Britney and ‘yumm-o’…and NO, one doesn’t relate to the other!

The other day I mentioned that the Maxim Hot 100 should be retitled…after ‘careful examination’ of the issue (and its contents), I’ve concluded that there should also be a re-evaluation of the rankings.

BRITNEY SPEARS?  IN THE TOP 30??  EVEN ON THE HOT 100 AT ALL???

The only list Britney should be ranked on is the ‘NOT’ list…as in, NOT going to resurrect her career, NOT going to be any more than a pop culture footnote, NOT attractive with her Sinead O’Connor-meets-Larry-The-Cable-Guy fashion…

She’d be number ONE on that list in my book…

Don’t get me started on the Lohans/Hiltons of the world either…sorry, but I like my pop culture eye candy to have a figure AND a brain!

On to another wonderful subject….

Just happened to see that a Rachel Ray commerical for DD got yanked because she’s wearing a scarf that some people might consider to be offensive because of its similarity to items worn by ‘terrorists’ blah blah blah…

While I think that’s going WAY over the threshold of being ‘politically correct’ (as in, are you kidding me?), I will say this about Rachel…her constant use of the phrase ‘yumm-o’, whether on her multitude of Food Network shows or on her I-got-this-cause-I’m-tight-with-O talk fest, is the equivalent of nails on a blackboard…

I’m sorry, but it’s grating to hear food described as ‘yumm-o’…I tend not to DESCRIBE food that much because I’m usually busy EATING it, not ogling it or showing it off like I was modeling a new outfit!

Wait, I think I just stumbled upon a fantastic way to get politicans to stop politicing and start DOING things…I can see it now, standing in the hallowed halls at the podium, making a simple statement…

‘Either you pass this legislation NOW or I’m going to have Rachel stand here and say ‘yumm-o’ every 10 seconds UNTIL YOU DO!’

Later!
Paul The Small Guy

The farm life looks good today!

I say the farm life looks good today because technology is moving so fast it seems hard to keep up sometimes.

The amount of deleted emails with offers for free scipts and hot singles would fill a football stadium! Even if you don’t open them THEY KEEP COMING!!!!  The block sender pile of junk must be full and spilling over. But I am a sucker for gizmos…cell phone, i-pod, lap top, hot rollers! I LOVE them all!

I suppose the Amish have their share of issues, cows to milk, crops to sow and hoe, chickens to feed etc…..But something about feeding chckens seems relaxing.

I watched WAYYY too much “Little House” as a kid. But I don’t think I could really go for those high collars and long skirts. Give me a pair of jeans and boots any day, and the hot rollers!

Ciao for now, oxox Lisa

We’re Rockin’!

Finally the blog is up…all of us…Gomez, Dave, Lisa, Dave Frisina, Paul the Small Guy, Genesee Joe, Mimi will add to this here and there. Feel free to add your comments! And check back daily for new posts!

Random thoughts….

Ah, blogging…the newest, latest way for people to express…well, anything!

And I certainly have no problem expressing an opinion (LOL)…

So, without further interruption or pontification on the subject, here’s some random thoughts about random things…fodder for you, the reader, and my esteemed co-workers to tee off on!

-For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been involved with the racing business for over 20 years (still am) and always follow the various national/global racing series (NASCAR, Formula 1, IRL etc.)…and while I was very happy to see a unification of the IRL and Champ Car for this year’s Indy 500, the race itself lacked something…drivers with names I can actually pronounce!

The whole idea when Tony George started the IRL was to give top American open wheel drivers the chance to get ‘back’ to the Brickyard…and for the first couple of years, that DID happen…Steve Kinser, Donnie Beechler, Davy Jones, even Oswego’s own Joe Gosek got their shots…

But now, the Indy field is filled with a batch of foreign drivers who are there simply because they could bring some cash to the table to fund a team…pity a good bunch of them don’t bring talent along with it!  Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of them that are extremely talented (Kannan, Meira, Sheckter) but then you have people like Milka Duno (eye candy and little else), Marty Roth (should’ve been on the couch WATCHING the race, not racing IN it), and others who have little experience or skill in guiding an open wheeled missle around the famed rectangle.

Memo to Indy:  Next year, if you REALLY want to take a run at NASCAR, get names like Hines, Levi Jones, Donny Schatz, Dave Darland, Danny Lasoski…names that REAL race fans know and love…and move the start time so we can get Robby and Smoke back to do the double…THEN you might see some more interest!

And for those who think having a motorcycle race at Indy is sacreligious…the first ever event at Indy when it was built in 1909 was a MOTORCYCLE race, not an auto race…’nuff said.

-I think Maxim should retitle their ‘Hot 100′ to ‘Here’s 100 babes you don’t have a hope in heck of ever getting with’!

-I’m glad a bartender to tends toward rock n roll won American Idol, but I am so not going to be rushing out to buy his record…

-I think the fact that the SciFi channel is showing one of the BBC’s greatest imports, ‘Doctor Who’, just 3 weeks behind it’s first-run airings in the UK is fantastic…and a reason to be glad that there was a writer’s strike in US television, because if there hadn’t been one, I’d have to wait till the fall to see it!

-Speaking of strikes, AFTRA, the smaller of the two actor’s unions, has struck a deal with Hollywood’s producer types, which MIGHT alleviate an actor’s strike…problem is, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has the majority membership, and if we’ve learned anything from watching people highly paid for their services who draw their popularity from a buying public (anyone remember the NHL lockout/MLB and NFL player strikes), it’s that when dollar comes to dime, we the public become a MUCH lower priority.

-I’ve come to the realization that New York state has a fascination with CHICKEN.  Explanation:  regional foods like ‘Buffalo style’ chicken wings, spiedies (a Southern Tier specialty), and Utica’s contribution, riggies!

-Now that the state’s considering adding a ‘no texting’ to ‘no using without a hands free device’ to the cell phone law, here’s my questions:  How do you enforce it, and how soon before hands free texting comes out and we’re all driving around spelling out text messages like we were in a spelling bee?

Later!
Paul The Small Guy