The Least of These

I don't get serious very often, particularly not here on this website. I don't know why, but whenever a serious and deep conversation sparks up, I'm only good for a few minutes before my dumb brain takes a sharp right turn into absolute left field.

I guess I just feel like life itself can be so rough. I don't want to focus on that. I don't want to ignore it either, but if I have the choice between laughing and sober mourning, I'm gonna open up the chuckle jar and help myself.

Today, I'm being serious. As serious as I'm able to make myself be, that is. I apologize in advance if this isn't your cup of tea and will understand if you need to sit this one out.

It all starts with a crazy experience I had last week...

Chuck E. Cheese's: Where a kid can be the center of the universe

This past weekend, I sought to prove that I am the world's most loving uncle by setting foot in an establishment I would otherwise never go: Chuck E. Cheese's.

It was my nephew's second birthday and it was here that my brother and his wife decided to throw the lavished shindig.

No big deal. We would stop by, make an appearance, drop off our present and then hit the road.

I wish.

Before last Saturday, I hadn't been to Chuck E. Cheese's since I was a small child. I found out all kinds of things I either did not know in the first place or had blacked out through trauma.

Here's what I learned:

Bigfoot Cross-post on TheParm.com

My new buddy Mike Mihalo runs a sweet website called TheParm.com. Like me, he is a fellow devotee to the idea that Bigfoot might be real, or at least that it's real-ly fun to pretend.

Mike enjoyed my post that I wrote, titled: "Why I Love Bigfoot." So much so that he has decided to run it on his website for his readers to geek out over.

Check out the article HERE!

Why I hate the New England Patriots

Tonight (Feb. 5, 2012), the AFC Champion New England Patriots will take on the NFC Champion New York Giants at Super Bowl 46 in Indianapolis, Indiana to determine who is the best football team in all the land.

I will be cheering for the Giants, and it's not because I'm a Giants fan.

Nay, I don't worship at the throne of Eli Manning or kneel before the always scowling Tom Coughlin. I don't dislike either of them, but I'd be being disingenuous if I pretend to be a New York Giants die-hard.

I'm a Raiders fan. Always have been. Through thick and thin (mostly thin). So, as you might expect, this time of year doesn't usually give me much to cheer for, from an NFL perspective.

My team never makes it, so I don't really have anyone else to cheer for. Luckily, the New England Patriots seem to make it every year. This is useful, because I may not have a team to cheer for, but I do have a team to cheer against.

Why would I cheer against the "Pats?" The answer is simple:

I hate them.

The Week in Review: Jan. 30, 2012

Happy Super Bowl weekend!

Am I the only one here who thinks we should get the Monday after the Super Bowl off from work? This is a legit concern of mine, politicians. Want my vote in the presidential election? Don't come at me with all that "flat tax" and "stem cell research" jibber-jabber. Just give me "Super Bowl Monday" to recover from the awful, awful food that I stuffed into my stomach the prior night.

Anyway, that wasn't what I wanted to talk about. What did I want to talk about?

Oh yeah. The week in review.

Here it is:

- We had a deep conversation about moral character

- I interviewed Chad Jones from RandomlyChad.com. It was epic.

- We did an advance screening of some of the Super Bowl 46 commercials.

Watch a funny video after the jump:

Are you ready for some football...commercials?

It's that time of year again! 

It's the Super Bowl. The day of the year when hardcore and casual football fans a like get together, eat terribly unhealthy food, make silly wagers and cheer for (or against) a team they are often only vaguely familiar with.

But that's not all.

Some of the main attractions every year are the commercials. It's weird, because usually we all hate commercials. It's why we have DVRs. Skipping commercials has become the new American past-time. But it's different on Super Bowl Sunday.

Why? Because these commercials are almost always epically awesome! Every year, the major corporations battle to come with humorous and/or just flat-out attention grabbing ads. They pay millions of dollars for them, so you know they've made a big effort to make sure they absolutely kill.

Some are winners, some miss the mark. Either way, it's usually a lot of fun. 

Nowadays, everything has gone viral. This now includes the Super Bowl commercials. In an innovative move to ostensibly get viewers to become familiar with the ad spots before gameday, the companies have released the ads online for you to watch them.

I saved you the work and picked out some of the finer inclusions. 

After the jump, you can check out my favorites from this year's batch of Super Bowl commercials.

Enjoy:

TheIsleofMan.Net Interview: 'Chad Jones from RandomlyChad.com'

Chad Jones writes for and runs RandomlyChad.com, a Killer Tribes blog that focuses on some of the every day trials, scenarios and awkward encounters that Christians and non-Christians alike experience regularly. 

He is a husband and father of two children. He is addicted to Coffee and Chick-Fil-A. I consider him a friend of mine, even though he admittedly thinks Tim Hawkins is funny. 

Chad was nice enough to donate some of his time and wit to TheIsleOfMan.Net and answer some questions that will probably have the internet ablaze in conversation for a matter of minutes.

Drumroll please...