Are you ready for some MNF?

First weekend of NFL football down and I am one unhappy camper. If you don't live under a rock, you've seen the many replays of Calvin Johnson making the touchdown catch that should have won the game for my beleaguered Lions, but he didn't "complete the process" thus it was overturned. What?!? Yeah, that's what I thought. To be completely honest, I thought the Lions were going to lose by that point anyway. My husband, who is usually less optimistic than I am, was saying, "Hey they have like a minute and a half left. It could happen." All the while I was thinking, no way. Matty Stafford out since before the half, Shawn Hill not doing anything with the ball, and a minute and a half left with the Bears up by five points. Then Megatron comes up with that crazy catch and I'm screaming at the television. My husband demanding an apology for doubting and then the overturned call. (Hubby then said, well, maybe you don't need to apologize after all.) I say BS on that. If that rule was applied for most of the catches in the endzone, half the touchdowns would be overturned. I say it's a stupid rule and needs to be fixed. Props to Jim Schwartz for taking the high road and not hating on the refs, but I wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut about it if it were me. Just sayin. If everyone and their brother is saying use some common sense with this rule, maybe the refs should be using some common sense. He obviously caught that ball, feet, knee, butt down in the endzone, ball didn't jostle at all and he uses it to get to his feet, dislodging the ball. Was that part of the "process"? I think not. Detroit would have no luck if they didn't have bad luck.

The Saints won over the Vikings. Was it pretty? No, but we'll take it. Of course, having Brad Childress start whining after the game was over about Shiancoe being "mauled" by Vilma during the interception is just par for the course. The first time they won, it was because the Saints were "playing dirty." This time it's because the defense "mauled" the receivers. Why can't he just say they played better than we did and there you go? Sour grapes.

Was anyone else noticing that Brett Favre just doesn't look like he wants to be playing? To me it looks like he doesn't want to play, even before they were losing. He just didn't look like he used to. If you don't love playing, why come back?

The Steelers beat the Falcons and I say, good job Dennis Dixon. He caught a lot of crap for being the back-up's back-up. But the kid did okay. They came away with a win right? 'Nuff said.

The Eagles. Wow. So trading McNabb isn't looking so good right now is it? Kevin Kolb is knocked out with a concussion (hope he's okay, by the way) and now they have Michael Vick. I'll be the first to say that I used to hate Michael Vick. When he played on the Falcons, I thought he was way too cocky, and way too full of himself. Now I think he's been dealt a pretty rough hand, not that I'm excusing the whole dog fighting thing, but it's not like he was accused of killing a person (Ray Lewis), did drugs (Jamal Brown, Ricky Williams--though that's a whole other story), beat his wife, etc. He did not a bad job yesterday. I say, let him play, see what happens and then make a decision on who starts.

And then there's the Cardinals. I'm pretty sure that about halfway through the game against the Rams, someone in their organization was speed dialing Kurt Warner and begging him to come back. They won in the end, but it wasn't pretty, and it was against the Rams. I foresee many problems ahead for them. I'm sure Matt Leinart was laughing in Houston.

Tonight it's the Jets against the Ravens. Who will win? Who knows? I like John Harbaugh, and Joe Flacco. But I really liked the Jets after the Hard Knocks show. So toss up on favorites here. Should be a good game.

Football is in full swing. Bring it!!!

It's that time of year!!!

Football is back! Say it with me people, WOOHOO!!! This was the annual NFL Hall of Fame weekend with the induction ceremony and football game. I skipped watching the induction ceremony because after watching Michael Irvin's speech (over and over and over again) I just couldn't handle watching more grown men cry. Sorry. I know these are great players/coaches, but other than Dick LeBeau (who incidentally, had one of the best and shortest induction speeches) I don't need to see the speeches. I can google it and see it later. That being said, the game was typical of the Hall of Fame weekend in that the starters played for maybe a series, if that, and we got to see a whole bunch of boys that probably won't be playing in the NFL again. Well, at least they got on television for a play or two.

Training camp is upon us and I can't wait to see the Jets on Hard Knocks which airs on HBO in two days. I love that series and am so glad they decided to follow around teams that aren't the Cowboys. To be fair, they haven't followed the Cowboys in a few years and that's perfectly alright with me. What would be great would be if they could just hit every team on a yearly rotating basis. Last year was the Bengals. This year is the Jets. Maybe next year the Saints? That would be awesome, but doubt that would happen. We can hope right?

