Abraham Lincon's bicentennial birthday is coming up. He was born February 12th, 1809. He's a big deal in Illinois, after all our license plates have "Land of Lincoln" on them & his head portrait since its ugly 2001 redesign. I suppose there would be a huge celebration, tho there probably shouldn't be when I heard on the AP radio news that the state could be up to $9 billion in debt due to Blagojevich's secret bookkeeping. One moment in my life, I was working with my dad on an electrical job at Bellevue Place in Batavia, Illinois, which is where Mary Lincoln was committed to a mental institution in 1875. I also got to see the building's basement, attic and high upstairs rooms that where small and cramped rooms where the staff would sleep. Tho however, due to my tragic upbringing, every time I see Abraham Lincoln, all I think is of him saying, "Party onnnnn, duuuuuudes!!" from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Today I connected to the Internet and what do I see? "A-Rod tested positive for steroids in 2003" while playing for the Texas Rangers & won the A.L. MVP award. Turns out Jose Canseco right about him. Just when I thought A-Fraud couldn't get any lamer, he just did. He was supposed to be "the clean guy" that was going to break that cheater Bond's 762 HR record. I knew A-Roid's stats were too good to be true. So the hell with him. Albert Pujols is who I'm rooting for to get 763 HR. And as far as we know, he hasn't juiced.
I was going to do a blog about my Top 10 or 20 favorite food dishes. But then I concluded it'd probably be a stupid elementary list, since I've had no access to gourmet food or fine dining, and probably wouldn't impress even the most simpleton of minds like Rachael Ray, that chicken stock whore. Who the hell makes macaroni & cheese with chicken stock??! Awe hell, I may up doing a list anyway in the future. It'll give me a chance to tell people what the hell "Bitok 'o Beef" is.
On Wednesday night on PBS, I watched the 90-minute tribute special to George Carlin. Soon I concluded what eventually a screaming Lewis "the louder I yell the funnier I am" Black ranted about: they were censoring the profanity in Carlin's footage, at an adult event for no reason. I basically found it sacrilegious, because Carlin analyzed the hell out of the English language. One shocking thing was how clean cut & unoffensive his early stuff was, the very dated 1980s material about "stuff", and singing & playing a Doo Wop song on Arsenio Hall, whom I called "Arse-o Hall" back in the day.
Well here's something I didn't expect: I actually like the new show "Howie Do It". If you haven't seen it, it's a hidden camera prank / fake interview show that's basically as close to being R-Rated that you can get on TV. I got to see Howie Mandel drop F-Bombs, confront strangers that his family doesn't shake hands because there's germs everywhere, and I finally got to see Howie do his "Bobby's World" voice. This show reminds me of the prank I pulled on a friend while in high school. See, I was the driver in my group, and of course, I concentrated on the road while they farted in my car, listening to music and such. One of my friends who is a big Jimmy Buffet fan, kept playing that damn "Cheeseburger in Paradise" song over and over, which annoyed the snot out of me. So what I did one night, this being the mid 1990s and all, is I took an AOL Internet CD that offered like 2 free hours of Internet, scratched the hell out of it with a pocket knife, and in permanent marker, I wrote some really profane stuff on the non-label side, pretty much "**** YOU ******* *******!!!" in big letters, and then one afternoon I got to my car first, put that CD with the label side down in the Jimmy Buffet case, eventually my friend showed up for the ride home, proceeded to open his beloved CD case to play his beloved CD. The look on his face was total shock, while me and another buddy in on this were laughing our asses off. There was no more song abusing in my drives, and most importantly, a lesson learned: message received. :twisted:
I am pissed at Obama & the Gov't for pushing back the date for digital TV conversion to June 12th. I rely on free broadcast for my TV. I got my coupon & got my digital converter box last Summer, well ahead of the date. And yet, moving the date made all that February 17th advertising worthless in the end. Quoted from a NY Times article, "the valuable analog spectrum will be used by wireless companies and public safety agencies. Verizon and AT&T, for instance, paid billions for access to the spectrum and are waiting to introduce new products using it," which I heard would trickle down to a fast & cheap Internet. And the biggest perk I'm going to miss? CBS's NCAA basketball 2009 tournament, which was going to broadcast every single game in full length, and show it on CBS-1, CBS-2, CBS-3 and CBS-4. That would had been a treat. But no. They have to go and punish us, the ones who have been paying attention and did our part because some stupid idiot people have been living under a freakin' rock for the past 2 years not to know about the switchover. It's stupid. Knowing this stupid country, they'll probably keep pushing the date back again and again, they've already done it a few times.
3 incredibly random pet peeves: people calling dinner "supper", calling soda "pop", and spelling Super Bowl as "superbowl".