My Little Corner of the World: "A Joke is a Very Serious Thing."

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

"A Joke is a Very Serious Thing." - Winston Churchill

Hello y'all! Dave the Goof here, with another drive-by blast of hot air... and it's a good thing, too, since I could tell your Hot Air-O-Meter was returning a lower-than-average reading.

So here I am! Did you miss me?

What? You don't even remember what I look like? Seriously?

Here, let me help...

There... ring a bell now?

OK, fine, that's Michael Fassbender, not me... but I sorta look like that... on a good day.... on a really good day, I should say... OK, fine, I've never looked anything like that...

I look more like this...

Yep, that's me.... without the beard, of course... I look older without the beard.

OK, fine, that's Don Rickles, not me... but if you can imagine a nice blend of Michael Fassbender and Don Rickles, that should remind you what I look like...

Where was I?

Oh, yeah, the Super Bowl....

So I went over to my good friend Todd's house to watch the Super Bowl, and it was a good amount of fun for me and most of my family... Wifey stayed home. Didn't feel social, I suppose. In any case, it ended up being a good game, I thought... was a blow-out until the stadium light's blew out... then 35 minutes later, when play resumed, the trailing team scored a buncha points, and suddenly it was a game again!

I didn't really care who won - I just like good football and close games. So I won, in a way...

Plus, I absolutely loved this commercial...

Paul Harvey was so awesome...

So I've been on a retro music kick lately. Mostly some Phil Collins and Oingo Boingo. I've had on Phil's album No Jacket Required (1985) on practically non-stop, along with the Genesis album Invisible Touch (1986). Both are from back in my high school days. Funny, I pulled up an hour-long concert video on You Tube of Phil Collins, thinking it would be cool... it was not. Trust me, you don't want to see a stadium full of people rocking out to (and singing along with) "Easy Lover" and "Can't Hurry Love"... ridiculous... still, those two albums I mentioned above have a sentimental place in my bones, for various reasons. This is one of my faves...

Great song. Anyway, that and the Dead Man's Party album (1985) by Oingo have gotten a lot of air time of late. So be it. One thing I loved about Oingo Boingo... they never looked like rock stars... they looked and dressed like a buncha 80's geeks, I loved it. Check them out in THIS CLIP of them live, on stage at the Ritz circa 1985... lol, what a buncha nerds...

So it looks like Disney is pulling out all the stops on the proposed new Star Wars movie projects. They got JJ Abrams to agree to direct the next film in the new trilogy, and they also have stand-alone films planned for Yoda, Han Solo and Boba Fett... dang. Busy little bees. I wonder if they'll make a film about Jabba the Hutt and his criminal underworld... well, you gotta give them points for enthusiasm... it remains to be seen whether the quality level will be there. I guess they figure if people were OK with the crappy prequel films, they'll be happy with just about anything.