Jeez, I've been busy. As the esteemed Doctor Woo pointed out to me, I wrote this in a blog earlier in the calendar year:
"After February 28th, I'll get back to blogging on a more frequent basis, and I'm trying to read and comment as much as possible in the meantime."
Doctor Woo raises a good point, even though he never comments on the blog. If you like good food, by the way, check out his excellent prose at http://foodiesf.blogspot.com/. Tell him Doug sent ya!
Been working a lot of hours the past several months - as a consultant, it's definitely better to be too busy than not busy enough. When you're not busy enough, then people start looking around for ways to cut costs. Saw The Police in concert on the 10th, and they're a must-see as far as I'm concerned.
So I'm just going to ramble for a bit about things that have been on my mind lately. Do you remember the show Valerie? Being a big Arrested Development fan, I was thinking about the show that got Jason Bateman going. It starred Valerie Harper (better known as Rhoda from the Mary Tyler Moore Show) as the mom of a suburban family. Pretty standard fare.
Except then she held out for more money, and so they killed her off. The show became Valerie's Family and then The Hogan Family, but the first episode without Harper was hilarious. The family grieved for about the entire first segment of the season opener. "Gee, it sure is sad that Mom's dead." "Yeah." "Hey, here's Sandy Duncan!" And then that was it.
Speaking of show weirdness, do you remember when Frasier's dad appeared on Cheers? Except he wasn't Frasier's dad at the time. In a season eleven episode, John Mahoney played a jingle writer who tried to sell Sam on an advertisement for the bar. He's probably my favourite one-episode character on the show. "Beer and pretzels, that's our game. C-H-E-R-S! If you don't come there, that's a shame. C-H-E-R-S!" It's a song that stays with you.
Whenever you log into MySpace, you get to see "Cool New People". I've always viewed these somewhat suspiciously, and now I'm consistently seeing politicians in the mix. John Edwards, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Unless I'm one of those "MySpace friend collectors", then why do I want to be friends with these politicians?
Let me explain three succinct reasons why politicians should be exempt from the "Cool New People" category of MySpace. First of all, they're not cool. Second of all, they're not new. And last, they're not people.
Where did the expression "give credit where credit is due" come from? If someone owes me money, then I should give them more money? Does that make sense to anyone?
Thank you, and please leave through the north exits. You've been great!