I have just returned from a 15 hour car trip to Michigan where I was intrigued by an official road-side sign just North of Grayling on Route 75.
It read: Prison area Do not pick up hitchikers
Now, I’m thinking that if I’m the warden of that prison, I’m not sure I want people to know that I’ve got that kind of problem.
I have made it a rule never to comment, much less make light, of tragic events, but sometimes…
Jimi Heselden, bought the Segway scooter company from founder Dan Kamen in 2009. Yesterday, the 62-year-old was killed when he drove his cross country Segway over a 30 foot cliff into the River Wharfe.
You have to give Dutton Publishing the prize for the hyper hype of the year ( if not the century). In promoting Ken Follett’s latest opus which they will release on September 29th, the publisher trumpets in 3-color large print ads, that THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY HAS ARRIVED!
Now, this could be a contestable claim even if they had released the book in December of 1999, but with another 90 years to go in this century…Well, let’s just say that now I don’t expect anything else worth reading out of Dutton until at least 2100!
(Since they have obviously spent so much money on the campaign I won’t steal their thunder by naming the book itself, but ask your bookstore if they have stocked THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY and see what they say!)
In a press interview today, Patriot coach Bill Belichick revealed that he has ordered his star quarterback Tom Brady back to the barbershop following an automobile accident early this morning. Belichick blames Brady’s new long locks, worried that if his quarterback can’t see an 2,000 pound car from 10 feet, “how the hell is he going to spot Randy Moss coming out of the backfield.”
Belichick went on to add that if his quarterback wants to wear “a goddamn girly boy haircut in the off season that’s his business, but during the season I want him to look like an athlete, not some damn Zoolander! If you ask me, it ain’t natural.”
The coach abrubtly ended the interview when asked about his girlfriend’s implants.
I’ve never watched “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”, but read that one of the more notorious wives (is that redundant?) has left the show in a snit. Danielle Staub, in a written statement of her treatment by the other wives claimed that, “They didn’t talk about anything but me. I don’t talk about them…I talk about me too!”
If there is a Emmy for up-front naked honesty, I nominate Mrs. Staub. Now if she would only fade away, but the reality is she is probalby headed for another show. Too bad that Andy so underestimated the time frame alloted to the Staub’s et. al. .