Roeper: R. Kelly left 1 name off list of greats
Hint: He's a legendary filmmaker who avoids U.S.
I don't see the problem. I just think he should have added a name to the list.
Roman Polanski.
Allegedly.
Is that over the top? Making fun of a guy's faith like that?
I say no. Zambrano is a hot dog who regularly shows up his opponents with his flamboyant gestures. If he's going to point to the sky like a Spartan warrior every time he registers a strikeout, fans for the other side have every right to call him out when he's having a bad day.
If you put up $20 and bet him he can't do five Jager-bombs in five minutes, he'll show you.
If you dare him to run on the field and slide across the tarp during a rain delay, don't be surprised if he takes you up on it.
If you say he doesn't have the guts to streak naked across the quad during Finals Week, off come the clothes.
Let's put it this way: those guys on "Jackass" are Hall of Fame versions of the maniac/jester.
In an infamous video titled "Drunk at the Cubs Game" on Yahoo.com, you can see an X-treme example of a maniac/jester in action. It's one of the most disgusting and amazing pieces of amateur video you'll ever see.
The scene: the men's room. There' s a very long trough.
A guy stands on the trough, takes a running start -- and slides headfirst through gallons of urine.
Every few months, somebody sends me the video along with a message along the lines of, "Proof Cubs fans are idiots," or, "Typical Cubs fan."
Only thing is, I'm 99.0 percent certain the restroom in question is not at Wrigley Field. According to one poster on YouTube, it's actually the men's room at a racetrack in Charlottesville, Va.
See that, I'm always coming to the defense of the Cubs and their fans. So for the record: as far as we know, no Cubs fan has ever done a Slip-n-Slide through a urinal trough.
The girl in the song is 46 now.
Do you ever do that? You hear an old pop song on the radio, with somebody singing, "I can't see me loving nobody but you, for all my life," or, "Children behave, that's what they say when we're together," and you realize the "characters" in the song would be in their 60s by now, shaking their heads about those crazy hippie-young-love days of so long ago.
"Hey Nineteen," released in 1980, was penned by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would have been around 30 and 32, respectively, at the time. It's the story of a 30ish guy trying to connect with a college girl and lamenting, "Hey Nineteen, that's 'Retha Franklin, she don't remember the queen of soul . . . she thinks I'm crazy but I'm just growing old."
No we got nothing in common
No we can't talk it all
Please take me along
When you slide on down
Like a lot of Steely Dan's best work, "Hey Nineteen" is eclectic and funny and melancholy. But as time goes on, it takes on an added layer. Whether based on a real person or a purely fictional creation, the girl in the song is now middle-aged -- and if she engaged a 19-year-old in conversation, odds are the 19-year-old would have no idea who Steely Dan is.
In other news, most people who go to restaurants are hungry.