Enemy of the State

   

Old Erkle good – new Erkle bad

You remember Erkle from the television a long time ago?  Well, he’s all grown up now and doing Henrick Gibson plays and he’s a movie star.  Remember Erkle O’s?  Remember Activision?!

This is the story about a man who invents a printing press and must now face the dilemma: hey, if I go ahead and print this stuff, someone might read it!  I think about this dilemma every waking day.  It is a Big Responsibility.

Imagine if I were standing next to you at the video store and you picked up this movie and started to read the cover and I was standing there and I said, “New Erkle stinks” you would be pretty mad.  That’s annoying!  I’d annoy you and a side order of fries!  And, I can’t be next to you everytime you want to buy a book or a movie or a CD or whatever!  Imagine!  How could you afford to feed me?  We’d argue about shotgun all the time!  (Shotgun infinity!  Gotcha!)

So that makes no sense.  Why would anyone want to hear me standing there telling you new Erkle stinks?  Now, what would REALLY be annoying is if I protested.

“We’ve got a new Erkle!  We want an old Erkle!”

“What do we want?  Erkle!  How do we want him?  Old!”

“Hey hey, ho ho, we want Erkle, not new but old!  Hey hey, ho ho…”

I guess the point I am making is that if I stood next to you in the store and told you my review (“Hey, buddy, new Erkle stinks”) you would be very annoying with me.  But, when I WRITE IT DOWN, you people come from all over the place to read this stuff!  New Erkle stinks.  There – I’ll bet at least 20 people read that and now they know.  Maybe even Erkle read that.  If I told him that to his face, he would have knocked me into Til Tuesday!  But, if you write it down, people are polite.

Ah, but that is the dilemma of this movie.  I now have a responsibility to tell you the truth because I am writing it down.  I can tell you that new Erkle stinks and later I could deny I said it.  But, if I write it down, I can never deny that Erkle used to be funny, and now all he does is run around buildings and buy lawngeray.  And that’s why the pen is mightier than the written word.

Greatest Hits, Vol II — Gloria Estefan

 

Do your body feel that conga!

First of all: volume TWO?  I didn’t even know there was a volume one!  You go girl!  So, the truth is I haven’t actually listened to this CD yet because I wanted to listen to them in order.  I bought volume one as soon as I heard about volume two.  And, I haven’t actually listened to volume one all the way yet because I keep going back to letting the dogs out – can you blame me? that song is just so darn catchy!  (Who who who who who who who).

OK, that song isn’t on this CD and I suppose that’s what you started reading to find out about.  So, sorry about the digression – I’m an ARU (airheads ‘R’ us!!!!, my nephew taught me that, isn’t it great!)

One of the songs is “Everlasting Love”.  Heard of it?  Let me know what you think because I haven’t gotten there yet.

So, like I said I haven’t listened to the CD yet.  And, actually looking over the song list I’ve never heard of any of these songs!  I feel like Turn That Beat Around should be familiar, but in a way that makes me think of the 80s and that’s just silly.  Y-Tu-Conga sounds a lot like she’s doubting her first hit and I’ll tell you why to Conga, because it’s fun and we’re fun people so let’s party!  There’s a song called Oye which is really interesting because I always thought she was Latino not Australian – so, every day, something new.  I should tell my wife about that because she hates Australia, and yet she loves Gloria Estefan – ooo, better not, her head might explode, the choices!

There’s a song on there called “Reach” which I’ve never heard of.  You must admit it has a nice ring to it.  Reach!

There’s a song on there called “Music of My Heart”.  I have never heard of it.

I have not heard of “Out of Nowhere”.

There’s a song on there called “You’ll Be Mine (Party Time) [Single Mix]” which I’ve never heard of, but I checked around on the Internet (the Internet has heard of EVERYTHING) and it turns out it won an award from the National Association of Grammar Schoolteachers  – their website clearly stresses that they do not have a Federal counterpart – for having the most punctuation in a song title that year even though they admitted they had never actually heard of the song, and anyway the Limp Bixcut upped the ante the following year when they did their own remake of the song and called it “You’ll F*#&ing Be Mine (Par-Tay Time) [Single Mix]”

I’m sure you will like this CD and I’m sure I will too.

The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America

What a gyp!

This book is actually pretty entertaining and it has a decent plot. (You'll never guess the ending, that's for sure! And, if you read it, don't tell anyone about it — I hate that!) But, I have two fundamental problems with it:
1) They'd be a little more truthful if they called the book "Janet C. Lowe Speaks and Warren Buffett Contributes Some Stuff"!!! Because as far as I can tell Janet C. Lowe has written the whole thing — only once in a while is there a quote from Buffett.

2) I can't believe you'd put together a book about Warren Buffett and not talk about Margaritaville! I don't care if it's mostly about Janet C. Lowe speaking and there's only 1 sentence about Warren Buffett speaking — that ONE sentence should be: "When I wrote Margerittavile I was thinking _________"! I want to know about it. It's only his most famous song ever! And, there are thousands of Warrenheads on Wall Street and everywhere who are dying to hear about that song and how he came up with it. I mean, don't tell me Berkeley-Hathaway would be anything today without the proceeds from Cheeseburger in Paradise!

So, I wouldn't recommend you buy this book. Instead, go get a copy of Margharhittavile yourself or listen to a tape of Janet C. Lowe singing.