Here and There

-- In an interview, author Bret Easton Ellis claims he doesn't care how The Canyons, his independent film starring Lindsey Lohan, is received. Interestingly, another guy named Brett (spelled with the proper number of T's) doesn't care about Bret Easton Ellis's independent movie The Canyons. Nor about anything that Ellis has written (although to be fair, he has read only Less Than Zero and about 80 percent of American Psycho).

-- Once Alex Rodriguez left the Texas Rangers to play for the team voted Most Likely to Suck Your Soul to the Seventh Circle of Hell (the New York Yankees, and shame on you if you didn't know that), it was easy to stop caring about what he did on the baseball diamond. Of course, once he started hanging around Madonna, it was not only easy but imperative to stop caring about what he did off the baseball diamond. A writer at MLB.com celebrates the guys playing today who didn't make A-Rod's choice to get their extra edge from a chemistry set.

-- The Kansas City Royals are five games above .500 and it's August 6th. Sounds to me like physics' many-worlds hypothesis has some new evidence, because this seems like a different reality than the one I've been living in for the last 28 years (so of course as I write they're getting creamed by the sub-.500 Minnesota Twins. O fickle Fate!)

-- Sharknado was a stupid movie. But a "gatornado," on the other hand, is apparently an historical fact, according to this story which quotes an 1887 New York Times account of the incident. Of course, living in Okie-Land, we are familiar with animals that go for a ride on the twister express and then land wherever the thing drops them.