Something I Never Heard About Until Yesterday:Ice Road Truckers

That's Ice Road Truckers. My friend Ignoto thinks it is kinda cool. I had never heard of it. After reading the Wiki, I was ready to declare it the male response to "Sex and the City." But a brief survey of my more manly buddies (probably not all that manly, but hey) backs me off: that they know little or nothing about it. UB's Kansas bureau, who does watch the History Channel, probably has it pegged:

I’ve seen the program; it seems like smoking: a socially acceptable form of suicide but quicker. It is sort of reminiscent of the ice road that the soviets used to supply Leningrad during the siege in WWII.

"Sex and the City Part LXVI: The Fab Four meet the Ice Road Truckers." I can hardly wait.

Fn.:Kansas adds:

Instead of ice road truckers, watch the crab fishermen thing on the same channel. Cold, wet, seasick and pulling muscles. Great fun. Not much plot.

So That's What It's About

Lots of talk this weekend about how guys don't like Sex and the City (see, e.g., link) Actually, I kinda liked Sex and the City (the TV show; I haven't seen the movie). It's not that my wife pushed me into it; I'm not sure she has ever seen it. And it is not just about all those hot babes making the boinky boinky. Well, okay it is about that, but there is more. The thing is that for all their dazzle and glamor, the girls were winningly human—vulnerable and bewildered, and unable to avoid making small or big mistakes. That opened up lots of opportunities for interesting, surprising, funny plots.

But I have to admit one thing: until the current hype over the movie, I never realized that it was all about the clothes.