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I'm celebrating Earth Day by hugging a tree and buying "Avatar".  The biggest movie of all time is out today on DVD and Blu-Ray. 

James Cameron is already working on a sequel to "Avatar" and he says it will focus on a different environment: The ocean.  He says, "I'm going to be fousing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginitive, but it just won't be a rain forrest".  And there's not going to be just one "Avatar" sequel...Cameron hints that a third installment is in the works too. "Avatar" overload?  Just wait...

The original "Avatar" is about to be re-released in IMAX theatres this August with 6 minutes of additional footage.

Why is James Cameron bombarding us with more "Avatar"?  He must be doing it because he loves it...because God knows, he doesn't need the money. 

What are your thoughts on "Avatar" - is it really the "greatest" movie of all-time or is it highly over-rated?

Heading into "Ash Wednesday" in Europe as Volcano ash continues to cause travel problems.  There's lots of critisizm on how the European governments handled the situation.  Many experts don't take issue with grounding flights (safety first) but with the fact that the UK was too slow to respond to issues revolving around the stranded passengers.  Speaking of the passengers...this extended 4 or 5 or 6 day layover in the UK will cost a lot of them a lot of money.  Since this volcano plume constitutes as an "Act Of God", they will not be reimbursed for tickets, food or accomodations.  The airlines are suffering even worse.  Every day that goes by is another 200 million dollars lost.  So far over a billion bucks.

But, there is some humour in the situation as "serious and professional" news reporters attempt to pronounce the name of the volcano: Eyjafjallajokull.

You could pull a tongue muscle trying to pronounce that.

Everybody wants to know when will the ash subside and everything return to normal?  It all depends which way the wind blows.  It's up to Mother Nature...great...we all know how tempermental and unpredictable she can be.

The tax deadline looms.  The end of the month is quickly aproaching.  Have you done your taxes yet?  They say tax should be spelled t-a-x-x...because if any word deserves to be a four letter word, it's "tax".

Speaking of taxes...if you think your paycheck doesn't go as far as it used to...you're right!  Blame taxes.  Canadian families are now spending more than 40% of their total income on taxes.  Compare that to 1961 when we only paid 33% to the Taxman. 

They say there are only three certainties in life: taxes, death and Kate Gosselin getting kicked off Dancing With The Stars tonight.

Planning a vacation in Europe?  Might want to rethink that.  The volcano in Iceland that blew it's top (and still continues to) has wreaked havok on travel plans worldwide.  Nothing in history has compared to this.  Sure, volcanos of this size erupt all the time...but when one erupts this close to a majorly populated area...uh oh. 

Airlines are losing millions of dollars everyday and travellers are stranded all over the world.  Yesterday over 64-thousand flights were cancelled in Europe.  Some air travel will resume today.

The volcano ash is even affecting celebrities...Bryan Adams was unable to attend the Junos to accept his Humanitarian Award in person, the celebs who did get to the Junos will be stuck in St. John's for another day or so as flights were cancelled across Canada's east coast (another day to kiss the cod and drink some screech), and Monty Python's John Cleese paid $5000 dollars for a cab to drive him 932 miles from Norway to Belgium after his plane was grounded.

When will it end?  Scientists aren't sure.  They say alot of it depends on the weather.  Oh great...we've got to depend on the weather forcasters? That's comforting.  They never get anything right. 

What a pain in the ash.  Do you know of anyone who's been affected by the Icelandic volcano?

Larry King's divorce is getting juicy!  This will be Larry's 8th divorce (7 different women, he married one of his wives twice).  His latest soon-to-be ex-wife Shawn wants to divorce Larry because he was sleeoing with her sister!  Ew!  Larry got busted when Shawn was going through the credit card records and noticed a charge for a Cartier diamond necklace that she never recieved.  I guess if you're going to cheat, pay cash.

By the way, Larry King is worth over $144 million dollars.  TMZ is reporting that Larry had NO PRENUP!!  What was he thinking? Maybe something along the line of, "She's beautiful, tall, and blonde - what could possibly go wrong"?  

