Apparently, yesterday was “Britney Spears Day” here in San Francisco.

I know this because when I opened our second-story window and shouted down a greeting to Scary Larry the homeless guy, he looked up and said, “Hey Bud! Happy Britney Spears Day!”

This was all prompted by her giving a free concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at noon on Sunday to promote her new album, “Femme Fatale,” that goes on sale Tuesday. Parts of the concert will air on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday morning.

It probably goes without saying that I’m not in Britney’s target demographic. I’m not even sure what that would be but it’s fairly certain that over 50, male and straight don’t factor in.  But I remember when she first hit the scene and how enthralled our 8-y/o neighbor, Emily, was with her.

Emily had to have everything Britney put out, which was not only music (on cds!) but posters and bling, which all got off-loaded in one of her mom’s frequent garage sales when she hit her teens and discovered Nirvana. Kurt Cobain posthumously talked her out of her Britney-esqe ways and the last time I talked to her – a few years ago – she was WAY too cool for Britney.

But yesterday, thousands of people showed up who were not too cool to stand in line for hours to get into a 15-minute Britney concert. Three songs. Yep, that was it.

I was tempted to snag one of those tickets, only because they were free and the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is right over there on the corner, across from the Civic Center Market. I may have had to stand in line for a long time but it would have been a five-minute walk to get there.

It would be just to say that I’d done it, and had actually seen this mega-star in action, fan or not, but then I figured that that’s one seat I’d be taking away from a true fan, which would really be kind of shitty of me.

So I’ll just have to settle for the blinged-out Britney iPad when I win it. There was a contest on Vevo a couple of days ago, where you enter to win an iPad with every song Britney’s ever recorded, including the new album being released on Tuesday. They said it’s pink and blinged-out with all kinds of Britney shit.

Hey, a free iPad! So I entered the contest.

But I’d probably just sell it and get a regular iPad or something. I’m sure a blinged-out Britney iPad with every song she ever recorded must be worth a small fortune to someone out there, judging by how many knuckleheads stood in that line for hours and came from all over including Europe.

Yes.. EUROPE. For a free mini-concert.

But then again, perhaps it will inspire me if I compose posts for this blog on a pink, blinged-out Britney iPad while listening to “Oops!.. I did it again!” on an endless loop.

I may even sit on a throne and hire sexy male back-up dancers to swirl around me as I write. I’ll be “Rhodester Fatale!”

Rhodester Fatale!

Britney Spears woos San Francisco at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Femme Fatale now
available at AMAZON

Have you seen this show on ABC called “V“?

Mrs. Rhodester and I watched it and all I can say is that had I KNOWN Morena Baccarin was the babelicious reptilian leader of a powerful alien race, I never would have let her near my dogs.

She might have eaten them.

At this point longtime readers of this blog are rolling their eyes as they say, “There he goes again, with that stupid story about how Morena Baccarin lived in his building and he met her one day while walking his dogs.”

Babelicious Morena Baccarin

Well now I don’t HAVE to tell that story, smarty-pants longtime readers of this blog! You’ve already told it! But did you tell new readers about how she said I had nice looking dogs and how I said I liked her dog and then she thanked me and then later we were watching a new series called “Firefly” and hey, there she was?

You should also tell them how I didn’t know she was a hot-shot actress during the dog-walking bit and how surprised I was to see her pop-up as a main character in Firefly and how I was suddenly walking the dogs about seven to ten times a day after that.

So last night we’re watching “V” because we both like sci-fi but I also make it a point to see anything Morena Baccarin is in, like Stargate and the movie about Firefly that was called Serenity, and we noticed that another actor was in it who was with Morena Baccarin in Firefly and Serenity and we’re both thinking, “Geez, does Wash have to get killed in EVERY DAMN THING HE’S IN?”

The answer, evidently, is YES.

Alan Tudyk as WASH in Firefly

“V” was originally a TV miniseries in 1983 and I’m glad they decided to remake it and touch-up some things that kind of bugged me, like not having Morena Baccarin as the leader of the alien race. Of course she was only four years old then, so I guess that would have been a bit silly.

But they updated other things that would appeal to an audience of 2009, like the part where Morena Baccarin as Anna, the babelicious leader of the alien race, offers the citizens of earth universal healthcare.

I had to go smoke a cigarette after that.

Morenaaaaa.... uh HUH..

We’ve been watching the original miniseries because they’ve been playing it in preparation of last night’s big debut of the new “V,” and we’ve been laughing at the special effects that we thought were so awesome back in 1983, because compared to the awesome special effects in last night’s “V” they are pretty cheesy.

However, we know that someday we’ll think last night’s special effects were cheesy because the new special effects will be REALLY awesome, which will probably be because we’ll be watching the real reptilians come to earth and take over.

All I ask is that they’re lead by that babelicious Morena Baccarin and that she doesn’t eat our dogs.