MONDAY HANGOVER: "Noooooooooooooooooo Doubt About It!"
Greetings friends, and welcome to the Monday Hangover, brought to you by the letter ‘H’ (a letter which truly gets no love) and the number ’52.’ Yes, I picked those arbitrarily. First, a quick weekend recap: Friday sucked hard. Saturday was devoted to The Team That Will Not Be Named, and the way they just keep on chuggin,’ finishing some Christmas gifts, CLEANING the hell out of my house (still MUCH to be done there), and watching a few minutes here and there of the movie “Amelie.” It’s French, but good, and I can’t wait to see the rest. Sunday, though, things finally scratched and clawed their way out of the murk, and the weekend turned itself around. What started as a simple trip to Tar-jay (French for “great swag at low-low prices!) turned into some brunch and Squirrel Hill gallivanting. A little bit later, it was gift-exchange and Gavin’s Christmas party. And a bit LATER was just some quality hangtime. Which leads me to a few items of business:
1) Thanks to Jeanie for the mega-cool Ms. Pac-Man (and other games) Atari-plug in-majigger. It’s one of those AWESOME joysticks you just plug right into your TV, that has five old-school Atari 2600 games. Off the top of my head, I remember this one having Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, and POLE POSITION. Kicking off the Christmas season with such a gift bodes well for the rest of the run, I think.
2) Thanks to Gavin for havin’ us over and letting us get a glimpse into his life. LANNY FRATTARE said ‘Hello’ to me as he was leaving/we were entering. For all of you non-‘Burghers out there, Lanny is the lonnnnnnnnnngtime “Voice of the Pirates.” And truly one of the best play-by-play men in the business. You have no idea how strongly I dislike Pirates games on TV that he’s not calling. I often turn the radio on. That was SUCH the highlight for me. I really wish, or perhaps even expected him to say his patented, “Greetings friends, and Welcome to Gavin’s House. It’s a Beautiful Day for Baseball, I’m Lanny Frattare and this is my partner, Steve Blass. It’s chilly and cold in the City of Champions, but the Williams’ family hopes to bring warm Christmas wishes to you all.” Perhaps since he was leaving, though, I should have expected, “We’re leaving the party and the punch was great and there was NOoooooooooooooooooooooo Doubt About It!”
Go Ball--- Get Out of Here!
..okay, I’m done. ..I swear.
3) If you want to instantly get ‘over’ with a group of people from Generation.com, all you gotta do is give ‘Saved by the Bell’ DVDs as gifts. Jeanie and I threw in together for the Seasons 3 and 4 collection as thanks to Gav for the invite, and when his friends saw it, we instantly became the coolest people at the party.
4) So cool, in fact, that I got to hang out and chat with Mr. & Mrs. Former Attorney General, current 3d Circuit Justice Mike Fisher. That was cool, too. I mean, he gave me an ‘A’ in his class last year, and I voted for him for Governor. The least he could do is say hello, and he did. Good guy.
5) I know I’m a super-mad-Lord of the Geeks, and this should come as no surprise to any of you, but I’m really starting to get into ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ about 8 years too late. We’ve been working our way through the DVDs, and the show’s pretty fantastic. I’ll quit though, now, because there’s about 2 of you, out there, who would like it.
6) And FINALLY, my night ended with my FAVOURITE cookies—the Hershey Kiss ones where they’re smushed into the middle of sugar/butter cookie thing. Awesomeoness. Special thanks to Carolanne for the cookies and the quality time.
Well, I guess that’s a good enough DOSE/Hangover for now. I don’t really have a song or link for you today, though, I’m just a little too tired. But here, I’ll give y’all some more non-traditional holiday songs I’ve thought about recently that I really really like.
-Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: This one takes me back to my Grandma Rosie’s house, that little stupid tape deck, and my siblings (‘Dina and Gooder) and I singing it all around the house, even in July.
-Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas is You: This is back from her pre-slut days, it’s fast and fun. As far as I know, it’s not a remake. And she wore that little cute Santa suit in the video. Back when she was all “girl next door” she was SO hot. Now she’s a slut. There you have it.
