The Boston Celtics: The Next Team To Be As Disappointing As The 03-04 Lakers

Besides ruining all three of their stars' fantasy value, Boston's acquisition of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen is sure to break a lot of hearts in Boston. As soon as the trigger was pulled on the KG deal, Donnie Wahlberg was on First Take declaring a certain championship. When this team loses in the first or second round of the playoffs with no future hope in sight, we'll all be declaring the entire Boston fan base deceased. When are people going to learn that throwing a bunch of desperate to win, aging superstars on the same team never works? It didn't for Malone, Payton, and the Lakers, and it didn't for Barkley and the Rockets. Sure, in the Eastern conference it may work in the regular season, but come the post season, these guys will get torn to shreds at the point guard position, which coincidentally is once again the most important position in the NBA. Who are they going to start? Rajon Rondo? Chauncey Billups and Jason Kidd will give these guys fits, and with Chicago and Cleveland continuing to improve, the Celtics will have trouble getting that Conference Championship they've already been anointed. Pierce, Allen, and KG's personalities may mix well, but with a supporting cast of Brian Scalabrine and Kendrick Perkins, they won't be getting sized for rings any time soon.

UPDATED: The Comic Con Chronicles Vol.2: Battle Of The Cosplayers

Obviously, the best part of Comic Con is seeing all your favorite characters come to life in splendiferous homemade costume form. Unfortunately, most dress-up-folk are into the anime these days, but there's still enough recognizable goodness to go around. Not all costumes, however, are created equal, thus we have The Battle Of The Cosplayers (And Booth Babes).

All photos courtesy of O.P.P. through Flickr. Don't sue me.

Let's see, one Bender got invited up on stage at the Futurama panel and the other one was later seen in a suicide booth. Winner: Best Bender ever.

Whose fuzz is the hottest? Winner: The dudes that look just like them.

Real vs. Plastic. Winner: Witchblade doesn't wear a sportsbra so I have to go with the action figure.

Dude looks like a roller derby reject. Winner: Robert Downey, Jr.

Accuracy vs. Attractiveness. Winner: Tie.

Model march madness. Winner: Resident Evil, because there's way more of them.

Good vs. Evil. Winner: Good.

Optimus vs. Shockwave. Winner: Tie, and they're both better looking than the movie.

Battle of the warrior women. Winner: Red Sonja, because she kind of sort of almost looks like Kari Byron.

Regular vs. Dark. Winner: They may very well be the same girl, but I'll go with the naughty one.

Plumber power. Winner: While both adorable, I think the kids get this one.

Meow vs. Purr. Winner: Felicia by a wet nose.

Original vs. Clone. Winner: Clones are stupid.

I Don't Even Know vs. @#$%ed Up "S". Winner: I think we all know the answer to this one.

The Comic Con Chronicles Vol.1

Comic Con 2007 has come and gone and I've survived an unsolicited conversation with the foulest smelling man alive to tell the tale. (Seriously, dude lets his own feces soil in his pants and eats it, not to mention the lack of soap in his life.) While the number of people in costumes seemed lighter than last year, I managed to get a couple choice pics, and those I didn't I will steal from flickr for Vol.2. Other highlights included the Futurama panel, an Andre 3000 street sighting, making out with Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, and Sarah Silverman all at once, and San Diego's fratastically boring nightlife. The most disturbing feature, or course, was the Grindhouse booth babe who literally had a machine gun leg. And now, on to the recounting of our daring adventures...

I fought through a gang of snakes and Nazis to get to this thing and all it did was melt my face off.

Guess I shouldn't have asked to feel Chun-Li's lightning legs.

They ran out of legos for Chewbacca's ass.

This is supposed to be Poison Ivy making me itchy.

I caught this creepy Yoda backpack whispering commands into this dude's ear right before he shot the president.

I sense a theme developing here...

Almost as fruity as Anakin was in the movie.

Udderly ridiculous. Ha!

Stay Classy San Diego. More Conventional goodness is on the way.

The Only Place In The World Where Ghostbusters Will Team Up With A Stormtrooper Elvis, Only It's Somehow Much Less Cool Than It Sounds In Your Head

Comic-Con 2007 is here, and I will be there tomorrow. Therefore, there probably won't be much in the way of blogging till Monday, but I promise lots of pics of girls in metal bikinis and spandex when I get back.... assuming I don't get drafted by the Green Lantern Corps.