Celebrate with this great little documentary on it 🤗
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records, watching another middle-aged man try to take down a huge pasta lunch in the middle of a work day, Ronnie Barker, how funny George Harrison was, Eric Idle, whenever Alexis refers to someone's "journey" on "Schitt's Creek", the "Strained Relations" episode of Only Fools and Horses,
Judy Blume
Few things make me think of "Xmastime's Childhood in the 1970s!" like Judy Blume; I don't know what's happening lately but I've noticed suddenly there's a lot of interest in her. Maybe it's the latest season of dipshit Republicans wanting to ban books? Anyways, to whit:
Today’s 12-year-olds have the entire internet at their disposal; they hardly need novels to learn about puberty and sex. But kids are still kids, trying to figure out who they are and what they believe in. They’re getting bullied, breaking up, making best friends. They are looking around, as kids always have, for adults who get it. They—we—still need Judy Blume.
In honor of gee-I-hope-we're-not-in-a-Judy-Blume-death-watch Judy Blume, I will now list the Judy Blume books I read as a youngster:
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Superfudge
Iggie's House
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Freckle Juice
It's Not the End of the World
Deenie
Blubber
Forever (kinda more as a class project in 7th grade, really)
On Life & Death
Interesting piece over at The Atlantic from a guy saying that after he hits 75 he's perfectly fine dying and don't nobody try nothing to save him after that:
After 75, if I develop cancer, I will refuse treatment. Similarly, no cardiac stress test. No pacemaker and certainly no implantable defibrillator. No heart-valve replacement or bypass surgery. If I develop emphysema or some similar disease that involves frequent exacerbations that would, normally, land me in the hospital, I will accept treatment to ameliorate the discomfort caused by the feeling of suffocation, but will refuse to be hauled off. Obviously, a do-not-resuscitate order and a complete advance directive indicating no ventilators, dialysis, surgery, antibiotics, or any other medication—nothing except palliative care even if I am conscious but not mentally competent—have been written and recorded. In short, no life-sustaining interventions. I will die when whatever comes first takes me.
"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you first suggest the same thing here over a dozen years ago?"
Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did - well yeah, but kind of the opposite, I reckon:
I don't care if it goes on for decades and drains the finances of each and every one of my children (and my children's children), don't you dare let some asshole claim "Xmastime wouldn't wanna be a burden on us, he'd want us to pull the plug!", for you will know it's all in black & white here: keep me plugged in!
He's also got some funny ideas about his memorial service:
And I don’t want any crying or wailing, but a warm gathering filled with fun reminiscences, stories of my awkwardness, and celebrations of a good life.
Not QUITE the Xmastime way of doing things:
I’m putting it in black and white right here: not now, nor will I ever proclaim that I want people having a good time at my funeral. Therefore the first fuckwad that says “Hey, Xmastime would want us to have fun” gets a boot heel to the throat. This I promise.), including jobs like making sure all my past lovers are seated together so that they can try to out-grieve each other and scoring the “What Xmastime Meant to Me” essays. So be on the lookout for this site in the near future. Also, I’m putting this down in black & white too: not now, nor will I ever proclaim that I want my wife to get remarried. If she starts throwing out that garbage “Oh Xmastime would want me to move on and be happy” SHE’S LYING!! DON’T BELIEVE HER!!! I’m looking to assign someone the job of making sure she visits the cemetery at least once a week and hurls herself on my grave wailing uncontrollably for an hour or so. Let me know who’s up for that one.
Hey, it's just Xmastime being Xmastime!!!
THE WEDDING PARTIES: A Review
Father Ted February
I just realized that Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly both died on a February 28. Does Ardal O’Hanlon breathe a sigh of relief every year when he makes it through to the next day? 🤔
MARlene!
5 years ago today, I posted the Cameo message I got from the late John Challis, aka Boycie 🤗
Yassssssssssss du Jour!!!
VIA HERE:
Larry Lamb and Alison Steadman, who play Gavin's parents Mick and Pam Shipman, are back in the seaside resort town in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. The pair will make their TV return as they set off on a 210 mile journey from Billericay in Essex to Barry to revisit filming locations.
