F*ck MTV

I’m not even going to talk about Jersey Shore (much).

It’s one thing to tease a fight all week and just show the beginning of it and save the rest for the week after – ala JWOWW and Sammi.  It’s an entirely different thing to tease a fight all week and then not show it at all.  This is exactly what the fat-cats at MTV did last night when there was no Snooki/Angelina showdown in sight after running previews for it all week.  For shame, you bastards.

I will say this though; Pauly D’s line about ‘beached whales on the sand’ in reference to Angelina and her friend was pretty hysterical.

And while I’m on the topic of Jersey Shore…

- With all her talk of ‘gorilla juiceheads’, I’m surprised JWOWW dates an averaged sized (by guido standards), balding, St. Anthony’s graduate (Long Island Catholic HS represent).  This guy must pack some major heat in his trousers.

- This was the second episode in a row with very little Sammi/Ronnie nonsense.  I’m not complaining.

- I am the self-proclaimed King of Awkward Moments – but, in all my years I have never experienced anything as awkward as Angelina’s Mike must have experienced as the Sitch lit into the Staten Island Kim Kardashian.  ‘How many guys have you slept with in the last 24 hours’, ‘you left a used pad on the floor’, ‘you’re a dirty hamster.’  Good lord.  Tell us what you really think, Mike.  On the brightside, at least the other Mike got on TV – so he’s got that going for him.

- Pretty quiet episode from Snooki.  Turns out she is as big a creep as Situation for staring at JWOWW and her boyfriend getting it on.  What is with these people?  How is this considered acceptable behavior in that house?

-  I’m not digging T-Shirt time.  It doesn’t seem to have the same sincerity of GTL.  I don’t expect it to catch-on.

That’s all I got.  Next week looks good, but the fact that I have to wait 7 days to finally see this fight really chaps my ass.

The Office is back and Always Sunny continues

I really enjoyed The Office last night.

Ryan jumping out to promote Woof.com had me in stitches and Creed’s two appearances were priceless – ‘everyone is talking about Betty White.  Finally, one guy isn’t talking about Betty White.  Of course I’m going to follow him.’
Apart from that, Andy brought the funny as always.  ‘I’m the Nard Dog.  My father is the Nard Man.’  I’m interested to see where this love triangle with Gabe and Erin goes.  Why is Andy always in love triangles?  And why the hell did Gabe steal Erin in the first place?  What a jerk.

I kind of wish they kept Michael’s nephew around because I thought he could deliver a solid line once a show – kind of like Creed.  Oh well.

As for Always Sunny – it was good not great.  The show is still trying to hit its stride this season and I’ll think they’ll find it soon.

Last night had its moments though.  Mac bathing at the bar was great and anytime Uncle Jack is in an episode you know you’re in for some laughs.

Week 3 Picks

Philbert got me by a game last week so we are all even heading into Week 3.  Here are our picks:

Ken’s Picks

Giants (-3) over Titans
Steelers (-2.5) over BUCS
RAVENS (-10.5) over Browns
PATRIOTS (-14.5) over Bills
SAINTS (-4) over Falcons
Niners (-2.5) over CHIEFS
Bengals (-3) over PANTHERS
SEAHAWKS (+5.5) over Chargers
Redskins (-3.5) over RAMS
Lions (+11) over VIKINGS
Cowboys (+3) over Texans
Colts (-5.5) over BRONCOS
JAGS (+3) over Eagles
Raiders (+4.5) over CARDINALS
DOLPHINS (-2) over Jets
Packers (-3) over BEARS

Last Week: 6-9-1
Season: 16-13-3

Phil’s Picks

Titans (+3) over GIANTS
BUCS (+2.5) over Steelers
RAVENS (-10.5) over Browns
Bills (+14.5) over PATRIOTS
Falcons (+4) over SAINTS
Niners (-2.5) over CHIEFS
Bengals (-3) over PANTHERS
SEAHAWKS (+5.5) over Chargers
Redskins (-3.5) over RAMS
Lions (+11) over VIKINGS
Cowboys (+3) over Texans
Colts (-5.5) over BRONCOS
Eagles (-3) over Jags
Raiders (+4.5) over CARDINALS
Jets (+2) over DOLPHINS
Packers (-3) over BEARS

Last Week: 7-8-1
Season: 16-13-3

Enjoy the fights tomorrow night!

Stay lucky,
Ken

A tornado hit my town last night – how about dem apples?

