Maybe Palin Can Take That Moral Stick Out of Her Ass

Some sources are stating that Todd and Sarah are getting a divorce.  Apparently there were affairs on both sides and she removed her wedding ring a few weeks ago.

If (and that’s a big if) it’s true, then maybe Palin can stop pretending to be so moral, so righteous.  It gets tiresome.  She has always acted like she thinks she’s better than other people…more moral.  Welcome to real life.

http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71283_divorce_palins.htm

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2009/08/exclusive-sarah-and-todd-palin-are.html

Better Late Than Never – Mamma Mia!

I finally saw the movie Mamma Mia!  I sat with my morning coffee this morning and laughed, cried and had a wonderful time.  It’s been a while since a movie seemed so entertaining.  Yes, not everyone had a good voice, but the casting is grand, the enthusiasm, remarkable and the enjoyment palpable.

Streep does a fantastic job as a single mom of a grown woman.  Her friends sing and dance like they had a genuinely good time, with Julie Walters being especially well-timed with the humorous bits she contributes.  She’s an actress of many faces and this was one delightful Walters. Christine Baranski’s legs still stretch to her neck and she looks fabulous.

The men…despite their middle years, are sexy buggers one and all, with their individual appeal shining through.

The songs are as danceable now as they were when Abba made them famous all over the world.  The movie rocks and the cast is brilliant.

Thumbs definitely up!

Walter Cronkite Passed at 92

Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as “Uncle Walter” for his easygoing, measured delivery and “the most trusted man in America” for his rectitude and gravitas, has died, CBS reported Friday.Cronkite was 92 years old.

His career spanned almost the entire 20th century, as well as the first decade of the 21st. The native of St. Joseph, Missouri, broke in as a newspaper journalist while in college, switched over to radio announcing in 1935, joined the United Press wire service by the end of the decade and jumped to CBS and its nascent television news division in 1950. He also made his mark as an Internet contributor in his later years with a handful of columns for the Huffington Post.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/walter.cronkite.dead/index.html

Pat Rock – Twitter Fail

Friend Requests – Do We Have To Say Yes?

With all the social networking sites these days, we’re bombarded with requests to let this or that person join our own netowrk  of “friends”. 

To acknowledge and allow their friend or join request means that they can read all your blog or wall posts, they can see your pictures, they can connect with those you  connect with.  This is a key to your closet.  A pass code to your place in that realm.  You should consider each request carefully.  Like giving people a key to your front door.  Do you really want that person coming and going and reading your post-its?

I started to consider this after reading a blog post that told of the “netiquestte” that seems to imply that to turn down a friend request is rude in some way.

Is it rude to choose not to make friends with your new neighbors because you get an icky vibe?  Or that you saw them screaming at their kids or whatever?

Life is about choices and each choice we make is important in the long run, but always works out in the short run if we use our instincts.  Too often people are inclined to shut out that inner voice, in favor of a solution they think is more logical or better thought out.  The instinct we were given, an inherent human trait, falls by the wayside like last years laptop model.

If you don’t want to be friends with that person, read their stuff and have them read yours….

… just say no.

Pat Rock

Weeds – Gone To Seed?

Showtime’s series Weeds, now in season five, is beginning to come unravelled.  If you’re a fan you might ask why I’ve waited until now to talk about the disintegration of the series and story lines. 

I have an answer. 

I waited because I really really enjoyed a majority of this series.  I enjoyed the silly outer limits of the story, I enjoyed the acting and I enjoyed watching some who deserved it…”get theirs”.

Until the past two episodes.  I’m hoping beyond hope that they turn it around, but I fear its on an inward spiral to obscurity, leaving heavy fans behind in  boredom bubbles.

I wasn’t sure I wanted to blog about this.  Rather like giving up on something that was, in the past, enjoyable.  Putting it to words makes it more a real stinker than just watching it on television and cringing.

I blog therefore it is, I’m thinking….

New Palin Logo 2012

You can never get away!

Farrah and Michael – Icons

Two in one day.  Two people who served as iconic figures for a generation.  Farrah Fawcett in that famous poster.  I think every boy or young guy I knew at that time has used that poster for his own personal worship.  And who could forget how incredibly hot Michael Jackson was  around the time of Thriller. OMG as they say in text.

It seems weird some days, watching my past fall away as those who filled it with images and movies and music now pass.

Both were twoo young in my opinion; Jackson just fifty and Farrah in her sixties.  Farrah suffered.  She had a long road, but had people she loved with her on the journey.  Jackson’s passing came more suddenly…fleeting moments of hanging on and then nothing. 

What both leave behind are legacies the best of what each had to give the world. 

Michael’s legacy will include some very ugly and sordid times.  Some left unravelled. 

Farrah leaves the world remembering her fondly as the Hair of the seventies and the goddess in that infamous poster.

I hope both rest easy.