In the three-part series Alison & Larry: Billericay To Barry, Larry, 75, and Alison, 76, will take a trip down memory lane and include some special guests during their travels.
Monday, February 27, 2023
Terry Holland & UVa
Conversations with Paddy Mac
Paddy Mac: I have a math problem
Me: okay
Paddy Mac: the answer is open to interpretation
Me: wow, that IS new math
(AAAAaaaaaaand scene!)
Shirley du Jour
Just like with last February, I guess I'm gonna celebrate Black History Month with clips of Shirley from What's Happening!! doing no big deal for her, just throwing about 165mph as always.
OH! And in the next scene Dee went 5-for-5 with two doubles and a walkoff. WHAT A SHOW!!!!!
Thoughts,. I Have Them.
Everybody wants to be the big spoon or the little spoon but doesn't someone have to be the bowl? 🤔🤷♂️
RIP Terry Holland
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records, watching another middle-aged man try to take down a huge pasta lunch in the middle of a work day, Ronnie Barker, how funny George Harrison was, Eric Idle, whenever Alexis refers to someone's "journey" on "Schitt's Creek",
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records, watching another middle-aged man try to take down a huge pasta lunch in the middle of a work day, Ronnie Barker, how funny George Harrison was, Eric Idle,
Yes, Minister
I meant to post this yesterday; when Hacker meets Humphrey for the first time, man this has just always been one of my all-time favorite scenes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
'Open Government', the first episode of Yes Minister, was originally broadcast on this day in 1980. pic.twitter.com/VDU7ZJmXyO
— Archivetvmusings (@archivetvmus71) February 25, 2023
Brian Jonesville Baby
I've never given two shits about any talk of Brian Jones being some sort of "genius" (eyeroll) or whatever dumb shit since it seems like Keef played everything anyways but his playing here is achingly, beautifully melodic. Love it.
What's the German Word For...
..when you go to an actor’s IMDB page and the main photo is from the very episode you’re watching at that moment? 🤔🤷♂️
Thoughts. I Have Them.
If you had to eat your way out of a block of food, I think you’d want it to be pasta.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Sons of No One
I've loved Bastards of Young since I was 13 and I cannot for the life of me imagine at that time a day would come in which iIcould watch a 30-minute video on it. And yet here we are.
Happy Birfday George!
🤣
GEORGE HARRISON - #BOTD 80yrs ago - had such a wonderful sense of humour, as shown here on @EricIdle’s Rutland Weekend Television show in 1975 with his ‘My Sweet Lord Pirate Song’.
— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) February 25, 2023
pic.twitter.com/msfrnacltp
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records, watching another middle-aged man try to take down a huge pasta lunch in the middle of a work day, Ronnie Barker, how funny George Harrison was,
Questions. I Have Them.
Is it racist of me to be slightly surprised when Thorpe quotes a Bob Dylan song in The White Shadow? 🤔🤷♂️
Happy Birfday George!
George Harrison would've been 80 today if he hadn't died back in 2001, only 58. Here's the one scene of him without the other Beatles in A Hard Day's Night and he's just flat-out great, a million times funnier than anyone at the time would've guessed and certainly a precursor of his later being so involved with Monty Python.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Yasssss
19,000 episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210 and this idiot breezes in and gets the biggest laugh across the entire series 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Happy BIRFDAY!!!!!
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To an all-time great drummer/guitar player/backup singer/consigliere/friend Chris Standish, aka Dish. There's no one I could imagine being more instantly comfortable playing music with from the moment we met; I've always loved his drumming on Pete Buck Hill so much I've always said that if for some reason the song started making me money I'd give Dish some of the publishing. Obviously we are both still waiting. HAPPY BIRFDAY DISH!!!
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records, watching another middle-aged man try to take down a huge pasta lunch in the middle of a work day, Ronnie Barker,
Going Straight
Of course I love love love Porridge and I have the dvds for Going Straight and it's pretty much almost just as great, since it's still Ronnie Barker being Fletch with Richard Beckinsale. I love this show and recommend you rubes track it down and love it too!!
