The Rock is probably the biggest star in the action movie arena. Literally and figuratively. The former football player, professional wrestler, and current actor has scored hit after hit over the last decade. Not only is he charismatic and natural on screen, but he also seems like a genuinely good guy off-screen. Of course, considering his age, 50, and his buff physique, it’s widely suspected that Dwayne Johnson does steroids. There’s nothing wrong with that, but if that is how you are maintaining the body, at least admit it! Since Johnson is no longer an active athlete, the fact that…
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Sad news from Hollywood this week, as outspoken conservative and star of such iconic shows as Cheers and movies like ‘Look Who’s Talking,’ Kirstie Alley passed away after a short, private battle with cancer. Alley was an outspoken figure on Twitter and not afraid to voice her opinions despite the threats of pushback from the liberal media. Alley famously supported Donald Trump throughout his Presidency, even to the detriment of her career. Alley, by her own admission, was “blackballed” from Hollywood because of her support of Trump because the left loves nothing more than silencing dissent. Not much was known…
Neil Diamond is one of the biggest entertainers of the 20th century. His legendary career has spanned over five decades, and he is also an accomplished actor and songwriter, having starred in “The Jazz Singer” and written songs for Elvis Presley. The 81-year-old star has stopped touring and recording due to a Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2018 but managed to show up at the Broadway opening of the story of his life, “A Beautiful Noise.” Not only did he show up, but at curtain call, he sang arguably his biggest hit, and I would also argue one of the worst songs…
It would be a fair assumption that nearly EVERY American over a certain age has played Monopoly at one time or another. I didn’t say I enjoyed Monopoly; I said played it. I can never remember a time when I actually enjoyed Monopoly. It’s three-plus hours of frustration and often anger that generally ends with a fight or someone “sneezing” the board over. A true American classic. Hasbro, the maker of Monopoly has made numerous attempts to keep the game relevant despite our society being increasingly disinterested in sitting down for three hours rolling dice. Numerous iterations have been developed…
Television is a vast wasteland of woke themes, watered-down politically correct storylines, and forced diversity. Small wonder no one watches network TV anymore. However, a few shows and creators are starting to come to terms with Hollywood’s worst nightmare. Go woke, go broke. Creators are finally plugging back into what their audiences want, which is to be ENTERTAINED rather than lectured or enlightened. Guess what? It works! Several shows have thrived recently because of their willingness to deal with themes that don’t exactly appeal to the left. Turns out not every program has to have gay couples and trans people!…
We have all seen movies about dystopian futures, haven’t we? No, I’m not referring to Democrat election ads, I’m talking about movies like Terminator, Planet of the Apes, The Edge of Tomorrow; you know, stuff that might actually happen as opposed to Democrats keeping the House and Senate. Apparently as a species, we just can’t help ourselves when it comes to creating technology that could one day take us out. We already dabble in viruses and diseases that could eradicate most of us. We also like to fire lasers at each other at the speed of light, just to see…
Regular bathing is a relatively new habit. For centuries it was uncommon and nearly impossible for people to bathe regularly. Certainly, it was a smelly, dirty, germ filled world. It’s no wonder average life expectance was about half of what it is now. It also begs the question; how did people procreate? The smells involved had to be overwhelming. That aside, we are now all living longer, and we certainly smell fresher than ever before! Most of us anyway. I’m sure Joe Biden smells like Band-Aids and mustard. Recently tragic news broke about the worlds reported “dirtiest” man. From all…
By now everyone knows about the drug abuse and struggles with addiction for “Friends” alum Mathew Perry. Perry famously has had battles with opioids, alcohol, and just about any drug he could get his hands on during and since the end of Friends in 2004. Fact is, it’s a minor miracle that he is still alive. Perry never reached the superstar status that he held during his run as Chandler Bing, though he did star in several tepid Hollywood comedies and made the occasional guest spot on television. Now Perry is hawking his memoirs and has related a terrifying story…
Katy Perry has had a long, celebrated career. From “Teenage Dream” to American Idol, Perry has personified the girl-next-door beauty and has stayed relevant in an age when so much pop music is gross, obscene and disposable. When Perry burst on the music scene, much of her music seemed risqué for the time, but in contrast to 2022, it’s almost contemporary Christian by comparison. “I kissed a girl” seems wholesome compared to “WAP’. Such is the age we live in! A recent viral clip from one of her concerts has hinted that perhaps Katy Perry is a little more than…
I think we all want to take care of the Earth, don’t we? While most on the left run around “chicken little” style waiting for the burning sky to fall, most levelheaded people on the right agree that there is work to be done, but it’s not the existential threat to our existence that the for-profit green energy industry makes it out to be. Protesters in the United States tend to be a little dramatic, but they don’t match their European counterparts when it comes to drama. This year alone we have seen protesters chain themselves to a tennis net…
