If you’re east of, oh, say, Ohio, and south of the NY/PA border down to Virgina or so, you’re probably waking up to a fun-filled day of shoveling snow. Here in the “Miami of the Northeast,” however, there’s nary a flake in sight. We’ve been pretty much screwed out of winter here this year. I was gonna say, “gypped out,” but then I realized that that’s an insensitive ethnic slur against Gypsies, so I can’t say that. After all, Sarah Palin might have a Gypsy relative, and then she’ll get all pissed off at me (if not Rush), and I wouldn’t want that. Plus it might offend Ariana Huffington.
Personally, I get a little tired of the perpetually offended (especially people who make a big show of pretending to be offended for some bullshit reason or another, but in reality couldn’t care less). Not that Rahm Emanuel isn’t an asshole, don’t get me wrong. I just think that if you’re not offended by invading other countries and killing its civilians or by the tens of thousands of people dying every year because they don’t have health insurance, then you don’t get to be “offended” by words. But whatever.
So, CBS is plugging tomorrow’s halftime show with “The Who” as a big deal. My question is, do two people make a Who? I mean, maybe you can go on w/o Keith Moon and call yourself The Who, but once you’re down to two old geezers, shouldn’t you call yourselves something else? Like “The Huh?” or something. I mean, you don’t see Paul and Ringo calling themselves The Beatles, and without Jerry, The Dead are no longer Grateful. Unless you’re gonna be one of these traveling oldies bands that has one old guy who played bass during a summer tour in ’72 trying to cash in on the old name, then you ought to come up with at least a slightly different name.
But I guess when you’re the official band of the CSI teevee franchise, you gotta go with the flow.
Oh well, there’s a lot I ought to be doing today, though I don’t know if I’ll actually do any of it. So I guess I’d better get started.
Dr. Seuss wrote a whole book about Whoville and it’s tiny resident Whoes. They didn’t get to be a rock band but they made Who music anyway.
Well I called out of work today on account of the snow. It’s a real mess down here. Still this is just a normal snow in Colorado.
That’s pretty good, heir blogmeister.
Your Saturday Pun:
Mr FK is a keynote speaker this morn. He pretty much insisted I stay home and enjoy my Saturday since I worked out of town part of last week. Found out, he spared me from a frustrating day: there will be a Q&A after his speech. I asked, “Oh, with whom?” He said, “Our two US Senators.” He knows me well.
Mr. FK is gallant, indeed.
The Who Dat.
Gallant or prudent?
Speaking of the Pun King, sometime soon someone will be delivering to my father an American flag that flew over the Capitol on his last birthday courtesy of Eric Cantor. Someone wisely arranged that it happen when I was not there last week. The woman from the agency responsible will also NOT be giving any accompanying certificate from the Congress critter to my Dad. Smart move. I am begging my sister to send it to me.
“Can you spell ALCAN?”
This was the day after the last time I saw The Who. Keith was gone, replaced by Ringo’s son but The Ox was still around.
Sam Seder’s show on The Young Turks, yesterday.
Thanks for the link Sue!
“Do you like Costco pizza?”
“Sure. Yeah.”
“You’re suppose to say no. Nobody likes their pizza.”
“F••• you! And f••• you too. You think I trust you, you drugged me.”
“We thought you were dangerous.”
“I’m not dangerous. You’re the ones who are f•••ing dangerous, f•••ing drugging people.”
“Assassin’s music. Do you remember that? That’s why we thought you were dangerous.”
Congratulations to Floyd Little, on finally making the Hall of Fame. About freakin’ time.
Saw part of The Express, pj. It was much more enjoyable because of your orange sympathies.
prudent, is probably the right word, Vern. Would your dad have liked that flag?
I thought it was a really good movie – even if it wasn’t 100% historically accurate. It was pretty neat to see the SU campus on the big screen. Damn shame Ernie had to go and die, though.
Dad’s gonna get his flag, just no Cantor note. It sounds like it’s a really nice flag. I WANT that note.
Thanks for that link, Sue. He should be getting down with AAR in the last 1/3 of the show. He didn’t talk about it much before.
http://kai03.qwest.com/WindowsLive/Media/News/NewsDetail.aspx?cat=National&id=D9DN1C6G0@news.ap.org&client=gadget&qid=03CF7387331E8DB52B7E9EDAFFFFFFFF
This is really sad. There’s wayyy too much air traffic congestion over the skies of Boulder: hang-gliders, tow-planes, hot-air balloons and helicoptors all trying to catch the best Rocky Mountain view, all flying line of sight. It was grey all day today with a few thin low clouds.
Floyd Little :yippee:
but if you’re the nail that sticks up, sad day for you getting into the NFL Hall of Fame-
“He defined the tight end position during his time in the NFL and was the all-time leading receiver for tight ends at the time of his retirement. I wasn’t surprised that he didn’t get in last year, but he should have gotten in during his second season of eligibility.
I am now wondering if Sharpe is not getting in because he was loud and boisterous as a player and remains the same as a broadcaster. The Hall of Fame voters often have downgraded players because of how they treated the media or their outspokenness.” :tap: