Things just plain weird

[dbminter]

Two entertainment news items of recent note that make me doubt so much of reality and the world. Enough to make me want to hang myself. Both from IMDB.

 

 

Up first... well... just, wow...

 

 

Dustin Diamond Sex Tape

 

"Former teen TV star Dustin Diamond is reportedly the star of a candid new sex tape in which he romps with two women. The 29-year-old, who played geek Screech Powers in Saved By The Bell, engages in a number of sexual acts with the women in the 40-minute tape. Agent David Hans Schmidt has acquired the rights and is currently seeking a distributor for Saved By The Smell. Schmidt tells the New York Daily News, "Just when you think you have seen everything in this business, mankind has raised the bar another notch. Or lowered it." Diamond's manager Roger Paul hopes the tape will raise his client's profile and help resurrect the acting career that collapsed when Saved By The Bell ended in 1997. He says, "I haven't seen the tape. I've heard rumors. Dustin has been trying to escape the Screech typecast. So this may help me get more bookings." Diamond will welcome any royalties he gets from the tape - in June he launched a campaign to save his home from foreclosure, by selling autographed T-shirts on the internet."

 

 

What I find the saddest thing is how I didn't even know this guy was younger than I was. And, yet, despite given the above, he still... well, you can put two and two together. I should just because from this point, it ain't gonna get any easier or any better. In a world like THAT.

 

 

The second:

 

Actor Edward Albert died of lung cancer at 55. His father was Eddie Albert, who almost lived to be 100. He would have been back in April. His father's death is listed as two things: pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. It just makes you think. A guy can live to be 99, and, then, a year later, your son dies of cancer at near half that age.

 

 

Things like this really put the oddity of life into perspective. Like how I had wondered about my grandmother. How I was thinking that when she died, my "purpose" may be at an end. It was my current function in life, as I could find no other. Then, less than a day later, she died on 9-11 earlier this month.

 

 

So, what is life trying to tell us here? In the words of Robert Stack about thinking 1941 would be a big hit and that he told the Zuckers he'd only take Airplane! "as long as it didn't interfere with my success on 1941!" He said: "So, what I guess I'm really trying to say here is that nothing makes any sense!"

[spinningwheel]

Sorry to read about your grandmother passing db.

[dbminter]

Yeah, I was going to mention it over in the Beta forum in a post where it had been talked about someone else's mother or grandmother, I forget at the moment, I'm afraid, my apologies. And, I had replied about my dying Grams. Well, I just forgot to do it. Life is not, if anything, predictable, as she died on September 11th, one of two days, along with September 9th, when if something bad is going to happen to me, it will.