The Demonweasel Speaks

Melissia and I took Allie to go see “The Incredibles” tonight. Wow. Quite possibly the best movie I’ve seen this year, and a contender for best superhero movie ever. Best Picture? Fingers crossed. Proof that animation is probably the best medium for a superhero movie, and that animation can handle a lot of serious content as well. Honestly, there is a lot of stuff in it that kids may find boring, not understand, or maybe even find scary, but it’s fun enough that it works on levels for everyone in the whole audience.

Speaking of wow, I can’t believe the brawl that ensued at the Pacers/Pistons game last night. I was watching it and turned it off to play Playstation and talk on the phone, and when I was done I turned the PS off and ESPN was still on and it was chaos central. Apparently there was a fight between two players in the last few minutes of the game, and as the refs were sorting it out, one of the Indiana players was laying down on the scorers table, one of the Detroit fans hurled a full cup of beer down on him. Quick as a flash, he’s up off the table and into the stands, swinging on the guy. The Indiana bench empties and heads into the crowd, and then it’s just brawling so bad that they have to call the game. At one point, fans were on the floor swinging on players, and Jermaine O’Neil runs up and straight catches the guy in the jaw. It was a total mess.

And even better, they just made fun of it on SNL. :)

They announced today that a bunch of the Pacers players and Ben Wallace of Detroit are going to be serving indefinite suspensions, and I’m sure the fines will be in the tens of thousands of dollars. Honestly, for the players, I think massive league fines and suspensions are enough, and they should peruse the taps and press charges against the fans that instigated the brawl by throwing things. Let the league take care of the players and the law take care of the regular citizens. No, I don’t think this is letting the players off the hook, because there was no reason for them to go into the stands, but the fans started it by throwing stuff. I mean, if you’re on the street and someone hurls something at you and you fight back, isn’t the fault with the person who instigated the fight? Yes, we should strive to be better people, and the Pacers could’ve just gone and said “Hey, that guy is throwing stuff, we want him removed from the stadium,” but they didn’t. I guess I can’t blame them for following through on what would have been my own immediate reaction if put in the same situation. Trust me, the league is going to *nail* any of the players who hit fans, as they are already humiliated by this. I just hope we don’t get to a situation where we end up like English soccer leagues that have to completely put chicken wire up to keep the fans away from players, because that would be the real tragedy.

Speaking of ridiculous, anyone who was upset by the “Desperate Housewives” skit at the beginning of Monday Night Football needs killed, right away. Fucking idiots.

So yeah, I don’t know, maybe we’re living in the end times. All the violence and chaos and nonsense going on. I mean, I’m sure there have been other times like this, but hey, I’m here now, right?

Doomsday prophet, I remain…