Friday, August 31, 2007

Wrestlers suspended for steroids

Yesterday, the only wrestling show in town, the WWE, suspended 10 as yet unnamed wrestlers for testing positive for steroids. (See this AP story.) Wow! I guess the only surprise here is that it was only 10 wrestlers. Had one of their own not just murdered his wife and child, the surprise would have been that they suspended anybody at all.
I've been watching wrestling off and on for over 20 years. (My wife is glad it's more off than on now.) As I've gotten older the wrestlers have gotten bigger and more physically defineed. I watched a relatively skinny little wrestler by the name of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, go from thin with a big nose, to being humungous, and dare I say, "buff". Is it any wonder that these guys are mad all of the time?
I want to know when they are going to suspend Vince McMahon? He's pretty cut- and he spends all of his time around wrestlers who are getting busted for steroids, and he uses the same doctors that have plead guilty to charges of supplying the steroids. As my mama always said, "If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck..." Okay, so maybe my mom never said that - I might be confusing her with Groucho Marx, but you get my point.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Dear Richard Cranium

Dear Richard Cranium,

I saw you in your car today. You were so cool! You probably didn't notice me because you were thinking cool thoughts. I was the guy in the crosswalk. I just wanted to thank you for pulling your car right in front of me into the crosswalk so that I could see up close how cool it was. And that gesture I made as you pulled away, spinning your wheels so fast that they squealed and left black marks across the white lines, that was my decidedly uncool thumbs up. Being that I am not used to dealing with people as cool as you, I got my digits mixed up and didn't put my thumb up at all.
By the way, and this is rather bold of me to say, I am sure you have a very large penis. I can just tell by how cool you are and by how super-cool your car is.

I'm not worthy,
-Eric