Back to his roots…

Or actually back to his blonde, but you can see his roots.

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I think my favorite line from the interview is the part where he talks about growing up in Indiana and then moving out to CA with his two friends and principal. Oh, the days of Miss Bliss.

If they actually do get the Saved By The Bell crew together I may watch Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for the first time in my life.

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This is Public Health

Best use of social media for public health I’ve seen in awhile. I’m going to have the chorus stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Proper use of the word ‘extreme’

Guess I never saw this cause I was a bit old when it came out. I probably would have watched it.

They do have episodes and clips on youtube, feel free to browse. I also love this even more now cause I looked it up on wikipedia and not only is there a Pteranadon character (my favorite dino), the description of Bullzeye is perfectly scripted for my life right now. Maybe I need to start wearing that dinosaur suit earlier than planned, sisterkungfuhustler you better get the bear suit ready.

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They really thought a barn theme was a good idea?

Short post.  anyone ever watched Extreme Home Makeover?  Nice, cuddly, make you feel all warm inside kinda show.  I like the principles, I like the idea, I usually like the main rooms of the house, but do they actually think about the kids’ rooms in any serious way? I’ve always been mostly appalled at the things they come up with for the kids’ rooms. A few examples…

Now, yeah, they talk to them about what they like and favorite activities and stuff, but these are kids (young people if you want). Two years from now, or even two weeks, they may just have totally different favorite things. One of the girls with the astonishingly pink rooms is going to go through a Goth phase and hate her room, and then hate her parents, and then hate her parents more for not letting her change her room.   And the pirates and the jungle, really?  Like a kid at 7 who loves pirates is going to think sleeping in a treasure chest bed is awesome at 13?  And well, since the families they are helping are usually living in fairly tight budgets it isn’t as if it’ll be the easiest thing to buy new furniture, paint the walls and get new things.  So yeah, my two cents there.

And just to keep the thoughts flowing:  Since the families usually get pretty grandiose houses built for them, do they get help with the bills since they are heating and cooling a much bigger space?  Do they get gardners to come help with the upkeep of the detailed yards they sometimes get?  Or after Tye and his crew pat themselves on the backs and gets in their bus and leave, is upkeep and such something the family is just supposed to figure out with their already limited time and limited budgets?  I’d like to know how the details work cause if there is no follow up its a nice idea that has absolutely no real follow through.

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p.s.  Apparently we all need to watch the new episode tonight cause the Jonas Brothers are on it (commence screaming now)

James Todd Smith is the New LL Cool J

Or he’s the old LL Cool J, or LL Cool J has always been James Todd Smith. But whatever the case I am simply writing to express my appreciation for the Cool. As his appearance Wednesday night on Project Runway (sorry Suede, but you needed to go) showed us, the man is a fantastic looking fourty. Seriously. The man was born in 1968, or so the wiki tells me. I was a fan of his ‘Mama Said Knock You Out’ video back in 1991 (special attention to the Unplugged version) and it seems he’s calling a comeback now with strategic appearances on popular shows. Come on, appearing as a hip-hop mogul called Ridikolus on 30 Rock? Superb. The already mentioned Project Runway guest judge appearance. And, the highest achievement of coolness possible, appearing on the new season of Sesame Street. So yeah, props to the Cool. And does anyone else remember the movie Toys? He played the military minded cousin of Robin Williams’ character? He was the son of the bad uncle who took over the toy company? Anyone? Well, I was a huge fan of that movie. I suppose that’s all I’ve got to say. Yay LL. Take it away Elmo…

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Get Out of Here America

So Good Morning America is doing a whistle stop tour where they’re visiting all 50 states and commenting on the state of the nation or whatever. Anyway, they stopped in the upstate NY town where my parents grew up and where I still have family – Rome, NY. Here is part of the video (uh, I guess wordpress doesn’t let you post videos from abcnews. ugh):

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5812243

Anyway, even though I think everything they said is true (it is kind of a shithole, in all honesty), residents are understandably kind of pissed because it showed them in such a negative and white-trash-ish light.  My mom emailed me a letter that the Chairman of the Board of the Rome Chamber of Commerce (whom my grandmother taught when he was in kindergarten, fyi!) wrote to the show:

Our wish has come true!!!

And they mention dinosaurs!

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P.S.  For all of you getting here through the ‘flirg’ tag, the most reliable or plausible things that I’ve seen are ‘First Lady Is Really Gay’ and ‘First Lady Is Really a Guy’.  Though I’ve also seen ‘First Lady I’d Rather Get elected’, but that’s not something Clinton/Poehler would want people to stop calling her.  Plus, where’s the ‘e’?

GOB’s final countdown, Sesame Street style

I found it!!! The previously mentioned Will Arnett segment from Sesame Street has finally surfaced on the internet (thank you person who TiVoed it). Unfortunately Arnett’s entrance and first trick are absent. To fill you in on the missing section: the entrance music is reminiscent of GOB’s theme song from Arrested Development, and I’ll give away the secret to his first trick, he uses addition…

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My Super Sweet Sixteen: Exiled!

It’s just come to my attention that the premiere episode of My Super Sweet Sixteen: Exiled is available for free on iTunes! So there’s hope for those of you without MTV!