WTF?!

weird-piercings-is-this-the-strangest-ever.jpg I’ve always said “Less is more.”   But you know, I’m from another era.  Everyone is getting piercings these days.  Why stop with a nose or an ear?  I say go for it which is what this person did.  God love ‘em!  This man…or woman found what made them smile and said “I’m going for it.”  And they sure as shit did.  We should all take note to this brand of diligence. 

Can I just say: Who wants a fucking bandana?!

1110bbm-bandana-lg.jpgI just came across this ad for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.  ”with bandana!”   The bandana made me not want to buy it.  What the fuck are you going to do with a bandana?  Re-enact scenes from the movie? And who’s the marketing genius behind that one.  ”I know!  Let’s give away bandanas with this tragic love story.” Weird. 

Can I just say: Leave Michael Phelps alone!

michael-phelps-smoking-weed-with-a-bong-at-a-party.jpg  Michael Phelps smoked weed.  So fucking what?   He’s 23! What do 23 year olds do?   They get drunk, stoned and fuck girls.   I’m not saying it’s right but Everyone does it and then we all grow up and move on.    Leave the kid alone for Christ’s sake! 

Can I just say: Sharon Osbourne is crazy!

 captf4cf30253a498434a1b34af8bcf199f8.jpg…and I love it.  E! News has confirmed that a police investigation has been launched after Sharon Osbourne allegedly attacked a contestant on the VH1 show Rock of Love: Charm School, scratching her face and pulling her hair during a reunion taping on Saturday.  Megan Hauserman, 26, pissed Osbourne off after commenting on camera that she was only famous for managing her husband, whom Hauserman dubbed “a brain-dead rock star.”   After that, church was out.  Good for you Sharon!  Why not try to kick the bitch’s ass?  You knew security wouldn’t let her touch you anyway.  Serves her right.    But seriously, the truth hurts.  I heard that Sharon even had to change Ozzie’s diapers on numerous occasions. But who hasn’t shit their pants and rolled around in it?     Ironically, Osbourne’s final words before expelling Hauserman may come back to haunt the host: “The one thing I cannot stand is violence.”   Brilliant! 

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Campers Beware

 

What’s the deal with all of the STD medication commercials being set in the woods or by the ocean? My theory is that the drug companies out there must know that you are 8 times more likely to contract an STD if you decide to do it in the woods or outside in general even if you use protection. And who are these couples in the commercials? Outdoorsy, healthy, recycle everything possible types? All I know is, I am glad my Aden woodsmen phase is officially over! No I think I’ll have the granola, hold the bad case of Chlamydia, thank you! Just know that if you decide to get busy with Bambi watching, you are not getting out of that with anything less than a rash. All this time I thought those people were itchy because they did not have a shower available for days at a time or a bad case chiggers!?!?   

Can I just say: Tom Cruise is crazy!

 tcdb_5.jpg  Okay, who am I to judge anyone but… Australia’s Live News reports that Tom Cruise gave his friends, the Beckhams, a pretty weird Thanksgiving present-a wedding ceremony! According to the story, Cruise plans to hold a service next year where both families will vow to be brothers and sisters and exchange heartfelt speeches.  What?  What that sounds like to me is:  David Beckham, I want to suck your cock.    I can’t help but think that David and Victoria are sitting in their living room, holding each other asking:  ”When does this shit end?”   When Tom gets to suck your husbands cock Vicky.  That’s when.  How weird. 

The Wizard of Slobs

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When I was a sophomore in college, I decided to audition for the local children’s theatre during summer break.  I looked forward to it as it was my first paying acting job.  The show for that summer was the Wizard of Oz, I was casted as Glenda the good witch. The wicked witch was played by a girl named Dawn. Dawn smoked clove cigarettes, wore foundation three shades lighter than her skin and the children’s theatre thing was supposed to go toward her sentence for community hours. Danny was the name of the guy cast as the tin man he spoke like a valley girl and was always doing cart wheels when there was enough room. The role of the Scarecrow went to a girl named Elaine she loved to remind everyone that she was saving her virginity for marriage.  We used to call her “the virgin whore” because she had done everything but “it” with countless guys.

 The wizard was a jobless, left over hippie named Jeff who lived in a VW bus and sold pot out of the back to college kids. The girl who played Dorothy was named Cecilia she graduated high school a year ahead of me and was three month pregnant with the director’s child.  The director of the show was a 43 year old transplanted New Yorker who loved to talk about his glory days of acting on the New York stage. His name was Ron and everyday he wreaked of alcohol, bad cologne and cigarettes.  

The children’s theatre was done guerilla style which meant that we would travel to the different venues to perform. The venues were never theatres, they were libraries, recreation centers, barns, juvenile detention centers, a mall, basements and under a tree once. Because I was accustomed to performing in a theatre at school, this was a little disconcerting at first but I thought it’s my first paying acting job and it will help me grow as a performer.  

