Top o’ the work week to you all. I hope everybody's weekend was nothing short of delightful. When last I wrote about my weekend I was preparing to head to New Brunswick, New Jersey to watch the Wisconsin-Rutgers basketball game. Wisconsin won, hooray. For the most part, even though we were decked out in Wisconsin garb, the Rutgers fans treated me, my pal Mike and my special lady friend courteously. However, when were leaving our seats at the end of the game, a frustrated Rutgers fan who couldn't have been more than 10 years old, yelled to us "Go back to Wisconsin!" to which I replied "Go back to Rutgers!" Seeing as how we were already at Rutgers I feel my comeback was appropriately mild given that the kid was so young. During the game a woman sitting behind me asked her son why Wisconsin's players didn't have their names on the back of their jerseys like the Rutgers players did. She then reasoned that it was because Wisconsin's players' names were on the front of their jerseys. She must have been impressed that Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan was able to recruit a nine-man rotation of quality players all named Wisconsin. In her defense though, unless she wore telescopic contact lenses she probably couldn't clearly read the jerseys from our seats since we were a good metric mile from the court. It's also possible that the sweltering heat may have made her delirious. FYI, if you ever attend a sporting event at the RAC, dress as you would for a mid-day Saharan marathon. My friend Mike speculated that the thermostat operator might have a stock or two in Coca-cola. I've never been happier to fork over three bucks for a PowerAde-or rather to have someone buy me a three dollar PowerAde (thanks again Mike).

Any moviegoers looking for a lighthearted holiday picture that's wholesome fun for the entire family should check out the movie Closer. Then no matter what movie you see afterwards, it will seem lighthearted and wholesome in contrast to the dark intensity and perversion of Closer. Not to mention, few other movies are as likely to scar your kids as deeply as Closer will. It is incredibly well acted though and many of the scenes are great, particularly in terms of the dialogue. If nothing else the movie is a sure fire way to get Natalie Portman reinstated on your shortlist of women with whom your girlfriend gives you a free pass. (What have you done for me lately Elisha Cuthbert?) Also you may get lucky and see the same preview for a hilarious new comedy called Monster in Law (instead of mother in law, get it?) It's about a snobby mom who doesn't think J.Lo is good enough to marry her son. At one point the mother hugs J.Lo and you see the mom envisioning smashing J.Lo's face into a piece of cake...lol...lol...lol...And just when the trailer is ending and you didn't think the team of geniuses behind it could be any more clever, instead of “coming May 2005”, it says: RSVP May 6th (the release date! just like a wedding invitation!) Consider my calendar marked.