So my days of being unemployed are going to come to an end tomorrow. Miraculously, I actually managed to land a job. It's with a small insurance company that is located in Vernon Hills, which isn't too far from Mundelein. It doesn't sound like it will be that interesting, but a job's a job. Hopefully I won't have to work so hard that I will be unable to continue posting articles. Seeing as how I am really lazy, however, and the fact that I am devoting much of my free time to beating Kingdom Hearts II, it's anyone's guess as to just how dedicated I will be about blogging. Still, I have plans to continue the Tuesday-Thursday schedule, so keep checking on those days.

For reasons that completely escape me, Entertainment Weekly has begun showing up at my place. To my knowledge, I have never subscribed to nor paid any money to Entertainment Weekly, so I am somewhat puzzled as to why it keeps showing up. I have suspicions that Best Buy is somehow involved; it seems that every time I attempt to purchase something there they attempt to shove eight free issues of Entertainment Weekly down my throat. Anyway, I mention this because I was reading an issue recently and it provided me with several interesting facts.

First off, they had something about a live-action Transformers movie. Initially this excited me greatly, at least until I realized that Michael Bay was making the movie. Talk about a letdown. First Michael Bay ruins one of my favorite Japanese ambushes of Americans, and now he's going to ruin one of my favorite 80's Saturday morning cartoons? I'm sure Bay will be able to bring plenty of explosions to the screen, and that's all well and good, but gone will be the subtle nuances of Transformers that led me to seriously consider writing a theology paper in college entitled Optimus Prime as Christ Figure. Why don't they just go all out and get Limp Bizkit to do a cover of the Tranformers theme(I wonder if they would go for the "more than meets the eye" lyric or the "robots in disguise" one)? Michael Bay, please from the bottom of my heart, don't fuck this one up. And heaven help you if you decide to mess with Thundercats or He-Man next.

There's apparently also a Simpsons movie that is expected to come out sometime next year. I don't really know how I feel about this movie. Nowadays, The Simpsons are sort of like elderly people to me: they may have served some role in the past, even an important one, but now they just seem intent on sticking around to see how long they last and stealing all the useful people's oxygen (or half hour of programming, as is the case for The Simpsons). The movie does sound interesting in that they are bringing back a bunch of the writers from the glory days (I don't know if Conan signed up). The quality of the writing on The Simpsons has been in decline for a very long time, and if they can bring back some of the guys who actually knew what they were doing, the movie might actually be great.

I feel I need to at least mention the Cubs sweep of the Cardinals over the weekend. Though there are still some 157 games left, the fact that the Cubs swept the Cardinals was pretty significant. In fact, the Cubs didn't sweep a single series at home all last year (which is an impressively awful statistic; you think they would have accidentally swept the Pirates or something), let alone the team that is the favorite to win the National League. It is important to note that I am by no means drinking the Kool-Aid on these Cubs; in fact, I wouldn't be shocked if they ended up losing their upcoming series to the Reds at home. Still, the jury is out on this team, and I am certainly monitoring the situation closely and will let it be known when I figure out whether or not this team is for real. If they are going to be for real, though, the starting pitching needs to get much more consistent from top to bottom of the rotation.