Movies suck these days. Even the "good" ones are really just crap with either: a) a standout acting performance, b) standout special effects, or c) a good plot.

You really can't get all three in a film. Two out of three is terrific. One out of three is about the norm.

I saw the Day After Tomorrow and it's an entertaining film. Not great, barely good actually, but greatly entertaining because watching the effects and the plot was fun.

*NOTE, I'M GIVING AWAY SPOILERS*

All the main characters survive. Why? Because someone had to. I knew in the first three minutes that Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal were going to hang around. I knew Sela Ward and the cancer patient were going to live. The plot line was that predictable, most movies are that predictable really. The fascination was in the destruction and the storyline involving this catastrophe.

I remember watching older films with my dad. Classic movies like 12 Angry Men, Citizen Kane, The Maltest Falcon, etc. etc.,. Movies haven't changed much. Those films were a lot better in terms of quality acting and drama. But the goal of a movie has never changed, the destination is still secondary to the voyage.

I've stumbled upon this and read it. It's pretty damn amusing, something I'm sure the real Andy would have loved to see. Unless this is the real Andy.

Andy Kaufman Returns

From the honorable New York Times:

Only 63 percent of full-time students at four-year colleges graduate within six years — a common yardstick for measuring graduation rates — the report says. And these rates have remained flat for more than 20 years.

Graduation rates are especially low for minority students and those from low-income families, the report says. Only 46 percent of black students, 47 percent of Latino students and 54 percent of low-income students graduate within six years.

Hmm, lets do a list of my friends who have graduated...Cesar, nine years...Alberto, 11 years.

It took me about three and a half.

For my friend and co-worker Rick Brown, who is covering the Stanley Cup and has to deal with the commute from Tampa to Calgary. Here's the easiest way to get there.

However if you go about 80-90 on I-75 you could cut that trip down to 44 hours...

From imdb.com

The Simple Life star Paris Hilton shocked onlookers by baring her breasts for porn legend Ron Jeremy - in return for a glimpse at his infamously large manhood. Cheeky Hilton, 23, and her actress friend Bijou Phillips approached the X- rated film star at a Los Angeles party and asked to see his notoriously large penis. And 51-year-old Jeremy agreed to oblige, but only if they flashed their chests. A source says, "Ron is only in porn for one reason and it's certainly not his looks. The girls really wanted to see it. So they all went off to the toilets and five minutes later Bijou came out saying, 'It's bigger than my boyfriend's!'"

Interesting. Now THAT's the porn she should've made, I guarantee if there was a blackmarket sell of Paris getting banged by Ron, everyone would try to get a copy.

Ron Jeremy, proof that being fat and disgusting has can have its advantages.