It’s officially Rapture day in most of the U.S. and we’re still alive. (If the world has come to an end by sunrise, please disregard this post.)
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Nationals 17 – Orioles 5. Really, 17?! Redskins fans are jealous.
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Good news for San Jose hockey fans tonight. To paraphrase Woody Allen, what we no longer appear to have here are dead Sharks.
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The companies behind “The Governator”, an animated series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a superhero, said the project is officially on hold. What’s next, an adult cartoon called “The Impregnator”?
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Schwarzenegger’s potential future public service announcement? “It’s 10pm, do you know how many children you have?”
Air Tahiti Nui is offering a “kids fly free” promotion where a one child can get a free ticket when accompanied by a paying adult. What a great opportunity for Hugh Hefner to save money on his honeymoon.
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Now former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from jail on 1 million dollars bail with 24-hour home confinement at a Manhattan apartment in an undisclosed location. Am guessing that apartment doesn’t have maid service.
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Ashton Kutcher may have won a role in CBS’s “Two and a half men.” But ESPN is thinking about making a short documentary with the same title – about the Lakers in the second round of the playoffs.
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Charlie Weis apparently received over a $6 million severance bonus, and is still being paid by Notre Dame through 2015. Is his middle name “JaMarcus?”
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The Cubs played at Fenway Park Friday for the first time in 93 years. How long ago was that? Why, Jamie Moyer was just a batboy.
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Kareem Adbul-Jabbar is annoyed that the Lakers don’t have a statue of him in front of Staples Center. Some Lakers fans would say that if Kareem wants to see a statue, he should look at himself the last couple years allegedly playing defense.
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From my friend Alex Kaseberg: “There is a new posthumous Osama bin Laden video. Osama needs another video like he needs a hole in the head.”
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And Augie and Keith point out that Track, Sarah Palin’s oldest, if he believed in the Rapture, would want to get laid, then married. Not that I expect one of Sarah’s children to quote poetry, but yes, kind of does put a new spin on that “If we had but world enough and time, this coyness lady were no crime” line from Andrew Marvell..