It’s official. After those first 15 years of my life being hard core Roman Catholic (that included a crap load of boy scout and alter boy years) and another decade to get over that bull crap, I can finally claim I’m agnostic. I could’ve probably claimed it a couple of years ago, but I’m making today the official day. I made my declaration in an AIM chat earlier.

Hope this works. If I followed the documentation correctly, I should have gotten podcasts to work with Radio. Fingers crossed.

Howard Dean is on The Daily Show right now. I dig this guy. He may be a little over the top at times, but I think it’s just adds to his authentisity.

Howstuffworks.com has a couple of articles they did on the Batmobile and Batsuit. Pretty cool articles if you’re interested. I saw Batman Begins again last Sunday. I liked it a whole lot better the second time around. My expectations were way too high when I saw it the first time so the second time made it feel like a much better movie.

I read this article from USA Today about a week ago and have kinda been dwelling on it ever since. It basically talked about how bloggers need to be careful when post because the audience is sometimes their co-workers. Anytime I write in this thing, I’m well aware co-workers are reading (although they never make themselves known) and that forces me to censor myself. I don’t wanna end up fired like Peter Whitney from the article, but oh how I would love to write about some of the things that that affect me negatively at work or bring up crap about certain people. Yeah, it’s just not gonna happen and that certainly sucks.

Man I love Felicity. It’s simply one of the greatest shows ever created. Now you can imagine why Keri Russell getting the lead female role in the next Mission Impossible movie can be so damn exciting for me. Why we haven’t seen her in more roles lately is beyond me. I have a feeling that’s going to change after this next movie. Just remember, I love her first!

Instead of staying up and writing about it as soon as I got back (like I did for Episode III), I decided to sleep on it and write a quick review of Batman Begins this morning. I can tell ya right now that I did enjoy it and it is a much better Batman movie with promise of even better sequels. Still, I felt like for everyone one thing Begins did right, it did another one thing wrong.

I’ll start with the good. Christian Bale is the definitive young Batman. There is no one else who could do this character better. Batman is a tough character to play because there are these two entirely different personalities involved to do it right. Bale plays the rich smug playboy Bruce Wayne and the tortured Batman perfectly. The performances from everyone in this flick are very good. You really don’t expect anything less from the list of grade-A actors and actresses involved and they all deliver.

The first hour of the movie is of the all about a younger Bruce Wayne and the events that eventually influence him to become Batman. In fact, there is no Batman in sight for all of this time. We get to see why he is the man he’s turned out to be and the things he does to suppress or enhanced his fear. These were, by far, my favorite parts of Begins.

Time for the bad. After the first hour, it seemed as though the studio suits stepped in and said, “Enough is enough. Bring in Batman.” It’s almost as if another movie starts at this point. You get bum-rushed with Batman, how he gets his toys, and bad guys doing their bad things. The whole last half of the story was just too rushed. On top of that, the plot the bad guys think up to destroy Gotham City is just to far fetch for me. It’s ridiculous to the point where all I could think about were the older movies and their stupid plots. Here you get this first great hour. A very realistic, believable, and human story about this guy and it paces well. Then you get this next hour very rushed with a story that’s not very believable at all. It just doesn’t fit.

You would think a Batman movie would have to have some great action in it. Well, this one definitely has a lot, but it’s just so poorly produced. The shots are too quick and too tight. It seemed to me that they were purposely hiding the fact that no one could move naturally in that batsuit. The only exception to the poor action sequences were the sequences with the batmobile. I had some reservations with the batmobile when I first saw the trailers, but I came out surprisingly impressed with it. No reason to hide a car, so these shots were wider and the cuts were longer.

In the end after all of the issues I had with the flick, it still turned out to be a case of the positives outweighing the negatives. It’s a good flick, but it could have be so much more. The end sets it up for many more movies to come. I think they were feeling out the audience with Begins and it’s definitely a step in the right direction. The bottom line is that Batman Begins a great start to a great franshise and I can’t wait to see the sequels.

Casino: 10th Anniversary Edition and Hitch on DVD today. The Shield season finale tonight at 10pm and then Batman Begins at midnight. I feel another good day coming along.

Well, it looks like the Apple/Intel rumors that we’ve been hearing for several years have finally been confirmed as real in Jobs’ keynote this morning. How awesome is this? I think it’s a great thing. Not that it ever needed it, but the playing field sounds like it’s gonna level out here pretty quick. I can’t wait for 2007.

I forgot I had a web site these last couple of weeks (something that a lot of people did many years ago). There’s nothing I’ve been doing worth mentioning. Most of it is a mess of Star Wars Galaxies and motorcycle riding. Actually, the motorcycle is good because it takes me outdoors a lot more than I ever thought I’d be going. Too tired right now to write anything more than this so I’m heading off to bed. Maybe when I wake up tomorrow, those happy Apple/Intel rumors will be true.