A few items on the budget for today:
* Just call him Turd Blossom. This guy is so shamelessly trashy it's actually bad for Britney, considering how many of her fans are either a.) baby mamas already or b.) destined to become one. A man who disses his own kid is just a bitch.
* And speaking of Turd Blossom: Trudeau is right. Kill it or run it, but don't edit it. And does anyone else think that if Doonesbury belongs on the editorial page, then Boondocks does too? It's at least as political as Doonesbury, and it's been flying under the radar for a while now.
(For the record, I don't think either belongs on the edit page, and I said so when Doonesbury ran on the page on which I worked.)
I suspect that many older newspaper readers (and newspaper editors who make such decisions) just don't know what the hell Aaron McGruder is talking about half the time. If they did, it's a sure bet the villagers with torches would be out in force. It'd be the biggest scandal since Miss Buxley.
* Went to a Trader Joe's for the first time yesterday. I picked up a few things, namely a really good and cheap fresh pizza dough (.79), and a 12-oz. hunk of bittersweet chocolate ($3.24) with which I plan to make Nigella's chocolate loaf cake.
I gotta say I was kind of underwhelmed. The store itself was much smaller than I expected, and though the prices really were good, I'm not sure it's worth a 40-minute schlep to Marlton. Maybe I'm still spoiled from Delicious Orchards. Around here, for my money, the Stoltzfus Amish Market in Williamstown is the place to shop.
* MiG! MiG! MiG! I love the David Bowie thing. And I've figured out what has attracted me to this show. This may be the first reality show in which something is actually at stake -- namely, the careers and reputation of a band which, with the right singer, could be huge again. The show's website says INXS's end of the deal is that the person they pick will record an album and do a worldwide tour with them. So in order for it to not be a colossal failure, they, the band, have to totally buy in. This is what makes it so obvious which singers are obviously competing in a talent contest and which ones are actually performing. (please, Brooke Burke, please stop calling them "rockers.")
And that house band not only kicks ass, but includes a guy from Philly. Nice.
* Can't believe I'm about to say this, but I really like Eric Clapton's new song "Revolution."
