Sunday, January 21, 2007

Top Ten TV Females

Since I enjoyed running with the list concept, I figured I'd rattle off my top 10 "cutest" females on TV (only TV) in my experience. Now this is the 10 that I find most attractive, appealing, etc, in terms of their features, their demeanor, and the like. So here goes, and watch for the obscure ones...

10. Karyn Parsons
TV's "Hillary" from "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", she had that cuteness that couldn't be matched.

9. Tiffani-Amber Theissen
Only during her stint on "Saved By The Bell". After that, she chunked up and developed a moon face.

8. Marilu Henner
A sultry vixen from the 70s show "Taxi", rarely had occasion to show off her sexier side.

7. Berlinda Tolbert
TV's "Jenny" from the show "The Jeffersons", full of energy and big beautiful eyes. Those that know me are, by now, shocked that I have yet to mention a blonde, but I'm not that transparent.

6. Maureen McCormick
Yeah, sure, the original Marcia Brady. Hey, she kept her looks together and always had that sweetness to her appearance.

5. Valerie Bertinelli
TV's "Barbara" from the show "One Day At A Time". A stunner, and yet another non-blonde!

4. Sarah Chalke
Formerly from the show "Roseanne" and now a part of the show "Scrubs". The bright-eyed blonde that we all dream about. From here on out, it's predictable.

3. Christina Applegate
A cutie from the day I first saw her on "Married With Children". She's something like 1 month younger than me - it must be fate! I was so crazy about her I wrote her and got a couple nice pieces of mail in return, as well as a couple autographed photographs.

2. Suzanne Somers
The original bombshell from the sitcom world, as portrayed in the show "Three's Company". Nobody could compare to her implied ditzy behavior and eventual path to stardom. Great legs too!

1. Heather Locklear
I need to say nothing...always the queen of the screen and apparently ageless. Am hating the day she crashes.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Generic Rant Time!

It's about time, and I know people miss these angry assaults, since I guess I'm funniest when I'm pissy and bitter. Yum...but for the record - Jen T, Sue, Bobby, Wendi, Ken, Bruk, Alvin, et al : I appreciate the constant support!


- I'll take the heat for this one, but it was Muhammad Ali's birthday. Stop the world! We need a holiday to recognize him for all he did for the community! Ahem. Oh somebody just try me. When did this parenthetical pugilistic arrogant boxer become MLK part 2? Oh, he protested Viet Nam and the draft. Cool, kudos for that. On behalf of whom? The blacks that were drafted because they weren't in college. Many many many other whites, Mexicans, Asians, etc were forced into the same predicament because of the same financial and cultural boundaries. Nobody remembers that. He fought for black rights. Uh huh. He hated the "western" (nee White) world and changed his name like Malcom X, Farrakhan, etc. He didn't want a "slave name" and had the right to change it. He was the embodiment of a black man in a racist era winning his battles, in and out of the sport. For those reasons, I applaud him. Not that Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Jackie Robinson, or Joe Louis ever did anything similar. He was a horrendous sportsman, bitter and full of resentment, never able to acknowledge another competitors' effort or achievements. I mean, he truly hated Joe Frazier. Would leave him drowning. That much hate. Why? For boxing? And we should think of him as a great man? When Shakes himself could still talk he was invited to speak at a reception (presumably of deaf people) and he cracked a bunch of ethnic jokes. All was forgiven, it's Ali! Ha ha ha! Trust me kids, he is not all that

- I've done the research. He hates a lot of people, resents a lot of others, and when he could speak, spoke to promote himself. He was a selfish jerk who wouldn't shut up about himself, and thank you God above for answering our prayers. Hey MotorMouth, anything else to say? Good. Guess I get the last word - you aren't the greatest, Cassius.

