Civil Rights Game

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to attend the annual MLB Civil Rights Game in Cincinnati. As baseball honored those who have worked for equality across this country for all. Four of the best players of the 50's and 60's were there. A veritable Mt. Rushmore of baseball studs were on the field as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks and Frank Robinson were there. Here are some of the pictures. Oh yeah the Reds won 4-3 on a walk-off defensive play at the plate.

...until Lambs become Lions

I went and saw the latest telling of Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe. I do have to say I liked it. Now I love Robin Hood and movies set in that time period so I thought combining the two would be awesome. I was wrong. It was good but far from awesome. Crowe did a pretty good job but he never had that aha moment as Robin of the Hood. If you renamed all the characters it would be a good movie, maybe even a little better. The best thing they did was set it up for a sequel which I will go see. After all it is Robin Hood, sort of.

3 Floyds and a bit

Weekend Plan Ramblings

Tonight the plan is to have a nice cookout, clean up the patio area and enjoy the great outdoors. A little fire pit action and listen to the Reds.

















Tomorrow morning make a dump run and then going to see the New Robin Hood movie. It looks pretty good and the reviews have been decent so far.

























After that we head to Cincinnati for the Cardinals & Reds. It is the annual Civil Rights Game and will have some fun festivities going on. The Reds will be honoring their first African-American player, Chuck Harmon.


Both teams will be wearing throw back uniforms that reflect 1947 when the color line was broken in baseball. I'm looking forward to checking out their new Hall of Fame exibits.







Have Great Week End

Because I am Kick-ass! I'm also not gay

Well I went and saw the movie Kick Ass today. I went in with no knowledge about the plot other than some kid who was trying to become a super hero. I thought it was a spoof on this. I was wrong.

You have to go see it to believe it. It starts really slow and you think it is just another Seth Rogan type stupid sophomoric comedy. Nope wrong again. This is probably one of the most violent movies I have seen. Think Boondock Saints violent. And then the disturbing ,albeit only slightly, parts begin. In a lot of ways it out Super Heroes a lot of Super Hero movies. I'd recommend it. 3 Floyds and a bit

Ironman 2

Ironman 2. The one that Marvel let get away. It could have been great. It could have followed up Ironman and set the tone for comic book movies for a few years to come but it didn't. The effects were pretty cool. The bad guy was ok. Mickey Rourke, as Whiplash, could have been right up there with Heath Ledger as one of the great villians of all time but it just never jelled. His Russian character could have been great but he was hard to understand at times and you just never feel like you got to "know" him.

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow was hot. She definitely needs more screen time.

Overall, I felt a little disapointed. Marvel looked like Shane Mosely trying to counter punch DC's The Dark Knight's Floyd Mayweather in this one.

I give it 3 Floyds only because it was one of my favorite Comics ever.

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P.S. Stay through the credits and watch for some subtle references throughout the show.

JonCon Events

How about spending a few hours playing Descent? Maybe Nautallica would run some more of the adventure he started a little while back? That would give me a chance to use my new Descent Dice I just got. What say you men?

Talos Island Badges

#1 Minotaur - between the feet of the Talos statue
#2 Nature Lover - .53 mile south of Skyway City exit, East side of large rock, a few feet north of grass mound
#3 Whitecap - Top of Tanker Ship's cabin 640 yards east of Ithaca isle marker
Here is a list and a map of the Badges we can collect on Talos Island. I would like to start hunting for as many badges as possible. What say you men?

OSU Spring Game

The Spring Game is tomorrow at 1 PM in the Shoe. Any one heading up???????

Go Bucks!!

Free RPG Day

Free RPG Day is coming. Mark June 19, 2010 on your calenders.

Origins Game Fair

I know it runs concurrently with our event but we always manage to get over to it for a few hours anyway. 64 days until Origins starts its 35th show. Looks like the $5 Day Pass is back:

Day Pass

Origins is proud to continue to offer our popular day passes again this year.

For each day the exhibitor hall is open (Thursday thru Sunday) we will allow people to attend the show for an admission fee of only $5/day. You can bring the whole family for only $15/day!

Please keep in mind that these passes do not allow you to play in any ticketed games or events at the show.

The day passes do allow access into all non-ticketed events, such as:
• Entry to the Exhibit Hall
• Entry to the Art Show
• Entry into the Origins Theme area for breakfast or evening events
• Participation in the Origins Auction
• Participation in Open Gaming


Find out about the Origins experience by chatting with gamers and past attendees in our staff-moderated Origins Forum.
Read more about it here.

