Hopefully you’ve got the word by now that it could be a mess in downtown Madison tomorrow afternoon.

There are around 4,500 UW Campus parking spaces that Badger football fans rent out. There will be around 80,000 Badger football fans trying to get to their seats at Camp Randall. The thing is, the UW employees will still be in those parking spaces until their work day is over.

It’s gonna be a tight fit.

Here’s the lowdown on traffic:

Downtown workers are being asked to leave those spots that fans rent during game time by 5pm.

Fans are being asked not to start showing up to tailgate until after 5pm.

The DOT says there won’t be any lane closures on the interstate, but that there is the potential for heavy backups.

Highway service teams will be on-call in the I-94 work zone and on the Madison Beltline to assist stranded motorists and respond to incidents on Badger game days.

My suggestions:

Take one of the local bar’s shuttle buses

Bike in

Park far, far away and walk in

Have a friend drop you off. After the game, take a shuttle bus to bar near you, then cab it home.

Also, bosses at the UW should give their employees a half-day off. Everybody wins!

Not a bad lineup for next week’s NFL regular season opener at Lambeau Field.

Green Bay’s  NFL season opener on Sept. 8 against the New Orleans Saints will feature performances by Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum and Maroon 5.

It’s FREE and the show runs from 3:15 to 6:30 p.m. The NFL will also screen “America’s Game: 2010 Green Bay Packers,” a 60-minute documentary that provides an all-access look at the Super Bowl champions.

Here’s a preview:

Is this not the most bizarre thing you’ve ever heard of?  This isn’t the movie Highlander, when you kill someone, you gain their magical powers.

Still, there’s another case int he music industry of somebody doing something odd with a person’s ashes after their death.

First in 2007 there was Keith Richards admitted that he snorted his father’s ashes.

Now, members of a rap group founded by Tupac Shakur have released a new video in which they claim they rolled up Pac’s ashes with marijuana and smoked him after he passed away.

The Outlawz said, “Yeah, it’s definitely true” and claim it all went down at a beach memorial for Pac — and his mom was present at the time. The rappers claim the idea was inspired by a lyric in one of Tupac’s songs in which he said, “Last wishes ******, smoke my ashes.”

The Outlawz say they simply followed Pac’s request — explaining, “We twist up some of that great-granddaddy California kush …and mixed the big homie with it … so you know, [Tupac is] flowin’ through our system.”

Q: What do you get when you put 12 “D-List” celebrities in a room together and make them spin in circles.

A: Dancing With The Stars.

Really?  Could this cast be any lamer?

Ron Artest – LA Laker & known agitator

World Cup soccer player Hope Solo – was she the one who tore her shirt off on the field?  No.

Robert Kardashian – not even one of the Kardashian sisters

Kristin Cavallar – MTV Reality show star

Chaz Bono - Cher’s kid who switched from a man to a woman

Nancy Grace – boring TV personality

Carson Kressley - Queer Eye For The Straight Guy personaliy.  At least he’ll dress the place up.

Ricki Lake - Her talk show was canceled for a reason

Chynna Phillips – Wonder if she can “hold on for one more day.”

David Arquette - Separated from Courtney Cox, but has appeared in every Scream movie.

J.R. Martinez - Who?  The All My Children actor who is also an Iraq war vet who suffered burns over 40% of his body.  (Now I feel bad.)

Elisabetta Canalis – George Clooney’s ex-girlfreind.

For about 90% of them, calling them a “celebrity” or a “star” is a stretch at best.  I weep for the future.

With the earthquake on the east coast followed up by Hurricane Irene, I think we’ve seen enough natural disasters for the month.

What we will never get tired of is how dumb people can be around natural disasters.  Check out the footage of your fellow human beings throwing caution aside and fully capturing their dumbocity potential.

Note: Most video is NSFW.

I’m sure you’ve got one of these movies too.

It’s a movie that you’ve watched over and over again throughout your life. You can recall a scene, a quote or something the characters do. For me, one of those movies is “Ghostbusters.“

Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman: (when asked where do these stairs go) “They go up.”

Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Ray Stanz: “Listen….do you smell something?”

Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler: “Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.”

Ernie Hudson as Winston Zedmore: “Ray, if somebody asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!.”

To me, every line is a classic. That is why I’ pretty excited about some news over the weekend when Dan Aykroyd said that Ghostbusters 3 is a go. Whether Bill Murray is in on the show is still questionable, but it sounds like production work will start next spring.

Here’s the big problem. It’s a sequel.

True, but there is a sometimes exception to the sequel rule that if the films have a significant spacing between them, it can work. It doesn’t always work. Consider Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, or any of the Star Wars prequels.

There are occasions where it does work. Consider Aliens, the sequel that came out seven years after Alien. Terminator 2 came out seven years after the original.

Maybe it’s actually a seven year rule. In that case we’re in trouble. It’ll be 13 years since the flop that was Ghostbusters II. Maybe it’ll make it two times better. I don’t care. I want to see it.

I could point out the irony that MTV is handing out awards for videos on a network that has drifted far away from music and videos, but I’m even sick of myself saying it.

Still, they go on with the Video Music Awards show, because it’s a forum for celebrities to do something crazy and get their name in the press.

Here’s the Top 5 non-interesting things that happened at last night’s VMA’s, including why they are dumb.

5. Lady Gaga Dresses In Drag – Even dressing as her male alter-ego Jo Calderone, she’s at the point where nothing she does surprises me. This was just another non-shock.

4. Tony Bennett Does An Amy Winehouse Tribute - A sad story relived, but most of the audience probably said ‘Who’s Tony Bennett?”

3.  Appearances & Wins from Jersey Shore, Foo Fighters, Chris Brown, Britney Spears. Really.  Who else were they gonna give awards to?

2. Kay Perry Wins/Wears Cube Thing On Her Head - I think it was the formal outfit of the Alien Galactic Space Colony that she has joined.  They melted her brain in 2008.

1.  Beyonce’ Performs/Reveals Baby Bump - Dios Mio!  I hate the term baby bump.  What do I care if she’s pregnant?  Good for her, but now Jay Z has 100 problems.  He’s gonna have to change the lyrics to his song “99 Problems.”

Check out this cool Billboard.com article about 13 Things We Didn’t See At The VMA’s.

Cousin Adam reviews the new comedy: Our Idiot Brother.

Rated R – 1h30

Maybe this family dynamic hit a little too close to home. Maybe I agree that you should always expect the best from people. Either way, Paul Rudd delivers a grinable performance in his new lead role.

Our Idiot Brother is the story of Ned, (Rudd) a man in a state of eternal hippie arrested development. He makes choices based not out of stupidity, but from a naivete’, idealistic place that has high hopes for the rest of the world. Ned is jailed for selling pot to a uniformed officer who seemingly entraps him, by making Ned sympathetic to the cop’s bad day.

After getting out, we meet Ned’s three slightly dysfunctional sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel & Emily Mortimer) who take him in. With each sister he seemingly destroys their lives through his man-child ways, but somehow also saves them at the same time.

I feel a little cynical calling out his actions, but it’s hard to believe that someone like Ned actually exists. Are there people so trusting of their fellow man, that they would ask them (on a subway) to hold onto their pocket of twenties, while they clean up a coffee spill? I think there are few, at the most. Then again, it’s hard to criticize a person who only wants good things for and from those around them.

Ned’s sisters seem to be living stereotypically train wrecks of lives, which makes this comedy feel a little contrived. Then again, Rudd’s happy blowtorch of sunshine is a bit too. The thing that saves this movie is it’s good intentions and good nature.

I for one, like Ned.

At one time, I couldn’t say the same for Paul Rudd. From the days of his indie comedy background, I enjoyed his bit roles. That was until he took over broader parts like in “The Ten,” “The Oh In Ohio” and “Over Her Dead Body.” But now, I feel Rudd has grown into a mainstream comical lead. He’s also now one of the guys that I’d go see a movie, just because he’s in it.

I’m thinking Hurricane Irene isn’t going to be a big ‘ol party for everyone, so I’m getting these songs that sing about hurricanes, or reference them out of the way right now.