Prom Season!

Every year at this time, I get nostalgic for the dress I didn't wear to my high school prom. When I was in high school in the early 70's, the style was maxi dresses in bright florals - just about the ugliest fashion creation in my lifetime. I was not a fashion renegade or trend setter, so I wore the same thing as everyone else - and hated it. It just felt wrong.

As a young girl, whenever visiting my grandmother, I was allowed to go up and explore in the attic. I always headed straight for the boxes that held my mom's and aunt's 1950's tulle party dresses. How I dreamed of wearing my own one day!

Of course, in retrospect, I should have marched to my own drummer and worn what I wanted to my prom. Ah, the wisdom that comes with years....

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The name is D y'all and I don't play

Get You Some

Nice try San Antonio, but these Rockets aren’t going to let you kick sand in their faces any longer. Not once, but twice now you’ve fallen victim to Houston and it hasn’t even had to play with both Yao and Tracy. You just can’t say enough about these guys have done. Whether they win or lose the effort they put forth is almost always enough to be worth watching.

--Tracy McGrady is averaging 6.3 assists a game good for 14th in the league. That’s better than guys named Tony Parker, Mike Bibby, LeBron James and Gilbert Arenas to name several.

--Despite only starting 12 games David Lee is 11th in the league with 22 double-doubles. That’s more than Chris Bosh or Shawn Marion. Kevin Garnett leads the league with 35.

--Luther Head is 5th in the league in 3-point % at 44% while Shane Battier is 10th at 43%. Jason Kapono leads the league at 55% followed by Steve Nash at 50%, which is just a little stupid.

--The Suns lead the league in scoring differential at a ridiculous +9.2. They’re followed by the Spurs and Mavericks with the Rockets and Bulls tied at +4.9.

--The Nets have dropped three straight games by just a single point.

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--April 3rd is the date The Shield returns with a new season. That’s just over a year in between last season’s crazy finale and this season’s premiere. The Thing vs. The Last King of Scotland. Can’t wait.

--I’m still not sure if I like the whole family affair going on 24, but I do like the choice to play Jack’s Dad. That’ll be James Cromwell.

--Derek Jeter and Jessica Biel no more. Jeter is now focused on the very lovely Gabrielle Union while Biel is about as big an improvement as Justin Timberlake can make over Cameron Diaz.
always gets screwed in the Nightshift's Field of 69 Minus 1...

--The Men of the Square Table campaign has been put on hiatus.

--I’m supposed to believe Rachael got drunk, said Oprah obviously has issues being black and called Angelina Jolie a skanky c***?! I mean Giada maybe, but Rachael Ray?!

--If you’re scoring at home…Heroes barely topped 24 in the ratings.
hot and crazy. perfect.

--Kirsten Dunst and Vincent Chase?! C’mon Vince, you’re better than that.

--Congratulations to Tarleton State University up in Stephenville for celebrating MLK’s birthday. A group of, I’m sure, well-meaning students dressed up in ghetto attire with one stepping up and dressing up as Aunt Jemima complete with a gun. There were also some mock step shows and refreshments included fried chicken and malt liquor. Stay classy Tarleton State.

--You never hear about bad beats playing slot machines, but Steve Wilkinson took a bad beat at a casino parlor just outside of Philadelphia. He was playing the Wheel of Fortune slot with his card when this message flashed across the screen, "Power Player jackpot, Steve Wilkinson, congratulations you have just won $102,000." That’s promising especially when the payout message appeared on the machine itself as well. Two employees came over and congratulated him and a third came over, got on a walkie talkie and said the head of the casino would be over in a bit. Yeah, 30 minutes later Steve was told, “we were running a test on the system and it never should have come out on the floor, and we're sorry.” He asked to talk to someone else and a manager came over and gave him not one, but two free food comps for the buffet. For some reason Steve didn’t think that was good enough and now the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is on the case. Steve better get paid.

--You may exhale now for Kelly Osbourne will not, I repeat, will not be in Playboy.

--Mix in a ‘where are they’ now with Johnny and the rest of the Cobra Kai along with Mr. Belding, a Ralph Macchio cameo and a song titled “Sweep the Leg” you got something…




--Nice job by those girls Elia and Ilan making Marcel an actual sympathetic Top Chef candidate. My pick was Sam, but he was robbed and hopefully Marcel beats down Ilan literally and figuratively. Although Ilan does work at a Mario Batali eatery so I do like that about him. Also I’m pretty sure I mentioned this earlier, but Marcel was at a Las Vegas club recently and he tells Las Vegas Weekly, "This girl came up to me at a nightclub and asked me if I was Marcel from 'Top Chef.' The next thing I knew, this bottle struck me, and my friends had to rush me to the hospital. I needed 30 stitches." Which sounds more made up ’30 stitches’ or ‘my friends’?
Padma is apparently married to Salman Rushdie.

