Get Well Shout Out, Apology to a Celeb and Spectacular Cleavage ...

First a couple of PSA’s

My good friend and a great writer, AB from Apathy Lounge had a real scare over the weekend which resulted in emergency surgery.  Thankfully she’s on the mend and getting better.  But, if you could, take a minute out of your busy day to send some good thoughts and/or prayers her way.  I’m sure they would be greatly appreciated.


Also, as Founder, President, CEO and Executive Editor of Cynical_Bastard I would like to personally extend an apology to Eliza Dushku for that “It’s not like she’s was getting ready for the Oscars” crack in yesterday’s post.  I was in a dark, angry place when I wrote those hurtful words and was simply lashing out at poor Eliza. 

I have also officially rescinded the first strike that I had given her for her failure to acknowledge my birthday on Twitter.  I hope that she can find it in her heart to forgive me and we can become BFFs again.  Well, she will be Celebrity BFF #4 after Alessandra, Miley and Ana Marie Cox.  But, that’s still a pretty good place.

Just in case you don’t know who Eliza is…

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Yesterday, somebody “flagged” that pic of Alessandra Torresani that I had posted.  This is at least the third time that this has happened.  And, each time it has happened, it has been a pic of a young (she’s 22), petite woman.  Weird huh?  Seriously people.  If you don’t have anything better to do than to flag pics of attractive women that are posted on people’s blogs, then you really need to find something productive to do with your life. 

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I mentioned the other day that I got birthday shout-outs from Matt-Man, Micky, Desert Songbird, Vinny and Lu.  I also got a happy birthday song from my friend Kim and a Rockband “Birthday” by the Beatles video from Annie & Burl.

And, there was one shout out that I left off of yesterday’s post that I wanted to share with you.  That’s because I wanted to make sure I got her permission before I posted this.  

Here is the spectacular birthday shout-out I got from the awesome Mandy on Twitter:


How freaking awesome is that?  Now that’s a real friend right there.  And, if you aren’t reading her blog, you should start doing so TODAY!

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Okay, so thus ends all the birthday related posts for this year.  I promise.  I was going to say that you are probably getting tired of them, but I if you are, I’m sure Mandy’s cleavage made up for it.



Oh yeah, one last thing.  Doc and I have an NCAA Men's Tournament pick 'em challenge set up on CBS Sports.  It's free to enter. If you want to play along, let Doc know and he'll send you an invite. 

Stop! Thief! ...

I don’t know how many of you guys ever watch Andy Rooney, or even “60 Minutes” on CBS, but did you happen to see him this last week? I don’t really watch “60 Minutes” and I don’t really like Andy Rooney, but I did watch this last week. Mostly I watched because they were doing a segment on Louisiana Gov Bobby Jindal, and I wanted to see him in a different setting from that “response” he gave after Obama’s “non” State of the Union Address.

I thought it was interesting that Jindal went back to being the thoughtful, intelligent person on “60 Mins” that I remember seeing at other times. I don’t really know why he seemed like such an amateur during his “response” speech, but he did. Okay, I have a few theories, but I won’t actually get into that today.

Today I want to talk about Andy Rooney. Mostly I want to talk about Andy Rooney stealing my shtick. It’s not just that he was rambling about absolutely nothing, or that he was boring as hell that reminded me of my blog, it was the sudden, and seemingly needless, appearance of this on my TV while Andy was talking the different seasons …


WTF Andy? After all these years you have to steal ideas from me? I think I deserve some kind of credit dude. Or royalties. I’d settle for on air credit as a creative consultant.

I’m pretty sure that Eliza Dushku would totally agree with me that I’m being ripped off here.



Speaking of which … Am I the only one who is a little under whelmed by “Dollhouse” so far? I hate to invite the wrath of Joss Whedon fans, but I actually just turned the show off about half-way through last Friday’s episode. It was just sooooo boring. Even Eliza was boring me. In fact, and I really hate to admit this, but she might have been the reason I turned the show off.



See how I skillfully worked that pic of Dushku and her luscious legs in there without it really relating to my post at all? And then I threw out that question about the possibility of “Dollhouse” sucking, just to make it look like I was going somewhere with all this? That’s freaking talent right there people.

Talent that Andy Rooney doesn’t really have, but is clearly trying to develop. I wish him all the best, but dude, you gotta give credit when you swipe ideas like “Throw in a pic of a couple of scantily clad hotties in for no reason” from someone else. Especially when it’s what made the person you swiped it from a bloggging legend. Seriously dude. That’s just wrong.*

Oh but I was serious about “Dollhouse” kinda sucking. Anyone else agree?








*It’s a pretty well established fact that Mr. Rooney has no fucking sense of humor whatsoever. So, in the event that he or some ass kissing dweeb who works for him happens upon this blog, you should know that it is satire.

Kinda.