The Granddaddy of them all has arrived as Wrestlemania commences at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida this coming Sunday. I will be attending the festivities with fellow Horsemen Avenue bloggers Anthony Zorzi and Justin Dibiase this weekend. WWE has done a great job in creating three super match-ups and putting together a solid undercard. It’s time to look at what is scheduled and what I think will happen.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
AMERICAN IDOL Top 9 POWER RANKINGS
American Idol season 11 is well underway with the most well-balanced collection of talent the show has had in years. The judges have gotten back to critiquing the performances this year, which is a shock since Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez added nothing but star-power last year. The race is on to see who will make it to the finale at the Kodak Theater and fight for a recording contract. Here is where I believe the contestants stand at this point in the competition.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Monday Night Musings
Ever notice the difference in the way some people pronounce the word “the”? When they are around friends in a comfortable setting, they say “thuh”, but if they are at work or trying to sound professional, they say “thee”.
It’s just another example of people losing their identity to what amounts to a subconscious social magnet. If someone’s around it long enough, at work or at school, it’s bound to seep into your speech like a baby first learning a language. You start using the same words, phrases, sentences as the people around you. I’ve been at my office for almost three years and I catch myself using phrases that I’ve heard from co-workers. Part of me is sad that I can no longer talk like “myself”, but what do I really talk like? What I sounded like before was only a reflection of my surroundings at the time. When I was in college, I probably sounded like the students around me. When I was in elementary school, I probably sounded like a whiny little boy. Sometimes conformity happens to “thuh” best of us.
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I saw an ad in the paper the other for “Skinnygirl Vodka”. The ad had a thin woman holding a bottle of the booze, smug yet surprisingly hungry looking.
After all the hullabaloo the media made over the Jeremy Lin “chink in the armor” comment, I didn’t understand how “offensive” things are selectively chosen by the media. “Skinnygirl Vodka” is a product that glorifies the Hollywood eating-disorder girl look and snubs its nose at everyone else. It’s not even called “Averagegirl Vodka”. Now I’m usually not an advocate for overweight women, but consider this, whom do you think is more affected here? Jeremy Lin after reading “Chink in the Armor” on ESPN.com or a depressed, overweight girl that opens up the Philadelphia Inquirer in search of the day’s news and is instead reminded of what she should look like and who she should be.
I don’t think that Chinese people should ever be called “chinks”, and I think the ESPN worker should have been reprimanded, but the media fake outrage over stuff like that is ridiculous. Let ESPN handle its own worker. We don't need Al Sharpton to exhort live on his dumb show. I am starting to believe that every media outlet has an entry-level job for trolls that sift through endless material looking for the next chance to blow the whistle on someone. Lin himself said he wasn’t upset about it. Since when is the media the moral police? If you want to protect the Chinese from being called names, then you should also stop selling ads to companies that suggest fat girls aren’t good enough (it’s offensive to them), stop making fun of short people (it’s offensive to me), stop reviewing restaurants that serve veal (it’s offensive to vegans).. Maybe we should all just shut up because we are eventually going to offend someone, aren’t we?
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