--Depressing stat of the week…More than 60% of 9th graders in Flint, Michigan will not graduate.

--What did Reggie Bush ever do to Yahoo Sports?

--What a shock, apparently that Hounddog movie in which Dakota Fanning gets raped is not getting much love.

--Alan Ashby signed a three-year deal to be an analyst on Blue Jays’ games.

--Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson back for another round?!

--The abomination of a contest, "Hold Your Wee for a Wii", that resulted in the death of a 28-year-old mother in Sacramento has not surprisingly ended up in a lawsuit. Ten people have already lost their jobs at the radio station. The mom who drank two gallons of water before bowing out of the contest didn’t win the Wii, but did win Justin Timberlake tickets.

--I was up late the other night to catch Andy Roddick and Roger Federer. Yeah, that Federer guy is pretty good. It was amazing watching Andy play about as well as he can and Federer just blowing the doors off of him.

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I think you know what time it is, it's time to get ill

Fun While It Lasted

This month the Rockets could just about do no wrong. Every single player contributed to wins and the team was more than just treading water without Yao. Then games against the Mavericks and Suns came and predictably those were losses, but losses that made you appreciate the heart and tenacity the Rockets had played with every night. That went out the window Saturday when the Nuggets visited and now Houston is staring at a three-game losing streak with San Antonio up next. After that the rest of January has the Blazers, Sixers and Sonics visiting so that better be a sweep. Right now January has brought 6 wins and 4 losses. When February 1st rolls around that January record better be at least 9-5. Now go get it done like you know you can.
Is that you 12-year-old Skip?

--Tell me they aren’t seriously considering a movie featuring The Lebrons.

And Then There Were Two

Watching the Colts and Patriots will never get old. Just incredible stuff. I was hoping it would come down to a 52-yard Adam Vinatieri field goal attempt, but that was about the only thing missing. What a grab by Jabar Gaffney and what a b.s. personal foul on Tully Banta-Cain for allegedly smacking Peyton upside the head on that last drive and before that a b.s. no call on Nick Harper who was all over Reche Caldwell in the end zone, not that Reche would have caught it anyway. How about an offensive lineman on each side with a TD? Crazy, crazy, crazy. Colts favored by a TD over the Bears. Tough call.

--A note up in a Minneapolis paper says that if the team can’t get Jeff Garcia that David Carr might be had for a third round pick. Really?! I’d change “might be” to oh, hell yes!

--Using the cumulative 2006 records of teams the Texans have the 14th toughest schedule next season. Buffalo and Oakland face the toughest schedule. Good luck with that Raiders. Arizona has the easiest.

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--So last week I put that little bit about The Big Bopper and Big Bopper Jr. with son exhuming father to perform an autopsy. It’s in last Friday’s QHRT if you need a recap. So I’m telling that story on the air during Sports Saturday then we go to break and I go try to find “Chantilly Lace” on YouTube. When I come back Rob is deftly handling the show while I look at the call screen and Big Bopper Jr. is on hold. Apparently our listener called Jr., who was in Chicago, and told him we were talking about him and his father. So we talked to Big Bopper Jr. for 7 minutes or so and found out he didn’t exactly order his dad to be exhumed, but the cemetery is moving the gravesite so while he’s getting dug up they want to go ahead and do an autopsy since one was never done. Also that gun belonging to Buddy Holly was fired by the farmer who found it and that’s a little weird. Junior also said that they recreate the winter tour every year in honor of The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Lou Diam…Richie Valens. To wrap this all up we have Fran Fraschilla, who was a part of the crew broadcasting Texas Tech’s upset of Kansas, moments before Junior joined us saying that the Jayhawks “looked like Buddy Holly in an ice storm.” Well, what do you expect from a guy named Fran?

--The Bill James Handbook contains this factoid…Three of the four National Leaguers with the shortest average HRs were Houston Astros (Craig Biggio 358, Jason Lane 372 and Morgan Ensberg 376). No surprise there. Another one…Vladimir Guerrero swung at the most first pitches, swinging 50.2% of the time while Jamey Carroll swung at just 8.8% of first offerings.

--I do not need to see the President’s sister on 24 anymore. What a freakin’ whiner. Wayne Palmer is not pulling off the President at all. Shoulda just gone with David Palmer’s long-lost twin and brought back Serrano. By the way, Bauer is going to be on The Simpsons this season as part of CTU (counter-truancy unit).
One of these guys can act, unfortunately it's the dead one.

--Isaiah Washington fired his publicist?! But he’s so well-liked and respected right now…

--Carrie Underwood is also in spin control after Tony Romo Tony Romo’d that snap in Seattle. She says they aren’t dating and never were.

