Winnie from the Wonder Years is pregnant. Actress Danica McKellar and her husband of one year, are expecting their first child this fall. Did you know Winnie, is now working as a mathematician? Seriously, she majored in Mathematics at UCLA and even co-authored a scientific paper, the results from which are termed the ‘Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem’.

Fred Savage should have hitched his wagon to that star while he still could. What’s HE up to these days? Well, he recently appeared as a serial rapist on Law & Order: SVU as a serial rapist. (I can’t imagine there are a lot of guys competing for a role like that). What do you just tell your agent you’re looking for a role such that women will NEVER speak to you again?

If you’ve seen the movie Couple’s Retreat, you may remember a scene where John Favreau’s character is laying on the couch holding a brochure with a picture of a couple standing on the beach in their swimsuits. He then proceeds to fold the brochure in half leaving only a bikini-clad woman exposed, in order to use this picture to… uh, help apply suntan oil to a “sensitive area”. 

The woman in the picture is now SUING the film company for defamation. She released the picture to a stock photo agency who in turn sold it to the film company. Granted a lot of people might not have foreseen the picture being used for this purpose. At the same time; she’s wearing a bikini. 90 percent of her body is exposed. Did she think people were going to look at the picture to fantasize about her IQ? 

Remember that E-trade commercial that airred during the Superbowl with the talking babies that refers to a “milkaholic” named “Lindsay”. Lindsay Lohan thinks it’s about her and now she’s suing for $100 million… classic.

OK GO is a band known more for its videos than its music. The intricately choreographed treadmill routine they did for “Here It Goes Again: is a tough act to follow, but I think this 3 minute homage to the board game “Mousetrap” certainly rises to the challenge. Since this video debuted earlier this week it’s logged more than 2.5 million hits.

I saw Alanis Morrissette singing at the Closing Ceremonies for the Olympics yesterday. It reminded me how much I’ve always thought she looked like Red Hot Chili Peppers singer, Anthony Kiedis – take a look!  

In case you can’t tell them apart. HE’s the one with whiskers (at least until Alanis begins menopause).

I’ve been posting a bunch on the SONiC Facebook page and one thing I notice is that for about every 20 or 25 comments we get on any given post, regardless of subject, there’s at least one person who posts: who cares.

Sad about the earthquake in Haiti: who cares
The women’s hockey team is beating Finland: who cares

I understand; there are a lot of things I don’t care about. Beanie babies, James Blunt, Jersey Shore… did I mention James Blunt? Facebook is a social networking site; a tool for connecting with people with similar interests. So to spend your time trolling the internet looking for one more thing NOT to care about… is just sad.

I’m not coming down on people for saying who cares. Like I said, I get one of those for roughly every 20 comments. 5 percent don’t care, and that’s okay. But the sad truth is, if you don’t care, and you’re wasting your time trying to express your apathy to people who do, you’re missing out on the opportunity to connect with OTHER people who don’t care. Start a Who Cares Facebook group – your own personal forum to express your apathy on various subjects.

Yesterday I posted that Noel Gallagher from Oasis was one of the names tossed out as a potential replacement for Simon Cowell on American Idol.

I don’t watch the show, but even with the Olympics on TV, there are 18-million people who DO watch that show. Oasis is certainly not my favorite band, but they’ve sold more than 70-million records and the prospect of Noel becoming part of North America’s most popular television show is at very least a mildly entertaining prospect for some. Who cares?

Everybody but you.

Long before Courtenay Cox and Cougartown, before Jennifer Aniston became the has-been with the disaterous love life the tabloids have made her into,  Friends was a prime-time TV staple; a sitcom about about a young group of friends: Monica, Chandler, Phoebie, Rachel & Joey. I came across this picture of Joey (Matt LeBlanc) today and it made me feel SO old.

Movie director Kevin Smith has kicked off a Southwest Air flight this week because the pilot claimed he was, in essence, too fat to fly. He’s been through Edmonton recently on speaking tours and there’s no denying that he’s a substantial fellow. But too fat to fly?

I can appreciate both sides of this argument. If you pay for a full seat on an airplane, are you not entitled to be comfortable? To enjoy your seat without somebody’s gut hanging over onto your lap? On the otherhand, personally I’m a little on the tall side; I’ve got big shoulders. I certainly take up more than MY share of the seat. I tuck my elbows tight against my sides and still I take up the armrests, which is equally unfair to my fellow passengers. I wouldn’t take kindly to being kicked off a plane because they don’t feel I conform to THEIR size standards.

The irony of this whole situation is airplane seats are getting smaller – people are getting bigger. Sure being large is a choice, but is it a choice that should limit your travel options?

I watched the Grammies on Sunday…he awards show where the most important people in music get all dressed up and gather together to be peed on by Pink. If you didn’t see the show, Pink’s performance involved her hanging from the ceiling and spinning around on a trapeze – it was very impressive. But then, water started spraying out of everywhere all over the crowd.

Take a look at this outfit. She came out on stage wearing a middle-east inspired dress. I thought to myself; it’s refreshing to see a woman wear something a little more conservative. That lasted all of about 5 seconds, at which point Pink ripped off her dress, underneath which she was wearing… a shoelace.

It’s almost as though Pink and Lady Gaga were having a contest to see who could show the most skin. In fact, during Lady gaga’s duet with Elton John I was thinking this is probably as close as Elton John’s ever come to seeing a woman naked.

I went and saw “The Lovely Bones” over the weekend. Pretty good. The movie is actually based on a book, and everybody always says the book was WAY better than the movie. Even people who’ve never read the book say that – it’s like you’re trying to convince the world that you can read. I never read it, but I’m curious about how they might show some of the scenes that ended up in the movie.

A story about a teenage girl, murdered by a serial killer. But instead of going to heaven or hell she goes to… Wonderland. It’s not actually Wonderland, but it might as well be. She’s stuck in the “in-between”; this place where you can walk on water and it rains lollipops basically – it’s like a 2 and a half hour music video. She’s at her house, and then the house melts away and then suddenly she’s tobogganing on a rainbow. I’ve never been snuffed out by a serial killer, but if it’s really the fun, carefree acid trip THE movie portrayed it to be – I’d be doing a lot more hitchhiking.