Well I just watched Knocked Up last night and I must say again..Judd Apatow is sheer genius. He taps into that inner voice of ours where we think alot of things, but never say them. Only this time around Seth Rogen's protagonist character says alot of it and more. His castmates follow suit. And it may have been raunchy, over-the-top (zero need for the "scene" within the pregnancy scene). And this gets my utmost Berke's Law 6 stars out of 5. I was so amazed that I linked up immediately to the SuperBad website-the next Apatow production--but saw zero info when its coming out of DVD.
Now to the news of the week. Merrill kicked Stanley O'Neal out of the exeutive suite and Chuck Prince of Citigroup is following him. I never saw this coming, but when Wall Street takes catastrophic losses then somebody needs to be ushered out the door. Ultimately, do we know what kind of stewardship Prince or O'Neal had over their mortgage lending units and super-advanced SIVs? Hard to say, when you are a running a multi-zillion dollar global conglomerate. What is certain is like any other high profile "corporation" this fall somebody has to be the sacrificial lamb.
I can't digress any further on pop culture or wall street.
As a fellow runner, yesterday's death by Ryan Shay was tragic and just a devastating loss for the running community. I've run a NYC Marathon. I endured pain that was unbearable...and yet I fought, I walked some and ran some over the last 10 miles and finished somehow in 5 hours and nine minutes.
I was very lucky that my sister could be there that weekend to usher me through those last 10 miles and talk to me and encourage me.
Mr. Shay was a world class athlete who had a shot at qualifying for the US Olymic team yesterday. Its tough to come up with more words, but to life is precious gift and its simply unfair what happened yesterday.
My condolences to the Shay family.
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