MARY ANN, MARY JANE... OR BOTH

Throughout history there have been time tested discussions that people of title, to people of the streets have debated. Tupac or Biggie. Coke or Pepsi. Shaq or Kobe. But my favorite has always been Mary Ann or Ginger.

If you don't know of this argument, it speaks of the two single women, who inhabited the fictional island in the sitcom Gilligan's Island. Ginger was the drop dead gorgeous, Hollywood actress, who used her sexuality and the implied promise of sex to get all the men to do things for her, while she did nothing. Mary Ann was the middle America, farm girl, who held nothing but old-fashioned values and a talent for cooking all the daily meals for seven people and making coconut cream pies. Well, I was always a Mary Ann man, but today I think many other men, will too.

On February 29th, 69 year old actress Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann, was fined more than $100 after pleading guilty to reckless driving and being found with marijuana in her car. She was also jailed for five days. The arresting officers say that she was coming from her own surprise birthday party and that they found half smoked 'roaches' in the car and Mary Ann told them that they belonged to some hitchhikers she picked up earlier--- hitchhiking? Didn't that go out after the slasher movies became popular? But I can't be angry with her. She could've easily been like Kobe Bryant and shifted the blame to someone else (recall his mention of Shaq in the Colorado debacle), "Oh those joints... those are some roaches that Tina Louise, I mean Ginger keeps roaches in her car all the time." But Mary Ann didn't do that, she 'manned up' (so to speak) at 69 years old and quietly did her 5 days. Now to all my Ginger fans out there, who do you want by your side? A 'dick-teasing, wanna be sex symbol, who could do nothing but refer to scenes she did with actors and change into all those outfits she brought for a three hour tour or the Nebraska farm girl, in the skin tight shorts, who can cook, clean, hold the weed and keep her mouth shut, when the heat is on? I am one to believe that many are now 'rolling' with Mary Ann in more ways than one.

Now follow me to freedom!