This week I was going to sit down and write about my weekend at Dallas Comic Con 6 and all of the cool people I met, all of the reasons you should go and spend time meeting the guests, the artists and spending some money. It is really a good time.

But, being as busy as I am, unfortunately my article is running late and I am putting this together while watching Game 5 of the NLCS. Lance Berkman just hit a 3 run home run to put the Astros 2 runs ahead of the Cardinals and two innings away from their first World Series in franchise history, and I have goosebumps. The goosebumps of a 10 year old kid watching his heroes do good. I just changed the topic of my article this week. I hope you will indulge me. Next week we will get back to your regularly scheduled entertainment fix.

When I was a little kid in Freeport Texas, I played little league baseball and my heroes were Nolan Ryan, Jose Cruz, and Mike Scott. While lying in the hospital after a car accident, missing the little league baseball season, I watched the Astros and wanted to be one of them one day. Then I watched, face red from crying my eyes out as the Astros lost the NLCS in a 15 inning stunner to the Miracle Mets. I grew older and my heroes moved on to other teams or just plain moved on from the game. I grew up and my heroes moved on to other teams or just plain moved on from the game. In my teenage years I watched the Oilers and the Packers, part of a more exciting, more brutal sport, occasionally watching baseball, more jaded, not as interested in such a slow game. I watched Jeff Bagwell win the MVP and Craig Biggio play the old workhorse, all out of the corner of my eye. Since I moved to Dallas, being a little older, a little wiser, I started paying attention to my old Astros team. They have new colors, a much hipper look, but still the same old Astros. I watched last year as they came ohhh sooo close, losing to these same Cardinals in game seven. Then an incredibly horrendous first half of the year as Jeff Bagwell was injured and the Astros went 15 games under 500 at the break. The incredible comeback as they squeaked into the playoffs. Then the nail-biting 18 inning comeback against the Braves. Easily the greatest game I have ever seen. Including the Ryan Express years.

As I am writing this it is the top of the ninth and Brad Lidge has come out to hold off the last three batters. Brad Lidge has been un-hittable in the playoffs the last two years and we are now at one out. I can barely type. The crowd is going absolutely nuts. Astros fans have been waiting forever for this. Two outs. Nolan Ryan is in the stands clapping and smiling. A base hit. I am starting to sweat a little and the goosebumps have come back. A walk, two men on base, Albert Pujols, on of the most dangerous hitters in the league is up to bat. My nails are down to the nub, and strike one. Light up a cigarette, I am a frigging wreck. Albert Pujols just hit a three run home run and the cardinals are up. Coming into this game the Cardinals were something like 8 for 75 against Brad Lidge, and now this. Absolutely un frigging believable. The game is over. There are two games left in the series, so we will see. I am a 29 year old man who felt like a 10 year old kid for a few minutes. I can’t help but be a little deflated.

This week at your local multiplex: (10/21/2005)

Stay: Thriller
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofalo
Plot: A suicidal young man announces his plans to end his life to his psychologist in three days. In an attempt to convince him to live, she takes him on a journey through life and death.
Buzz: Trailers have been playing for this movie for a while, and are about as vague as the plot description. Director, Marc Forster is more known for his character pieces like Monster’s Ball and Finding Neverland, so this may be more of the same, and less of a weird trip movie. This film has been pushed back the last few weeks but I think it will definitely be out this weekend.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: Thriller
Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen
Plot: A petty thief is sent to Los Angeles for an audition and gets wrapped up in a murder investigation, all while a detective is trying to teach him how to be a detective.
Buzz: A convoluted plot but this movie has been quite a little bit of buzz.

Doom: Action
Karl Urban, The Rock
Plot: A military team is sent to a medical colony on Mars to investigate some strange happening. Then all hell breaks loose.
Buzz: Fans of the game have been waiting years for this movie to come out and from the trailers it looks like a hyper active action film, relying less on plot and leaning more on heavy action.

Dreamer: Drama
Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson, Elizabeth Shue
Plot: A father, in order to show his love for his daughter, risks life and limb to rescue a horse and bring it back to it’s former glory.
Buzz: Not the kind of movie that the internet gets up in arms about. But if you like these kind of movies then have at it. Take your wife and leave your balls in the drawer at home.

North Country: Drama
Plot: A fictionalized retelling of the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the U.S.
Buzz: Being labeled as the next Silkwood. But that is by the studio. So who knows.

New on DVD: (10/18/2005)

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