I Am Doing the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on Myself Now

This is the funniest line I heard this week, from a skit in Saturday Night Live with Paris Hilton as the guest. It was a phone sex hotline for nerds that included other geeky fantasy female characters like Princess Leia (you want me to call you Nerfherder? you like that, huh) and Galadriel (you've been a bad hobbit, I'm sending you to Mordor where you're going to burn) among others. Musical guest was the Travis-sounding band called Keane, I would say the show is not too shabby, aside from Paris' pesky hair extenders.

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Superbowl Sunday and I finally managed to sit through the first part of the game. I found it unceremoniously ceremonial (i'm not gonna explain this but i think you know what i mean). For the past games I always find myself catching up to my menial tasks, like Superbowl XXXVI - I was doing the laundry, or Superbowl XXXVIII - I was out shopping. It was nice that I got invited to spend the XXXIX at Justin's place. I'm no team supporter but the sentiments of my friends were for the Phillies, so, that's where I leaned. The only thing I can say about the game is that Tom Brady looked like that guy from "Crossing Jordan". I'm all for the ads here (see adcritics top 10), I can't help you with the game opinions. Probably the funniest commercial I saw were for Bud Light series -- the skydiving guy trying to entice his scared friend to jump by tossing the six pack down the plane ("not even for a Bud Light?"), however, the only pilot of the plane jumped after it anyway. And the FedEX one where they stated the 10 principles of doing a catchy commercial with Burt Reynolds. There was also the one for Ameriquest Mortgage where the owner thought that a man was holding up the store and didn't know he was on the cellphone, and he got tasered, batted and punched in the end.

After a somber and very much safe half-time performance (I wish it was Usher up there) gender separation took into effect. The men slowly gathered to watch the final game while the women played a game of bluffing called Malarkey. Sincerely, I wish I was a good bluffer, but I managed to bluff three people in the end putting me on second place (I explained that nurses wear white uniforms because of St Catherine of Medici in the years during the plague required women to wear a garb to distinguish themselves, hahaha). I think using a historical time frame will almost always throw them off. But Jenny was the one who always get the true answer and nobody believed her. And the punchline of this all was I believed the most mundane bluff Jenny ever made, that dogs don't get sore throat because of their fur. You'd think nobody is going to fall for that idiotic statement. You know I did, now how's that for reality?

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I managed to finish Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" to cap up my Sunday fare. This book is really trippy but there's a lot of twists and overplots which I thought was going overboard. There were enough historical coincidences here to start a league of conspiracy theorists but the story is basically about the age old issue of trying to bridge the gap between Science and Religion. I don't know what it is about Dan Brown and all-their-life-struggling and handicapped antagonists? I think this is a little better than "The DaVinci Code" but a lot of events here are seemingly impossible to progress for over a 24 hour period. I also think the writer is more into unveiling historical significance and symbolic origins rather than care about how the story goes. When I started reading the first few chapters I already figured out whodunnit but I decided to ride it anyway.