In the beginning we rehearsed during the day in an office like room Ron had rented in a strip mall. He insisted on calling us by our characters names even when we were not rehearsing, his philosophy was to be the character, you had to live as the character 24/7. I honestly think he forgot what our names were and was compensating.

 I was taught to give my character a history to give them secrets this would give your performance layers. I began to think about what was Glenda really like when she wasn’t helping lost chicks from Kansas or tin men. What was life at home like for Glenda?  I would ask things like is she a vegetarian, does she ever wear black, does she have any other friends that are not midgets and does she drink or do drugs? I decided that yes she was a vegetarian, she did not have any other friends but the midgets however she wanted other friends as she would do drugs and alcohol if it meant fitting in.  I made her drug of choice whippets but because they were hard to come by in Oz she was addicted to qualudes.  Elaine decided that the Scarecrow was a virgin, I thought I should decide how experienced was Glenda as well.  I decided that Glenda was an out and out slut that had done most of the midgets in Oz, boys and girls, because she was deeply insecure about losing her only friends. 

When our first show rolled around we were anxious to perform in front of a live audience.  It was for a group of children at the public library, Cecilia, who played Dorothy had a touch of morning sickness before it started and the wizard showed up stoned but all in all it was well received by everyone that attended. Our next venue was the Mall.  After unloading the set pieces and setting up the stage we gathered in the dressing room and changed into our costumes. There were not as many people watching the show as we had hoped. A few of us mentioned that after the show, we could all change and go shopping since it was payday and Friday.  On our way back to the dressing room Ron told everyone not to change out of costume and that he needed to talk to all of us. When we were assembled he announced that we needed to promote the theatre to the public and  he had a brilliant idea to expose more people to his children’s theatre. His idea was to do something he called “mall walks”. This meant the cast would have to parade around the mall in our costumes, greeting shoppers to let them know about the show. In addition we were made to stop and sing at different locations in the mall. To say no one in the cast  was thrilled except for Dorothy, who was totally faking it, was an understatement.  Dawn, the Wicked Witch, mentioned that she would rather poke her anus with a fire poker and start listening to Christian rock than to walk around a mall singing. Danny, the Tin man, complained that it was compromising his artistic beliefs and he feared it would damage his stage career. He made this statement even though he was still in college and we lived in a small college town in Florida.  Jeff the wizard seemed almost giddy about the idea and told the Tin man he was crazy for not wanting to participate. He explained that the mall walks could be a good way to meet lonely single mothers.  “It’s like they can’t really get to know you if you perform once at a library because once the show is over, they are out the door before you can get a good idea of who is married and who’s available”.   Despite Danny’s feminine demeanor and his pre occupation with all things Madonna, Jeff had no idea that Danny might be homosexual.  He was visibly puzzled when Danny asked if he was on crack after Jeff suggested Danny go for a Vietnamese women with four small children. Jeff replied no and  he only smoked and sold weed, he went on to tell Danny that any other drugs besides weed and acid were evil.  Danny called him a moron and applied more eyeliner to his Tin Man make up.  Jeff shrugged his shoulders, combed his hair, took a whiff of his underarms as he hummed Foxy Lady. As we walked around the mall, we all put on a happy face and said hello to the people shopping.  Because the mall was not very crowded or very big, we encountered the same people over and over again. Some of the children in the mall grew tired of repeatedly seeing us . Eventually they decided to throw whatever snacks they had at us while we passed the food court. When we got back to the dressing room I discovered a waffle shaped French fry in my hair and gum on the side of my tool costume.  We all hoped to gather what glint of dignity was left and call it a day. Instead we were given a 10 minute break and told to get ready for another spin around the food court.  After the first mall walk even Jeff lost his initial enthusiasm. Apparently his plan to find love in the mall had been shattered a bit as he was shot down and laughed at by most of the women he encountered.  Danny decided that he was going to protest on the grounds that we were beign exploited. He went on to state that “situations like these are the reason why unions were created”.  Ron proceeded to tell Danny, that if he refused to do the mall walk, he would be out of the show and un-paid for his work that day.  At first the wicked witch, Dawn, was in Danny’s corner but as soon as the fur was flying between the two men, she stayed out of it. Expletives were exchanged until Danny with tears in his eyes told Ron where he could put the show, threw his costume on the ground and stormed out.  Ron was still very upset and proceeded to yell at everyone in the room. “Anyone who refuses to do Mall walks will be asked to leave the show and you will not be paid for the day is that clear?!” We all quietly agreed in unison.  Ron took a moment and then in a hoarse voice he addressed all of us “Glenda, Dorothy, Witch, and Wizard, I want to see your tired asses outside and ready for another mall walk in ten!” He then swung open the door and slammed it shut on his way out. Everyone was silent until the Jeff, the wizard, summed up the general feeling in the room, he whispered the word” shit “. We all did as we were told and circled the food court, stopping to sing while fending off the flying scraps of someone’s left over lunch.    The rest of the run was a little empty without Danny as Tin Man but we pulled through.  Jeff ended up pulling double duty as both the Tin Man and the Wizard.    Our next venue was a juvenile detention center.  We were all a little nervous because we would be performing the Wizard of Oz to the 13 to 17 year old offenders.  I could not imagine that the kids in this age group or position in life would want to see what was clearly a kiddy show. Thoughts of being stabbed with a shiv raced through my mind. Police officers in riot gear with tear gas in hand, battling to save us from what was sure to be a group of angry criminals.  We ended up performing on a small stage in an auditorium/commissary room, it had a warm and homey feel to it, not at all like the institutional, florescent surrounding I thought we would be subjected to. When we began the show, I was prepared to feel the sting of random spit balls hitting me in the face or having an enraged inmate throw his chair in my direction as I sang a slow song called home.  Instead they laughed, they cheered and they listen to every line that was spoken. To our amazement they were the most receptive, polite and appreciative audience we had ever had. They even went as far as to make us brownies and cupcakes.  After performing for inmates CJ4578 through DR4619, we were all glowing as we headed back through the metal detectors. We made small talk and laughed a little with the armed guard who escorted us to our cars. As we pulled out of the barbed wire gated parking lot, we all waved goodbye to the guard holding a semi automatic riffle at the entrance, he waved back yelling “follow the yellow brick road”.   

