| | Just a further installment of what is the basic running theme here
1. Borat
No, I'm not offended by the movie, or by Sasha Baron Cohen. I'm pissed that all the hoopla/kerfuffle/hullaballoo/hand-wringing was about something this dull. I didn't laugh till about 45 minutes in. Much like the extremely overrated "Sideways," Borat's only big payoff is from a naked fat man running around. Given that he's running into a morgage broker's convention, and being chased by a much taller, skinnier naked man, it is considerably funnier than the naked running fat man in Sideways. But it's still lame. I laughed more at Cohen's Golden Globe acceptance speech than I did at this.
On a side note, the driving school Borat went to is the same one I did. With one of the same instructors. Such are my brushes with fame; completely secondhand, utterly useless.
2. That the Geico cavemen are getting their own sitcom.
Listen, I think the Geico cavemen ads are brilliant. Those mini-sketches crack me up. The websites are hilarious, as well. But a half-hour long show of this? The press releases describe the proposed show is about 3 of the cavemen living as thirty-somethings in Atlanta. So, basically...it's a sausage-fest version of "Friends," only set in Atlanta, so they can do...whatever it is that people stuck in a God-forsaken place like Atlanta do. Fantastic.
3. How much you suck.
That's right. YOU, reading this, right now.
4. The sports-blog wave is cresting, and is soon going to crash in a big way.
Mark it down. There are some great sports blogs out there, HOWEVER, one must remember that the certain death of greatness occurs when the one producing the great thing starts to believe it is great, which is what I believe is happening. What do I mean? I mean there is a notable decline in certain sports blogs, that I think stems from the writers of said blogs getting their egos continually stroked. Sites I used to look forward to reading every day are starting to slip, becoming utterly self-referential, self-congratulatory, and masturbatory. I'm not sure how well I can articulate this, but the point is, many of the blogs I used to enjoy seem to be getting worse every day. The writing is lazier, the dick/gay jokes and objectification of women are getting old, fast, and the constant spawning of new blogs that link back and forth in order to generate more buzz for each other is transparent and annoying. Maybe this just means that I, and I alone will stop reading them. But increasingly, I'm starting to feel like a high-schooler listening to the 6th graders laugh while making fart sounds with their armpits; sure, I'll laugh at a good fart joke, but I need some other stuff now and then, too. I have a feeling many like-minded readers will feel the same way eventually.
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