In other news, I nearly tossed a brick threw my TV when I found out Jersey Shore was the same episode from Sunday night and that the Snooki/Angelina Battle of the Bimbos would have to wait until next week. Thank you very much, MTV.

Still, I hadn’t seen the Sunday episode so I took a look.

It was your typical set-up episode with some foreshadowing of next week’s donnybrook. I was stranded in Manhattan for about 3 hours thanks to the storm so I was in no mood to take notes but the main things I remember were:

- I really wish I could have eaten that meal Vinny’s mom cooked. Good lord. To think, I was boasting about my potatoes and pan fried steak the other day. I’m not even in the same stratosphere as Mrs. Guadagnino.

- Uncle Nino is OK in my book.

- The Situation is one creepy bastard. Making a snack and then sitting front row for Pauly’s session. What the hell was he doing?

- The Vin-man got punk’d - and punk’d bad - last night. I don’t know where to begin. First of all, he had no game in the bar. And this is coming from a guy who has less game than Atari. The stuff he was saying was making me cringe.

Second, when the babe cancels you just got to leave it alone Vinny. A buddy of mine compared it to Jon Favreau harassing the girl in Swingers. That pretty much hits the nail on the head. I can’t understand how ‘Cenzo has the biggest Italian Sausage this side of Sicily with the marbles of a field mouse.

I felt bad for my dude. All dressed up and nowhere to go. It’s a major blow to what has otherwise been a breakout season for the youngest member of the cast. Hopefully, he can rebound strong in the closing weeks.

Week Two Picks:

I have a game lead on Phil heading in to week two:

Ken’s Picks:

PACKERS (-13) over Bills
VIKINGS (-5.5) over Dolphins
FALCONS (-6.5) over Cards
Ravens (-2.5) over BENGALS
BROWNS (-2) over Chiefs
COWBOYS (-7.5) over Bears
TITANS (-5) over Steelers
Bucs (+3.5) over PANTHERS
LIONS (+6.5) over Eagles
BRONCOS (-3.5) over Seahawks
Rams (+3.5) over RAIDERS
Jaguars (+7) over CHARGERS
Texans (-3) over REDSKINS
Giants (+5) over COLTS
Pats (-3) over JETS
Saints (-5) over NINERS

Last week: 10-4-2
Season: 10-4-2

Phil’s Picks:

PACKERS (-13) over Bills
Dolphins (+5.5) over VIKINGS
FALCONS (-6.5) over Cards
BENGALS (+2.5) over Ravens
Chiefs (+2) over BROWNS
COWBOYS (-7.5) over Bears
TITANS (-5) over Steelers
PANTHERS (-3.5) over Bucs
Eagles (-6.5) over LIONS
BRONCOS (-3.5) over Seahawks
RAIDERS (-3.5) over Rams
CHARGERS (-7) over Jaguars
REDSKINS (+3) over Texans
Giants (+5) over COLTS
Pats (-3) over JETS
Saints (-5) over NINERS

Last week: 9-5-2
Season: 9-5-2

Enjoy the weekend.

Stay lucky,
Ken

Due to flipping back and forth between the Shore and the football game I wasn’t diligently taking notes as usual, but here are a few quick hits.

- I scored the fight for Sammi. She landed a solid right and some punches on the ground. JWOWW was mainly pulling hair and shoving. This was an unbelievable upset. Even if you gave the fight to JWOWW you have to consider it a moral victory for Sam to have stood up to her and held her own. For a Jenni fan like myself, this was the equivalent of learning there was no Tooth Fairy. She was like a wounded alpha dog the entire episode.

- Pauly had a quote something to the effect of ‘that was the biggest herpe I’ve ever seen’. What’s the over/under on the amount of herpes Pauly D. has seen in his life? +/- 322.5?

- The disinfecting of the Smush Room looked staged to me. However, it did confirm that there is a ton of hooking-up going on that is not seen on camera. JWOWW had the number of like ‘everyday for the last 20 days’ or something like that. This gives me a lot more faith in MVP – I’m glad it is not just the grenades we see them back at the house with.

- Somehow Ronnie is still getting off Scott free in this whole mess. That will happen when four dimwitted females decide to fight amongst themselves instead of realizing the true problem.

That’s all I got which seems a little light because I remember there being a lot of good moments last night. Maybe I’ll watch it again and give some additional thoughts later on.

