By Pat Bataillon

Since it’s Friday, I don’t want to dwell on the past too long, so I’ll make it quick. Two lessons learned – or re-learned – last night. From It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the useful tenet “That’s politics, bitch!” From The Wedding Singer, that Drew Barrymore is still extremely annoying. I only got to watch It’s Always Sunny in Philly because of an intense game of Scrabble with my girlfriend. She is most likely blushing now. Picture that. She bested me by a score of 241 to 237. I was taught to take a loss in stride and congratulate my opponent on a game well-played. I must take this opportunity to congratulate her. Congrats!
I couldn’t string any points together. I was just out of it. I had to think about what was different about this night. And then it hit me: Drew Barrymore’s squawk box was melting my brain. Listening to Drew Barrymore “act” last night took me completely off of my game. She has always been a pain in my brain, but I never thought she could through my entire thought process out of whack. But she did.

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Posted on August 4, 2006

By Pat Bataillon

I watched The Hills on MTV last night because the Cubs game was rained out. Amazing how the Cubs can disappoint me even when they don’t play. I would rather have a medieval doctor perform a bloodletting on me than watch that show.

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Posted on August 3, 2006

By Pat Bataillon

Being that this is my second installment on this Internet daily, I thought I would take it seriously. That was obviously a mistake. I thought I would choose a program to watch and then write about it. I chose Pee Wee’s Playhouse on The Cartoon Network at 10 o’clock during their Adult Swim portion of programming. Watching that show for the first time since Paul Reubens was arrested for viewing movies inappropriately was a little frightening. I learned a lot about myself while watching for a half-hour. I felt exhausted; I got up at a commercial break to take a break for myself.

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Posted on August 2, 2006

By Pat Bataillon

I watched the D-backs work the Cubs last night, that’s all there is to say about that. If I were smart enough to realize that the Cubs would never win five in a row this season, I would have watched what was on real TV. After looking through the local listings from last night, I found that there was really nothing on. Hell’s Kitchen on FOX, WWE Monday Night Raw on USA, The Simple Life on E!, and The World Series of Poker on ESPN2 . . .

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Posted on August 1, 2006