Grey, Ray and Gays

Grey's Anatomy

Episode Two of the new season. Meredith still can't make her mind up between McDreamy and Finn. Poor girl. Life is so tough. Here would be a great plot twist. Taking a cue from Frankenstein, Meredith (who is a surgeon, after all),
takes the best parts of each man and creates one super hot, super sensitive guy. Man, I so should be writing for TV. What else is going on.... Addison is back with Mark, who if you ask me, is ten times hotter than McDreamy. Izzie is making twelve millions muffins as she grieves for Denny. Honey, there aren't enough muffins in the world to make up for the loss of the absolutely hottest guy on the show. Sigh. Why do all the good ones develop blood clots and die after transplant surgery?

Jeopardy

After Wednesday's show, I was dying to find out who would go up against Eric. My personal prediction, after rehearsing with all the other contestants, was that Ray would be the one to beat Eric. And I was right! A shame that wasn't a question on MY show. But Eric went down fighting. Again, some rather freaky categories, but all three contestants did well! Way to go, guys!

AND FINALLY...

Gays

Or more specifically, how far away political commercials are from talking about the issues and promoting the candidate paying for the ads. First, the only ads I saw during the primary focused on gay marriage and pro-life. In a state with a high unemployment rate and an educational crisis, all we're worried about are gay people getting married? Hey, the right should welcome gay marriage with open arms. Gay people don't need abortions. Two birds, one stone.

And now that we're actually into the heat of the campaign commercials... if you're paying $10,000 dollars for a tv spot to get yourself elected, don't you think you might want to oh, say, talk about YOURSELF? When I send out a resume, I don't fill the page with the inadequacies of the other people applying for the job. I make myself look good... noting my accomplishments and experience. What a novel idea it would be if politicians used the same method to get themselves elected! With all the laws that the FCC has to oversee political advertising, they should add one that forces a candidate to spend at least two-thirds of their spot speaking about their record/experience/plans for the future.

If you want to find out where the candidates actually stand on the issues and not just what they think of their opponents, Google your state/region. There are websites out there to help you make the choices that are right for you.



THE SUPREME WISDOM OF THE QUEENOSHEBA

In a scary world that gets scarier everyday, if you can find someone to love and who loves you, regardless of their sex, race or religion, you're ahead of the game. Gay marriage is not the death knoll of family values. It is a reaffirmation of what being a family is all about.

My Jeopardy Debut

I was on Jeopardy last night. And I came in third place. My categories sucked sewage and I made two mistakes that cost me second place. Oh, and the dude who won had freaking bionic buzzer finger. Disappointed? Competitive, vain-about-IQ me, yes. The rest of me, no.

My two greatest fears were not making it to Final Jeopardy and screwing up the betting. Being in third allowed me to bet it allow so I didn't not have to engage in any mathematical supposition. If I had been forced to deduce the proper wager, my screen would have looked like this:

"If Eric has 12,800 and Brett has 7,760 and Brenda has 5,600, how much should she wager to beat them IF she has the right answer and they don't?"

But I just bet the whole wad AND I had the correct answer. I made it to Jeopardy and had I gotten the right gameboard, I could have been a one day champion. Mission accomplished.

The whole Jeopardy experience allowed me to step way outside of my box. I've been to Chicago, Los Angeles and have actually flown on an airplane. I have been reminded than I am so much more... that I can accomplish so much more than just being a mother and a commercial goddess. So, I'm on a mission. A slow mission to be sure, that will have to be crammed in between 40 hours of work and an infinite number of parenting hours. But I'm on my way.

DVD Reviews

"Derailed" I'm sure I've said somewhere that I love Clive Owen. And that I love him enough to watch him in a predictable movie that made me nervous. He plays a family man with an ailing daughter who meets an attractive stranger on a train (Jennifer Aniston). After a few innocent meetings, they end up in a hotel room. But before they can get their freak on, a man bursts into the room, robs them, beats Clive and rapes Jennifer. Then he begins to blackmail them. Movies about people pushed into a corner, especially when it involves a family, make me anxious. But it wasn't an awful movie. Just interesting. The surprise twists were not that surprising if you took the time to think about events instead of drooling over Clive. Jeopardy genius that I am, was able to do both.

