In Case You're Wondering

No I haven't given up yet. See what's happened this year. Did the Flyers give up after they lost the first two games against Boston? After they lost the first three games? You can feel it in the air, something magical is going to happen. So to all you bandwagon jumpers who decided to cheer for the Habs and have now given up, you may go back to your old team. It's far from over. The Forum Ghosts are waiting the arrival of Les Habitantes. Forever Proud.

Anthems

What really is the purpose of playing the national anthems at a hockey game? I can fully understand when it is the Olympics and you're playing for your country. But yesterday for example, when O Canada was being played, one of the Pittsburgh Penguins players was saying to it. And good for him. I can't remember who it was but obviously he is a Canadian. Just because his team is based in the States doesn't mean he can't be patriotic to his homeland. And I'm sure if any American-born players on a Canadian team would feel pride when the Star Spangled Banner is played. Maybe they should just have a generic "hockey anthem" and go with that.

Pedestrians

I complain a lot about drivers but sometimes pedestrians are just as bad. People who don't even look when they cross the street. Weren't they taught to "look both ways" when they were young? And is it that hard to wait when "flashing hand" lights up? It doesn't mean you can still cross at a snail's pace because chances are you're not going to make it across before the other light turns green. And there are the idiots who don't even feel like using the sidewalk, thinking that it's a lot more fun to walk along the road.

Driving Pet Peeves of the Month

1) If you're going to change lanes in order to turn right, could you please do it within a reasonable amount of time? Just because you put on your right-turn signal to come into my lane it doesn't mean you can just go right in. These double lane-changing SOB's should be shot.

2) Are you turning left? Please have the courtesy to turn on your left signal before the cars behind you start to bunch up.

3) It's not a law but please, if you're a bit slow could you PLEASE move over to the right lane so people with reasonable driving skills could pass you? This especially applies on the highway. I wish they would have the American law of "drive on right, pass on left" here.

4) HOV lanes are for cars with 2 or 3 people who WANT TO DRIVE FASTER. They are not for cars with 2 or 3 people who WANT TO DRIVE SLOWER.

5) See those left-turn or right-turn only lanes? They don't mean you can drive through the intersection; they mean you have to turn, nimrod. This applies especially on the corner of No. 3 Road and Bridgeport Road where people don't really know anything.

6) The River Rock parking lot should save money and take away all their "Exit" and "Parking" and "One-Way" signs because nobody ever reads them anyways.

Who's Next

Now that Dancing With the Stars is featuring actual stars again, it had me thinking. When this season is over and the public is eventually tortured with another season, who will be on. Which useless celebrities and non-celebrities will be on it? My ugly list:

Heidi Montag (if you don't know who she is, Google her. Yuk...)
Miley Cyrus (yuk)
Paris Hilton (yuk)
Britney Spears (yuk)
Lindsay Lohan (yuk)

Yuk...

The World is a Better Place

Kate is gone! Kate is gone! I can watch TV again! So my new idea, if she likes the spotlight so much let's put her on the next season of Survivor and make sure she doesn't get voted off for a while. But let's get her to do gross things like eat elephant testicles or cockroach larvae (is there such a thing?). Bring her kids along too, since she needs to remember to exploit them. Yes folks, all is well in the world. But now, hmmm, who has taken over the throne of most pointless non-celebrity on TV right now? That mistress of Jesse James is a good candidate.....

Puke

So today's news is that the mistresses of Tiger Woods (Michelle "Bombshell" McGee) and Jesse James (Jamie Junger) are now being offered their own reality show. Might as well put the Queen of Skank Kate Gosselin, throw in Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and have as a guest star Paris Hilton. The sick thing is people will actually watch this crap. No wonder America makes me sick.

Boycott

And so begins my boycott of ABC programming until further notice. Kate Gosselin just makes me sick. To each and every one of you who voted for her to stay on the show, you make me sick. To ABC for manipulating the judges to say what they did, and for manipulating the phone lines and voting, you make me sick.

TV makes me so sick right now maybe I'll just give it up altogether. Well, maybe after the hockey playoffs.

Favoritism

Tell me that Dancing With the Stars isn't fixed. Whether it's the voting (9 votes per voting method?) or the totally biased judging on the show, it's become a joke. Tonight almost all of the contestants, even the ones that seemed flawless, got bad marks from the judges and equally bad comments. But for some reason they decided that the Queen of Child Exploitation did a wonderful job even though the dancing was so fake. I am convinced of one of the following:

1) The judging is fixed and the results are planned in advance
2) America is really that stupid to keep Kate Gosselin on the show

Which one is true? The show makes me sick. ABC makes me sick. They might as well put Jon Gosselin on the show next season.

Dumb Parents

So yesterday Amy and I were driving back home after our trip when we dropped by the Starbucks on 54th and Kerr. While looking for a parking spot I had to avoid a little girl (about 10?) who was debating whether or not to cross from one side of the lot to the other. I assumed that her parent was somewhere nearby and she was catching up with them. But when I had parked and took a look behind me I didn't see any parents. She was standing beside a car which had the back window open. So I assume she'd been told to wait in the car or something and she got impatient. Either way, it's pretty foolish and stupid to leave your child unattended in a parking lot. It really irked me.

He's Back

Well after his little hiatus, some relatively unknown golfer named Tiger Woods is coming back to play some golf next week at The Masters. I hope the American public (the same Americans who voted for Kate Gosselin to stay on Dancing With the Stars) will just let him play golf. I feel really bad for whoever his playing partner is. Do you think there just might be a few more pictures taken than usual?