One thing I must point out though about the HBO series. On the initial playing of an episode, which is at 10 pm, they don't censor anything, but if it plays during the day, they bleep out certain curse words. Really? It's freakin HBO! That's the whole point of it!!! If you don't like swearing, don't watch the cable channel. For crying out loud, it's bad enough to censor some words out (and I don't mean dropping the f-bomb on network television) on basic cable, but it's a premium
channel. What's up with that? Hopefully they don't do that this year.

I have high hopes this year for the Saints and even higher hopes for the Lions. The Saints are already hearing the talk about how they can't possibly repeat a Super Bowl appearance, let alone a win, and I'm all about them telling them what they can't do. After all, they weren't supposed to beat the Cardinals and they weren't supposed to beat the Vikings and they sure as hell weren't supposed to beat the Colts, so keep on telling the Saints what they aren't supposed to do just so they can shove it down your throats. And the Lions? Well, they've become the whipping boys of the NFL. I don't negate the fact that they have the record of worst losing season ever, but they're a new team with a coach who seems to know what he's doing and a young quarterback that's already had a trial by fire and came out not too bad. This year's draft was looking pretty good and it's the NFC North which hasn't exactly been coming up roses the last couple of seasons, the Vikings excluded. I say, go Matty and go Lions! I hope they shock the crap out of all the haters.

Training camp - WOOHOO at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.

Random Thoughts Update

I just read a bunch of articles regarding the Facebook brouhaha with the security settings and another about a couple of guys who built software to hack Android phones which was disseminated at the annual Hacker conference. I'm not sure which disturbs me more, the fact that people build this stuff just to see if it works, or that there's a conference where all these types of people can go to network, no pun intended. I mean, sure, the Android hacker guys said they built it to get the company to fix the system and so said the Facebook hacking dude, but really? Did you really do it to get the establishment to fix this stuff, or just for some fame and glory because now your names are all over the place? Just wondering.

My favorite quitter, Sarah Palin, has recently said that the governor of Arizona has more "cojones" than our president does. Wow. I have said it before, and I'll say it again, why do otherwise intelligent, mostly highly educated people, listen to anything this woman has to say, or worse, say that she represents the people and their opinions? I know that I'm part of the people and she sure doesn't represent my opinions. Look people, she was in office only part of the time before she quit so she could get paid. She, in my opinion, single-handedly tanked Sen. McCain's presidential campaign (because I may have voted for him, if not for her) and seems to use any excuse to get her name and face out there so she can continue to milk her 15 minutes of fame. When I look at her, all I see is a "For Sale to the Highest Bidder" sign plastered all over her face. I'm not saying that President Obama has been able to do everything he promised while in office so far, but realistically, how many presidents have? I say he's trying and he got dealt a pretty crappy card to start out with anyway. Regardless, to have the right wing conservatives blaming him for everything from the state of the economy (which was already going down the tubes before he was elected) to the oil spill in the Gulf to the immigration issues is just irresponsible. It's hard to take someone seriously that only points a finger instead of offering real solutions and I don't really consider letting the highest earners in the country keep all their crazy tax cuts a solution.

On a lighter note, True Blood roles on. SPOILER ALERT (for anyone that hasn't watched the series so far, don't read on): So now we find out that Sookie doesn't have a blood type. What? Yeah, after her lost love, Bill, drains her "accidentally" after being on the verge of death, Alcide (yummy!) and Tara rush her to the hospital where they try to give her a transfusion which just goes all wrong when her body rejects the blood they try to give her. Yeah. It's starting to get just a bit weird. Meanwhile, after feeding on her blood, Tara, being the take-no-crap-from-anyone type of gal she is (which I love about her character), kicks Bill out on the road in the middle of the day and amazingly, he doesn't burst into flames. Go figure. Plus the whole semi-dream sequence of Sookie's with the dancing people around the pond that gives some kind of crazy good elixir from it's waters. Having these weird people telling Sookie to not let Bill take her "light" and then finding out that the Queen of Louisiana vampires has been stalking Sookie for some nefarious reason, plus the King of Mississippi taking out the magistar, well, it's becoming extremely convoluted. Okay, I like the show and haven't read most of the books, but this is starting to just get to be too much. I did like that they spent a little time with Sam and his dysfunctional family. He made a very cute pit bull. And you know it's not the end of his biological parents trying to use his bro Tommy as their dog fighting meal ticket. Just saying.

