END OF THE WEEK:
It's Saturday, so it's time for another installment of "End of the Week" for this, the third week of February. You know, by this time I usually end up just praying for March to start. After all, February relatively stinks with the cold, the no-football, the no good movies, etc. But with the Winter Olympics, TCM's "31 Days of Oscar" keeping me entertained, and this blog, I'm feeling pretty good at this point.
Besides, with some great moments like the following, how could this month not have been interesting? Anyways, the following are my picks for some of the week's best moments of the last seven days, featuring the return of you-know-who, Epic Beard Man and Kevin Smith's fat ass. Here we go:
Rant of the Week: Director Kevin Smith's Freakout of Southwest Airlines
Need another reason why Twitter is so powerful? It started on Sunday, when Smith, director of some okay movies like "Clerks" and "Dogma," was kicked out of a Southwest Airlines for being too fat... while sitting on the plane...with his bags already inside the plane...just before take-off. He then went off posting a few messages, and the rest is history.
Story of the Week (meaning both the Actual Story of the Week and the Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week): Tiger Woods Apologizes in Televised Press Conference
The guy behind the most talked about story in late 2009 and one of my segments on this weekly column from now on returned on Friday for a brief, thirteen and a half minute press conference. But, as you might expect, it was addressed quietly. From the announcement of the date of the press conference and the "What will Tiger say?" storylines on Wednesday and Thursday, to the actual moment on Friday that was covered on all of the big channels (CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, ESPN, and, if I'm correct, three of the four major networks) and the constant reactions that followed, it was definitely the big thing of the past week.
Video of the Week: "AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT I AM A MOTHERFUCKER"
My early favorite for Internet video of the year (and, like "David After Dentist" last year (my favorite from that time), it also was released in February, if you want to make a weird connection). It generated millions of hits instantly and even introduced a new viral star simple now known as Epic Beard Man. There's so much to say about it, but I'll just say one thing: if you're going to go into a fight with a bearded old man who's wearing a "I Am a Motherfucker" T-Shirt and was arrested and even tasered while in a fight a few years back while watching a baseball game like that gentleman did, you better know how to fight in the first place.
Person of the Week: Tiger Woods
for actually proving that he is alive. I mean, how long has it been since his last public appearance? October? Oh, and for the speech thing, I guess. Personally, I thought it was... okay, you know. I really don't have a strong care in the world about if it was good, if it was done right, etc. (but if you do want an opinion, just go on Google. The columns about it are endless from every type of website around the world). I am annoyed at how he says he doesn't know when he'll come back. Even though I still believe it will be during the Arnold Palmer Invitational in late March, it would've been nice to know a timeline, or something like that.
And that's the way it is! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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