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 If last week's events in Washington, DC brought you hope for a new America, than today's news of the box office results should have been a reality-filled smack in the face.
While millions of Americans chose to do something the country has never done by making an African-American president, over the weekend millions of Americans chose to do something the country always does - watch really bad movies.
Take a look at the box office numbers . Go ahead, I'll be the guy waiting right here with the disappointed yet not surprised smirk on his face. Are you back yet? Great. Let's move on.
Did you notice what was on the top of that list? Yes, a movie called Paul Blart: Mall Cop. The number one movie in America is about a fat man on a Segway protecting a mall. Meanwhile over here in Hollywood, where I live they are passing out trophies to movies like Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler but the rest of America is just caught up in the mall cop craze. Really?
I'm an optimist. I saw what optimism did for Barack Obama. I also saw what Barack Obama did for his favorite baseball team's gear, sales of White Sox hats are up. Way up.
I'm hoping that this Paul Blart thing can boost the economy by increasing the sales of Segways. You remember the Segway, the vehicle that was going to eliminate walking.
Yeah, well that didn't really happen. I'm still walking, you're probably still walking. According to Wikipedia, as of 2006, only 23,500 Segways have been purchased.
At $4,000 a pop , a couple Segway sales here and there from one of the millions of Paul Blart viewers would really get this economy going in the right direction.
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