I logged in to my hotmail account this morning and MSN had this article posted about how teens these days are sending naked picture of themselves to each other over email and text messages.  While I understand the concern here for parents, I couldn’t help but laugh.  The first thing that struck me as funny is how they call it “sex-ting”.  The names people give things these days are hilarious. Apparently 22% of teen girls are texting, or excuse me sex-ting guys naked picture of themselves.  Man did I miss out in high school.  That would be 2 out of every 10 girls sending these pictures out.  Granted, I doubt any of them would have been sending these pictures to me; but my odds would be better than they were.  The thing that caught me off guard was 18 % of the guys are sending out racy pictures to their female classmates.  Now when I was in high school I hardly felt comfortable being naked in front of myself let alone sending naked pictures off to girls; but I guess the times, they are a changing.  It’s amazing how clueless kids can be.  This one girl mentions that she sent off a picture to a guy that was meant to be private and he sent it off to friends.  Duh!  Does she just have no idea of what the only thing that teenage boys care about is?  And does she have no idea of what the first thing any teenage boy is going to do as soon as he gets a naked picture of a girl sent to him?  He’s going to forward it to a few of his best friends and say…  “OMG, check this out!  LOL!  Don’t send this out to anyone else, but how awesome am I?”  Then the few friends he sends it to are going to send it to everyone they know.  All the sudden you’re there for the world to see.  An innocent little treat for your boyfriend all the sudden puts you up on porn sites next to all the skanks.  No one will know the difference. 

Being a parent of a teenager today must be terrifying enough with all the creeps on MySpace and in the chat rooms.  That show To Catch a Predator is clear evidence.  There are thousands of these bozo perverts out there.  They have run hundreds of episodes and they never seem to run out of these weirdos.  Aside from the technology out there, kids are ballsier than ever.  I read that teenagers are taking a combination of ecstasy and Viagra and calling it, sextacy.  Again, another brilliant and hilarious name for something completely inappropriate.  So the ecstasy heightens physical sensations, but apparently keeps you as limp as a wet sock.  So taking the Viagra allows you to get it up while you’re tweaking out and lets you have the ride of your life.  The downside to this is you could have a heart attack, which at 16 would be a bummer.  Even worse, you could get a never ending boner which they may eventually have to amputate.  Yeah, it was just as hard to write as it is to read. 

So I guess what I am saying is when I was a kid and didn’t understand and got pissed when my parents made me get home by a certain hour or looked through some of my stuff…  I get it now.  As time goes on there will always be new stuff for kids to get in to and they always grow up a little faster than the generation before them.  God, I’m getting old.

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I have to comment on this whole thing going on with the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.  Have you seen the head of hair this guy has by the way?  Phenomenal.  You could probably use the clippings from just one of his hair cuts to cover up the head of George Costanza, Kojack and Dr. Evil.  Anyway, is there a better definition of scum bag than this guy?  He had the President-Elect calling for his resignation and he still refuses.  This guy is going down though, count on it.  If you have read any of the transcripts from the calls they got on tape from the wiretap, you would agree.  I mean he called Obama a mother fuc*er.  You don’t say that about the President without getting the ultimate bitch slap all the way from the Oval Office. 

In case you don’t know what I am talking about, in the state of Illinois if a senator is elected or appointed to higher office the governor gets to choose his replacement.  Blagojevich was holding Obama’s seat for ransom.  Basically he was going to give the seat to the highest bidder.

I have an idea.  I think the person who is giving up the seat should appoint who takes it over.  Obviously they were elected or appointed to a higher position so they are trusted (as much as a politician can be) by the voters.  Also, they were elected by the voters in the first place and you would assume that they would give the seat to someone with similar points of view.  Therefore they would probably hand it over to someone that the voters would approve of anyway.  Just a thought.

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I got a burrito for lunch today and was really disappointed.  It tasted fine, that wasn’t the issue.  The person who made just really skimped on the meat.  I go to this one burrito spot for lunch at least once a week and it is totally luck of the draw.  I find that this is the case at every burrito shop I have ever frequented.  One burrito maker really loads it up while there are others who give you one tiny scoop of chicken.  It’s really a crap shoot.  I find that the heavier set and usually north of 45 years old women hook you up the most.  Younger women automatically just don’t like me and the guys just want to screw me over.  The older women know though, if they make the burrito fat the tip will be fat, and I’ll be back.

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Living and working in a city where everyone is walking everywhere has its pluses.  The one thing that drives me crazy though is the slow walkers, or the group walkers that take up the whole side walk.  I hate getting stuck behind these people.  It’s like I have to make some Barry Sander like move to juke past them.  The worst though is on the escalators going down in to and up out of the muni or BART.  I’ll be heading down, and I see my train coming and want to catch it so I don’t have to wait for the next one.  People with half a brain know that on one side of the escalator you walk and on the other side you stand.  So many people just don’t pay attention.  They stand on either side and they have headphones in, so if you say excuse me they don’t hear you.  Wake up idiots.  And if you are going down the escalator with someone, you don’t have to stand next to each other.  You can still talk with one of you in front of the other.  Or, you can just shut your face for the 20 seconds you are heading down so I don’t miss my train.  Speaking of getting on the train, when you get down to the platform a lot of people wait in line where the door is going to be when the train stops.  Makes sense.  But what drives me nuts is when you are behind one of these people and your train comes and they are getting on the next one and don’t move.  You have to zig zag around them. It’s common courtesy.  These are the same people that don’t let people off the train before they start trying to push on.  Amazing.  How about you let the people getting off, off of the train before you start pushing your way in?

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ANOTHER EASON WHY I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO

I am going to start a new segment called, Another Reason Why I Love San Francisco.  Here is today’s…

As I was walking back from getting my burrito today I saw a man in his late fifties walking down the street rolling a cigarette.  He looked like any other normal working person downtown.  What was unusual about him was, as he was walking down the street at the top of his lungs he yelled, “Jesus Christ is going to suck the devils d!ck, and guess what, he likes it”. 

You just don’t get that kind of stuff everywhere. 

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Lastly I just have a couple of recommendations for you. 

If you get a chance to check out Ricky Gervais’s standup act on HBO, you should do so.  Hilarious.  The guy is fearless.  Nothing is sacred or safe.  I won’t spoil it by letting you know about anything in his act, but it is damn funny.

Also, if you’re looking for a funny movie to rent, check out The Foot Fist Way.  It’s not even an hour and half so it won’t take up much time.  It’s about a tae kwan do teacher who takes himself very seriously.  The lead actor Danny McBride is going to be big.  It’s really amazing how he keeps it straight the entire movie.  Since then he gotten supporting and well reviewed roles in Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express. He also has a show coming up on HBO.

Thanks for coming by.  Have a great weekend everyone.   I leave you with this video….