Top Ten on a Tuesday

I try to stay up with what's current in the world, but sometimes it is hard with such an overload of information out there on the web and me with less than huge amounts of free time to devote to it...

So instead of actually reading some news stories, why not go straight to the bullet points: Yahoo's current "Trending Now" top 10 searches. Yahoo knows what's important, right? So here it is - the most important things right now in the world according to the searches on Yahoo:

1. Katy Perry - Like I said, Yahoo knows what is important. Katy Perry is engaged to that creepy dude Russell Brandt.

2. Yellow Submarine - Just an old Beatles song? NO! It's a movie remake of the lives of the Beatles and the cast has just been announced! The only name I recognize is Cary Elwes, he of the "as you wish...." Princess Bride fame. Oh Wesley, don't screw up George Harrison please.

3. Detroit Auto Show - It starts today. Woo.

4. Pee Wee's Playhouse - Apparantly he has a live show starting today at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. How can that guy not ever change? Rumor is (from my brother) that he has a relative (I think his cousin) who is, or at least was, a professor at SDSU and she looks and sounds just like him. Crazy, huh?

5. Top Movies of 2009 - Was excited until I saw this list. I really loved only 2 of these (in green) so far. Here they are, the top 10, listed #10 to #1 - Ice Age: Dawn of Dinosaurs, Monsters vs Aliens, The Blind Side, Star Trek, The Hangover, Twilight: New Moon, Up, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Avatar, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

6. American Idol - Starts this week and *gasp* this is Simon's last season. Is he the reason everyone watches? I don't, by the way, watch. Except I do go online and watch the top 10 singers once they get down that far - just them singing, not the commentary or reaction or the cheesy group number or anything else. I love the web.

7. The Tonight Show - Jay Leno is tanking in his 10pm daily show, Conan O'Brien is tanking as the Tonight Show host, NBC is distraught, NBC is moving Jay to 1135pm and Conan's Tonight Show to 1205am, Jay says woohoo, Conan says no way Jose. Maybe my memory is cloudy... but didn't NBC force Jay to "retire" from the Tonight Show spot less than a year ago after naming his replacement/retirement date years ago in order to avoid confrontation and scandal and problems? Ironic.

8. Rozlyn Papa - The chick on The Bachelor that got booted off for "crossing boundaries" with a producer/staff member of the show. They have 1000 cameras everywhere. If she so much as kissed this producer guy, why don't they have it on tape to show? Because you know this show is all about showing the make out scenes. Conversation? No. Kissing? Yes.

9. John Demjanjuk - Interesting story here, he's going on trial in Germany for being an accomplice in the death of 27,900 Jews. Once thought to be Nazi guard Ivan the Terrible but then cleared of that, Demjanjuk is now thought to have been a guard at another Nazi concentration camp - Sobibor - in Poland.

10. 2010 NFL Draft - I thought this was the time of year when you could just cheer for your favorite team in the playoffs (Go Chargers!) not talk about next year's teams already! Yipes!

And there you have it. The most important things right now. I'm kinda surprised the 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti didn't make the list..... but, hey, who I am to argue with the people searching on Yahoo?