Jack Ass Nominee #1

OK, my first nominee for Jack Ass of the month belongs to Neil Young. Why Neil Young? He has a huge part of the responsibility for shaping rock & roll history. With such hits as “Ohio” (done with Crosby, Stills & Nash), “Cinnamon Girl” and “Heart Of Gold”, Neil Young has been writing good songs and making good music for many, many years. Until recently, in my opinion.

His latest release is called ‘Living With War’. This is nothing more than a musical criticism of our leader, George W. Bush. Unimpressive to say the least. The gentlemen of The Ticket in Dallas played snippets of a few of the songs that they were able to find online. I listened, and thought to myself “Self, is Neil Young the name of another artist as well? This does not sound very good at all.” It was awful folks. Now in his defense, perhaps the other songs I didn’t hear were pretty good. That has yet to be determined. But back to my point: Neil Young was born in Toronto, raised in Winnipeg. Hmmm…


The title to one of the 10 songs on this disc is “Let’s Impeach The President”. Tell me, Mr. Canada, what good will that do? Would your boy John Kerry do better? Hillary McDuffie Rottinham Clinton?

While I have no problem with anyone having a political opinion, no matter how much I agree or disagree, I DO have a problem with people of foreign affair releasing things like this on American soil. Pick one single country in the world where they don’t have their political problems. I know. Harp on me about the 1st Amendment and how it sounds like I have a problem with it. NO I DON’T. I don’t have a problem with anyone expressing their opinions about our politics. I didn’t write about ‘Pink’ when she released the song ‘Dear Mr. President’. I didn’t write about the Dixie Chicks when they trashed Bush on live TV. Hell with it. My point is Neil Young’s actions would be the same if Jean-Pierre Raffarin did the same thing. Neil, you hate our president? Canada is still there Jack Ass.

Catching Up

OK, so I finally got a damn story up here. Hell, I wouldn’t even call this a story! I write them, I spell check them, then I attempt to post them here on my blog… with no success. I have 8 stories waiting to be published, and all are now old news. Just to recap:

My jack ass of the month award (of April) went to Charlie Sheen. If you hadn’t heard about his and Denise Richard’s divorce, then it’s well worth the read! Afterwards, who do you feel sorrier for? They’re both kind of idiots. Anyway, here’s a link to her 20-something page divorce decree:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0421061sheen1.html

Also, I was writing about the Dallas Mavericks, and how they are doing such a great job in administering a beating to the Memphis Grizzlies. Well, again, old news, because after the sweeping of the Griz, and San Antonio knocking out Sacramento, Dallas just lost their first game to the Spurs by one bucket. I was sitting here writing another story for a different post place, when I get a call from my roommate Steve. He says (this is at 140pm) “we’re just hanging out watching the Mavs game”. “WHAT???” I exclaimed…. We had both discussed how we thought the game didn’t start until 2pm. At this point it was 3 minutes left in the 3rd quarter. I was pretty peeved. But, I picked up the game at that point and watched the rest of the way. The Mavs were up by 4 points, and I watched both teams exchange 2 point leads for awhile. I saw some good team efforts on both sides of the court, as well as some pretty ugly slop on both sides of the court. We lost by 2 because Mr. Jerry Stackhouse was worried about a three pointer in the last seconds of the game, instead of a 2 point tie maker. I guess they got learned. Better luck in Game 2 Mavs!

I also wrote about Bill Parcels, and how he had absolutely no press presence during the draft. I touched also on the Buccaneers draft. In recap, I gave the Bucs a ‘D’ because they picked players I have never heard of, didn’t measure very well on stat sheets, however, they were all offensive line… so I am happy about that. I didn’t spend a whole lot of time writing about the draft, well, because everybody else did. I figured if you were that interested, you could find a hundred million analyses on it somewhere.

ANYWAY, one last story I had started to write, but have not yet completed, is my Jack Ass of the Month award for May. Now, we sit here and it’s May 8th, and we all wonder… “Beaker, it’s still the beginning of the month. How do you pick a winner already??” Easy, this one here, we’ll consider a nominee. Every week, I will see if any one can beat this nominee. Who is it you ask? It is Neil Young. I will explain in my next post. Thanks for being patient with me! I’ll get back more often, I promise!