Note to Dan from Minnesota: Thanks for correcting me on the fact that Bob Mould technically did not graduate from Macalester. Given that it is a school without too many famous alums I thought that I would do it a favor and add one. Plus, I continually hope that by mentioning Macalester maybe, just maybe, one specific alum might stumble on this site and put two and two together. I’d say that this is an impossible dream but the White Sox won the World Series so the concept of “impossible” is really questionable right now.
Caught a great ad in the Pitch today, which I get to add to my “Hey baby, you, me, Air Supply” spiel. Two days after Air Supply, in the exact same venue at the casino, we have women’s boxing. Yes, it’s Foxy Boxing at Harrah’s where we can pretty much be assured that the women will not be foxy and what they will be doing will barely qualify as boxing. Seriously, what girl will turn down that double bill. “So for Valentine’s Day not only will I take you the buffet at the casino but we’ll also see Air Supply. And on top of that, two days later you’ll get to watch the World’s Minimumweight Championship fight featuring Hollie “Hot Stuff” Dunaway. Why? Because that’s just how I roll.” As has often been said, I’m money and I don’t even know it.
Back to comments on comments, so we are going to have a Magnum P.I. movie. It’s at times like this when I wonder whether I really should try my career at screenwriting. I mean, my ideas are not very creative but I can do better than going, “Hell, I used to watch Simon and Simon as a kid. Why don’t we make a movie out of that?” (Actually, why aren’t we making a movie out of Simon and Simon? Put Damon and Affleck in it and I’ll break one hundred million at the box office and that will just be domestic.) (Oh, and would it kill anybody to bring back The Greatest American Hero? William Katt needs the work and it had the greatest theme song in the history television.) I am surprised at how scared Hollywood is from original concepts. Think about what they are putting out there. We have remakes of old television shows, remakes of old movies, adaptations of books, adaptations of video games, adaptations of books that had been made into video games, adaptations of comic books and adaptations of the movie “Adaptation”. No one is trying to risk a nice budget on a new project, which is the only way you create a new franchise. Let’s put it this way, if we worked under this principle in the early 80’s James Cameron wouldn’t have directed The Terminator, he would have made “Berzerk: The Movie.”
Staying on a movie note, I know that I am several days behind the curve but I do have to make my comments on the president’s speech at K State. Obviously I wasn’t invited since a) I would ask real questions and b) given some of my previous comments regarding K State I believe that I am officially banned from their campus. (All I said was that they do pretty good for a Division II school. What’s wrong with that?) Anyway, Bush’s response to the question of whether or not he has seen Brokeback Mountain is classic. Classic in that he stumbles for a good two minutes without saying anything even remotely intelligible other than mentioning ranchers. This is what worries me about having a president who has admitted that he doesn’t like to read. When he is forced to go off script he has absolutely no idea what to do. That is really, really frightening.
(Last note: have to forward on something Super forwarded to me. For the How I Met Your Mother fans (or people wondering just what the hell I am rambling on about), check out http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/barneys_blog Yes, it’s sad that a fictional character writes better than I do. But one of these days I will unleash a Venn Diagram in one of these posts and then watch what happens.)
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