Descent Dice

Fantasy Flight once again has extra sets of Descent Dice available on their site for $6.95. You can check it out @: FantasyFlightGames.com

A good day to be a Reds Fan

Opening Day

Go Reds!

Happy Easter

Final Four

Enjoy the games!

Final Four

Enjoy the games!

ADEPTICON 2010

www.adepticon.org

This weekend!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

I'll be celebrating at McGuire's Irish Pub in Destin Florida this year. Get out and enjoy.

Tis himself

Aloha Monster

My youngest is moving to Kona, Hawaii today. I miss her already. Aloha

Selection Sunday

The selections are in. Some pretty good teams got left out. Congrats to Syracuse, Kansas, Kentucky and Duke as being the number ones. Ohio State had a good showing as a number two seed and has a pretty good bracket. Don't forget to go over to Yahoo and sign up for our JonCon picke 'em!!

nc2a Tourney Pick 'em

Ok the field has been announced so go at it and have some fun!!

You can enter up to 2 brackets on Yahoo.com

The Group ID# is 1059
The password is joncon10

Steak & BJ Day

This kicks off one of the greatest weeks for men of the year. Following up the men's holiday are St. Patrick's Day and March Madness. Sit Back and enjoy the week guys with the lady you love.

Steak and BJ Day was invented by Tom Birdsey, may he live forever, and may the gods eternally bless his fate. Men everywhere should write, and sing, songs in his honor, build shrines and worship at the alter for this man who has been so benevolent as to bless us with a day devoted entirely to devouring massive hunks of cow flesh and being the recipient of one of life's simplest, yet greatest, pleasures. Truly, he is a saint among swine, and deserving of the highest accolades in the worlds beyond.

New Game

A new game that looks like it has a chance to be pretty good. We have to put it on the "demo" list for this summer.

Defenders of the Realm is a cooperative fantasy board game in which 1-4 players take a role as one of the King’s Champions (Choose from Cleric, Dwarf, Eagle Rider, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer and Wizard). You, as one of the King's Heroes make use of strategy, special abilities, cooperation, card play and a little luck in Defenders of the Realm for a unique experience every adventure. But be forewarned! There is never time to rest. As each Enemy General is struck down in battle, the remaining dark forces only grow more difficult to vanquish and their march to Monarch City gets faster with each Hero victory!

read more here at BoardGameGeek.com.

Evan Almighty

Sorry John Wall, you are good but you are no Evan Turner. At least this year.

Oscar

Well tonight is an event that I will be forced to watch and it is one that I don't like. Let me rephrase that. I hate it. No wait, I loathe it. It is the Oscars. And as if watching them struggle with 5 choices for Best Picture wasn't enough this year it will be a choice of 10. That's right 10. Here is the list:

Avatar
The Blind Side
District Nine
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Disney/Pixar's Up
Up in the Air

If that wasn't enough they are going to be hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Hopefully there is some adventuring to do in City Of Heroes tonight.

Oh yeah my pick is Avatar but I'm sure it isn't artsy enough.

nc2a Tourney pick 'em

Here is the info for our annual NCAA tourny pick 'em at Yahoo.com. I will repost this on Sunday March 14. Invite anyone you want to play

You can enter up to 2 brackets

The Group ID# is 1059
The password is joncon10

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to the esteemed Durwaine Leaflander our favorite druid. We raise our glasses to you my friend!

Each must drain his cup of wine,
And I the first will toss off mine:
Thus I advise,
Here then I bid you all Wassail,
Cursed be he who will not say Drink hail.

Go Bucks - Big 10 Champs

Way to go OSU clinching a share of the 2009-2010 Big 10 Championship. They finish the regular season with a 24-7 record (14-4 in the league)and a probable #2 seed in the Dance.

2010 Winter Olympics

Well the Olympics wound up with an exciting overtime hockey game. Canada beat the US 3-2 in overtime. The win gave Canada the gold and was their 14th of the Games a new record surpassing the 13 won by the Soviets in 1976 and Norway in 2002.

The Silver medal for the United States gave them 37 total medals the most ever for a Winter Olympics.

Good Job Team USA

Medal Count Feb 28 6 PM Final Count

Exclusive Winter Olympics news & widgets at NBC Olympics.com!

Medal Count Feb 27 6 PM

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