Do you think we will ever get to a point where we hold celebrities responsible for their actions?

It was right after a new (mock) commercial on Lindsay Lohan's new perfume, the unique blend of marijuana and a Gin/Tonic combo, that they announced that the box office receipts for "I know who killed me" were very poor.

Ahh, too bad.
Personally, I wonder how someone who just turned 21 (July 2nd) can already have been in and out of rehab for drugs and alcohol. Legal age for drinking is 21, is it not?

I would not see her movies for a few reasons. The first, I am not a 14 year old teen, the second being is that I don't want to contribute to her pocket so she can get drunk, do drugs and help her be famous by "Lohan, dead at 26"

She's not the first, she won't be the last.
The biggest star on my hit list is Tom Cruise. His religious hysteria is too much for me. His telling everyone what to do, when to do it, is disturbing and hopefully, I am not the only one that won't support it.

The next one is easy, because I hate it anyway and that's RAP and it's artists. It's only a stereotype if it's inflated and it's not stereotyping to suggest that the RAP industry is full of criminals. RAP has more hard/potential criminals than the general public do, it's dangerous.
However, the audience that Rap typically attracts doesn't care because they would also fall into the same category.
Again, I am not suggesting that everyone that likes Rap is a criminal (or potential), however, if you look at the ratio of the fans of Rap and crime to the general public and crime, you will see a greater than normal trend.

If the "Rat Pack" was a group made up of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. etc and the "Brat Pack" that combo of Rob Lowe, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Ali Sheedy, etc then this combination could be referred to as the "Bitch Pack". Amongst this group would be Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, Lohan, etc.
People that trade fiancees, steal boyfriends, PDAs and Cellphones, are in the news not for their talents (if any exist), but for the disturbances they cause. I think, just for kicks, I will add a queen mother to this list. Victoria Beckham.

Also, I saw a good portion of "One night in Paris" and she did look like the most boring lay in hollywood. The one thing she is most noted for and she should be embarassed. Not because she had it filmed, not because it was released, but because she is dull.
(Her parents must be proud)

So, I am raising a glass (perhaps a Gin and Tonic, well, perhaps not) that Lindsay Lohan's movie was such a flop so far. Here's to Hollywood that contributes to these mal-adjusted alcoholics and drug users and parents that have left that job of parenting to be an agent.

May you all be forced to watch a 6 hour movie featuring the bitch pack in all their acting glory.
I already have the title "I know what you smoked last night"

They outnumber regular phones now in North America.
Greatest invention or greatest tragedy?

Cell phones, who needs them and who doesn't.
A girl (not a lady, not a teen, a girl) who was in my daughters daycare left the daycare because she was turning 13 and they only go up to 12.
She was really fond of one of the teachers and so, while in school, would text her just to say "Hi" (that'll be ten cents please).

Worse of course is the North American Text Messaging champion, an almost teen who sends 8000 texts a ..... MONTH.

But while I never needed a cell phone when I was a kid (as we had payphones and a dime), the worst possible time to use (or need) a cell phone is.... yeah, in traffic.

The very public issue is, of course, safety. If you are talking (and especially if you are holding the phone), you have to divert concentration away from the vehicles that are heavy enough and go fast enough to kill someone.

To me, the underlining issue is much broader, because it happens more and more in our society (well, North American society anyway) and that's by talking on the phone, diverting your attention, you are SCREAMING out to the other drivers, "you are not as important as I and I shall do as I wish, when I wish, and how I wish"

It's a very common theme these days. I have seen people slip through closing doors simply so they don't have to hold it open for the next person.
Talking on the cell phone while driving means you don't signal lane changes, you don't look where you are turning and you have no vision outside of that special tunnel.

I was cut off the other day on a road leading to a highway. Instead of just going behind me to make the same turn, it was acceleration, tight squeeze between me and the next guy, a sudden stop and then turn, the exact same direction I was going.

No signal, why, can't steer (erratically) and talk at the same time.
They have yet to put anything premium changing (from an insurance perspective) for talking on a cell phone, simply because it's probably too hard to monitor. I don't doubt that we will get to a point where these types of distractions will make invalid the vehicle insurance we carry.

I have a cell phone and I have a hands free unit as well as ear phones and a mic if I really need to talk. Most of the time I will politely say, "I'll call you when I get home" as the lives of the people around me are most important.

Just wish people felt the same way.


This post is dedicated to my new friend Mia as this was her topic.
Someone whom I hope will soon realize that contacting me outside of a poker room won't do her any harm and may do her a world of good.
What do you say Mia???