Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Taking it low and slow as we go, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers

Uh, no Paris, that’s not, oh forget it
There was an awkward moment when she was informed that she will be subjected to a cavity search when she goes to jail, Paris Hilton said; “I just went to the dentist and I didn’t have any.”

Works both ways
Prior to going to the slammer, Paris Hilton was photographed putting American flags on her gated door. So apparently patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels as well as skanks.

Oh, I see
Kobe Bryant said the Los Angeles Lakers are a mess and he wants to be traded. Apparently all this time, it wasn’t Kobe’s lack of passing and missed shots, it was the fault of the front office when the Lakers blew a 3-1 series lead against the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the playoffs.

Sad
The last words of a condemned killer executed by injection were "Go, Raiders!" That is so tragic. They executed him the split second they discover he was innocent by reason of insanity.

Upon which a Cincinnati Bengals official said; “Hey, I thought the criminals were supposed to either play for or be for us.”

The wheels of the Buss go falling off
Kobe Bryant told the Philadelphia Enquirer that it was Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss’s fault that the Lakers dumped Shaquille O’Neal, not Kobe’s fault as everyone assumes. This marks the first time a Buss was thrown under the bus.

74-year-old Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss was arrested for a D.U.I while driving the wrong way on a street in Carlsbad with a 23-year-old swimsuit model. Gosh, I wonder why he wasn’t watching the road?

Or something like that
A survey reveals that Americans spend $40 billion a year on their pets. But we have to keep spending money on our pets or the terriers have won.

Hate to see that
The New York Yankees are in last place 14 1/2 games out of first. The Yankees are getting beaten so badly it’s a good thing they haven’t yet called up 44-year-old pitcher Roger Clemens or they could be charged with elder abuse.

How bad was it?
A man with a rare form of tuberculosis flew on two transatlantic flights endangering the passengers health. It was so bad it was the first time in recent memory the passengers were in more danger from another passenger than they were from the drunk pilots.

Beer 101
In Germany, beer prices are going up because farmers are abandoning growing barley for subsidized crops used for biofuels. Another factor causing beer prices to rise? The fact that Germans drink twenty of them a day.

Since you asked:
Man did I have the odd movie watching experience last night. You know how good movies start out good and stay good? And bad movies start out bad and get worse? This movie started out good and then went really bad.

“Music and Lyrics” with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant. I like music, I like lyrics, I like Barrymore and I kinda like Grant. How bad could it be?

And it started out snappy. Funny, quirky characters, dialogue that was clever if not too clever but some great lines. And the plot was scooting along. All of a sudden they introduce this amazingly annoying Jessica Simpson/Christine Aguilera p.o.s. and suddenly the movie is like a boring dream you are trying to make more exciting. Half way through I got the strong impression they knew they were going sideways and they were trying to re-write the script as they filmed.

And the ending is so schmaltzy and formulamatic. When did it become a law that Drew Barrymore has to be in every single romantic comedy? The ending to this was the music version of a dead-ringer to “Fever Pitch” but even more anticlimactic. At least the Red Sox won the World Series.

The line I love in “Fever Pitch” was Drew Barrymore’s character telling Jimmy Fallon’s character;

“I got it, you’re a Red Sox fan. I’ve seen the Red Sox towels, the Red Sox rug, the Red Sox curtains, the New York Yankee toilet paper . . .”

It’s a guy thing.