Rutgers football gameday!

Rutgers is really pissing Johnny off to no end this morning. As you all know Michigan State is his team. They are #2 in the country and trying to chase down one of those coveted four playoff spots.

Rutgers is playing moribund Kansas. Kansas is the team 1-AA teams schedule early in the season for a good looking win over a Division 1 school. This game gets FOUR Chets in fact:


Why is Johnny mad at Rutgers? Since Michigan State is also on the BTN Network but the Scarlet Knights, being a locally-sourced team are the game on Big Ten Network at noon. Now some Rutgers fans might counter that Sparty is only playing Central Michigan.

Kansas, the most awfullest team in the last 10 years not named Eastern Michigan versus Rutgers, Johnny just woke up but hasn't had time to check the police blotter to see who's playing.

Stupid local interest.

Now that we've dispensed with the unpleasantness of geography, today we're going to find out if Rutgers is a lost cause and are simply mailing it in a third of the way through the season. This is Kansas, even a team in crisis should beat them at home. This game can be broken down to "Is Rutgers still all in in 2015.?" If they are, they'll start B1G play at 2-2, if not, oh boy oh boy oh boy. Of course let's remember this is a full team effort of goofery. Both coaches AND players have contributed MIGHTILY to this mess. Today would be a good day to step up and represent your university in a fitting manner.

As bad as this game looks on paper there is an awful lot to play for if you're RU.

Fearless Forecast:
Rutgers 28
Kansas 21

Saturday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with OINGO BOINGO!

Johnny checked, this band meets the usual six month rule about repetition. That's not to say that Oingo Boingo music isn't a good thing any day of the week but we do try to spread the wealth around a little bit.

Oingo Boingo hep cats and kittens with 'Weird Science', one of the high water marks for movie tracks.

Late night open thread

Tonight this blog, along with a gazillion others, will have clips of a John Hughes film he either directed or was the screenwriter for. His influence on people Johnny's age is immense and seemingly neverending. The classic films, the lines Johnny still uses (even here) from said films is a labor of love. Nobody in Hollywood connected with Johnny's generation better than John Hughes. A lot of lines from Hughes' films have become everyday expressions in the American vernacular. Not many in the film business can say that.

We mourn his sudden passing with what else? Clips of his work...

National Lampoon's Vacation (note a very young Jane Krakowski with her arm in the Kool-Aid jar)


Planes Trains & Automobiles (A line Johnny loves to use while traveling: "Lessen you're a hog or a cattle")


Weird Science


Time for Jersey City, After Dark