--So Tara Reid was trying to hit on Matt Leinart? I guess if you hear a guy has already thrown down with Britney and Paris why shouldn’t Tara try to complete Matt’s tramp trifecta?

--Robinson Cano is giving up his # 22 for # 24 just in case Roger rejoins the Yankees.

--Bam Bam Bigelow has left us.

--When did Mena Suvari start dressing like an extra from Stomp The Yard? I guess about the same time she started taking her top off at the beach. Thanks?

--A while back we found out that Joey Fatone will be in the next edition of Dancing with the Stars. TMZ also says that Billy Ray Cyrus, Laila Ali and Ian Ziering are all in as well. I hope Laila doesn’t count as the token athlete. Why hasn't Giada from Food Network be on this yet?

--Pamela Anderson takes her PETA stuff very seriously. The fine people at KFC are asking for a stamp for Colonel Sanders and Pam wrote the Postmaster General a polite note: “Honoring a man whose legacy involves breaking animals’ bones and scalding animals to death in defeathering tanks is contrary to the values of most compassionate citizens, and I hope that you’ll deny KFC’s request. How about another Elvis stamp instead?” How about one for Jack Bauer or Claire from Heroes or Jason Street from Friday Night Lights or Adama from Battlestar or Cleopatra from Rome or Maggie from Extras?

--SNL with something, dare I say, amusing...


--What comes on more often on basic cable on a regular, let's say, Wednesday: Seinfeld or Scrubs?

--The nominations for The Razzies are out. Worst Screen Couple includes: Nicholas Cage and his bear suit in The Wicker Man, the Duffs in who cares and also Sharon Stone’s lopsided breasts in Basic Instinct 2. Worst Supporting Actress should probably go to Kristen Chenowith just for volume with roles in Deck the Halls, RV, and The Pink Panther. I feel confident in M. Night Shymalan as Worst Supporting Actor in Lady in the Water. Worst Actor is a very difficult category and a five-way tie could be the way to go with Nicholas Cage (Wicker Man), Shawn and Marlon Wayans (Little Man), Dan Whitney (Larry the Cable Guy), Rob Schneider (Benchwarmers and Little Man), but if one truly earned this it’s Tim Allen who was in Zoom, Santa Clause 3, and Shaggy Dog. How is “Worst Actor” not named for him? Stick to voice work Timmy. Worst Picture comes down to Bloodrayne, Little Man, Wicker Man and the two favorites Basic Instinct 2 and Lady in the Water.

--Teeth is supposed to be a good movie showing at Sundance now. A one-line premise from teethmovie.com: “Christian high school girl, Dawn, experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentate myth.” Ouch.

--In case you were worried about Paula Abdul after seeing her make a fool of herself the past couple of weeks: "I'm the only female. I'm the empathetic one. I'm the artist. I'm the pinata. I've never been drunk in my life. I don't do recreational drugs. I've been in this business 20 years (and) never had to weather the storm of publicity, controversy. It's this show. ... I love it, but it's often daunting."

--Josh Hartnett and Sienna Miller?! Scarlett to Sienna, not a bad fall for a bad actor.

--Eva Longoria in the March issue of Arena = wow!

--AOL listed the top 15 most embarrassing stage antics…At 15 we find the time U2 was on its Popmart tour and the big ass mirror lemon that drops them to the stage forgot to actually open. At 11 was when Jessica Simpson forgot the words to “9 to 5.” At 10 the time when Alice Cooper’s huge python that was wrapped around his neck went # 2 all over Cooper’s costume at The House of Blues in Los Angeles. Number 9 involves Extras favorite David Bowie who was 20 minutes into a concert in Oslo a couple of years ago when a lollipop stick was tossed and stuck in his left eyelid.
At 6 at a concert in Spain we find Diddy stage diving into fans who parted like the Red Sea leaving Diddy to the floor. Cyndi Lauper at 4 when a couple of years ago she was performing outside in Massachusetts and leaned her head back to hit a high note leaving her mouth fully exposed for a bird to poop in. I remember # 3 when back in 1992 Nirvana was at the MTV awards and Krist Novoselic tossed his guitar up in the air and it came down directly on his head leading to a hilarious drunk walk. Number 2 we find both Milli Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson for obvious reasons.
The most embarrassing rock n roll stage antic according to AOL occurred at a Black Eyed Peas concert in San Diago when people starting noticing a significant wet spot in the crotchal region of Fergie who had had a few drinks and explained, "We were jumping around . . . it was all very rock 'n' roll. And my bladder just started . . . you know."
Apparently they're now engaged.

--You know things are going good in Daytona Beach when a proposal is made to build a village for your homeless consisting of a 5,600 bed community.

--DrudgeReport headline of the week:
Masturbation Set to Music on Broadway Rubs Some the Wrong Way.

--It doesn’t get much better than waking up to new Jessica Biel bikini pictures every day.

