Entries from October 2007 ↓

love the quotes!!
i think that the thing about laverne souting out her name might have had something to do with the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, but i'm not sure.

anyone know anywhere to get diner and walking next to you, as i have winter already…

i googled myself here as well lookin for that song from the funeral….I LOVE SCRUBS! yeeeEEEE!!! lol…the person way above ^^^ needs to quit hatin on my show!! lol…you have to watch every episode in order to understand whats coming next u retard! its called a fuckckkkin serieess duhh…

There's a story in the news today about an army veteran who, on camera for the local news, cut down a Mexican flag that was illegally being flown above a US flag. Quote: "I'm Jim Brossert and I took this flag down in honor of my country with a knife from the United States army. I'm a veteran, I am not going to see this done to my country. if they want to fight us, then they need to be men, and they need to come and fight us, but I want somebody to fight me for this flag. They're not going to get it back." What he actually stole was their American flag, leaving the Mexican one on the ground.

And if you only read that part of the story, you should well be thinking "Amen, Brother. Now there's a real patriot, drive those illegals back across the border where they belong!"

Only thing, though, is that the store owner is in fact an American citizen, and had no idea that it was illegal to do what he was doing. Apparently nobody bothered to ask him to take it down, they just went for the news story. Still the right thing to do, ya think? A bit of an overreaction?

So now what you've got is a guy without enough knowledge of the situation who took it upon himself to steal another citizen's property, and getting on the news for it – as the good guy. That's patriotism?

In this corner we have Danny Bonaduce, who people of my age will remember as the little redhaired kid on the Patridge Family and who people of this generation will know as a raging alcoholic with violent tendencies. And in the other corner we have Johnny Fairplay, a man so annoying he makes the Dalai Lama want to punch him in the face. Fairplay's only contribution to society thus far was to trick the producers of Survivor Season 2 (it's in season 9 currently – that was 7 years ago people!) that his grandmother had died. He's basically been hanging around ever since.

It's probably worth mentioning that Danny, the guy with known violent tendencies? Is a trained martial artist. And Johnny, at half his size, basically stays on camera by being annoying.

So,guess who'd win in a fight?

Here's the context. Fairplay is on stage at some reality awards show, and people are booing. Danny wanders on stage, apparently because "someone in a headset" told him to, and says "They're booing you because they hate you." He then give him a friendly tap as if to say "There you go, I helped you with your bit, see ya" and walks away. Johnny, trying to make more of a bit out of it, runs at Danny and does what he calls his "monkey humping routine". If you've seen him do this, it was probably expected. But if you had no clue what he was doing, it probably came as something of a shock.

So, Danny just flips Johnny up and over his (Danny's) head, where Johnny lands on his face and smashes his teeth.

The question going around is, and I quote TMZ.com, "Who's the douche?" Fairplay already claims (from the hospital) to have pressed felony assault charges. Danny is doing the radio talk show circuit to defend himself.

The video really makes it pretty clear, and I think Danny was at fault. Don't get me wrong, I hate the other guy, and at least in theory he's the kind of guy you want to punch in the face. But when you actually see him thrown on his face by a guy twice his size, when all he was trying to do was get a laugh, you say "Well, wait, maybe he didn't deserve *that*." The biggest reason I think it's Danny's problem, though? Never once did he turn around and look to see if the guy was ok. No acknowledgement of "Damn I hurt him" or anything like that. He just played to the audience like he'd done what they wanted. He knew he hurt the guy (he watches Fairplay get up and walk offstage), and he didn't care. He smiled and shrugged. That's not really cool. I would think that even in a fight, if you put a guy on the ground, you have at least some concern about whether you've damaged the dude.

isn't the web amazing ???
i downloaded scrubs 6th season this week and i watch it and i also liked the song in the end (when i feel that…) and I had no clue about so I googled my way here..and I am probably closer to the BF in Iraq than to the rest of you…so it's an amazing world..hope the guy from Iraq will return home safely soon

I was hoping that after the Blue team eliminated captain Jerry last week, Bob would tear them a new one.  I guess that's not part of the game, though, as it's never mentioned again.  Oh well. 

This week opens with a temptation…for the trainers.  That's a neat idea, as the three trainers stand in front of a tray of cupcakes in a possible chance to win a bonus for their team during the next challenge.  It turns out to be nothing more than a motivational trick, however, as each team says, "My trainer wouldn't want me to eat it, so I wouldn't wish the same on her."  Bob is the funniest, saying that he remembers when he had a cupcake – "half of one."  And then he's scoping out the whole tray, picking out his favorite.  But at the end, nobody picks any cupcakes, we don't get to watch the trainers pig out.

