CRAZY Monday Afternoon Goings On

In SHOCKING, NO! REALLY!?!?!?! news (thanks Keith Larson)

Sarah Palin has officially joined the Fox News Network in a variety of roles on the Business and News sides of the network. Fox News said that while Ms Palin would not have her own program, she would appear on the channel on a regular basis as part of a multi-year deal.

Mark McGwire finally came clean Monday, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998.

Simon Cowell has confirmed today that this IS his last year on "American Idol". He's bringing his English show, the "The X Factor" here to the states for Fox. This puzzles me as he already produces the same show formula but as an American version of the show on NBC called "America's Got Talent".

Many news outlets are reporting that the current host of "The Tonight Show" is very upset. Five months after relocating his family, his company, and everything else in his life to Los Angeles, Conan O'Brien is reportedly ready to leave NBC over talks to move Jay Leno back to his old spot on the late-night lineup. I don't blame him. The REAL winner of this is Jimmy Fallon and Carson Daly (yes, he's STILL on TV).

in NOT so SHOCKING! NO! REALLY?!?!?! news:

While (not because of) production on Spider Man 4 is temporarily delayed, Marvel Studios has begun production on Kenneth Brannaugh's "Thor" movie- TODAY actually. Nathalie Portman will play the love interest in this.

Whitney over at USA Today's Pop Candy is reporting that Stan Lee will guest star on The Big Bang Theory

Slash says he has turned down millions to reunite with Guns N' Roses.

Another Star Trek movie concerning the NEW timeline and new kids on the bridge is set for a 2012 release.

In other stuff,

5.China's online game revenues hits $4 billion in 2009. The US in 2009 had about $1 billion

Former NBA star Jayson Williams, his personal life in shambles, took responsibility for accidentally shooting his limousine driver to death eight years ago by pleading guilty Monday to assault and agreeing to serve at least 18 months in prison.

While Marvel sues to keep it's main comic book characters, it's also suing to invalidate the Kirby family's copyright claims. In a lawsuit filed today in New York City, lawyers for Marvel assert that Kirby's work for the company was "for hire," invalidating the claims of the heirs.

T'was The Week Before Turkey Day 2009

Big changes for me and the missus as we move into a smaller quaint li'l house just down the road from where we've pretty much have been off and on for around 16 years. The "big" move in date is(was) Monday, November 16th.

Just sitting here on a slower than usual Saturday morning here at work watching the late Bob Ross paint on of his beautiful masterpieces on public television on the big plasma TV waiting on the afternoon of college football to begin. I will be flipping between the Tennessee/Ole Miss, Clemson/NC State.

Gonna watch some of the Thanksgiving themed cooking shows while at work here this weekend to get some ideas for 'turkey day'. Of course to me, some of the ideas are way too fancy or unusual. I DO have that Wednesday and Thursday off. I work the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after Thanksgiving.

It's the middle of November here in Greenville, SC and the temperature today will be 3 or 4 degrees shy of 80 degrees. Now this is after a couple of 3 freezes in October.

So they've apparently found water on the moon. NASA says the impact they made a few weeks ago into a shadowy crater at the moon has revealed enough frozen water to fill at least five gallon buckets. An official NASA unit of measurement, hahaha! I'm a huge fan of NASA; always have. I was wondering about the moon. I know it controls the tides here on mother gaia (Earth). What if the moon consisted of mostly water underneath a thin shell of "space dirt"? What if major drilling or development actually would cause great harm to it and subsequently and dramatically affect the earth's oceans? Hmmm. BTW, Roland Emerich's latest CGI-ed destruction of Earth, "2012", was released yesterday. Coincidence?

The mighty Tarheels take own coach Butch Davis' old team, the Miami Hurricanes this afternoon at 3:30pm ET. Butch took the 'canes form obscurity to National prominence in the 80's. We're still waiting on him to work that same magic at Chapel Hill here at year 3.Earlier this week. the mighty #6 ranked Tarheel basketball team defeated 2 division 2 teams. YAY!

The Steelers face a tough test against the Bengals Sunday.

The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday in Portland, Oregon this week.

Babes Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin are being destroyed by national TV media this week and probably continuing for the next few days because of books they've recently written.

I'm outta here. Take care and have a great day.