Howdy.
It seems like there has been a fairly lengthy chain of borderline oddball events going on in this section of the world lately. Some of them aren't so out there, but others have firm footing in the "Weird Shit" zone.
Okay. So I am hearing that Britney Spears might have a few things going on in her life. Why the shenanigans of a pop-star with a career on the skids is worthy of mainstream news media is a mystery to me. It happened with Michael Jackson and I guess that one made a little more sense simply because he's a, to put it nicely, a kook. I give enough of a shit about Britney to really know what's going on, so maybe she rivals Jacko(ff) with the odd shit. It just seems like the period in her career after the music fades and before the porn career begins. If she really wants to make the headlines, she could do a skin flick with the king of pop...providing his Mr. Potato Head-esque parts are secured and won't fall off under the harsh lights of vulgarity. It would be incredibly wrong, but oh-so-right for comedic material.
I also hear that everyone's favorite meddlesome scamp, OJ Simpson (clickit!), is also in a bit of hot water again. Once again, I am incredibly out of the current events loop, so I don't know the specifics. The part that snagged my attention was the fact that some chick was willing to hook up with him, post-(alleged) double homicide. Maybe she can be Nancy Drew to OJ's Matlock and they can find the killer. Maybe she already has. Who knows...who cares...why bother.
On a more local level, the weather in the Owensboro area has been ping-ponging between near spring temperatures and all of the gaiety that winter has to offer. From ice-encrusted snow to your standard issue sleet, freezing rain, and any other form of wintery precipitation that Jumpin' Jack Frost cares to shit down upon us. Oh yeah, there was a tornado or two thrown in there for shits and giggles. Although I heard nary a giggle among the shit. As I type and work the backspace key, the city is being transformed into a giant ice rink...again. I can't skate, refuse to learn, and have no interest in beating my skeletal framework into a fine powder.
On top of all of this crapola, there is some giant hunk of space shit about to fall through the sky and the government is supposed to do some kind of trick shot, a la Annie Oakley, and blow the thing out of the sky. Being the wise ass that I am, I'm not really sure if I would find it more entertaining for them to launch a missile and miss ("Our bad") or fire it and make the shit go boom. Regardless of the outcome, I just hope to catch some footage of it, because I am entertained by human error and/or shit going boom.
I figure all of this insanity can be attributed to the lunar eclipse last night. I'm sure we've got some other strangeness swirling around us, but the ice storm has provided another day off for me and I've got intellectually-stimulating television to watch like that shitbag Regis Philbin, reruns of Walker Texas Ranger, VH1's celebreality bullshit and really lame cartoons.
Be safe, stay warm (or cool, depending upon your geography), and don't worry, be happy. If happiness is out of the question, break some shit.
