Yes, yet again I realize I’m getting old with that comment in my tilte but what a show WKRP in Cincinnati was. From as god as my witness I thought turkeys can fly, to Les Nessman “office”, the show where they dealt with the who tragic of those kids dying at a who concert and scenes like the one embedded you just don’t see smart TV written like that, much less on a comedy show.
For the last 20 years I’ve made fun of the other guy from Wham and the fact that no one really knew who he was. If anyone tells me they are a fan of the 80′s right away I ask them who was the other guy from Wham. Most still don’t answer Andrew Ridgeley as the other guy in Wham.
When I come to think about it I have to tip my cap to Andrew Ridgeley who is just about the only famous person I know who knew his place in the world and handled his fame so perfectly. During the Wham years Andrew Ridgeley was considered the lucky guy who rode on George Michael’s coat tails like he was some lottery winner. He was making boat loads of cash, selling out everywhere and then it came to close when George Michael Choose Solo.
It always interests me how people handle losing fame when the bright lights are no longer on them and really no one has handled it better than Andrew Ridgeley. It takes a really interesting person who knows exactly who he is and knows fame has little to with it. In the years since Wham broke up Andrew Ridgeley has lived the good life. He is set for life money wise, married the dark haired chick from Bananarama, who it must be said has held up nicely over the years. Plays golf, races cars and cheers on Queens Park Rangers. Basically he is living the dream. Sure fame no longer shines upon him but do I think Andrew Ridgeley would trade his life with anyone right now? I don’t think he would.
Stayed tune tomorrow as I talk my views on Tears for Fears.
Let start of be saying I’m a weird person in some fashion. In some ways I’m an old soul and so other ways I hold my youth close to me and don’t want to let it go. I don’t do or want to do what many people in my age group (early 30′s) find the norm.
So with that out of the way I got Frank Sinatra’s best of the best over the weekend. Every year they seem to release a Sinatra greatest hits package but usually they bug me by leaving out a song or two I like. I believe one of them didn’t have My Way on it, seriously it’s like A flock of seagulls releasing a greatest hits package without I ran. This one has all the songs I wanted so I picked it up.
This is my point. If you are over 30 and don’t think Frank Sinatra is one of the greatest entertainers ever, something is wrong with you. I listen to this album on the way to work and I simply smile. Sinatra voice is a thing of magic, you can’t help but be in a good mood while listening to the man.
I swear one of the first things I would do if I had a time machine is go back to the Sands to see the rat pack play. Screw the future, what I want is to see Frank, Dean, Sammy, and the other two, (it could be Andrew Ridgeley for all I care very inside joke but it gave me a new blog post coming up) just tear up the room.
You know you are getting old when you say things like they don’t make em like that anymore but you know with Frank Sinatra there will never be another one close to him.
Everyday I take the bus/subway to work because I work downtown and I hate the whole idea of paying for car insurance. (but that is another post for another time.) Most days I see a group of old Portuguese women going to work speaking Portuguese to each other and boy these women are vicious.
Let’s put it this way I will never let an old Portuguese woman into my house. They find a piece of dust somewhere and they gossip to their bus riding friends they you are a slob who keeps a messy house. To other old Portuguese women this is the crime of crimes. An old Portuguese woman can not show her face in public if word got around that he house is messy. Not having enough food to feed a large group of people is a close second.
I hear these women on the bus and they don’t mince words. What is most amusing about these women is the fact on most days there are a group of five riding the same bus, on days when one stays home or missed the bus the other four talk trash about the one who doesn’t show up. If I believed these old Portuguese women everyone’s daughter is a slut who doesn’t go to church and everyone’s husband goes out drinking too much (both may actually be true to be fair to these old Portuguese woman.)
I really don’t know how to wrap up this post but if you know any old Portuguese woman follow my advice and stay away. Do not get close to them even if their daughter has loose morals.
Where do I begin? Ok, here we go. You see I have a hard time believing people actual read this site so when the e-mails still come in a month later it’s a nice compliment, then I feel sad that I have let people down. I’m sorry
Ok, coles note version, new job, new hours, mix in some personal stuff and next thing you know a month has gone by. Also Portugal losing to Denmark last month also bummed me out, plus EPL rumours started to bore me. I mean how many times can I read about Arsenal being linked to a player they will never sign? How many times can I slag Arsenal before it got boring (good job on your nice little run there Arsenal fans.)
Basically the same old bored me. I’m going to try and keep things interesting by posting things that I’m interested in. That may be a couple times a day or maybe I’ll have nothing to say for a day or two so bear with me for a bit until I get back into the swing of things.
To all those who are e-mailed me, thanks. Even the ones you didn’t have the kindest words for me over my lack of updates.
I wrote on twitter yesterday that I would like Adele more if everyone in this world didn’t just flat out love her. That got my thinking about her decisions to name her albums after the year she was when she wrote the record.