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Guy Ritchie is a very smart movie maker. I can say that in spite of the fact he actually cast his wife (Madonna) in a starring role in one of his movies. A disparate cast of characters seemingly unconnected in the beginning, end up intertwined in wild plot that is funny as well as very violent. I didn't find this film as enjoyable as "Snatch" ( I highly recommend this movie) and I didn't have to use the subtitles to understand the English accents, but it is still worth watching.

THE SUPREME WISDOM OF THE QUEENOSHEBA

Carpe Diem. So, the whole Jeopardy took up five months of my life, but it was so worth it.

A quickie

BOOK REVIEW

My friend Rebecca and I were discussing books and she's just begun Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth. I'm reading Everyman, a more recent story of his. But I also recommended The Plot Against America (also by Roth) to her. It is the story of a Jewish boy who is living in American during the beginning of World War II. And instead of Franklin Roosevelt winning the 1940 Election, he loses to Charles Lindburgh. And for those of you who don't know, Lindburgh was a good friend of the Nazi Party. It's a very well-written alternate history. And the coolest part is at the end of the book, Roth tells you the truth about the famous people he included in his story and what really happened to them.

Then I recommended one of the most bizzare books I've ever read. Fermata by Nicholson Baker. Arno is 35 year old temp worker who believes he has the power to put the world on "hold" and do with it what he may. And it's usually graphically sexual acts that amuse Arno during these "fermata" periods. I only recommend this book to my more open-minded friends. I usually don't pass it along to readers of Patterson or Steele.

MOVIE REVIEW

"Pride & Prejudice". The one with Keira Knightly and a totally hot Mr. Darcy. You'll see a lot of faces you know and this film is another lovely edition of Miss Austen's story. I just love how this story can be told over and over again, in different millieus and centuries and still be make the viewer sigh longingly at each plot turn. You can't beat the classics.

THE SUPREME WISDOM OF THE QUEENOFSHEBA

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Stolen from the Beatles and oh, so very true!

The world is full of stupid people

I'm back! And there is a lot to cover.

1) Britney's planned c-section: Aside from the terrifying reality that those two people have procreated again, how stupid is planning a c-section just so you can decide when your baby is born? Come on, people, this is major abdominal surgery! It's not a toy! And if you can have your babies naturally, you should. Don't waste your statistical chances on dying on the table on making sure little what's-his-name is born a Taurus, rather than a Gemini. Save it for old age and important things like quadruple bypass surgery.

2) Bush's 9/11 speech: Using this most hallowed day to promote your war and your desire to torture people. For shame, Mr. President, for shame.

3) Bush supporters: And while we're on the subject, why do so many people blindly support this man? Blindly and belligerently support him. People whom I know to by highly intelligent, sit there and nod their heads when he declares the war in Iraq is the war on terrorism, as in the war we began in Afghanistan after 9/11, when in fact, this war has nothing to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda. And these people won't even enter into a friendly debate about Bush either. It's their way or the highway. With his ability to stir this kind of single-minded blind devotion, I might worry that Bush is the Anti-Christ. However, I don't think he's smart enough for the job.

4) The dude who dropped the bolt for the space station: So, you're doing a few repairs out in space and you drop a bolt. Good luck finding that puppy. I don't know why, perhaps too much Nyquil, but that news story made me laugh my ass off. You can see the guy looking around and thinking, "Now where did that go?" as it floats off into deep space.

5) The season premiere of "Grey's Anatomy": Aside from the fact that I still am incredibly pissed off that Denny died, I cannot wait! I spent my sinus infection recovery time this weekend catching up on season 2. Will whiny, lispy Meredith choose McDreamy or the hot vet? Will Izzie ever practice medicine again? Will Denny's evil, indentical twin show up to claim his body? Will it all be just a bad dream, like Bobby on Dallas? And speaking of Denny, where was his family? I don't recall (although I was whacked out on Nyquil) any mention of a family. Did he just fall out of the sky? Maybe I shouldn't have watched the entire season at once. Made me think about it too much.

THE SUPREME WISDOM OF THE QUEENOSHEBA

Let no man, in mankind's fraility, consider his own good fortune, until life, at his death, is a memory without pain. I'm paraphrasing Oedipus Rex here, but you get the point.