Enjoy the weekend!

Stay lucky,
Ken

Another Friday – another recap of the Shore.

Here’s how I saw the fight.

Yes, Vinny somewhat instigated it, but Angelina had it coming. She is a pathological liar and she was 100% trying to stir the pot and make it look like JWOWW was talking shit on Pauly. If Vinny, who is normally quiet during these types of things, felt the need to call her out on it she likely had it coming.

So anyway, somehow JWOWW yelling at Angelina turns into JWOWW and Sammi shouting in each others faces – and we got ourselves a good old fashioned cat fight.

As expected, JWOWW was physically much bigger and threw Sammi to the ground without much trouble. Think Silva vs. Leben. I think the Long Island native thought she had it in the bag at this point and, to be honest, I didn’t think Sammi had the heart to get up – but the kid proved me wrong. Sweetheart got to her feet and unloaded with a right cross that appears to be landing right on JWOWWs surgically-altered chin. Did it connect? We will have to wait until next week to find out – but kudos to Sammi for putting up a fight.

And screw you MTV for giving a cliffhanger.

As for the rest of the episode:

- Snooki and Vinny got it on for realz this time and, apparently, Vinny’s Italian sausage is the stuff of legends. No wonder he doesn’t feel the need to be as loud, juiced-up or obnoxious as those other clowns – he knows he’s got them beat where it counts. Good for him. If I were him, I would be hitting the clubs up hard this week given this latest revelation.

- If I tried to recap the stupidity of the girls my head would explode. Let me say this, Angelina is as worthless a human being as it gets, but JWOWW and Snooki are trying to drag her into the letter. No, Angelina is not as invested in the anonymous letter as you two dingbats. Stop trying to make her the scapegoat. If any of them had any guts they would have told Sammi to her face. Sweetheart is getting absolutely dumped on in this whole thing… Have I mentioned recently how stupid girls are? In a million freaking years this situation would never play out among men. I swear, every time I think a girl on this show may have some semblance of a brain they go and do something totally f’ing retarded.

- The 5-million dollar man finally bedded a chick that I would call “porn star hot.” And in typical fashion, Sitch added a little pizazz by having the girl wait for him in the Smoosh room while he made himself some dinner and smoked a cig. Then, after giving her the biz, he called her a taxi like a gentleman. I would really like to know how much time went by with her in the room by herself. It would be a good assessment of her self-worth. If it’s over 15 minutes then you know that girl has some daddy issues. You can also add her to the list of girls who stay inside for a solid week after their episode airs – right there with the original grenade and her hippo friend.

- By the way, Situation earns more money than Obama and I’m pretty sure I would rather have Situation as my President. Just saying.

- So the girls decided to make dinner. And, as expected, it wasn’t as good as Mike’s chicken cutlet night. (You can tell the guys were being nice when they said ‘it’s very good’.) I don’t get it – these girls show all the other traits of the typical female – like shallowness and constant bickering – but they can’t cook? Whazupwitdat?

- The Situation nearly had a situation with a tranny. Hey, we’ve all had our moments.

- I was on the can when the Situation’s sister made an appearance so I really can’t comment on it too much. I imagine she still looks like Mike. In which case, I think I took a well-timed bathroom break.

- Next week: The rest of the fallout from the fight and Angelina hooks up with Vinny which will spawn our next fight – this time from the lightweight division – Snooki vs. Angelina. The battle for Vinny’s Stromboli.

Stay lucky,
Ken

We got Episode 4 of Jersey Shore last night. Here are some thoughts.

- For the longest time, I thought Emilio Estevez was the coolest Emilio I knew. Wrong. I like the gorilla juicehead’s style. First, he tells Snooks ‘fuck you, there are naked girls here’. Then he calls her later and tells her he’s bedded some bimbo. Classic. The fact that these two broke up later over allegations that he was just using her to get on the Real World makes this all the better.

- The girls should have told Sammie about Ronnie during that first segment. They were backed into a corner and really weren’t going to get a better opportunity to spill the beans. And, to be honest, at this point I wouldn’t have blamed them. As much as I like Ron-Ron he is putting everyone else in a horrible position with his antics.

- JWOWW telling off Emilio was sexy. “You’re a loser with no job” — great stuff.

