Caught off guard

There are times in ones life when you realize that you may have missed the boat on something. Or in other words, you were so completely unaware of something that when it revealed itself to you, it catches you off guard. I had such an experience recently while watching one of my new favorite shows.

The show is Parenthood, and it is about the only good thing that NBC is doing right now. It is not really a show for everyone, but it has a few of my favorite actors in it, and its familial theme is one that I have always enjoyed in my television shows. Now, the thing that caught me off guard involves an actress who recently made a cameo appearance on the show. I was not really sure who the actress was while I was watching it, but what I did know was that she was beautiful and very pleasing to the eye. I had meant to go online and find out who this woman was, but before I had the chance to do so, another one of my favorite shows opened my eyes to the truth. This show, Sportsnation on ESPN, mentioned that the actress' name is Minka Kelly. This is what caught me off guard. I had heard the name Minka Kelly before and I was aware that she was engaged to Derek Jeter, but I was unaware of what she looked like. I was caught completely off guard by the fact that this woman I had only heard of ended up being heart breakingly beautiful, and somehow I had managed to not recognize it before now. I had missed her in Friday Night Lights, and American Dreams, and whatever other shows or films she had been in. I am surprised by this, mostly because I like to think of myself as someone who knows a hell of a lot about popular culture and sports. Minka Kelly, a person who crosses into both worlds, passed by me without me having any clue of how truly amazing she is. Sorry Minka, my bad. (I admit that certainly some part of her attractiveness is her awesome name)

Lastly, I want to warn you all of the second thing that caught me off guard. This happens to pertain the the movie The Spirit. It is about a superhero and is made to look extremely similar to Sin City. Sin City was and is glorious, however, The Spirit is tremendously terrible. It caught me off guard how truly terrible this movie is compared to how absolutely marvelous Sin City is. Stay away from The Spirit, otherwise yu will lose more time than you will want to spare on such a piece of crap.