Awesome developments: GHOSTBUSTERS 3!!!!

Okay, if there was anything I love more than "Bones," the NY Giants or life and love itself, it's the Ghostbusters franchise.

And now, they've officially announced that a third installment will indeed be produced!!

It will be developed by two writers'producers of "The Office," who have already gained the trust of original Ghostbusters writer/actor Harold Ramis. Good. Enough. For. Me.

I hereby begin my pointless campaign to beg them to let me be a Ghostbuster. Please. I'm begging you. I would be excellent, I promise. At least let me be an extra. I'd pay them to be in it. Seriously, it would be a dream come true. Don't you want to make someone's dream come true? I mean, I'm not dying or anything, but I would be an awesome Ghostbuster. Wouldn't you rather have someone in your cast who had a Dan Aykroyd-like knowledge and appreciation of the Ghostbusters story?

Okay, if you don't want to take the chance on me, then please consider a couple of possible other casting choices. (Professional, legitimate actors who have been in actual things.)

Eric Millegan: Was downgraded to recurring/guest status on the show "Bones." He's already played a genius, and he could easily play another one. He's funny, he can do the $10 words, and he should be much more well-known than he is, because he's also a really, really good actor.

TJ Thyne: Another "Bones" guy, he's got the Bill Murray/Peter Venkman smoothness down. Also comfortable with the science jargon, he's one of the most recognizable faces out there and can do physical comedy. He's also, in my opinion, sex on a stick. So is Millegan, in my opinion.

I go into it all more here.

Okay, so, the only headshots I have are from four years ago, and while I haven't changed much at all in that time, the shots were taken the day before Election Day 2004 and I wasn't even sure what to do with them or why I was spending the money on them at all. So they suck. But I can assure you, I am, at the very least, cute. I've done sketch comedy in NYC for years and have taken one hardcore acting class. I might be about as qualified as Sarah Palin is to be VP, but if you look at it another way, I'm also about as qualified as Barack Obama - in the way that he's clearly more up to the job and trustworthy.

But if you want to cast an equally funny woman with experience, I get it.

I implore you though, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg - don't fuck this up.

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I am going to have to be a basketball fan now.

At no time in my entire life have I ever been good at sports. Only this year did I finally grasp and become excited about football. (Don't even start me on the Giants winning the Super Bowl...I almost tattooed XLII on my person in celebration.) But even for years, I will almost always sit down and watch a basketball game. The stats make me a little dizzy and I'm in it mostly for the lean arms, but after watching Kobe Bryant and Team USA beat down everyone in its path at the Olympics, I may seriously have to pick a team and follow them.

Like football, watching basketball is as entertaining as watching an amazing ensemble of actors play off each other to tell a story. Something I'm picking up in acting class is "playing a scene to win." Currently, I'm in a scene in which I think I win, but I ultimately am quite a huge loser. But when my scene partner and I are up there watching, listening and waiting for the other, it feels exhilarating and crazy. I have to think that players on basketball and football teams have to do the same exact thing - watch, listen and wait. Then react. There's an awareness of the outside without connecting to things external to you and your team. While my scene partner and I are both playing to win and one of us loses, we are both competing for the same goal - telling the damn story the way it bloody well should be. The same way a sports team is competing to top their opponent. It's awesome. I don't get it from baseball as much, but I do get it from hockey. I definitely don't get it from golf. I really can't take golf.

Sounds like I just discovered the freaking thing, doesn't it? Welcome to Earth, Jamie. By the way - it's a sphere.

But it's official: I love basketball. I may never, ever, ever be able to play it and I may never learn the stats, but in the meantime, I'm going to sit back and watch some amazing teamwork. And sets of arms. (I'm talking to you, Dwight Howard.)

He's 23. It's wrong...

Also, I have the same birthday as this awesome fellow, Dwyane Wade:



Go USA!

But I really hope this means I don't have to be a Knicks fan. I'm a New Yorker all the way, everyday, but the Knicks just suck. Maybe I'll just be a Knicks fan because Madison Square Garden is so convenient, and after all these years as a non-jock nerd/dumpee, maybe I should just be used to rejection and defeat. What do you think? Help! I can't make a decision!

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My future firstborn's namesake gets married.

When being interviewed for a spot in an acting class, I was asked about a when I'd experienced the most joy. And I came up blank. But that weekend, I remembered that it had happened not too long ago - it was when the New York Giants won the Super Bowl. My dad was watching the Sports Illustrated DVD and it all came back to me. I remembered how incredibly happy I was during the playoffs to see the Giants completely upset the Dallas Cowboys, and then the Green Bay Packers, each in the respective weekends surrounding my 28th birthday. Then, with hardly anyone thinking it would happen (save for a few contrarians including my journalistic hero Keith Olbermann, see the video below), the Giants won the Super Bowl.

I swear, nothing in my life has made me happier than that moment, and it will take a hell of a lot to top it. I'm not even sure that even if I get married or have children (the latter of which I could still conceivably do without the former) that the pure joy and happiness I felt while watching Super Bowl XLII will be trumped. As someone who had a really crappy 2007, to watch the Giants, who started out rough and sure had their drawbacks, win the Super Bowl when NO ONE thought they would, it meant the world.

And this weekend, the Giants quarterback Eli Manning got married. Like I said, I'm not sure if this wedding tops winning the Super Bowl, but I'm sure he tells his new bride that she's totally the best thing about his life right now. No, really. But seriously, the very best wishes to the newlyweds!

And yes, I plan on naming my first son Eli. I hope whoever knocks me up is okay with that.

By the way, Keith: I so should have believed you. I will know better now. And please enjoy the 20/20 hindsight perspective on the other Super event that week, Super Tuesday. I'd talk about my other passion (politics) in this post, but I'm just too damn tired of it right now. It's why I'm acting again.

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