Threepeat

For the first time ever, the trivia powerhouse known for its bitingly hilarious names has won trivia at Rocks three Tuesdays in a row, joining the ranks of upper-echelon dynasties with names like Ming, Habsburg, and the 1968-73 Indiana Hoosier swimming and diving team. Last night's team, Now Pitching for the Cardinals: Ty Pennington, was comprised of me, Christoff, Gregerson, Chenandler Bong, and the Brothers Weeser* (minus Greg, of course). We led for most of the game, sprinting to the finish line with a 20 out of 22 in the final round (movies) to win by 5 points. The chances of a fourpeat were quickly put into question, as the second place team chose Harry Potter as next week's wildcard round. Luckily Jester -- who described herself this morning as a "Harry Potter purist" -- has read all of the books, so she will be a much-needed cog in our well-oiled machine. And luckily Gregerson has no job, so I see no reason why he will not watch all of the movies at least twice this week.


Yet Another Touchdown
Congratulations to Hoosier great Anthony "AT" Thompson -- who undoubtedly reads GMYH on a daily basis -- for getting elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. For any of you IU fans out there old enough to remember watching AT, you remember how good he was. I don't know about you, but I still hold a grudge against Andre Ware for edging out AT for the 1989 Heisman.


Like a Leper Messiah
So, has anyone seen Cate Blanchett lately? Or, more appropriately, the albino, androgynous goblin who is inhabiting her body and eating it from the inside? Whatever the fuck it is, it showed up to the Costume Institute Gala in New York, looking very breakable. Sweet Jesus, what the hell happened? Since Cate doesn't seem like your standard insecure Hollywood anorexic type, I'll reserve judgment. She did, after all, play a Queen. Maybe she's losing a lot of weight for a role, like Christian Bale did for The Machinist. I'm sure all of our concerns will be quelled when we soon find out that she's doing a laugh riot about the madcap adventures of Karen Carpenter's corpse, or a biopic about that thing in Lord of the Rings that says "precious," or a think piece entitled "What If Ziggy Stardust Stopped Eating?"