Yup, down to the finals on America's Got Talent, and once again it's all about singers; my guess it's the opera singing lady. Which is fine for all that, but for Las Vegas!? Really?? Would you pay $100 in Vegas to listen to a lady sing opera for 60-90 minutes? Didn't think so. Last years winner was a guy who sang opera, no-one's heard from him lastely, have they? Should been Grandma Lee(comic), Haido Torres(contortionist/dancer, or Fab 5(dancing sisters). But no, singers once again, which I blame on the judges for not thinning out the ranks of singers in early rounds. Hey, let them go on Idol if they want to sing. You know, the only famous winner so far is Terry Fador, the ventriloquist, he really made it to the big time. And you know what else? The much vaunted $1,000,000 prize...$25,000/year for 40 years!! What kind of crap is that? You know the judges are being paid big time, they have all sorts of famous acts come on for the last shows (for padding) like Shakira, Rascal Flatts, etc, and you they made some nice money...but they can't give the winner a damn check for the winnings? What's 25G going to be worth in 10/20/30/40 years? What a rip.
Remind me, next year I'm definitely not watching...(maybe)
Really, saw these two going at it on the sidewalk near my daughter's apartment. But they're not real energetic about it, kinda mellow, actually. Funny thing is, we have lizards on our back porch(keeps down the insects), and I've never seen them going at it!! (Though babies show up every so often)
The way I see it, hand sanitizer can only help Swine Flu. Reading the bottle it says "Kills 99.99% of germs."
Mary Travers of the popular folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary died after a years-long battle with leukemia. She was 62. In the early '60s, Travers joined Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey to make music that mixed acoustic guitars with liberal politics. The band recorded several Top 10 albums, and scored a No. 1 hit with "Leaving on a Jet Plane." Of course, everyone's real favorite was "Puff the Magic Dragon" - was it a drug song?...no, not really, but yes, if you wanted it to be. But a great kiddie song anyway.
By Umberto Eco: And don't let the "by the author of The Name of the Rose fool you. This is one of the few books I didn't finish reading, and that's very rare - can actually think of only one other in the last 50 years of reading. Made it through about 90 pages (of 500+) and realized I had too many books to read to waste any more time on this one. This book gives an interesting premise of being shipwrecked on a deserted ship, and then proceeds to become a long convoluted story about events not related to the shipwreck.
Here it is folks, the real Budweiser, the one made without rice. Drank this the other night, the only bottle I had, smuggled in straight from the Czech Republic, thanks to Crystal & Vac.
