Jason’s babblings.

For his birthday, my sister’s fiancé got a few pre-screening tickets to the Will Farrell movie, Semi-Pro. I like Will’s work, the movie was free, and it’s a movie about a Michigan basketball team. It was an easy decision to take one of the four tickets.

First event of the evening was dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings, or ‘BW3′. For the uninformed, the third W stands for ‘weck’ - a salty bun. Chalk one up for Wikipedia. Anyway, this was the first time I’ve been to a B-Dub (my nerdiness precludes me from doing things that are considered cool) and I was excited to see what all the hype is about. Sadly, I was disappointed.

We told the waitress we were in a hurry and the place was empty so I figured we’d be eating in fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes later she came with our food, and the chicken on my sandwich was about half to two-thirds the size of the bun. The friggin’ patty weighed less than the bun, lettuce, and tomato combined.

I know this isn’t a five star establishment and it doesn’t claim to be, but they could put forth some effort in satisfying the customers. Everybody else’s food was good; I guess I can give it another chance. Plus there was more total TV screen surface area than the floors of my house. Quite impressive.

After BWW, we headed over to Emagine Theater, who hosted the pre-screening event. The seat cushion was really tall and tough so my legs fell asleep half way through the movie - which tends to be distracting. I don’t remember the chairs being as high as they were last time I was at the Emagine. Maybe they have different types of chairs in each of the theater rooms. Blah.

Leg-related distractions aside, the movie was pretty funny. They mentioned Ann Arbor which gives an automatic +10 cool points in any movie. A suitable addition to the collection of WF movies in the line of Anchorman, Talladega Nights, etc. I’d have paid to see it, so getting the free ticket was really cool. Thanks Levent!