Here's to Angelina Jolie, People Magazine's choice for the Most Beautiful of it's annual 100 Most Beautiful People list. All hail Angelina!! She's adopted a baby from Africa and one from Thailand and her and fellow most beautiful person Brad Pitt are about to get married in Namibia in SW Africa. Angelina will also give birth to her and Brad's freakishly good looking baby there too. Africa, as you know, is the source of all human life on Earth and Angelina and Brad are getting married there, going back to the source, like Adam and Eve in the garden only without the snake. They're giving back to the Third World, which shows they have a social conscience. Do you have a social conscience? Not like Angelina and Brad do.
Angelina and Brad are perfect. Their baby will be beautiful and rich. Aren't you ashamed your ugly baby isn't as pretty as Brangelina's? Don't you wish you were them? I wonder if Jennifer Aniston loves Angelina? I'm sure she's forgiven her by now. Who could resist the perfectness that is Angelina Jolie?...
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NFL Draft: An Exercise in Tedium Delivered with Hyperbole
I will never understand the print, Internet and television coverage that goes into covering the NFL Draft. I understand that football is America's #1 sport/religion. But do most people realize that the draft consists of a bunch of middle aged and older white men sitting in barren rooms across America in front of a speakerphone and a television calling out the names of mostly obscure college athletes from a list? This is the kind of sexy television that makes curling look like the latest Jennifer Lopez video.
Entire magazines are devoted to the draft, entire websites. And 95% of the players drafted will never even become All-Pro. More than half will never even make it onto an NFL roster. And its not like, once their name is called, the prospective NFL studs do anything more interesting than thank the organization that drafted them, their Moms and or Dads, their college coach and God in no particular order. It's not like USC tailback Reggie Bush, the expected #1 pick, will get on the stage in New York City and suddenly put on an exhibition of sprinting, blocking and pass catching. He won't even take his suit off! But then I guess that's a whole different show...
To all those draftnicks out there who plan to glue themselves to ESPN and ESPN2 this weekend to keep track of all the picks and pour through the magazine draft analyses, all I ask is that you ask yourself one question: can you name the top ten picks from last year? Or the year before? Every sports fan can probably name one or two, but if you can't remember all these blue chippers from the year before, then isn't the whole thing a pretty fruitless enterprise, just something to fill the airwaves for ESPN between the basketball playoffs and their next poker tournament?
Can we have a little sanity, please?
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Trivia Question of the Day
OK, try and guess this one without looking it up (yeah, right): earlier today the recently elected prime minister of the country of Solomon Islands stepped down because he no longer had the support of his parliament. Can you name either a) the capital of the Solomon Islands or b) that nation's nearest neighbor? Good luck...the winner gets to bask in the glow of Angelina Jolie.
Coming soon: a full review of the controversial new movie United 93, more random thoughts from my fevered brain and special guest blogs from my fiance and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Peace....
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