I’m making it official. Manny Ramirez is my all time favorite baseball player. I’m just basing this on raw talent and entertainment value. I’d say that I admire Jackie Robinson more or whatever, but for sheer joy and insane entertainment value, there is nothing like Manny.
Robert Redford made a fairly entertaining movie entitled Quiz Show that, despite his popularity and generally popular reviews, was considered to be something of a flop. If I were to assign a reason for the film’s failure at the time, I probably would have chalked it up to a general lack of violence and nudity. Now 13 years later with the coarsening of our culture and the comeback of the game show, I have a new theory.
http://www.bigboppermovie.com/
I hate to mock any artists, especially ones who like vintage 50’s music, but …
Sometimes, right wingers can be funny, albeit in a deeply spine chilling scary way. The other day I saw some guy on a panel show mention Joe Francis. He said something to the effect of, “Yeah, they’re really putting the screws to that guy, but then again he’s a smut monger so I really don’t lose much sleep over it.”
My late Grandfather was for some reason proud to be a Clevelander. One of his daughter’s proudly lived in Los Angeles. Everytime there was some sort of California-centric disaster (quake, flood, drought, fire, riot), he’d call her, make sure she was alright and mockingly say, “But it’s warm!”