50-year old Shawn will no doubt take 76-year old Larry to the cleaners.  She'll get the money, the cars and the houses.  If he's lucky, he might get custody of the diffibrilator.  Good luck, dude.

The good news out of all this...ladies, Larry King is now available!  

Houston, we have a problem....here's Whitney performing (if you can call it that) in England on Tuesday...go about 3 minutes in if you want to make your ears start bleeding:

I never thought I'd see the day that I can actually sing as well as Whitney. So sad.

Kate Gosselin has been house hunting in the Hollywood Hills for a mansion big enough for her and her eight kids.  "Now that Kate has tasted the excitement of Hollywood, there is no way that she is going to return to Pennsylvania," a friend of Kate's says.  "She is looking at homes in the Hollywood Hills in gated communities in the $2 million range. Kate is insisting the properties she sees have a pool, at least six bedrooms, an outdoor hot tub and, bizarrely, a recording studio!"  Can a CD be in the future? God, let's hope not. What would she sing?  Maybe a cover of Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" or how about Meridith Brook's "Bitch"?

And it's not just a home that Kate has been looking for in L.A. Sources say she has been meeting with agents, managers and publicists.   "Kate wants to be a movie star," one insider says. "Kate thinks that after Jennifer Aniston's last few films didn't do so well, America needs a new girl next door. And who better to fill Jen's shoes than Kate!"  

Excuse me for a moment....BA HA HA HA HA!  Now that's comedy, baby!

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of Terry Fox's Marathon Of Hope. Millions of people in over 60 countries around the world take part in the Terry Fox run every year, in fact it's the world's single largest one day fundraiser for cancer research.

I was watching some news footage last night of Terry's amazing, but tragically short journey.  In 1980, he attempted to run across Canada in what was called the " Marathon of Hope" to raise cancer awareness and cash for research.  As a kid, I remember watching Terry's progress.  I was astounded that someone could exhibit such strength and courage.  I could barley run around the block without gasping for breath, yet Terry was attempting to trek across an entire country with only one leg.

Terry Fox hoped to raise one dollar for each of Canada's 24 million people.

To date the Terry Fox Run has raised more than 500 million dollars for cancer research.  Amazing.  I think Terry would have been proud.

Hope you didn't spend too much time fixing your fence, replacing shingles or tracking down lost lawn furniture after the gale force winds over the weekend.  Here's some mindless drivel for your Monday...

Dancing With The Stars is back tonight.  Time will tell if Kate Gosselin is going to be a 'Dancing' queen (Ba ha ha!), the octo-mama is looking to be queen of the publishing world, and she wants to take down the "lipstick wearing pit bull", Sarah Palin!  Catfight!

Kate's book is called  'I Just Want You To Know.'  Kate received over $1 million for her 500 page, eight chapter book (the number of chapters isn't a coincidence, each one is a letter to each of her kids).  Kate has got to sell a ton of books to beat Palin's 2.5 million copies of "Goin' Rogue".  However, a source close to Kate says,"Kate is very confident she will beat Sarah.  Kate considers her writing a work of art. Up there with Shakespeare." 

Hear that?  That's the sound of Shakespere rolling in his grave.

In other "Dancing With The Stars" news, gravity defying Pam Anderson has stated that she may go commando tonight on DWTS.  How this differs from every other day in Pam's life, I don't know.

So something happened to me earlier this week that I thought would NEVER occur.  My computer crashed.  At first I thought, "Not a big deal, computers crash all the time".  But after a trip to one of Regina's fine computer "fix 'em up" shops, the severity of the crash was discovered.  My hard drive was faulty and I lost EVERYTHING.  Email contacts...gone.  14-thousand songs on iTunes...gone.  But the worst part...all our photos of the family and our kids...gone.  Arrggghhh!  I know what you're thinking...why didn't you backup?  I just didn't think of it.  So let that be a lesson to all of you.  BACK IT UP!!!!  Go do it right now before you suffer the loss of memories and the pain of an angry spouse! 

I'll talk to you Monday...hope I'm out of the doghouse by then.