On Friday, our editor James Clark wrote about Kid Rock running for U.S. Senate.
As I always get a chuckle from his columns and I envied his open canvas for his columns, without being limited to sports topics. Then I realized everyone but Kid Rock he mentioned had a sports background, and – as Monty Burns is fond of saying on the Simpsons – excellent, I can use my talent as master of the abstruse ambiguous facts to work it in here.
I definitely wouldn’t vote for Kid Rock, but as James accurately put it, he fits right in. I would, however, vote for former wrestler turned actor Dewayne Johnson, or as he’s known by his other handle, The Rock … no relation to Kid.
It might be The Rock’s star power. I really liked his comedy movie “The Rundown,” especially the monkeys. For those who haven’t seen it, there’s a part where The Rock’s character Beck, an aspiring gourmet chef, full-time bounty hunter, travels to the jungles of the Amazon in search of Travis, a mobster’s kid who disappeared there in an effort to get away from dad.
Travis is played by Seann William Scott and I laughed out loud the entire movie. The comedy chemistry between Johnson and Scott is five-star, and the monkey scenes were hilarious. Rock runs into monkeys twice. The first is when they’re both caught in a rope mantrap as a bunch of aggressive monkeys attack The Rock as Travis escapes.
Later in the film, they’re tricked into taking a hallucinogenic jungle fruit which paralyzes them and guess what, the monkeys show back up. The Rock mutters monkeeeeeeys trying to recover to avoid the degradation dealt earlier in the film.
It’s not just the monkeys that would muster my vote. I kind of feel I know The Rock as a funny, intelligent person from his films. This may or not be his real life personality, but after a while you feel like you know a person based on their appearances in the media and their work.
I wish Stephen King would run for president, and I’ve never met the man.
It was the same way in the last election. Years ago I wouldn’t have thought I’d vote for Hillary Clinton, but then Donald Trump came in the picture. I’d rather have The Rock as president … or even Ted Nugent. I’ve read so much about Donald Trump in year’s past, and that doesn’t include his tweet’s since he entered the Oval Office. I would have voted for a one-eyed camel before I’d cast a vote for Trump.
In any case, now the country, for better or worse, is stuck with him for four years.
How much better could The Rock do then Trump or even Stephen King? Well, like I said if I would vote for a one-eyed camel I can’t be that discriminating as to who I would rather have in the White House.
Can you ever know a person? Leastways, through the body of work they put out? I tend to think so, or at least know something about them based on trends … or tweets.