So, I’d mentioned last week that The Smiths had been in heavy iPod rotation lately and it just so happened that I was on the elliptical trainer at the gym, watching a couple of trashy strippers — male strippers, as is the fashion to call them — doing their back extensions and goldurnit if I [...]

So here’s the cover of the September 2007 issue of Men’s Fitness magazine:

Now, I don’t buy magazines any more (especially fitness publications, which falsely promise brand-new ways to shave and do abdominal crunches every month) and it should come as no surprise that the intellectual and moral disconnect which occurs on scanning the price differential [...]

From Real Time with Bill Maher, 21 September 2007:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jdtLTIzZWo

Amen.

Your Hammacher Schlemmer WTF-of-the-Month for September 2007:

The Trumpet Harmonica
And, yes, I acknowledge in advance that this is not for children and is an actual musical instrument. Geez.

“Little” Joe Dallesandro:

I dunno, maybe I’ve been watching too much of the übersexy, Brylcreemed, sharp-dressed, ’60s ad execs of Mad Men — although, really, is there such a thing as “too much Jon Hamm“? — or maybe I’ve just had The Smith’s eponymous first album in too-heavy iPod rotation lately (again, no such thing) with [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkrkaH_V7fE

A lot’s been made of the pig-ignorance of The View co-host Sherri Shepherd’s comments today concerning evolution and the shape of the Earth, but the full, staggering stupidity of her opinions must be understood within the context of the current North American public’s acceptance that faith-based mythologies must be respected as much as is scientific [...]

I’m tired of hearing about celebrity meltdowns. I’m tired of hearing that 2007 is The Year of the Celebrity Meltdown. And now celebrity fan meltdowns infect the infotainment media. There’s no escaping the stupidity — if you want to stay plugged-in to the rest of the world, that is — and it’s seriously uninteresting and [...]

Dawn Over Lake Ontario, 14 September 2007
Three hours later, Random Homeless Nutbar on Yonge Street screeches:
The sky is turning red!!! The!!! Sky!!! Is!!! Turninnnnnggggg!!! Red!!!!!

First, THE RULES:
1. All right, here are the rules.
2. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
3. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
4. People who are tagged write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
5. At the end of your blog, you need to choose [...]

…Prince’s Delight!

Soundtrack: “Automatic” (Prince, 1999)