re: last night’s APPRENTICE — Val thinks I’m crazy to even suggest this, but I have a hard time believing that the reappearance of potential buyers who just happen to put in a winning bid two minutes before the players’ deadline isn’t evidence of the strong guiding hand of SURVIVOR producer Mark Burnett.

I admit that there are crazy rich people, yes, and that they are often unpredictable, but only on TV, in the waning hours of a hit show like THE APPRENTICE, do those kinds of “unbelievably lucky coincidences” happen.

… yes, I’m watching THE APPRENTICE. Shut up.

Don’t ask my why the phonecam picture from the park was reposted at 5:57 a.m. I couldn’t tell you, and I sure as hell wasn’t up at that hour.

Dad sends this in email:

http://www.jerry.digisle.tv/room.html

which I would have found absolutely hilarious even if I weren’t in the midst of a full-on renewal of my fascination with Superman… (and Patrick! THE TICK! Warburton!!)

Definitely click on the sing-along — it’s COMPLETELY worth it.

Ruling on Senate Hopeful’s Papers Delayed

By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent

LOS ANGELES – A California family court judge put off a decision Monday on whether to unseal records in the divorce of Jack Ryan, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois.

…Ryan won the GOP nomination in the March 16 Illinois primary. Some of his Republican rivals raised the issue of the sealed papers, hinting that he was withholding documents because they contained embarrassing information.

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Blogged mostly because of my professional interest in leaving divorce records sealed once they’ve been so designated. Given that the records are three years old, what would be in the financial disclosure affidavits from a divorce that wouldn’t appear in financial disclosures made for the campaign? Nothing relevant, that’s what.

I’m on a general tear against both sides of the aisle today, it seems. This kind of behavior doesn’t serve the best interests of either party, nor is it necessary to properly vet a Republican candidate’s qualifications for a Senate seat, and I call bullshit on the Trib for unnecessarily digging in the mud.

THE LADYKILLERS is one hell of a lot funnier than I expected it to be. You never really know what you’re gonna get with the Coen brothers — sometimes you expect it to be funny as hell, and you maybe laugh, but it turns out not to be a comedy. Sometimes you think it’s gonna be serious, and then you find yourself laughing your head off unexpectedly. THE LADYKILLERS is more of the latter than the former. I expected to be amused; I didn’t expect to be chortling over J.K. Simmons’ Michael Jeterish pornstar mustache. Also, Mountain Girl. Anyway — knowing that this was a remake but never having seen it, my brain kept inserting a young Alec Guiness in Tom Hanks’ place, which made for an interesting mental conglomeration.

Bottom line: it’s funny as hell. Worth your dough, in my opinion. But then, I’ve been wrong before…

Astoundingly massive photo gallery update:

Also, the phonecam weirdness appears to have passed, as you can probably see below.

via phonecam

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