I thought I might be becoming a Republican

but then I just took a political quiz and it says I'm a Fascist.

Phew. I feel much better. LOL

YAY! ANDRE!

Whoo. That was scary. I was worried Andre Agassi wouldn't make it through the first round in his final Open. Well his final tournament actually. It's weird he was never my favorite player but I'm not dealing with his retirement very well. I always loved him, just like everyone else does. Don't get me wrong. I started watching tennis the year he appeared on the scene. So I don't know what tennis is like without him. And I'm dreading it quite frankly.

So Thursday then. :D Onward and upward.

The charges were dropped

Well isn't that special?

And it's hilarious because they all treated it like a little blurb. Sorta like "Oh yeah, and uh, chargeshavebeendroppedintheJonBenetcase, ehem, back to Katrina". LOL. Idiots.

So what was going on all that time that they didn't want us to pay attention to? I wonder. I wonder.

Pluto got fired

I'm not happy about this. As someone who used to be way into astrology I think it sucks. Pluto is cool. He's the mysterious planet. The one who's got a lot going on under the surface. Now what is he? A dwarf planet? I'm not buying it. Maybe it's one of those forced perspective tricks they used in Lord of the Rings to make the hobbits look small. So really it's not too tiny they're just not looking at it right.

Speaking of tiny, this Tom Cruise thing pisses me off. They made him a star for jumping on a couch ("take those old records off the shelf") and now they're crucifying him for it. The pharmaceutical guys and the people who love to munch on their pills are trying to make him out to be insane because he gave his opinion that said pills not only don't cure anything but are harmful. And everyone just buys that he's crazy even though he'd be saving them money and possibly their health. Why? Because it's on TV. And it all started with Billy Bush, who is one of those Bushes. There are conspiracies all over the damn place.

The Ramsey story has gone off the rails

First, the coverage has been insane. We all know that. Even freakier for me I had watched "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" last weekend. So I had been refreshed on the whole thing right before this story broke. There are so many things wrong with this and it all starts with the media coverage again.

Okay, these people jumped on it. They went from having a possible suspect to the murder being "solved" in under 24 hours. How in the world can they even run with that? Then they have to start backtracking on all the indictments they made of John and Patsy Ramsey for ten years. Then when "the suspect" starts to look like a weirdo they have to backtrack from saying that the murder is solved. It's been a week of nonsense.

About John Mark Karr. Beyond him looking creepy he looks exactly like someone. My best guess at who he's reminding me of has been the actor Richard E. Grant, but I don't think that's it. It's a closer resemblance than that and I can't come up with it. The thing about him that's getting to me right now is that if it is him, he's another 3 name killer. You know what I mean. Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman.... But why the heck would JonBenet have one of those? Was she assassinated? They even marched him out in Thailand ala Lee Harvey Oswald. If he has said something about Patsy it would have been too much. It's all too staged. Too conspiracy looking. But why in the world would they have a conspiracy about a little girl's murder? Why would she need a fake 3 name killer. Something is so not right about this whole thing and I think it has almost nothing to do with the actual murder of a little girl. It's like it's the media chewing on it's own foot.

Now John Ramsey hasn't said much. I don't blame him. But he was taking the "wait and see" position. Which is both interesting and really the only thing that makes sense. But no one listened. Everyone went crazy. Her aunt going down to the grave site with a whole pack of the media there. What was that? The guy who was in touch with Karr all that time was a journalism professor. Um, okay, more media, great. This whole thing seems like a huge hoax and not just by the suspect. All these TV law experts, who are generally lawyers, didn't even question it at first. Everyone knows that in any highly publicized case there are always those people who take credit for it that had absolutely nothing to do with it. That's a given. But no one started questioning it until the suspect started talking crazy and looking nuts.

I was flipping channels last night just before 1AM eastern time and CNN and FOX News both had live coverage of the plane that Karr was on, arriving in LA. I mean just sitting there. With the hallway thingy that attaches the plane to the airport on it. And I'm wondering if they thought we were going to be able to see him get off the plane somehow. Or maybe they had Superman standing by to use his X-ray vision to tell us exactly when he left the actual plane and how many steps it took him to get to the airport. It stayed like that for a while so I changed it. I thought they were actually going to tell me something new. You know, news, should be like, I dunno, new.

Then today I'm seeing the note that was found when JonBenet was killed being compared with a high school year book entry. I will be the conquerer to BTC. That's a little too convenient don't you think? And does your handwriting look like it did in high school? Mine doesn't. Not as much as that did anyway. I'm sorry but something stinks. And it smells like a smell no one's ever smelt before. Too freakin' weird.

I don't even know what I think anymore. I actually hadn't thought that her parents had anything to do with her murder. It seemed to me that it had to be some kind of serial killer or pedophile. Whatever it was I thought it was well planned but not by them. Now it's all such a mess. We'll just have to wait and see.

Move over, Bonaduce.

Here comes Haley.

I mean, really, can you believe it? When he got into an accident, the only thing I questioned was his choice of automobile. He's not a washed up kid actor. He didn't turn out to be ugly. Everyone thinks the world of him and somehow he does something as stupid as this. I don't get it. I really don't.

But it does follow my current theory about the meaning of life. I'll tell you about that some other time.

I Want My Mtv!

So Mtv's 25. That makes me a very old kid I guess. I was definitely raised on Mtv and let me tell you that was a happy childhood. Looking at some of these videos they seem a little cheesy to the more jaded of us but I think they're as cool as I did then. And as a kid watching this I just thought that when I was a grown up the world was going to be that cool too.

I'm watching VH1 Classic's replay of the first day of programming which I actually didn't see because we didn't have Mtv from the beginning. I don't think it was available here right away. Just looking at Pat Benatar it just takes you back to what I believe was a better time. I mean I remember adults complaining about Ronald Reagan and I knew we could blow up any second. Prince said so in "1999" and Sting made it super clear in "Russians" and Simon Lebon thought that someone was about as easy as a nuclear war which didn't sound very nice. And somehow they all made me happy about it. Maybe it was because they all looked so good at the time. But these mini-musicals that we watched religiously every day after school gave us something to sing about and to dance to. So the world seemed like a great place. I'd go back there in a second. Even the weirder songs like "Fishheads", "99 Luftballoons", and "Mexican Radio" seem like old friends. And how about all those creepy little kids like the girl in The Art of Noise video for "Close to the Edit"? Where did they go? I miss them all.

So I'd like to thank all those people who made my childhood so happy even if some of them aren't with us anymore. Thank you Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn. Thank you to all the singers and bands who inspired me as a kid, especially, Culture Club, Wham!, U2, INXS, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, the Police, Corey Hart, John (Cougar) Mellencamp, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, David Bowie, Don Henley, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Run D.M.C., The Beastie Boys, L.L. Cool J, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Prince & the Revolution, Sheila E., Weird Al Yankovic, Grace Jones, Eurythmics, Survivor, Phil Collins, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, Adam Ant, Falco, A-ha, Mr. Mister, The Hooters, Level 42, The Fine Young Cannibals, the Human League, Howard Jones, Samantha Fox, Night Ranger, the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, Def Leppard, Mötley Cruë, RATT, Poison, Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Foreigner, Loverboy, Berlin, Chicago, Donna Summer, Heart, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins, Bryan Adams, Scorpions, Styx, Journey, Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Billy Idol, Queen, and first and foremost Duran Duran. I love you guys.

Poor Mel

He got drunk and accidently let slip what everyone else is thinking. He really needs a full time driver though.

I think "sugar t*ts" is my favorite phrase ever.