Reid About It

I'm still having some studio issues, so no PopCast this week. If you're looking for some hot fresh info-tainment, head on over to Examiner.com and check out my semi-humorous column over there, "Picking Ain't Easy." Even if you're not a sports fan, check it out.

Fresh on the heels of her Maxim cover, Transformers star Megan Fox told the magazine she was once in love with female stripper. To start with, this seems like really effective marketing. After reading this article, I decided that Megan Fox is the best young actress I've seen, even though I can't remember anything she's done except that movie I don't recall a single thing about. The article goes on to say Fox tried to get the stripper to quit, but couldn't do it. Let that be a lesson, guys, if Megan Fox can't coax a stripper out of the lifestyle, you offering her your El Camino ain't going to do it either.

"Guitar Hero" is reportedly coming out with a Jimi Hendrix edition. Unless this game comes with a headband soaked in acid, I'm against it.

Microsoft is cancelling the Jerry Seinfeld commercials, effective immediately. Good idea, those commercials were so bad I couldn't even tell what they were supposed to be advertising. They were the creepiest ads since the great Quiznos-talking rat commercials of the early 2000s.

Finally, my favorite thing to do these days is to see if people are paying attention. Whenever a friend sends me an email with one of those motivational sig lines, before I respond I always change the line slightly to see if they're paying attention. I got one yesterday with the Will-Smithian-philosophy "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." I responded by changing it to "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of breaths we make our enemies take underwater." Two replies later, it's still under the radar.