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So a woman develops the backless bra, and everyone is ga-ga over the innovation. Seriously folks, in an age when scientists are growing organs in petri dishes, and when surgery can make Dolly Parton forever firm, why has it taken so long for someone to patent this no-brainer?
I've been through enough earthquakes to know that they're no joke. In 1992, I was in Humboldt County when the big ones (so to speak) hit, and I saw the telephone polls waving back and forth.
Nevertheless, I can't help the rush I get when an earthquake strikes, and the little voice in the back of my head that screams for more.
Every time an earthquake kicks off, there's that initial moment of surprise, and then the anxious expectation — is this THE BIG ONE? The megathrust? Are we all going to be shaken off the planet like so many fleas off a pissed off dog? When, as has happened so far in my life, it never is the big one, I can't help but feeling a little disappointed.
I've just learned that the two Coreys of my youth — yes, that's right, Haim and Feldman — are together again, this time on the small screen.
Apparently, there's a show on cable that pits the two former child stars together in a reality show where they struggle to capture again the fame that dominated their youth.
Feldman looks good, Haim looks like a tweaker. Here's a clip:
I have a wife that I love to death, and Lord knows she puts up with more faults from me than I could attach to every finger and toe on my body. In other words, she puts up with a lot.
But I put up with my share, too, and that is the nature of a marriage. But how could any person, male or female, want more than one spouse? As if the one isn't enough to keep you on your toes.
But I have to say that if it were up to me, I don't know that there would be laws written to outlaw such a practice. As long as the decision to enter into a marriage was made by consenting adults, and not by parents seeking to offload noisy teenagers, why should the state intervene?
Conan is in town as we speak, and I'm getting ready to march up J Street to the Eureka Women's Club to take part in a Q and A session. It will be Schwarzenegger, the Times-Standard editorial board and the, ahem, Eureka Reporter editorial board.
We hope it won't turn into a full-on cage match showdown between us and the Reporter staff with the governor playing referee. I'm sure it won't ... I think.
I'll write an update on what happened when I get back, sometime around 1 p.m. Unfortunately, the best question has already been asked. When the governor came up to kick off his re-election campaign at the Samoa Cookhouse, Andrea Arnot piped up with a humdinger: Will there be a Terminator 4?
It gave all the journalists on the North Coast a reason to be proud.
***** UPDATE ******
The ER and TS managed to avoid any scraps this time around, even exchanging a handshake and pleasantry or two. Both sides were obviously thrilled to have the big-wig in town, although in journalism it's totally not cool to show that you're impressed.
In the who-had-the-best-questions competition, as always I thought our staff walked away the easy victor. And online, the T-S creamed the competition: a video, a multimedia slideshow and a Web update up as of 4 p.m.
I love competition.
As for Schwarzzy, it's easy to see why he was elected. He has the charisma of a movie star, and he's not afraid to use it for his political advantage. At times today, when a tough question was asked, he evade the issue and try to charm his way out of it.
Case in point. He was asked about the skyrocketing cost of higher education, and he said he has worked to minimize the rate of increase but that in the end students just need to get a job and pay their own way through school. That's what I did, he said.
Let's analyze this: if UC Davis has a tuition of more than $20,000 a year, and a student works as a dishwasher or fry cook to raise the money, then he or she might just make enough working full-time to pay that tuition.
But living expenses — rent, food, gas, bus pass — you can forget about. And books? That's absolutely out of the question. This answer pointed out that on some things, this governor seems absolutely out of touch.
He mentioned that his daughter was in the midst of applying for various colleges, and was lucky enough to get accepted. Hmmm. Will she be paying her own way through college, Mr. Schwarzenegger, by working an hourly job? Somehow I doubt it.