Elvis’ birthday was two days ago, which means if you haven’t taken down your outdoor Christmas decorations yet, you're are a moron because Christmas is OVAH!
“KILL MOOSE AND SQUIRREL…”
Looks like Boris and Natasha never give up. That's a real moose who literally got "strung up" by his antlers (click pic to enlarge) when workers in Anchorage, Alaska were raising power lines. Fortunately, Bullwinkle was safely lowered back to earth all in one piece. Then again, if he weren't in one piece, there's one place he could go for help:
WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER, PLEASE
Are y’all as sick as I am already with all the overblown ESPN-like analysis on the New Hampshire primary and Iowa Carcass? The talking heads at all the news outlets are splitting so many hairs right and left—did Obama say the right things? Does Edwards need a haircut? Did Huckabee look Christian enough? Did Hillary put her pantyhose on straight? This is going to be a very long year…
“OLD SCHOOL” TV RULES!
I checked out the newly-released “Mod Squad” DVD set this week—talk about going back in time! I hadn’t seen that show in probably 35 years, and I didn’t remember all that much about it, except the really cool theme song. One thing I always wondered—what on earth were they running from in the opening title sequence? I thought cops were supposed to be the chasers, not the chase-ees, and these three were high-tailing it like they were being chased by bill collectors on pay day. The plots on the episodes I watched were thinner than Ron Howard’s hair, but these DVDs are worth it alone just to see what people wore back then and all those cool late ‘60s cars, not to mention gas prices at 32.9! The special features also include recent interview clips with Peggy Lipton, who has aged remarkably well since back in the day.
“VOICES ARE CALLING, FROM INSIDE MY HEAD…”
I’ve also been watching the first season of “The Odd Couple” recently, and Felix and Oscar had this neighbor kid named Phillip who appeared in several episodes. I didn’t recognize the kid visually, but his voice sounded very familiar to me, and it was driving me nuts until I looked him up on imdb.com, and I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the kid who did the voice of Linus on the “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” special! It scares the shit out of me sometimes how my memory retains stuff like this…
HALL OF FAME FINALLY TAKES GANDER AT GOOSE
Congrats to the Baseball Hall of Fame for finally getting it right and voting in relief pitcher Rich “Goose” Gossage for the class of ’08. Even though he pitched for the Evil Empire (Yankees), I always respected his talent and career achievements, and his induction into the Hall has been long overdue. I don’t get why relief pitchers aren’t recognized for what they do like the other position players are. The Pro Football HOF does the same thing with kickers and punters by acting as if they don’t exist—Jan Stenerud is the only pure kicker who has been inducted so far, and the greatest punter ever—Oakland’s Ray Guy—has been totally snubbed. Hell, if they can recognize non-players like owners, commissioners and announcers, then why do these guys always get ignored?
FUNNY (AND TRUE) STORY
I was reminded the other day of a discussion at work one day a few years back. Some mammogram films had gotten stuck inside this Rolodex-type viewing machine and someone said it was because the person didn’t hang up the films properly. To which I replied, “So what you’re saying is they weren’t well-hung!” [Place rim shot here]
HERE WE GO AGAIN…
Big mouth Al Sharpton is at it again, causing a big stink over this Golf Channel announcer chick Kelly Tilghman’s ill-advised “lynched in a back alley” remark about Tiger Woods. Yes, it was a dumb thing to say on TV, and far be it for me to defend anyone from the friggin’ Golf Channel, but if you watch the video, it clearly wasn’t pre-meditated and was out of her mouth before she knew it. Still, Big Al’s doing all his typical “our race has been offended” opportunist histrionics and wants this gal to be fired and strung up by her nut-sack and all, never mind that Woods himself said he wasn’t offended and everything’s cool at his end. I’d love it if Tiger would go a step further and tell Sharpton and his tag-team partner Jesse Jackson to put a fucking sock in it already...
FROM THE LIFE OF (THE OTHER) BRIAN...
One of my favorite movie scenes of all-time. Try to suppress your laughter—it's damn near impossible!
2 comments:
Times and tastes change, but it's still sad to see a radio landmark like KY go. Part of the problem is that the younger generation doesn't have the passion for the music that we did. I guess there's so many more things for them to do now.
NOTE: The good doctor isn't losing his mind--he was responding to some text that originally appeared on this post that I put into a separate post and fleshed out a bit more. See the "Dead Again" post above to see what he was responding to...
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