We saw Despicable Me this weekend. It was cute, predictable, but cute. The little one, Agnes, just stole the show with her big eyes and cute little one-liners. It would have been much better if the women behind us didn't feel the need to insert their opinions and commentary throughout the entire movie. "Aww"-everytime they showed Agnes. "He's still floating"-when they showed a minion. "Can you believe that?" "Oh my God!" All of these nifty tidbits at full volume. If you can't shut up for an hour and a half, don't go to the movies. Wait until it comes out on DVD. I didn't pay a bunch of money to hear your voice. Rant over. Thank you.

I'm up for a phone upgrade and I'm seriously thinking about that HTC Evo but having a hard time thinking of parting with $200 for a phone. That's the new phone pricing too, not even full price for it. Crazy. My current phone is fine for talking and texting, but I can't do anything else on it and would like to be able to access FB and some websites I can't access at my work (on lunch hour and breaks of course). Is it worth it to get a fancy phone now or wait until they're cheaper, which will undoubtedly happen eventually. Guess we'll see.

Television Updates

I have a new television crush and his name is Joe Manganiello. He plays Alcide on True Blood and he's truly HAWT! If you doubt this statement check out his entry on IMDb. There's a photo of him shirtless from the True Blood show and I'm seriously considering making it my computer wallpaper...and maybe wallpaper in my house. That boy is fine. I will tune in just to see him (hopefully shirtless). That being said, I'm having issues with the whole True Blood show as it's becoming a bit over the top with the storyline. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate a certain amount of cheese in a television show, but it's starting to become a bit tired. Maybe the next episode will be better. We can hope right?

I have found a new favorite show on the Travel Channel as well. Bert the Conqueror is hilarious. Basically, he travels around the country trying all kinds of stuff like jumping off the Stratosphere hotel in Vegas, catfish grabblin' (yeah I had to look that up too), and competing at the Slush Cup in New Hampshire. I guess I really just liked the Cedar Point episode as I had spent many a summer growing up in Michigan looking forward to trips to "America's Roller Coast." I haven't been back in way too long, but Bert made it look way fun. It should be noted that this episode must have been shot either early in the season or very late in the season as Cedar Point in the summer is crazy busy. You could easily wait in line for over 2 hours for a popular roller coaster. And this was over a decade ago (wow, that doesn't make me sound old, does it?). The next episode is in Florida (my new home state) and it looks like he hits Busch Gardens and the Redneck Yacht Club in Port Charlotte, which isn't too far from where I live. No, I did not make that name up. They have a place up there called the Redneck Yacht Club. It advertises itself as Florida's largest "mudding track." And any place that makes it a point to have "mud holes" has to have "Redneck" in it's title. I believe it's a federal requirement or something. Just sayin'.

My kids have me hooked on the America's Got Talent. Awesome that they give these people opportunities to shine on national television and maybe get their own show in Vegas. What I don't like is the sob stories. For example, the two sisters that have cystic fibrosis. Sad? Yes, but I don't think they were better than the homeless veteran choir, or the poor little girl they said "wasn't ready" with her voice and yet they're going on in the competition. Bet they get tons of votes too just for sympathy even if they're not the best talent. Guess that's callous, but really, it's a talent competition not a saddest story competition. If it were, they'd probably win. Oh well.

Okay, so that's the update for now. More to come in random ramblings!!! :)

Little Darlings

So I've been reading about Abby Sunderland, you know, the 16-year-old that tried to sail around the world by herself, boat broke and she had to be rescued. I originally thought, well, I wouldn't let my kid try it, but more power to her if her parents really believed she could do it. Well, the bill has come due and the family is saying they can't pay it and shouldn't have to. Really? I'm sure the taxpayers of Australia are super happy about that. I understand that sometimes s*!% happens, but if you put yourself out there in that situation against all advice to the contrary, that's your fault. I mean, they told the girl not to sail when she did because it would put her in the Indian Ocean in the winter (yes, it's winter in the southern hemisphere. Some people aren't getting that.) when the weather is roughest. Yet, she did it. It didn't work out, she had to be rescued and now you have to pay. That's the way the world works.

The dad is saying that they're broke and they can't pay the $300K it cost to rescue their kid. The mom said, "What price would you put on a child's life?" Well, apparently it's $300K. "We're not wealthy people." What I would like to know is where did the sailing yacht, yes I said yacht, come from and where did the money come from to fund her trip? I can't imagine it's cheap to stock a boat with supplies for roughly a year. Not only that, but she plans on taking another trip around the world. Why? She's not going to beat the record and it's not like she had a good outcome the first time around. Again, shouldn't you plan for every possible outcome? If my kid was going around the world by herself, I'd be coming up with some serious contingency plans, expecting the worst to happen and being prepared.

