In this economic climate, I can't really be affording to lose an hour

Some random thoughts I had

The Dutch Team beat the Dominican team in the World Baseball Classic which on paper is like Guam taking over China...  Then you find out that the Dutch team is basically comprised of all players from the Dutch Caribbean territories but I'm still impressed that a bunch of dudes from Aruba can beat a team which represents 20% of the entire major leagues.

Saw Slumdog last night.  I know what you are thinking, 'is he the last man on earth to have not seen it?'
Three comments-
when Jamal shoots the dude he is a dead ringer for Bob from LaBamba.
It was really well cast although it would have be
The movie is great but a bit of a rip of from the whole Rosie Perez angle in White Men Can't Jump
If their Regis is such a d!ckhead does that make their Kelly a dog?



One more comment.   I am always told that I can't wear a black shirt with a brown belt, does that mean that my Indian Friends should shave their heads?

Completely random thought about another movie:  in Dumb and Dumber when the dude whose job it is to intercept them on their way to Denver is about to croak, his character's nuance is a dead ringer for the James Gandolfini role in True Romance.
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Is there a worse actor than Keanu Reeves?

That new movie "the day the earth stood still" looks miserably acted,. I think that Vinny Chase's character might have based on Keanu, cause that dude can't act his way out of a paperbag, he is more that miserable.

You know you are terrible when every movie you do sounds like they just typecast you after your Bill and Ted's performance.. When you get out acted by Jim J. Bullock's twin sister you know you are never going to win an Oscar, let alone a TORy.

I think I'd prefer to sit at an IMAX theater and watch a collection of commercials than Keanu Reeves. Give me a combination including that terrible Beyonce "time to upgrade" commercial, the $5 footlong one and the worst one yet.."Say Bye Zero's"
Makes you almost miss those John Mellencamp ones.

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Jimmy Skimpy

Saw an ad in the subway for the Bowlmor bowling alley in Union Square. The ad focuses on all the big celebrities that have bowled there including Michael Phelps, Cameron Diaz, Will Smith etc.. Then as I go through the list of celebrities it mentions Jimmy Fallon and Michael Kors.. These two jackasses aren't the kinds of celebrities you should be proud to have had at your place they are the reason I would NOT go to bowl at your hellhole

As a follow up to yesterday's rant on McDonalds hating white people... After checking my call log, I remembered calling the McDicks 800 number Friday Night to complain, I am sure that message will be replayed at some point on a FOX show entitled "world's drunkest dialers"

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$150,000 for a wardrobe?

So let me get this straight, Palin drops roughly the same amount on a Wardrobe in three weeks what Joe the Plumber would be able to keep assuming he were to buy that business under the Obama plan.
Then again I buy most of my clothes at Overstock.com which probably explains why all my jeans look like they were designed for moose

Although the campaign did say that the clothes would be donated to charity after the campaign, maybe they can start with these guys!!!

I feel bad for McCain, his running mate drops that kind of loot on her wardrobe but he's the head of the ticket and he dresses like he got a two for one deal with Jack Cafferty. They both dress like one of those Chinese Guy at a wedding, you know the kind where the suit doesn't fit right and it looks like it was tailored by a blind child laborer or maybe Katie Tong. Then again looks shouldn't be that important but it almost looks like McCain sometimes leaves his house and forgets to brush either his hair or his teeth.

Got a stupid question, who the hell told me that Iron Man was going to be any good. Maybe I've gotten old, maybe I've gotten fat and maybe i've gotten lazy but come on, there was no suspense, no storyline and really no intrigue. The story line was terrible, the action was subpar and the acting was tired. Robert Downey Jr is shockingly miscast, Gwyneth Paltrow can't act her way out of a bag of wet socks and I really only like to see the Jeff Bridges with a white Russian in his hand.

Maybe it's just that I like to see my superheroes fight some inner demons, Tony Stark's character development looked like it could have been written by a guy who works at a camping store not produced by a major Hollywood studio.

1994 was great!!!

In general SNL sucks, in total SNL sucks, in theory SNL sucks, in 2008 SNL sucks, in my sleep SNL sucks but I didn't realize how much it sucks until putting some real thought to it..

When I turn on SNL in 2008 it feels like you are watching the Knicks in 2008, basically they have both sucked since I left highschool and when either was really good was basically sometime around 1970. Back in High School they had a lineup of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, Dennis Miller etc. and now i'm stuck with an untalented bunch including: that unfunny fat black dude, theWeekend Update guy who looks like the intern dude from The Office and Andy "don't call me Ryne" Samdberg

Come on:
Sandler, Farley, Rock, Hartman and Miller was like Oakley, Starks, Mason, Ewing and Derek Harper , Bring in a top coach/Alec Baldwin and you were off to the races. Although I guess you did have to deal with David Spade (Charles Smith).