I remember mentioning to Elaine that the kids from Juvie hall could teach those little bastards in the mall a thing or two about manners.  She agreed stating that the incarcerated boys seemed much more sensitive with an obvious appreciation for the arts. Even Dawn mentioned that playing the Wicked Witch was the best punishment she ever had and that she was seriously considering auditioning for the following Summer.

  

Can I just say: Sarah Palin is just plain stupid.

sarahpalinvikings.jpgJust look at this picture.   This crazy bitch gets a witch doctor to ward off evil spirits.  Her husband belongs to some radical domestic terrorist group.  Her daughter is pregnant.  Her son is a thief.  He also snorts Oxycotton!  She doesn’t believe in evolution.  She doesn’t believe that the polar bear is on the verge of extinction.  She sanctions shooting wolves from helicopters.   Once again, look at the picture. 

Can I just say: Let’s move forward!

Last night we got to see the first presidential debate. I think it went well for both, but I have to say I am confused.

I woke up and all the papers are saying McCaine won.

What?

While both were on point as far as being prepared, there is a clear divide between these two candidates. Each has there strengths and they both seemed ready to argue their points, which is what they did.

The main difference for me is that as I watched John McCaine’s ever blinking eyes and his inability to look at the unflappable Barrack Obama, I realized that what I was seeing was a first in my life time. I was looking at two men who represent completely different things which are being offered to the American public.

I was watching the past debate the future.

John McCaine clearly holds fiercely to the past while Obama is calmly trying to sway this country into looking toward a new way of repairing the battered U-S of A.

Today I couldn’t help but get a jolt of fear as I watched the coverage of the debate. Did anyone see the same program I did? I was filled with hope that we can change things if we are courageous enough to look to the future and let go of the old way of thinking, which is what got us in the mess that we’re in today.

While I do think McCaine has a lot of great qualities, I don’t think he is a realistic voice of change. He is old school politics and all of his ties are in old school ways of thinking. To think he can lead us into changing the disastrous position this country is in is ludicrous at best.

Obama is not only an eloquent speaker but he understands fully, that we need to let go of all the fear based politics of the last eight years and reach out for a new era. I just hope that middle America is ready to comprehend that.

I have said some nasty things about Sarah Palin in the past but I will reiterate one thing: If John McCaine were to die, would you want her as the president?

Not only is she a radical who believes in creationism, but she has five kids, one being an infant with Downs syndrome. That in itself is such a distraction to the job at hand that it would be safe to say that in her position she would be either a bad mother or a poor choice for president of the free world.

The McCaine/Palin ticket is tethered to the past in every way and can only lead to more mistakes like the last administration.

Obama and Biden offer a hope to this country which I feel has never been seen before.

Let’s reach toward the future and move forward. The past should be something we learn from.

Can I just say: It must be “Gay Day”!

What a weird day. Lindsay Lohan finally admits to having a romantic relationship with Samantha Ronson and Clay Aiken finally comes out of the closet.

I get the whole Lindsay Lohan thing. I mean she was just living her life and choosing not to comment on it. She was basically dating the ever mannish Ronson and smiling away at the paparazzi.

Clay Aiken on the other hand was actually saying he was not gay which is a laugh. I love the guy’s voice but come on. He was about an inch short of pulling a dick out of his ass every time he spoke. To actually see him deny being gay was crazy.

I get it. Our country is filled with narrow minded idiots who would probably have chosen not to ever buy any albums from Mr. Aiken.

So now it’s official. Two new members of the club. Here’s to faggots and donut lickers every where.

One more thing: They actually look alike. I hope he dresses as Lindsay Lohan for Halloween.