The Art of Coffee Sipping

It's funny how people drink coffee or tea or any other beverage for that matter. People always need to take two sips especially when they are doing other things. For example, I was in class the other day and a woman in front of me was drinking from her coffee mug. She took one sip, paused, and then took another sip. Later on in lecture, she held her coffee mug in her hand, took a sip, paused and took another sip. This "sip, pause, sip" action continued throughout the lecture and then I realized that I too "sip, pause, sip." I became so conscious of this mechanism that I researched further and noticed that everyone does this especially when reading the newspaper, studying, or looking at the computer. One sip is never good enough because we have to pause and collect our thoughts about our beverage and then take another sip. Fascinating.

Bastard Children

bas·tard [bas-terd –noun
1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.

What's with Hollywood's obsession with getting pregnant before getting married? Nicole Ritchie, Halle Berry, and now Jessica Alba. I can sympathize with Ritchie (who wants to be married to Joel Madden of Good Charlotte?) and maybe with Alba (who's the father again?) but it just boggles my mind as to why they all have to happen at the same time. I think the Writer's Strike is having a greater effect than they realized. Since these actors aren't working, they all figured, "I want to have a child!" Damn writers!

Poor James Marsden

I saw "Enchanted" over break and I once again saw James Marsden play the lovable guy that loses out to the more handsome and stronger (for lack of a better word) male lead. Marsden (who looks surprisingly like Chris Pine) has always played that guy and it's so sad. I think it all started with "The Notebook" when he lost Rachel McAdams to Ryan Gosling. And then the trend started...Cyclops then Richard White from "Superman Returns." He's being typecast as the good guy that can never get the girl. At least, he's finally going to get some action with Katherine Heigl in "27 Dresses" if the trailer is a good indication of the movie (which it always is in romantic comedies).

Rambo

This is pathetic. I know that Bruce Willis found some success with his Die Hard revival last summer. But everyone likes Die Hard. Not everyone likes Rambo. Also, Sylvester Stallone already used his "bring back an old action hero after 15 years" with Rocky in 2006. If you've seen the posters and commercials, it seems as if they are going after the Gen X kids who are into wrestling and people like John Cena or the rock. No one will see this movie and I hope it dies so that I don't have to see Stallone's botox infused face ever again.

The Writer's Strike

This is starting to make me very angry. The fact that this has been dragging for almost three months is remarkable. What are they fighting for? Is it artistic freedom? or money? It's sad because the writers are looking more like selfish and shortsighted morons. Each day that this strike continues more of the lower paid employees of television shows and film crews are out of work. There are more of those people than pathetic writers. More importantly, the viewers including myself are sick and tired of "American Gladiators," "Deal or No Deal," and other reality shows. I want a full season of 24 and Lost. While I understand that writers deserve more credit for their work (and it always irks me when the credits say "A Film By" and then list the director when the writer is probably more deserving of that credit), but writers must look at the bigger picture and realize their image will never be the same the longer this drags on. Look what happened to baseball...