--So Sacha Baron Cohen is good enough to win the Golden Globe for Best Actor, but can’t even get a nomination for an Oscar?! Props to Kelly Leek/Jackie Earle Haley for getting a Best Supporting Actor nod.

--Are you in rehab if you’re never physically in rehab? I’m talking to you Lindsay.

--Tell me I just did not read that Marcel from Top Chef was at a Las Vegas club when someone broke a bottle over his head sending him for stitches at the hospital.

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Now my name is M.C.A. I've got a license to kill

Don’t Cha Hate Moral Victories?

The Rockets were absolutely rolling into the toughest two-game stretch an NBA schedule can bring. Going in the Mavericks had won 17 of their last 18 and it’s not because they were lucky. The team is just flat out loaded and as soon as Devean George came in Houston’s chances went out the window. Tracy was incredible in the first half and the only memorable thing in the second half was his dunk that cost him Wednesday’s game against the Suns. Phoenix was coming in on a 10-game winning streak and yet the Rockets played with the heart and tenacity that you’d expect from a group of professionals coached by Jeff Van Gundy. Nobody and I mean nobody hates losing more than JVG and yet after the Suns loss he told everyone how much he appreciated what he saw over those two nights. How can you not appreciate this team? How can you not love what the guys are leaving out on the court each and every night? How can you not hope that, pretty please with a cherry on top, let Tracy and Yao be fully healthy come playoff time?

--How phenomenal was that Oklahoma State/Texas game the other night? This college basketball season has been fan-freakin-tastic…with the exception of UH. How are you up 24 in the 2nd half on Rice and lose by 5?!

--So Alexander Martinez is minding his own business leaving a California restaurant after his 30th birthday party. He’s got a big cake with him and walks by a club and out comes Ronny Turiaf. Of course, Turiaf being a cool guy agrees to take a photo with Martinez. Then Kwame Brown walks over, takes the cake and shoves it in Martinez’s face before getting into a white limo. Martinez sees Lamar Odom and asks him what’s up with Kwame when Lamar’s bodyguard starts pushing Martinez before Odom tells him to stop. Eventually Martinez made his way to a police station and filed a report of which nothing will come of.

Futbol Americano

--I’ll take the Colts over the Patriots and Saints over the Bears.

--Michael Vick is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Let’s roll with Vick to the airport in Miami where he was boarding a flight to Atlanta. Vick had a 20 oz. Aquafina water bottle with him and of course, he was asked by a screener to toss it. At first he balked before finally tossing it. Some Vick-hating screener went over to the recycle bin and retrieved the bottle discovering it had a secret compartment that was filled with dark residue and smelled like marijuana. Airport authorities confirmed through surveillance tapes the screener’s story and the league has been made aware of the situation although I can’t imagine anything happening to him. Either way the Michael Vick Experience seems more fun of a ride now.

--How about Marty Schottenheimer not only returning, but refusing a one-year contract extension through 2008?

--This guy you may have heard of named Reggie Bush can become the fourth Heisman winner to play in the Super Bowl in his rookie year. The last to do it was none other than Ron Dayne in 2000.

--The average margin of victory this postseason has been 7.3 points.

--Not since 1996 have both home teams won the conference championship games.

--Fishing Across America with Dennis Green?!

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--Cameron Diaz is not looking to good post-Justin. According to the always reliable Page 6 the one-time cute star screamed down Jessica Biel because Justin was chatting her up. Jessica Biel = hot right now. Cameron Diaz = hot up to the point There’s Something About Mary left theatres.

--Thankfully it appears the Lost producers are in the process of coming up with an endpoint for the series.

--Sometimes the only way to win is to go to the dark side…

--Eliza Dushku and Brad Penny?!

--A new trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is out…

--Lindsey Lohan in rehab?! Wow, who saw that coming?

--Mandy Moore and DJ AM?! Quite a drop off from Vince to freakin’ DJ AM.
The good ol' days.

--The annual Harris Poll of our favorite movie stars is out. Topping the list for the first time is Denzel. Tom Hanks’ bid for a three-peat was denied as he got # 2. # 3 is, of course, John Wayne. Seriously John Wayne? Alright. Clint Eastwood at 4 followed in a tie between Will Smith and the only lady on the list Julia Roberts. Johnny Depp (more like Johnny Wanker according to Mr. Bloom) and Mel Gibson knotted at 7. George Clooney and Harrison Ford round out the list. I love Han Solo too, but a top 10 movie personality in 2006?!

--The Harris Poll for our favorite TV personality is out as well. First the ones who dropped out of the top 10: Jerry Seinfeld, George Lopez and Tim Allen (Tim Allen?!). For the fifth straight year Oprah tops the list and for the third straight year Jon Stewart follows at 2. Unfortunately Colbert was robbed, but Papa Bear O’Reilly is 3rd. Hugh Laurie and Letterman round out the top five. Inexplicably Jay Leno at 6 just ahead of Ray Romano. Then three similar personalities tied at 8 with Kiefer Sutherland, Conan O’ Brien and Ellen Degeneres.