- Listen here JWOWW, I love ya baby - but don’t get mad at Angelina for not telling Sam when you couldn’t do it either. There was a lot of trying to push the burden of confession on Angelina this episode and, as much as I hate that girl, it shouldn’t have been put on her. Jenni and Nicole – if Sammi is your friend then telling her what was happening is your responsibility. Testify, Ken.

- Situation looks like he cooks a mean meal. I’d like to sample chicken cutlet night. Seriously though, Ronnie, it’s a family dinner - put a shirt on, bro.

- Really not sure what the point of the Truth or Dare type game was. The girls dress sexy and then they go around the room and answer personal question… What the hell? Spin the Bottle or 7 Minutes in Heaven would have been much more entertaining.

- Quote(s) of the episode:

1) “I’m eating chocolate chip cookies every night, dog.” - Situation explaining that Ronnie needs to choose Sam or creeping - and adding that he is doing quite well for himself with the female gender at the moment.

2) “I hate tests. That’s why I didn’t go to college.” – Ronnie’s response to Sammi about her ‘test’. Good for him – we aren’t mind-readers, ladies.

3) Everything said by Pauly and Vinny at the gelato shop. That was comedic gold. Vinny has been absolutely on point with his zings this season. I’d say he is making a big push to get a role on Situation and Pauly D’s inevitable spin-off.

- Girls don’t fart - that was just reality TV editing.

- There was another extended club scene with Ronnie and Sam fighting, making up and Ronnie getting hammered. I was on the can when this was going on so I don’t really know the details, but I imagine it went similar to the other 3,231 Ronnie and Sam club scenes this season. Just a guess.

- So they get back from the club and Ron-Ron is obliterated and Sammi is taking care of him (which is nice of her). How can JWOWW and Snooki go “I’m done Sam, no more of this” as if they are washing their hands of the situation when they didn’t even tell her what was going down. It would be one thing if they told her everything with Ronnie and then said “ok, now we’re not putting up with this anymore” but instead they skated around the topic and dropped ambiguous hints. Man up, bitches.

- So to make themselves feel better, JWOWW and Snooki write an anonymous, horribly misspelled letter. That is just about the worst possible solution those two idiots could have come up with. Most of all though, it’s cowardly — even by my standards

Alright, having a full freaking episode devoted to Ronnie and Sam is inexcusable. They better make up with it next week which looks to have potential as Sammi discovers the letter and MVP tries to hide groups of girls throughout the house.

Stay lucky,
Ken

Let’s see what was going down on the thrid episode of the season.

- That was some solid fallout from the ‘Slap Heard ‘Round the Shore’. I grossly underestimated how drunk Angelina was – she had no concept of reality. Kudos to JWOWW for not teeing off on a person in that state.

- So it’s the first day of work at the gelato shop. Wonderful. Vinny seems like a solid worker. If I owned a business like that I could see myself hiring him – but that’s it. The girls would be disqualified because they are helpless and lazy. Situation wouldn’t take it seriously. Ronnie would get ‘roid rage and attack a customer. And I could never hire a guy with a blowout - so as much as I like Pauly he’s out too.

- By the way, I would pay large sums of money to attend a Guadagnino family reunion and see some of Vinny’s ‘old school Italian relatives’ in their natural environment.

- Quote of the episode: “unfortunately your fun conflicts with our fun” - Pauly to Angelina as she is trying to apologize for going psycho the night before. I can’t say how impressed I was with how Pauly handled this situation. Never once did he fly off the handle and, in the end, he calmly accepts the apology but says it’s too late to reconcile any sort of friendship. This guy is cool as ice.

- As a brother of someone with a peanut allergy I would like to point out how dangerous it is to give these unmotivated morons a job at an ice cream shop. Every time ice cream is served the scoop used needs to be washed and sterilized to prevent any peanut residue from sticking. Failure to do this could cause the peanuts to find their way into the ice cream of an allergic person with catastrophic results. Just sayin’.

- The Situation’s pow-wow with the rest of the house to talk about Angelina was a nice gesture. Of course, the actual reason he did it was to pawn her off onto the girls so she would get off MVP’s back. Still, he showed initiative. He was also right about Angelina not being able to ‘do GTL with the guys’. After all, as Snooki pointed out, Angelina is a ‘pale rat’ which would defeat the purpose of the ‘T’.

- JWOWW’s club attire: I guess ‘the girls’ needed to breath after wearing the gelato shop uniform. I’m not complaining. I’m in love with her.