It’s the certain time of year in late October, where people start decorating their houses like cemeteries, kids dress up and go to random houses and beg candy, and everyone wants a good scare. Halloween is a weird holiday, isn’t it? Will we ever stop seeing hockey masks and Michael Myers masks on grownups? Probably not, since Hollywood insists on running stale sequel after stale sequel of the movie “Halloween” out, despite constantly promising this will be the last one. Well, perhaps it’s not as funny as the actual movie (unintended humor), but for one Las Vegas criminal, Halloween has…
Let’s be honest here, we are all friends, right? How many people had “Power Rangers to the rescue” in 2022 on their bingo card? I’m guessing no one. Now how many people of a certain age secretly wish the Power Rangers were real, because let’s face it, as cheesy as the show was and is, it was still a HUGE part of many people’s youth. So much so that one Oakland restaurant dresses up their entire staff like Power Rangers every Friday just because it’s awesome! Noka Ramen in Oakland likes to keep it loose of Fridays. It’s the start…
Indiana Jones said it, and I concur. I hate snakes. With apologies to Jake the Snake Roberts, Monty Python, Ausitn Stevens: Snakemaster, Snake Plisskin and literally everone in India, the only way to deal with a snake is with a hoe. And no, I don’t mean to try to seduce it for money. I mean to cuts it into dippable snake nuggets. I think McDonalds test marketed snake nuggets in the 80’s. I could be wrong. There have been more and more cases of snakes showing up on planes. Assuming they didn’t buy a ticket and dress in disguise like…
Summer has gracefully departed, the leaves are changing, the days and nights are getting cooler. It’s that time of year folks, Halloween! People are decorating their yards to resemble cemeteries, hanging ghosts and putting up giant, scary inflatables. I’m not a fan of the fall, but Halloween is a pretty neat season. When we were kids, costumes were simple. A plastic mask with a rubber band around the back of your head, and usually you just threw the rest of it together. If you were really creative, maybe you painted your face like a Kiss member or a ghost. If…
As a voyeuristic society we just can’t get enough of the ‘true crime” genre. It’s not enough that these stories are often mostly true, horrific and grisly, but the television watching and podcast listening crowd just can’t get enough. One of the most, if not THE most awful stories was that of Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer raped, murdered, and often ate his victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the course of over a decade before being caught and given 15 life sentences. Despite being put in protective confinement in prison, Dahmer quickly requested a move to the general population to have more…
Remember “Brokeback Mountain”? Sure, everyone does whether they saw it or not. The 2005 drama about two secretly gay cowboys garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards. However, it wasn’t for everyone. Some people just weren’t and still aren’t ready or willing to see homosexual acts and stories on the big screen That’s their prerogative and there’s nothing wrong with it. Despite the content, Brokeback Mountain was a box office success, largely in part because of the star power of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Fast forward 17 years later, and flamboyant gay comedian Billy Eichner, best known for walking up…
We can make literally anything a sport, can’t we? Cornhole tournaments on cable television, professional poker as a spectator sport, the WNBA, as long as we can choose a side and bet on it, we will make it a thing. As humans, our competitive nature can force us to do some shady things, and some amazing things. My guess is cavemen (if they were real) had rock throwing competitions, winner gets the rest of the saber tooth tiger. But I bet there were still shady cavemen that maybe had a few extra rocks on their favorite caveman and tried to…
It seems inevitable that we are going to be dragged into a world of electric vehicles whether we want it or not. Despite the fact that the mining of the materials and the production of the vehicles offset any alleged environmental benefit, green activists are pushing as hard as they can for EV’s. There are numerous issues with these vehicles that we already know about. From cost and availability of charging, hazardous disposal of batteries, a finite shelf life of the batteries, and overall price of the vehicles, there are numerous obstacles that still need to be solved. One of…
Are we ever going to learn? That’s not a rhetorical question, rather a serious one. When is man going to stop playing in God’s back yard? We are cloning things, attempting to create meat from cells, creating babies in test tubes; stuff like this comes with consequences! We may not know what they are yet, but you can bet it won’t be good. Science loves nothing more than to monkey around with forces it might not be able to control. We just crashed a spaceship into an asteroid as a test to see if we can avoid a collision someday.…
It’s been a tough year for the food industry. Brandon’s economy has created numerous shortages, from baby formula to crackers to butter. There have been dozens of fires, contaminations and mishaps in food processing plants as well. It’s just been a bad year for food. At least with Halloween coming soon there are no issues or shortages with the candy industry, aside from ridiculous prices for undersized candy bars. How do they get away with calling something small “fun size”? If I see a little person and call them “fun size” then I’m a bigot! You can’t win! There’s nothing…