--As some of you may know The Big Bopper is buried in Beaumont. Of course, Bopper was on the small plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Lou Diam…errr…Richie Valens (anyone else have the movie memorized?). Anyway, Big Bopper Jr. is having Bopper Sr.’s remains dug up, perhaps exhumed is a nicer choice of words, and examined to find out what killed his father. I had never heard this, but a gun belonging to Holly was found a couple of months after the crash. An autopsy was only performed on the pilot and since Bopper Sr.’s body was found 40 feet from the wreckage Bopper Jr. wants to know if anything crazy happened. RICHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

--Tell me Jim did not just tell Karen he still has feelings for Pam.

--This is pure gold…


--New Jack City 2?!
Am I my brother's keeper?

--At some point you have a bad day in a casino and you ask yourself why you put yourself through this and you think about never gambling again. It’s never happened to me because I’m always due, but it did happen to one guy in Atlantic City. We only have his initials to go by, but S.D. had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day and marched himself to the Casino Control Commission and put his name on a list of names to be barred from casinos for life. The old self-blacklist, if you will. Of course, within the hour he started trying to get his name off and, of course, that wasn’t happening. Not only that, but my man S.D. started getting letters from other casinos around the country saying he was no longer welcome because what happens in Atlantic City is spread throughout the country.

--In perfect match news…Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart. The Rock and the very lovely Anne Hathaway may be in it as well.


--There are so many negative Taser-related stories that we need to look at the good things Tasers can sometimes do. For example, in Plattsburgh, New York this week a huge deer got its antlers stuck in a rope swing. The cops couldn’t get near it because it did weight a few hundred pounds and didn’t appear happy. So it’s a bullet in the brain or give it a Taser shot and see what happens. The Big Buck Hunters Tasered the deer and it went down like Frazier. The cops unhooked the deer and moments later it awoke and ran off “happy as a clam.”

--My favorite Bauer moment on Monday was when he tossed that random guy from his car, pointed at him, simply said “don’t get up,” and then drove off with dude’s car while dude sat on his ass because Jack Bauer told him to.

--Magnum P.I. with Matthew “awright, awright, awright” McConaughey as Magnum and William H. Macy as Higgins?!

--Tell me Fidel Castro did not have an artificial anus created.

--There are worthy lawsuits and then there are worthy lawsuits. An antique dealer in New York’s Upper East Side is suing four homeless men for $1 million because they’ve been driving away customers for a long time seeing as how they don’t bathe and sleep in cardboard boxes. The dealer also wants the court to order the men to stay at least 100 feet away from his store.

Questions, comments, or if you used to think it’d be cool to have David Bowie sing a song about you and then you saw Extras and now you’re not so sure…

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His name was MCA, I said "Howdy", he said "Hi"

Bring It

How much fun has it been watching the little team that could run off this stretch of wins? I’m sitting there with two other guys watching a playoff football game in its final seconds and we’re all thinking the same thing, ‘I wish the Rockets were playing tonight.’ I wish the Rockets would’ve gone straight from Sacramento to Dallas and called out those punk Mavericks right there on Sunday morning. It’s been just amazing and so ridiculously entertaining. Whether it’s Luther Head throwing down like Bobby Flay or Tracy McGrady doing his best Tracy McGrady impression or Rafer Alston making consecutive shots or Shane Battier taking a charge that leaves him bloodied or Dikembe Mutombo finger wagging more than Stephen Colbert or Juwan Howard knocking down mid-range jumpers. How can you not love this team?
So Luther has at least two dunks in his life.

--Apparently Gilbert Arenas went T.O. and threw himself a birthday party that cost over a million dollars.

Final Four

What a great set of games over the weekend with the top AFC seeds tumbling to the old guard. I’ve never been a big Ravens fan and I figured Peyton was due for a big game. Yeah, Peyton and company are in the AFC Championship Game after he’s thrown 1 whole touchdown and 5 interceptions. The last four regular seasons he’s never topped 10 interceptions. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Marty Schottenheimer is Marty Schottenheimer. Marty’s postseason loss streak now stands at 6. Patriots and Colts = outstanding. The Saints won and maybe even more miraculous Reggie Bush is still alive after getting lit up early. I wish every time I see him run I wouldn’t think of how stupid the Texans are. Can’t wait to see the rightful Houston RB in the f’n Super Bowl. You’re welcome Nawlunz. 18-yard punts in overtime are a good way to lose and that’s why Chicago is moving on. How funny is it that since his “we want the ball and we’re going to score” proclamation in Green Bay a few years ago that Matt Hasselbeck doesn’t get to go out for the overtime coin toss?

