Thanks!

First of all, thanks for checking out my blog. I don't do it that often, more so when my 360 is broken (as it is now). Still, I've had well over 9,000 views so thanks!

I also wanted to thank the Tampa Bay Rays for a great season!. It was so much fun to watch them this year and I can't wait until spring. My favorite Rays player, Carlos Pena has just won his first Golden Glove.

Congrats Carlos!

Ghost Busted

One of my favorite shows has been Ghost hunters on the ScFi channel. My wife really enjoyed it and it just became something we would watch together each week. We liked it because it really seemed genuine. They would go to check out a haunt, debunk the claims and leave finding absolutely nothing. I guess it didn't make for the most exciting television, but it really leant itself to the credibility of the TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) team. Then when they would find something, it was exciting and cool. Usually whenthey did find something, it was just a small whisper of a voice or a blink of a shadow darting away that there was no explanation for. The team leaders, Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes, seemed like down to Earth nice guys that were really just looking for the truth. You really felt that you could trust them.

On Halloween they did a live 7 hour show from Ft Deleware. SciFi devoted all that air time, investing millions to put this on. In the end, TV money is about TV ratings so an uneventful night just could not fly. They did the same thing last year at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. They caught some evidence but it was mainly chasing random shadows and noises, and disembodied voices that were only picked up on recording devices that was dicovered after the event was over. Not exactly edge of your seat kind of stuff. This year it seems, ScFi wanted a sure thing. I can go on and on about what happened that night, but I'll just concentrate on two things.

"You are not supposed to be here."

While "investigating" in the dungeon area of the fort, a sudden and suspiciously loud voice stated "you are not supposed to be here." The sound just seems like it was digitally altered and Grant Wilson really over acts after it's heard, Check it out:

I mean c'mon! It sounds like the voice from the Saw horror movie series. Later, they give us the pièce de résistance, some well placed jacket tugs, and more over acting from Grant. Notice that his left hand seems aweful busy trying to stay hidden from the camera.

I mean, really? Before this happened (my wife recorded the entire 7 hours and we watched it frame by frame over and over) Grant kept is right hand swinging at his side or holding something. After this happened, the same thing. Only during this event was it stuck in or around his pocket. His over acting sucked and quite frankly, so did Jason's. Here you are looking for ghosts when your parter is claiming actual physical contact that is getting cought on camera and what... you are more interested in a bat? Also, you may need to replay this to see it. Right after Jason digs around into the jacket collar and proclaims it all good, just as soon as he lets it go, the collar gets tugged again. You can see it but Grant and everyone else seems not to notice. It must have been an accidental tug.

Oh well, what can you expect. If it was real and genuine in the begining, it was doomed to fall. Just as soon as it got popular and the advertising dollars started pouring in, so would the TV executive control. Kinda reminds me of when Dog the Bounty Hunter turned out to be an asshole. Yeah, I liked that show too, and just like I did with that show, I can choose NOT to watch this one. I might not be the brightest bulb around, but I'm not a complete stooge either.

Later peeps,

-Jim