- So Snooki is the bigger guidette and squashes the beef with Angelina. This was the wrong move. Angelina is the most worthless human on TV and this truce will only be temporary I can assure you. If you ask me, Snooks and JWOWW should have led a full-on psychological assault on Angelina until she finally broke down and left the house – again. I’m talking Nair in her shampoo level sadistic. Mean Girls type shit.

- I’ve never seen so many people wearing sunglasses in dark dance clubs before in my life. Then again, I’ve never been in a dance club.

- Snooki stuck her orange nose were it didn’t belong when she confronted Ron in the club about his creepin. Snooki is also a female. Coincidence?

- ‘Wanna f*ck?’ Got to love that Snooki she sure wasn’t subtle about her intentions with the Vin-man — I like that in a woman. What’s the percentage of women Vinny would have said ‘no’ to at that point? 0.7%? 0.3%?

- Final verdict on if Snooki and Vinny smushed – no. There’s no way Vinny got the Italian sausage to cook in his condition.

- I was busy drinking bleach and banging my head on the counter while Sammi and Ronnie worked their shift at the gelato shop. It looked riveting. Please don’t fill me in.

- The definition of grenade has changed from the first season to the current. In the first season it meant a girl who – excuse my French - was a cock-block. This season it means any ugly girl. Make up your minds, boys.

(Edit: My main man Matty C. has pointed out that I was incorrect and the original definition of a grenade was an ugly girl who your friend hooks up with so that you can hook up with her better looking friend. Good looks, Matt.)

- You know the guys are famous and pulling all kinds of tail in Miami because the ‘ugly girls’ they took home are better looking than anything the Seaside hot tub saw. So many STD’s floating around in that thing after their session.

- Snooki and Situation - the gelato shop Dream Team.

- A word on the Vampires Suck movie that played ten billion times throughout the episode. It looks like possibly the worst movie ever made. Yet, I remember voluntarily going to a bunch of movies of the same ilk when I was 15… 15-year-old Ken was a dumbass.

- A word on the Piranha movie that played ten billion times throughout the episode. Can’t… freaking… wait… Apparently, 25-year-old Ken is a dumbass too.

- OK, we’re currently at commercial while I write this. Ronnie is contemplating his next move. Should he go out or stay in? Please go out Ronnie! Do it. Do it.

- Score!!!! This is the new Ron-Ron, Sammi. Get used to it toots. Or stay in bed and be a martyr. Either way, I don’t care.

This was an absolutely riveting episode. One of the all-time greats I would say.

Next week brings an anonymous letter (how else would those skanks do it?) and shit hits the fan with Sammi and Ron. Bring it on!

Stay lucky,
Ken

Hey Coker – want to shoot Strikeforce into the stratosphere?  Get out your checkbook and shell out whatever it takes to get JWOWW inside the cage with Cyborg.  The Brazilian mauler takes on the Jersey Shore guidette.  Fight of the year?  No.  Fight of the century.

‘Sleep with one eye open, bitch.  I’m going to make you sweat this out.’  Are you kidding me?  Who says that?  I would have pissed myself if I was Angelina.  Can’t wait to see how this turns out.

In other news, Angelina did a nice job of getting the only two people in the house who tolerate her to jump ship.  I give kudos to Pauly D for not flipping his lid when she slapped him.  And Kudos to Sitch for ignoring everything because he was so dead-set on making those chicken tenders.  Sometimes a bro just needs his tenders, ya know?

In other news:

- Why on Earth are they working at an ice cream shop?  No one cares.  Booze, brawls and boobs – that’s what makes this show.  People want to see Ronnie hammered while grinding with go-go dancers - not scooping ice cream with a hairnet.  You would think they learned their lesson last season.  The footage from the t-shirt stand was the biggest waste of time in MTV history.

- Watching Snooki (queen of the dingbats) and Vinny (momma’s boy extraordinaire) trying to clean up the chicken made me chuckle.  Say what you will about the Situation, but he’s probably the most intelligent and independent one of the group and it must pain him to deal with such idiocy.

- Ronnie and Sammi fought and then made-up.  Then they fought again and made-up.  And, if I were a betting man, I would say next week brings more of the same.

- I am officially a card carrying member of Camp Pauly D – I like that guy more and more each episode.

- Jay 420 and Joey Yanks.  ‘Nuff said.

Overall, a very mediocre episode, but it set the stage nicely for what looks to be a tour de force next week.  The return of Sloppy Joe, grenade attack in the hot tub and Vinny and Snooki… get…it…on!!!  Whoooooooooooo.

