Thank You, Summer

30 Oct

I hate being sick. It’s well documented that I’m not a very good sick person. So it gives me no great pleasure to say that for a few days now I’ve been sneezing and I’m congested, and I get a sore throat and cough (but only at night for some reason). That’s why I called in sick on Wednesday for the first time in more than two years in an effort to help myself get over whatever it is that I have (some call it a cold, I think it’s something else).

So yeah. I stayed home yesterday. And I’ve gotta tell you: after waking up later than usual and settling into position on the couch, I quickly found myself bored. Jeez … What happened to the sick day? Isn’t this supposed to be a fun day? The kind of day you long for where you get to watch game shows and all kinds of cheesy TV all day, and you relax and bake cookies, and by day’s end you feel so much better? I don’t know about that. By 10 a.m. I was already checking my work email and browsing around on the Interwebs and looking for other ways to keep busy. I mean, what else was I going to do, watch The View? That would only make me feel worse. Now of course, I could have done some apartment cleaning or read a book — you know, something productive — but I didn’t. I basically just caught up on some shows I’d recorded in recent weeks, took it easy, spent too much time on my computer, and somehow the day flew.

Actually, if you want to know the truth, the highlight of my day was (no kidding) watching a repeat of The O.C. on SoapNet. And not just any repeat, but the second-season Chrismukkah episode — one of the top-three best episodes of a not-always-great but still beloved series. And, well, despite any boredom I had felt all day, when Summer Roberts saved Chrismukkah for the Cohen clan, she had also saved my day from being a total loss. I’m not saying Summer is this year’s miracle cure or anything, but she made me feel a whole lot better. So yeah, Summer Roberts does it again. She saved Chrismukkah and she saved my sick day. Hooray for Summer Roberts! And hopefully, farewell to my cold really soon too.

It’s That Simple: Vote

29 Oct

“What you do inside a voting booth is a secret,” Borat tells us in this clip. “I like to make a hand release. Niiiiice.”

You Really Have to Pay Attention to Words

29 Oct

We’ve got less than a week left until the election (thank God). Here’s a rather amusing summary of the three presidential debates.

I Won’t Let This Happen

24 Oct

Check out this video. I will make a promise to y’all: If Barack Obama loses, it will not be my fault.
http://s3.moveon.org/swf/embed.swf
Want to customize this and send it to your friends? Click here. Thanks, Colin, for sending it to me.

Dancing with the Candidates

23 Oct

I love this. Thank God for Photoshop, and for the talented artist who did this. My only question is, which one is the pro and which one is the star?

Just Because Other People Your Age Are Doing It …

23 Oct

Penn Badgley and Blake Lively (mmmm … Blake Lively) from my new favorite show, Gossip Girl, have now made a PSA encouraging young folks to talk to their parents about the dangers of voting for John McCain. The video’s not all that exciting, but hey, did I mention it’s got Blake Lively in it?!

For more, go to McCainFreeWhiteHouse.org.

It’s Not a Funny Election?

22 Oct

Danny DeVito, Carl Reiner, Jerry Stiller and others think the election is not a laughing matter.

Check out AintFunny.org for more.

A Lifetime of Pain

22 Oct

The new film Changeling tells a true story: In 1928, the son of Christine Collins (a single mother) disappeared. In order to find him, Christine had to go up against a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department and fight for them to continue the search, even though they kept telling her it was over. And of course, this was 1928, so a woman standing up for herself and fighting back against the police department (or any government office, for that matter) was not looked at so fondly. But Christine persevered, and with the help of an activist reverend, she made a difference in the Los Angeles legal system. No, Changeling is not a made-for-TV movie for the Lifetime network. It’s an actual big-screen movie starring Angelina Jolie (and John Malkovich) and directed by Clint Eastwood. And while Jolie is fine here, this is not one for her highlight reel.

Changeling really does belong on Lifetime with all the other melodramas. Like those films, it forces the star to spend much of the movie crying and yelling — what a change from A Mighty Heart, Jolie’s last missing person drama, in which her performance was more subtle and measured. Some of the dialogue in this very slow-moving movie is a bit laughable, and one key child actor is, well, let’s just say Clint should stick to adult actors. I don’t want to completely trash Changeling because truth be told, it’s not an awful movie. But throughout, I couldn’t help but think the lead should have been played by Valerie Bertinelli or Meredith Baxter, and that Jolie should go back to making movies that are more worthy of her. No wonder this one isn’t getting the big promotional push that other films with this caliber of talent would receive. Changeling only rates a B– from me.

Not Smarter Than a Third Grader

21 Oct

Sounds like Sarah Palin doesn’t even know what she’s running for.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27313586#27313586

Not This Year

19 Oct

Good for the Rays.

That said, what a bummer. I mean, even when you tell yourself they won’t win — they can’t come back from 3-1 again … can they? — when the momentum shifts to the Sox as it did in Games 5 and 6, it’s hard not to get optimistic and excited, and to think they might just go all the way.

But, alas, you can’t win ’em all. This was not our year. Last year was. And so was 2004.

But I’m sad for ‘Tek, and happy it was not he who made the last out. I hope this was not the last time we see him in a Sox uniform. And thankfully, it was a closer series than it initially appeared it would be. We didn’t lose by screwing it up as much as the Rays just played better. Continue reading →

← Older Entries
Newer Entries →