Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done some wonderful things for America. They brought us BASEketball. They brought us South Park. They brought us Team America. Now, they will bring us Kenny vs. Spenny. For some of us, they will bring back Kenny vs. Spenny. The rest of you will wonder how you lived life […]
They say bad things happen in threes. Charles Nelson Reilly died in May. Now, Match Game panelist Brett Somers has kicked the bucket. Hence the title of this post. Or is it Gary Burghoff with the bullseye now? Or Fannie Flagg? Or – God forbid – Richard Dawson. I grew up watching “Match Game.” I […]
As I write this, I am half-watching the Michigan State-Pittsburgh football game on ESPN. I have no rooting interest in this game whatsoever. It’s just the most interesting game I found when I sat down at noon to watch football. In a perfect world, I would be watching Penn State struggle against the University of […]
Rarely do things converge in such a fantastic way as they have today. First off, we have the Britney Spears trainwreck on the MTV Video Music Awards. But since the VMAs were reportedly a trainwreck (I didn’t watch because I was watching another episode of The Eli Manning Face) can you have a trainwreck within […]
A number of years ago, a friend of ours spoke about how he kept up with changes in pop culture through his subscription to Entertainment Weekly. Since Maria and I were getting increasingly busy, we figured we would check out the magazine and see if it helped us. That was one of the best decisions […]
Dennis Haskins, better known as Mr. Belding from “Saved by the Bell” spoke at the college where I work last night. This was honestly one of the coolest things ever for me. He was really funny and a very nice guy.
Sports have provided people with fodder for arguments for the ages. Montana or Unitas? Kareem or Wilt? Ruth or Aaron? Now popular culture has its all-time greatest argument. Who was more unintentionally funny – the Miss Teen USA contestant from South Carolina or the “Boom Goes the Dynamite” guy from a few years ago? Watch […]
No, I haven’t decided to go all U2 on my readers, but something absolutely wonderful happened today. It wasn’t the two R.E.M. songs I heard on XM in the first 15 minutes of my commute, which happened almost two hours earlier than usual today. It wasn’t the free lunch I got. It wasn’t the delicious […]
If you watch “The Office,” you remember that moment at the very end of last season’s finale when Ryan (B.J. Novak) accepted a job at corporate and ended his relationship with Kelly (Mindy Kaling). Debate raged online afterwards about whether Ryan really did get a promotion or the whole scene was merely a joke. Well, […]
My friends have me so mad at them. A few weeks ago, the two of them started talking more and more about the TV show, “Big Brother.” I couldn’t stand it because I knew they might suck me into watching it. I resisted as hard as I could, but then I found myself home alone […]