Date posted: November 29, 2007 - Thursday
Title: Snide remarks about this and that
Current mood: curious
Tis the season to wade through tons of advertising inserts in your daily paper. It is the time when retailers expect to save their entire year with Christmas sales instead of just providing quality goods at reasonable prices the rest of the year.
So I was tossing the ads out of my Sunday paper last weekend and one item caught my eye. And my question is …
Who the hell needs a travel bag for their crock pot? How often are you going to haul that sucker on a camping trip, or aboard that flight to Grandma's place for Christmas? And what the hell is next, a TV stuck in the front of your dishwasher an iPod jack on your toilet paper roller?
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Gene Tierney had great lips. I was watching "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" the other day and besides her famous overbite, I noticed how nice her lips were.
Now I am a big fan of kissing. Yeah, looking at me you know I don't get a chance to do it too often. Hell, I may not even be any good at it, but I am still a big fan. But despite my own shortcomings, I see another problem these days. We seem to be breeding girls with no lips.
Yep, hard to find a young lady with really full, attractive lips these days. Mostly it is the lack of an upper lip that throws the mouth off.
Of course there are those who go to the other extreme as well. I think Robin Williams is right about Angelina Jolie. I just want to wet her lips and stick her to a window somewhere. (A lot like those silly Garfield dolls that were so popular a few years back.)
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There it was, right on my television and I had to laugh out loud. It was an ad for the latest Disney Studios release on DVD. Yep, the last installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean is being released. What cracked me up was the phrase, "available for a limited time."
Who the hell do you think you're kidding?
It's a Disney film. That sucker will be available until the human race dies out and cockroaches are running the planet. There will be some flunky cockroach running the Disney studios and he will reissue the DVD along with Show White or some other chestnut from the Disney vaults.
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I made the mistake of watching this movie on STARZ the other night. "Stomp the Yard." I guess someone will call me a racist (although I'm not), but I just don't see the point of "steppin’" as either an art form or a competition. At least not the way they were doing it in this film.
I know the film was supposed to say something positive about black culture, but I think if I were a reasonable, thinking black man I would have been offended in the extreme by this film.
Why?
Well, let's look at the examples from the plot. The lead character goes against his own better judgment and participates in a competition which eventually gets his brother killed. Then he lies about his background to get into college. Some of the fraternity guys who spout about brotherhood and bonds that last a lifetime use some underhanded methods and borderline blackmail to eliminate a possible threat to their domination of this steppin' competition. The provost of this college uses his position as a college administrator to control his own daughter's life, advance the cause of his former fraternity and boot a kid out of school because he isn't the right kind of kid they want there.
