Monday, October 21, 2013

The DN

1  Good mawnin'.

2  Happy Monday.

3  <doing his best G-paw Romeo>


Pappy:
"O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
O happy Monday,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

4   Dost thou not laugh?

5   How abouteth this then?


6   Bummer.

7   I thought Cannonball Asian Guy would be a surefire hit. 

8   Happy Monday. 

9   Well blow me down. Uck uck uck!

10  <looking around>

11   Anybody lookin'?

12   Ah, what's the use.

13   Hey, I was GOING to bring in PooPourri but decided WAY against it.

14   Too easy. 

15   Too trend.

16    Still, a brilliant marketing strat.

17    You're gonna have to find it though.

18    The DN is a family show, don't you know.

19    Moving on, Part One: Know what happened while the Niners annihilated a Pop Warner team?

20   Helene and Nicole and Caitlin weaseled some tix to Disneyland! 

21   I almost went over. We're goin', just ain't sayin' when. 

22   I haven't been there since we escaped gunfire across the street from YB a few years back. 

23   I had just hopped into the waiting rental car when guns were pulled. We shot out of there and sprung down 101 faster than you'd ever believe. 

24   True story?

25    No comment. 

26    I did walk right out of the school, backpack and guitar, and hopped into a ride that was like a cloud. 

27    No bullets fired, honest. 

28    I was just trying to make the story sound more exciting than it actually was. 

29
 Say cheese.









30   Anybody lookin'?

31   What?

32    You wanted to go back to the Niners? You're FROM Tennessee? Might heat me up and have me a hot link.

33   Riddle me this.

34   What does Tennessee have to do with Titans?

35   That wasn't a riddle, sorry to say. <eats super-hot hot link in four bites hashtag nom nom nom hashtag gothotmustardonmyshirt hashtagburnedlikeshirt hashtagleaveoutstupidpuns So where were we? Oh yeah. What does Tennessee have to do with Titans?

36   It gives me a chance to throw a little history at you, courtesy of the number-one-lousy-source-that-everyone-uses-anyway Wiki. According to Wiki Bud Adams, the team's owner, came up with the name. Here it is, coming to you directly from the number-one-lousy-source-that-everyone-uses-anyway Wiki: 

On December 22, Adams announced that the Oilers would be known as the Tennessee Titans starting in 1999. The new name met all of Adams' requirements, and also served as a nod to Nashville's nickname of "The Athens of the South" (for its large number of higher-learning institutions, Classical architecture, and its full scale replica of the Parthenon).

37  Ha!

38  Don't ever say I dih-int teach you nuthin'!

39   Come on. Unless you ARE from Tennessee, would you have known that they have a full scale replica of the Parthenon?

40  Wiki came through, and that's a hotter link than the one I just ate. <almost harmonious convergence groan from everybody in space>

41  No SERIOUSLY.

42   Here go:


This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States. Its reference number is 72001236.

43  See that?

44   Reference number 72001236 on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States.

45   You buyin' it?

46   Who knew?

47   fsdklafjlsdkafdfsdklfsdjfa

48   I just discovered here into the 7 a.m. that twenty-five items from last night have disappeared in a fiery poof, and with a barely audible pop. 

49    No big really, but I do have to reconstruct whatever nonsense it is towards which I marched. 

50   Something about the Tennessee Titans and their mascot. 

51   OH. 

52   They wanted everything to be like gods and Athens and all. Even their cheerleaders wore these odd Athena outfits. Never saw Zeus, but I'm sure he was walking around. 

53   Zeus, by the way, is not their mascot. 

54    This guy is: 





 55   No time to go into it but his name is T-Rac, he has his own biography, and he got called back in the second picture for holding. 

56    Anybody lookin'?

57   Moving on, Part Two: It wouldn't be Tober if I didn't throw another Heidi trip at you. 

58   This one's a good one.

59   Last night all the servers collapsed midway through the writing of this. Blogspot or whoever let me keep writing, even though every other server went down. 

60   I was just about to move to the T-Rac stuff, but something stopped me.

61   I shoulda let it. 

62   AnywayZ I put on TCM to see what was on, and there was some bizarre film about witches and hauntings and talking in tongues. No thenkyew.

63   I decided to channel surf. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw that TMC (not to be mistaken for TCM) was showing a film called Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman.

64   On Friday morning I went in and looked upTwilight Zone story writers who became famous writers. Some, like Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson already were. 

65   I knew Matheson had written for the Zone, and that he was most famous for What Dreams May Come, an ethereal film about ghosts and the afterlife.

66   One other film it mentioned was Real Steel, a futuristic film starring Jackman. This might sound unhip, but I had never even HEARD of that film 'til Friday. 

67   Last night I battled the burning down of today's DN and lost the battle, but I put my notes on a Post-It. 

68   Just as I was about to go to sleep, I heard some of the inane dialogue, and found that the main character of Real Steel was...Zeus!

69   I am up against the clock this morning, so I thought I'd share as quickly as I could. All this could disappear with one push of the button. 

70   So it goes.

71   Well, as Pappy says, Happy Monday.

72    See you again.

73   Peace.

~H~










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