Pop Culture Idiot: Flat Out Annoying Stuff

If it's possible, there's even more stuff that's driving me crazy. Looks like it's time to triple-up on my nerve medicene.

Wow, that's dummy looks just like Isaiah Washington...

Isaiah Washington's having a time. See? It looks like if you make Patrick
Dempsey's hair fall out of place, bad luck follows. You know what's
hilarious about this "tragedy" it's the fact that it all could have
been avoided. The furor did die down until Washington stoked the embers at the Golden Globe Awards. Good going! Now the news is filled with this guy and he's probably going to have to go to the crazy house just for being a total jackass.

Bow tie Rating: 6 1/2 out of 10






Speaking of Grey's Anatomy, I'm getting ready tired of
those commercials on Lifetime. It's not like it's celebrated its 300th episode or anything and now I've got to act like its Gunsmoke or something. And you know what? I do remember the firsts. Why? Because they happened last year.




Losing the Crocidile Hunter was really bad. You know what's worse? My ambivalent feelings about Bindi Irvin. While I do understand that she's reportedly following in her father's footsteps, I'm not terribly interested. Not at this time. You know why? It's because she's 8 years old. I think it's all a bit too much but then again kids drive me crazy on a good day.





Stop hating on Greg!

Well I guess those who are aganist American's can-do attitude and our freedoms can rejoice: The Greg Behrendt Show has been cancelled. Damnit! When I first saw the news, I felt queasy and then I hurled, Greg deserves better. It seems that Greg is being squeezed out of the business by way of the Keith Ablow (assumedly in its death throes) and the upcoming Steve Wilkos program. There's only one thing to say: Good luck Craig!




It seems that Rachael Ray is everywhere. My street team told me that she's the and now Ritz, Triscuit and Wheat Thins aren't safe. Really can Fleet Enemas and Quaker State be far behind? Rachael Ray doesn't annoy me, what does annoy me is seeing 20 to 30 little pictures of Rachael Ray in my snack food aisle. It's disconcerting and I think they're going to get bigger, take on a human form and then strangle me. Did I say that out loud?







I couldn't resist...














Wow, she totally doesn't like coke anymore. She's posing with a dog, she's cured!

Good lord, talk about your fast post-rehab photo shoot. Of course that's Tara Conner and being off drugs for a brief time never looked some wholesome. I'm no Dr.Scholls but I can safely say it's going to take more than this, I'm not that easily distracted. Miss USA's a Junkie!

Part 2: Nice dog...

What Ever Happened To???

I've been in a reflective mood of late. I've been waxing nostalgic about days gone by. I'm missing a few things too and hopefully my blog provides a proper forum for this mysteries...

Missing: Justin Timberlake: Blog Editor

It's crunch time now. I'm known as a boss who's hard but fair, but this is ridiculous. Justin's reportedly out gallivanting with women like Scarlett Johansson and again doesn't have time to edit this blog.

Private Business Made Public: This is Jason, Justin you need to come back to work. I can't do this alone!





Missing: Happy Zach Braff

I miss Happy Zach Braff. The invites to parties, the crazy, kooky IM's. Now I hear that Zach has mild depression. I'm shocked, I really wouldn't have known it from his movies.

My Advice: Get happy







And speaking of Mandy Moore, look it's my flowers. Oh gosh golly darn, I just might get lucky!!!













Missing: Non
Revolting VH1

There's a screenshot from VH1 in 1998. Looking back, the execution was quaint though nice. I bet with enough clicks I'd get to see Sarah McLachlan's old tour schedule. All of this navel gazing begs the question: When did VH1 turn into a poop factory? They've pretty much have gone from Storytellers to Ron Jeremy. How disgusting and soul-numbing is that.



Missing: Good Ol' Paul McCartney

Got to hand it to him, he had a great run as one of show businesses "nice
guys." Looks like that's all over. My street team tells me he has a
foul mouth, a nasty temper and he hit Heather Mills on her good leg.
Just look at him, I bet he doesn't rewind his videos before returning them too!







Missing: Rick Schroder

Looks like we're going to have to say goodbye to Rick Schroder. According to reports, he doesn't like his name, Rick Schroder. The special bulletins were right, he's going back to being called Ricky Schroder. He also said that being called Rick "never felt right." I know what he means, when people call me Rick Schroder it never feels right either...

The Megan Mullally Show/Geraldo At Large: Cancelled

Cute pics of Megan Mullally to ease the pain of the inevitable cancellation...

First the Godfather now this. What's the world coming to? Here's two perfectly awful shows and the powers that be decide to cancel them. I'm going on a hunger strike! Sadly, I saw both of these cancellations coming from miles away...


The Megan Mullally Show- To be honest, I didn't check a lot of this show--my tum tum wouldn't permit me to. Got to say, despite all of the buildup and promise this was frightenly bad stuff.

The Problems: Guests, remember them? Megan didn't seem to score a ton of them. I have no idea why not. There isn't any juggernaut taking the guests except for Ellen, Regis, Rachael Ray and the View. Well that could have posed a slight problem. The main failure of the Megan Mullally Show was its clumsy application of a '70s style ethos. Even a cursory look at Dinah! and the Mike Douglass Show proves one thing: They had A list guests and a lot of them. Not to Having Jenny McCarthy and Debra Messing doing their worst interviews didn't get the job done.



<------Mr. Loud N'Wrong....

Geraldo At Large- I was hoping to see Geraldo sand blast Gerald Ford's coffin to see if Jerry was in there or just playing. Sadly at this point, Geraldo is a man without a queasy circumstance to exploit. For some reason after his pathetic OJ based displays on CNBC, Rivera lost his mojo. The returns for Geraldo At Large are embarrasing to say the least. In most markets he's opposite strong competition from local news and sitcoms. That competition put a chokehold on Geraldo, darn it!

The Nadir: Digging into the archives to go back to visit New York's "Heroin Alley." Heroin Alley?

In most areas, Geraldo at Large will be replaced by shows like Still Standing. Oh say it isn't so!

Commercial Nightmares

Oh hi. It seems that I've actually regressed, I've getting scared of infomercials and commercials. My nerves are so fragile--here's a few of the main offenders.


Wow, she's really going through with that Bedazzling thing, huh? I have to admit I thought Tana was very cute during her season on the Apprentice. Now she's apparently gone over to the cheesy side full time with this old-timey and pointless device. The Bedazzler, the very idea is preposterous. Really, if you think you need studs on your clothes and you aren't, like, time-travelling--you may have some problems.


Brings back memories. I had to put Donald in a Full Nelson that afternoon. What's bad? The very idea of this commercial. Donald Trump's now trying to get people like me to lose their money and pay for get-rich scheme. I can see it now, I buy the DVD, the 8 track and the facts and fotos --and get big nothing in return. Yeah right. Donald's host in this is the lovely Anne Marie Howard and she propped him up the whole time...




This commercial is completely unsettling. First off, Bobby Rydell is in it, 'nuff said. Oh and is this thing filled with revisionist history. Everything is so squeaky clean, you'd think people didn't even screw back then. They did--to these songs.







Bobby Rydell at my blog's New Year's Eve gala...















There's that Cingular commercial. This is pretty normal stuff--until you really look at the decor in these fake houses. What is going on? Check out that guy's "entertainment center." Forget about retro, this is straight-up old-timey




His love interest's home isn't any better. Really, what is going on, I haven't seen fixtures like that in many a moon. Heh, many a moon--wow, I'm so old...








The basket is where he keeps his crack cocaine...

I know everyone has seen this dreadful hunk of metal n' rubber advertised about at 3AM. It's called the Hoveround and I've got to say what a dream machine that is. It's not a wheelchair, and not a scooter--it's a whooter.

The Annoyance Factor: In the commercial the always annoying "You Made Me Love You" is the "theme" music. How disgusting.


Oh no! My whooter!

James Brown's Last "Tour": A Review

In all seriousness, I'm an insane James Brown fan--some might say obsessive. I have a lot of his work, a lot. You know what I don't need? To see James Brown after he's dead. It's strictly "my deal" you know? He's worked and overworked as the hardest working man in show business. That being said, if anyone needs a rest--it's him, but not like this...

Of course the whole occasion has made for some dreadful photo ops. In fact, I had a picture up here until I couldn't bare looking at it anymore. I had to zap it from my hardrive. That's not true--the whole thing made me crash, recrash and crash my system in an attempt to rid myself of it. The good news? It's gone. The bad news? I lost the addresses a few prostitutes in the area.


Here's a pic from Brown's funeral in Augusta, Georgia. I felt this whole deal was more fitting. Various members of his bands appeared and of course that's Michael Jackson. As a fan, I will review the ceremonies, there's nothing wrong with that, well...

The Apollo Ceremony B
The Augusta Service A+