here's everything that doesn't fit in a posting.
1. i just watched a midas commercial featuring fred flintstone and barney rubble, except fred doesn't sound like fred. i don't know who fred sounds like, but it sure as hell ain't fred. which gets me off on another tangent: have you heard kermit the frog recently? well, you probably haven't, because he doesn't sound like kermit either. seriously, is it really that hard to find a fred flintstone or kermit the frog impersonator that sounds exactly like them? isn't that the one job where you really shouldn't take it "in another direction"? does this bother anyone else?
2. chien-meng wang is pitching tonight for the yankees. every time i hear his name, i automatically hear rodney dangerfield say "this place is restricted, wang, so don't tell them you're jewish". which makes me make this distinction: there are guys who can quote and get "caddyshack" references, and there are guys who just ain't guys.
3. really strong episodes of saturday night live, the office, curb your enthusiasm and arrested development this week - especially a.d. with their new character, a lawyer named bob loblaw, played by scott baio. best line: when the family had a typically insane consultation with him, jason bateman spoke up and said, "now i'm not gonna sit here and talk nonsense to bob loblaw." shit like that makes me jealous.
4. i don't think anyone can hit the astros in the playoffs. pettitte + clemens + oswalt * lidge = impossible to score upon.
5. i watched the rangers-flyers game in this new and improved sport called "hockey" or "hockie" (not sure which one, but it's played with sticks on ice), and i gotta say, the new rule changes made the game look pretty damn exciting for me. plenty of odd-numbered breaks and opportunities and, as my roommate brett noticed, a lot of teams scored five goals or more. that's a good thing.
6. there is no number six.
7. i know i may be a sap for saying this, but i really love the wheaties commercial about the slow-pitch softball game with the guy wearing a knee brace pops a homer over the right field wall to win the game - all while we hear the play-by-play of vin scully calling game 2 of the 1988 world series when a hobbled kirk gibson won the game by hitting his famously dramatic and improbable homer over the right field wall off dennis eckersely. it really gets to me - i remember where i was when i heard that call - and then when the guy pumps his fist rounding second - god, it's just perfectly done. thank you, whoever did it.
8. i am a sap. so sue me.
1 comment:
Ok now I'm going to write a blog about your first two comments. Let me know if you buy any from mr. sex toy boy.
And Bob Loblaw is probably the best name ever invented! It looks like this show is taking off.
I also had no idea feline AIDS was such a problem!
The Wheaties commerical was done by my buds at Saatchi (interned there) Paul and Glen. Wheaties can be a bitch of a client but it's nice to know Paul and Glen can touch you in that "special place" Steve.
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