One Year Later

This entry officially marks the first anniversary of the ol’ Hippopotamus’ blog. Yup, the very first entry was posted December 20th of 2005. In the past year a number of things have changed, but not the opinions expressed in the very first entry. So, for the two of my three readers who weren’t around for that first entry, I invite you to jump in the time portal and check it out. Yes, I still hate actors.

Isolation

I have to admit that the past few weeks have been refreshing. On the other side of the country with only a minor distraction here and there, I was able to finally (FINALLY!) spend some time getting my thoughts together. No real worries about health and happiness. No major deadlines to meet. No need to be social. I was able to isolate myself briefly from the world. I was able to spend each evening in the gym sorting through the jumbled mass of confusion that my mind had become.

2006 was a year of chaos for me. Frankly, it had overwhelmed me. Too often over the past several months I had lost sight of just who exactly I was. I was exhausted. I was directionless. I was uncertain. And I hate to be uncertain.

So I shut out the rest of the world for a bit. I should do that more often.

Hot Babe on the Campaign Trail

So, late one night in my hotel room, I’m flipping through channels when I stumble across a hot redhead on … CSPAN2? What … ?

It’s Dennis Kucinich announcing that he’ll be running for President again. Standing next to the diminutive Senator was this glorious beauty of a young woman. Having done so much political polling work during the last election, I was fairly familiar with Mr. Kucinich. One fact that I had remembered was that he was often referred to as the bachelor candidate.

Little did I know (how should I? I don’t live in Ohio.) he had recently been married. To a woman thirty years his junior, nonetheless. The former Elizabeth Harper is his new bride – she’s 27 years old and from England – and she’s easy on the eyes.

Here’s hoping Kucinich doesn’t drop out too early … we could use some eye candy on the election trail.

Shat-tastic

William Shatner began hosting a terrible game show last month. A blatant rip-off of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Deal or No Deal, this show has the added attraction of dancing girls and Bill being as campy as humanly possible. It’s called Show Me The Money (they couldn’t even come up with a title that wasn’t a rip-off) and has already been cancelled.

From the show’s press release: After answering a trivia question, a contestant will choose one of 13 dancers, each of whom has a scroll with a dollar figure to be added to or subtracted from the player’s winnings. Contestants must answer at least six questions. ABC is calling the hoofers the "Million Dollar Dancers" and says they’ll always be "ready to break into any style of dance, while audacious master of ceremonies William Shatner spontaneously boogies with the beauties onstage."



Seven more episodes have already been taped and will air … but after that, nada.

Oh well … at least there’s still Boston Legal and Star Trek re-runs.