'Going Home', the first episode of Going Straight, was originally broadcast on this day in 1978. Despite living in the shadow of Porridge, it pulled in some 14 million viewers and earned Ronnie Barker his fourth and final BAFTA award for Best Light Entertainment Performance. pic.twitter.com/iqMu2LBme2
— Archivetvmusings (@archivetvmus71) February 24, 2023
State du Moi
What is Egg Foo What?! Up to Now?
LISTEN TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF! #eggfoowhat
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Thoughts. I Have Them.
There should be way more dishes out there with crushed potato chips involved.
Pet Peeves. I Have Them.
1. It kind of drives me nuts when someone mentions something someone did with "before he/she died". I feel this is most superfluous.
2. For some reason Irish writers, and ONLY Irish writers, are incapable of using the universally agreed-upon quotation marks and insist on using their own version like assholes.
Thoughts. I Have Them.
I mean you guys know I love The White Shadow with all my heart but how long are we really supposed to believe the worst epithet they liked to use was "turkeys"?
State du Moi
Social media platforms seem to be under the impression that I like to see pictures of gorgeous celebrities in tiny bikinis…I mean they’re also correct but I just thought I’d tell y’all.
YAAAASSSSSSS!!!
I have no idea how I ended up at Dale Murphy's blog from 2018; Dale Murphy who played in the "let's make sure we're as boring as fuck" MLB era and, while a GREAT player himself kind of took the whole "baseball player who's boring af" thing to the next level but I gotta say, I'm in 100000% agreement with him here:
Yes, on this day, August 20, 2018, I would like to issue the following proclamation: By the authority vested in me as an old, old-school, no-celebration guy from the 1980s (and as the writer of this blog), I hereby authorize bat-flipping as an acceptable demonstration of joy and exuberance. It shall no longer be deemed a sign of poor sportsmanship or disrespect for an opponent.
Voyage On, Voyager
This is the letter President Jimmy Carter wrote and put aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, intended for any aliens the probe might encounter
The First of What I'm Sure Will Be A Million Posts Bitching About the DC Metro
Who exactly is this for? Why wouldn’t I just take the first train that appears - is anybody really considering “3 minutes hmmmmm okay that’s cool but I think I’ll wait 11 minutes for the next one…”? Really? And listing the number of cars for each train, is that a thing anybody even remotely considers while waiting for a train? “Oh, only 6 cars?….my fat girlfriend’s with me so I better wait for the one with 8 cars…”? Dafuck, DC Metro?
Fab 4 du Jour
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records, watching another middle-aged man try to take down a huge pasta lunch in the middle of a work day,
Okay This is Enough Boring Real World (No Not THAT Real World) Shit for One Day
Interesting note on why building public transportation is a nightmare, ie fucking consultants:
For example, when the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority got to work on the Green Line Extension, the agency only had a half-dozen full-time employees managing the largest capital project the MBTA had ever undertaken. On New York’s Second Avenue subway, the most expensive mile of subway ever built, consultant contracts were more than 20 percent of construction costs—more than double what’s standard in France or Italy. By 2011, the MTA had trimmed its in-house capital projects management group of 1,600 full-time employees (circa 1990) to just 124, tasked with steering $20 billion in investment.People love screaming about how "incompetent" the government is while extolling the supercompetence & nobility of private businesses. But from here we learn that most of the time the government just hands jobs over to consultants, whose opportunistic greed leads to them to gouge the government for crazy amounts of $crillah after which they still screw the job up. Since the "impossible to get anything done!" gub'ment gets blamed anyway, it seems a case could be made for them to simply knock it off with the endless, no-cost-matters consultants and just hire enough full-time employed people to do the work themselves.
Fun Being Me
Whenever I see some chump doing this, I do a slow burn while wishing that he'd accidentally catch some of the wrapper in his mouth and choke on it, falling to the floor for a few agonizing panicky moments before dying....after which I pick up his unfinished Big Mac and eat it while balling up the fucking wrapper and bouncing it off his head.
Sorry not sorry, but seeing me drop "some chump" and "balling up the fucking wrapper and bouncing it off his head" got legit lols from me. 🤔
Thoughts. I Have Them.
As they're racing to erase history from textbooks they don't like are Republicans really going to expose our beloved children to the Old Testament? Pretty mean stuff in there, I'd hate for some kids to be uncomfortable reading it? 🤔🤷♂️
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
WORLDS COLLIDING: One of My All-Time Favorite Bands AND The Greatest Sports Moment of All Time? Yes Please!
