Archive for November, 2006
Review: Stranger Than Fiction
My Little Sister and I have been waiting a long time for this one. Trailers for Stranger Than Fiction have been running for weeks now and every time we saw one, we giggled and nudged each other while one of us said, “We HAVE to see that one!” This past weekend, we did. The Will [...]
Read More..>>In Through The Out Door
You’ve probably seen the ads featuring a bare bum and the words “don’t die of embarrassment”. Maybe you’ve heard Darryl Sittler talk about the loss of his wife Wendy to colon cancer. There may come a time when your doctor says the dreaded word: colonoscopy. I am here to tell you that my depths have [...]
Read More..>>Bin Laden In The Back Seat
Bill Maher’s “When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden” somehow escaped my attention when it came out in book form a couple of years ago but the audiobook caught my eye last weekend. I’m still only on CD #1 and I have already pronounced this book, brilliant. Long after the grieving period was over, [...]
Read More..>>Review: Cars
For once, a movie that lives up to the hype. If you have young children, you’re probably already way ahead of me on the animated movie Cars. It came out on DVD this week and with Wray and me both down for the count health-wise, it was the perfect distraction. There are no people in [...]
Read More..>>Beauty Products From An Ugly Man
Ron Perelman is a particularly disgusting bit of humanity. He’s the grand pooh-bah at Revlon, who ranks about 40th on the list of the wealthiest Americans with a net worth closing in on 7 billion dollars. But lately I’ve had to wonder about the models who shill for his make-up lines, women like Halle Berry [...]
Read More..>>Welcome To The Club
Indian elephants have joined an elite class of mammals. They, along with dolphins, apes and humans can recognize themselves in a mirror. The Bronx Zoo proved this theory by putting an 8-foot mirror into the enclosure for their three female elephants. A dog or a cat will go crazy in front of a mirror, trying [...]
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