I miss being actively in media. Sure it was annoying at times. If I had a nickel for everytime someone gave me the Buddy Christ finger point and did the nickname thing ... Hey how's it going chief!?!
I'd have 1,000 euro -- which is like $5.982 billion. So yeah f-u Pocahantis. And just getting back into it I see, and more importantly, I feel it so so much more. I think some industries just attract a certain type of a-hole. Night clubs, strip clubs and auto repair shops attract the greasy a-holes. Accounting, actuary and the financial services industry seems to grab all the awkward a-holes. But it is what it is. And how else can you be in the position to make insane amounts money and have outsized, disportionate, unfair amounts of influence? But for only about two years, then you're disco. Beaten Knick-a-bocka Puhlease
It just so happens I was out at bar (imagine that) and the Knicks/Nuggets game was in the background. I started watching when the Knicks were up by 5. Seven minutes later they were down by 20. Fun. Next thing I know there were punches, flops, slaps, yelling, obvious f-bombs, blah blah. Watching it live? Honestly didn't look like a horrible thing. The next day it's all over the news. Thugs, brutes, gangsters say self-righteous sportscasters. Meh, try Christmas shopping on 5th Avenue. Suspend them, fine them and move on. - Even though I couldn't care less about oooh a sports brawl, if your coach is kind of a prick, sorry
... a little punk in a bad suit, threatens the league's leading scorer and fosters an atmosphere of war for an 48 min. bball game. Then maybe he should share in those fines and suspensions. - And it's time to dust of that tried and true AP story dating back 5 years -- even though no one on the 2001 team, including the coach, is on the team anymore.
- I also have zero pity for suspended Knick guard Nate Robinson
Robinson also has earned a reputation as a bench jockey who trash-talks to players on the floor. He also has been criticized by teammates for, ironically enough, showboating. Last year, Robinson was involved in two fights with teammates. He went after Jerome James with a broom during a practice and then had to be separated from fighting Malik Rose in the shower. The shower fight prompted a veteran teammate to give Robinson another nickname. "That's just Nate," the Knick said. "He's a jerk." The Knicks have two "veterans" on the team. One is James, the other is Rose. Worst blind quote ever. Oh the shower fight? That happened just over two weeks ago. Robinson apparently showed the kind of toughness that Isiah Thomas loves when he went into the shower to collect on the wager. "Nate tried to jump on me when I was naked, thinking he had the advantage that way," Rose said. "He just got on my nerves, trying to get his money, and I'm not giving it to him. It was a couple of dollars." [emphasis mine]
A couple of dollars to these guys could pay off my 30-year mortgage but still ... getting jumped in the shower? Sounds like an episode of Oz.
Spooooooon!
So even with all that said, I still stick to my internal mantra WWDDD - What Would David Duke Do? Since David Duke would plead righteous indignation about this whole episode so I won't. White Power. UPDATE: With four playes suspended, the Knicks had their biggest win of the year tonight beating the 2nd best team in the NBA in overtime at the buzzer -- led by a career day from David Lee. White Power ... Forward. Who Likes to Eat Red Carpet?
There is a real business behind those red carpet events you see on TV. The arrival times, the competitive spacing between certain stars, positioning of media from print to broadcast and now online. Imagine the worst combination of high school mean girls, oxygen-hogging security, vertigo-inducing cameras and you have a start. Sometimes it fails Welcome to the Daytime Emmys ... [crickets]
Other times? I interviewed Christina Aguilera on a red carpet (back in the olden days of audio micro cassette recorders) when she was so unknown that my notes described her: "Christina-A. look up last name. called new Britney by publicist."
Awesome. Who Likes to Eat Red Carpet? (part two)
Lindsey Lohan's next role (seriously) is as a stripper in a thiller. And as a true method actor she's throwing herself into her new role. From the outbox of lLo ... ... subject title: "They're all whores, they're all whores . . . xcept for some obviously!" Lohan wrote in the note, "So . . . 3 hours of pole dancing and bruised. everywhere . . . I mean we're talkin' like, UPPER AND INNER THIGH ACTION-bruised . . . like a walking black-and-blue mark. "I mean really though, really, I didn't know it was actually possible to have bruises in such areas of the body. Strippers dude, I tell you, I really respect the [c-word]s now. . . I'm not gonna lie to ya."