--Tom Brady had 51 pass attempts. 26 other times in postseason history a QB had 50 or more attempts in regulation and all 26 times that QB’s team lost.

--Giselle Bundchen is interested in Brady?! Who bounces back with a hotter female Brady or Timberlake?

--Jabar Gaffney in the regular season = 11 catches. Jabar Gaffney in the postseason thus far = 18. Billy Miller hasn’t had a four reception game in I don’t know how long, but 4 catches for 64 yards against the Eagles. Good to see being a Texan doesn’t taint you for life. Hell, Dom Capers is set to be the highest paid assistant coach in the league.

--Shot of the weekend came courtesy of the blonde Saints fan whose shirt read “Fu** Da Eagles”. Yeah the shirt didn’t have asterisks and someone at Fox doesn’t have a job.

Globies

--I haven’t seen either, but I know The Departed should have beaten out Babel for Best Picture- Drama and how funny was it hearing the Governator pronounce Babel two different ways?

--I haven’t seen Dreamgirls, but I know Little Miss Sunshine or Borat or Thank You for Smoking should have won Best Picture- Comedy or Musical.

--I know they got it right for Best Actors with Forrest Whitaker and Sacha Baron Cohen.

--I’m thinking Ugly Betty over The Office or Weeds is wrong. Weeds, Heroes, and Lost were all shut out and that’s not right.

--Because I got time like that I saw some E’s red carpet show and of all people to cut off mid-interview because Seacrest got a hold of Brad and Angelina it had to be Jeremy Piven and his mom. I expect a not so subtle dig by Ari on E or Seacrest next season. Note to Angelina: lighten up.

--Ali Larter looked hot as hell. Cameron Diaz and her jet black hair, not so much, hell not at all.

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--Congratulations if you had Bauer going Lost Boys for his first official kill this season in the 24 death pool. More impressive than that escape and saving the good bad guy was Jack giving himself a nice, even haircut, not that I expected anything less. By the way, apparently Lost Boys 2 is in the works and will be headed straight to DVD.

--Extras is one hilarious show, well except this week when Ricky Gervais sold out. That was depressing. Orlando Bloom was pretty strong with all his Johnny Depp is crap talk.

--Now to combine the above two shows…Stephen Merchant, Ricky’s writing partner in crime for The Office, plays the agent in Extras. Stephen is a huge 24 fan and had an extremely brief moment on the camera in the first two hours. He was a CTU guy who was handed a no doubt extremely important piece of paper. Ricky did a scene as well that may be a 24 DVD extra. According to his site, “In the scene, a group of White House brass meet to discuss an impending terrorist threat. Gervais, dressed like a presidential advisor, keeps whispering under his breath to give the mission to Jack Bauer - and then acts incredulous when someone else says it aloud and takes credit for the idea.”

--Rounding out the best night of television this year I’ll let emailer Jimy sum up Rome…"rome is everything sopranos was. murderous italians making powermoves w/ hot ass naked women."
Hated to see her go.

--I love Sportsbook.com…Sportsbook.com odds on the number of times Bush will say these words during his 2007 State of the Union address on January 23, 2007.
Evil Over/Under 2.5 (-120)Terrorist/Terrorism/Terror Over/Under 19.5 (-120)Al Qaeda Over/under 3.5 (-120)Freedom Over/Under 15.5 (-120)Democracy Over/Under 2.5 (-120)God Over/Under 2.5 (-120)

--Becks and Posh are aligning themselves with TomKat? Very smart move.

--How good does Frank Miller’s 300 look?! Gerard Butler adds King Leonidas to his other roles such as Dracula, Beowulf, Phantom of Phantom of the Opera, and Attila the Hun. If you’re unfamiliar with the story think Alamo with Spartans instead of Texans and Persians instead of Mexicans. It was the best Decisive Battles episode on History Channel though I don’t think that airs any longer. Anyway, what could Frank Miller do with The Alamo?

--Whitney Houston and Ray-J?!

--If you are getting a divorce or are getting married and eventually will get divorced do not, I repeat do not use Michael Strahan’s lawyers. T.O.’s ex-publicist can give you 15.3 million reasons why.

--Jenna Jameson thinks Scarlett Johansson should play her in a biopic?! Who am I to disagree?

--A Keeley Hazell sex tape?! She’s fantastic, but that gives sex tapes a bad name. If you need to see “spectacular” then Battlestar’s Tricia Helfer’s spread in Playboy does the job quite well.
Not much longer 'til Battlestar returns.

--It took a helluva lot longer than I expected, but Quite Frankly, or Frankly Speaking as David Barron calls it, has been cancelled. Unfortunately I think that means we’ll see more of him everywhere else on the ESPN family.

