for my lack of attention to this thing, more so probably just a combination of any of the following: – no motivation – writer’s block – laziness – way too busy to allot any time but maybe I’ll make a feeble attempt at writing more often.
random stuff:
setting – temperature: approx 211F; time: a little past my bedtime and a lot past my wife’s; mood: not too bad; possibility of tossing broken laptop keyboard through the window: high
been working quite a bit recently, although the way this week has gone you wouldn’t say that. Alex came through town for a few a few hours Tuesday night. good to see him, wish he could’ve stayed a little longer but know he had to get on down the road.
busy week(end) ahead. Mel to DC. Me to lake house, birthday party for ACM, clean house/prepare lesson for small groups at our house, and small groups at our house. Mel to return Sunday. Me to board plane Wednesday for the beach.
Does anybody ever watch Saturday Night Live anymore? I often hearken back to the days when it was Farley and Sandler, Hartman and Spade, even Myers and…well maybe not Schneider. The days when Jack Handey wrote the deepest thoughts and songs like ‘Turkey-Lurkey-Lu’ often propelled us into the holiday season.
I remember taking a blanket and pillow to the living room and sleeping on the couch almost every Saturday evening just for that hour and a half of pure entertainment. I can admit that now, too far removed from that time to remember if I did that because I was too young to have anything else to do on a Saturday or I was just that uncool. Either way, I loved SNL back in the day.
Great moments from SNL circa 88-93: Farley and Swayze as ‘male dancers’, Schlitz Gay Bear, and Spade’s New York Minute.
Don’t get me wrong, it had it’s moments in college and some there after with a guy named Ferrell. Sad thing is, at the time I didn’t realize his greatness. It wasn’t til years later when I saw one of his ‘Best of’ DVD’s that helped me to understand just how much he did to keep that show alive for 10 years. My wife ranks the ‘Alta Dina JH Choir Teachers’ way up on the list of all-time great skits. And if ‘More Cowbell’ isn’t on your Top 10 (although I hate 10 ten lists) SNL moments, you are not aloud to call yourself a fan anymore. Of any era.
Ouch, the more I write on this here log-o-web, the more I see myself getting older. (Every other post I write about the good old days) But with that in mind I will continue.
SNL is pretty much a shell of it’s former self these days. Fallen/Fey were about the best thing they had in the last 6-8 years but now they are gone too. I don’t watch much of it anymore, I’ll catch a skit here or there if I am lying in bed and actually still awake. For the most part I had written off the show for good.
Until now. I’m not here to fight for SNL or to even say it has life, but I am here to say that as of late, Saturday Night Live may have found it’s life support. Life support in the form of one comedian, Andy Samburg. If Lorne Michaels can figure this out in a hurry his Saturday night show just might get another 10 years. The ‘SNL Digital Short’ created by the one Mr. Samburg may be the answer to all of SNL’s problems.
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December 2006: Host/musical guest Justin Timberlake and possible comic genius Andy Samburg make history. The most watched clip on the Internet. Ever. 13,000,000 times. You wouldn’t even believe it if I tried to explain it to you.
Which brings me all the way up to today. The entire reason I started this post, and thought it would be about 3 sentences long, was to show the following picture and say that if ever there was a management team that wanted to make some serious money; this is how it would/should be done. JT himself, on a nationwide tour had a show this week in Madison Square Gardens (NYC) and joining Justin for a walk down ‘Color Me Badd’ lane was the SNL savior.
I would have given my left arm for these five minutes.
Sadly this post took me about thirty minutes. Maybe this Saturday I’ll grab my wife, a blanket, and a pillow for good old times sake. …Christmas…Chanukah…Kwanzaa…
If the following is any indication of how the Super Bowl commercials will be this year, we will all be happy campers. I hear many say this but when my team isn’t in the game, I look forward more to the commercials than anything else. This year is no different, both teams bore me and the only thing I have to root for is a win for the Colts just so people can drop the ‘will he/won’t he ever get that monkey off’ routine on Peyton.
Since there’s nothing else to get anybody interested in, this year’s headlines are riddled with the ‘amazing’ stat that it is the first time a black coach has taken a team to the Super Bowl. Not only that, but it gets double the coverage since both head coaches for each team are black. While I see the good in this, equal opportunity for all, what I think should get the most coverage is the character that each one of the coaches has. Consider them the anti-Bobby Knight if you will, they are men of good character and have their priorities in order which in turn I believe helps them to be some of the best coaches in football. Their faith is always first, their families always next, and I’m not sure if you’d ask them that football/work would even be third on the list. Character should be the story line, not Color.
Anyways, back to the commercials. I will call it the ‘good ole days’ rule in effect to say commercials in recent years just haven’t matched up to those say 5-10 years ago. I am ready for a good year, one where I can TiVo the Super Bowl and fast forward the football game and not the commercials. To get you prepared, one of the commercials for tomorrows game has been released on the Internet and surely you can find some amusement in it. For those who don’t know/care, the fellow’s name is K-Fed (Kevin Federline aka ex-Mr. Britney Spears) and has proven on most accounts to be a total loser. As much as I think loser-dom will always follow Mr. Fed, the following makes me laugh and moves him up one notch above the lowest level on the loser meter:
Guess old comb-over himself keeps up with my site. He must have noticed how I mentioned his scuffle with ‘uber-lez’ and was kind enough to send me some free tickets to “Think Big, Live Large!”
Apparently, Trump Sr. is too important to show though so he will be sending his coat-tailing son to tell great stories about daddy and his panther. ‘Twas nice of panther-head to invite me (and 8 billion others probably) but I’d rather eat my own shoe than listen to whatever he has to say. Isn’t this the same guy that ran a casino into bankruptcy? A casino? Doesn’t the house always win? Genius.
Proof:
So, if you are interested in losing a couple hours of your life let me know and you can have my seats. There’s a high possibility that you will come out of it knowing less than when you went in.
