Gene Shalit Off The Chain

Oh, my-Gene Shalit went off on Brokeback Mountain. I'm sure NBC has been terrified of the day Gene finally lost his grip on reality and offended someone. This is an interesting phenomenon that seems to always happen with people on TV forever, regarded as institutions (I remember Jimmy the Greek-the guy who gave the weekly NFL picks all throughout the 80's- expressing his views on how cross-breeding slaves had produced exceptional black athletes, and ended up out the door)-what's the Today show without Gene Shalit's bad-pun-laden movie reviews? "Grizzly Man was so terrible I couldn't BEAR to watch it! I don't want to say it was boring, but this reviewer ended up HIBERNATING!" This was a really good weekend of seeing old friends and rockin' the karaoke in front rooms at a house party on Friday night-"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" is easily the best karaoake warm-up song in the world. Totally easy to sing and hilarious. Saturday was laziness, recovery, pancakes and the Original Taco House where a waitress with an extremely heavy accent asked Greg O if he wanted a "shell" with his Taco Salad and he couldn't understand why he would want his taco salad "Chilled" Then we went to a really great night of mellow electronic music combined with film, there were lots of people and everyone was super nice. Me and Jenny sat on the floor with beers and listened/watched a giant close-up movie of a praying mantis with awesome hypnotic trippy music over it. Sunday was more laziness-I ended up never putting on socks the whole day or night. I had breakfast at everyone's favorite pirate/sports bar the Jolly Roger and watched the Sonics play the Knicks, while NFL people screamed their heads off-speaking of the NFL-they are no longer advertising male erectile dysfunction drugs. Evidently the ads were just getting way too steamy. I always thought it was funny that our most hyper-macho of pastimes was so open about it's, er, problems. Tonight at Berbati's the Advantage is playing-who evidently do rock covers of classic Nintendo songs, and I really want to check that out. In order to get to the show I have to run from left to right while hopping over obstacles, so I'm not sure if I'll make it however.