--Your depressing “I got a Wii for my kids, but lost my life in the process” story comes to us from Sacramento. A 28-year-old mother entered a radio contest where you had to “Hold Your Wee for a Wee.” The contestants were given these water bottles they had to down every 15 minutes and then of course, had to hold it with the last person standing winning. She won, but died soon thereafter due to something scary called water intoxication.

--I don’t use sportsline.com for anything, but scoreboards because it employs idiots like whoever ranked the females at the SEC schools and put Florida in 11th. I mean Tim Tebow’s girlfriend alone gets the Gators into the top five, the fact that Erin Andrews once went there puts it into the top three, and UF’s collection of pics on facebook make it # 1.

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Lookin for a girl, I ran into a guy

These Guys Are Good

The Rockets are now 7-2 without Yao and have hit a high water mark of 10 games over .500. It’s incredible to watch what Juwan Howard and Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo are doing on a nightly basis and oh yeah, Tracy McGrady has been pretty good although apparently he can be held to under 10 points and the boys still have enough to beat a team like the Lakers. Let’s list all the players in January who are averaging more rebounds a game than Deke…That didn’t take long. He and the beast known as Dwight Howard are averaging 15.8. Tracy is third in scoring over the last 10 games averaging 27.8 the same as Kobe and just more than Dwyane Wade. Houston is now 4th best in point differential because it leads the league in field goal percentage against and points against. What I’m saying is these guys aren’t just going to keep their heads above water while Yao is out, they’re going to secure themselves a playoff spot before he comes back.


Gat R Done

Rarely if ever do I make accurate predictions. So anytime over the last 40 days anyone asked me about the game and I said Florida, if for no other reason than it’s the best team from the best conference, I was told Ohio State this and Big 10 that. Pfft..whatever. Eat it Buckeyes, eat it Big 10, and most of the media can eat it too. It wasn’t all that difficult to figure out which team was going to win. It just took four quarters for the reasons to show themselves. No use delving into it any further, but another congratulations to Chris Leak for displaying so much class after four years of getting dogged by his own fans and getting pulled his senior year anytime his offense got close to the end zone and finishing things with a championship.

Playoffs?!

I’ll take the Saints over the Eagles in what should be for the NFC title. Bears beat the Seahawks. I’m an idiot and I believe the Colts will beat the Ravens. The Chargers will handle the Patriots.

--How many times in postseason history has the last play of the game been a game winning field goal (I refuse to call them walk-off field goals)? When David Akers did it, it was for just the third time ever.

--Willis McGahee is facing his third paternity suit in the last two years?!

--Who’s having the worst week ever besides Chyna? Gotta be Rice. Smooth move Todd Graham. You too Major.

--This century only the Texans, Cardinals, Bills and Lions haven’t made the playoffs.

--What the hell got into Jabar Gaffney?

--Best news from the NFL this week: Bengals LB David Pollack could play next season. He fractured a C-6 vertebra back in September.

--Boomer Esiason was awful on the television side of Monday Night Football, he’s much better on the radio side and this is his best line in years on Eli Manning, "Manning is playing quarterback like Britney Spears is playing Mommy. Very erratic and without confidence."

--Whoa, whoa, whoa…Sean Salisbury’s one-week suspension was because he took pictures of, well let’s say Salisbury Jr., on his cell and showed them to women?!

--So I’m browsing the auction items at the Bear Bryant College Football Coach of the Year Dinner and of course, the most expensive item is an autographed Vince Young jersey and of course, you can have Mario Williams’ for $600 less. Cross your fingers I get the Temple football helmet for $12 or the Dartmouth helmet for $57. Anyway there are some $25 gift certificates to Pappas and they’re going for more than $25. I know it’s all for charity, but paying $50 for $25 worth of food doesn’t make much sense to me.

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--Mark your calendars…Borat comes out on DVD March 6th.

--Damn you Annika Sorenstam!! And damn you Tiger for making her so good on your video crack of a game!!

--Another mark your calendars and this of the highest importance January 18th Stephen Colbert goes on The O’Reilly Factor and Papa Bear does The Colbert Report.

--Thanks to i-control yanking season 1 of Weeds off before I could finish I had a six month break between episodes 4 and the rest that I’ve finally watched thanks to Santa. What a fantastic freakin’ show! Best thing I’ve seen on Showtime since Red Shoe Diaries jumped the shark (which was as soon as I saw David Duchovny).
Apparently these two are or were dating.

--If you see one anime Simpsons work of art this week make it this one.

--Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!!!!! Premieres of 24, Rome, and Extras!!!!


--Because even double-crossing Jedi Knights can be jerks sometime…


--Dwight’s not really leaving, is he?

