No, this isn’t a story about Sheryl Crow and her recycled toilet paper. I’m saving that one for tomorrow. Hell, how many of these do you expect me to do in one day? I’m supposed to be working. This tale is even more interesting than someone as D-List as Crow. My amazement at the brilliance [...]
I love being right, even if just in a small way. Over the past few years, I’ve had lots of fun picking on “Dr.” Leo DiCaprio, thespian, resort entrepreneur and environmental expert. You can review my commentary here, here and here, as well as observations from Sheryl Crow and the one-piece-of-toilet-paper fiasco. Celebrities have been [...]
Look, I despise Rosie O’Donnell. At one time, I actually thought that she was funny in A League Of Their Own and as Betty Rubble in The Flintstones. Unfortunately, as I’ve found her more and more disgusting over the years, I also find that I can’t watch those two movies when I see them on [...]
In my fifty-two years, I have learned a number of immutable truths. Here one: The amount and frequency of advertising and promotion for a new movie is inversely proportional to the quality of said movie. This weeks example is a piece of shit called I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, the plot of which [...]
Does anyone find as fascinating as I the way Vince McMahon and the WWE now treat the last Chris Benoit with such unspoken scorn? After Benoit’s body was discovered on Monday, along with his wife Nancy and son Daniel in their suburban Atlanta home, McMahon canceled that evening’s live show in Corpus Christi, Texas, and [...]
In recent weeks, I’ve been going through my old record collection, attempting to rip some of the old vinyl I love to MP3. This project started when someone asked me about a record of African religious music (more about that in a future post). What I discovered, as others have in recent years, is that [...]
I was driving around in my truck the other day, listening to the new CD player I just installed in the dash. And I suddenly had an idea that’s gonna make me rich… The CD player in the dash is a really big thing for me. The truck is a 2003 Ford that I purchased [...]
I know the price of fuel has been a major news story in recent weeks. The lack of economic knowledge by the majority of Americans causes the blame to be squarely placed at the doorstep of “Big Oil.” I won’t go into trying to correct the common misconceptions as to why gas costs so much, [...]
Made the annual visit to the movies this weekend. Actually, I volunteered, something I rarely do, but it was with the girls, so I didn’t mind so much. We saw Firewall, a thriller with Harrison Ford and Virginia Masden. I figured, how bad could this be? This is a movie about a big-time network security [...]
And in a related finally-getting-cancelled-from-TV story comes proof that the networks still aren’t getting it in regards to how their programming relates to whatever Christian viewers they may have left. NBC was already forced to put The Book of Daniel on (permanent) hiatus after a backlash from advocacy groups and lousy ratings. You would think [...]
Didn’t those ten or eleven protesters banging on pots at the Capitol during the SOTU want Bush to step down? Do you think they’ll be satisfied with this instead? Gee, first Martin Sheen, then the pill-popping priest, now this. Perhaps Congress needs to hold hearings.
Speaking of listening to music, the continuing saga of the RIAA lawsuits against alleged illegal file sharers has taken another interesting turn to the absurd. The RIAA is suing a woman named Denise Barker for allegedly illegal distribution of music files “owned” by one of the large music conglomerates. Ms. Barker’s attorneys are requesting that [...]
I love being right. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this entry regarding the about-to-premiere NBC series The Book of Daniel. My conclusion was that perhaps NBC should produce a show about a somewhat-ordinary minister with a family of regular folks who have to confront ordinary, everyday issues: You know, something like 7th Heaven, [...]
A new brouhaha is erupting over American Idol, surprisingly early in the new season. No, Paula isn’t boinking the male contestants (it’s far too early in the contest for that). No, this time the sexual imbroglio relates to comments made by the two male judges, Simon Whatshisface and Randy Whatever. A gay rights group, the [...]
Talk about things in your life taking a bad turn. All you have to do is read about the current troubles of former teen dream Leif Garrett to see how things can go from good to bad to circling the bowl. Just a gander at the current photo of the accused is enough to make [...]
Stupid quote of the night from the Golden Globes, which I didn’t watch (it was Monday…Raw was on…): Among TV winners, Geena Davis, who was named best actress in a drama series for playing the first female U.S. president in “Commander In Chief,” offered audiences one of the award show’s lighter moments in an evening [...]
I have a few great ideas for new television shows. How about a show depicting the life of a Hasidic rebbe and his family, and his day-to-day struggles with his faith, the culture around him and his loved ones? Let’s see, we can set up our rebbe with a son who insists on shaving his [...]
If you want to understand clearly why most people despise politics, I can’t think of a better reason than this new tale of the pickpocketing of the American taxpayer. The Congress has finally decided, after much hand-wringing and debate, that by February 2009, all current analog over-the-air (OTA) television transmissions are to be replaced by [...]
I suppose we can make it All-Tookie-All-The-Time just for today, especially for this: All we’ve heard about in recent days is the clamoring from the celebrity bleeding hearts on Williams’s alleged redemption, and in some cases, his alleged innocence in the crimes for which he was convicted. The names of the supporters included the usual [...]
“Professor” Leo DiCaprio, the leading West Coast authority on the environment, is going to continue his quest to demonstrate his “expertise” by creating a new movie on the on the “state of the planet’s ecosystems”. The Prof made an interesting comment regarding the film’s subject: “Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge [...]