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Perverts rejoice!

A  recent study conducted at the University of Utah (really? Utah? Oh well, it's written down, so it must be true) and reported on by USA Today followed 79 "nonheterosexual" women for ten years, beginning with their college years.  OK, kinda creepy.

Anyway, over that ten-year period, one fifth (that's 20% for the mathematically challenged) decided that they were straight.  Yet at the end of the ten years, half of those women had gone back to other women.  The majority of women who claimed to be bisexual continued to be attracted to both men and women and alternated between the sexes (maybe sometimes at the same time...no, the report didn't say that, but come on, it had to happen a couple of times...don't rain on my parade).

So what does this tell us, other than men are pigs and women prefer the company of other women (two things that we already knew)?  Well the research goes a long way toward dispelling the myth that young women who exhibit bisexual tendencies are either gay or they're just "engaging in a trendy experiment that they'll later abandon" (otherwise known as college).  Some women are just authentically bisexual, like Angelina Jolie.

One final note, at the end of the study, 89% of the bisexual women studied were in a relationship (more than either the straight women or the lesbians) thus proving the saying that "being bisexual doubles your chances of a date on Saturday night."

Yes, I know this is old news, but I've been busy and couldn't let it pass without commenting on it.

Roy Scheider, 75, passed away last week from a staph infection.  He had been battling cancer for years.

We all know Mr. Scheider from his fine work as Chief Brody in Jaws.  If you're around my age, you remember that movie well, as most kids of the day were terrified to enter any body of water after that.  Sure, the movie ushered in the age of the "summer blockbuster", but what I remember most besides the sheer terror of it, was the way Roy Scheider played Chief Brody, an everyman facing down his worst fears, with rugged, quiet determination. 

If you remember, you don't really see the shark until late in the film, so Chief Brody had to carry a lot of the drama.  For example, the scene when he gets slapped by the dead boy's mother, yet doesn't protest, despite the fact that he wanted the beaches closed.  Or the look of abject terror when he realizes that the shark is headed for the lagoon where he sent his son to play.  And who could forget his line, when he first sees the shark, "You're gonna need a bigger boat" or his jubilation at the end of the film when he finally destroys the monster.

Also, besides Jaws, the understated actor with the famously broken nose, earned two Oscar nominations and starred in such memorable films as The French Connection, Marathon Man, 2010, and the seriously underrated, Blue Thunder among many others.  He was initially a stage actor before transitioning to film.  Aside from his acting he was also an activist and opened an arts school for children.

But history will remember him most for his masterful turn as the heroic Chief Brody, in a film that kept a generation of kids from wanting to go into the water.  Not a bad legacy, at all.

For more information, please visit http://royscheider.net/

OK, so I've finally broken down and decided to blog.  Don't expect gold or anything insightful.  I just figured, why not have a place to rant every once and a while, in between the frantic, hate-filled calls from my ex-wife and the barking marathons from the pit bulls next door.  Maybe this will inspire me to get back to my real writing (those here that know me best are aware of my artistic aspirations) or maybe I'll use this as a forum in which to resume my review of the Huskers' 2007 football season that I started on the Nebraska message board.

So here it is, the beginning, a tabula rasa if you will, probably brought on by the fact that I stayed up until six o'clock in the morning finishing Stephen King's latest novel, Duma Key, (no, I wasn't scared) and watching Apocalypse Now on TCM (ok, so maybe I was a little weirded out).  Incidentally Duma Key is a pretty good novel, much better than his last effort, Cell.  This time around, he got me to invest in his characters, though the story was a bit long (I think it weighs in at about 600 pages), but it had the classic tragedy feel of some of his earlier works, like Pet Sematary.  And in case you're wondering (doubtful), no, I'm not a big Stephen King fan, though I do think he is one of the more accomplished American writers of our time and I have read the majority of his books.  As I've gotten older, my tastes have ran more towards satire, especially the works of Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).

But enough about my literary tastes.

So as I ride the roller coaster of my life, I'll check in from time to time and bore you with it.  I doubt that it will be anything as witty as B_C's fine work, but maybe it will placate those who think I divulge too much personal information on the message boards.  And while I'll be stunned if I receive any replies for my effort, at least I'll have a place to vent.

As for now, I think Renee and I are going to dinner, so I better jump in the shower before she kills me.  Tomorrow, I'm thinking of hanging out at the strip club and getting drunk, so maybe I'll have some better material by then.  (Once again, doubtful).