Wicked Attitude

This isn’t a review for this workout but I’m just curious, why are they coming out with a Dirty Dancing workout 20 years after the movie?  “Learn to move like Baby and Johnny” is what the trailer touts.  Um, okay.  So since Patrick Swayze is now in the forefront of the news with his cancer, does some money grubbing douche feel like they’d better do it while he’s still alive??  I just don’t understand why this would come out now.  I mean for all of your Dirty Dancing fans, have at it but it just seems a little suspect to me.  If I’m going to buy a dance/workout video for Dirty Dancing then I want someone from the movie in it.  Sorry…as you were…

Gotta say I was a little surprised that the octuplet chose to implant 8 embryos in her uterus.  I have a family member who underwent fertility treatments and they implanted 3 and I told them they were going to have triplets and they laughed at me rattling off the statistics of how unlikely it was that would happen.  Well guess what, they had triplets and in the midst of one of many hard times they were encountering having 3 newborns, the mother screamed “I did NOT sign on for three!”  Well, yes you did.  When you choose to implant a certain number of embryos in your uterus, you need to come to terms with the fact you could end up with that many babies.

Now this octuplet mom’s motives seem very suspect to me.  I don’t like feeling that way about it but she’s a single mother in her mid-30’s who lives with her mom!  Where the hell does she propose stuffing these children in the 3 bedroom house she shares?  The neighbors and apparently the girl’s father aren’t thrilled according to one article I read.  My thought is she figures with shows out there like Jon and Kate Plus 8 (who I actually watch and like) , that freakish Dugger family and there’s some new family with an unGodly amount of kids out there with their own show that she could maybe become a part of that TV genre and make some money.  Again, this is just my opinion and I have no idea if that was her intent or not but given her current circumstances, I don’t really see any other logical explaination for doing that.  This woman is going to rely on the handouts of others and big companies to hear her story and donate products to her and I’ve got news sister, in this economy, good friggin’ luck!  While the medical community can’t really regulate this kind of thing, where is the ethical line where a doctor should be able to at least say “you know what, I refuse to implant that many given your situation and I’m not going to treat you.”  Just what we need, another gaggle of kids who didn’t ask to be born into what are going to have to be a strained and economically impossible situation.  Way to go.

Update:  The octuplet mom has hired an agent and is hoping to get money for interviews or be an on-air “child care expert.”  Read more about this developing story here.  Gee, I hate being right.  Oh yeah and if you want to be a child care expert, common sense would dictate that if you only wanted ONE more child that you would not implant 8 embryos.  Common sense would also dictate if you’re an unemployed student that you wouldn’t breed, which is essentially what this woman has become.  So sorry sistah, you have no credentials to be a child care “expert.”  Next.

So I’m reading this article about how the Senate unanimously decided to delay the digital transition by four months to give more people time to prepare for it.  Just waiting for it to become official.  Now unless you’ve been living under a rock for 2 years, the normal person has been bombarded with messages from their local news stations and the little old people in commercials who tell you about the “government’s coo-pon progrrm” (read: government’s coupon program for those who don’t speak geriatric).  Let me spell this out for the Senate…(excuse the caps)

IF PEOPLE DON’T GET IT WITH 2 YEARS PREP TIME, 4 MONTHS ISN’T GOING TO MAKE A FRIGGIN’ BIT OF DIFFERENCE!!!

I couldn’t get away with not hearing about the discount government program and yes we got ours and have had our basement tv hooked up for almost a year.  We even gave the other card we got to my mom and told her to check around for anyone without cable and give it to them.  Of course now what’s happened?  The coupon program has run out of money to help supplement the cost the last I heard.  Sorry procrastinators!  I mean why do we always end up doing this for people who have had ample time to do this or that and then those people complain and everyone else who had their end cinched up on time has to suffer?  I thought I was finally done seeing “XX days until we have to switch to digital” on my local news like it was the end of days or something!  Sigh. 

Old people…please…get the HD converter box (Zenith is the one rated the best by consumer magazines) and go back to your nap.

I’ve been watching The Price is Right for…well, a long time.  When you stayed home from school, it wasn’t a sick day unless you had Bob Barker on the tube and you were trying to play along with the games.  When Drew Carey became Bob’s successor, he had some big shoes to fill and after doing this for over a year he’s made the show his.  There are little changes like getting annoucer Rich Fields more involved with the show, especially the showcases, Drew talks to the models and isn’t grumpy like Bob was the last 6 years of his run and my favorite is when Drew makes fun of or is shocked by the prices of some of the prizes.  “What!?  $2000 for Kate Spade luggage!?!” or “yes because we all need some Oreos to go with our curio cabinet.”

What I’ve noticed over the past few weeks is a trend shifting in the showcases.  Today one of the showcases was a set of Viking appliances (which is kick ass but I’m old enough to appreciate how much those are), a year’s worth of groceries, a night with a personal chef for a cooking class/dinner party and a trip to New Orleans to various restaurants.  The other showcase (the historically better choice) was like a hovercraft, a Harley and something like a dining room set or something I can’t even remember right now.  I understand we’re in a recession and damn near a depression but people want to see those showcases with a trip AND a car or something big and grand, not two mediocre showcases with prizes that you could win at a raffle.  (Groceries, personal chef, etc)  It’s that promise of something really over the top that people want to see not a reminder of our economy being in the crapper and people getting groceries for a year.  That’s just kind of depressing and I’m not ready for my game shows to turn depressing as well!

I made a resolution to be a little less cynical this year.  I am tired of being barraged by ads everywhere and I got my last bit of cynicism out as I cursed the ball dropping over a huge Toshiba ad and then quickly broke it as I saw everyone wearing blue top hats provided by Nivea.  I think that’s a record even for me.

If comedian Kathy Griffin made a resolution to not say anything others would view as inappropriate on the air, she broke that one an hour into the new year.  Griffin was being teased by a heckler in the crowd and dropped “I don’t go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth!!”  Quickly cut away to commercial.  It was a much more toned down vibe when they came back from break as they announced 3 Doors Down and both Anderson and Kathy looked like they may have been scolded.  Kathy didn’t really speak much after that.  I wonder if she’ll be asked back.  Regardless, we were shocked and laughed our asses off.  That’s what happens when you put the 2 time Emmy winning, razor tongued funny lady in a live situation!  The whole reason we tuned in to CNN was to see what she would do this year and with that comment alone, she didn’t disappoint!  Happy 2009!

Update: As pointed out by people in the comments section, she apparently made that comment to a crowdside heckler not Anderson Cooper which makes the comment even better.  I somehow missed the heckler’s comments but her comment perked my ears!  Thanks for pointing that out, I updated the post accordingly!