THEY NEEDED A STUDY TO FIGURE THIS ONE OUT?

From last Thursday's Independent:

Men like casual sex more than women – scientific fact

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Thursday, 26 June 2008

It is now a truth acknowledged even by science: men like casual sex more than women do. (READ ENTIRE ARTICLE...)

TIJUANA VIOLENCE : ART NOT SACRED

"Chivaca", originally uploaded by Isha.Net*.

Everyone knows that violence in Tijuana has escalated to terrible new heights this past year. The citizens there have had to endure rampant kidnappings and street shoot-outs that make the awesome scene from Michael Mann's Heat look like a water gun fight. As if having to tolerate disrespectful and drunken gringos wasn't already bad enough, but now it seems even the cows are no longer sacred...well not real cows but cows as art. Yesterday, a fiberglass cow named "Chivaca" was burned to the ground by villainous vandals.

Last May Grupo Lala, Mexico's Dairy conglomerate, sponsored "CowParade Lala Tijuana 2008" which is really an international public art exhibit that's been around ten years and has been to cities such as Chicago, New York, London, Tokyo and Barcelona. It consists of 70 fiberglass cows painted by local as well other Mexican artists. The pieces have been set up at different popular areas around the city. For some great photos of these cows, you can visit this photo pool from Flickr.

So far, eight cows have been damaged since the exhibit opened in Tijuana with "Chivaca" being the latest victim. Although the three vandals have been apprehended. It's unknown whether they are also responsible for the others. Also unknown is whether these guys are art vandals, trying to make their own statement, just plain idiots or since it was "Chivaca" after all, if they are just die-hard fans of Club América!

Whatever it is...it's a major downer that the people of Tijuana have to yet again, deal with another ugly stain on their civic pride.

DÉBORA NASCIMENTO: WHAT'S REALLY "INCREDIBLE" ABOUT THE HULK!

This really isn't a movie review, in fact, it's not a review at all. OK, I saw the movie and I liked it. The first Hulk movie, the overwrought drama by Ang Lee, has been completely tossed into the cinematic round file and they've started a whole new franchise with Ed Norton. I'm all for it. First Iron Man and now this movie...it's been a good summer for superhero movies as the filmmakers grew up with the genre and actually understand and care about it. Well thank God for that and how proud and happy we are for all of them, but what struck me more than Ed Norton's deft take on Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler's bad acting, was Brazilian bombshell, Débora Nascimento!! I think she was in the movie for all of one minute but I'm quite confident every geek googled her when they had the chance, like...well...like I did when I got home.

Understanding Banner's condition (transforming into the Hulk, after rapid increases of his heart rate) effectively conveys to the heterosexual male viewer the utter and unbearable torture that he lives with. Oh the humanity!!! I was quite disappointed when the plot had moved out of the the beautifully shot,Brazilian favela and I had to face the fact that her role was done. It would have been more interesting if they just kept the entire movie set in Brazil. Yeah, I'm a little biased but it's difficult to watch the post-Aerosmith Liv Tyler after seeing Débora Nascimento. She's "incredible" and I'm certain we will be seeing a lot more of her.

MORE MATCH GAME MADNESS...

As you may or may not care, I'm a huge fan of the 70's game show Match Game, so I was happy to learn that a new pilot for TBS is happening. I hope it works. The reason it worked so well in it's hey-day was because of the chemistry orchestrated by Gene Rayburn and the the celebrity guests. Norm MacDonald and Sarah Silverman ( two of my favorite comedians) have signed on which gives me great hope.

Here is the full story(reprinted without permission of course):

Silverman, MacDonald spark to "Match Game" redo

By Kimberly Nordyke Thu Jun 19, 9:30 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywod Reporter) - Is Sarah Silverman the new Brett Somers? Could Norm MacDonald be the next Richard Dawson?

The comedians have signed on to be on the panel for TBS' updated "Match Game" pilot, shot this week in Los Angeles. Also taking seats are Bob Einstein, a.k.a. comic stuntman Super Dave Osborne, Kids in the Hall trouper Scott Thompson, Rashida Jones ("The Office") and Niecy Nash ("Reno 911!").

