Julian Edelman: Totally Fucked?

NEVER READ THE COMMENTS SECTION. I fail to abide by this rule, pretty much daily.

In the case of this non-news where a reportedly single football star (Julian Edelman) who may or may not be romantically involved with a model (Olivia Frischer, though they are not married) seen in a post-sex selfie, sleeping, with Boston-area girl Sabrina Dudish bragging about it via her Tinder profile icebreaker:

The internet went all mean and all-out on her, calling her the nastiest things, ''whore'' and ''slut'' among the most common - and nicest. One Massachussets bar owner banned her from his establishments - noting he had never done so about anyone else before. That's right: murderers and rapists, politicians, crooked cops, terrorists, kidnappers and wife beaters (three of those may apply to NFL players) are fine, but not Sabrina Dudish. Also, that misogynistic asshole (Michael Winter) went as far as to rate her a ''5'', I guess because if she'd have been a ''10'' it wouldn't have been the same? I'm fairly certain a lot of his bars are full of ''8s'' going to hotel rooms with married athletes (and married men in general), but somehow he's totally cool with that. Unless I'm missing the story about his bars being ''No Hookup'' establishments...

Again: a single woman bragging about fucking a single man, not destroying his family or public life. This is called slut-shaming, though we really need a better term, because nothing here actually proves her to be a slut. She's had to shut down most of her social media accounts because of the backlash, but forgot about her MySpace, so there are pictures of her looking a little too young making the rounds that some folks are searching for and staring at...

Guys are rarely judged by the amount of women they bang, unless it's negatively for not having had enough (''Oh, just 10? Sorry.''), but girls have to be virgin prudes, right? Then who would the guys be fucking?

My only interrogation with this is that she used it on her Tinder profile, meaning she's using it to lure men into contacting her to meet up. As a musician and former athlete, I understand there's an aura around going after men who've had many conquests, and there are plenty of Psychology 101 reasons for that, but I'm not certain it goes both ways: I fail to see how this one woman thinks sleeping with a man who has slept with hundreds of women makes her look attractive. But I guess that's the feminist in me, where I'm not slut-shaming her, but him instead. (I guess that's Psychology 102).

I guess that's the day and age we're in, though, right? Instant celebrity and a global network that renders your most stupid decision of the day a permanent fixture on the interwebs, for generations to marvel at. Like all those idiots from Florida. Paris Hilton showed the world (well, North America, anyway) that a complete dunce could market herself by just exposing herself to the masses, and they'll not only follow but want to join in. We're way past the Decline of Western Civilization, we're going for rock bottom.

R.I.P. Tony Scott

The only thing I could think of when I heard Tony Scott had killed himself by jumping off an L.A. bridge were lyrics from Jim Carroll's song People Who Died:

Herbie said ''Tony, can you fly?''
But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died!

Although Ridley Scott's brother did leave a suicide note in his car office, so he didn't attempt to fly after all...

I'd feel like shit too if the biggest movie I could make these days was the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Top Gun 2...

The box office provider's movies were hit-and-miss; some directors I like most of their films, other none. His fell in two different categories:

Those I liked: Beverly Hills Cop II, Days Of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Spy Game.

Those I didn't: Top Gun, Crimson Tide, The Fan, Enemy Of The State, Man On Fire, Domino.

And one entertaining one at first watch but that I don't feel the need to ever see again: The Taking Of Pelham 123. And I really need to see The Hunger.


Upon hearing the news, my first feeling was consternation. Despite never receiving his brother's praise nor ever being an Academy Award nominee, he never seemed to me like someone with (more than daily-life) ''problems''. It serves as another example that anyone can have lapses in reason or control - whether they last an hour, a year or a lifetime.

Orgasm School

(my apologies, the video from this website has been disabled for embedding, but check it out anyway)

''Tarnishes the university''?

''Will it lead to kids having orgies after class?'' Jesus fucking Christ. Lady, your kids are already having fucking orgies, and that is not what was happening anyway. It was a seminar that was part of a Psychology of Sexuality class (one I took myself in College, and got a 69 in, of all grades, and I'm guessing I shouldn't mention the videos we watched in that class or you'd kill yourself).

Also, Lady: your kids weren't in that fucking class, it just got to you from hearsay through the usual half-wit news organizations.

Oh, and Lady, they said again and again that if anyone was uncomfortable with what was going to happen, they could leave the fucking room.

2011, people. Not 1811, not even 1955.

Some people believe the world will end in December of next year, others want the rest of us to be bored to death before that even happens.

But the story made the news, all the way to Britain, via the BBC. In addition to everywhere in North America.

In case you're wondering what really happened there, it was a seminar with guests lecturers, mostly about bondage and the psychology behind it, why people do it, etc. The conversation briefly moved to sex toys and instruments, and there was a short demonstration where a woman got her rocks off to a dildo attached to what used to be an electric saw.

That's it. Just googling ''German porn'' and clicking on ''images'' will net you much worse results, and I'm sure every room at Northwestern University has computers and wireless internet, so what the ''kids'' actually saw was tame compared to what they have access to.

I feel like an idiot just writing that. As if, in 2011, this shit was still in doubt. Maybe Mike Huckabee has a shot at the Presidency after all.