RANT: Jared Leto's Look (REPEAT: NOT Jared Leto Himself)

OK, can we talk for a minute about what in HOLY HELL is Jared Leto doing to himself? I know he's got his band Sixty Seconds to Mars (and we all know how I hate the rock star who has to express himself musically *ahem Kevin Costner, ahem Russell Crow*). And I for one understand and share the rebellious/goth/punk thing. But I seriously think Jared Leto has taken it too far when I can look at a picture of him and be totally... not attracted to him. I mean, I know that there is more to him that the cute boy we all remember from that legendary staple of 90s tv, My So Called Life, but I'm not necessarily buying into the whole goth thing either. Probably somewhere in between.

There's also just something about guys who wear eye liner that really turns me off. There are a lot of things I want men to understand and share, but make up tips just isn't one of them.

LIGHTEN UP JARED. I STILL LOVE YOU JORDAN CATALONO.

DOUBLE RAVE: John Hodgman & David Rees

RAVE: John Hodgeman. I know this is an old clip of John Hodgeman (old for the net, 3 months), but I had to post it since we went to see John Hodgeman and David Reese Tuesday night at the Warehouse Theater in DC (near new ocnvention center). What can I say, I'm at home with the other NPR nerds! Anyways, John Hodgeman is just as funny live as on TV, AND he is really nice and personable, too. He even gave away "Hobo Chalk" after the show. Awesome. But another reason I had to post this? He was wearing the EXACT SAME suit and tie as he did on Tuesday night. Normally I wouldn't have noticed this, except he made it a point to talk about his Buddha-patterned tie during the Q&A, and here it is again.

DOUBLE RAVE: David Rees. I hadn't heard of David Rees (unfortunately!) until I saw him on Tuesday night, but now I am enlightened. He is the author of the most insightful and hysterical comics: Get Your War On, My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, and (my favorite) My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable. To see his comics, go to: www.mnftiu.cc.

I had my own "mnftiu" moment today at work when the loud speaker announced a key board demonstration taking place. You heard me.

RAVE: Michael J. Fox RANT: Rush (as always)

OK, you can add Rush Limbaugh as someone that annoys me just as much as Andy Rooney. Seriously, the guy is a druged out lunatic, and he loves making fun of people with horrible diseases like Parkinson's? This video clip from You Tube of Michael J. Fox made me want to cry (I still love you, Doc Hollywood!). I want a button that says: I SUPPORT STEM CELL RESEARCH AND MICHAEL J FOX.

RANT: Rooney Clue

I was filling out the crossword the other day and I came across this clue: "First Name in 60 Minutes". I racked my brain trying to think of who comes on first in their intro montage- "I'm Ed Bradley, I'm Morley Safer, I'm Leslie Stahl," etc. But oh no- what was the answer? ANDY. Will Shortz, you are on my list now. Seriously, he may be the OLDEST person at 60 Minutes, but he's not the FIRST NAME. If anything, he's the LAST name on the montage- "all this and Andy Rooney, tonight, on 60 Minutes." Come on, Will Shortz, this is the crossword editor's job. You gotta sift through the bullshit clues! PS> Will, if you are reading this, I love you. It's just this one thing with Rooney really bugs me.

RAVE: The Right Job

OK, I need to take a few minutes and write about how the right job can make a complete and total difference in your life. For instance, I have been at my new job for 3 weeks now. 3 weeks at my last job and I was looking for a ledge to jump from. Now I am working 10 hour days, sometimes on the weekend, but I don't feel drained- I'm not watching the clock or dreading going in the next day. It's amazing! Sure I'm tired, but I feel like I'm making a difference, being useful, and being appreciated. Sure beats being somebody's psychological punching bag. And the $ doesn't hurt, either. :P

Rooney Rant

From last night's 60 Minutes Andy Rooney segment, I would say that Andy has taken the road to senility. Seriously. Last night they just let him talk about food- nothing in particular about food- more like a free form thought flow about food.

First, he said he sympathized with the spinach growers in California whose e-coli laden produce made one person die and dozens of others sick. Then he said that made him think of when thousands of Indian farmers committed suicide a few years back when their crops failed (?). THEN he talked about although he's a meat-eater he would never eat horse. This led to an old WW2 story about when he was stationed in France, and after battles were over the hungry French villagers would come out and cut up the dead horses to eat- which, of course, he thought was disgusting. OK, lets not mention the fact that it was France in the middle of WW2 and they were probably starving without their GI rations.

He finished the whole thing off by saying that we all know that vegetarians are crazy, but that's probably the wave of the future.

Rooney, you are killing me. I'm actually surprised that Andy Rooney doesn't discredit the whole 60 minutes organization with his nonsensical tirades. Besides, isn't it about time for retirement? Rooney grinds my gears enough when he actually has a topic and sticks to it for 2 minutes (Salt and why the aliens are coming to get us), but the free-form tirade just set me over the edge.