- I knew I'd hear countless accolades about Gerald Ford after his death, since that seems to be when all the nice comments come out. Sadly the most impressive thing I heard was that he had his number retired from University of Michigan's football team in '33. Granted this was when they were still using the "wedge", "T formation", "Statue of Liberty (no Boise St jokes)" and playing without face masks. Anyway, good for him. I'm sure he had a few rousing games in which his team defeated Yale 4-2 or something. Anyway, he did not heal the country after Nixon, or anything profound. He just filled the role. Hell, he pardoned Nixon. Is that indicative of healing the country from a wound incited by a prior president? Just deal with it, he didn't do that much, but he was a nice guy. I'm afraid of Carter's demise...what are the eulogies then? Oh he stopped that Three Mile Island thing from killing us all... Revisionists suck.

- One more commercial about the home based businesses - I go postal. Here's a home based business: killing people in commercials for home based businesses.

- How often do we have to hear the length of a football field used as a means of reference? How many people have been on or near one? This rocket is as long as a football field! I don't hear people saying "They made a loaf of bread as long as the distance to the right field fence at Shea Stadium." or "This fish was as long as the width of Charles Kuralt's motor home." Here are some more referential nominations to use, since "football field" seems appropriate:

The weight of Jorge Orta's pants
The smell of Foster Brooks' glasses
The height of Dick York's wet bar
The width of Kirby Puckett's coffin
The voltage of David Niven's pacemaker
The voltage of Jerry and The Pacemakers' pacemakers
The squeezability of Whitman Mayo, TV's Grady
The viscosity of Ernie Shavers' blood
The intelligence level of Lem Motlow's first Jack Daniels vat
The humidity of Grover Cleveland's basement
The softness of Tom Landry's hat
The hardness of Joe Franklin's panelling
The color of Ovie Dotson's beard

- Taco Bell has been trying to introduce the word "melty" into the English language. No - no melty. Nothing is melty. "Chocolatey" was infuriating enough.

- Still hate Geico and that stupid effeminate caveman. If you gave me the choice between killing him and the gecko, I'd be up for hours deciding. I'd probably opt for the caveman, as they intelligently realized that the gecko isn't cute, funny, or worthwhile of advertising expenditures.

- Martin Luther King's birthday has passed, a worthy remembrance of course. I still recall his quote about interracial marriage - "I want the white man to be my brother, not my brother in law." It's true...

- Hugh Hefner wants to have another kid - again. He's like 150 years old. It's disgusting enough to think of him with these twentysomething blonds, but again? Stop. Die or something. I don't find him particularly amusing, wonderful, or worth the time.

- Being January, we're in the worst month of the year, especially for Chicago. We've been lucky for the most part, with some snowfall and pretty warm temperatures. Now the shit hits the fan, and it'll be miserably cold. My phone froze. Like purely froze.

- Remember ESPN trying to push their own phone and service? Gone. I called that one.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

What's With All The Bowl Games?


Sheesh, this college football thing is out of hand. I can understand the zeal of merchandisers and similar ogres taking advantage of a seasonal custom, but these college football bowl games are just stupid now.

There's a Papajohns.com Bowl. A bowl named after a web site? Not just a pizza place, but the pizza place's web presence? Please. There were something like 27 bowl games this year. Half of them were sparsely attended and mildly interesting. Whatever happened to the old days - the Bluebonnet bowl would be on channel 44 (in Chicago) very early in December, then the Holday Bowl, then the big guns - the Peach, Sugar, Gator, Cotton, Orange, Fiesta, and Rose Bowls? Remember when there were only a few bowls? The "Armed Forces" Bowl was held in Utah, at a lousy stadium, with like 20 people in attendance.

The old Peach Bowl became the Chick-Fil-A Bowl or something ridiculous. Please. Just crap on college bowl history. Waiting for the Grilled Stuft Burrito Bowl and the CreditReport.com bowl with that "I'M THINKING of a number..." pecker as the grand marshall of the largely ignored parade which meanders along the main drag of Cedar Lake, IA.

Enough with the corporate crap, no more bowls. Being in a bowl game means nothing. I can get a team of farmers, yaks, coopers, and talented shepherds to have a team that is qualified for one of these stupid bowl games. 27 bowl games is enough. Stop. The toilet bowl is next.