I have to vent about something that has been eating away at me for the last several years now. The roommates and I have been watching the new HBO series, Rome since the cable was installed on Tuesday. You'd think that they'd have everything historically accurate by now, but why do the characters speak in English accents??? This falsity has been used for every Roman movie I have ever seen! Actually, is it false? Did the British begin their civilization in Italy? Did they all just one day say to themselves, "Well, I really like Rome, but it's not cold or foggy enough and there aren't enough plagues."? Everyone had an English accent on Gladiator (Still waiting for someone to use the title, "Glad He Ate Her", in a porn someday), Spartacus (Ryan's favorite movie for some reason), Alexander, and many more. Did Shakespeare's plays really have that much of an effect on the entertainment industry? In those days, you could get away with inaccuracies such as these. I'm surprised you still can. There must be at least one historian out there who agrees that the ancient Romans spoke Latin/Italian. So why can't they make the actors speak in those accents? It boggles my mind and if there wasn't so much gratuitous nudity and unnecessary sex scenes in this HBO series, I would never watch it again! This is like making the characters in The Godfather speak in Southern hillbilly accents. People wouldn't buy that, so why does everyone continue to eat this up? Am I alone on this one? Doesn't anyone else notice this? Until someone comes along and proves that the British did in fact rule ancient Rome, I will be forced to only watch the series through "On Demand" so I can fast forward to the scenes with Roman whores swordfighting to the death, topless, for one of the army generals.

Not sure what's going for me tonight or this weekend. I may go up to Zach's place in Corvallis on Saturday to see his new puppy that La Skanka gave him a couple weeks ago. Guess he wont be breaking up with her anytime soon! Anyway, his name is Hurley and he's a yellow lab (big surprise) and since I love screaming at puppies until my voice is hoarse and beating them without mercy, Zach's place is sounding pretty good right now. Ultimately, it will all depend on when the duck game is on. Last night, I saw a couple of big scary negro guys who are on the South Eugene Football staff get kicked out of Taylor's for calling the waiter a "dick" because they only sold Miller Light in bottles and not on tap. Yep, the waiter definitely deserved that one. Then they got rowdy...To me, it is the most hilarious thing you could ever witness from a black dude, unless you're the one he's yelling at. The street slang was shooting out of his mouth like a friggin machine gun. Meanwhile, Vern (We all know Vern---Looks like a former 98 degrees band member) and Chris Miller (The head coach for S. Eugene and a former Duck/pro QB) sitting there looking as white as possible and pretending not to know who these "hooligans". Well, I smiled...Then I went home and watched the first half of American History X before Edward Norton gets released from prison. Ok, actually I turned on a softcore porn called Spiderbabe (Spoof on Spiderman---horribly done, believe it or not), but I did hum "The White Man Marches On" to myself on the walk home from the bars...By the way, if anyone reading this is black, please know that I am totally kidding and do not want my apartment shot up or my stereo equiptment stolen.

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