Was on the road early this morning when this song came on the Nineties station on satellite radio. And now I can’t get it out of my head just like 35 years ago!
“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred got a LOT of airplay during my high school senior year. Were we supposed to take this song seriously or was it meant to be a gag? I’ve no idea and I don’t think anyone else does either but back in the day I could do a spot-on rendition of it 😛...
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Happy Birthday Foghorn Leghorn! Made his debut in “Walky Talky Hawky” on August 31st, 1946....
The magnificent Tim Curry passed away two days ago. The tributes have poured in, from his legions of fans that he made across more than five decades. So many things that I could say about Curry. I think my favorite performance of his was when he played Pennywise in the 1990 television adaptation of Stephen King’s It. Nobody could pull off that kind of malevolence like Curry did in that movie.
Well, there is something I’d like to offer up as a token, a gesture of appreciation to Tim Curry and his work. I went looking for it and sure enough, YouTube has it. This is from the Eighties television movie The Worst Witch. It features Curry as the Grand Wizard. There is no thing that I could say that would adequately prepare you for what you are about to behold. This is… the single most INSANE music ...
This is terrible! But having endured more than two hours of tech support based in India during the past few days, I’m feeling ornery enough to share this anyway.
Only 1900 years more to go!
(Die-hard fans will get the joke 😉 )
And he’s still going nonstop!  Coming next year is the long awaited Spaceballs sequel.  It wouldn’t surprise me if Mel Brooks has more up his sleeve for after that.  The man has been a comedic force of nature for most of his life, what else might he entertain us with?
There is no doubting what I’m doing this afternoon to celebrate Brooks’s centennial.  I’m going to watch Blazing Saddles for the hunnerd zillionth time....
I was eleven when The Golden Girls premiered on NBC in 1985.  I was watching that very first episode and it cracked me up hard!  Most Saturday nights at 9 I would tune in to watch the latest misadventures of Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia.  It wasn’t just me either: my dear sweet grandmother was a huge fan of the show too.  Sometimes we would watch it together if I happened to be at her house that night.  Her favorite of the ensemble was easily Estelle Ghetty’s character Sophia.  Heck, Granny even looked a lot like Sophia… and she could wisecrack like her too.  My favorite character was Rose (Betty White): so many ditzy things that she often said.
So for the past few weeks I’ve been tuning into MeTV on weeknights at 10 and then on Sunday nights at 6 and 8 to watch The Golden Girls. Â It’s ...
It was fifty years ago tonight, on March 14th, 1976, that radio personality Doctor Demento played a song that had been submitted by one of his listeners. “Belvedere Cruisin'” was composed and performed by a sixteen-year-old young man with an accordion from Lynwood, California. His name was Alfred Yankovic.
Doctor Demento could not have known it then, but he was premiering the music of one of the greatest artists that has ever come in the history of pop culture.
Happy fiftieth anniversary to “Weird Al” Yankovic!
Here is the recording of that fateful evening:
There is another Weird Al anniversary this week. March 12th marked the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the album Bad Hair Day. For a number of reasons that is one of my favorite albums by Yankovic.
Here’s looking forward to many more years of Weird Al music!...
I refused to watch the official Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny. Seeing a grown man in a dress who has burned the American flag on a number of occasions isn’t anything I was interested in.
I did not watch the Turning Point halftime alternative either. I was told that my doing so would be “supporting hate”. Even though those making such accusations are responsible for more hate than anyone else in America right now. But I digress.
So what did I see instead?
I opened YouTube and started up the legendary In Living Color halftime special from 1992!
From a time when it wasn’t demanded of us that we be angry enough to hate others without reason. It was a better age. More joyful and innocent. In Living Color‘s halftime spectacular was a stroke of genius on the part of Fox Network and 34 years later ...
I swear, the craziness that pops so seemingly randomly across my synapses sometimes…
For whatever reason, this afternoon I found myself thinking of Andy Kaufman, the “song and dance man” who entertained millions with his unique shticks. Sadly, Kaufman passed away in 1984 at the much-too-young age of 35.
Or did he?
Andy Kaufman’s sense of humor was notoriously eclectic, to put it mildly. And among other things there were a few times when he did state a desire to fake his own death. It would have been the biggest joke of his life, to make everyone believe he had passed only to show up ten or twenty or… maybe forty years later.
Now, I do not believe that Kaufman really faked his death. His family has testified many times that he did indeed pass on in May of 1984. There is no disputing that. And yet, this is...
It’s become something of a tragic holiday tradition for me. Every year about this time, I watch The Star Wars Holiday Special – considered by many to be the very worst two hours of television ever produced – and do a running commentary about it for my friends on Facebook. Why do I torment myself like this? I have no idea apart from the comedy (?) value. I’ll do most anything within reason (emphasis on “reason”!) to make my friends laugh. And if it takes subjecting myself to this… thing… then it’s a minor sacrifice to make each holiday season.
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| Pic I took of my TV screen while watching The Star Wars Holiday Special, here depicting the lowest moment of Harvey Korman’s career |