I don't even know where to begin but man -- I thought I was a mysogynist. And I hate people that over use the "..." Anyways, in the movie Lohan plays Aubrey, the young daughter of affluent parents who is abducted and mutilated by a sadistic serial killer, she then manages to escape, sans a hand and a leg and lots of blood. The girl who regains consciousness in the hospital claims to be not Aubrey but Dakota identical to Aubrey, but with a much different demeanor. Dakota struggles to convince anyone that she is not Aubrey and finds herself in a desperate race to save Aubrey’s life and her own against overwhelming odds.
I don't even know where to begin but man -- I thought I was a mysogynist. Chair Chick of the Board
Women. They are never happy with just one of anything. “Women on boards are the ones who pay attention to the pool of employees and succession planning and whether there are women and people of color coming up in those succession plans,” says Vicki W. Kramer, a management consultant and co-author of a study, “Critical Mass on Corporate Boards: Why Three or More Women Enhance Governance,” that was released this fall by the Wellesley Centers for Women. [cut] A single woman on a board is typically viewed as a “token woman” and is unlikely to drive female-related issues because she does not want to be seen as a one-issue director ... The addition of a second woman to the board only slightly changes the environment. The women sometimes feel the need to stay away from each other, worried that it will appear as if they are conspiring against the men on the board. The tipping point is the presence of three women on a board. “Somehow, at three, gender goes away and they are much less concerned about being seen together,” Ms. Kramer says.
I have two words ... mmm threesome. Chairman of the Board
The good: socially conscious American Apparel is getting sold for $382.5 million. The hipster retailer's clothes are all made in the USA at double minimum wage; employees get subsidized health care, meals and english lessons. The bad? American Apparel was sued for a hostile work environment. The CEO ... conducted job interviews in his underwear, and that he gave vibrators to at least one female worker.
Allegedly. He denies any wrongdoing. What's odd about the story is that the lawsuit was dismissed over a year ago. No settlement, no money. Liberal bastards these Times writers. Just sayin' ... let a man in his fashionable underroos, rock out with his cock out in peace. ADDers Kickin' the Habit
I blame the movie Garden State for this. ... [A]ccording to Mariellen Fischer, a professor of neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Among the roughly 150 children she has tracked well into their 20s, "discontinuation of the medication [has been] by far the vast norm," she says. Of those diagnosed and medicated for ADD as children, she estimates, about 9 in 10 are off those medications by the time they reach 21.
The upshot is: no one seems to really have a handle on what happens to the kids on the mind meds. But of course they do toss out this nugget. In 2005, they reported that the young adults with a childhood ADD diagnosis were more likely to have dropped out of high school and to have been fired from jobs. They were more likely to have had sex earlier and became parents at a younger age than their non-ADD peers. They had higher credit card debt and fewer savings, and were far less likely to attend college.
Young adults with ADD also appear to have more motor vehicle collisions and traffic citations and are more likely to experiment with illegal drugs. But the data suggest that ADD sufferers who took prescribed medication were less likely than those who did not to use illegal drugs.
But the data is inconclusive. Huh? I hate studies -- especially bad ones. Anywho, speaking of dropping the pills and gaining Natalie Portman. He's Bringing the SexxyBoxx (video may be NSFW)
This is why G_d, or Al G_re, invented the internet. I missed SNL because ... well I was watching countless replays of the Knicks/Nuggets game. And plus sticking around for two funny skits and Weekend Update isn't my idea of a fun Saturday night. But the link simply makes me happy and I must have been living in a hole because I had no idea that NBC had classic SNL clips online. Of course, half the links are broken and gems like I'll take the rapists for $200, Alex
are probably squirreled away for a DVD. But mmmm Princess Amidala. And I'm ashamed to say it Justin Timberlake cracks me up everytime he's on SNL. Darn. There goes my street cred.
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Ahh sophomoric hilarity. But back to something far more important ... I wish people would leave the ADDers alone. I'm that fact factoid pretty much says pretty much anything that can go wrong with you in life is more likely to happen just because your brain works like an Intel chip w/o the cooling fan. It ain't no thang. And nothing that a mother still couldn't love you for. I still blame 'Garden State.' Dam* New Jersey. | 
