Entertainment Bits
Here’s where I yammer about some recent happenings in the media. Why do I feel like I have to explain myself? Ugh. I’m a dork. Deal.
Look What I Can Do!
Unlike alot of people, I didn’t pay much attention to magician David Blaine’s recent ‘trick’, he called Vertigo. Whatever. Big deal. So you can stand still for 35 hours. Cool. My dad worked as a baker for 35 years, standing like that (well, moving a little) for 10 hours a day. Give the boy his Guinness World Record and tell him to shut it. Anyway, this is what I did watch last night, since I don’t watch The West Wing and don’t have cable, for much else:
Bada-Bing
That’s about how quickly the fight went down last night at Celebrity Boxing II, on FOX TV. Joanie Laurer, formerly known as China (Chyna? Cheina? whatever..) got her ass handed to her by Joey Buttafuoco, however an unfair battle it may have been. He basically avoided tossing too many body shots or punches and concentrated on throwing her around like a domestic assault victim. When it was over the host asked Joey and China how they felt the fight went, and Joey says some bullshit about being in the pen and being innocent (I guess it’s like shell-shock, once you’ve been in a war, you talk about nothing else). Joanie says that she thought it was an unfair fight, but let her and Joey get in ‘her ring’ and play by ‘her rules’ and then see how things go! Um…isn’t she retired from pro wrestling? John Wayne Bobbit was originally Buttafuoco’s opponent in this match but I guess he was in the hospital for something.
Olga Korbut versus Darva Conger: Darva kicked Olga’s ass, as I had expected, being she outweighs and outreaches Olga by a bit, it was a very agressive match. Basically the audience has Darva in their sights, and booed and hissed and cussed the whole time she was being introduced and whatnot (I don’t like her either, she’s a stupid bitch), but then the crowd loved her once she proved herself a worthy competitor.
Ron Palillo, 48 (aka Arnold Horshak from 70’s TV fame “Welcome Back Kotter”) versus Dustin Diamond, 25 (aka Screech from Saved By The Bell): What the hell was the show’s producers thinking? Horshak is lighter than Diamond by over 30 lbs., and quite a bit older. Therefore, Diamond kicked his patooty to the other hemisphere.
The African basketball player, Manute Bol kicked William “Refrigerator” Perry’s ass, but I didn’t see that fight ’cause I was in the other room.
No Laughing Matter
Is ABC news bored? Have nothing else to offer? They must be. Evident as in this recent article, praising and picking on clowns good and bad, respectively. One thing it mentions is coulrophobia. The fear of clowns. Are there THAT MANY PEOPLE with this affliction? Who knew? I mean, come ON, I get scared of normal things like dark alleys, extreme heights, etc. Do any of you really know of anyone who suffers from this? I can’t help but giggle. I mean, I don’t think clowns are all that funny. Funny-looking, maybe. I don’t laugh at them as much as I pity them. Go ahead. Call me a meanie.
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