Andrew Daly ("Semi-Pro") hosted the pilot for the cable channel.

"Match Game," in which contestants try to match missing words in a given phrase with a panel of celebrity guests, originally debuted in 1962. Several incarnations followed, and the format reached its naughty heyday with the Gene Rayburn-hosted version in the 1970s -- once the questions were tweaked to allow for a generous amount of double-entendre humor.

The game is played by two contestants and a panel of six celebrities. Each contestant attempts to match the most celebrities in a series of fill-in-the-blank questions, such as "Sam is so short, he makes _____ look tall."

Along with Somers and Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly was another longtime regular on the show. Other panelists over the years included Vicki Lawrence, McLean Stevenson, Betty White, Orson Bean, Fannie Flagg and Nipsey Russell.

The most recent version of "Match Game" ended its run in 1999. Reruns air regularly on cable network GSN, effectively exposing younger audiences to the format.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

TRANSITIONAL LIVING...

I haven't been blogging much lately for varied reasons: been packing, moving and an internet connection that borders on being shitty or just plain fucked up. I'm lucky if I can use for it for 6 hours out of the day. Once connected, I have about 5 minutes to send emails, etc before it disconnects yet again. It seems it to get worse during the hotter weather. I've called AT&T so many times in the last three years, I've given up.

Presently, I'm back in San Francisco dropping off some of our stuff before we actually move up here and also I need to handle some other things like trying to get my son in the right school.

I still plan to blog despite the fact that no one reads this dribble. It's just for me really, let's face it. It's a way to vent, a way to relieve stress and kill time. It's sort of like doing a sudoku or crossword puzzle except I take no pleasure in those things.

I don't even know where to begin. It's so frustrating: 39 years old and living off of my parents. Yeah..it's demoralising. fo sho...fo sho...

BACK ON THE BLOCK...NOT YET

IMG_0535.JPG, originally uploaded by güero.

We're not quite back yet but will be soon. There's so much to do, as we're still crawling out from the wreckage of the past four years. I'm really going to miss Southern California. I'm not ready to leave a but at this point there are no other options. It's really a taking a huge step backwards from the suburban bliss and peacefulness of beautiful Poway, California. Poway is great place for families and great place to live.

I was born and raised in the Mission District and proud of it actually, but let's face it: It's dirty and dangerous. It's wonderful now-a-days for the young artsy, techy and tattooed hipsters who want to feel urban, but it's a right frightful place for children and the San Francisco Unified School District?...Well, I don't even need to go there. Most residents in San Francisco seem to care more about dogs than children.

I also worry about my own self-control as I have many friends in the City and there are bars everywhere and many are in convenient stumbling distance, which means the thought of having to drive isn't an impediment. Mis primas, Dina and Shelli are already plotting my demise with a "welcome back" night for me at the local dive, the Jay n' Bee. Oh no....

SHATTER!

So this passed Thursday, I'm cruising in the family truckster, headed south on the 163 just before the 52, (through the Miramar Marine Air base) listening to my ipod, minding my own guero business when all of a sudden, I hear an explosion of glass. I quickly turned around, only to see my center passenger window shattered with a huge gaping hole. The first thought I had was," Did some one just try to shoot me?!" But there were no other cars around me and I hadn't cut anyone off. Then I just assumed, that maybe there is a firing range on the airbase that's not too secure. Anyway, whatever it was, it missed me by "that" much and luckily my son wasn't sitting there. I looked for a shell but I couldn't find one. The shattered tempered glass that was left made a continuous snapping sound, like bacon frying in a pan.


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I was told by the good folks at All-Star Glass in Poway that it's very rare for an object on the road to get kicked up and break a side window and that it would take something incredibly hard to break to break that window. So who knows! All I know is that I'm out $239.

I called 911 and they patched me up the CHP who told me that I could make a report at a station...if I wanted too. I passed. Interestingly, the woman at UPS (the location I was headed during the incident) told me that one of her coworkers had the same thing happen to him on the same freeway but that he had a bullet hole in his car door!!!!