-The Chirstmas Song by Hootie & the Blowfish: The ONLY non-Nat version of this song I can tolerate. I don’t know if it’s because I love the band (am the only person left on the planet not afraid to admit it) or just because it’s different and homely enough that it’s not derivative, and not insulting to the original. Strange story though—it came up on random on my Winamp yesterday, I had forgotten how much I like it. Then I debated the merits with AliMac over IM, and THEN it ended up on the radio RIGHT before we got to Gavin’s house. I mean, I can’t BELIEVE it played on the radio. Crazy.
Okay, that’s what I got for you for now. In the meantime, I’m like Kaiser Sose, and I’m just….
..gone.
(until I come back later with WINTER BREAKout! – Bows n’ Toes!)
-apk
1) Thanks to Jeanie for the mega-cool Ms. Pac-Man (and other games) Atari-plug in-majigger. It’s one of those AWESOME joysticks you just plug right into your TV, that has five old-school Atari 2600 games. Off the top of my head, I remember this one having Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, and POLE POSITION. Kicking off the Christmas season with such a gift bodes well for the rest of the run, I think.
2) Thanks to Gavin for havin’ us over and letting us get a glimpse into his life. LANNY FRATTARE said ‘Hello’ to me as he was leaving/we were entering. For all of you non-‘Burghers out there, Lanny is the lonnnnnnnnnngtime “Voice of the Pirates.” And truly one of the best play-by-play men in the business. You have no idea how strongly I dislike Pirates games on TV that he’s not calling. I often turn the radio on. That was SUCH the highlight for me. I really wish, or perhaps even expected him to say his patented, “Greetings friends, and Welcome to Gavin’s House. It’s a Beautiful Day for Baseball, I’m Lanny Frattare and this is my partner, Steve Blass. It’s chilly and cold in the City of Champions, but the Williams’ family hopes to bring warm Christmas wishes to you all.” Perhaps since he was leaving, though, I should have expected, “We’re leaving the party and the punch was great and there was NOoooooooooooooooooooooo Doubt About It!”
Go Ball--- Get Out of Here!
..okay, I’m done. ..I swear.
3) If you want to instantly get ‘over’ with a group of people from Generation.com, all you gotta do is give ‘Saved by the Bell’ DVDs as gifts. Jeanie and I threw in together for the Seasons 3 and 4 collection as thanks to Gav for the invite, and when his friends saw it, we instantly became the coolest people at the party.
4) So cool, in fact, that I got to hang out and chat with Mr. & Mrs. Former Attorney General, current 3d Circuit Justice Mike Fisher. That was cool, too. I mean, he gave me an ‘A’ in his class last year, and I voted for him for Governor. The least he could do is say hello, and he did. Good guy.
5) I know I’m a super-mad-Lord of the Geeks, and this should come as no surprise to any of you, but I’m really starting to get into ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ about 8 years too late. We’ve been working our way through the DVDs, and the show’s pretty fantastic. I’ll quit though, now, because there’s about 2 of you, out there, who would like it.
6) And FINALLY, my night ended with my FAVOURITE cookies—the Hershey Kiss ones where they’re smushed into the middle of sugar/butter cookie thing. Awesomeoness. Special thanks to Carolanne for the cookies and the quality time.
Well, I guess that’s a good enough DOSE/Hangover for now. I don’t really have a song or link for you today, though, I’m just a little too tired. But here, I’ll give y’all some more non-traditional holiday songs I’ve thought about recently that I really really like.
-Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer: This one takes me back to my Grandma Rosie’s house, that little stupid tape deck, and my siblings (‘Dina and Gooder) and I singing it all around the house, even in July.
-Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas is You: This is back from her pre-slut days, it’s fast and fun. As far as I know, it’s not a remake. And she wore that little cute Santa suit in the video. Back when she was all “girl next door” she was SO hot. Now she’s a slut. There you have it.
-The Chirstmas Song by Hootie & the Blowfish: The ONLY non-Nat version of this song I can tolerate. I don’t know if it’s because I love the band (am the only person left on the planet not afraid to admit it) or just because it’s different and homely enough that it’s not derivative, and not insulting to the original. Strange story though—it came up on random on my Winamp yesterday, I had forgotten how much I like it. Then I debated the merits with AliMac over IM, and THEN it ended up on the radio RIGHT before we got to Gavin’s house. I mean, I can’t BELIEVE it played on the radio. Crazy.
Okay, that’s what I got for you for now. In the meantime, I’m like Kaiser Sose, and I’m just….
..gone.
(until I come back later with WINTER BREAKout! – Bows n’ Toes!)
-apk
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