A Loss in the Entertainment World

Marcel Marceau, perhaps the most well-known mime the world has ever known, passed away last night. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and all of his fans who cared so deeply about him. However, since I am NOT a fan AT ALL of clowns, mimes, and the like, this is what I have to say about his life:







He was 84.

To-Do List: 1) Make a To-Do List

This morning on "Sunday Morning" there was a segment devoted to lists and our obsession with them. Although a big fan of them, I have never thought much about lists, I just make them. Americans love lists. They are easy to read, simple to understand and not very time consuming. I see lists on the cover of the magazines I subcsribe to: Top 10 College Women; 100 Hot-City Guide; 10 Foods for Sexy Abs; Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don't Want You To Know; Your So-SIMPLE Shopping List. With a little prompting by "Sunday Morning", I remember that lists have been a huge part in our society for thousands of years. The New York Times Bestseller List is a list. The Bill of Rights is a list. The Ten Commandments is a list.

After watching the segment, I realize that lists might actually control my life.

I keep a constantly running to do list that I keep in my car so that I can refer to it often.

I keep a grocery list when my parents are out of town and I actually have to buy my own groceries.

I keep a list on www.43things.com of the things I would like to do/accomplish someday.

I keep lists at work about what files need to be worked on and what I need to do with them.

I keep a list on www.netflix.com of the movies that will be delivered to me next.

Look at that, I just made another list.

A couple of weeks ago, I was driving down 17W, in a very busy section with exits and entrances to the highway, and I noticed the car in front of my was looking a little strange. I soon realized that it looked strange because the driver was holding a cassette tape out his window and slowly unraveling the insides. Upon completion, he threw the cassette tape out the window and allowed the inerds to be blown everywhere amongst the traffic. Since I have terrible luck with vehicles, always my own, I of course got all tangled up in the insides of this cassette tape (I like to pretend it was the Backstreet Boys).


Since I was totally on my game at the time, I thought to get the douch bag's license plate number and saved the tape that was still stuck on my car when I arrived at my destination (you know, just in case it was a recording of a murder like on Law & Order). After stewing about it for a couple of days, and seeing the unraveled tape in my car everytime I drove somewhere, I decided to take this matter to the trusty Vestal Police Department (not because I love men in uniform, especially cops, but because it could have caused an accident).


Working for the Town of Vestal attorney has it's perks and I was able to speak with the reporting officer again yesterday. He informed me that he called and spoke with the douche bag, who admitted that yes, he was on the highway at that time on that day, but that no, he did not throw a cassette tape out of his window.


I understand that I should not spend my precious time trying to figure people out, but I will never understand why people LIE so much. Seriously.


Oh, you want to know what the license plate was? It was a blue Ford Taurus with New York plate DZN 4487. Stay tuned to http://www.platewire.com/ for updates.

Study Confirms Men Want Hot Women

Flipping through the channels last night (something that, I'm proud to admit, I am highly skilled at), I stumbled upon a story on CNN/Headline News titled "Men Want Hot Women". Seeing as there was NOTHING on the tube last night, I stopped to watch, sure that it was a spoof. However, come to find out, it was an actual story on an actual study that determined that men actually want hot women. Are you kidding? Wasn't this determined years and years ago? Who spent the money and time on this study? I watched until the segment was over and what I learned is, shockingly, men like hot women. Actually, I knew this before, but I don't want to make CNN/Headline News feel bad about wasting my time. I think any woman would agree with me that we are well aware that men prefer hot women, some of us have been dumped for a hotter girl, and some of us never even got the chance because we're not hot enough to begin with (I don't understand why I am single. Clearly, he hasn't worked up the courage yet to dump his girlfriend for me, the hotter girl). Shame on you boys! I understand you like "eye candy", but you have to know by now that it's what is on the inside that matters. After I learned all I could about men liking hot women, I decided to change the channel and free myself from this asinine thinking. My remote stopped on A Walk to Remember and I greatly enjoyed watching the finale of the movie. Because Chris Klein is hot.