It's a mad mad, mad mad, mad mad world (in current events).

3/28/07

First of all, I had a great weekend. Had fun in San Antonio (see the new pic) and got to see Memphis win, Tennessee almost win, lots of beer drinking on saturday with the brewery tour, and just general tom-foolery for the rest of the weekend.
I did find a couple of current new stories interesting that I wanted to pass along:
1. What kind of deadbeat do you want on your pizza? A pizza place in Cincinnati is putting wanted pictures of deadbeat dads that don't pay their alimony on pizza boxes in order to find them and collect. Awesome! Why not do that and get their faces out there to force them to pay up and, if not anything, publicly embarrass them. This would be the kind of work I would do as mayor, but more-so for fun than anything.
2. A new meaning for "gun traders." In bad parts of Mexico City, police are trading video game consoles to kids in exchange for their guns. Awesome! The more "badass" the gun, the better the computer/video game system. This seems like it may work to help clean up streets and may even promote stealing of guns to get more video games. Of course, the kids with the guns can just wait outside the office and steal the video games at gunpoint....how ironical (and yes, that is a real word).
3. Million dollar (crash,) baby. Eddie Griffen, in preparing for the movie Redline, crashed a Ferrari Enzo this week. Only 400 of these cars have been made and they are worth over $1 million each. Awesome! Do you know how many more crappy movies he'll have to do to pay that off?
Good times, good times. On another note, I will be seeing the new Will Ferrell movie (Blades of Glory) and Tarantino movie (Grindhouse) and you should too. At least some good original movies come out in between all the stupid-repeated crap that Hollywood can no longer think up, but just do exactly the same (the new Ice Cube movie, The Warriors remake, and yes I hate to say this: Forrest Gump 2). What the hell?
On a good note, my softball team won a game I didn't expect last night, all but assuring us of making the playoffs! The only thing is now I have to pitch from here on out, so our season may be in the toilet and waiting for the flush.
That's all for now.
AMF