Sarah Palin Please Move to Hollywood

The gang at Saturday Night Live is at it again, this time with a hilarious song titled, "The Palin Rap." Sarah Palin balked at performing it herself, but watching her be bop along to the song, it is obvious she is no stranger to the camera. Hopefully she will forget this whole political dealio and march straight to Hollywood, as her viewer ratings are soaring off the charts.

SNL had a record 14 million viewers for Saturday night's show. Palin also has the highest number of internet searches for any political candidate ever. Whether Americans love her or hate they seem to be obsessed with her persona.

Now I am going to church to pray for a Palin movie. My mantra will be, "Move to Hollywood. You will be richer and famouser and no one will object to you bringing your kids along. Everyone does it. The weather is much better in L.A. Move to Hollywood."

"Hey, Sarah Palin"

One of my friends sent me this video this morning. It is the video response to Sarah Silverman's video, "The Great Schlep," which I posted yesterday. The song, "Hey Sarah Palin," is a parody of Plain White T's, "Hey There Delilah."

While I do feel that some of the candidates are scary, for obvious reasons, I believe this will be the most exciting election in the history of the United States of America. People are getting involved. They are passionate. People all over the country are waking up. Sarah Palin is exactly the type of alarm clock we all needed.

Voter turnout has historically been low in good ole America the Beautiful. Reasons for low voter turn out could be there hasn't been anyone inspiring to vote for, people are actually happy, or we're all just a bunch of boobs.

In college, one of my professors used to refer to the eligible voting population as, "the boobs." Every time he said that word I cringed, and he said it a lot, all semester long, in fact. He must have been some sort of voting snob.

Register to Vote!

Tonight I am going political with my blog. Don't worry I won't tell everyone who to vote for (Go Obama '08), this is more of a reminder for everyone to vote. I know it is a bit early for that reminder, but in order to be eligible to vote, a person must be registered to vote first. Voter registration must be postmarked by October 20th, 2008 in California. All other states vary from 15 to 30 days prior to Election Day, Tuesday November 4th.

Please don't use the excuse of, "I don't want to get jury duty, therefore, I can't register to vote." I will remind people that California jurors are selected from voter registration records and the Department of Motor Vehicles records. So unless you are going to give up your driver's license, there really are no excuses.

Also, a change of address, a change of name , or a change of political party affiliation all require a voter to re-register to vote. Someday, maybe everyone can be registered to vote automatically through a driver's license. Wouldn't that be easy?!

Did I hear someone say, " but it's against my religion." All I can say to that is it is time for a new religion.

Now onto funnier horizons. Or maybe just scarier horizons. Sometimes people laugh when they are scared. Here is a the second video installment of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin from the latest Saturday Night Live.

Surf Mom

I was totally confused by Sarah Palin's claim (Click link to observe Kelly Slater "claiming," a win) of hockey mom, thinking she was a hockey playing Mom. Thanks to my friend Daniel's expalination, my confusion is gone.

"Sarah Palin plays hockey," I say feeling a connection since I sort of played roller hockey in another life.

"No, she doesn't," says Dan.

"Yeah, I read that she is a hockey Mom, that means she plays hockey," I say.

"No, it means her kids play hockey," says Dan growing impatient.

"What?" I say totally confused thinking I am a surf Mom because I surf, not because I watch my kids surf or drive them to the beach. My thinking went on to include skateboarding Mom, twist bike Mom, bicycling Mom because those are things I actually do with my kids. Not, watch my kids do.

"So hockey Mom means her kids play hockey, I say repeating the definition to make sure I got it right. Am I supposed to be impressed with that?"

"It's her way of connecting with the people, he says to me. She's showing she is like everyone else."

Growing up my Mom was a single working mother. She was also a softball and tennis Mom. The highlight of all my sports endeavors was seeing her face in the crowd. Even though she ran her own business she only missed a few of my games. Thanks Mom! And now she has finally come to a place of acceptance of the title, surf Mom.

Curiously, Palin is the first parent I have heard claim "hockey Mom," let alone say it outloud in a "hey world look at me, I'm great," voice. So far to date, in my parenting career I haven't run into any Moms or Dads, for that matter, who claim the title soccer Mom, track Dad, water polo Mom, drama Mama. Turns out we all just do it. Plus, the pay off is, as American Express says, priceless.

Even the parents who coach the teams or head the PTA or take on room Mom or Dad titles, never say, "hey world look at me, I'm great!" and believe me they should.

Call me surf Mom, skatebaording Mom, call me anything but, room Mom.

"Don't refer to me as a MILF!"

I am so excited! I just stumbled across this Saturday Night Live skit featuring two of my favorite funny people, Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton, and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, while writing my real blog.

Did Palin really say, "don't refer to me as a MILF," or are the SNL writers just poking fun at Palin? Personally, I wouldn't take being called a milf as an insult and I kind of like the song from Weeds.

Just last week I was telling Stefan, "that Sarah Palin looks like Tina Fey. They must have the same aura. Or maybe it's the glasses."

And now, lo and behold, Fey is playing Palin on SNL. I must be some sort of psychic.