"What?" Me explain

Got to love 80's television. Man do I love television. When I was a kid television was one of my favorite pasttimes.

Did I read books? yes. Did I read Comic books? Yes. Did I play outside? Hell yes all the time. But I always loved to come back to my first love, Television. Sweet sweet cathode ray tube of the gods.

One of my favorite things to look forward to was Friday. When friday arrived I would get to go to Grandma's house for the weekend. No more school for the next two days and I would get to hang with the Grandma and Grandaddy.

We'd watch shows that were in syndication like, Alice and Gomer Pyle and to tell you the truth I watched so much TV that it's all a blur what year so and so came on and what was in syndication and what wasn't but I enjoyed all of it.

At night I would watch Dallas with them but i'd have to be extra quiet. Then I'd stay up real late with my cousin Candy and watch 'Friday night videos' they actually showed videos back then. That show really went to hell in the 90's. We'd even sometimes hold a tape recorder up to the tv to record certain songs. I still remember the time that I couldn't shut the Recorder off when a Huey Lewis video 'Heart of Rock and Roll' came on. My cousin saying "Turn it off! turn it off!" "I can't!" "It won't trun off!" ah good times.

Saturday morning cartoons were a staple of weekend greatness! From the 'Mr. T' cartoon to 'Superfriends' and even short lived cartoons like 'Galaxy high' and the 'Drac pack' and 'Mighty Orbots' I loved every minute of Saturday morning. Fuckin' A.

Every Saturday in my memory was filled with going to the mall with grandma and my sisters and cousins in different combinations from time to time. It was our weekend routine. Grandma would give us a clue what was for dinner and i'd get excited for the next meal. Grandma fed us well, Cereal of all kinds, Hot dogs, and an endless stream of Kool Aid! "Oh Yeah!" Grandma made sure we weren't hungry that's for sure. We'd watch Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life and other bad sitcoms and for the life of me I can't remember there ever being much fighting to change the channel.

My whole childhood I watched Saturday night live with my Grandma. I may have not gotten all of the jokes but I enjoyed it so much every saturday that by the time it was looming close to midnight I would get sad.

Sundays weren't ruined by anything like church for me but I did have my own church. That is the church of Davey and Goliath! Hell yeah loved those little clay dudes! Goliath the dog would always let Davey know why Bitch slapping some old bag for her food stamps was bad news in the eyes of the lord while I would laugh at their playdough goodness while chowing down on one of the many fine cereals available in my grandma's kitchen. Grandma would keep each kind of cereal in it's own tupperware container. Quite a site to behold. Thinking back to her well organized kitchen and a container for everything with tupperware as far as they eye could see I realize my Grandma must be suffering from OCD. Hehe. We'd also watch an early morning sunday show called 'The Children's Hour' where some guy who's name I can't remember would have local school children on the show to read the funny papers. I remember in the 4th grade one such girl in my school was on the show and everyone hated her after that. Wow kids suck. I didn't I wanted to ask her about it but alas never did since i was painfully shy in school.

Grandma's house was home more than any home i've ever lived in. When it was time to go home on Sunday evening I would be sad for it was another week of the hell that was school and home life in our shit house or apartment we were living in at the time. But I had something to look forward to. Next Friday at Grandma's!

Funny and sad

Check out this cool satellite photo of Hurricane Katrina and also check out this video of this CNN weatherman that loses his cool under pressure. Haha sorry I had to laugh.

Don't take no prisoners!

I love when song lyrics use bad grammar.

Today it's time to start working on the long awaited web page for 'Nowhere in Mulberry' and get this shit in gear. I predict it will look lame. Hehe.

BRING ON FALL! Enough with this heat I can't take it no more. I was really saddened to see the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, it's so sad and I hope that people come out of it with their lives and their homes arent too badly damaged. I would say they are in my prayers but I don't pray. At all.

I did pray as a child for awhile but why pray when I can just briefly hope for a second. Why do I have to make it an official proclamation to the Lord? He's always listening right? So if i'm driving and I think to myself, "Gee I hope those people down there are alright." and that invisible omniscient one hears it so no need to kneel down in front of my bed and clasp my palms together right? C'mon it's the age of rush hour! Americans are always on the go we don't have time to kneel down and pray, God can tune in while I'm running errands for christ's sakes!

I don't pray before meals either, "Thanks invisible creator man for this Steak-um sandwich i'm about to eat. YUM!"

When something truly happens and people try to console you, say when your mother dies, People many times say, "You are in my prayers." "Woohoo! I made the prayer list! My fate is as good as sealed with that big guy up stairs cause this person decided to give me a shout out while talking to the almighty!" Thanks for nothing. Basically when someone has a problem and you are reaching out for help and the person you are reaching out to says "I'll pray for you." It's the same as saying, "Sorry Dude you are on your own." Hehe. The healing power of prayer pfft.

