Priceless.

Daddy's from Bruges!

Waterboarding or Belgium, hmmmmmmm...

Well tough Tetons you persons of interest you because you're gonna be on the first thing smoking to old Flanders. Belgians have gotten a bad rap for some of its sons behavior (mainly because said sons were passed over for the Evil Nobel Peace Prize).



Speaking of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Obama is now only missing two things from his resume:

1. Master of the Universe

2. God

Judging by his current trajectory, he should be able to pick up these ornaments by his 50th - sorry bro.

On Bruges, I'd go. It looks icy, comfortably remote, and aside from the racist Americans, the people seems pretty cool too.

Fleet Foxes = headphones Cream Dream

Fleet Foxes' self titled album from start to finish is one of the best albums I've ever heard. I say this because yeah, it really is...

The Sun Sets Low

Could just be me but Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodóvar are way in the red to come out in defense of Roman Polanski.

Yeah he's a dialed in filmmaker but the only reason I can see why Roman has been clapped in irons after thirty years of walking abroad is because of one person - Roman Polanski.

I remember about a year ago he tried to have the charges dropped from Europe and when the judge told him he had to come to the US to face the music, Roman balked at the idea. This backdoor coup attempt would tend to piss off the US Justice Department a little bit. Knowing Roman, they naturally decided to nab him in a moment of fugitive glory - the film festival in Switzerland.

As for Allen, Scorsese and that other superstar, I really don't think you want to jump in the same moral carpool as a guy who pleaded guilty to drugging and sodomizing a 13 year old girl.

Daddy's Coming Home

Roman Polanski. You couldn't make this guy's life story up...

Holocaust survivor
Superstar Hollywood director
Husband to a pregnant wife brutally murdered by the Manson family
And this...



This past weekend Polanski went to a Switzerland film festival in his honor and was picked up on an international warrant. Smacks of a little bravado no? Granted he'd been going to Switzerland to the point where he owns a house there but it looks like someone or some thing still wants him after 30 plus years of living high on the luxury lam.

He now faces extradition proceedings that will ultimately bring him back to the United States. The proceedings which he'll likely contest will probably be dragged out till next Spring. I doubt he goes to prison but one thing's for sure, Roman's devils are wide awake.

Two Things You'll Never See on TV

1) Men's wheelchair tennis
2) Women's wheelchair tennis

And I'm not talking about just the networks and ESPN. There's an entire station dedicated to tennis called The Tennis Channel. You know how many times I've seen wheelchair tennis on it?

Zero.

If only we could get over the heartbreak of Roger Federer losing what would've been his 16th grand slam title, perhaps we could broaden our focus. And who was that nasty upstart who dared to defy television's tennis lord?

Oh yeah, this guy...



He massacred our boy!

After all, Juan Del Potro was the same fluke who mowed through #2 slam star, Raphael Nadal to get to the final. And why is he standing in the foreground like that celebrating while Roger is left lamenting the $50,000,000 he's made over the past six years?

At one point the announcer's perfection of humanity swore at the chair in a closeup. This was hardly discussed after CBS came back from commercial. Only Mary Carillo had the sand to openly discuss Federer's behavior.

Federer is given free range to speak French, English - whatever when he wins. Del Potro wanted to say a few things to his family in Spanish and CBS announcer Dick Enberg basically communicated:

Well hold on their Che fella. Can't have you speakin that code language around here, this is America.

So it's this simple: You get on board with what the TV corporations want you to like or you don't get on board at all.

Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands (above) won the wheelchair women's title, and Japanese player, Shingo Kunieda won the wheelchair men's championship. Who knew?