Here and There...

Just saw on Much Music ‘Back in ‘89’, that in 1989 the 3rd highest grossing film was “Look Who’s Talking” with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. As if it wasn’t shocking enough to find out that that movie made more than Lethal Weapon 2, or Back to the Future 2, or Ghostbusters 2, (all in the same year); it turns out it made 140 million. That’s a lot of money for a flick that bad… Turns out a plane carrying members of the band Bon Jovi skidded off the runway in Hamilton as the plane overshot the runway thanks to bad weather. Nobody was hurt, thank goodness. At least it didn’t slide onto a road like the one in Toronto… 22 year old Jennifer Berry, otherwise known as Miss Oklahoma, was crowned Miss America in Las Vegas. Um, does anybody care about this anymore? Apparently, fewer and fewer do, as slipping ratings caused the producers to move the show to Vegas, and without a major network to broadcast the skin and talentless show on, they had to settle for showing it on CMT. That’s the weirdest part – what’s the Miss America Pageant doing on Country Music Television? Remember when CMT used to show…um, what’s the word…oh yeah, MUSIC?!? Has there been a Canadian sitcom as funny as Corner Gas? I’m laughing my ass off watching it. They even worked in a side story about the Littlest Hobo! And with the old theme music! The deadpan deliveries and hilarious one-liners are great. Whoever coined it the Canadian Seinfeld is bang on… And finally, with the Canadian election on Monday, the local TV has been inundated with ads for the various crooks…uh, I mean candidates…that are running. What I’m wondering is: why are all the commercials about the other parties? I mean, if I see a massive picture of Paul Martin’s ugly mug on my TV, am I not safe to assume it’s going to be a commercial about the Liberal party? Actually, no – it’s an ad telling us all the things he’s done wrong by one of the other parties. Stop telling us everything that is wrong! We KNOW what is wrong and what has been done wrong. What we want to know is what are YOU going to do to fix it?! If you’re a candidate, just come out and say I’m going to do this, this, and this. That’s all. We’ll decide the rest. Oh, and one more thing – once you’ve been voted in, Stick To Your Promises, you lying, money wasting, cotton-mouthed, dingle-dorks!!! Is that so hard?! It’s a shame that it’s gotten to the point where when I’m voting, I’m not voting for who I think will do the most good, I’m voting for who I think will do the least amount of damage. Is there no way we can get some decent people to vote for?! There, end rant…