about how no other team acts the way they do and how selfish they are. {Insert evil laughter} In other AFC North news, the Browns beat the Ravens 37-13. Dude, I'm a little scared, sure Pittsburgh beat them down, then they traded the quarterback who started that game and have been on a quiet roll: Put 51 on the Bungles, lost to the Raiders with a blocked last second field goal (their kicker was frozen and had made the first attempt), now they've beaten the Ravens by two touchdowns. We HAVE GOT TO beat those whiny Sea-rattle Sea-chickens on Sunday, just for division supremacy, even though the Browns next opponent is New England. And I would like to go into the bye week with a 4-1 record.

Very serious: Poor Tony (Reali)! His apartment burned down on Sunday night. It was so weird when they said that on Pardon the Interruption on Monday, because all during Around the Horn, I kept saying how tired Tony looked. That is so awful. He's looking a little better now, but I feel so terrible for him. Elliot mentioned it at the end of Friday's episode, he said a fireman who I guess was at the scene said that all that was left of Tony's condo was his plasma screen TV and some books. It's too terrible for words, I mean he lost all his clothes and everything, I'd rather have lost the TV than my clothes.

Not so serious: Poor Tony (Stewart)! NASCAR is out to get him! I heard (from a not so unbiased source *cough*Elliot*cough*) that he could have won Sunday's race and been the new leader in the Cup Standings. I won't lie, I missed ALL of the race, so I didn't know there was a 2 1/2 hour rain delay, with Tony in the lead. This happened with Jeff Gordon a while back ago and they gave him the win, but with Tony, not so much. Instead they finished the race and Tony crashed out. Now he's fourth in the standings, 117 behind that bastard Jimmie Johnson. I know fourth is pretty good seeing how he wrecked, but third place, Clint Bowyer, is like only 14 points behind. Big bloody drop-off.

My parents went to Alabama on Thursday and won't be back until Tuesday. Another one of my step-dad's sisters is ill, one of the ones who was going to come to the party, but she suffered a stroke. She was only one of the two with a legitimate reason for not coming. It's been so nice just kicking around the house by myself. Even though it was so weird, like today (Friday) was trash day, and normally they come really early, like before 8:00 on Fridays. So I had set my alarm for 6:00 this morning, but I didn't sleep at all last night. Maybe an hour to an hour-and-a-half, TOTAL. The penultimate time I looked at the clock, it said 4:35, the next time it said 5:45, so I just turned on Elliot in the Morning and put the trash out during their first commercial break. This marks the second time that I have listened to the whole show in the, I think, 4 years I've been a fan. And the first time was just a few weeks ago when I just found myself awake at like 5:40. The strange thing is that when I turned the show on, Elliot remarked how none of them had slept either. He stayed up all night watching sports, then when he was going to bed at like after midnight, his younger son kept him and his wife up until 2:00 with something called croups(sp?); then he gets up at 3:00. God, that must suck. Diane's daughter wasn't feeling well either last night, and Tyler said he stayed up waiting for his girlfriend to come home from some after-work thing at a bar, and she didn't leave the bar until like 10:30; the insane thing is that he said that she (and her co-workers) had been there until 2:30. Could you imagine just getting hammered for EIGHT HOURS?! That is crazy. I know this is all a big coincidence, but I just found it strange that I couldn't sleep last night, and most of the people on my favorite morning show had bad sleeps as well.

I have a new favorite song! You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray. I didn't want to see the movie because I was upset they cast John Travolta over Harvey Fierstein (who originated the role of Edna Turnblad in the Broadway production of the show). Listening to the song, John doesn't sound half bad, but he still creeps me out in that fat-suit and the make-up, oh it just looks disturbing to me. Plus, I'm a Broadway Baby, I love musicals and have a thing about if you're going to make a movie, at least attempt to get some of the actors from the stage. I think the girl who originated Tracy said she was moving on in her career, and that's fine, but as long as they tried, then I'll be pleased. Slightly. I'd probably rather have the Original Broadway Cast Album, but the song just sounds more polished from the movie soundtrack. They also changed the lyrics because of something they changed in the script from the first Hairspray movie, to the show, and back to the movie musical (it's kind of minor, but the bad guys weren't redeemed in the first movie, but they were in the show, but they changed it back to the original way for the second movie). I might give this movie a chance when it comes to DVD, you never know. Although Transformers comes out in a couple of weeks, and that movie was AWESOME!

I have a stalker from Yahoo! Answers. He changes his name every couple of days because he gets booted really soon after he creates a new account. He hates me because I love Ben and the Steelers. He usually just asks stupid and ugly non-questions, but lately he's taken to harassing me by sending me misogynistic and racist e-mails. I wish Yahoo would create an option where you can only be e-mailed by your contacts, that would make the experience so much more pleasant, but they just want to sit on their asses and say "you can change the option of whether or not you want other people to e-mail you." What a bullshit, automated answer! There are a couple of people on there that I like talking to. What the hell ever!

Well, I'm gonna jet. There was more I wanted to say, but I don't feel like typing it, maybe next time. No Ben photo this time, I couldn't find one I like. Here we go, Steelers! BEAT THOSE SEABIRDS!!! They have to, it would be nice just so ESPN can shut the hell up!







I'm phasing.