Saturday, February 10, 2007

"Trim Spa Baby!"

I am sure all my readers have been wondering over and over again why I havent posted about the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Well, I was staying at my parents for a few days and their stupid computer doesnt work.

Anyway, Ann Nicole died earlier this week much to the joy of americans everywhere that had her in their death pool. I don't think I ever heard so many jokes cracked about someone dying when news got out around my office that she died.

Anna Nicole was truely watching a 10 year trainwreck. She started off pretty normal I guess as a Guess Jeans model. From there she went to pose for playboy and at the time was considered the hot girl. She even looked as if she was going to have some what of an acting career in a 1994 starring in movies like Naked Gun 33 1/3 and The Hudsucker Proxy. However, that didn't last when she married that old dude. From that point on she was pretty much known as that money grabbing whore that married and old dude for his money.

At this point tabolids fell in love with her. She was really the first poster girl for the 24 cable news networks and the sleazy shamless cable network shows E! that pretty much started around the time she became household name. Daily updates on what she was doing and how it effected America as if she was a really important public figure would even take up time on such "news" channels as CNN and FOX NEWS.

Later came her E! reality show, where if you ever watched it would certainly think she belonged in some sort of nuthouse or rehab rather than on tv. She was drugged up and made an ass out of herself everyweek not making any sense. She also proved what a horrible mother she was by forcing her son who had no desire to be on the show appear. I saw one show where he just begged her to stop having cameras following her around.

As for her "career" her craziness and weight gain pretty much killed it. She did straight to video flicks and guest shots on tv shows but noting more than that. Sadly her son died last fall almost exactly the way she did under a cloud of mystery.

Might sounded like a mean they died post, but really its just more about the way humanity will always be interested in the suffering of others. Certainly the media wouldn't keep us up to date on Anna if we weren't rewarding them with buying their magazines, hitting up their webpage and tv ratings would they?

Monday, February 05, 2007

"Frozen"

The current temp, out right now is 11. Thats right 11! Might not seem to cold for you midwest readers, but Its pretty damn cold for South Jersey!

Tomorrow might the coldest rush hour in well I don't know how long. Doesn't look like we get above freezing for a few days, and not by much when we finally do. Could there also be some snow next week?

Sunday, February 04, 2007

"Goodbye Echelon, Hello Town Center"

The extreme makeover for the Echelon Mall begins this week. The empty J C Penny's and Sears will be torn down in the coming weeks. This will kick off the transition from the Echelon Mall to the Voorhees Town Center. The Echelon name will eventually be dropped all together from the scaled down mall.

Many of the empty stores have buisnesses just waiting to move in when the place is over hauled, and there is a new entrance made on the Macy's end. The project hopes to have the scaled down mall completed by the holiday season of this year.

In addition to the overhaul, a grocery store will be added, along with a road way to drive up to upscale shops like the failed Mainstreet concept miles away on the other side of town. There will also be high end town homes build in some of the parking areas that rarely get used now at what was the Echelon Mall.

The Voorhees Town Center also hopes to attract a bar/ dinning place and already has the liquor licence in place. The entire project should be done by late spring or early summer of 2008.