We Are The World revisited

I’m all for charity, especially for the aid of much needed Haiti.

Although I think the re-recording of “We Are The World” was a good idea on the surface (for Haiti), I feel no version of the song will ever  be able to compare to the original.

Call me sentimental.  “We Are The World” is a song I grew up with.  I still have the 45.  I even have the USA For Africa album featuring “We Are The World”, as well as other songs by many of the artists that performed on that song.  This even includes Canada’s effort “Tears Are Not Enough”.  Shit, I still have the book!

Wow.  It’s weird looking at this album now and seeing all those artists.  All the Jacksons.  Ray Charles.  Smokey Robinson.  As much as I appreciate the music of today’s artists, it will be hard for me to hear their version without actually “hearing” the original.

So I wonder…are they going to do another Live Aid in July?  After all, it’s been 25 years for that too…

Guess who I’m voting for?

I can tell you it’s not Scott Brown or Martha Coakley. 

Oh, I had every intention to vote for one of them, trust me.  But do you want to know why I now refuse to vote for either one?  BECAUSE I”M SO FRIGGIN’ SICK AND TIRED OF THEIR *!@* ADS!  Not to mention the harrassing recorded phone calls from everyone from Brown’s bratty kids to Bill Clinton!  If you’re going to call me, at least REALLY call me!  Don’t send some stupid recording!  Call me and let’s have a REAL conversation.  I want to tell you how I REALLY feel about you as a candidate…

So, guess who I’m voting for tomorrow?  Kennedy.  And not the independent no-name candidate Joe I’m-no-relation-to THE-Kennedys Kennedy.  I’m voting for TED Kennedy.  That’s right.  A dead guy.  Because I feel the dead guy would still do a better job in the Senate than any of these bozos. 

And at least he won’t be harrassing me with ads and phone calls…

May the best loser win…

FINALLY! NBC got it right!

Good riddance, Conan.  Welcome back, Jay.  Wish you never left.  Can hardly wait for the first episode of “The Tonight Show” with JAY LENO!

Thoughts and prayers

are with the people of Haiti.  No amount of money I donate can ever make up for their losses but I only hope what little I have to offer can do some good in some way.

God bless them all…

Terminal B

Sometimes you hear the most interesting tales on the radio, ones that really make you think.  Sometimes the stories start off so innocently but end up blowing up and hurting others–in an innocent way.

Today Zito told a story about how he was waiting at Logan at Terminal B to pick up a friend.  While he waited he watched as a black Mercedes pulled up in front of him and a well dressed business man got out.  So did a woman who appeared to be his wife.  She gave him a peck good-bye and then left in the Mercedes.  Typical husband/wife good-bye at the airport for a business trip, right?  Not so fast…

Shortly after the Mercedes left Zito  noticed the guy still standing there outside Terminal B.  Along came a VW Beetle and out jumped this other woman who basically wrapped herself around this guy and they both got  in the car and left.

Of course I can understand Zito’s reaction to this “affair in action”.  But he never expected the scorned wife to call up the station.  She said she believed this guy was her husband.  She and Zito began comparing notes on the guy, right down to the scarf the guy was wearing.  The woman declared the scarf was a gift she had given him for Christmas, thanked Zito and KB and hung up. 

There was complete silence in the studio.  Probably the first time those two had nothing to say. 

Well, if Zito hadn’t shed light to the fact of the affair, she would have found out eventually.  She probably even had a feeling about it.  It just doesn’t pay to cheat, people.  Everyone gets hurt and besides, you never know who is watching.

What went wrong with Jay and Conan

So Conan’s putting up a stink from NBC’s proposal to move to 12:05.  Well, last I knew, as crappy as a network as NBC is, they are still giving you a paycheck, aren’t they, Conan?  JMO, but O’Brien should consider himself lucky that he still has a gig, not much one hosting “The Tonight Show”.  I’ve watched one episode of “The Tonight Show” since Conan took over (it was the first episode) and I never watched again.  I couldn’t even FORCE myself to laugh.

Now, what went wrong with Jay’s show…I watched for the first week, every day, and I came away feeling “entertained”, which is how I think I should feel after watching TV.  But I think where Jay went wrong was having his show on EVERY night.  Prime time shows aren’t on everynight (unless you are some documentary-type show like “Dateline” and I think they were just having that show on every night to fill in for shows on hiatus).  Once a week with Jay would have been plenty for me.  Preferably Fridays. 

