• i shed a little tear when i saw this headline on cnn.com today: Bob Barker to say goodbye to TV. we all knew that good ol' bob had to leave the price is right sooner or later, but it is still bittersweet. bob says he'll be leaving in june of next year, "while he's still young." i know i am still very young, but it's things like this that make you realize that you are, in fact, getting older. bob's been a part of my life, no matter how rarely i watch the price is right, since i was born. you know, he's just always been there... and now he won't be. i wonder how they could ever find a suitable replacement for bob barker?? guess we'll see. my favorite line from this article: bob says he'd be willing to take on a movie role, but "I refuse to do nude scenes. These Hollywood producers want to capitalize on my obvious sexuality, but I don't want to be just another beautiful body." ha! i love it. we'll miss you bob barker!

• all this talk about madonna's adoption of a malawian boy is pissing me off. really, people, leave them alone. it really is ridiculous the way the media hunts for any story they can turn around and create extra drama. madonna adopted a child who was in an orphanage. she wanted to bring some attention to his impoverished country in the process. the end. screw her individual circumstances, let's talk about the fact that there are ONE MILLION orphans in that small country alone! arg. despite being addicted to its wares, i get so frustrated with the media sometimes...

• a recent study may have discovered the cause of SIDS. apparently the researchers discovered seratonin defects in babies who died of SIDS, which basically means they had brain stem defects--a disease. you can read the article for all the details, but wouldn't it be wonderful if one day they can detect this problem when a child is born and treat it, eliminating SIDS completely. science is amazing...

• bravo to an indiana man in prison for burglary for getting some revenge for his 10 year old cousin. a man whose cousin had been abducted, molested and murdered happened to be in prison with her murderer. and he went into the murderer's cell with a tattoo gun and told him he could stab him and leave him to bleed to death or tattoo him. and so he tattooed him. while i certainly think this murderer doesn't deserve to live, i am not a fan of the whole "eye for an eye" thing... even if you're killing someone for revenge, you still have to live the rest of your life as a murderer. so this seems an excellent, if not totally equal, punishment for a murderer. now this psycho gets to look at himself every day for the rest of his life and remember his horrible crime. the thing that gets me is the tattooer is being charged with battery... which is crap, but i'm sure he feels it's worth it. i think if i were a guard at this prison i would have some temporary amnesia... that, or some vivid memories of the tattooer in the cafeteria at the time of the tattooing...
  

• tonight is a new episode of LOST! hooray. tonight we get more of mr. eko, who i love. this show is so mysterious. it troubles me that it's losing viewership but whaddyagonnado. you gotta watch it every week, practically, to know what the heck is going on. this little bit here is just a warning that i'll be discussing LOST in future posts and you may not want to read those parts if you haven't watched the episode yet... although i think soon we're going back to reruns. boohiss. i wish every week of TV was new, but then i guess i'd never get anything done...