So much to get to so lets get to it.
First, “iiiiiiiiiiiitttt’ss true!” SKUNK BOY returns! The best host of E!’s “Talk Soup” EVER (take that Kinnear, Sparks, and other sad replacements) , John Henson, (no not the dead one) has taken time off from his stint on the TV Guide channel to cohost ABC’s Wipeout which is a rip off of Spike’s MXC import of a Japanese game show. Do you need a subtle insult so dryly delivered it may as well be a British martini? John’s your man. His co-host’s name is also John and that can only be so that he can act as a mirror for our dear Mr. Henson. Some people may have a hard time remembering the name John and so it’s better to drive it home with two of them.
Next up is a summer movie summary. Is anyone else creeped out about going to see The Dark Knight? Something about a dead actor playing a psychopath… shiver. Hulk was watchable, and better than the Ang Lee take… Iron Man flat out rocked. One of the things I’ve noticed though is that I wish they would just make superhero movie sequels. You have to spend so much time establishing the characters in the first one that the action suffers. For this reason I’m really looking forward to Hellboy II. We already know their origins, now let’s get out there and kick some freaky looking monsters tentacle. Wall-E gets my “Best movie ever” claim for the season. I’ve not seen it yet but I’m sure I’m right.
Also on the movie front Brendan Frasier, who had thankfully dropped off the planet, has dropped back into the Center of it (hah!) with two movies. Journey to the Center of the Earth (in 3-D no less and you know how successful those movies are) and a sequel to the Mummy so good they aren’t even showing commercials for it. It’s kind of indie that way… you don’t want too many people to enjoy it otherwise that would mean you couldn’t laud your coolness over them. Wait, I think I channeled Sundance there, sorry.
Oh and speaking of bad I predict Hancock will fail. It will fail to the tune of over $100 million because it’s Will Smith in a 4th of July movie, but it will not be good… Rush Hour levels of 3 bad. (If any of you are even thinking Smith’s other July 4th release in ID4 wasn’t that good you can shut your filthy mental mouth right now! I will not have such heresy floating about the Karmic continuum. President Whitmore’s pre-battle speech oozes so much goodness I’ve not had to use syrup on my pancakes since 1998.)
In somber news our condo had an assessment to the tune of 120K. As we’re a small building my share hits the 6K mark. It sucks because as the President I did it to myself. Not only that but I increased it 20K from our initial estimate. (I’m such an ass.) Now of course it was unanimously supported by our Board of Trustees, which I’m also on, but when Shiite hits the fan you need a figure head and here I stand at the top of the mountain. Better yet I need a patsy. Hrmm, maybe one of the people who own a unit but don’t live on site… like Xian (sean), he’s Chinese and no good red blooded American likes them right? Or do we? Are we waiting for the Olympics to determine our opinion?
Lastly, as I always do in these messages, I’d like to end discussing puppets. They bring me joy and like a kitten with butterfly wings they must just be the solution to all our problems. This time they take the form of Avenue Q. Sesame Street for adults. One of the characters is Gary Coleman. Not literally, but yes literally. The super(intendant) of the block is supposed to be Gary Coleman, former child star, all grown up. I think the fact that Gary Colman is played by a 5’9 black woman really hammers home the insult of broken dreams in considering he’s still 4’-nuttin’.
When Taj and I saw Rent in college we said “Brilliant! I have no grounds on which to relate to starving artists and the Aids epidemic affecting our gay community!” For Ave Q it’s “Brilliant! Puppets are mocking my own life so closely that if they weren’t day-glo colors I’d cry!” I recommend you see it. SCHADENFREUDE!
