Chris Rock on Running

I don't care who you plan to vote for or if you plan to vote, this is funny.

Tarpley Spotting

I spotted US WNT starter, Lindsay Tarpley, hopping onto the treadmill beside me at the gym today. You know what that means. Training camp is back on at the Home Depot Center. It officially begins on Thursday. Now you can go stalk all the players.

Bye, Bye Becks

So long farewell, auf weidersehen good-bye.

The von Trapps said it first but now it's the chant of soccer fans in L.A....but to a slightly different tune. With the announcement that David Beckham is back to Italy to join AC Milan for the summer, we bid him adieu with hopes we won't see his return.

The Galaxy, once an upstanding team in the MLS (recall when they actually brought home championships) has not made the playoffs since Beckham joined the squad. Perhaps this is a sign to those in charge that soccer, a game with 11 field players per team, is not a sport that allows for success based on two players.

Becks has what? 5 goals? 11 assists? Something of the sort....if he's supposed to be a world-class player (or even a world-class player past his prime), his arrival in the AYSO ranks of professional soccer should have seen absolute domination. But, no, no. I must be silly. He wasn't brought here to win; he was brought to sell tickets. It's the pretty face that counts. (Remember that, ladies. It will make you feel wonderful about yourself on those really bad hair days.)

Well, with that sweet little wave goodbye, we'll be praying he doesn't come back. Because if he doesn't, the Galaxy just may return to what they were before they hit pretty-boy status: a winning team.

Image Managment Needs Work with Liukin

Just a thought, but if I were in the Nastia Liukin PR camp, with all the tiny little girls who idolize her as the 2008 gold-medalist in the all-round as well as the Women's Sports Foundation's 2008 Sportswoman of the Year, I don't think I would allow her to have a guest role on "Gossip Girl." The show, rampant with sex and immorality, just doesn't say "America's Sweetheart" to me.

Just a thought.

Hotel Cafe Tour at Hotel Cafe

Read my review of the Hotel Cafe Tour (which I attended at the Hotel Cafe on Friday night) at www.iamthatgirl.com.

I Don't Even Like it but I Watch it

Have you seen "Dirty Sexy Money?" The show is in its second season....and I was intrigued enough to allow my Tivo to do the work of watching it.

I've seen every episode even though I can't tell you how many times I've seriously considered canceling my Season Pass (that's Tivo-speak, people). It's a show about a ridiculously wealthy family and how absolutely immoral they are, together and individually, as they bring their family lawyer, Nick, into their manipulative clutches. It's horrible!

But, like a magician's act, it's got you looking so many different places, it always surprises you with a turn of events (that you so should have seen) and you're engaged in the show.

How annoying.