Westminster is going to the top dogs tonight
2/16/2010"...as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience."
— Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point.
BOW-WOW-WOW-YIPPIEO-YIPPIEAY: The Westminster Dog Show is in full swing with all manner of hounds and highfalutin purebreeds trotting around and showing off for a national audience. When you hear people talking about the way these dogs
"exude a bold attitude" and have a "Grace Kelly-like seductiveness" you kind of wonder, are these dogs we're talking about? Thankfully,
yes they are. The fun part of the show of course is seeing all the different breeds because dogs are just cool. A good movie treatment of the show is this classic and let's not forget George Clinton's ode to
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: Today's Thin Slices is a grab-bag of oddities from people who are famous, infamous and sort of famous. Director and comics writer Kevin Smith was declared too fat to fly by Southwest Airlines and he's mad about it. One of Tiger Woods porn star mistresses says he got her pregnant -- twice. Oh, and most shocking of all, Heidi Montag is going to be in Playboy. RL
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