Considering other possibilities

I heard on the radio this morning the very sad news that a missing Stanford grad student had been found dead in the trunk of her car. The police, according to the report, suspect suicide.

What?

Now clearly I haven't been through any extensive police training, but if I found someone in the trunk of her car, I probably wouldn't go with suicide as a first guess. These police officers have apparently never seen any movies. At all. Because if the cinema teaches us anything it's that dead body+trunk of car=murder. Unless there is also suikidnapping involved, which, obviously, changes things.

Color me crazy

but, no matter how arty your film may be, I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario in which it makes sense for Cate Blanchett to play the role of Bob Dylan.

Youth ministry

Grafitti scrawled on the side of a church in my neighborhood:

"Jesus is my homeboy"

Armed and Famous

This morning I heard an ad on the radio for a thoroughly ludicrous new television show called "Armed and Famous" in which "stars" are trained to be police officers and then apparently are somehow qualified to go on actual police calls with um...real police officers. There are many reasons that this seems to be a terrible idea, but from a marketing perspective, the primary problem is that the "stars" are no one I have ever heard of with two exeptions: LaToya Jackson (what?) and, gloriously, Eric Estrada. And that is pretty darn amusing.

Oooh

To distract you from the fact that I don't maintain this with any regularity, I have selected this snazzy new layout. Less readable? Hmmm. Perhaps. But fancy, no? And you know how much I enjoy fancy. And I cannot create fancy myself because, well, I have basically no computer skills. Sad but true. Don't tell the blogger people. They'll probably kick me out of the blogosphere. (Another word I hate. Definitely don't tell them that.)

I have brought my old radio into work. Benefit: Vastly increased musical variety compared to my iPod. Drawback: Being repeadtedly subjected to a commercial that says "Fajita Fiesta. When it comes to fresh we're obsesseda."