So I'm watching the advertisements on CNN with little snippets of news in between them. Only so much of it is not news but People Magazine style irrelevant fluff. And so much of it is woefully out of date compared to the blogosphere.

Today's headline is: Madonna Stunning At 50!

Wow. Who did she pay to get that out on the news over a week late?

Stunning is not the word I would use to describe her. As my next door neighbour so delicately put it: She looks like a washed up, used up old whore.

She looks like a ghost trying to squeeze into outfits two sizes too small. Her face looks weird. The last time she had plastic surgery done, it pulled her skin too tight. Her hair looks all dried out.

The headline should have read:

Madonna: Poster Woman for Middle Age Psychosis.

Trying to squeeze into clothes that are meant for early 20 year old party girls is patently pathetic and undignified. It screams out: "Look at me, I'm better than those young girls! Pay attention to me, me me!"

It's the female equivalent to a red Corvette for a middle aged guy. Someone who can't face encroaching old age and tries to recapture a youth they never had. Same with finding a lover who's from another generation.

Frankly I can't see the attraction. The sex might be great, but where is the conversation? The same milestones that two people of the same generation pass together that those May-Decembers can't possibly.

I am all for exercise, keeping fit, the skin supple with good facial creams. But I am not for the older generation competing with their children and trying to steal their styles and rob them of their chance to shine. It's their time. Let them get the attention.

I am all for creating your own unique look. There is no reason to look drab just because you're middle aged.
But I am not for trying to dress like your daughter's best friend. It's stupid and nobody's fooled for one moment.

Madonna looks like she's desperate to stay in the news and will do anything and step over anyone's toes to get it. She screams of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

I just hope that not too many people actually see her as a role model. You can't trust the critics and the news people these days. They are trained seals.

In an attempt to never appear uncool or out of touch, they go along with it. Nobody has the guts to say the emperor has no clothes. Not just about her but about everything else.

Bob Dylan was here in Hamilton and gave a terrible concert. He sounded like he had stuffed cotton balls in his mouth. My husband was there because he had helped build the stage he was on. But next day the critics fell all over himself praising him.

This is not doing anybody any good. Mediocre concerts are being conducted all over the place. And those who suffer the most are the people who go to those concerts.

Another example is Microsoft. They are hiring Jerry Seinfeld to go around and tell everybody that Microsoft Vista was not the dismal failure that everybody thinks it is. We tried to use it ourselves and it was a disaster. We keep nothing important on that computer.

It's a plain insult to hire this guy for millions of bucks to try to tell me it's not so bad. Be patient. The next one will be better. How condescending! The next one will come out and I won't be a customer. Plain and simple.

I know what I know. I own my experiences. When something stinks I will say it stinks.

Madonna, Bob Dylan and Microsoft. You all STINK!!