I was thinking about sending this cartoon to a few bloggers I know. But then I realized that I could just as easily send it to myself. And so I did. And so no post today about the something or other that I was going to write about. Except to say, silly fricking me, I saw this yesterday, didn’t tag it at the time, spent half the day today until I could find it again.

Theater Hopper

Believe it or not, I find a lot of the stuff I write here gets reposted in spam blogs, aka splogs. Digital Inspiration has some tips on how to deal with that.

What movie had a line about Ethel Merman, saying she was a “woman who learned the art of love at the hands of Ernest Borgnine”? Or maybe it was a stand-up comic.

Well, anyway, Ethel Merman is gone, Ernest Borgnine is 91 years old and in a recent interview on Fox News, when they asked the Academy Award winning actor his secret for looking so good at his age, he told them, “I masturbate a lot.” (Via Defamer.)

Seems in the past couple of weeks the amount of spam hitting my business email box has drastically increased. There’s been about 150 messages promising debt consolidation plans or loans in the past 3 days alone. And dozens of bogus news alerts from CNN and MSNBC. Some of the message subject headers are seriously creative and a lot more interesting looking than my normal email. These include:

• Breaking News: Bush Finally Reads Job Description
• Breaking News: Cranberries CD Cures Woman’s Urinary Tract Infection
• Breaking News: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Split, Pestilence to Go Solo
• Breaking News: History Channel Begins Incorporating Product Placements Into History
• Breaking News: John Edwards Admits Fathering Clay Aiken’s Baby
• Breaking News: McCain Opposes Gay Adoption of Highways
• Breaking News: McCain Serenades Gramm: ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Hoover’
• Breaking News: Report: Fate of “Ross and Rachel” Used to Torture Iraqi Prisoners
• Breaking News: South Carolina Sinking – Gov. Implores Obese Citizens to “Exercise For It
• Breaking News: Three Italian College Students Purchase Kansas City Royals for 500 Euros

If Diablo Cody could start out as a stripper and blogger and then win an Oscar for her very first screenplay, I predict that whoever is writing these headlines is a future Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Mike Myers has signed to play a British general in Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards. Ugh.

This seems like a great match though – Steve Carell and Tina Fey to play husband and wife in comedy “Date Night.”

Release date on the next Harry Potter film has been pushed back from this November to July 09.