There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that like this stuff and those that hate it. Some people find it cute. Some find it romantic. It makes me want to render a severe trundeling upon someone. Guy gets help from the Disney folks to propose. There are many signs this is fake. The attempt at some viral advertising may be causing another problem. People have been calling wanting to do the same thing. What say you? Comment below at one point did it make you want to throw up?
Our softball team didn't get new jerseys or shirts this year. I could wear last year's model, but won't out of protest. Here's where you come in. I pledge to wear a donated t-shirt at my softball games for the rest of the season. There are six games left. You too can be part of history. What better advertising than have a local softball legend (ahem) hit a homer wearing your shirt? My free gift shirt from Little Bomemia didn't do the trick. I didn't come close in my quest for one more career homerun. So, that shirt goes in the donation pile. Surely you won't have me wear this shirt I got this week?
Get me your shirt.. (size XL), I'll throw it in the hopper. If I hit a homerun, I will give you all the credit. However, if I don't, it will be all your fault. Extra shirts will be donated to Goodwill Industries.
I didn't want to post this. But after talking about it (a mistake, I know) I really had no choice. A couple sent a picture of clouds over New York after a storm to a TV station.. and said they saw Michael looking down on them. Umm.. Doesn't that cloud face appear to have a nose? A really, really big one? Who does it look like to you? Best comment was the first one, Billy Mays...
I'm not sure why I didn't have the Farah Fawcett poster on my walls. Maybe it was because I was a Jaclyn Smith kinda guy. No, next to my posters of George Iceman Gervin, Robin Yount, Larry Bird, John Jefferson and Dr. J... I had this one:
I don't think my older brothers understood it very much. I know my dad certainly didn't it. But I think it's something that anyone close to my age, 39, can understand. Michael Jackson was IT. Thriller was it. We knew it was something different. We knew this guy was something special and we knew we were fans of someone that would stand the test of time. This was our Elvis. This was our Beatles. He was everywhere.
Just like I will never forget where I was when I found out he died, I and anyone who's my age, can tell you exactly where they were when the Thriller video debuted on MTV (in my family room with my friend Dave).
Even then, this character was flawed. He looked funny, he talked funny and we did chuckle when Michael said to his girlfriend in that video that he "was not like other boys". No he wasn't, but we still watched. Then we watched it again and again.
After I needle burned my album, I recorded it onto cassette, creating the perhaps the most bizarre 90-minute tape ever because Def Leppard was on the other side.
My older brothers never did buy in. However, I'll never forget my dad's reaction when he saw IT happen. We and the rest of the world were rocked while watching the Motown 25th anniversary special. I remember both of us saying "what the heck was that" when MJ broke off what we now know as the moonwalk. "Was that real?" we asked each other. Then he did it again and we knew it was. (here's the video, first moonwalk at 3:30 if you don't want to listen to the song).
Watching Michael Jackson getter more weird just as he grew more white always saddened me. But I never forgot about his crazy talent. I admitted on the full disclosure hour last year that I still crank the song Black or White.
By now you may be sick of the coverage of his death. It too shall pass. But i'm still watching. I am still in a bit of shock. I wonder if I can still moonwalk a little?
There's word from Iowa that Aplington-Parkersburg football coach Ed Thomas has been shot and killed in the school's weightroom. The shooter is in custody. No word on who he is. Thomas coached three future NFL players. He also was the coach who rallied his team together after a tornado destroyed their central Iowa town. He had his players not only clean up debris, but dig graves because the heavy equipment normally used for that was being used. Here's video of thier first game after the twister..
Thursday on Wisconsin's Morning News we'll be talking with Bill Kurtis. The man who has a voice that could make a wolverine purr is coming to Wisconsin for the opening of the Civil War Museum in Kenosha. Bill will headline the “Spirit of Freedom” evening event on Friday, June 12. A Kurtis presentation, including film clips from his Civil War documentary, will highlight the opening reception to the museum’s “A Salute to Freedom” weekend events on Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14. Kurtis will also be pimping his new cookbook "The Prairie Table Cookbook" featuring food from America's west.
No doubt, we'll talk to him about these awesome commercials...
A single-engine plane, based out of Tennessee, made an emergency landing not far from Lodi High School in the Town of Lodi, WI. The pilot and co-pilot were banged up, but will be okay after the plane landed on its belly just yards away from a baseball diamond where a game was going on. Sadly there is no video. Could you imagine that? Luckily, you don't have to thanks to one of my favorite YouTube videos...
I am still a Favre fan. I know many have jumped off this train. I will always love Brett Favre. It's kind of like the relationship I have with my kids when I tell them "I will always love you, but I don't like you very much right now". If you're in the same boat, you might be interested in the Mourn4 website, offering you Brett Favre black armbands...
And because you know you want to, feel free to comment on the Favre saga down below...
