TOP MUSINGS OF 2006

Think of this as another placeholder blog until I can finally get that Top Ten Movie List out. What's the hold up, you ask? Aside from all the usual bizizness that goes on with the holidays, I also feel pretty strongly that I need to see at least two of the following five movies before I can put together any kind of "Best of..." list that I could feel good about: Blood Diamond, The Queen, Volver, Pan's Labrynth and The Good Shepherd. (Here's a sneak peak--Dreamgirls is very good, and a likely Best Picture Oscar nominee, but it's not the best picture I saw last year.) Let's just say I'm working on it and I'll get back to you soon.

In the meantime, looking back at some of the headlines from 2006, there were plenty of things to muse about. These are a few I wanted to share. They are certainly not "Deep Thoughts", so take them for what they're worth...

* How are Paris Hilton and herpes alike? They're both gross and neither goes away if you try to ignore it.

* When Senator Hilary Clinton goes to sleep at night, which is her most common recurring nightmare: being trapped in an elevator with an armed Dick Cheney, walking into the office and catching her husband and Ann Coulter in flagrante delicto or turning on the TV next Super Tuesday and seeing her name in the second position of the delegate count behind Barack Obama?

* America's favorite ghetto hood rat "New York" (from Flavor of Love infamy) is about to star in her third "reality" TV show and I can't sell one script?

* If you were thinking about having sex with an underaged boy or girl, wouldn't you have heard of Dateline's "To Catch A Predator" series by now and you wouldn't you think twice about going online with some jail bait?

* I'm not sure who had the worst year--Rep. Mark Foley, Michael Richards or Kevin Federline.

* We spend more money every fiscal quarter in Iraq than we have on rebuilding New Orleans in the 16 months since Katrina. This is very wrong.

* I don't know if there's a single redeeming minute of programming on MTV.

* If we're going to get into the televised execution business, we shouldn't start with Saddam Hussein. Its bound to make a horrible situation in Iraq only worse for everyone, especially our troops. Televising executions in general though, as repellent as it is, would be either the best way to get rid of the death penalty or the next big step on the path to creating hell on Earth.

That's all for now...someday, my Top Movie Choices of 2006. But probably not before New Year's Day. Until then...

Peace.