Really. I feel as if I’m being asked out on a date. I got an email from an old buddy today asking me to be his Twitter friend.
Here’s what part of the email (from Twitter) says: Twitter is a unique approach to communication and networking based on the simple concept of status. What are you doing? [...]
Archive for November, 2008
BEING ASKED OUT
Posted in Digital World, It's all about me, tagged Twitter on November 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
LEFTOVER TURKEY
Posted in Diatribes, Noticed, People, Sports, tagged golf, Kenny Perry, PGA Tour, Ryder Cup, The Hartford, Tour Championship on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Doing a little web surfing, and I came across SI.com’s 2008 Turkeys of the Year. Some good choices there, but as far as I’m concerned the biggest turkey of the year in sports is a golfer who ordinarily enjoys a sterling reputation.
KENNY PERRY is one of three PGA Tour players who wear the logo of The Hartford [...]
SERVICE ENGINE SOON
Posted in Diatribes, It's all about me, Noticed, tagged General Motors, Toyota on November 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I just dropped more than two-thousand dollars on my four-year-old General Motors product, and still, I see this.
I’ve been staring at the SERVICE ENGINE SOON light for months now. The guys who service this vehicle are the best. They can’t figure it out. It is, of course, the first thing passengers notice.
“Something wrong with your car?” [...]
ENJOY…
Posted in Greeting Cards, tagged Thanksgiving on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I think that’s because it’s the one holiday everyone has in common. And aside from dinner, the only agenda is to enjoy each other’s company.
VARIETY: THE NEW REALITY?
Posted in Living in the Past, People, TV Stuff, tagged Ed Sullivan, NBC, Rosie O'Donnell, variety shows on November 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’m not a big fan of Rosie O’Donnell, but I am a fan of what she’s trying to do: bring the variety show back to television.
From 1948 until 1971, America turned to Ed Sullivan for entertainment on Sunday nights. Ed, who had no discernible talent himself, gave America everything from Elvis to opera, from the Beatles to [...]
HELLIFIED!
Posted in Noticed, People, Sports, tagged Matt Cassel, New England Patriots, Randy Moss on November 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss apparently made up a new word, in describing the play of Tom Brady understudy Matt Cassel.
“Matt is getting in the comfort zone,” Moss said. “He’s playing some hellified ball.”
Maybe he meant “hellacious,” which is, in fact, in the big dictionary on my desk. “Hellified” is not.
But after giving it due consideration, [...]
THE CREEPIEST DUDE ON TV
Posted in Noticed, People, TV Stuff, tagged Bill Hader, Dateline NBC, Keith Morrison, NBC, Saturday Night Live on November 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Keith Morrison of Dateline NBC.
Hands down. If they ever do another incarnation of The Twilight Zone, Morrison can out-Serling Rod. I bring this up because Bill Hader absolutely nailed Morrison Saturday night on SNL.
NUTS (and bolts)
Posted in Diatribes, News, People, Politics, tagged Alan Mulally, Chrysler, corporate jets, Ford, General Motors, Rick Wagoner, Robert Nardelli on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was only appropriate that with Thanksgiving coming, Congress gave the CEOs of the Big 3 domestic automakers the bird.
They’ll be back, and they’ll get their money. There’s too much at stake, and too many innocent people to hurt. But, per orders of those audacious politicians, GM’s Wagoner, Chrysler’s Nardelli and Ford’s Mulally will actually have [...]
THIS OLD HOUSE
Posted in It's all about me, Living in the Past, People, tagged Brookline MA, Irving's, Joanne Nesti, Ma, Mike St. Peter on November 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This is the house at 24 Stedman St. in Brookline, MA. I never lived here, but I knew this house from the basement to the attic.
This is where my mother grew up. Where my grandparents, 2 uncles, aunt and 2 cousins lived. It was a great house…full of warm, wonderful people. It was an excellent house [...]
REX WAS COOL
Posted in It's all about me, Living in the Past, People, TV Stuff, tagged Boomtown, Boston, Rex Trailer on November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
OK, he may have shrunk a bit…and I’m not sure the hair underneath the hat was the original color. Or real. But he’s still REX TRAILER!!! (More to come.)
