A whole bunch of random notes for the evening…
1) A huge shout to How I Met Your Mother for having Barney wear a Cobra Kai costume for Halloween. As a proud owner of a Cobra Kai t-shirt I am glad to see that Barney is a member of the “Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy” fraternity. Also this episode showed precisely why Barney gets the girls while Ted doesn’t. Barney is suavely dressed in Cobra Kai kit, an understated costume that shows off his guns and can be quickly removed in a romantic situation. Ted, on the other hand, is wearing a full hot dog costume that is way too obvious, has inconveniently located zippers and would lead to the use of lines like “boy, I would certainly relish you.” That is why I am totally Team Barney.
2) While driving home from work I saw a handwritten sign on a church that read “God Sez Vote for O’Donnell.” My first thought was, “I would really expect God to be a better speller.” Well, sad to say Delaware’s favorite witch lost tonight in a result that we all saw coming months ago. I will say that she did get more negative press than she deserved. She did not have the qualifications to be senator but the fact that Gawker printed a story about a “one night stand” from a few years back was unnecessary. First off, they didn’t have sex so I don’t feel it qualifies as a one night stand. Second, you need sex for it to actually be a sex scandal. Finally, the story was about how a thirtysomething single woman hooked up with a guy at a Halloween party. That is not a scandal. Hell, it’s made me like her more as a result.
3) Other sign I have seen around town is “Jesus returns May 21, 2011.” As it says in the Bible “We do not know the day nor the hour…ok, we know the day but not the hour. Though it will most probably be in the afternoon.” Apparently there is a guy who has done the math and has pinpointed this as the exact date of the second coming and a complete screw you to those who are following the Mayan calendar. Still, every time I see a sign like that I can’t help but think “Jesus is coming! Quick, everyone hide the porn!”
4) It is sad that the reason I am happy the Linda McMahon has lost her bid for the senate is not that it means that the Democrats will hold on to the Senate but rather that it means that the WWE will improve over the next few months. Every few years the McMahons decide to waste money on efforts to expand their business (the World Bodybuilding Federation, the XFL, the movie studio, politics) and fail miserably while taking money and energy away from the wrestling product. The wrestling suffers and this year has been no exception as it has now become PG entertainment. Well, with a loss we can finally get back to the sex and violence that makes pro wrestling great.
5) One of the candidates in Delaware was running as part of the Blue Enigma party. That has to be the coolest political party name ever. That is what politics needs more of: a sense of mystery and danger.
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