Main lobby, Myers Hall, UGA, Athens GA. #MiracleOnIce https://t.co/jHueCauwdy
— Mike Mills 🇺🇦✌🏼🎶🐕⚾️ 🍁🇨🇦 (@m_millsey) February 23, 2023
Baseball Project
I first posted this video back in 2008. I just have always loved loved loved it; besides being the best rock song ever about baseball, it featured a few of my favorite guys in rock getting a real big shot on national tv, which is great.
My big NYC night with Steve Wynn HERE
I am reminded of something I've banged on before: how the fuck awful of a singer can Peter Buck possibly be? I mean, I can understand R.E.M. not letting him sing, but a fun supergroup of his buddies in which he plays bass and they sing songs about baseball, and even THEN they don't even put a mic on his side of the stage? In a word: WOW.
Statements. I Make Them.
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train, Uncle Buck's Records,
A Short Note On Our Potential National Divorce + Other Current Political Matters Because I Hate Myself
1) Does she not realize Georgia is a BIT of a Blue State now?
2) Can states move back and forth between countries if their demographics change?
3) That's the other problem - even after dividing the country up she doesn't seem to understand that makes TWO countries. She wants to BREAK UP NOW! and yeeeeeeet she still wants to keep a few things she likes, such as the Blue States still funding "national" defense for both countries.
4) This of course is a big problem with people having a hard time understanding the severity of the Civil War; this wasn't a case of two brothers playfully wrestling and then coming back together at the dinner table, it was a group actually becoming another country and then fighting against the United States America
5) She's doubled down by suggesting that if people from blue states move to red states they can, but they still won't be allowed to "bring their values in" and vote (no word on if someone swings the other way, of course) which is literally the single-most un-American thing you can think of. It's fine if that's what you wanna do, but you don't get to call it "American", or suggest that's something the Founding Fathers you stupidly pretend you've read about would be in favor of
6) Obviously this won't happen - about ten minutes in, the Red State Country would realize where all their money really comes from and they'll come scrambling back to the "evil!" Blue State Country
7) None of this is even remotely as bad as the absolute lunacy that is The Speaker of the House handing over 41,000 hours of security tapes of the January 6 Capital insurrection to Tucker Carlson but hey I guess we’re all just supposed to pretend that’s no big deal since all it’s going to do is let Tucker Carlson to shape the narrative any way he wants (cue to magic video footage of bare-chested, oiled-up Trump bravely fighting off black & brown people at the Capital) and GEE provide the perfect blueprint/roadmap for their next attempt
Stroke Man, Stroke Man (Go!)
I never really cared about the Strokes one way or the other (other than they were very overrated and to me they exposed rock critics as being lazy as shit for their endless referencing of the band's dual guitar playing being reminiscent of Television even tho their guitar players played the exact same thing while Verlaine & Lloyd were like two fucking jazz cats going after each other but I mean okay whatevs) but I must say I fell in love with this line, which reminded me of a million nights in NewYork City:
Is This It transported you to a world where it was always night and raining and everything was rendered in grimy, noirish black-and-white.
10 Years Ago Today on Xmastime
For some reason I had trouble remembering the name of the record store on the Square in Oxford when I lived there, and where I got the Velvet Underground box set in exchange for selling millions a handful of copies of my music-shifting ep, Take My Teenage Head.
The name of the damn store was Uncle Buck's. It was GREAT, the perfect little independent record store for a 23 year-old rocker cat like myself. A cursory Internet run tells me it closed down about 20 years ago, which is a bummer because we need more Uncle Buck's out there.
Ah Yes...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Tim Olyphant, Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station, carpeting on a train,
Dafuck du Jour
How to Swim, by Xmastime
Something I wrote rather sexily back in 2012:
Once when I was a little kid standing beside the pool at a Best Western (don' h8, poor people!) my mother became exasperated with my being scared of the water and said "hey, look over there!" I then found myself sinking like a rock to the bottom of the pool courtesy of my mother's foot, and such was my indignation that I simply laid on the bottom until someone had to fish me out.