Even the next few years there were some highlights with the addition of Will Ferrell (Sprewell), Jim Breuer(Marcus Camby) and Norm McDonald (Allan Houston), and you got yourself to another championship series although you know it was in a strike season.
Then you hit the post Ewing era you also had some real bumbs like Shandon Anderson(Chris Kattan) and Howard Eisley (Molly Shannon) intersperced with Will Ferrell.. But then Ferrell/Sprewell leaves the show/team goes to total crap and you aren't even selling MSG out anymore..

But even if you think about those Golden Times it probably doesn't compare to the time before you watched the Knicks/SNL. The 70's had absolute superstars like Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Belushi and Dan Akroyd.. that's like Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Dave DeBusscher, Bill Bradley and Earl the Pearl. I know they were all great and I can only watch grainy highlights from when they ruled the stage. But the only times I saw these guys live was when they had bad knees.

It's almost worse now because you just don't care to even turn it on, but look at the crap they throw at you now
Fat Black dude -- Eddy Curry (fat and fat)
Darrell Hammon-- Stephan Marbury (old and annoying)
Seth Myers - Zach Randolph (a position held by greats before you and you just the suck)
Amy Poehler Jamal Crawford (when he/she is good, bring down the house but most of the time..egh)
Andy Samberg- Chris Duhon (who?)
Tina Fey- Nate Robinson (just doesn't get enough playing time)

I wonder what McCain was thinking here?

The above picture was taken at the end of the debate when McCain couldn't decide which way to walk to greet Bob Schieffer, I remember the moment and thought it was pretty entertaining but I'm glad that Reuters got a picture of it.

Alessandra Stanley describing the bate basically came down to a pseudo court case of George Bush vs Joe the Plumber today with Obama as the smooth prosecutor and McCain as the personal injury lawyer.  
Apparently being a plumber can get you a gig that pays a quarter million dollars a year, what the hell am I doing traveling from China to Germany to Belgium to Cleveland when I could be making so much more money as an unlicensed plumber?

Does it get much worse or better?   Playboy facing the downturn in the economy is cutting 55 jobs, I just have to hope the jobs they are cutting means that we'll be getting a bunch of new secretary requests in our office building.   There seems to be a lot of talk in Belgium about the new "film" Nailin' Palin which has hit the store shelves recently.  I saw the DVD box cover and I wonder why they couldn't at least get a chick that looked slightly like Palin.

I want to know what happened to the David Brooks I know and love.   First he throws Palin under the bus and today he all but endorses the Messiah for president.   William F. Buckley must be turning over in his grave.

with the Dow back to 2003 levels is there any chance I can get my 2003 liver back?

It is getting nasty out there.. Forget American's Chickens, this Ayers thing is coming home to roost.. Palin is on an assault and the conservative talk show hosts (Hannity, Mark Levin, Rush) are all over it.. You know that they have wanted to paint him a terrorist for months and this McCarthyism mentality of guilt by association tied with the post 9/11 "harboring terrorists" combo is going to be their card. And we haven't heard anything from Reverend Wright yet. I actually don't believe this is a "Republican thing" as it is the nature of these politicians. I'm sure that if McCain had dinner with David Duke twenty years ago, the Obama team would be all over it.

We might have a chance to see it that's true since salon.com is reporting that Palin has close ties to an Alaskan group looking to secede from the USA, so there are a ton of skeletons in every one of their closets..

And now Cindy McCain is on the warpath, calling out Obama for voting against funding the troops (his vote was not against the troops but instead was because it did not have a timeline for withdrawal).. McCain also voted against funding the troops (when a measure which DID include a timeline came before the Senate but Bimbo McCain might have forgotten that.

What is most obvious is that Cindy seems to be a bit jealous of Palin and is trying to show her manthat she is also not afraid to get nasty. You know the old rule, you can't put two pussies in a room and not expect a little scratching. These two chicks are basically peeing all over the carpet trying to lay claim to parts of this campaign and McCain's gotta be loving it. Hot wife and a hot running mate, lets just hope he can get it up.

Bush is trying to add certainty to the markets but every time he opens his mouth, the dow drops again. What is dropping quicker, Bush's support amongst his base or the DOW?
Just look at this

"Over the past few days," Bush said, "we have witnessed a startling drop in the stock market, much of it driven by uncertainty and fear. This has been a deeply unsettling period for the American people."

