Donnie Iris failed to cash in on the Buddy Holly look quite as well as Elvis Costello did. He must have opened roughly 40% of the shows I saw in high school. He put on some pretty humorous shows, and boasted at least one killer song.
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
I know my kid’s a star
When Danny Bonaduce is the sanest person on your show, well let’s just say I fear for humanity.
Gossip Girl Impossible Mystery
Apparently, in a shocking twist no one saw coming one of the male characters on Gossip Girl will turn out to be gay. Hmm. There are four male characters. Chuck has slept with numerous prostitutes, Blair, and tried to rape Jenny and Serena. Nate has slept with both Blair and Serena, and Dan has slept …
The last nail in John Adams’ coffin
“John, they finally appreciate you! HBO is making a miniseries about your life.” “Awesome, who did they get to play me? Brad Pitt? George Clooney?” Sigh. John, I so understand. https://bradlaidman.com/uncategorized/me-and-paul-giamatti/
Of course Barack Obama doesn’t like America
I think I love Barack Obama just because he doesn’t wear one of those insane yeah I’m a patriot American flag pins, as Bill Mahar said, “It’s literally the least you could do.”
Warning: Don’t watch HBO’s John Adams on a full stomach
I’ve watched the first three parts of HBO’s John Adams miniseries. and so far I’ve seen a naked dude tarred and feathered, another dude whose entire body is devoured by smallpox sores, puking, blood letting, dementia, another dude having his leg sawed off without anesthetic, and Ben Franklin bathing with a really heinous old French Chick. …
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21: Vegas never really loses
I was just extremely entertained to notice that Las Vegas is actually helping to promote the new movie 21, which dramatizes the MIT Card Counting Team’s time in their Casinos. It’s like they are saying, “Go ahead and try to cheat. Either you’ll be bad at it or we’ll bust your kneecaps. Either way, we know you’re …
Backpeddle Jim Cramer, Backpeddle!
Personally, I think almost all stock prognosticators are full of it. I’ve enjoyed Jim Cramer and he certainly sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Ask him about some company with four employees making ankle bracelets in Hawaii, and he’s tell you that he just toured their plant last week and had lunch with …
Rose: a Titanic bitch
She’s 101 years old. Leo froze to death so she could live. They fly her out to check out the Titanic ruins and give her her portrait back. They listen to her maudlin sappy story and she repays them by tossing that priceless diamond pendant back into the sea. I wish Bill Paxton had seen her …
Play the Rush Limbaugh Game
My mom informed me today that Barack Obama’s speech was being widely praised, but that Rush Limbaugh was tearing him apart. Well, of course he was. I find Rush very entertaining. You always know what side he is going to be on, you just have little or no idea how he is going to justify …
Sympathy for Elliot Spitzer
I think it’s pretty clear that if Elliot Spitzer had just had an affair that he wouldn’t have been forced to resign. Well, the guy has 500 million dollars, why not just have an affair with a hot chick? Because that would take more time, and he was too busy doing his job!
Another glimpse at Witness
“You’re making a mistake.” One of my favorite movie scenes and maybe one of the most misinterpreted of all time. Harrison Ford, a cop hiding out among the Amish, has just found out that his partner has been killed by a cadre of corruption within his department, comes upon a group of rednecks, who had …
Least Frivolous Lawsuit Ever
A 21-year-old Harris County woman filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging employees on a flight to Los Angeles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport failed to protect her while she slept from another passenger who masturbated to her and ejaculated in her hair, according to a lawsuit she filed last week in Tarrant County. $200,000? …
Bear Stearns defines “Liquidity Problem”
JPM: “Hi this is JP Morgan” BSC: “Hi, this is Bear Stearns. We have some ugly positions that we’d like to get out of. Could you give us a market, because um they are really big and no one else can really service us.” JPM: “No problem. How about this, you give us your firm.” …
What a difference a day makes at Bear Stearns
Yesterday: Bear Stearns President and Chief Executive Alan Schwartz begged to differ with Wall Street. “There is absolutely no truth to the rumors of liquidity problems.” Today: “Bear Stearns has been the subject of a multitude of market rumors regarding our liquidity,” Bear Stearns president and chief executive, Alan Schwartz, said in a statement. “Amidst …
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