Centers For Disease Control says 87,000 injuries cause by chasing pets. 11.7% from chasing cats.
Seriously. Seriously?
Archives for June 2009
Barely ever get email anymore. Twitter and Facebook make it useless like email made letters. I wonder what will make those things obsolete?
There’s A Hole in My TV
“Why is everybody dying” is the question that keeps showing up on twitter. Of course, they don’t mean “everybody”, as in literally everybody. At least I don’t think so.
But we’ve heard of Ed McMahon. We’ve looked at Farrah Fawcett’s smile. We’ve tried to moonwalk to Michael Jackson’s music. And we’ve all been tempted to purchase something Billy Mays has hawked.
Suddenly, there are an awful lot of people we are familiar with, no longer in our lives.
Facebook Quizzes
According to Facebook quizzes, I’m:
- I’m a German Shepherd,
- Sirhan Sirhan,
- orange,
- Bea Arthur,
- a wookie,
- fork,
- sea sponge,
- 28% black,
- Captain Stubeng,
- North Dakota,
- the Hindenberg,
- Alfalfa,
- pineapple-strawberry smoothie,
- 8pm,
- Tuesday,
- 1979,
- the 80s,
- Dan Akroyd,
- filet o’ fish,
- Mellow Yellow,
- freshwater catfish,
- a dime,
- bumblebee.
- black-eyed susan,
- October,
- Arbor Day,
- “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”,
- Tito,
- Toto,
- “Casablanca”,
- Dodger Stadium,
- Sweden,
- Grandfather clock,
- blue spruce,
- Cannonball Run II,
- 2nd period history class,
- Rwanda,
- and finally: Captain Feathersword.
Jacko and Elvis
I suppose people of my age look at the sudden death of Michael Jackson the same way our parents looked at the sudden death of Elvis Presley. The news was announced about the same time of day. Both artists had basically slipped out of public life and into a bizarre drug induced state of being.
Elvis died at 42. That’s younger than I am now. MJ died at 50. Elvis helped usher in the age of television, and forced many a dad to buy a tv to satisfy little girls. Jacko ushered in the age of music video. Before “Thriller”, music videos were nothing to brag about.
In 1983 when the video first came out, I saw it debuted at a dance club in Knoxville. The dj stopped the music playing and announced he’d be showing a video on an overhead screen. No one had seen anything like that before in a dance club.
And no one had ever seen anything like “Thriller.” A movie really. A complete story with a killer bass track and dance moves like no one had ever, EVER seen before. No one on the dance floor that night was moving. We all stopped to watch. More still and quiet than that dance club had ever been before or since.
And the thing about the video was, you couldn’t just go watch it if you wanted. MTV didn’t show it every 20 minutes but made a big deal about the fact it was the only channel to see it on. You watched MTV all the time hoping to see it.
How different that would be handled today.
Who was bigger? Elvis or Michael? I couldn’t tell you even though I got to experience the success of both. I remember Elvis’ tv specials AND Michael’s video s and concerts.
It’s amazing how their lives and deaths are so similar.
My Favorite Farrah Story
She will forever be remembered for a beautiful smile and a little red one-piece bathing suit. But Farrah Fawcett should also be remembered for inspiring one of Motown’s biggest hits. Not many people have heard this story yet, and you may think I’m making it up. But I’m not.
Farrah Fawcett was the inspiration behind “Midnight Train to Georgia”.
Guy just ran a stop sign cutting me off and speeding away. I said “where’s a cop when you need one”?” one appears and gives bad boy a ticket.