My passion for sudoku lasted a little more than a week. I am now officially burned out. In the end, the puzzles just aren't that interesting. They tend to be either not challenging enough, or so challenging that frustration is the only reasonable response. Some people love this stuff, but I just think I have better things to do with my recreation - watch porn, eat chocolate, watch porn while eating chocolate - there, that about covers it.
As for porn and chocolate, or any food for that matter, I haven't been to a strip club in some 15 years, but what I never understood then and don't now is how people can eat in those places. Setting aside any questions about what might be going on in the kitchen of such an establishment, I just know that I have no interest in fries and gravy when some hottie is waving her secret spots in my face. The only rationale I can come up with is to give patrons something else to do with their hands.
Continuing in this vein, I came across a really interesting show on Sex TV while channel surfing this morning. It was about laws regulating the sex business in New York City, or at least as they were a few years ago during the Rudy G. era. One rule was that no strip club, sex shop or whatever could be more than 500 feet from a school, church, residence or another sex establishment. Another was that a facility could dedicate only 40% of its space to items or practices which might be considered obscene. (I missed the beginning of the program, but I assume there is a by-law of some sort defining obscenity.) What's interesting about this second point is that they showed a sex shop called Toys in Babeland with dildos and vibrators all over the place, which the owner explained were not considered obscene by the City. Huh?! What exactly did the good people of NYC think those things were for? One side effect of this law was that strip clubs were forced to use valuable space once reserved for naked women to set up pool tables and big-screen TVs to get to the 40% level. Accordingly, strippers were losing their jobs, a tragedy unparalleled in human history. Of course, one clever entrepreneur got around this by starting a company called Models to Go, wherein strippers traveled the city in stretch limousines and, I guess, picked up customers along the way. The logic behind this was that automobiles were considered private space and not covered by the law. A great idea, well executed.
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Just to show I am not completely obsessed with sex today - I am at work after all, and anyone who's ever been to my office would know sex is the last thing on my mind when I'm here - our man Keifer Sutherland took home a Screen Actors Guild award last night for best actor in a TV drama for 24. This was his fourth consecutive nomination and second win, to go with a Golden Globe won after the first half of season one. He now has lost four times for the Emmy, but I expect he enjoys this consolation prize considering it comes from his peers. As an observer, I certainly think the SAG awards have surpassed all others in assessing what the truly good performances were of the year past.
By the way, I'll be offering my Oscar nomination predictions tomorrow a.m., but two winners from last night certainly auger well for some. First, Crash won best ensemble, generally considered the SAG "best picture" award. I thought Crash might be overlooked in award season because it was released so early in 2005, but clearly that has not been a problem. It should come up big tomorrow. Second, Rachel Weisz's win for supporting actress, coupled with her Golden Globe win, puts her way out in front of critics darling Catherine Keener for the Oscar. Clearly, Hollywood has made it's preference known.
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On the subject of Toronto being ignored by our new prime minister, it turns out our mayor expressed publicly a thought that had also occurred to me. Reason dictates that Harper should do what he can to impress us, since the key to moving from minority to majority government may be winning a few seats in T.O. Starting from his base of zero, even a shift of five seats away from the Liberals would be significant. The potential is there, of course, for much more. Add to this the fact that the provincial Liberal government may be a barrier to him doing things for us and Harper has the potential for a big win without any risk, by simply offering things to us then blaming the provincial Liberals when they don't happen, meanwhile co-opting our mayor as his mouthpiece. Either way, I think we'll be okay under P.M. Harper. It's the rest of the country I am concerned about.
As for porn and chocolate, or any food for that matter, I haven't been to a strip club in some 15 years, but what I never understood then and don't now is how people can eat in those places. Setting aside any questions about what might be going on in the kitchen of such an establishment, I just know that I have no interest in fries and gravy when some hottie is waving her secret spots in my face. The only rationale I can come up with is to give patrons something else to do with their hands.
Continuing in this vein, I came across a really interesting show on Sex TV while channel surfing this morning. It was about laws regulating the sex business in New York City, or at least as they were a few years ago during the Rudy G. era. One rule was that no strip club, sex shop or whatever could be more than 500 feet from a school, church, residence or another sex establishment. Another was that a facility could dedicate only 40% of its space to items or practices which might be considered obscene. (I missed the beginning of the program, but I assume there is a by-law of some sort defining obscenity.) What's interesting about this second point is that they showed a sex shop called Toys in Babeland with dildos and vibrators all over the place, which the owner explained were not considered obscene by the City. Huh?! What exactly did the good people of NYC think those things were for? One side effect of this law was that strip clubs were forced to use valuable space once reserved for naked women to set up pool tables and big-screen TVs to get to the 40% level. Accordingly, strippers were losing their jobs, a tragedy unparalleled in human history. Of course, one clever entrepreneur got around this by starting a company called Models to Go, wherein strippers traveled the city in stretch limousines and, I guess, picked up customers along the way. The logic behind this was that automobiles were considered private space and not covered by the law. A great idea, well executed.
* * * * *
Just to show I am not completely obsessed with sex today - I am at work after all, and anyone who's ever been to my office would know sex is the last thing on my mind when I'm here - our man Keifer Sutherland took home a Screen Actors Guild award last night for best actor in a TV drama for 24. This was his fourth consecutive nomination and second win, to go with a Golden Globe won after the first half of season one. He now has lost four times for the Emmy, but I expect he enjoys this consolation prize considering it comes from his peers. As an observer, I certainly think the SAG awards have surpassed all others in assessing what the truly good performances were of the year past.
By the way, I'll be offering my Oscar nomination predictions tomorrow a.m., but two winners from last night certainly auger well for some. First, Crash won best ensemble, generally considered the SAG "best picture" award. I thought Crash might be overlooked in award season because it was released so early in 2005, but clearly that has not been a problem. It should come up big tomorrow. Second, Rachel Weisz's win for supporting actress, coupled with her Golden Globe win, puts her way out in front of critics darling Catherine Keener for the Oscar. Clearly, Hollywood has made it's preference known.
* * * * *
On the subject of Toronto being ignored by our new prime minister, it turns out our mayor expressed publicly a thought that had also occurred to me. Reason dictates that Harper should do what he can to impress us, since the key to moving from minority to majority government may be winning a few seats in T.O. Starting from his base of zero, even a shift of five seats away from the Liberals would be significant. The potential is there, of course, for much more. Add to this the fact that the provincial Liberal government may be a barrier to him doing things for us and Harper has the potential for a big win without any risk, by simply offering things to us then blaming the provincial Liberals when they don't happen, meanwhile co-opting our mayor as his mouthpiece. Either way, I think we'll be okay under P.M. Harper. It's the rest of the country I am concerned about.
posted by George @ 12:04 p.m.
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