My husband seems to think she broke the boat on purpose. I'm starting to agree. Why so cynical, you ask? Well, to be honest, who had heard about this girl and her voyage before she became lost at sea? Her dad has been shopping a reality show since she left and her whole family, all 7 almost 8 kids of them, seem to want to cash in on this notoriety. Is anyone else thinking this is sounding familiar? (Jon & Kate Plus 8, the Duggars, Balloon Boy, and the list goes on) Her brother is planning a motorcycle trip from the top of the world to the bottom (paraphrasing that) since he's already sailed around the world on his own, and she wants to sail around the world again. Again, who's funding this? Plus she's writing a book. Of course she's writing a book. They all write books. I'm sure it will recount her harrowing ordeal in the Indian Ocean and dramatic rescue. I suggest the Australian government get with the U.S. government and freeze their assets until they can pay off the tab. If they want to leave the country, no. Pay the tab first. Kids can't leave either since it's their fault they're in the mess they're in. Harsh? Maybe, but I can't drum up a lot of sympathy for people pulling the "poor me" card when they knew what they were getting into in the first place and didn't plan ahead. You're broke? Maybe you shouldn't be letting your minor kid get themselves into trouble. If they're under eighteen, you're responsible for all their crap, including bills.

One poster suggested requiring a bond if they want to do something like this and I agree. An insurance policy of sorts. You pay for this policy to go around the world, or whatever floats your boat (no pun intended), if you make it back without incident, cool. You're out x-amount of money. If they have to come rescue your ass, it's covered. Why not? You have to have insurance for everything else under the sun, why not this? It may curb these daredevils desire to put themselves, and others, in harms way. Just sayin.

No more "reality" shows, please!!! at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.

GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!

The 2010 FIFA World Cup competition has started in South Africa today. This is one of the most highly anticipated events of the year (unless you live in the U.S.). I'm trying to get hyped up for this, but I'm having a hard time. I live in the land of football, not futbol. Yes, I know we are an arrogant group, us Americans, that everyone else in the world calls it futbol and we call it soccer. Why we have a sport named football when the ball touches anyone's foot less than 1% of the game, I'll never know, but I digress.

For some reason the United States has not embraced soccer/futbol in the same way as all the rest of the world. We're trying though. We can actually recognize a few players on our own national team now and more and more kids are playing the sport. Baby steps. Maybe it's due to the latter that I'm making more of an effort to watch. My youngest likes soccer even if, bless her heart, she's not that good at it. Hey, it gets her out of the house and she gets to make new friends. I'm all for that. However, I did not grow up watching this sport. We had the standard sports: football, baseball, basketball, volleyball, tennis and even golf. Yes, we had golf as a high school sport that you could letter in. That being said, I don't have any background on the rules, what's acceptable and what's not. The little bit of professional soccer I have seen seems like a bunch of guys running way too much on a field that's way too big and becoming major drama queens anytime anyone comes within ten feet of their person. Well, that and having seen Bend it like Beckham a number of times.

Not saying these guys aren't athletes. Au contraire, mon frere. These guys are running back and forth on a futbol field the size of a football field. Everyone got that. That's a whole heckuva lot of running. I saw some article saying that the refs can expect to run some crazy amount over the course of a game like 12 miles or some such number. That's just the refs! That's about 12 miles too many for me. Well, you never see a fat soccer/futbol player now do you? So the media is trying to get us uneducated Americans into the World Cup by having stories about the players and whatnot. They even had a thing on msnbc about the 50 stars of the World Cup with the picture, name, age and a little blurb about each player. Know what surprised me the most about this? The majority of this 50 are around 27-34. Much older than I would have thought. I figured these guys would have to be in their early 20s to handle that kind of stress on the body. Crazy.

So all this leads up to the match tomorrow between England and the U.S. Should be interesting. I'm hoping they don't smear our boys all over the pitch (yeah, I said pitch). Taking bets on if the UK runs out of beer before the end of the match. And if we do happen to win this, major bragging rights which as an obnoxious American, I'm all about. :)

Good luck boys! at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.

And it starts...

Everyone I know already knows that I love movies. LOVE movies. That said, I'm undecided on the new A-Team. Sure I watched some A-Team episodes, as I am a child of the 80s and 90s. Mainly, to be completely honest, because I thought Dirk Benedict was pretty hot. The rest of it wasn't as important. Also the reason why I watched some Battlestar Gallactica, but that's a different story. I like Liam Neeson, and Bradley Cooper is definitely easy on the eyes, but I have a feeling this may be one of those movies where they've shown you all the good parts in the trailer and previews. You know, the ones they've been showing for like a year.