Why oh Why America?

How in the name of all that is sacred could Kate Gosselin still be on Dancing With the Stars? What possessed anybody to vote for her to stay instead of Shannon Doherty and especially Pamela Anderson? Are Americans really that lamebrained that they actually look up to this sorry excuse? She is not a celebrity, and she so obviously was the worse dancer. Even Buzz Aldrin did better than she did. And certainly Pamela Anderon's portrayal of Marilyn Monroe was worthy of a better fate than the bottom two.

But of course America is obsessed with winners such as Kate Gosselin, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears. Yuk. The dancing doesn't even matter. Maybe just have a Basket Weaving With the Stars show.

DWTS

I must admit I quite enjoyed yesterday's episode of Dancing With the Stars, especially seeing the almighty Kate Gosselin stumble through her dance. Even her dance partner was frustrated with her. Why is she on the show again? Did they change the show's title to Dancing With the People Who Have No Right to Be on a Reality Show?

Tiger Woods vs. Jesse James

What's the score now? 13-4? It looks like the press will lay off of Tiger now since he's getting ready for THE COMEBACK. I do wish he does well because at the end of the day, he's still one of the best golfers in the world. Jesse James, well, I guess he'll just go away now because other than being Mr. Sandra Bullock he doesn't have much to fall back on. Maybe he'll end up on some reality show other than that silly one he was doing.

Dancing With the Stars Season 10

Wow, this season of the fake reality show sure has a lot of media whores. We have Les Kwan's favorite person in the world, Kate Gosselin who somehow managed to make it on a show that features CELEBRITIES. Good thing her other show was canceled or right now it would be called "Nobody Plus 8". Thankfully she sucks at dancing so it will be a matter of time. Then we have Jake "I Need 15 More Minutes" Pavelsky, another non-celebrity. Unfortunately he'll probably stay on the show a bit because the dumb Americans will vote for him just because it's him. And of course the Grand Dame of Media Whoreness, Pamela Anderson. Yuk.

As for the people who are actually considered celebrities, how did the DANCER Nicole Sherzinger get on the show? Predictably she will probably get to the final stages. Hopefully she will win because she can actually dance, and not because people with a lot of email addresses vote for her just because she's hot.

Remember When.....

...that last president Bush was the laughing stock of the modern world and everybody thought he was an idiot who didn't know how to do anything? Remember when Barack Obama was considered the savior who would lead the US to greatness? How times change. This whole health care thing, boy, maybe they should have voted for the old guy and that Alaskan lady.

Coffee

Handy tip for the Tim Horton's guy that I got drive-thru from last week: If I order two coffees and ask for a tray, put the cups diagonally into the tray so the tray isn't tilted on one side possibly resulting in the spillage of the said coffee. If it helps, next time I will order three coffees so you really can't screw it up putting them in the tray.

Oscars

What happened to the Oscars this year? Was there anything worthy of remembering? I had high hopes when I heard that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were cohosting. But somehow things turned out to be a bore. The two hosts were so obviously reading from a script. There was no chemistry. The usually hilarious Robin Williams didn't say much. There was the usual silliness from Ben Stiller but that's about it.

As for the awards themselves, there weren't too many surprises. Avatar took home most of the "effects" awards. It was quite evident early on that The Hurt Locker would win Best Director and Best Picture. Maybe Meryl Streep should have been Best Actress for her uncanny portrayal of Julia Child. But Sandra Bullock was an OK choice I guess.

Reversal

Isn't it funny how quickly Jake (you know girls, THE BACHELOR) could turn from a really nice guy to the biggest idiot in America? Perhaps the show is fixed, or rather he decided to fix things for himself. Amy told me there were rumors that Jake did the show because he wanted to get into acting and he'd do anything for exposure. I guess picking the worst choice of all the bachelorettes would qualify. Immediately being announced as being on the next season of Dancing With the Stars would certainly affirm that. Ugh, what a disgusting lineup, led by the most disgusting of media whores, Kate Gosselin. How nice she finds time from exploiting her children to be on the show. Jake needs another 15 minutes before he fades into oblivion. Nothing like silly American "reality" shows to pollute our minds.... but then again Nicole Sherzinger is on the show too.

Not So Good Memories

I'd posted about my favorite memories in my other blog, but of course there's another side. While I did enjoy the last 17 days, my thoughts on what wasn't so good.

1) Hockey may be Canada's game but other than the goal, the team really didn't play to their potential. The Olympics are about trying your best, even if it doesn't result in a medal. If the NHLer's don't want to take this "tournament" seriously than perhaps forget about the Olympics. I still can't forget the game against Switzerland. Is that how Olympians are supposed to play?

2) The other problem with the Olympics is how NHL teammates seemingly become enemies. I found it disheartening that "Canuck" fans booed and made nasty comments toward Ryan Kesler. He was trying his best. Perhaps we should trade all the foreign players from our teams like the Sedins and Kesler and Demitra. Would that make the fans happier?

3) To this day I still haven't had a Japadog. The lineups were big before and during the Olympics they were up to 2 blocks long. Maybe soon.

4) And now, the $9 billion needs to be recovered.

5) So much for the easy driving on the not-so-busy roads. The streets of Richmond will be back to normal unfortunately.