They're putting the 1982 show "Square Pegs" on DVD! Oh come on! That show is terrible! If they're going to put that out on DVD, then at least put all 8 episodes of "The Dana Carvey Show" from 1996! This show had a young Stephen Colbert & Steve Carell, and this show was brilliant and ahead of its time. Stupid ABC, a garbage network who killed this show. The show should had been put on Comedy Central where it would have flourished. But back to Square Pegs. If there's anything that I learned about high school while growing up, is that popularity and social cliques is stupid and completely irrelevant. I had friends from all circles, and I was just trying to get through the day without getting thrown into the Dean's office, which of course I made a few dozen or so appearances. Square Pegs has its phony laugh track, showing how high school sucked in the early 1980s, and that if you're rich enough, you can get Devo to perform on your Bar Mitzvah, despite it being your 14th birthday.

Musically, recently I've been finding myself to be listening to Van Halen again. And I'm talking real Van Halen, not this cheesy crummy mid 1980s-early 1990s 5-minute pop music songs with a tequila swilling Sammy Hagar that was Van Hagar; this is Dave Halen. A few things come to mind: growing up, the Fair Warning and Diver Down albums were given extremely poor reviews, due to their dark nature or 80% cover material. But after the huge disappointment that post-Hagar Van Halen was and how irrelevant their music had become in the late 1990s and Van Halen not living up to being a lasting band like the 'Stones, suddenly their 4th & 5th albums don't look so bad. Seriously, is there any guitarist out there even close to Eddie Van Halen in the past 30 years?? And what's hilarious to me, some of the band and guitar playing that I've seen on "Eight is Enough" reruns is miles better than anything I heard in the past decade.

I learned a new Meteorological term: Pneumonia Front. What it is, is it's observed along the western Lake Michigan shoreline during the warm season, and these fronts are defined as Lake Modified Synoptic Scale Cold Fronts that result in one hour temperature drop of 16 degrees or greater. Earlier this week, we had a cold front come in around 11pm, were temps were in the mid 70s, and immediately dropped down to the mid 40s, shifting from light west winds to northeast winds gusting up to 40 m.p.h. In other words, it's still Spring in Chicagoland. And I can't believe the record-pace for tornadoes this year. Another four dozen-plus tornadoes Thursday. Unfortunately, I may get to doing my life-long dream of photographing a tornado.

Oh, and I have to say that Amy Dickinson of the newspaper advice column "Ask Amy" gives the worst advice. I have never seen anyone contradict themselves, give lousy remedial advice that only a moron could give. She seriously has to be schizophrenic.