Enjoy the weekend folks.

Stay lucky,
Ken

One of my favorite shows kicked off its second season last night when Jersey Shore 2 premiered.  Now, I realize MMA and Jersey Shore don’t have much in common – but it’s my blog and until I start getting paid for this shit I’ll write whatever I please.

Here are some thoughts from the premiere.

- The Situation/Pauly D road trip down to Miami was interesting.  I couldn’t decide if I would want to take a road trip with these two.  It would either be the best time of my life due to the unintentional comedy levels or I would want to rip my eyes out after 20 minutes.  Either way, there would be no middle ground.

P.S.: I loved how the two dumbasses got stuck in the mud.

- I really can’t stand the fact that Angelina was given another chance this season.  MTV is rewarding quitting and stupidity by having her there.  When she left last season she made the dumbest career move a no-name, skank from Staten Island has ever made.  All she had to do was spend two months in a huge house at Seaside Heights with her only instructions being ‘party your face off’ and she couldn’t handle it.  They should have kicked her to the curb the second she walked out the door.

If nothing else, she probably is the biggest, most insecure bitch in that house – which is really saying something.  This could lead to some good drama.  The fact that all the other girls are already shunning her and JWOWW nearly kicked her ass is a good sign.  We’ll see what happens.

(Obligatory ‘one MMA reference per post’ comment:  Bringing Angelina back would be like Dana giving Kalib Starnes another fight after he ran from Nate Quarry for 15 minutes at UFC 83)

- The Vin-meister seems to be a getting a bit of an ego.  “If I got 60 days in Miami that means 60 different girls – one a night.  And if I miss out on a night, I’ll just double up the next night.”  That’s not the lovable mamma’s boy I used to know.  People liked Vinny because in a house full of arrogant meatballs he was the one guy you could say ‘well, I could see myself not hating his guts if I met him.’  I hope fame hasn’t corrupted the young Staten Islander.

- Going into the season I was a bit worried about things getting too scripted like all other ‘reality’ shows.  After the first episode though, I am cautiously optimistic that the magic is still there.  All reactions and general behavior seemed genuine.  I believe Pauly and Situation really didn’t know that Angelina was coming back and their shocked faces were legit.  I believe Ronnie just decided ‘I am going to get hammered tonight’.  I believe JWOWW would have really given Angelina a beatdown.  Let’s hope this trend continues.

- Rewind your DVR’s and look at Situation’s reaction to Vinny’s arrival.  He doesn’t seem to be in any rush to greet him and has a general look of disdain.  I wonder if there are still some hard feelings and if this will be an issue throughout the season. Is a newly big-headed Vinny ready to go toe-to-toe with the Situation?  Stay tuned.

- Watching Sammi’s clothes get ruined was worth price of admission.  I hate her so much.

- Favorite quote of the episode: ‘I feel like a pilgrim from the 20’s right now’ – Snooki as she washes Sammi’s clothes in the sink.  Didn’t this dingbat want to be a veterinarian?  Good luck with that one, honey.

- If JWOWW were born a dude she would be a gorilla – no doubt about it.  Maybe the other girl’s are just really small, but JWOWW looks freaking huge.  I would not want to tangle with that one.  Long Island, represent.

- The split-screen between the girls nearly killing each other in their cab with the guys quietly contemplating a sweet night on the town was one of my favorite parts of the episode.  Girls are so stupid.

- I love single Ronnie.  This could be a nice twist to the season.  With the other guys, we know what we’re getting when they hit the clubs.  We never really got to see Ronnie in his element though since last time he always had that cancer at his side.  It’s going to be fun to see Ron-Ron cut loose.

- Speaking of Ronnie and Sammi: please God, let this storyline end.  No one cares.  We watch this show to see drunken fools make idiots of themselves and get into fights with other drunken fools in Affliction shirts.  If I wanted to watch relationship nonsense I would flip on the Real World.  Unfortunately, the ‘coming this season’ promo at the end made it seem like this thing isn’t going anywhere.  Sigh.

- There looks to be a TON of roommate-on-roomate violence this season.  That’s something that was lacking last time outside of JWOWW’s sucker punch to Sitch.  I’m pumped.

All in all, this was a good first episode to kickoff the new season.  They stuck to the original formula which I am just fine with.  Why mess with a good thing?

Stay lucky,
Ken