On to The Karate Kid. In the interest of full disclosure, shouldn't it really be The Kung Fu Kid? I mean they are in China, not Japan, it's Jackie Chan, not Pat Morita and he's teaching him Kung Fu, not Karate. I'll say again, Kung Fu, not Karate. Just sayin'. I'm hoping because it was shot in China that we will get a little cultural interaction and education. Has to be more than in the original where the biggest point of contention was if the kid lived in the ghetto with his love interest (and the bully of the school) living in Beverly Hills (or thereabouts). Not that I didn't like the original one, but the culture shock of a Jersey kid moving to Cali doesn't really compare to an American kid moving to China. Props to Will Smith's kid though as it looks like he really went all out for this movie. He's not the biggest kid on the block but I'm pretty sure he could kick my butt. I think that may be a renter but my kid wants to see it so we may be contributing to Mr. Smith's trust fund. To be seen.

Toy Story 3 comes out next week and I will say that I really want to see that. I saw Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in the theater so why break a streak? Sadly, I saw Toy Story before my oldest was born, Toy Story 2 not long after she was born and now she's 12. Boy the time flies. Might even have to pony up the extra cash to see in Imax. I just love Mr. Potato Head and Rex. Of course, Slinky dog is now the dad from 50 First Dates (and the coach from The Waterboy, and insert all other Adam Sandler movie cameos here) which he does fine but not quite the same as Jim Varney (rest his soul). Michael Keaton as an evil Ken doll should be interesting though. Can't wait.

Saw Sex and the City 2 over the weekend. Eh. It was alright. About what I expected. What I did not expect was the plushness of the theater we went to. It's call Silver Spot at Mercato in Naples, Florida. The seating is all assigned (yeah, I know it sounds weird but it turned out not too bad) and the seats are huge, leather, overstuffed chairs. Super fab. Plus you get armrests large enough that if you have to share with the person next to you, it's not so bad. Armrests for everyone! Plus, and I did not partake, but I like the idea, they serve wine and drinks at this theater. Yes, they have a wine bar where you can get drinks to go into the theater with. Pretty sweet. This theater is located in an upscale shopping center that has a bunch of restaurants (I'm a big fan of AZN and Capital Grille) and stores to include a Whole Foods. Yeah, we don't get down there too often because we are not of the affluent set, but for a once in a while thing, not bad. :) Pricing could be better. An adult ticket costs as much as an Imax ticket at our local theater, but I guess that's the trade off. And the ticket prices are the same throughout the day, no deal for matinees. They also don't allow kids under two so if you want to bring the toddler, think again. Oh well. May have to go back there sometime soon.

For all you Twilight nuts out there, that Eclipse movie is coming out at the end of the month. Gasp! Yeah, I don't really get it. I read the books and they were okay and then I saw the first movie and thought it was pretty crappy, but maybe I'm not the audience they're looking for. I was a teenager once and I liked some pretty bad stuff (New Kids on the Block, need I say more?) but I don't remember going quite so ga-ga over a movie/book series. The acting is just so bad (or maybe it's just the script) it's distracting. And the whole periods of time that they just gaze into each other eyes? Gag. That was at least half an hour of my life I can't get back just in the meaningful gazes. Oh well. One less movie I have to worry about seeing this summer.

I do want to see The Last Airbender. My kids got me hooked on the cartoon and I'm hoping that M. Night Shyamalan doesn't douche it up. I've been disappointed by his movies before and I'm hoping this breaks the streak. The effects look pretty good and the characters look pretty close to the show. Well, as close as you can get for a cartoon. Again, may be a renter.

Think that's about it for now. I'm sure I'll have updates to come. Til then, have a great summer at the movies (look for the requisite PSA before the previews).

Catch Up Time

Been way too long since I posted last. What has happened in the last 6 months or so? Well, the Saints won the Super Bowl. I'll say it again, THE SAINTS WON THE SUPER BOWL!!! Yeah, I put it all in caps and extra exclamation points because it was that spectacular. Of course, at this point it's old news and you would have to be living under a rock to not have seen this. Fully awesome!!! That pick 6 by Tracy Porter was fantabulous and the defense played so well. Of course, Drew and the receiver boys were great and the running backs were not shabby either. All in all, a great game. My one complaint? Can we get someone slightly more relevant for the halftime show? I like The Who's music as much as anyone else, but do they need to headline the halftime show? I think not. Get someone semi-popular and not a group graduating into Geriatric Town.