The challenge is a simple race to the flag and back, with two catches.  First, the teams have to bid each other down in a dare to see who can run it the fastest.  And second, the trainer runs with the team.  That was pretty neat, especially watching Jillian carry the flag (which was double her size) by herself, leading the team back up the hill.  Long story short, the black team fails to make their time, the red team succeeds, and the blue team never even got to go because they played the betting in order to dare the red team into taking the challenge.    This does not sit well with Bob, who feels that his team chickened out of even attempting the race, something that he would have gotten to participate in.  Needless to say, Bob beats on them pretty ruthlessly. 

Blatant plug in the middle for Subway, supposedly because they have a healthy menu and it was an example of how you can eat in the real world and still eat healthy.  But more obviously, it was paid product placement.

Worst of all for Bob, the winning red team gets immunity at the weigh in, so it's either going to be black or blue.  And Jillian's team pulls down substantial, double-digit numbers.  Someone from blue is going home again.  The team then totally disappoints as they say "We can't decide who to send home, so we're going to deliberately make it a tie and let the house decide."  To which Bob says, deservedly, "Oh hell no, I forbid that."

So at the end of it all Patty goes home – she's the one who pigged out unnecessarily last week during the challenge and probably should have gone last week.  We leave on a cliffhanger, as Allison tells us that next week the campus is closed.  I assume that means that they are going to have to spend a week in the real world, getting themselves to the gym and eating on their own, which would be pretty cool, but no idea how they would film it.  These shows thrive on the interaction between the players.  We shall see.

I have to admit, Dancing with the Stars is losing steam for me a little bit. I didn't even realize that it was on last night, we watched the Patriots game instead.  So we were happy enough with the recap.  We get it, the Cheetah girl and the race car driver are way out in front.  We actually tried watching Cavemen (blah) and Carpoolers (I liked, Kerry didn't) before Dancing, so that we could buffer it up and Tivo our way through it.

The encore dance goes to the race car driver, whose partner is Julianne, the champion.  I think that most of his points are coming from the crazy choreography she puts together.  She did that last season too, with Apolo.  Remember the whole dance around the chair?  And the blindfolded one?  She's good, I like her.

Queen Latifah is the guest star.  I wonder what it really says about your career when you basically put out an album of "standards"?  Instead of seeing the dancers we know this week, we see some champions.  They are good, sure, but who cares about them?  Part of the appeal of the show is in having your favorites, and wanting to see them.  When there's no one on stage you know, you reduce your audience down to just the people who watch for the ballroom, and that's not as many as you might think.

An actual funny bit with Jimmy Kimmel (I know, can you believe it?) when they go behind the scenes to look at how the votes are counted, and they discover that they're being counted by…well, The Count.  From Sesame Street.  They then completely kill the joke by having him counting votes for "Mel B" and "Scary Spice" independently, and when Jimmy says "You know those are the same person, right?"  the Count just says, "Are you serious?  Now I have to start over!" and they leave him picking up the phones again.  Haha?  I don't get it.

Albert the young model with the crotch action goes home this week.  I don't care about him one way or the other, had no idea who he was and I assume that fanbase did him in.  The other guy, Cameron, fills in the "hot guy" category apparently.  What bums me out is that his partner was Anna, the peppy little red head who only just came back this season.  I'd liked her in earlier seasons and was hoping to see more of her.  I have to see more of Cheryl Smith and Wayne Newton, but the one I like goes home.  Feh.

George W. Bush to meet with the Dalai Lama

Ok, now this is interesting.  In an apparent first, a US president is going to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama where he will be presented with the Congressional Gold Medal (His Holiness, not Bush).  This is sure to piss off China, who basically runs around the world behind the Dalai Lama saying "No more toys with lead paint for you if you invite him to tea.  We don't like him."  Bonus points for the spokeswoman who said that such a move "hurts the feelings of the Chinese people."  I wonder if in a statement like that she's counting the Tibetans as Chinese people?  Because I'd be willing to bet they're very happy when their leader (both politically and spiritually) gets a little respect.

Perhaps they can talk about Burma while they're at it?

Seriously, if Bush manages to have a respectful meeting with the man, if it's more than just a photo opportunity, and Bush manages not to say anything stupid, I will be very pleased.