Whip It, which opens October 2 (I’d add a picture, but it could vaporize tomorrow – grumble) Ever since I heard about this movie earlier this year, I was curious. I like Drew Barrymore (also directing the movie), I like Ellen Page, I like Kristin Wiig, and I love roller skating. Plus I like the [...]
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Looking forward to…
Posted in media, tagged Whip It, Love Happens, roller skating, fall movies on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Give Me Back My Filet O’ Fish!!
Posted in media, tagged filet o fish, humor, McDonalds on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So what if lent is over – I miss the filet o’ fish!! Give me back that filet 0′ fish - give me that fish!
Come on McDonald’s, bring it back!! I’m not laughing at all!
Not Quite a WLS Big 89 Rewind for 2009…
Posted in media, tagged childhood, WLS on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished tooling around to try and find any info for a 2009 edition. It’s really fun to revisit the past with the Big 89 jocks that I grew up with and hear their take on the present. I didn’t find any information about this year. I really hope they’ll be back on the [...]
It’s hard to be a freak…
Posted in media, tagged digital television, rant on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m seeing this all over the Internet – “Who still uses rabbit ears? The poor and the elderly.” And that’s a nice posting. I guess I must be poor and old.
Not everyone being affected by this digital tv transition stuff is old and poor. I’m neither. Chicago was very, very late to cable, so I [...]
The guy who made me listen to talk radio…Nick Digilio
Posted in media, tagged bravo, Nick Digilio, radio on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To me, talk radio has meant politics (snore) or winning a free meal to fill-in-the-blank restaurant radio sponsor (ooh, do I get a free shrimp cocktail with that too?! zzzz) Not interesting. Boring. Dull. Time to switch to music if I ever accidentally get on one of those stations – thank God for presets.
Well, for [...]
Can’t do anything after the “end of summer”…
Posted in media, tagged rant on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And technically, summer doesn’t end until September 22nd. Everybody is reminding everybody that summer’s over and not to waste the last few drops of it. I say, what about January 1? Is that not the first day of the new year, ripe with possibilities because it’s a clean slate?! But it’s cold then, so how [...]
Olympics indifference…
Posted in media, tagged 2008 Olympics, rant on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I seem to be out of sync with the rest of the country. The Olympics ratings are up, but the time difference with China is really screwing up my enjoyment of the Olympics. This year, unlike the other Olympic years, I’ve really not seen much of it at all…I didn’t even watch the opening ceremony, [...]
Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes – Sniff…
Posted in media, tagged cassettes on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think we’ve been saying “goodbye” to them for a while, but here’s an article to highlight it: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/business/media/28cassette.html?ref=business
I’ve still got some. I’ve replaced most of the music with cds, but of course, now I’ll eventually have to replace the cd’s with downloadable songs, something this dinosaur has been resisting for more than five years. [...]
Baby drama…
Posted in media, tagged rant on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am totally fed up with the baby bump, baby mama, teenage mother, celebrity mama stuff. It never used to be this bad. Now there are probably Vegas bookies placing bets on supposed baby bumps that may be happening soon. We must celebrate Jamie Lynn Spears’ baby by putting the baby (and the other baby) [...]
Many content providers still in the 20th century…
Posted in media, tagged bravo, rant on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had bookmarked the Techdirt (a tech consulting firm) blog and hadn’t looked at in awhile. Shame on me. When I initially bookmarked it, it looked like an intelligent, not too jargony blog about how technology and the internet are evolving. I just looked at it this morning and got smart – I RSSed it to [...]