I am pleased to report that this incident was in fact caught on film. Thank you, intrepid iPhone camera user!
Swim instructor woke up angrypic.twitter.com/4aNqCIAa3m
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) February 20, 2023
15 Years Ago Today on Xmastime
I did what I'm guessing (but not bothering to confirm) is my first live-blogging of American Idol. I was quite brutal and hilarious. Enjoy!
She said she got hit by a truck while driving to Hollywood. Was this the ugly truck?Why does Simon always claim to never have heard the songs? Does he thinks this makes him look cool? Like that call girl who showed up and then told me she had no idea how to fuck or give a blowjob. Fucking hell. After I paid her and she left, I couldn’t stop laughing, “what an idiot! Calls herself a hooker? Hahahaah!”Can I take a moment to applaud chicks that wear suspenders? And can’t we drop the act already and just call them “Titty Frames”?End of her song was the best of the night, the 40 seconds leading up to it was kinda lousy. You know, like sex....READ MORE
Monday, February 20, 2023
Xmastime History: 2008 On This Day
Have to admit, I've always liked this one 🤗🤣
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Can We Do ANYTHING Right Anymore?
I read in the paper today that the CIA has plotted to kill Castro 638 times. 638? They've tried and failed to kill him 638 times? are you shitting ME? Who the fuck has been running this operation?
Idea for the NBA
If an NBA team really wants to appeal to Lebron James' kid Bronny, why not record a version of this as MY BRONNY?
YOU'RE WELCOME, NBA teams!
Classic Hilarious Scene du Jour
There’s been a Lotto misprint at the Sheriff’s Dept.
— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) February 18, 2023
Comedy brilliance from
RENO 911! (2003-2009) pic.twitter.com/xGvqMscUsS
Hot Takes on History by Xmastime
We like to paint the Founding Fathers as no-nonsense, "don't spend what you don't have!" bootstraps-pulling-up hard-ass fuckers horrified at the thought of owing anybody anything. Yet in every biography of any of those guys I've ever read, they are always, CONSTANTLY scrambling around for credit or money to borrow in order to buy more shit for themselves. So.
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...found snacks, Tim Olyphant, Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey, the Minneapolis PBS station,
Ideas. I Have Them.
Someone needs to do a podcast asking if Candy Apple Grey has as many good songs on it as Zen Arcade but then I guess they'd take away your Hüsker fan license and burn your house to the ground.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Tom Cruise movies that aren’t part of a franchise, found snacks, Tim Olyphant, Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app, Bill Bailey,
OFAH du Jour
The greatest send-off ever ❤️ pic.twitter.com/9PxY0kBCTS
— Only Fools and Horses Lines (@OnlyFoolsLines) February 18, 2023
GREAT MOMENTS IN EGG FOO WHAT?! HISTORY
"Mike agrees to let Greg get himself bitten by a shark in the name of promoting the show".
(Clip originally from the Chicken Nuggets/Fried Rice episode)
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...realizing that Love's debut album is better than "Forever Changes", Tom Cruise movies that aren’t part of a franchise, found snacks, Tim Olyphant, Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss, the Notes app,
Grrrrr du Jour
One part of getting older I am in fact NOT loving is
- I'll get mad at something
- I'll almost instantly forget what I'm mad about
- Instead of being happy that I've forgotten why I'm mad and moving on,
- I'll retrace my steps and try to figure out why I was upset
- So that I guess I could be upset again?
I mean wtf guys?
Also I guess I coulda just typed that all into a sentence instead of bullets but hey Imma be me.
Movie Ideas. I Have One.
A pair of conjoined twins are told they both will die in a few weeks unless they have the operation to be separated, but one of them will die from the surgery immediately. So they give themselves one last weekend together to laugh/cry etc.
Looking for investors, people!
