From a Korean gameshow...

These variety show stars have to run around the city hunting each other. There's a lot of show to watch, (14 parts, 10 minutes each) so you might want to just watch a piece at a time.

I'm watching Braveheart on the satellite right now, and it's a fantastic movie. Despite the rediculousness of Mel Gibson, it's probably top 3 of my inspirational movie list. I still get goosebumps when William Wallace yells "freedom" as he's getting disemboweled. Anyways, the first time I saw this movie was on VHS in 1996, and it was a 2-tape set. That seems completely crazy now. In the middle of the movie, I had to get up from the couch, eject tape 1, and put in tape 2. Now it seems silly to have any physical media to deal with when watching a movie. that is all.

It's been a week since the World Cup ended. The post partem depression pretty much set in right away.

Here are the moments I'll remember most.

Landon Donovan's late winner vs. Algeria to send us into round 2. The national response was amazing and completely unforeseen.

The USA's comeback against Slovenia including Michael Bradley's face as he got mobbed by teammates on the touchline.

The first goal of the competition from Shabalala was a beauty and great moment for the host, South Africa.

Getting up at 4:30 everyday for the first 2 weeks was brutal, but I miss it. It's nice to get a World cup match in before work.  Even games like New Zealand vs. Slovakia were worth waking up for.

ESPN had real around the clock coverage. The primetime show had extended highlights and analysis never before seen in the USA.

Maradona on the touchline was great to watch. In one of Argentina's matches, a wayward ball flew his way, and he casually heel-flicked it out of the air right to one of his players coming for a throw-in. He was clearly the most passionate particpant of the World Cup. It's shame Argentina didn't advance farther.

Diego Forlan deservedly won the golden ball as he put in a few inspirational performances. I'd say the next best players were Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER) and Arjen Robben (NED). Messi (ARG) was great too, despite not scoring.

The tournament was very defensive. It wasn't ugly defensive. Spain, who deservedly won the cup, had to put up with every opponent parking 10 defenders behind the ball. They handled it.

I forgot how awesome this song was. Although it's a little cheesey at the end, and the video is a little silly, this song rocks. It makes me feel good about the 90's.

I've spent 40% of my life in California. I moved out here when I was 18 for college. I think I'm now an official Californian. We just had a 5.9 earthquake, and I didnt feel it. I was sitting at my desk, and all of a sudden I saw a stream of twitter and facebook updates announcing the earthquake. I am now one of those people who can say "I don't get excited for anything less than a 6."

Uruguay and Korea is. 5 minutes in, and no one has scored, although Korea did just hit the post. Here are my predictions.

Uruguay will beat Korea. It will be close, but Korea showed a lot of nerves in their game against Nigeria, and Uruguay is more composed. Composure is a key trait that's becoming more and more important in this World Cup. (3 minutes after writing this, Uruguay scores with a very composed finish after a blunder by the Korea defense.)

USA over Ghana. Ghana scored 2 goals, both penalty kicks. The USA scored 4, and had 2 legit goals disallowed. Ghana's defense has been solid, but they wern't truly tested in their group.

England over Germany. Germany are really young, and it showed against Ghana. They have all the earmarks of a German team except the ability to be ruthless. Their Australia drubbing was a bit flukish. England will look deep into themselves to come out on top of this one.

Argentina over Mexico. Mexico just won't be good enough. I'm not saying that because I hate them. I'm saying that because it's true. Argentina is the most talented team. They'd really need a defensive blunder to blow this one. I also expect this one to get chippy.

Paraguay over Japan. Japan really seem like the weakest team to advance, and Paraguay are solid.

Netherlands over Slovakia. I expect this one to be good. I don't think Slovakia will come out and bunker. I think they'll try to take it to the Dutch. That said, not picking the Dutch to win is crazy. They are really gelling.

Brasil over Chile. It's really too bad that Chile has to play Brasil at this point. I think they could beat most of the other teams int he quarter-finals. Brasil is too stacked to lose.

Portugal over Spain. Spain just haven't looked that great and I think Portugal are on the upswing despite not looking that great as well. I think this one will be ugly with lots of fouls.

So many of these videos popped up yesterday and more are coming. This one shouldn't be missed

Around 8:50 AM the USA was very united.

Kansas City

Omaha

San Diego

NYC

Manhattan

Seattle

Minneapolis

Phoenix

Atlanta

and this great one from Arkansas

I was watching with Kait and Kimlan. I fell to my knees and screamed pretty hard. I apologize to Julio the cat.