You see it’s easy for a woman to name an album 19 or 21 when they are in fact 19 and 21. They are still young. What I can assure you what will happen however is Adele will release an album called 28 then three years later will release another album called 29 cause 99& of women at some point will lie about their age or just do away with the whole title of an album after a year business cause there is no way Adele is going to want to see an album title named 31.
Can’t say I was shocked to see only 5 million viewers in the U.S turn into the first episode of the playboy club. Talk about messing up a sure thing. Who cares if they are ripping off Mad Men, talk about a good show to rip off. The Playboy Club should of been the Love Boat on land, instead they try to deal with the seedy side of things like murder. T&A does not go well went murder.
The next dumb thing they did was cast Eddie Cibrian in the lead role. Eddie Cibrain may look like Jon Hamm but he is no Jon Hamm. For instance Jon Hamm can actually act but that’s beside the point. You see guys like Jon Hamm, most guys would either love to be Jon Hamm or hang out with Jon Hamm. More importantly women want to bang Jon Hamm. They love him in Mad Men and the fact in his real life that he has been with his GF for over ten years makes women think he is a great guy. Women hate Eddie Cibrain over the fact he cheated on his wife with Leann Rimes who women also hate for being a home wrecker. In other words it’s back to Young and the Restless for Eddie Cibrain because I can’t see this show making it off life support.
As I’ve just witness POAK miss a penalty kick against Tottenham it finally pushed me to tell my revenge story for Greece winning Euro 2004. On the corner of St Clair and Caladonia for a million years there has been a local burger place closed Dairy Freeze. Let me tell you I was regular at this fine dinner palace ever since I was a kid.
That all stopped mind you after Greece broke my heart by winning Euro 2004. In my mind I figured I’d carry this grudge by boycotting all things Greek. Which meant no Greek food and since Diary Freeze was owned by Greek people will I stopped going.
Fast forward to the summer of 2007 and my feelings of rage and sadness have decreased to the point where I was going to give in to my craving for Dairy Freeze. So I head down to the restaurant and what do I see when I walk in? All Asians everywhere…wall to wall Asians behind the counter. I’m like where is Gus? They then mentioned they sold the business. I didn’t want them to sell the business now it’s not the same. Sure the steak on the bun is still good but it’s not Greek dinner good. They make good food, too much fata and I hate fata but great food. You ask for tzatziki now and you get a weird look, mind you I mangle the language to the point where it could be my fault. At the end of the day I didn’t want them to sell the business. Now it’s not the same, a certain charm is gone from my childhood. You win ok Greece, I raise the white flag now please let PAOK defeat Tottenham.
With Cabbie leaving last year and Tim and Sid going to the Fan590 thescore on the TV side is pretty much dead and buried. What’s left is highlights most people can see on the net without having to wait for them on TV, poker that is repeated a million times and two English guys hosting Serie A. It’s pretty much time for theScore to sell the TV side of the business since it has some value due to the location on most basic cable packages. TSN should buy it, rebrand it TSN News for example.
What theScore should focus on and I’m sure it’s the diamond of everyone’s eye over there at thescore is their apps. Both the Scoremobile app and the ScoremobileFC app are great. As a person who loves to make the odd bet I love the mobile alerts. It’s down alittle more than I would like which annoys me but I can overlook that. For example I had the over in the AC Milan-Lazio game on Friday, I was giddy everytime I got a mobile alert from the app since I knew it was due to a goal. With today’s under I’m hoping I get one alert telling me the game has started and one alert telling me the game is finished. Nothing inbetween would suit me just fine.
It’s free, it’s easy to use and pretty much gives you all the info you need if you are on the go. If you are curious the link is below. The Score mobile app covers all the North American sports. On the website their should also be a ScoremobileFC app which covers all the soccer leagues.
Count me as one of the millions of blackberry users out there. I got a Blackberry Bold 9700 18 months ago. Fast forward to today I have a little problem with my phone. The stupid thing only works when using speakerphone or a headset. You push the phone to your ear and nothing, no sound nothing. That is an issue with you are dealing with a phone. Having my phone on speaker isn’t practial at times and I forbid to turn myself into one of those people with a ear clip to talk on the phone.
What bugs me is the bigger issue that most things made today are utter crap. I realize I’m going to go on a back in the day rant but I remember my dad had a fridge so old that I’m sure this fridge alone caused a hole in the ozone layer but you know what it worked. The damn thing worked before I was born and it worked til it’s final day in 2008 when my dad threw it away cause he didn’t need it anymore. Furthermore if you are ever in a landfill site and you see a fridge with a Mike Mcphee NHL all-star sticker on it I’m sure if you plugged that sucker in today it would still work.
My Blackberry however only 18 months old doesn’t serve the main function for it’s purpose. Now most people who know me quickly come to realize that I hate talking on the phone so it’s not like I miss the actual talking to people. Everything else works fine, bbm, txt, the net, twitter etc etc but the fact that I have a $500 (at the time) phone which no longer allows me to listen to a person on the other end of the line annoys the hell out of me. I’ll bring it in at some point to get it fixed but I can assure you when I get a new phone it won’t be a blackberry.