Friday, February 17, 2023
Movies, by Xmastime
EEEEEEVerything's Coming Up Xmastime
All the way back in 2007 I rather brilliantly wrote:
8) QUESTIONS I NEED TO STOP HEARING:AND NOW I just watched the latest episode of Abbott Elementary and the below happened so GOODBYE SUCKERS IT'S BEEN REAL YOU LOSERS CAN TRY TO FIND ME IN HOLLYWOOOOOOOOOOOODDD!!! 😜😜🤗🤣
“Did you see that?” – fellas, this one’s for you. We’re on the couch watching the game, Lebron dunks from 15 feet out and you immediately turn to me “WOW man, what a play!!! Did you see that??!!” No. No I didn’t. While I appear to be watching the same tv as you, I’m actually focusing my eyes exactly four inches to the right of the set, so I’m sorry but no, I guess I missed it. Gee.
Thoughts. I Have Them.
There are two types of people in this world: people that automatically sit on the very end of a couch, and people who just plop down on it wherever like a goddam hippy.
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...Penelope Keith, realizing that Love's debut album is better than "Forever Changes", Tom Cruise movies that aren’t part of a franchise, found snacks, Tim Olyphant, Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast, a first kiss,
RIP Tim McCarver
For some reason the mere mention of Tim McCarver always drove my friends nuts, I don't really know why. When I first moved to Brooklyn, McCarver was one of the main broadcasters for Yankees games, along with Bobby Murcer & Ken Singleton. And it's at this time, when I realized that in baseball cities you could watch the team every night, that I feel in love with my beloved Yankees, and it's partly due to my enjoying Tim McCarver every night. RIP Tim, and thanks.
But fuck you for this, Tim McCarver!!!!!
Never forget when Tim McCarver predicted Luis Gonzalez's walk-off hit in the 2001 World Series
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) February 16, 2023
RIP. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/mTvsx3hYTz
Can't Hardly SNL
It’s always driven me nuts whenever bands go on Saturday Night Live to play their big “hit", and then play the crappy plaintive ballad on Side 2 nobody cares about for their second song of the night. I mean you’re on SNL, this is a national audience, why not show your best? - XMASTIME
To this day the only person I’ve ever seen do this is Paul Westerberg, who after playing whatever song he needed to on his first solo album said "fuck it” and for his second song played the Replacements’ classic Can't Hardly Wait, which included a laugh break about Burt Reynolds. THAT is rock and roll, people.Not sure of why I thought of this today - I am, after all, a riddle wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside a pair of Toughskins - but I stand by my statement above, and you'll agree after watching below. Knocking On Mine is a fine performance, but like most of Westerberg's fist solo album is kinda boring af, but then he lets it rip with Cant Hardly Wait perfect!
Happy Black History Month
I'm doing my part by pointing out that 15 years ago today I wrote about Glory Road, which is maybe the single-most offensively shitty movie in history:
...And I love that he recruits these kids because of their playground style of play, he's enamored with their freewheeling slicing and dicing. So of course the second they start practice he turns into Norman Dale. 18 passes before any shot, no fancy dribbling, and knuckles deep in Barbara Herschey (ugh.) This is like seeing Jenna Jameson in one of her "films", deciding to seek her out, actually go out on a date with her, bring her home, and then get upset cause she wants you to fuck her. "We're going to church, I'm meeting your parents and we're gonna have a scrapbook of our companionship memories before we do any of that stuff, buster!!!" ...READ MORE
Thursday, February 16, 2023
A Thought on Last Week's Balloon Drama
People are still melting down about UFOs being aliens invading our planet but I just feel like after traversing interstellar galaxies with technology we can't even dream up yet aliens aren't gonna for some reason decide to switch over to a fucking balloon at the 1-yard line, know what I mean?
Yeah Thanks but No Thanks
Things I Like
Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:
...the year 2003, Penelope Keith, realizing that Love's debut album is better than "Forever Changes", Tom Cruise movies that aren’t part of a franchise, found snacks, Tim Olyphant, Quebec City, Cooper Black font, the National Gallery of Art, getting Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets as a side instead of their stupid waffle fries, Heidi Gardner, The Rewatchables, Italian seasoning on a toasted sub, "Cunk on Earth", "Peter's Friends" (or any reason to see Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson together, really), restaurants with carpeting, funny autocorrects, generic cereals, 2/7/64, "The White Shadow", ...“Ladies and Gentlemen…The Beatles!”, Jerry Seinfeld, "Wake Up, Sir", Hormel chili, blueberry-based cold cereals, falling in love, Raquel Welch, rye toast,
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