Thursday, October 11, 2007

October - Autumn 2007





Wisdom of the Sages
Episode X
Fall 2007 - October

Hello All:

Cold enough for ya! Yeah, me too. I always preferred being cold to being hot. With cold you can do something about, like layer-up, go inside, but with heat, once you’re hot and you’ve stripped to the bare minimum required by fast food outlets across the nation, you are still hot. Anyways, I am pleased to present you Dear Reader with an extra-loaded edition this months packed with insight, reviews and commentary important to none of you.

Read on;

:[ Columbus Day. That [S]ucker screws me again! I did not get a day off. With all that has happened since he came ashore, you’d think I’d get a day off. But no. Anyway, to celebrate the accomplishment, I helped an Italian guy find his neighbors backyard.

:[ Seven-Eleven now has a new Flavor Maker wherein you can press a flavor like, um, let’s say lemon, and mix it with the Pepsi drink of your choice... The WB Household was there first! As any of you would know from attending our many screening and functions at our humble adobe, the house drink here is Pepsi and lemonade.

:[ You know, the "Pathfinder" comic book really wasn’t that bad....

:[ A couple of weekends back, the WB’s headed out to blaze the bike trail in Niles. Now, it was our first time getting out there, but everyone on the trail was pretty stinky to us, especially my two girls. They rode bikes, My Bonnie and I walked. But everyone did not hesitate to yell at our girls for being too slow, in the wrong lane, anything. What jerks. Once my 8-year-old needed to stop to take care of some things to make her bike riding safer, but people would blast past yelling about this or that.

Not once, never, not even one time, did any one ever think to SLOW THE FUCK DOWN OR STOP, when they saw a child on a stopped bike, who might be in an emergency. Nope, they are soooo important. They are all needed RIGHT AWAY! They had to make good time or get back as soon as possible because they were tired of their own kids, or something. No one even slowed down. There was a child in the road. Slow the fuck down or stop. That big bike race you’re training for more important than my child? Think again....

:[ Here’s a really good reason for Natives to never trust whites. Keep an eye out for the Power Fist and the Double Snap!

:[ A Review for Death Proof, The Jouney of Crazy Horse and Alexie's Latest are up on the WOS: Reviews Page. Sorry the Harry Potter Reviews will be up soon as well.


Coming Soon: D-Wars: A D-Review. Harry Potter and the Late Reviews!

:[ Admit it, you looked for the photos of Vanessa Hudgens nude. (Why people say "naked pictures of people", I’ll never know. I’m talking to you Jon Stewart.) So, was this planned as a break from her Disney image? If so, it is too bad that so many girls will think that, that is what they have to do to be taken seriously ...by men. By adults.

:[ Let’s face it: both Tom Cruise AND Corey Hart are responsible for the resurgent popularity of the Wayfarer sunglasses...

:[ The WB Household paid a visit to the Wilmette Baker’s Square on Skokie Blvd for some pie. The service wad TERR-I-BLE. We had decided to get some pie after spending some time at the mall. They seated us and they promptly ignored us for 20 minutes. Then, the waitress explains some sort of shifting coverage areas or some nonsense and promptly sets about getting our orders wrong. They then brought my 12-year-old a slice of pie that apparently had a bite taken out of it already. Then, they continued to ignore us as we asked for refills and the check. We had other families staring at us. Other employees whom were sitting in the same area did nothing to help the waitress improve service. I am sure they wrote us off as a demand-y bunch, with our demands for standard service.

The WB’s are not a demanding bunch, but when my 12-year-old has to speak up and ask for things, then your service stinks. Boo Baker’s Square in Wilmette. When the cash register gal asked My Bonnie how everything was and she replied, "Just awful", the gal only giggles and says "Sorry". She did not even ask what went wrong or how they could improv e next time. Conveniently, they did not have the feedback cards out. We would’ve showed them....

:[ Looking like it was shot on the set of a Seventies porn movie comes YET another reason for Natives to mistrust the white.

:[ What ever happened to the musical phenomena of the Sequel Song? Remember when radio was full of follow-up songs to one-hit wonders? A song that meant to remind listeners of the previous hit to keep in mind that the singer was still in existence despite never making a record again and to remind them that yes, they sang that big hit? The most famous of these are "Rub it in" by Billy "Crash" Craddock. Later, he released "Rub It In Some More" or something. How about Chubby Checker’s "Let’s Twist Again?" Or how about U2's follow up "I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For"? (Follow up to their 70's Disco Smash "I Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For".)

Hell, Meatloaf’s entire career is a series of sequel albums! (I mean the Heavy Metal Personality, not the tasty Tuesday Night Dinner.)

I want the sequel song phenomenon to comeback. You know that Guns and Roses would only benefit from "Welcome Back to the Jungle"? How about Devo and "Whip It, Again"? The possibilities are endless! And could only benefit struggling rockers bent on reclaiming fame. Bryan Adams’ "Still Cuts Like a Knife", anyone?

:[ Speaking of this, did you see Reese’s’ latest promotion? Well, this happened back in August to coincide... take a look:



Someone else is also NOT HAPPY about this. Guess who? I’ll have the video from that interview up very soon!

:[ Have you ever noticed, when an Indian does something that it gets more scrutiny than when others do it? Whale hunting, using the word Redskin, writing a book on Crazy Horse, everybody and their dogs gets up in arms! The countries of Southeast Asia kill whales by the hundreds everyday so we can have our snacks preserved on supermarket shelves, the Washington Redskins football team has been brandishing that racist epithet for decades, and the history of Crazy Horse is the providence of white men and their books. Yet, when Indians do stuff, for themselves and not depending on the white man’s hand-outs? Whoo, you remember when Greenpeace tried to kill those 8 Indians in their canoe by slamming into them with their giant frickin’ steel boat?

:[ Vicks versus OJ. He bet on fighting dogs. Which is cruel, I admit. And he loses his career and prestige. While he may have slit the throat of his ex-wife and her boyfriend, and he walks away a free man. Now, I am not defending Vicks, just asking the question when human life became so worthless? If the War in Iraq was about killing off terrorist puppies, everyone would put an immediate stop to it.

My brother Allen made a fine point about how much we hold precious the lives of dogs more than human beings. He mentioned that if anyone of us saw a mother spank her child in a supermarket none of us would say anything, especially if challenged by that mother to "mind our own business" and "don’t tell me how to raise my child". Yet, if we saw that same women spank a dog, we would be all in her grill about cruelty to animals.... We live in a strange world.

:[ Let’s face it: with service as terrible as it is, the CTA could make all its proposed service cuts and NO ONE WOULD NOTICE!

:[ One this final note: Don’t mess-a with-a da Cruise!

That will do it for this month. Please fell free to leave a comment. I am open to disagreement. Heck, I'll post you comments when you prove me wrong or ignorant. Stay Tuned.



Until next time; "You've got more punisment in store. Take it like a man...."

(Great advice from a master.)