I unintentionally started watching one of the episodes of the new HBO series “Big Love” this past weekend, and found myself watching all five episodes before the weekend was over.

“Big Love” is about a polygamist, Bill Henderickson(Bill Paxton), who has three families that live next door to each other in Utah. There’s the first wife, Barb Hendrickson(Jeanne Tripplehorn), the middle wife Nicole Grant(Chloe Sevigny) and the youngest wife, Margene Heffman(Ginnifer Goodwin).

I’ve been so bored with television lately, but this show has me coming back for more. The issues are topics I’ve never really put much thought into, which is what makes the show interesting.

If you have Charter, you can watch all of the episodes via OnDemand. The next show is Sunday night at 9:00pm.

Description from their website

Think having three wives is a dream come true? Meet Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a modern-day Utah polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives, seven children, and a mounting avalanche of debt and demands. The owner of a growing chain of home improvement stores, Bill struggles to balance the financial and emotional needs of Barb, Nicki and Margene (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin), who live in separate, adjacent houses and take turns sharing their husband each night. While managing the household finances together and routinely sharing “family home nights,” they try to keep simmering jealousies in check and their arrangement a secret — polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church. Adding to Bill’s woes are a series of crises affecting his parents (Bruce Dern and Grace Zabriskie), who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah, and his ruthless father-in-law, Roman (Harry Dean Stanton), the powerful head of the polygamist commune where his parents live. Bold, funny and wholly original, Big Love explores the evolving institution of marriage through a typical atypical family. The new series airs Sundays at 10pm beginning March 12th, immediately following Season Six of The Sopranos®.

The executive producers of BIG LOVE are Playtone’s Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and series creators Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer (writer of HBO’s “In the Gloaming”), who produced the independent feature film “Easter.”

Big Love stars Bill Paxton (”Twister,” “A Simple Plan”), Jeanne Tripplehorn (”The Firm”), Chloë Sevigny (Oscar®-nominated for “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Dogville”), Ginnifer Goodwin (”Walk the Line,” “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!”), Harry Dean Stanton (”The Green Mile,” “Anger Management”), Bruce Dern (”Monster”) and Grace Zabriskie (”Twin Peaks”). Other regulars include Amanda Seyfried (”Mean Girls”), Shawn Doyle (”Don’t Say a Word”) Daveigh Chase (”Lilo & Stitch”), Joel McKinnon Miller (”After the Sunset”), Douglas Smith (”Sleepover”), Melora Walters (”Cold Mountain”) and Jolean Wejbe (”Gilmore Girls”). Also featured: Mary Kay Place (”Sweet Home Alabama”), Matt Ross (”Good Night, and Good Luck”) and Tina Majorino (”Napoleon Dynamite”).

Me and some of my friends went to the Main Street Depot Saturday to watch our beloved Badgers squeak out a national title. At my surprise, when the game was done, someone started handing out these Capital Times headlines celebrating the win. I was happy the team got some extra props from the Cap Times.

Congrats men’s and women’s hockey teams.

I went to Friday’s game with my girlfriend, sister, and her boyfriend. He got the tickets from work so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but we had great tickets. Section 116, Row 9, Seat 15. We were actually slightly behind the net, but not enough to block our view of the hitters.

We left Madison around 4:00 and ended up getting to the stadium around 5:30, a little earlier than expected. I’m not sure what the temperature was exactly, but let’s just it was freezing outside. Of course, that didn’t stop any of the tailgaters grilling out and drinking, well, ice cold beer.

We got to the stadium much earlier than expected, so we decided to eat beforehand. We ended up going to “Fridays”, which was only about 15 minute wait. They sat us right in the window, so we ate some dinner and watched the players warm up. Dave Bush was throwing out in left field to a catcher standing up. I was right behind him, so it was interesting to watch the different types of balls he was throwing. Anyway, we left Fridays, grabbed some fresh roasted almonds, and got to our seats just in time for the first pitch.

Pitcher Dave Bush had me pretty worried in the beginning. It seemed like all of Arizona’s players were connecting, but most were going foul. I figured it was only a matter of time before someone got a hold of one. Unfortunately, that someone was left-hander Luis Gonzalez, who cranked one over the right field wall. Of course, some lucky Brewer fan got to throw the ball back onto the field. Thankfully, Bush got it together and pitched a pretty good game.

Weeks had a really nice triple that almost made it over the wall. It hit the wall only a few feet from the top. I guess I didn’t realize how fast Weeks was until I saw him fly around the bases for a triple.

I was a little dissapointed when I realized Billy Hall wasn’t in the lineup, and I never heard why. He, or anyone for that matter, could have hit the ball better than Prince Fiedler. Just by sheer dumb luck, he did get on base twice, but at his last at bat I noticed his average was still only .077. I’d bet money Robin Yount could come out of retirement and hit better than that.

Regardless of the dome, I was surprised to see almost 26,000 fans show up for the game. This older gentleman behind me was telling his son how he used to come to games years ago when the weather would be bad and there would sometimes only be around 500 people in the stands.

There was only thing that bothered me about the entire evening, and that was the drunks. I sometimes do my share of drinking at games, but I always try to respect the people around me, especially when children are present. To me, the hecklers are nothing more than bad comedians who are looking for a little attention.

Finally, at the top of the ninth, I hear someone say, “here he comes”, and in trots Turnbow. Everybody got to their feet and started applauding, the Metallica music start pumping through the stadium’s PA system, and everybody knew the game was won.

Oh yeah, the Bratwurst won.