PEACE SELLS, BUT WHO’S BUYING?
My conservative friends will be proud to hear me say this—Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize about as much as Louie DePalma deserved the Mr. Congeniality Award. What peace are you referring to, noble Nobel folks? Afghanistan is getting more and more unstable by the minute, Iraq is still a quagmire, Iran is still acting a fool, and North Korea is a perennial question mark. Even I have to side with the Fox Noise Channel lynch mob (yes, I said lynch mob on purpose) on this one, unless Da Prez got the award for simply NOT invading a foreign land under false pretenses during his first seven months in office.
NOT PRETTY IN PINK
I know I’ll probably sound like a total douche here, but I could have done without the NFL players and coaches wearing the pink stuff last weekend in support of breast cancer awareness. Yes, it’s a noble gesture and a good cause, but those pink cleats LaDainian Tomlinson wore the other night made him look like a ballet dancer. The pink wristbands/armbands also clashed big-time with the kelly green of the New York Jets uni’s—pink and green are two colors that don't go together under ANY circumstances! And as my cynical side has stated before, I fail to see how putting pink ribbons on everything is going to make breast cancer go away.
“IS THAT EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT I READ?”—P. TOWNSHEND
Memo to Major League Baseball: You might want to alter your American League Division Series (ALDS) logo just a skosh. Even on my 27” TV screen, it looks like it says “AIDS”…
While I'm at it, don't it seem a bit disingenuous that these ballgames are sponsored by competing insurance companies (i.e., Geico and Progressive)?
DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS…
Is anyone as sick as I am of the Weather Channel’s over-hyped “Wake Up With Al” promos? Al Roker has to be the whitest black man in America and quite possibly the blandest one, too. He adds nothing to the “Today Show”, so I can’t imagine what impact he has on TWC in the mornings. What the hell do we need a national weatherman in the mornings for anyway? The local stations hit us over the head with weather coverage every five minutes, and I really don’t need to know about the fog over Walla Walla, the humidity in Perth Amboy, or the microburst over Fond Du Loc. As for Roker’s meteorological prowess, he has all the accuracy of Shaquille O‘Neal at the free-throw line, and is about as useful as a snow blower in Panama.
TV OBSERVATION #1
On the "Mary Tyler Moore Show", what exactly did Mr. Grant need with that moon phase chart on the wall behind his desk? Lou never struck me as an Astronomy buff...
TV OBSERVATION #2:
Why on earth would anyone want to doink this Kate Gosselin person even once, let alone seven additional times? She ain't all that hot to begin with, and her personality renders her nothing more than a human canker sore...
YOU CALL THIS “SALUTING THE TROOPS”?
Über-conservative Ted Nugent is always harping on his reverence for the military and supporting our U.S. fighting men and women overseas (not that one shouldn’t), but I was listening to some Terrible Ted on my iPod the other day, and noted a curious line in the song “Good And Ready” from 1982: “We ain’t afraid of the National Guard—‘cause me and my boys, we can fight just as hard…” Perhaps I’m nit-picking here, but Ted was essentially calling our National Guard troops a bunch of wusses, if I’m interpreting that verse correctly. And if you’re so gung-ho about defending our country and all, dear Theodore, then where were you during the Vietnam war when you were about 19 or 20? Oh, that’s right, touring with the Amboy Dukes. I’m just sayin’…
IN GENE WE TRUST?
Knowing Gene, he probably drew that one himself. I can understand blowing off a single and defacing it, but I couldn't bring myself to waste a perfectly good twenty… Here’s the link to some more humorous defacery of American currency. Meanwhile, I got the word today that Kiss is coming to Sprint Center on December 10th. While I have been critical of the band continuing on without Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, it’s probably just as well neither of them are with the group at this point, given all the invective Simmons and Stanley keep hurling at them. From what I’ve heard, Kiss is much tighter in concert now with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer replacing them, therefore, I’ve decided to end my Kiss concert moratorium and attend my 16th Kiss concert, and it’s only fitting that Kiss be my first Sprint Center show. I just can’t quit ‘em, as the saying goes, and I also have to give them credit for at least keeping their ticket prices reasonable. Tix start at $18.50, and I'm going to assume those $18.50 seats aren't under the stage or in the parking lot...I also picked up the new Kiss CD Sonic Boom at Walmart last night—geez, that place gives me the willies! Thankfully, my trusty iPod acts as a force-field to ward off the cretins and lowlifes therein, but I sometimes wonder if these little contraptions have minds of their own—I kid you not, the second I reached over to grab my copy of the new Kiss release, a Kiss song kicked in on the iPod! Anyway, I also picked up Ace Frehley’s new Anomaly CD yesterday, and reviews of both it and Sonic Boom are forthcoming as soon as I get a chance to give them a good listen…
LATEST SURE SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE...
D’oh, indeed!
4 comments:
Nugent's story - you may have heard it - was that he wore the same clothes for a week, which he pissed and shit in the whole time, and then wore that outfit for his draft board appointment. Others say that Ted's story is BS, and he got out of Vietnam because his daddy had connections.
No, can't say as I've heard that one, and I'm surprised he would actually admit doing something like that, even if it was true. Still and all, I think his Super Patriot reverence for the military rings pretty hollow.
Did you see this article?
http://us.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/15/male.breast.cancer/index.html
It is about Peter Criss
That's the first I'd heard of Pete's bout with breast cancer--very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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