First it was Paul Newman, then it was the pundits and John McCain, and now…

Michael Douglas

 

Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow

were married, but he was evil.

He told Gwyneth they were going to work things out,

and this comment got under her skin, deep under.

She snarled, “Work things out?  Work things out?”

Then she pointed a gun at him

and exclaimed, “You work it out!”  And pulled.

 

 

Kathleen Turner and Glenn Close are my favorite of Michael's leading ladies.

“And it’s, like, the mainstream media’s fault.”

I’m reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story Of Success.  I can’t remember if I read The Tipping Point, but I seem to recall Blink helping me overcome a little bit of my indecisiveness.  Gladwell is very good at what my English professors used to call “reading against the grain” and “finding fault lines” in the things society assumes to be givens.  In Outliers he says that to become an expert at anything it requires 10,000 hours of practice.  Piano, computer programming, skiing…blogging? 

Speaking of blogging, this is one of my least favorite commercials on television at the moment:

I don’t even know where to begin.  Twix completely undermines the intelligence, consciousness, and political frustrations this woman voices by reminding everyone that despite having a brain, she is still nothing more than a sex object to be taken home.  Because no woman goes back to a strange guy’s apartment with the intent to blog…or at least, not JUST to blog. 

Okay, deep breath.  Must end on a positive note: Malcolm Gladwell looks just like Sideshow Bob:

Undermine THAT!