AIW: You're Not My REAL Morning Show!

Well, it's finally decided to snow.

 

Let's forget, for a moment, that it was 70 degrees two days ago, and try not to be totally depressed by the fact that it's SNOWING now, and that it seems that winter has finally arrived in the City of Champions.

 

I hate snow. I really do. Like most people, I like it on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Other than that, it's just a wet, cold, and dangerous hindrance to my way of life.  Driving in it sucks. 

 

Enough bitching on my part, I guess. Actually-- one more thing. Why isn't there a "degrees" symbol on the keyboard? I mean, we have two asterix(es?), and yet there's NO degree symbol? What do chemists and trigonometrists use?  Do you have to set an autokey (CTRL+D, perhaps?) like I use to make the "Section" symbol (ALT+S, if you must know...as well as ALT+P for the "paragraph" symbol). 

 

I just wonder, because it seems like the degree symbol is used semi-regularly, and yet gets hosed by the keyboard, in favor of such useless symbols like "pound" and the exclamation point.

 

I'm really stretching for material here, aren't I? Can you tell that it's been a long, boring week?

 

Oh! I've got something-- a new something I'd like to call the Annoying Item of of th Week (AIW). And yes, I tried really hard to come up with a cooler acronym, to no avail. Feel free to make suggestions.

 

AIW for 11.13.05:

Fake Radio Morning Show Spots

Are these playing in your market, as well?  Here's the way I describe it. I think that they're spots for NBC shows, maybe FOX, but I'm pretty sure it's NBC.  Basically, you flip through the radio during the morning, and you'll hear what sounds like a normal morning radio show.  Since mainstreak music is relatively lousy these days ( I honestly can't think of a recent pop song I like (and no, Kelly Clarkson's incessently catchy, min-numbingly unforgettable drivel doesn't count as something I like)) the best part of my morning drive is listening to the morning shows. 

 

In honesty, Pittsburgh's got a pretty gangbusters lineup of choices these days.  There are honestly about 4 morning shows I could listen to every morning, so I shuffle between them to see who's talking/being funny.  I'm only on the road for about 10 minutes a day, and yet I keep running into this LAMEASS spot where it sounds like a show, but it's really four actors acting like the most gratingly annoying morning show people EVER (think Bob & Tom, but trying to be hip), trying to convince us how "cool" a certain night's lineup of shows are. The cool guy voice'll be all "DID YOU SEE THAT LAST WEEK!!?!?!?!?!" and the chick voice'll get all, "YEAH!! I Can't beleive they got together!" and then the sardonic-guy voice'll be all, "whatever, i don't watch TV," but then the two other annoying hosts will lambast him and be all, "oh, then you're missing out-- this is one of the best shows on TV!!...and then it's followed by---" and they'll all do the fake Dan Dierdorff laugh(TM) and be annoying and then wrap up the spot by recapping which shows they love, what channel they're on, and at what time/day.  Lamesville.

 

See, what gets me is that they think that people are SO STUPID that they won't realize in, oh, about 4 seconds that this is not the normal morning show, and that it's a bunch of douchebag actors trying to sucker you into watching this week's thrilling episode of "Surface."  It's enough to make you want to drive your car into a ravine. 

 

So yeah, are these playing everywhere? 

 

And what do you listen to in the morning? I know Drew's going to buy Satellite just so he can listen to Stern for the rest of his life (even though good ol' Howard's constant self-grandizing about the move to Satellite is increasingly bombastic and unlistenable (which isn't even a word)).  I tend to really like the WDVE morning show, which is heavy on PGH Sports, and often features my Pittsburgh Dream Girl, local sports reporter Trenni Kushnerick.  And it's funny, too.

 

Alrighty, so this post kind of sucked. At least it's a post, right? Anyone....anyone???

 

...one, one, one.....

 

(That was an echo)

 

...alright. I'm done.

 

be good to each other

-apk