- Remind me again why shows that have been on the air for one season are out on DVD before season two is even underway, yet the arguably best sitcom of all time, Seinfeld, is just now coming out with its sixth season on DVD. Yeah, the technology for DVDs didn’t exist in the early 90s when Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer were on the air, and shows now plan in advance for DVD, shooting making of segments, commentaries, etc. But Seinfeld went off the air in the mid-1990s, and it’s taken this long and b*tching from legions of fans to get it out on DVD. Yet season one of Everybody Hates Chris is out in less time than it takes me to change my socks?
- A small social experiment/challenge for you, try if you dare………it never ceases to amaze me how something small, temporary and insignificant can piss off so many people or throw them off their game. Example #1 - Putting a few red highlights in your hair. Something very, very temporary, doesn’t affect anyone, doesn’t injure them, deprive them of money or their right to pursue life, liberty and happiness, yet it really irritates quite a few people. They’ll come up to you (or behind your back to those close to you) and ask why you did it, what the deal is, yet you could be undergoing a major crisis in your life and because it’s not physically visible like a change in hair color, they don’t care. So try something, anything, that makes a minor alteration to your appearance and take note of how many people notice. Then ask how many of these people have paid any attention to you otherwise lately and how much of an interest they take in how your life is actually going. I am willing to bet that the number of people that do the latter will be significantly fewer than those who do the former. Makes you wonder what all the fuss is really about.
- The University of Miami football program may have had it right after all. The Hurri-thugs, if you recall, had a massive brawl during a game last month against Florida International. This isn't to condone violence; it’s just that when you juxtapose that against what happened over the weekend with some University of Tennessee football players, the Miami gangstas don’t look quite as dumb. At least they were fighting against
the other team, whereas the Tennessee players were fighting against each other. These tools went out after they lost a big game to LSU and threw down with one another. Players Antonio Wardlow and David Holbert went at it, with teammate Arian Foster stepping in to act as a peacemaker. Fellas, I know losing sucks and you were pissed about dropping a game that killed your national title hopes, but going Fight Club on each other isn't going to solve anything. In fact, it got Wardlow suspended for two games, Holbert for one game and Foster for half of a game.
- Who else is very, very tired of Kirstie Alley? The former Cheers star, who in recent years: got obscenely fat, wrote a TV show called Fat Actress that stunningly no one wanted to see, realized that being grossly obese wasn’t appealing to anyone, lost much of the weight she’d gained and became a shameless shill for Weight Watchers, appeared on Oprah last week to “show off” what she’d accomplished. Thankfully I didn’t watch this charade with my own eyes, but Alley supposedly fulfilled a promise to Oprah to appear in a maroon bikini once she was no longer fat. As much as the sight of an average-looking 55-year-old woman in a swimsuit is, I think I’ll pass on seeing it. Great, you’re not fat anymore, kudos to you. That’ll be great for your health, above all else. But do us all a favor and keep your clothes on. No, you’re not going to inspire anyone to follow your example. Only someone that has internal motivation to lose weight and get in shape will do so, not anyone that sees a once thin, then fat, then less fat actress on TV.
- Australia might be lifting its ban on cloning. Super idea, because what would be bad about having a few extra copies of Russell Crowe or Nicole Kidman around? That way, when the original Crowe is unavailable for a movie because he’s in jail for assaulting a hotel concierge or is too hammered to make it to the set, just bring in one of his clones to fill the role. Opponents of lifting the ban fear it could lead to creation of human-animal hybrids. I don’t know, who doesn’t wanna see a real-life Minataur? Not a fan of cloning myself, really, but I don’t think the animal-human hybrid possibility is all that likely.
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