There Is Only One Sinnacle

I realize people may question my good taste but this dante guy kills me. Forget about Bucky Larson this guy needs his own movie.

I realized the guy killed himself but he hit his fame whoring wife so in my books that makes it fair game. Everytime I see the guy I think of Milhouse and hope his life didn’t follow the same direction.

On a side note I do believe Milhouse may of been inspired from Paul on the Wonder Years.

Sings….what would do if I sang out of tune………….

Sad to hear the news of Bubba Smith passing away yesterday at 66 which is considered ancient for former football players sadly. Most will recognize him from the police academy series but I’ll always remember him for this guess spot on Married with Children as Al Bundy former football rival. This show was by far my fav Married with Children episode. The episodes with Anthrax in it was a close second.

R.I.P Bubba

People are funny sometimes. I can understand it being a shock to the senses waking up on Sunday to discover Amy Winehouse had died but please I’m not shedding a tear over this news.

Amy Winehouse has spent the last three years being a joke and while thankfully I have no first hand knowledge of this I’m sure addiction isn’t a barrel of laughs but here is a person who was blissed with a god given gift and decided to threw it away with a needle in her arm and who knows what else.

A tragedy is what happened in Norway, this is a case of a soul lost. I don’t want to be mean spirited but I can’t bring it in me to feel bad for a person who threw her life away.

One of the cool things about my job is that I get to see most of the new TV shows before they go on the air. During upfront season TV stations all parade around their show like it’s going to be the next Lost or Glee. Some are good, most are average, some are bad then you have Missing which is suppose to be a mid season replacement on ABC this year.

So it’s come to this for Ashley Judd hasn’t it? First off watch the promo clip for this show. It’s horrible. What legs can this show have when you really think about it. What happens when she finds her son? Does the show name get changed to Found and it ends like a Spanish soap opera? What if she doesn’t find her son, doesn’t that make her an awful ex CIA agent? Yes, it does.

More questions I ask myself, I don’t want to say Ashley Judd is a bad mother but if you give up your job to raise your kid and you lose your kid that makes you a bad mother. Not even Morgan Freeman can save this show however it would be funny if the kid is discovered to be Morgan Freeman on some sci-fi twist. Here is hoping Missing doesn’t turn out to be a new 24 instead of goes away like NBC’s Chase did last season.

Every morning I get off at Yonge Subway station in Toronto where the new season of Degrassi is on every poster in the station. For some reason this rage comes over me when I see these posters. Now I realize I’m way outside of the Degrassi target audience and with that I’ve never watched the new show but I hate looking at this kids. Every poster featuring the class members remind me of those kids I hated growing up who went to performing art schools. I feel like this kids want to jump to 90210 or become rap artist.

This is where the beauty of the original Degrassi sets in. All those kids looked like people I was growing up with. I never looked at Joey Jeremiah and ever looked at him as an actor playing a part. Granted I was young and naive then.

Needless to say I will freely admit I grew up watching Degrassi and it thought me many a life lesson. Below are some of those and other random thoughts.

Lesson 1) I learned early on I’ll never drop acid. Poor Shane did acid at a concert and he pretty much turned into a vegetable soon after. To make Shane’s life more messed up he knocked up Spike in grade eight. Talk about throwing away your life at an early age. His parents must been be happy parading him around at family functions. Which brings me to point number two.

2) Don’t knock up the Spiky hair rocker chick. You don’t want to be 13 with a kid.

3) If you are going to be a rock star you should have more then one song. There was a reason the zit remedy never went far. The only song they ever performed was everybody wants something.

4) Moving on to Wheels. He thought me to never hitch hike since there is a good catch someone is going to try and molest you. Creepy screen below.

5) It may of not been the smartest decision but I decided to go to Centennial College mostly because they filmed Degrassi High there. I saw the ramp and I saw my future.

6) I learned early on that I was a cold hearted bastard as I couldn’t care one bit when Jean Claude blew his brains out. You broke up with a girl, no need to shoot yourself.

Anyway I could go on and on with Degrassi but this is my little tribute to a show that was so ahead of it’s time and captured a moment so perfectly.