Then there's the business of the oil spill in the Gulf. This is some major crap that could seriously bankrupt a number of people along the Gulf Shore. Half of New Orleans (or maybe more) restaurants rely on seafood from the Gulf (not to mention a good chunk of LA, MS, and AL) and if they have to pay more to ship in seafood, this could seriously affect them. Not to mention all the fisherman whose livelihoods are directly tied to the Gulf waters. Whatever the case may be, they need to get this fixed and soon. Regardless, the region will probably not be the same for years, if ever. Sad.

On a lighter note, saw Shrek: The Final Chapter (or whatever the heck it's called) and it was okay. Typical ending, saw it coming a mile away and while it was an okay movie I have to ask, was it necessary to make it 3D? Probably not. It's not like making a movie 3D suddenly turns a craptastic movie into an Oscar contender. More than anything I'm just annoyed that I have to wear those stupid glasses and my eyes end up not knowing what to do resulting in me with a headache. Yeah good times. Thanks. Might end up seeing Sex and the City 2. Why? Well, there's not a whole lot else to see right now and might be having a girls day out for my b-day this weekend. The first one wasn't too bad so I guess I'd be willing to see the sequel.

Sidenote: Totally sign up for birthday stuff at various websites. I already have a free burger from Red Robin, a free entree from Moe's Southwest Grill, a free scoop from Ben & Jerry's and Baskin Robbins and a free "Like It" creation from Stone Cold Creamery. Nothing says "Happy Birthday" like free stuff. :)

Happy New Year

As is tradition with my blog, as in totally random, somewhat ADD-style formatting, we will speak of things this New Year is bringing. As in, television and movies. I have never been a fan of The Bachelor as evidenced in past postings, but when I saw an article regarding the newest incarnation which had a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon style of explanation on how the current Bachelor got to this point, I had to try hard not to spew water all over my computer screen. Why you ask? Well, because the powers that be at ABC named it The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love. Seriously?!? Have you spewed your drink of choice? If not, be prepared. Who thinks of this? You know someone at ABC is paid to think this crap up. Paid! I realize the guy in question is a pilot, but c'mon folks. The cheese factor is already pretty high before the cameras even start rolling. This just puts it over the top. I would refuse to watch it on the title alone. Nevermind the whole, I'm so awesome I will decline all you pretty, smart (debatable if you're on this show, knowing what's in store), young things and leave you in a crying, mascara-smeared heap on network television, telling the whole world you are not good enough for me. Just sayin'. Of course, these women have to go in with a somewhat warped sense of reality if they actually think they're going to find the man of their dreams on this show.

Another show is this Jersey Shore of which everyone seems to be speaking. Having not watched MTV since they used to show music videos (I know, shocking), I have no idea what this is about except for what I have read and seen in the news. Apparently there are a bunch of goombas from NY that hang out in Jersey sharing a house and see who can be the biggest cliche. There's a girl on the show who is about the size of an Oompa Loompa and has a complexion to match. The girl is almost orange folks. This is why you shouldn't overdo the tanning. Then another girl who prances around and shows off as much of her surgically enhanced bosoms as the censors will allow and a few guys that look like every stereotype ever produced by Hollywood for Italian-Americans hanging out on the street corner. This is what our youth is watching? No wonder the country is heading down the crapper on the express train.

The Biggest Loser is starting another season. I admit, I'm a fan and I will try my darndest to lose weight this year. I do have to say though, that it seems a bit intimidating to see these people like 400+ pounds lose half their body weight and telling people at home, yes you can do this too. Nevermind that they get a first class gym, personal trainers, a fully stocked kitchen with only the good stuff to eat and they work out all day long. Just sayin.

Many movies coming out soon. I want to see The Book of Eli, because it's Denzel Washington in a race to save humanity, Daybreakers, because I'm all for the gory, violent vampire movies, not the touchy feely love story type, Toy Story 3 comes out this summer, you can never have too many Pixar movies, as well as another Shrek. I think I can pass on that one though. Finally saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Wasn't too bad. Rather long and becoming increasingly violent. Guess that happens if you follow the book. Of course, if you follow the books, they're bound to get way more violent. Well, I'll still want to see the last two movies. I already have this much time and money invested, might as well see it through right?

Guess that's enough rambling for now. More to come at life.sa.laugh@hotmail.com.