America has had its share of bad asses. John Wayne, Stallone, James Dean, Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris. Yes, those are all actors, but we don’t always get to hear about everyday people like we do celebs on the big screen. One who comes to mind is Eli Dicken, the good guy with a gun that stopped the carnage at an Indiana mall with a single shot. Another is the Waukesha hero Kyle Rittenhouse. Of course, law enforcement and first responders are constantly laying their lives on the line without fanfare or much appreciation. Their heroism and good deeds often get…
Remember when the internet and social media used to be fun? I’m old enough to remember when people actually created funny, creative content for such services as YouTube and Vine. Charlie the Unicorn, Annoying Orange, Llamas with Hats, just a few of the bits people were doing that actually required talent and effort. Now social media, specifically Tik Tok is just a mess of people trying to bait the police and saying and acting inappropriately while filming people’s reactions. You know, stuff that isn’t creative nor funny. We have a lazy generation that only knows how to stoop to the…
Man, relationships are hard! Sometimes it takes numerous times to actually get it right. It’s not always one person’s fault; as the saying goes, it takes two to tango! Whether it be stress, money, sex, infidelity, couples tend to find something to fight about. Often through counseling or an open, honest dialogue two people can come to terms and work on their differences and make a relationship work. Other times a split is the best idea, and a clean break is needed. That can be really hard when children are involved, but more often than not it’s in the best…
I’m sure everyone has heard the expression “that didn’t age well”. Bad tweets, misguided predictions, and awkward social media posts sometimes really don’t age well. Certainly, by now everyone is aware of the life changing devastation of Hurricane Ian, as it utterly destroyed parts of Southwest Florida, wiping Fort Myers Beach out completely. Lifelong Florida residents sometimes tend to downplay the threat of hurricanes or tropical storms, mostly because they grew up with them. The same way someone in my area will stand outside and look around when the tornado warning siren goes off. We ignore what could happen because…
Climate experts and activists are some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet. Celebrities regularly take their private jets on even the shortest of trips, massive yachts, expensive gas-powered cars, then preach at us about climate change. Climate Czar John Kerry emits enough carbon to choke a horse jet setting around to speak on the dangers of climate change. Yet we are all told the world is burning and our very existence is an existential threat to the planet. The teenagers are the best. Kids like Greta Thunberg and David Hogg that haven’t paid a mortgage, filed taxes, or even…
It’s tough economic times out there folks. Brandon’s economy has increased inflation, jacked up fuel and food costs, and caused the housing and car market to go haywire. Purchasing a house or a car at this point is a pricey proposition. Interest rates are rising in an attempt to cool down the overheated economy, even as Brandon writes blank checks to foreign countries. Yep, sure is a tough time. Even for Grimes. In case you aren’t a 14-year-old girl or huge pop music aficionado, Grimes is a Canadian born pop/rock/electronic artist with close to a million albums sold. Her net…
Criminals aren’t particularly smart, but I suppose if they were they would have careers, right? Crime is spiking all over the country, especially in liberal controlled cities, but sadly no business is safe these days. So, if you own a business what to do? You could install high tech surveillance equipment so any criminals can be identified and easily caught, but what good is that? Many of our larger lib cities are just releasing crooks right back into the streets. You could beef up security and hire a private firm to patrol your business, but we have seen enough video…
Poor John Travolta just can’t win. I mean, don’t get me wrong, he’s obscenely rich and famous and most of us would love to have his problems, but relatively speaking Travolta has been taking some tough blows. Travolta lost his son Jett at age 16, Grease costar and good friend Olivia Newton John died earlier this year, and his wife Kelly Preston died of breast cancer a few years back. Then there are the issues with the Church of Scientology and the gay rumors surrounding Travolta. It had long been whispered that John is, in fact secretly gay. Not a…
I’ve never been a big fan of the “true crime” genre. Real world day to day stuff is enough for me. I don’t need to rehash serial killers, mass murderers and the like. Some people are into it big time, and I guess to each their own. It doesn’t bother me that Netflix makes shows like that. I just choose not to watch. Of course, you are going to have certain segments of society that are going to go out of their way to be bothered, offended, outraged, or pretend to be to get brownie points. Those folks are just…
People just love their little fur babies, don’t they? I’ve always hated that expression, but hey, who am I to judge? I’ve always had dogs and cats since I was a kid. It’s just what you did as country folks. We needed the cats to keep the mouse population in check, and dogs to keep the cat population in check. Circle of life stuff. What we never did, however is have animals in the house. Nope, no way my parents were going to deal with the mess or the trouble. I can’t really blame them. I have dogs and cats…