I want to be just like Paris…

Today is the first day of December, and is coming in with a bang. The weather this morning has bee particularly rough, with strong wind gusts, and now, it’s official, the first snow of the season. It won’t stick, won’t be more than a half-inch, but it’s arrival is mighty symbolic. It’s winter, and it’s going to be here for awhile.

Last night was date night, and a great night it was. We went for dinner at Thai Cafe in Broad Ripple where I had my first encounter with Pad Thai (Very Yummy!). Then it was onto “The Nutcracker”, as performed by Butler University’s ButlerBallet (apparently a top 15 program in the country). We scored last minute, prime tickets from a friend of ours who plays in the Indianapolis Symphony, she was contracted to come in and play French Horn in the show. She asked us at the end if we heard her mess up. Now, I can’t tell you the difference between an Oboe and a Tuba when listening to music, how am I gonna tell if you messed up one part on an instrument that I couldn’t pick out of a listening lineup?

Today’s closing bell will be replaced with a soapbox:

• Many of us felt that Britney Spears had hit a low in her marriage with K-Fed. We assumed that now, with her freedom from his conniving and shady ways, that she would start to rebuild her shattered image and make something out of herself. But then…Vaginagate. That’s right, on at least two separate occasions in the last week, Britney has treated the papparazzi, and subsequently the world, to shots of her mother-of-two-vagina. Now, this would be one thing if she were in different surrounding, maybe just going to the grocery store, or at a restaurant, and some pervy photog was using an ultrascope. Alas, this is not the case. Instead, each time, she has been on a late night bender, reclaiming her freedom through hard partying. The capper – she’s been with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan much of this time. That’s how’s she going to reclaim her career?? Newsflash, you twit – Lindsay Lohan hasn’t been in a movie of any worth (or money making worth, at least) since “Mean Girls”, and Paris Hilton’s album and TV shows are TANKING. These are not the woman to bring back your career. Get your name in the papers? Yeah, obviously, they can do that. Why, though, does Britney’s team think this is the right, or only, road to recovery. Are these the woman we lift up and allow our young children, especially girls, to idolize? South Park did an episode, which captured this movement perfectly. Paris Hilton was opening a line of stores where young girls could come and buy the equipment needed to be just like her. The name of the store? Stupid Spoiled Whore. Congratulations, Britney – you’re bought ownership in stock of this company. Enjoy your new status as a Stupid Spoiled Whore.

Now, I’m off the soapbox. One love to you all, holla atcha boy.