--Some people are not only talented and blessed, but actually get “it”. Edward Norton, "A lot of us have talked to the Academy Awards producers about this and I think they're actually going to scuttle the gift baskets and that kind of stuff. I mean the gift baskets, worth amounts of money that a low income family could live on for a year, (are given to) people who have so much already. It gets depressing."
What a roll he went on with Primal Fear, Rounders, and American History X.

--I won’t watch a second, but the best thing about The Apprentice will be Ivanka. Apparently that Grease reality audition show preceding the season premiere of The Apprentice drew better rating than The Donald. Ouch. The Rosie and Trump tiff is about to reach the saturation point.

--Oh young love...for example Bay City, Michigan…It was there that a 17-year-old boy and his girlfriend got into a lover’s quarrel at a party. She left without giving him a goodnight kiss so he went looking for her to get his kiss. He thought he found her car. He thought wrong. He rammed this other girl’s car’s rear bumper not once, not twice, but 15 times. Dude even pushed it through stop signs at intersections. Yeah, the police chased him down and let him know he made an honest mistake and they understood and he could leave now, but just be more careful…that or he got charged with assault with a vehicle, fleeing police, and drunk driving. One of those.

--Drudge Report headline of the week: “Killer Bees Found Near New Orleans.”
Don’t worry I’m sure our fair city will take those killer bees off your hands.

--I wonder if The People’s Choice Awards were worth watching. Let’s see Funniest Male Star went to Robin Williams. Guess not.

--Brooke Burke and David Charvet (Baywatch) didn’t just name their baby Heaven Rain.

--John Cusack and Jeremy Piven have broken up. They'll always have...

--Sophia Bush or Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman.
Decisions, decisions

--You’ve reached “kind of a big deal” status when GMC Denali names a color after you as in a Jay-Z-Blue SUV.

--I doubt I’ll see Factory Girl, but if anyone can pull off Andy Warhol it has to be Guy Pearce. If anyone can pull off Bob Dylan…I mean Billy Quinn it has to be Hayden Christenson…or maybe not.

--Your Extreme update…I saw one of the guys on Top Chef (it's coming down to Sam and Marcel) at a dinner party hosted by Entourage’s Debi Mazar. The other guy, Gary Cherone got dissed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It selected Van Halen for entry with both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar getting invites, but not VH’s third singer Mr. Cherone.

--19-year-old Evan Rachel Wood and 38-year-old Marilyn Manson?!
Probably want to stay away from this if you have a daughter.

--15 years ago this week Vanilla Ice’s “To the Extreme” went multi-platinum. Now he’s wrecking shop on Surreal Life Fame Games.
Go Ninja! Go Ninja! Go!
--SMU is in the lead for W. Bush’s Presidential Library. Congratulations?

--The Dodgers are turning their right field pavilion into an all-you-can-eat section because let’s face it America is just too skinny. For $40 on gameday you get all the hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts, nachos and cokes you can consume.

--This is just one of the many reasons attorneys are so great…In Dallas a male high school teacher was supporting his school by attending its girls’ wrestling matches. A coach became suspicious of him because the teacher taped two full hours and focused/zoomed in on the crotch areas of these underage females. So he was charged under the peeping tom law. His attorney Scott Palmer, "How do you draw the line? If you go to a Cowboys game and take a close-up shot of their cleavage, are you committing the same offense because you think that has sex appeal?" Yes, where to draw the line indeed. Because surely taking pictures of professional, mature female cheerleaders who are there to be ogled is the exact same thing as videotaping and zooming in on the crotch areas of high school girls for two full hours.

--If you’re scoring at home it’s rehab trip number two for Verne Troyer. So is he wearing those sun glasses in that Geico spot to try and hide the fact his eyes are glued on a cue card?

--Apparently the former Miss Nevada Katie Rees is wising up and actually going to get paid for acting like a bisexual slut. She’s in talks to do a spread in Playboy

Questions, comments or if the thought of being paid in two-dollar bills actually appeals to you…

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Spring Hats

Yes, yes, we know...winter has barely begun, and yet Spring has sprung at Couture Allure Vintage Fashion. We were so tired of grey skies the other day, we broke into our stash of spring hats and found a bounty of beautiful headwear.

I am very fond of vintage hats. One has only to look in my closet to figure that out! As a child, one of my favorite pastimes was when my mom would take down all her hat boxes from the high shelf in her closet and let me play dress up. How I loved feeling glamourous and grown-up at age 5!

When I was very young, my mom would always wear a hat when going to church or PTA meetings. I couldn't wait to be able to have my own wardrobe of hats when I was old enough. Of course, by then, hats had fallen from favor and were out of style.

Nowadays, I satisfy my passion for hats by searching them out and offering them for sale to vintage hat lovers worldwide. And, on occasion, I take down the hat boxes that are high on my closet shelf and play dress up with my own collection.

See these hats and more at Couture Allure Vintage Fashion .

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