Home for the Holidays

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.

For Christmas, the movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a staple. It’s also one of my favorite movies. But for Thanksgiving, it’s all about the movie Home for the Holidays.

This movie has a stocked cast featuring Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, and Robert Downey Jr.

The premise is about a dysfunctional family that comes together for Thanksgiving. Not being able to do justice to the film, I’ll leave you with a great quote, and if you haven’t seen the movie, go rent it.

“Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. That’s what the day's supposed to be all about, right? Torture.”

Hunting

Hunting:

So I’m not sure how many of you saw the story on this Hunter who has now killed 6 people and wounded three, over a private property dispute? (An issue clearly worth murdering someone over)

Guns, this is just another example of what wack-jobs do when we give them guns and how trigger-happy this country really is.

Here are some two other minor things that freaked me out. The shooter is Asian and from Minnesota. I was unaware of the large Asian contingency out in St. Paul. Second, one of the potential murder victims was a 27-year old woman. For all of my guy friends out there, picture you next date holding a rifle before blowing off poor Bambi’s head.

But yes, her in American, we need more guns…

As always, here's a link to the story:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/23/hunters.shot/index.html

Best Week Ever

An amputee and now the girls of McDonald’s, now that’s a combination.

In the immortal words of VH1’s news and pop culture show – “Whose having the Best Week Ever?” Playboy.com

Here’s a link to the story

Wrong

Okay, I’m a sick guy, and my sister tells me I should start my own magazine entitled “Wrong,” but even this one is too much for me. An amputee is going to appear nude for playboy.com.

See the details below from today’s Daily News.

One small step for Playboy, one giant leap for mankind.

Tomorrow during a photo shoot in Chicago, Jennifer Krum - a 25-year-old amputee model who lost her left hand and forearm in a car accident when she was 4 - will take it all off for a Playboy.com pictorial.

"If I was an able-bodied, all-of-my-limbs girl, I don't know if I'd do it," Krum confessed to Lowdown yesterday. "I'm doing it mainly because I want to send the message to people who are amputees, or have issues with confidence or don't find themselves attractive or sexy - that you can be attractive or sexy, even if you're an amputee."

Krum, who lives in Pennsylvania, was discovered by Hugh Hefner's venerable mag after she won Howard Stern's "Miss Amputee 2004" contest last week.

"They heard the broadcast and called Howard after they saw my pictures online. It says a lot about Playboy," she added. "They're sending a huge, positive message. They're saying they don't mind. It's a completely awesome thing around for everyone involved."

Yesterday, Playboy.com's editor in chief, John D. Thomas, told Lowdown: "She's a very attractive woman. We would not be taking the pictures if she weren't.

"Is it provocative? Duh. Of course. There are people who might think it's too offbeat, odd or disturbing. But I think that there are a lot of people out there who are in a similar position as she is who will say, 'Hell yeah' or 'Damn right.' "

He continued: "There's no jokey aspect. There's no wink-wink, nudge on our end. I don't know what kind of stigmas she has associated with being an amputee, but this will be one of the most affirming, positive experiences of her entire life."

Self Denial

This is a following up to my last posting.

Ruben Studdard, aka the water buffalo, had something very profound to say to People magazine.

"I've never had an issue with my weight," Ruben Studdard tells People. "I have always had a good self-image. I'm happy with who I am."

He may not mind that he's got a problem, but guess what, RB, you have a problem. It’s called denial.

Where's Simon when you need him.

New Rule

If you’re fat and you weigh 455 pounds, losing 17 pounds isn’t a big deal.

Ruben Studdard weighs 455 pounds and the NY Daily News this past Sunday wrote a story about him dropping his weight to 438 pounds.

Big fucking deal.

He weighs as much as a water buffalo. And by the way, those 17 pounds he shred was probably all water weight.

Let also take this into consideration, I wouldn’t lump him in the group of normal everyday American fat people. This guy has a trainer, this guy has a nutritionist, he has a whole team, lets call it “team fat.”

But none the less he has a team, no “normal” fat people don't have these type of resources at their disposal, and this is why this feeble accomplishment is even more of a joke. He has someone cooking the right food for him, he has some one training him, and guess what, he’s still fat.

This is what American society has become. A society that embraces mediocrity. Ruben lost 17 pounds, if he was 200 pounds, I’d give him credit, but this accomplishment is the equivalent of a smoker saying he or she only smoked two and a half packs today.

It’s like that Chris Rock sketch where he mentions his friend who said “I’m a good father, I haven’t been in jail.” Rock’s response, “No shit, you’re not supposed to go to jai, what do you want, some milk and fucking cookies.”

Here's a link to the site: http://www.nydailynews.com/11-07-2004/news/gossip/story/250160p-214241c.html

Thomas L. Friedman

If you don't read the New York Times, start reading.

This is a great Op-Ed piece by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Firedman. The column was written right before the election and really explains where we are as a country.


http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2870373

Blind Date

Now I’m not sure how many of you have seen or watch the show Blind Date. Here’s an interesting twist, a man is now being accused of rape and kidnapping after his alleged victim spotted him on the TV show Blind Date.

So much for background checks.

Here's the link to the story:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1103043blinddate1.html

Richard Belzer

Richard Belzer may have had the greatest quote regarding Ann Coulter on Real Time with Bill Maher this past Friday – “She a fascist pinup doll.”