Om krissyjmaterialet! Är något jarlsberg eller har du frårfegnugeng kring-a-ling? Ja! Javelinenmaidden! Kontakta informatörerna Kristin Blom eller der jangenhoopen vavenschoopel der “Smirky”. Der Smirky javel-kickenassen! Mmm bork bork bork!
Clearly, we have to get Smirky and Derimpostorkristin together to settle this…in Thünderdome!
“100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers”
Gregg Myles Levin was on CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” this past week talkin’ Perfect Curve. Deutch included this as part of his “million dollar ideas,” which has WAE asking Gregg for a substantial venture capital infusion into the site. Gregg gets a shoutout in the CNBC blog here. My question is this: now that really curved caps and really flat caps have had their fashion moments, what’s next? Convex caps? Fold-over-endlessly-into-a-fifth-dimension caps?
We take a break from our award-winning series, “Other Gary Grays,” to bring you an “Other Kristin Blom.”
This Kristin Blom is from Norway. According to the site:
Om kampanjmaterialet. Är det något du saknar eller har du frågor kring A-kassekampanjens material? Kontakta informatörerna Kristin Blom eller Hans Eric Holmquist.
Aw, yeah. Sweet.
For anyone who didn’t see the Post today. Front page editor, that’s GOT to be a fun job.
Wayland Gary Gray points us to Baseball Player Gary Gray, who sported one cool hairdo in the early ’80s.
Lifetime stats:
6 seasons
211 games
.240 avg / .281 OBP / .402 SLG
24 home runs
71 RBI
150 hits
137 strike outs
Jeez… Wayland Gary could outhit this guy…
By request from Pat Tally, today’s Gary Gray of the day is talented actor/director/producer F. Gary Gray. F. Gary directed “The Italian Job,” and is working on its sequel, “The Brazilian Job,” (just like the Italian job, but with less hair). F. Gary also directed Be Cool, and is shown here with Vinnie Barbarino:
Thus we begin our search for Garys A. through E., hoping valliantly there is a G. Gary Gray out there somewhere.
We’re getting into the Disco + 30 era when those of us whose formative music listening years coincided with some horrid crap. Still, take 1977 as a good sample, and there was some damn good music out that year. Of note:
Fleetwood Mac: “Rumors”
Eagles: “Hotel California”
Boston: “Boston”
Meatloaf’s operatic “Bat Out of Hell”
Queen: “News of the World”
Aerosmith (ROCKS NATICK): “Walk This Way”
Peter Gabriel – (First solo album), features “Solsbury Hill”
“Never Mind the Bollocks it’s the Sex Pistols”
The Clash’s first album
Talking Heads ‘77 (Has “Pyscho Killer” on it)
The Eagles: “Hotel California”
Steely Dan: “Aja”
James Taylor: “JT”
Elvis Costello: “My Aim is True”
Eric Clapton: “Slowhand”
The Greatful Dead: “Terrapin Station”
David Bowie: “Heroes.”
Today, we begin a new series called “Other Gary Grays.” Today’s Gary Gray was a child star in the 1940s, who appeared in such films as 1948’s Westerns Return of the Badmen with Randolph Scott and Rachel and the Stranger with Loretta Young, William Holden and Robert Mitchum. He was also on an episode of I Love Lucy.
Adorable Gary Gray died of cancer April 4, 2006 at the age of 69.
Ever wonder what your name is as an anagram? Probably not. But I did.
You can, too. Just go here: http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html , type in your name and presto, instant anagram.
I typed in a few WAE blog writer’s names just for fun. Because really, what else can one do on a Saturday night?
Result:
Steve Safran = Fervent as as
…..I mean, Steve Saffron = Fervent of ass
Deborah Bancroft = Breach of not drab
Chris Marobella = Balmier Scholar
Bradford Akerman = Freak random drab
Siobhan McGowan = Now bash on magic
Me (Krissy Blom) = Smirky Slob
Oh, but you should see what happened when I typed in Tim Hoyt’s name! Go see for yourself! http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html
In college I was a DJ on WRHO. (You’ve never heard of it unless you’re Tony Vaccarino or Kristin Lorentsen.) Freshman year most of the station’s programming was music from the sixties and seventies. It was so odd. We were a college radio station playing classic rock. Well, thanks to classmate John Tobias, that all changed. He started playing new music. Our music. That made all the difference.
This isn’t a post about T, and how he shaped what we all listened to (and what I would eventually play on my show). This post is about new music. “Tomorrow’s oldies.”
There’s so much great music out there. I posted an audio clip of Kate Nash before. Here’s a music video:
This YouTube channel metrowestvideos has put up a few good ones lately. Here’s video of a “mock accident” staged for the WHS students in May. The students are strangely silent, especially at 0:23 when the hearse arrives to take the mock dead student to the mock beyond. (Do hearses actually show up at accident scenes?) Especially disrespectful of the mock dead, they don’t even cover her face with the sheet. How will her mock parents feel? I think they have a mock lawsuit on their mock hands. Most tragic is the utter lack of response from the students lined up to watch the demonstration. I guarantee the Worst Class Ever would have brought snacks and would have chanted the name of the mock dead student in her honor. It would have been less “Afterschool Special” and more Irish wake.
Oh, those crazy young kids today with their caps and their gowns and their wild dance songs like “Pomp and Circumstance.” Here’s a three minute recap of the WHS graduation from this year, a MetroWest videographer posted on YouTube. Don’t miss Griffin, a rower, at 3:25 in.
We tipped our collective caps to the Moms on Mothers Day here at WAE. I suppose we Dads ain’t so bad, either, so a little Fathers Day musing. Girls grow up thinking about motherhood. We think about, well, the act which leads to the creation of children, but the responsibility? Not so much. We still feel pretty awkward at this stuff. Especially when it comes to daughters. (“Let’s see… she’s roughly the same age as that girl I had my first crush on, and I know she’s the same age as when the girls all started talking about boys, but… not my daughter….”) We try to be modern Dads, but we don’t always succeed. We’re not “Father Knows Best.” We’re “Father Knows a Fair Amount, But Maybe You Should Ask Mom Because She Tends To Be Better At That Stuff.” Here’s to all of our fathers, as well, who dealt with the kids of the ’80s and didn’t know what the hell to make of us. And that’s saying something, coming from a generation that lived through the ’60s.
Happy Fathers Day.
What happened in 1984? Katie Henderson and I left WHS after sophomore year, Mary Sarah arrived, and I know there were some other transactions. We’re trying to piece together what the full deal was – and then decide if it was an upgrade. Your thoughts, please….
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