Things that make me say "Hmmm?"

There are a lot of things in this world that I question.

Why is it that “only the good die young” and really super crappy people live forever?

Why do people who would make great parents sometimes have a hard time getting pregnant but homeless crack whores can have like 17 babies?

And speaking of pregnancy, why would any teenage girl participate in a “pregnancy pact”? I watched the Lifetime movie about that news story hoping for some insight (why I thought a channel that repeatedly airs Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? starring Tori Spelling and Ivan Sergei was going to give me any kind of insight, I have no idea) and walked away feeling more confused than ever.

So anyhow, my point is, I question things. A lot. And lately there have been two things that have really been bugging me.

The first is “why are TV talk show hosts so unprepared”?

I ask this because in the last two weeks I have seen Channing Tatum, star of the current hit tearjerker, Dear John, interviewed twice. First by Hoda and Kathie Lee during the fourth hour of the Today Show (don’t hate me for watching them, I was waiting for snow updates during the blizzard) and then by Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately.

I am not a fan of Kathie Lee, even though she is from Bowie, but Hoda is supposed to be somewhat of a journalist, right? So how come neither of them bothered to read the bio that I am sure Tatum’s people supplied them with that mentioned that he met his wife, Jenna Dewan, while filming Step Up, a dance movie they starred in together? If they had, Tatum, and all us watching, would have been spared the uncomfortable moment when they asked “so, you’re married – what does your wife do?…..oh, she’s an actress, too. Have you ever worked together?…..or that’s how you met?……wow, you’re almost as hot as Frank Gifford”. So embarrassing for everyone involved.

And then days later the same thing happens on Chelsea Lately. And I like Chelsea. But come on, you didn’t have time to get Chuy to read Tatum’s bio to you so you wouldn’t look like an ass? I expect more of you, Chelsea!

And how do you think poor, Jenna Dewan, feels? I’ve never been handed a bio on Channing Tatum or Jenna Dewan, and I’ve never seen a movie with either one of them, but I can tell you off the top of my head that besides Step Up, he starred in the GI Joe movie, Stop Loss (which was the movie where Ryan Phillippe met the girl he cheated on Reese with) and She’s the Man starring Amanda Bynes (which unfortunately, I do actually have to admit to watching on cable more than once). And although I’ve never seen a Jenna Dewan movie, I have enjoyed her guest starring role on the new Melrose as the hot producer who is going to try to get Jonah’s movie made. And I also recall rumors about her meeting Justin Timberlake on a music video set and dating him after he and Britney broke up back in the “Cry me a River” days. So with no help from Tatum’s PR team or my own staff of PAs, and no research on my own, I already know more about Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan that Hoda, Kathie Lee or Chelsea. How are these people on TV and I’m stuck writing a blog that I don’t even get paid for? It’s the same infuriation that I feel when newscasters (especially in sports and entertainment) mispronounce the names of the people they’re reporting about. It’s not that hard to do your homework people.

If my job was to do research on people this hot, I would not only do it; I would enjoy it
The other thing that’s really making me question the universe right now is the new Boost Mobile commercial with the Chicago Bears Shuffling Crew.


Are you kidding me? I LOVED the Super Bowl Shuffle back in 1985. LOVE IT. I even read Jim McMahon’s autobiography because I loved the “punky QB known as McMahon”. For no real reason I still sometimes belt out “You’re looking at the fridge, I’m the rookie, I may be large but I’m no dumb cookie”. And then I saw this piece of crap commercial and all I could think was “WHY???” It’s so awful. They’re all old and still in their football uniforms. And Mike Ditka is some kind of DJ or mixer? I don’t even understand the commercial. All I know is when McMahon sings “My name’s McMahon and I’ll tell ya what’s wrong, my tight end in a cheetah print thong” and then they cut to Ditka who gives a thumbs up and says “that’s fresh”; I die a slow death of embarrassment for ever associating myself with the Super Bowl Shuffle. Thank God, Walter Peyton is no longer around because I couldn’t take seeing Sweetness participate in something so humiliating.

There are other things that get to me. New things and people shock and appall me on daily basis. Hopefully, the world will get smarter so I can stop judging it. Being above it all gets exhausting.