Another problem I had with Jay’s show was the time slot.  I’m just not ready to sit down at 10:00 and watch TV.  In my own personal life I’m still doing housework at 10:00.  Sometimes I’m exercising.  Sometimes I’m still trying to get my kid to sleep.  Most of the time I am not watching TV and when I am, I’m not watching Jay (at least as of late–sorry, Jay, the celebs just got a little too boring for me…now if you had a show with nothing but HEADLINES, I would definitely be watching!)

Getting back to Conan, I can see his point in a way but I do feel he is being a little bit “babyish” about the whole thing.  It’s not like NBC told him they were cutting his show down to a half hour.  He still gets an hour, it just starts a half hour later.  Most of the people watching his show (what few there are), only watch the crappy monologue and go to bed.  There.  NBC could cut him down to 15 minutes and people would be satisfied!  Conan says he’ll walk if they move him.  Good.  I hope they do and then Jay can have the show back.  NBC would see a huge spike in ratings.  I’ve even thought that maybe this is NBC’s ploy to make Conan quit so they can get Jay back to “The Tonight Show”.  Hm…

So where’s that leave Jay?  Of course I feel everything is still in the hands of NBC.  They are making the paychecks and I would think that means they still have the right to call the shots.  Do I hear Fox calling?

Where’s Jerry Seinfeld when you need him?

Good-bye, Jay!

Hope to see you again soon in some capacity, somewhere on the boob tube…

Could it be true? My wishes have been answered? Jay is coming back to “The Tonight Show”?

Oooooh, I HOPE! 

Although I don’t like to believe anything I hear/read/see that originated from TMZ, I do hope this report is true.

Even though I consider myself a big fan of Jay’s work, I’ll admit I have not been a regular viewer of his show (bad me, I know).  I did tune in one recent Monday night only to discover there were no Headlines.  That may have been what did it for me.  And a few other segments I wasn’t crazy about.  Like when I saw Lady Gaga (or whatever her name is) on there.  I was like “what is this shit”?  And the top ten celebrity interviews had to go.  Who cares what Ashley Simpson thinks?  Boring!

So yes, PLEASE bring Jay back to “The Tonight Show”.  At least by 11:30 I’m done doing what I need to do and I’m ready to sit down and watch TV.  Ten was just a bad time for me.  And at last we would be done away with that stupid Conan guy!  YEAH!

FINGERS, TOES AND EYES ARE CROSSED ON THIS ONE!

HAPPY 2010!

Wow!  It really feels weird writing 2010.  That’s such a strange number.

Wasn’t it just yesterday we were getting ready to barter our bikes for food, clothing and shelter due to Y2K?  That was ten years ago!

I think 2009 was such a strange year and I didn’t realize it until I saw a recap of all the crap that happened in the news this year.

How could I forget Bernie Madoff?  Or even Rod Blagojevich?  And did you know Michael Jackson died this year?  On the same day as Farrah Fawcett even!  Wow!  What a year!  I miss Patrick Swayze and I really do need to watch “Dirty Dancing” again for the 100th time.  I never realized how much I love that movie…

That makes me so anxious for all that is going to happen (good and bad) in 2010.  Will Obama’s health plan see political light?  Will Tiger find a new love?  Will his wife?  Who will live?  Who will die?  Oh, the suspense is getting to me!

I think I’ll have to watch another year of Dick Clark (God bless him–even when he’s gone it still has to be “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”–with or without Ryan Seacrest), make a toast to the Three Stooges and have my first sleep of the New Year.

To all my fellow bloggers…I wish you lots of good stuff to blog about in the coming year and of course peace and good health as well.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Post Christmas syndrome

Like most individuals, I survived Christmas.  Like most women whose men in their lives have NO CLUE what to get them, I survived that aspect of the holiday too.

I have known my husband for 16 years, 13 of which we have been married.  You would think by now he would know what I would like for Christmas.

Once again, he went and got domesticated nutso on me and presented me with not only a Mommy and Me Apron kit (for me and our daughter to use when we bake.  How often do we do that?), but a set of very pretty, fancy pot holders which I will probably never use.  They do look nice hanging on the wall, however.

Well, I guess it beats the box of tissues he got for me one year…