- In one of the more bizarre deaths I’ve heard about in a while, New Delhi (India) Deputy Mayor S.S. Bajwa died when he was attacked by wild monkeys, fell from the balcony at his home and suffered fatal head injuries that led to his demise. He was simply out on the balcony, enjoying a nice day in New Delhi, when the Rhesus macaques came after him and he tried to fight them off. These wild monkeys are actually extremely common in the city, with many government buildings, temples and neighborhoods overrun by them. Still, you can’t help but laugh at least a few times when you get a mental picture of Bajwa standing on his balcony, then the monkeys attack and “GAAAAA!!!! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!! GET OFF OF ME, YOU ------ AAAAAAAHHHH!!!” Ok, I think I’ve gotten that out of my system…..moving on……..
- Maybe this coming weekend will be a stronger one at the box office than last one. I’m debating whether it’s a good or bad thing that I’d never heard of either one of last weekend’s top box-office earners prior to reading that they were last weekend’s top box-office earners, and I’m torn. On one hand, I make a point of knowing about what’s going on in the movie industry, but on the other hand, a clichéd vampire blood-and-gore fest like 30 Days of Night and a crappy comedy like Why Did I Get Married? aren’t exactly movies I’d be eager to know about. Even so, 30 Days of Night brought in $16 million to take the No. 1 spot for the weekend, with Why Did I Get Married? second and The Rock’s Disney comedy The Game Plan holding strong at third after several weeks in theaters. Unless I suddenly become a teenage girl and thus enamored with seeing Josh Hartnett on the big screen, I don’t see myself taking any further interest in 30 Days of Night, so this should be the last time I write about this movie.
- What a joyous outing it was for Britney Spears and the two kids unfortunate enough to be the demon spawn of Brit and K-Dirt, riding around in sunny southern California, a court-appointed monitor sitting in the passenger seat. I mean, who doesn’t think back fondly to their childhood memories, times spent with mom and the court-appointed parenting coach? Brit can’t visit her kids without that parenting coach present, at least not until she complies with a court order to clean up and get her life in order. You could look at it is a bad thing that she can’t be alone with her kids until she meets these conditions, but really Brit should be looking at it as a positive. Why? Because at least the judge didn’t include in the conditions for regaining custody that she has to lose those extra 40 lbs. she’s been carrying around, actually make a good album and establish herself as a legitimate musical artist…..
- Now this is what I call keeping your eye on the ball, Miami Dolphins. When you’re sailing along as smoothly as the ‘Fins are at 0-7, chugging along toward the reverse perfect season, it can be tempting to take your eyes off the ball and actually start trying and playing well. But the Dolphins aren’t letting up at all, following up the loss of starting quarterback Trent Green for the season with a severe concussion and the trading of top wide receiver Chris Chambers with the loss of two more key starters in Sunday’s loss to New England. Star running back Ronnie Brown, easily the team’s best player, tore his ACL and is out for the year. Also in that game, starting free safety Renaldo Hill tore the ACL in his right knee and he too will miss the remainder of the season. Hill is the first major personnel loss on the defensive side of the ball, so it’s good to see that it’s not just the offensive unit that is falling apart for Miami. The problems aren’t limited to the team itself; former Dolphin players are absolutely crushing this year’s team publicly, so hopefully that sniping will get into the heads of the current players and get them even less focused on winning football games. Combine all of those factors with the fact that this week the Dolphins are flying all the way to London to play arguably the hottest team in the NFL right now, the New York Giants, and 0-8 is all but assured at this point, which would (cue Bon Jovi) make it halfway there………..to 0-16.
- Ah, I love all you wacky animal rights activists out there. If you’re not out there spreading your “Meat is murder” message and sending snarky “You deserved it,” faxes to supposed animal oppressors like Sigfried and Roy when they’re attacked by their animals, you’re busy with your commando-style liberation missions of various critters and creatures. One such mission just took place in Denmark, where 5,000 minks escaped from a fur farm near the town of Asp during the night. Police suspect that the animals were freed by animal-rights activisits, although they currently have no suspects and are still investigating. The night raid on the farm has set thousands of minks loose in Asp and now the residents are busy trying to capture and get rid of them, although I’m sure the animal rights people who (allegedly) freed the minks couldn’t care less what problems their actions caused, just as long as the minks don’t end up in somebody’s fur coat. When it comes to agitators and troublemakers, there’s no one better at making a mess in the name of their cause than PETA and like-minded groups.
- How does an offensive lineman with any skill at all get cut from one of the worst teams in the NFL, a team whose current offensive line is being hailed as the worst in the league and possibly one of the worst of all time? Former St. Louis Rams offensive tackle Claude Terrell could answer that question: by being arrested for allegedly beating your wife in a suburban Houston hotel room. Terrell was arrested at a motel in the town of Webster early Tuesday morning after his wife called the police, saying he had beaten her. He was then found at a different motel nearby and arrested soon after. The team released him Wednesday and later in the day he made his first court appearance in the case. Claude, my man, based on the way that O-line is playing, if you’d been able to not go Ike Turner on your wife, you would have had a great chance to earn a permanent starting job and start to build a legitimate NFL career. As is, you’re heading to trial on domestic assault charges and with the new player conduct policy in the league, it’s going to be very hard, if not impossible, for any other team to consider picking you, a marginal player, up and giving you another shot.
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