Read a great response to this on the interwebs today

Yeah...their is a lot being driven by uncertainty and fear....maybe...just maybe...that uncertainty and fear is being driven by a President that said "we have to have a $700 billion bailout....and MY GOD WE NEED IT RIGHT NOW!!!"

The good news (sort of) is that all the great Wall Street Crashes have happened in October and most of the time it rebounded a bit in November. The bad news we still have about 3 weeks to go till Halloween.


How god-awful is Saturday Night live other than the couple of skits that Tina Fey does, this show is almost completely unwatchable.. Weekend Update desk would be more funny if they just showed an empty desk for 10 minutes... terrible


On a slightly different note, Francessa and Benigno working together today might very well be the future of WFAN, love the combo. Joe B seems like a natural fit in place of Russo cause at least he watches sports. I'd love to see Mike and Joe together for a while, maybe bring Sidney Arthur back to do the middays and get rid of Screetch all together

You know we are F’d when the National Debt Clock runs doesn’t have enough numbers

NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of
digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar
sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a
figure -- the "1" in $10 trillion. It's marking the federal government's current
debt at about $10.2 trillion. The Durst Organization says it plans to
update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable
of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars. The late Manhattan real estate
developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was
then a $2.7 trillion debt.

Unlike the rest of you liberal wienies, I’m not afraid to check out Rush or O’Reilly or Hannity or FoxNews or the Post, although the latter mostly for Page6.

Listening to Rush (the wacky right winger not the terrible guitar jackoff band) yesterday I did think he made a great point when he was talking about how ridiculous these elections get as they grovel for the undecided votes. His point is basically that these entire campaigns throw away everything they stand for, just to try to appeal to the 10% of the people who obviously haven’t paid any attention so far.

Honestly, how many people do you know who are truly undecided and not just un-interested? Most everybody at this point has made a decision and if you haven’t you are probably listening to way too much Rush.
Look at the audience at the 2nd debate, these were a group of people who claim to be truly undecided, what did they have in common? They all looked and sounded it was like they should be locked up in strait-jackets. These people will be the ones who decide who the president is, not the people who are truly informed, read the newspaper, pay attention and have true political conviction. This is like giving me the final decision on an American Idol championship and I decide that I like Carrie Underwood’s t*ts better than Kelly Clarkson’s.

I also watched the Palin interview with Greta Van Susteren. If there is a more hideous looking human than Greta Van Susteren show her to me because I think they are showing little kids pictures of her mug the same way they showed us Nightmare on Elm Street.

This woman’s face looks like it’s been beaten with hammers filled with collagen. I saw her on the street once and thought she could easily be one of those hobos who make money by standing on a box in the middle of Times Square completely frozen. This interview was about as in-depth as an US Weekly feature which revealed NOTHING about her views and just allowed her to go back to her stump speeches. At what time can we see some guts in journalism? O’Reilly is nuts and a right-wing nut but at least he’s not afraid to get in your face, Greta should be put out to pasture or at least be set out on some farm to scare away the crows.

I knew my water tasted funny

Read the following in the NY Times today

But some of those spots are being lampooned by people who point out that water filters cannot be recycled, at least in the United States. “In order to give up bottled water, you have to switch to another plastic product that’s not recyclable,” said Beth Terry of Oakland, Calif., who has started an online campaign to try to persuade Clorox, the company that owns Brita, to start recycling the filters.

Now I'm not nearly as uncomfortable with the fact that these filters are not recyclable as I am with the fact that they are made by Clorox.

Four years ago the DOW hit 14,000.. As i'm typing this it sits at about 9900.. somebody see if we still have that empty bottle of champagne from 4 years ago and try to wring the mop used to clean up the mess back into the bottle.

Is it just me or does it seem that Williams Kristol seems to have lost all his bite, like when we took our beagle and cut off his balls and now he has no sex drive at all. If I needed to hear this kind of lame conservative writing I'll check out Lou Dobbs.

For all the heat that FoxNews gets for being a total party shill for the GOP, there is something worse... MSNBC

This channel has become completely unwatchable, it so partisan that I'm surprised we haven't found compromising pictures of Olberman diddling Chris Mathews which Howard Dean is using as blackmail.

About a month ago they added Rachel Maddow who somehow managed to get a shittier haircut than me which is hard to imagine. They have a couple of decent newsmen and women (David Gregory, Norah O'Donnell and Chuck Todd) but from 7pm till midnight it's so disgustingly pro-Dem that it makes O'Reilly and Hannity seem sane.

If Obama does win, will it lead to Olberman sitting in front of Bristol College with a sign that reads "will shill for sports!!"

