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Kal Penn was recently named the "Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liason" dealing specifically with the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. When asked about this, John Cho said, "You do realize that it was ME who was the Asian guy in 'Harold & Kumar', right?"
For every "Enter Sandman", "Fuel" and "Everywhere I Roam" that they've put out, Metallica has also had some really awful songs. Don' believe me? Download "Don't Tread on Me". The latest of these ear pillagings is "Cyanide". Thankfully, if you listen to rock radio, they only play it like every 20-30 minutes, so...
The cable network "Vs." is running commercials in which they point out that almost every major contact sport requires a helmet of some sort for protection, however professional bull riders wear only cowboy hats as protection because, "It's tougher in here." Hey, Vs.? Maybe that is 'tough', but it is way more STUPID than it is tough! On the same note: Hey, Bull Riding? There's a reason that hockey goalies wear masks now and football players don't wear leather helmets any more! It's because the shit is dangerous if you don't!
I will say this up front, I lifted this next idea from the guys at UYD (www.uhhyeahdude.com). PETA is pissed off (as usual) about the fact that Google recently used goats to "mow" the lawn at their corporate headquarters to be more 'green'. PETA raised concerns about the transport and treatment of the goats.
Dear Assholes at PETA,
Just Stop. If Google wants to bring in a bunch of goats and let them eat grass at their headquarters (which is something that they would be doing anyways) and then NOT KILL THEM? Maybe DON'T have a problem with it. Just a thought. Maybe just shut up and go back to your tofu.
I am sad to say that I found another thing that bugs the hell out of me about "Back to the Future" last night. (To discuss the Grey's Sports Almanac line of B.S. from the second film, feel free to give Andy Ryan or myself a call.) Anyways, in the first one, the whole getting Marty back to 1985 thing was predicated on them getting a bolt of lightning to power up the flux capacitor. This is now no problem, because they know the exact time that the lightning is going to strike, down to the very MINUTE. I'm not a doctor like Emmett Brown, but I'm pretty sure you need a more precise measurement of time than a MINUTE to pull off this stunt so that Marty hits the cable at the exact time the lightning strikes. I guess when the next few movies involve pizzas that are dehydrated to the size of a pretzel and skateboards that can hover over the streets of Hill Valley but are useless on water, I can suspend my disbelief. But this whole thing seems like shoddy math.
Olivia Wilde topped Maxim's Hot 100 for this year. Been a huge fan of her's since back in the day when she was having a girl on girl romance with Marisa on "The O.C." Speaking of...
I learned from Miss California USA. If anyone asks me about same sex marriage and how I feel about it, I'm going to suddenly forget how to speak English like Sammy Sosa did in front of the congrssional hearing on steroids 4 years ago. For God's sake!!! Are we not allowed to have an opinion anymore?!?! When this whole controversy started, I assumed that she answered the question with, "Well, everyone has a right to choose. But, my family and I feel that if you choose to be gay, we should be able to choose to ship your fey ass to an island somewhere so we'll be rid of the disgusting sight of you!!!" When I found out that she had said, "I feel marriage should be between a man and a woman.", I'm like: "And? What else did she say? Get to the inflammatory stuff!" Why did they ask the question in the first place? It wasn't like they asked, "In 100 words or less, explain why same sex marriage is good in every way and why anyone that thinks differently is an intolerant D bag?" Am I missing something here? Why is this a contoversy? Was it a stupid answer for her to give if she wanted to win the competition? Absolutely. Does Perez Hilton calling her a 'stupid bitch' for being intolerant reek of hypocracy? Absolutely as well. How do I feel on the issue? "No habla englais."
I'm finished,
Nate
