Look at me...

Two posts on one day! Wowza! Truth is I'm bored at work (yes, on a Saturday) and I'm surfing the internet and finding some interesting things.

Following along the lines of the blogging world.... there's a blogger in Mexico that is doing pretty much the same thing Riverbend did in Iraq. His blog is totally devoted to the drug wars in Mexico and is posting things that the Mexican news sorces are not. Including some pretty graphic things. I haven't actually been to his website (there was an article about it on yahoo this morning) but apparently he's posted videos of beheadings and other gory extremely violent incidents. The interesting thing about him is that he doesn't take one side or the other, and by remaining as neutral as possible he hasn't received threats from the drug lords (he's also taking great strides to remain hidden). The only problem that people have with him is that while he's very credible and provides tons of information for the police/army of mexico, drug lords are turning to his blog for information as well. But how do you shut down someone you can't find? Block the blog? That only makes him more popular. Not to mention, there are websites out there that would be willing to publish ANYTHING, especially about subjects as sensitive as what he's writing about. Below is a link to the article from yahoo.

Mystery Blogger in Mexico

Interesting stuff, right?

On a second note... my faith in Hollywood continues to dwindle. Has anyone heard of the movie coming out this year called "The Switch"? It's staring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman and for the life of me, I can't figure out why either of them would have agreed to it, unless the plot is a whole lot better than the snips they're releasing to the press (which makes no sense, wouldn't you WANT your movie to sound appealing?). But the storyline is basically this... a single woman (Aniston) decides she wants to become pregnant, so she impregnates herself with a turkey baster (WHAT???). Turns out the sperm is actually donated from her friend, who has to keep his involvement a secret from her.

Do women out there actually use turkey basters to get pregnant?? Talk about sounding desperate. I seriously hope that the rest of the plot is better than what I read about, or all respect for Jen and Jason have gone out the window also.

I am really looking forward to Vampires Suck. The twilight series is laughable enough on its own (although completely unintentional) so the fact a spoof is coming out makes me really excited. It's actually kind of amazing that there haven't been any Harry Potter spoofs... though I think the series is a bit (a lot) better movie-making than that of Twilight. And they started off much the same. Harry Potter was no where as famous as it was after the movies (it was famous, yes, but it now has a mass following thanks to the production) and they used unknown actors in the cast. Difference being the actors of HP seem to actually want to become better actors and have learned from their previous movies (and also had an incredible supporting cast with the adults), whereas the Twilight actors seem to just get worse.