That Was The Week That Was - In Blogs

The "Sex and the City" movie opened here last week. I'm an old fart - also a guy - and know very little about it but my daughter was a big fan of the series and mostly loved the movie which is also turning out to be a monster hit.

Sarah Jessica Parker is from Nelsonville, Ohio, and that's close enough to consider her a hometown girl that's made good! That's why her picture is over to the right.

"Sex" is considered a chick flick, so why are some guys going to go see it? Gawker fills us in.

My daughter certainly knows who S.J. Parker is, but when I asked her if she knew of Harvey Korman, she said “Harvey who?” He died last week. Crooks and Liars took a look back at this very funny man.

Former Bush spokesman has apparently grown a pair of balls! Scott McClellan socked it to Bush in his book What Happened. Reality check: Is Scott really telling us anything we didn’t already know? Of course not. What I find really shocking is that he ripped off the title for his book. 23/6 gives us the details.

The Cincinnati Nation reported last week that Cincinnati is highly polluted. Our city is ranked as the third biggest carbon footprint in the country.  Damn. Can’t we be #1 at anything?

Finally. Finally! We have proof that aliens are here on earth. Or are they puppets? Denverpost.com gave us a full report last week.

Is Hillary Clinton too drunk to be president? Go to  Wonkette to find out.

Will you “Reel Around the Fountain” this summer? Last week over at Spill It, Mike Breen told us of the music events that will be happening around Fountain Square. Mike, as you stated in your post, Death Metal nor Gangsta Rap music will be featured. I live for this kind of music. Therefore, I’ll be boycotting Fountain Square all summer.

Former activist Amanda Mayes had her black identity stolen on the internet. What did Nate Livington have to do with it? Go to The Cincinnati Dealer to find out.

The Slog Blog had a little lunchtime quickie last week. That kid sure has a decent mother.

Are the “hot dogs” in our City Hall discriminating against our hot dog vendors downtown? The Cincinnati Beacon dared to ask the question last week. With all the problems Cincinnati has, here’s a suggestion: Leave the damn hot dog vendors alone and focus in on real issues. Damn!

Sorry. Just had to vent.

- Larry Gross

(Photo of Sarah Jessica Parker is all over the internet. Go figure.)

Comments

[Heidi]

Sex and the City: very nice to have the girls back. I'll see the movie for a third time this afternoon.

[hard as nails]

sarah sort of has a head like a horse - but a pretty horse.

[jackula]

sex and the city...i love carrie...i wish she was gay... :)

[David E. Gallaher]

I'm just here to see if "hard as nails" had something to say about downtown hot dog vendors, seeing as how he is our resident expert on weenies.
Because he didn't, I'll just say, as a person who spends a lot of time downtown, that the guy who runs downtown may be a little anal. He's the head of DCI which has HQ in the old Enquirer building. His mission has been to make downtown appealing to suburbanites--whom we all presume to likewise be anal.

My approach would have been to get rid of policing and bring on the sin--legalize drugs, nudity and prostitution... all vices--the hotdogs and all the attendant messiness.

I'm willing to give his "model" a few more years, and see how it plays.
In the meantime, anal suburbanites should absolutely have another look at downtown. They might like it.