Deep thoughts, cheap shots, and bon mots, the sixth

I can’t believe the internet isn’t buzzing, and/or the tabloids aren’t bleating, about Dana Delaney’s new career as a phone sex operator! For real! I was getting towards the end of the SF Weekly, and you know how the last 4 pages are always “escort” ads and what not?

Well, I’m flipping through and then I’m all, “Oh wow, it’s what’s her face from ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘China Beach’ (which I never watched)!” More surprisingly, she is “FREE 2 try” and if you don’t believe me, you can call Dana at 415-314-0808. Charges will most certainly apply, but isn’t it worth it to “Chat with HOT girls!”? Esp. if one of those “HOT girls” is Dana Delaney!

So then I’m all like what?

You know, I don’t know why, but ever since they switched the Olympics to different years for the summer and winter games, I’ve been less interested. Anyone with any theories as to why? I will say, though, that watching Apollo Ohno was fun – I’d never paid much attention to short track speed skating before Turin and it’s awesome/scary to watch.

In other news, I “finally” got around to seeing “The Notebook.” I say finally as it seems like I’m the last person in the world to watch one of “the” most romantic movies of all time. I didn’t even know that Nick Cassavetes directed it – or that James Garner and Gena Rowlands were in it (although the latter makes sense if Cassavetes directed); and James Garner looks OLD. Wait, did he die?

Anyway, best scene: when Allie sees Noah in the paper with the restored house and faints dead away in her wedding dress. Sigh, if only I were rich and pretty enough to have Ryan Gosling and James Marsden fighting over me. :)

Actually, it was cool to see people be so VERY in love w/o having, well, you know, “done it.”

Another movie I “finally” got around to seeing was “Girl, Interrupted.” And I could not believe all the people in it! Winona Ryder, of course, and then Angelina Jolie looking like she was about 16 and certainly did deserve the Oscar. But also Whoopi Goldberg, Jeffrey Tambor, what’s her face from “Mad Men” – Peggy (Elizabeth Moss?), that girl from “Carnivale,” Mary Kay Place, Brittany Murphy, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave. Wild.

Speaking of Mary Kay Place, she’s also in “Big Love,” of course, which is the latest “hip” TV series I’ve started watching on DVD. This show trips me out. Although I’m only on season two, the performances are awesome. Chloe Sevigny tears it up, and Jeanne Tripplehorn and Bill Paxton are good, too. And Ginnifer Godwin.
What’s trippy about it is that it makes polygamy look so NORMAL! :)

Granted, they also show the seedy, misogynistic “compound” version, but the suburban polygamy doesn’t seem any stranger than other religious tenets. In fact, there was a GREAT scene wherein Chloe Sevigny’s character (Nicki – Wife #2) is just appalled at a Catholic’s explanation of communion and transubstantiation. “You seriously believe that about the blood and the body? Eww!” Interesting stuff.

BTW, did I miss the memo on it’s no longer “correct/the default” to be walking on the right in public/on the sidewalks? And don’t get me started on people with their nose buried in their effing digital whatever who can’t be bothered to look where they’re walking. I just plow right into those people now if they don’t even bother to look up and are walking right down the middle of the sidewalk. Hello, be a human being! Look around! Get a life! A HUMAN life!