Adios John y Johnny
Friday, Sept. 12, 2003
It�s a sad day when both John Ridder and Johnny Cash die. Not only it is sad that we lost a mediocre pop actor and an American music icon, it�s also sad that at Yahoo�s most emailed content that there are two stories about Ridder above one about Cash.
I�m sorry, but Johnny Cash is so much more important in my sector of the universe than John Ridder is/was. Though, I must say, I have never been a Three�s Company type person. I also have never watched Hogan�s Heroes. Sure, an episode or two might have slipped through, but fat Nazi�s aren�t my cup of tea.
John was very good as Ted on Buffy though. I get the feeling he would be a cool guy to hang out with.
Johnny was so old and cool that I can�t relate at all. His cover of NIN�s Hurt was brilliant and I�m so glad that I was turned onto it by �Chris with the yellow Focus� in Toronto months before it became popular, and thus less cool. At least no one�s crankin� the Orishas but me. Suckas!
And speaking of Espa�ol, I�m liking the Dish. Yesterday, when I got home from work the replay had gotten lots of 30 minute long news shows from different distance places. KTLA�s morning droogs look like shaved porn stars. The dude looks like the first contestant on the failed Fox show �Name My Ethnicity.� He looked like the porn version of CGI Betty Crocker�s son or something. The gal was wearing a very tight shirt. She had hair, and, I think, a face, and her shirt was very tight. Besides that, they were boring.
And that was one tight shirt.
In fact, yesterday was a lame day to record morning fluff news shows. LA and NYC were both just watching the traffic mess up around all the streets that were closed for the 2 year anniversary of the WTC attack. Frankly, I�m sick of calling it 9/11. Calling it 9/11 takes the sense of it being an attack away from it and starts lumping it in with something like Mt. Saint Helens. I also think Mafia goons should be sicced on those people who are suing the WTC and the airlines since their family members were killed. I mean, I�m sorry about their loss, but you have to remember that companies aren�t buildings. Companies are people, and now, you�re the ones attacking.
And, yeah, the lawyers took the job, yadda yadda, throw the lawyers in the sea/good start, etc. But I�ve got to say, being a lawyer is like being a doctor in my opinion. I don�t want to do either.
Doctor � �Well, my wife is building a 6,000 square foot house made of marble and gold. I think I�ll be able to go home around midnight and get six hours of sleep after I eat before I have to be back on shift. Oh, and the funniest thing happened, my son actually started cursing at me since I haven�t gotten the hole he ripped in his convertible fixed yet. That lil� scamp.�
Lawyer � �When I came out to my BWM 840, my tires had been punctured by a con that I had actually gotten off the hook with only 5 years probation. The piece of crap had the nerve to stand there and yell at me. I think I�ll go to a bar and try to drink away the sorrow I feel due to my moral bankruptcy and everyone hating me. But I have to read 900 pages of boring law crap before next Tuesday. Crap, I should have gone into non-contested divorces.�
Which also brings up the point that there are different kinds of lawyers. The lawyers who�ll be suing the WTC attack victims� bosses are scum of the earth. Even worse than those salesmen who try to pass themselves off as acquaintances to get past the front desk. But lawyers that close on houses, help with adoptions, and do divorces, they�re ok.
Well, I can�t agree with the divorce merchants on their profession, really. But the beating-a-dead-horse lawyers attacking the WTC are worse. No contest.