entertainment

So here’s an observation…

I’ve had a lot of traffic on the website these last couple of days because of…wait for it…Hillary Clinton google searches.

Huh? Hillary Clinton? I don’t even like her. I mean, it seems to me that any searches on the good ole ‘net would be for Obama, not Clinton.

I’m pretty much at a loss, but whatever. In the meantime, the google searches that bring people here are generally funny. I guess I’ll have to make a game of putting interesting and random tags on my posts.

Of course, that’ll annoy a bunch of people.

Ha! Any suggestions?

Paul Newman died…

That makes me sad.

I always felt like the odd woman out when everyone was gushing over Robert Redford and I liked Paul Newman.

Here they are back in the day. You decide, but I’m sticking by Newman.

Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

hurricanes Hannah, Ike, Josephine…and SARAH

The blogs are gonna be fun today.

In other news, Jeffrey-Jeffrey-Jeffrey, who is a professional writer and journalist extra-ordinaire (since he does the sports thing and therefore is the best in hyperbole) called me out on my own blog for not posting about Jerry Reed’s death. Um, who appointed you editor, dude? Bahaha, nevertheless, he’s right. Shall I make excuses for the oversight? Nah, who wants to read a bunch of lies.

This is for you, Jeff:

Beijing Olympics 2008

Beautiful or poisonous? They’re getting a lot of bad press about the air pollution, and makes me want to stop and make a political statement about the absurdity of the US getting flack about the environment (Drill. Now. Dammit. How ironic that Paris Hilton has the solution), but they sure do know how to put on a show. Even the the EPCOT-looking ball from the light-show was beautiful. And frankly, it’s unfair to say that anything could beat the weirdness of the Greek opening ceremony, but really, the weird suspended pregnant chick vs. this dancing beauty:

The EPCOT ball was a knock-off, but still lovely:

and of course, fireworks. It’s China — could they screw it up? No way:

Good luck to all the athletes.

I love to squat on YouTube

I especially love it when it is actually work. I created a fantastic presentation for class today, and ended with this music video of Queen Latifah. Okay, so a little weird, but it worked beautifully with the lesson about poetry, and Emily Dickinson’s quote,

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

If you watch the video, you’ll see how Al Green’s head is so affected by his emotion that he can’t contain himself. Anyway, I guess you had to be there…

We’re Losers

Instead of going to the fireworks, we watched an Alfred Hitchcock marathon.

I ask you, is there anything more cheesy than The Birds, and more brilliant than Vertigo and Rear Window?

We also caught part of the Jaws marathon, but let me tell you that it was painful to watch; the special effects were so awful, awful! Really, I can’t think of one movie that redeems the 70’s in special effects. Even Lucas went back and redid Star Wars.