Fear and Trembling
Is 2007 the year of the puritan devil? I'm a little scared. Here's the deal: During January, I have drank beer or wine six times, anywhere from two to five drinks. Each time, I woke up the next morning with a hangover. Nothing nasty, just a fairly bad headache that goes away after a few hours and a mildly upset stomach.
Last night was the clincher. I drank seven ounces of Pinot Grigio. This morning, I feel bad. Seven ounces is, what, less than two beers?
I can't imagine what the hangovers would be like, if I drank eight or nine beers. Quite frankly, I don't intend to find out.
If anyone knows what could be causing these hangovers on relatively small amounts of alcohol I'd love to hear about it. Email link on the left (ejscheske@yahoo.com). Any docs in the cyber house?
Proud of my son. Alex is in eighth grade. In one of his classes, students have to make up lyrics to a song and pantomine a video-like routine to go with it. Alex proposed that his group do a Tom Jones tune while pantomining about a transvestite: "He's a Lady." Slayed me. The teacher, incidentally, saw the humor but said it wasn't "school appropriate." I'm glad he saw the humor. I'd hate to get called into a parent-teacher conference on that one. I always try to back the teacher, but that's hard to do when you're laughing.
Hollywood intentionally spreads bogus rumors in order to create buzz for its movies. I gotta believe this is one such instance: Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen treat us to some utterly convincing lovemaking in their new movie, "Factory Girl." And it's no wonder: We hear the costars actually coupled on camera. I'm glad Hollywood didn't use this kind of rumor with Brokeback Mountain.
Related: I almost didn't click on this link. It screamed Brokeback. "Sex Scandal Rocks San Fran City Hall." Fortunately, it was just hetero variety of perversion.
Alright, alright. Keep the jokes to yourselves. Tens of thousands of people have marched through Mexico City in a protest against the rising price of tortillas.
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics. Funny stuff. Hendrix: "Scuse me, while I kiss this guy." Includes link (for Hendrix, they have a great video clip where he really does say "kiss this guy"). Two of my favorite misheard lyrics: "I'm a thirty-watt bulb" (should be: "I'm a dirty white boy") and "Ain't no woman like the one-eyed gott" (should be: "Ain't no woman like the one I got").
