Turn Off Your Computers...!
I admit, it is shameless to sleep until noon, even through I have the perfect excuse - I was up 'till four AM watching "Teenage Caveman" on Cinemax. But is that any reason for the Karma-slap I got when I logged on today??
I typed in my password and after a few seconds, my homepage popped up. (I always start my on-line day with a little E News) Immediately, I am drawn to an old picture of a man with crazy Lyle Lovett-like hair and a caption that reads "Playwright Dies at 89."
Before I can even begin to assimilate THAT, I am drawn to the other half of the page where there is a picture of Bernie Mac and a caption that reads "Actor Suffers from Rare Disease." I'm afraid to scroll down any farther.
I went to the Arthur Miller article first (wrote a big a** term paper on his "A View From The Bridge" for a theatre analysis class a hundred years ago) since he has always been my favorite playwrite. They led with "He was the playwright who was married to Marylin Monroe." You had to read on two more paragraphs to find out that he won fuck-all every award a writer can win (many of them twice!) and was maybe the most influential American playwrite of ALL TIME. But please, don't forget, he was married to a troubled bimbo for all of five minutes. (Sorry. I love Marylin too, but it's just wrong that that should be his epitaph.)
Luckily, the Bernie Mac article turned out to be a "Scare for Effect" headline. He's lived with the aforementioned disease for 26 years and though it has a death rate of 5%, I choose to optimistic about Bernie's chances. Because I love him too much.
On what should have bee a lighter note, apparently Corey Feldman has been subpoenaed for the Jackson trial. I'm really afraid that he will no longer be the figure of jest and mild scorn of the past. If he was molested by the KOP, I'll have to be all "Poor Corey" when I just want him to be a Goonie.
On what really IS a lighter note, it seems that Tom Sizemore, in an effort to trick the Man, used a prosthetic penile device called "The Wizinator" to try and fake a drug test he need to pass in order to leave the country.
Just so you know, I"ll be calling him "The Wiz" from now on.
I typed in my password and after a few seconds, my homepage popped up. (I always start my on-line day with a little E News) Immediately, I am drawn to an old picture of a man with crazy Lyle Lovett-like hair and a caption that reads "Playwright Dies at 89."
Before I can even begin to assimilate THAT, I am drawn to the other half of the page where there is a picture of Bernie Mac and a caption that reads "Actor Suffers from Rare Disease." I'm afraid to scroll down any farther.
I went to the Arthur Miller article first (wrote a big a** term paper on his "A View From The Bridge" for a theatre analysis class a hundred years ago) since he has always been my favorite playwrite. They led with "He was the playwright who was married to Marylin Monroe." You had to read on two more paragraphs to find out that he won fuck-all every award a writer can win (many of them twice!) and was maybe the most influential American playwrite of ALL TIME. But please, don't forget, he was married to a troubled bimbo for all of five minutes. (Sorry. I love Marylin too, but it's just wrong that that should be his epitaph.)
Luckily, the Bernie Mac article turned out to be a "Scare for Effect" headline. He's lived with the aforementioned disease for 26 years and though it has a death rate of 5%, I choose to optimistic about Bernie's chances. Because I love him too much.
On what should have bee a lighter note, apparently Corey Feldman has been subpoenaed for the Jackson trial. I'm really afraid that he will no longer be the figure of jest and mild scorn of the past. If he was molested by the KOP, I'll have to be all "Poor Corey" when I just want him to be a Goonie.
On what really IS a lighter note, it seems that Tom Sizemore, in an effort to trick the Man, used a prosthetic penile device called "The Wizinator" to try and fake a drug test he need to pass in order to leave the country.
Just so you know, I"ll be calling him "The Wiz" from now on.