Every once in a while I have lots of little things on my mind and I splay them all out in a blog. Today is such a time for doing this.
I’m not a parent, just an uncle to a sweet niece and nephew who grew into fantastic adults. Still, I teach kids with behavior issues and I know a bit about children and what parents need to do to ensure their kids behave properly. Last week at Sport Clips while waiting for my hair to be cut I saw a father who didn’t know what the hell he was doing with his four year old son who was also waiting for a hair-cut. I bet that dad asked his son a dozen times to sit down next to him in the waiting area. Instead, the kid ignored dad and pulled out a bunch of suckers from a treats bucket, re-arranged and dropped some tubes of hair products on display and kept running in and out of the entrance door, which rang a bell to alert staff that someone new walked in the shop. This father never got up to physically sit his rambunctious boy next to him and there was no firm assertion of the situation. He just sat there helpless. If this little boy is like this with dad at age 4, I’d hate to see what goes down when the kid is 14.
Last month I had a serviceman come to my house for a repair issue. I won’t mention what company and you’ll understand why in just a second. The guy was very nice, helpful and took care of matters in half an hour. There’s just one problem, the man had incredibly awful body odor. I really didn’t notice it at first because he went right to work on the issue at hand. While this serviceman toiled away in my bedroom I sat in the living room and killed time watching TV. After I signed off on the work and he left my house I walked into my bedroom and the smell almost knocked me over. Opening both windows didn’t help and neither did a liberal spray of Febreze.
Despite keeping the bedroom windows open all night while I slept on the living room couch, the smell remained and would not fade. Three days later nothing improved and I ended up having to wash all my bedclothes, I gave my rug a major vacuuming with foam carpet cleaner and scrubbed my walls with diluted bleach and a sponge. Then and only then did the smell of this service guy go away. It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode “The Smelly Car” where a car porter’s B.O. permanently polluted Jerry’s car.
I have a new favorite actress. It’s Sasha Alexander who co-starred on ‘Rizzoli and Isles” and did some nutty love scenes on several episodes of Showtime’s “Shameless.” I first noticed Ms. Alexander on a rerun of “Friends” where she played an entertainment reporter interviewing Joey. Sasha Alexander reminds me of a younger Susan Sarandon. She has a look and aura about her that is very much a turn-on without being blatantly slutty. The most erotic body part we have is the brain and this woman emits something special from her persona. Plus the name ‘Sasha’ is pretty cool.
I FIND ACTRESS SASHA ALEXANDER TO BE HOT. SO HOT THAT I’M LETTING MY RULE OF ‘NO BARE FEET’ SLIDE.
Until she announced a newfound career in porn this fall, I had not heard of actress Maitland Ward. She used to star on the TV show “Boy Meets World” but I never watched that series. So I went online and checked out one of her adult videos.
My take is that Maitland Ward has an average looking face, giant fake boobs and a really ugly tramp stamp tattoo (is there such a thing as a pretty ‘tramp stamp’?) Finally, pardon the crudeness, but her bajingo looks like Bill Murray’s mouth in “Caddyshack.” I’ll take a hard pass on watching anything else Maitland Ward does.
MOVIE TALK-Positive buzz is happening for the Agatha Christie-like whodunit comedy “Knives Out.”
Due out soon is the war epic “1917” and there’s “The Rise of Skywalker” as the Star Wars series wraps up. I’ll probably get around to seeing those movies and here are the trailers for two films I’m really looking forward to seeing.
Speaking of movies, reports say there will be a sequel to the freaky smash hit “Joker.” Director Todd Phillips bet on himself and did not take a salary, opting for money on the back end if “Joker” became a hit. Word is Phillips will rake in about 100 million dollars for his work.
So for those who saw how the movie ended, how can there be a sequel? There’s rampant speculation that all that happened in the “Joker” was all in Arthur Fleck’s twisted imagination. We’ll see.
So let’s review: Misbehaving bratty kid, smelly repair guy, hot actress, not so hot porn star & movie talk. O.K. I think I’ve covered all that’s on my mind.
NEXT WEEK’S BLOG- Remembering a magical night with Queen.