Chicago Baywatch

Obama being very Hawaii Five-O here. I dunno, I find this disturbing. Not the lack of clothing, but the strangeness of this guy's body. Does that man have magic clothes that slim him? Some weird Harry Potter coat for making you look 5 sizes smaller? If so he should market it to Hillary's so-called middle-aged, middle-class women voter base. Maybe he wears a girdle? Like I said, it's kinda disturbing. Not as disturbing, mind you, as how much weight John McCain suddenly gained while I wasn't looking (or maybe I just had a false memory of him being a skinny guy, and I was never looking all that closely anyway)...

Spare Some Change Bro?

will.i.am is a campaign deus ex machina for Obama. Is Babs still campaigning for Hillary (oy vey)?

This is not an Obama endorsement, but he'd be more fun as president than John McCain (don't forget John Edwards was supported by the MWLLKR site). Obama's a lucky guy to have found good (and free) PR. There are lots of spoofs out there already including 'john.he.is' for John McCain which I was sent by my bro. There is also the well-circulated Obama's Top 10 List on Letterman as well as a seriously OTT MadTV clip of Hillary with 'jungle fever' wanting to serve under Obama - definitely NOT suitable for the easily shocked and offended (don't say I didn't warn you)...

Addendum: Here's a bunch of other new songs about Obama...

'Better Britney than Whitney'

I remember you used to say this to differentiate between crazy celebs like Whitney Houston who end up coked off their faces and marrying boy band has-beens and perky up and coming pop tarts like Britney Spears. Poor Britney, what went wrong? Can't help but feel sympathy for her because she is so freaking nuts. I remember back when she was savvy and sane enough to have made the video for Lucky (life imitating art...)
But over all it's a bad week to be a celeb, especially if you are Edison Chen (who, like Britney, has been reported to be suicidal this week, although much of these details are likely to just be salacious HK tabloid fever). Although porn-from-your-laptop is never something you want to leak out to the world, Edison has plenty of other things to be ashamed of like his bad R&B rapping in Cantonese. Oh yeah, and he owned a PINK MacBook. Edison was slated to be in the next Batman, but it looks like that film is cursed with bad luck.



p.s. Hey, doesn't any of this remind anyone of the internet photo-plot of Beyond Our Ken starring the very same afflicted Gillian Chung (and Daniel Wu)? IMDB plot outline reads: 'A month after Wai Ming broke up with Ken, she finds nude pictures of her on his website. To get back at him, she teams up with his new girlfriend'. You'd think she would have learned... more life imitating art.

p.s. no time now to plug most excellent HK director Pang Ho Cheung, maybe another time (see Isabella if you get a chance, saw it two years ago at HKFF and PHC was there with Chapman To)...

Hard Rain

The movie is on its way: Speed Racer with Rain from the Wachowski Brothers of Matrix fame.

Myeh...

I'll be in Rome of all places at the beginning of Chinese New Year so here's a final farewell from the pigs. Safe travels to everyone on the move (especially all those people stranded in frozen train stations without heat in China).