Women who look like Oompa Loopas...

I was at the meat parade last night (also known as the Brazilian steakhouse in Greensboro) with the SO's parents, as they were in town to take in some basketball games. When I sat down with them, I noticed something very funny behind the SO's right ear. Sitting at a table not more than a few feet from us where 2 women who had obviously spent way too much time in the tanning bed. They were orange colored and looking like fruit. I'm not sure if they thought that this new glow that the tanning booth placed on them was a good thing, but in this case, it most certainly wasn't. What I wanted to do was to lecture them about skin cancer, and things like that, but instead, I couldn't help staring at their orange faces and wondering what they looked like. And then it came to me. Oompa Loompas, that is exactly what they looked like, well, minus the green hair and the short stature, but other than that, that skin tint did nothing for them. I can tell you that much. It sort of reminded me of Kevin Underwood who also looks like an Oompa Loompa, except for Kevin, he does have the short stature thing working for him. Still, no green hair, but I'm telling you if he made it green for Halloween one year, he'd be the spitting image of those freaky little orange guys in the Willy Wonka movie (the original with Gene Wilder, not the stupid re-make, please). But these women, it was kind of distracting. I know that they're probably trying to look all tan and better, but damn, they didn't look better, they looked like they were on their way to making their faces look like old catcher's mitts before the end of this year.

Which brings me to another point. Is there no creativity left in Hollywood? Do they have to re-make movies that were already good to begin with? Such as Willy Wonka, and a few others that have passed through in recent years. It seems like everything is a re-make these days, or a campy take off of an old TV show (ie Dukes of Hazzard). It sucks. There have got to be some creative folks out there, I know there are, they throw out a handful of movies every year that aren't too bad, but then you get the parade of re-makes. I heard this morning that indeed, Hollywood is doing a send up of Dallas, the TV show, and bringing that to the old silver screen. Ah hell, that show sucked when it was on TV. Why make a movie out of it? Damn, just damn...

It's getting nice outside now, so time to wrap this up really quick, and take a ride outside in the sunshine and the cooler than last week's temperatures. We were treated to some 80 degree weather last weekend, which wasn't so bad. Good to ride in, good to bask in, and well, just good. We're back around 60 today, which I'll take. That's not so bad really. Slight breeze. Sunny skies. It's all good.

Oh, and as a spoiler, Filippo Pozzato won Milan-San Remo today. Again, the dominance of Quick Step shows. He almost got chased down on the via Roma in San Remo, but held off Petacchi and a few others to take the win. Boonen was up there, and rolled in 4th, with Petacchi taking 2nd and Luca Paolini taking 3rd to round out the podium. Good stuff those Quick Step boys are pounding out this early season, good stuff indeed. Hope to see more from them as the year rolls on, and something tells me that we will.