Sunday, September 28, 2008
Michael Phelps sex symbol; he says not
Monday, September 22, 2008
Oct. 4 to be hometown day for Michael Phelps
So it now appears that Michael Phelps will in fact make it home. The homecoming celebrations for our Olympian hero will be October 4th, and tens of thousands are expected, officials said. I guess that means his whole town! The world media says Michael Phelps is from Baltimore but we know better. He is from Towson, dude.
The "Parade of Gold" will be in Michael Phelps hometown, and will be followed by a "Star-Spangled Salute" with music and fireworks at Fort McHenry later that evening. There seems to be very little chance that we will be able to see Michael Phelps naked at this event.
County, city and state officials are asking businesses to contribute $300,000 for the events. Whaaaa ? Obviously, there should be a parade for the Olympians but does it really cost $300,000.00 for a parade? Seems a bit steep to me. Just think of other good things that could be done with 300K.
Michael Phelps mother, Debbie Phelps, said athletes are models for the next generation and she is proud of her son sending out a message of believing in one's self. That, of course, is true. But we all know that Debbie Phelps is the one who taught Michael to believe in himself. I hope Debbie gets to go in the parade. Maybe $300,000 could even rent her one of those fancy convertible boats with horns on the front. White would be best ... you know, it's not going to clash with anything she wears. Always try to find a huge white convertible if you're going in a parade.
Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr now thinks that Towson is now the center of the swimming universe and that he watched the swimming at the Olympics while he recovered from heart-bypass surgery. "I couldn't have asked for better therapy," he said. We all hope Mr. Smith completely recovers and starts to exercise a bit.
Mr. Smith was joined for the announcement in the library of Mr. Phelps' alma mater by Gov. Martin O'Malley and Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, the school's marching band and cheerleaders. I think it’s so cute when schools have marching bands. Can these bands play standing still or sitting, or do they always have to be marching? Do schools with marching bands also have sitting bands for the un-co-ordinated kids who can’t walk and play without huge marching band pile-up disasters? I’ve always thought marching bands are like music class and gym class at once. I wonder if they have a long distance debating teams …. ok enough, back to Michael Phelps.
As a student at the school, Mr. Phelps was low-key and down to earth, said Principal Jane N. Barranger. Their nickname for him is the "Golden General" after the school's mascot. They named him after a mascot? How dumb. Oh well, the school has a marching band so it’s still very cute.
"We all knew he was going to go to the Olympics," Mrs. Barranger said. After the Athens Olympics it was a very good guess, she failed to add.
Some of the students who attended the announcement said the fact that Michael Phelps hometown-hero status makes his achievements especially inspiring. "He walked the same halls I walk, " said Janae Johnson, a 17-year-old senior. "It makes it more real."
Michael Phelps is a genuine swimming hero and I hope he gets a hero’s welcome when he gets home, and that would definately including a marching band.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Michael I'll be your frosted flake
The announcement that Olympic Michael Phelps will be pitching Kellogg's Frosted Flakes instead of the traditional athlete's choice of Wheaties has left many perplexed and pissy.
Given that I’m a frosted flake (if you haven't noticed by now) I think the relationship is wonderful and perpetuates my fantasy of Mike being a frosted flake too. (well, that is second to my fantasy of seeing michael phelps naked) However, there are those that don’t agree with me.
Apparently, Frosted Flakes has three times the amount of sugar as Wheaties and 1/3rd the fiber!! Who knew?
Phelps is now being criticized by health experts who are worried about the message he'll be sending to children across America. As we know, childhood obesity is becoming quite the problem in America and Phelps giving the thumbs up to sugary cereal sends the wrong message, experts say.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think kids are fat because they sit on their tushes playing video games and watching TV all day and eats mounds of crap and drink buckets of pop. And, at the end of the day it's up to mom and dad not to buy crap for their kids, right?
And don’t we think that seeing all those great Micheal Phelps pictures that have proliferated the interweb since the 2008 Olympics has done enough to promote fitness for kids?
Give me a break! It’s not like he’s promoting cigarettes, or booze, or even Doritos!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Will Michael Phelps be Naked on Tonight’s SNL?
"I'm excited to meet Michael Phelps!" she told people at the Toronto Film Festival. "He's gonna be naked in all the sketches I write, for sure." Or maybe just wearing a Wiig?
Friday, September 12, 2008
What is the value of eight golds in Beijing ?
This could buy beloved Mrs. Phelps a lot of baubles.
Michael Phelps gorgeous hot bod just got a bit hotter. How much hotter?
Well, Michael Phelps and his hot spectacular swimsuit model bod just got like $100 million dollars hotter!
Michael Phelps agent stated, “What is the value of eight golds in Beijing before a prime-time audience in the US? I’d say 100 million dollars over the course of his lifetime.” Wow.
His agent said that he’s been getting around 50 offers a day. 50 offers a day! That’s like an offer every 12 minutes over a 10 hour day. Nowif that doesn't buy him more fans, I don't know what will!!!
Michael already has deals with Speedo, Hilton, Omega and Kellogs. One industry expert said that if he leaves Speedo, Nike could pay him up to $50 million. Hmm, if he can get $50 million in one shot then isn’t $100 million shooing a bit low?
And if those are for the skimpy bathing suit shots, me thinks it's going to be out of my price range to arrange a naked photo shoot of Michael Phelps. Dang.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Wardrobe Malfunction ?
Michael Phelps had a wardrobe malfunction? Whaaaaaa? Outta my way !
When we first heard of Phelps’ wardrobe malfunction, we got a little excited. Ok, a lot excited. Did his speedo come off during the race? Am I in heaven? Am I finally going to see Micheal Phelps naked?
Sadly, we didn’t see Michael Phelps’naked. His wardrobe malfunction wasn’t what we all hoped! This hot bod does wear his speedos awfully low, which some people (wink, wink) like! It really wouldn’t take much for that skimpy lycra to catch a pull and unravel.
Unfortunately it was just his goggles! In the 200 m butterfly, water flooded into Michael Phelps’ goggles. Phelps referred to this as a “wardrobe malfunction”.
Funny guy, Phelps said that he just did not strap his goggles on properly. Phelps was grateful for the 2sec comfort zone he had on the world going into the race, to make up for this mistake. Phelps swam the last two laps of the 200 butterfly virtually blind because his goggles had filled with water.
I would never have wanted anything to interfere with Michael’s quest for Olympic Gold but I’m kinda wishing for a little more exciting wardrobe malfunction in a smaller meet….like State Championships. He would probably be grateful of any technical assistance I offered up, even though that would blow any chances of seeing michael phelps nakes. Ah, the sacrifices I am willing to make!