Sunday, February 13, 2011

Earnest's Weekend Monologue - February 11, 2011

Well, it will probably be another couple thousand years before Egypt is in the news this much again.

The youth of Egypt were successful this week in getting President Mubarak to step down as leader of the country. They’re jubilant now, but they’re already focused on the future. Their next goal will be getting FX to bring back Terriers.

Speaking of triumphant youths, Chris Brown got his restraining order lifted this week. What that means for him is that he’s allowed to get within 500 feet of radio station programmers and beg for them to play his songs. You may remember Chris Brown as the popular R&B singer who got into a lot of trouble for beating up his girlfriend, Rhianna... or you may not remember him. It’s kind of a toss-up at this point.

Of course, the biggest business story of the week was the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL. Arianna Huffington sold her startup for 330 million dollars and roughly the same number of AOL 7.0 discs. A lot of people don’t realize that AOL has actually transformed itself into a publishing powerhouse over the past couple years. News travels slowly over dial-up.

A number of people came down with a respiratory illness at the Playboy Mansion this week. The most common symptom people reported was trouble moaning. Upon hearing that a bunch of their guests had contracted something but that it was just a respiratory illness, a spokesperson for Playboy said “Whew!” I'm kidding. The spokesman actually ran out of the room to make a doctor's appointment after hearing "contracted something" and never got to "respiratory illness."

That's it. Enjoy your week!

1 comment:

  1. I propose Tahrir Square be renamed Terriers Square until FX comes to its senses.

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