Yesterday I was messing around online and I found this game called 'THERE' which is a socializing game where you meet people and buy clothes and cars and stuff, It's basically like a video game version of friendster or something where you meat lotsa people and hang out and chat and dance with your video game version of yourself called an 'Avatar' or 'Toon'. Me and my pal Grady went into the game to check it out and were invited to a house party. When we arrived it was a house with some cute video game chicks and some buff guys without shirts and a lit up dance floor. The first thing I said when I spotted Grady's outfit and Avatar's clothes was, "Are we supposed to be Metro-sexuals? And I think he agreed that yes we were Metro-Sexuals supposed to hit on video game ladies.

So I sat down at a four chair circle and began chatting with tha' Ladeez. Immediately they jumped up and went to the dance floor with some Jock looking guy. I told Grady that this was too much like real life. So we hopped on a hover scooter with Grady riding in the back and we really looked lame. Like a futuristic TWEEDS catalogue pic for the mildly lonely. Grady went AFK (away from keyboard) While I rode around on the scooter thinking this game isn't for me.

I could see this game being fun if there was a point to it other than buying clothes and vehicles and houses and having raves at your virtual love shacks. I guess if I was single hitting on the Avatar of some lonely miss might be fun. Sigh.

I have a free trial with the game so i'll try it again. Hehe.

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Happy Belated Birthday Stephen!

Sometimes I think about people that were in my life on a daily basis long ago that one day just dropped off the face of the earth. Sometimes I no longer wanted a particular person in my life anymore sometimes you just lose touch and sometimes you just move on. Friends drift apart and friends move away or just fall out of favor.

My Wife has been a constant friend since I met her in late 96'. I've had best friends in my life those people that you call whenever you want to share something and those people you want to watch movies with talk about books and tv shows with. There are those people you talk about intimate things with.

In late 1989 just after Highschool ended I went to work at a Picture Frame dept. in a craft store called Bankrupt Crafts, that wasn't really the name but who cares the place doesn't exist anymore. There at the Bankrupt framing department was the dept. manager and his name was Stephen. It is now 2005 and Stephen is still my friend currently longest running friend in my life besides any family member and I'm proud to have him as a friend. He's one thing that a lot of people aren't on this planet. He's honest. He's generous. He's funny. And he's single girls!

Hehe sorry Stephen. Stephen was there when I met my future wife and he was there at the wedding and he's now the God father of our daughter. My wife wants to fix him up so badly and find him the love of his life hehe. Here's to you Stephen and Happy Belated Birthday!

I remember one day back in the early 90's when Stephen and I were bored there in the bankrupt framing laboratories and deciding what we'd do to pass the time. There had already been such hijinx as fishing string on rubber cockroaches and running around the shop with toy guns re-enacting John Woo shootouts during business hours, but today there would be something new. A new creation. Stephen pulled two giant sheets of card board with him on the otherside of his workspace and began cutting with his trusty Exacto blade.

I wanted to see but he insisted I not look till the time was right. "What was he doing?" "What could it be?" I thought with a sweaty anticipation. Was he making a funny sign saying something like "The customer is always wrong Bitch!" or possibly a giant letter 'F' and a giant letter 'U'? No nothing like that.

The time came and he said "Ready?" and began walking, he was holding hands with something 'what was it?'

He had created a cardboard boy! and CARDBOARD BOY WAS BORN! after laughing my ass off as he held hands with his new creation walking him around the shop he went to work on cardboard boys sister CARDBOARD GIRL!

We brought many people to the back of the shop to show them our newfound friends and were met with curiosity and fear. Fear? not really but I thought that read funny. Stephen needs to dig out ol' cardboy boy and girl so I can take a pic for the blog.

The picture here is just something I found online and looks nothing like our Cardboy Boy but I thought would be well suited since Stephen is a talented sculptor.

Sniff, I miss you Cardboard Boy.

Just a little bit...

I was just thinking about the time that I was watching Sally Jesse Raphael, yes it was a long time ago. The theme to the show was Children who were embarassed by their flamboyant parents. These parents would dress overly slutty and shake what god gave them while their children would cry themselves to sleep wondering why Mommy showed so much cleavage and didn't seem to care about their feelings.

The always understanding Sally spoke very sympathetically to the children about their insecurities and their feelings about why their mothers acted the way they did. Sally riled up the audience wanting to give these parents a piece of her mind. She told the children that she will help them and get to the bottom of this. Ah thanks Sally you seem to really care about these kids feelings and the horror of living with an embarassing parent at the time in ones life when embarassment is something you would choose death over.

Cue Music.

"Wiggle it!" "Just a little bit!" "Wiggle it!" "Just a little bit!"

The mothers come out in their slutty attire shaking their asses and dancing to the stupid song while the audience boos. The cameras show quick cuts to each child's face as they tear up totally embarassed by their parents. Sally puts on her serious face.

If Sally cared so much why'd they play that 'Wiggle' song when they came out? Stupid Bitch.

I don't know why I just thought of that. I guess that 'Wiggle it just a little bit' song stuck in my head hehe.

I'm feeling a bit uninspired lately. I am preparing for the first ever show to be released, for next friday and am thinking of what to put on our site. I'll use blogger most likely at first till we actually have some kind of content to use then have a real site.

I can't wait till Hockey season starts. I'm making french bread pizza in the oven and it's always good. I'm just hoping I find inspiration soon.