Sorry for the lack of posting this week. I’ve been rolled up in a ball at work and at home swearing at my teeth. The worst part about having a tooth ache is the fact it isn’t a manly injury. There is no bruise to show off so unless you’ve been through you most likely are going to think suck it up.

Thankfully tomorrow at 8am there are going to yuck these damn things out. My only experience with wisdom teeth was my brother crying for two days after he got his taken out. Not looking forward to that part but I am looking forward to being able to sleep at night and not having to drown 3 red bulls a day to keep me awake.

I got home last night and watched the end of raw on thescore (no USA network up here) after Raw goes off the air thescore airs this show called right after wrestling with Renee Paquette and some guy who looks like my friend Chris. I can’t stand this show cause it reminds me of reading those 80′s wrestling magazines that still acted like wrestling was real but it did remind me or something.

With that out of the way let’s focused on the host Renee Paquette. We and by that I mean me are a fan. I remember being one of the 500 people who watched her on bite tv thinking she is going to outgrow that station anytime now. Well fresh forward two years later and I think she will soon outgrow the score. She is funny, talks sports without sounding like a now it all (I believe she came from a comedy background) yet doesn’t dumb it down when talking about sports. Most of all she is hot, not super hot where you would feel like you couldn’t talk to her but the best kind of hot where you think “hey, if she is drunk I may have a chance to make out with her.”

That being said Sid Seixeiro is still my favorite person on thescore, mainly because he is Portuguese but he is also funny. Sadly I have a feeling he would be a huge prick in real life then again so am I.

My unofficial Score personality list.

1. Sid Seixeiro
2. Renee Paquette
3. Tim Micallef

Last. James Sharman

Like many people I was a huge wrestling fan in the 80′s and 90′s but for the last 10 years ever since WCW was sold off my interest in wrestling has become less and less. I still read the wrestling observer to keep up on wrestling news but I can’t watch more than 10 minutes of Raw and Smackdown anymore without my intelligence being insulted.

For the first time in along time I’ve actually heard people talk about wrestling in the office today. What a picture perfect promo Punk gave last night. He said saying many things most people have been dying to hear about the flaws of WWE. Make no mistake about it for as edgy as it was WWE signed off on this. First off Punk didn’t mention going to TNA, he only mentioned going to New Japan or Ring of Honor. Second, nothing gets on airs without Vince McMahon giving the ok. CM Punk may believe everything he said last night but rest assured he went to Vince McMahon to get the ok before it went on air. He wouldn’t on gone 6 minutes if he was “going off script” if he did do such a thing he’d be fired and never mentioned on TV again. At best he’d be beaten in five minutes come the next PPV and given no offence.

I have no clue what CM Punk will do with his contract. My own opinion is he’ll re-sign take a couple of months off then come back but that is my guess. What am I sure of is this brilliant promo by Punk was given the ok beforehand to set up his match against John Cena. Like the way wrestling promos used to be about. Good on Punk for telling it as it is and breathing some life onto a stale company.

Last year Reader’s Digest did a poll of the most trusted Canadian’s and Mike Holmes fnished second to David Suzuki. Who those of you who don’t know Mike Holmes he has a cable TV show called Holmes on Homes where his motto is “make it right” after shoody builders have messed up people’s homes.

Here is the breakdown of the show. These poor people who’s houses are messed up call on Mike Holmes. He did takes a tour of the house like he is the house whisper and sees all that is work and then gets angry cause it’s not in he report.

My favorite part comes next. He calls on another guy to show him everything that is wrong so that he fixes it. Genius! Mike Holmes is never to be seen for the next 30 minutes of the TV show as this guy and his crew fix all that is wrong. Of course Mike Holmes swings by at the end when it’s all finished and plays hero by showing the home owners how he has fixed their house. Mike Holmes comes in walks around tells another guy to fix it then is showered with hugs and kisses at the end. What a racket.

A side note, I realize they can’t do this for legal reason but they should say who built the home or tried to repair it. I assure you it wasn’t a Portuguese or Italian person. If you want to make it right forget Mike Holmes call Joao and the boys and in three weeks your house will be as good as new with the added bonus of a grape vine you didn’t ask for planted in the backyard.