Norah O'Donnell is still a ton hotter than her sister in crime Kelly but she could really stand to lose about 20 pounds of that post pregnancy weight.

How can something so bad in one state be so great in another?

For all of this country's military might, for all our manufacturing prowess, all of our grit, our heart and our greatest resource our people why when you drop $2.49 at a Supermarket which is truly Americano are you you disappointed? Why is title track of our cuisine taste like somebody scratched toe fungus into a bowl and somehow mush it together to get it stretchy. Why the hell can't we make a decent cheese? It's an embarrassment when you go to Europe and you see that the French have 60 types of cheese and the one cheese that carries our country's name gets served in single wrapped slices of totally processed yellow gunk.

This is kind of like the American people, at first taste people might be a bit disgusted but for all its detractions, a slice of American Cheese is absolutely the ONLY choice you when melted as part of an egg and cheese, melted on a grilled burger or best yet melted between two slices of bread for a grilled cheese.

So maybe Palin would be easier to swallow if we melted her?

Everybody loves Norman

got the following email from my buddy Norman this week

Tough year for the city of Seattle. First they lose the Sonics and now WaMu, 100 year old company with 4,300 employees in downtown Seattle. What's ridiculous is WaMu's current CEO who just got promoted 3 weeks ago is entitled to 11.6 million cash severance and to keep his 7.5 million signing bonus. He was on the job for 16 days.

Gotta love anybody who can equate losing the Sonics to the downfall of a major banking institution.

Listening to WFAN on Saturday morning, I was wondering why the Mets fans are more likely to jump off a building than any of these Wall Street executives.   Benigno sounded like he was going to do a swan dive off Citi Field.

I have to think that the Palin vs Biden debate is the most anticipated one-on-one matchup since Tyson-Holyfield II.    If I were Tucker Bounds, I'd pay Tina Fey to come in.  She does Palin better than Palin..  Just look at the how Former Channel 11 newsman Jack Cafferty thinks of her link   Man he is brutal, but totally correct!   My dad is convinced the GOP will pull her off the ticket using her Down Syndrome son as the type of excuse that nobody can critizize her for..


Mrs. Righetti has been making the point that Obama looks like he has aged 10 years since the beginning of his presidential campaign, 18 monts ago.  He was a vibrant 45 year old when he started, now give he's a few more gray hairds from looking like one of the guys in the barber shop in Coming To America.

Am I the only person who loves those "I just found the Internet" commercials?

Dancing with the Candidates

Am I the only one who doesn't know who the "star" is supposed to be on Dancing with The Stars? Although Warren Sapp should win this hands down, this guy might be the most entertaining performer since Puffy.


Kim Kardasian is pretty hot but white girl just can't dance,

Saw a great picture of Palin's "speed dating" sessions with, Kissinger, Karzai and some guy from Colombia. She walked out wearing a skirt cut right above the knee with 3" heels on, hair in a bun and the glasses on... Hoya Goya.. Couldn't tell but her lipstick might have been smeared.

At the same time her husband toured NYC with the non pregnant kids.. You just know this dipshit wears a fanny pack, with a cell phone belt clipped to his tapered jeans that come up right above his Nike Air sneakers. The perfect match for his goatee. If McCain does win, you know that people around the capitol will confuse him with the IT guy. I'm sure today when he goes to buy a new printer, other customers at Office Max ask him for help with a camera.

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I hope the producers of the new Beverly Hills 90210 were smart enough to start the new cast as a set of 9th graders, so that they can give themselves a good 4 years of High School.. Whenever one of these shows tries to continue the show after graduation (see the original 90210 and Saved by the Bell) where all the friends basically go to the same college it is a recipe for cancellation. Or maybe it is just Kelly Kopowski.

I mean you are already going to have to accept that a bunch of 20 year olds actors are supposed to portray a bunch of 15 year old Freshman but to think that those kids can all go to the same college.. That's going too far.

Thinking about it, they better hope they don't have any of those Chinese officials who verify the age of their gymnast cause they'll likely say that those 20 year olds playing 15 year olds are really 25 year olds, now my head hurts.
Long story short, I am glad to see that they got some hot chicks who I won't feel like a pervert staring at.

I hear that a bunch of the original cast members (Jenny Garth, Jason Priestly, Jason Bateman, the dude who played Dylan etc) are back and in the 10 years since the last episode they have all become blue collar workers (teachers, ice cream shop guys etc).

Did come to a sad realization today when I got an email from a guy sending me his regards on the Mike and the MadDog split..this also means the end of the Marquis..

Who had a worse day yesterday MadDog Russo or Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick?
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