Giuseppe Zangara

My dog's currently on my bed, on his back, making yipping noises. He's dreaming! If only I had a working camera.

Anyway, I think Urban Outfitters is great. I laugh my ass off everytime step foot in one. Which, now, I can do more often, as one finally opened down here the other week. Excellent! I've now been in four different Urban Outfitters in three different states. And I saw Kevin Bacon in one of them!

This was yesterday:

The Oblongs was a lousy show. Mission Hill, too. I've made my feelings on Family Guy known. Outside of those, I haven't watched many of the adult cartoons that surfaced within the last two decades. In my youth, I did watch such short-lived fare as Capitol Critters and Fish Police. I don't remember much about either.

I don't know what way your taste in beer runs, but, if you haven't already, you should try any of the number of beers produced by Athens's own Terrapin Brewery. You should also have little trouble finding stuff from Atlanta's equally recommended Sweetwater Brewery. I'm in Atlanta 2-3 times year; I load up on both when I'm there so I can have them down here. (Though, Sweetwater has recently gotten Florida distribution, so I'm set there.)

Like the public at large knows or cares who Don Frye is. They'd rather hear about the guy with a successful tv show and bestselling book.

I like The Critic, but some of the gags are dated, which is something you can't accuse of, say, the at-the-time contemporary episodes of The Simpsons.

Someone took down my avatar: Was it because I uploaded it to the site? Nary a naughty bit is on display.

Ha. I brought up the Wonka thing as it was the only flashback used in The Critic I clearly remembered. Still, my point stands.

Volume = Hilarity can also be applied to the Dane Cook method of comedy. Yelling your punchlines to result in bigger laughs.

Family Guy invented flashbacks? If you insist on comparing the two shows, one of the worst (of many) things about Family Guy is its tendency to run jokes into the ground, something The Critic did not. A comparison: The Critic: Jay is interviewing Willy Wonka. Jay chews gum, thus turning into a giant blueberry. Joke's over. Now, if Family Guy did it, you'd get this: Family Guy: Peter chews gum, turns into giant blueberry, rolls down the street and narrowly misses oncoming traffic while doing so (with some of the cars crashing into each other). He finally comes to a rest in a poor neighborhood, where he is attacked by starving children. The gag in The Critic wasn't very funny, but at least it threw it out there and moved on. Family Guy would take the joke and add a bunch of ridiculous shit on top of it. It's as if the writers think more volume leads to greater hilarity.

The pizza I had was topped with pepperoni and andouille sausage Take that, vegans. It was my first time having andouille. It was sweet and not very spicy, the latter of which was a surprise. Still, it was very good.

Pretty much, though even then I balked at the notion of intentional misspellings and random capitalization.

I once wrote a letter to Fishbone that I'm sure was about as embarrassing as any typical middle-school fan letter. What probably sent it over the top reaction-wise for its recipient (not that I ever got a response) was that, lacking a nearby pen or pencil and really wanting to write the letter as soon as possible, I used an orange crayon. I'm sure it looked and read like it was written by a retard.

I recall enjoying Ray Romano on that show, but I haven't seen those episodes in years. Dom Irrera was the best of the reoccurring guests.

I had some pizza today that used creamy spinach instead of a tomato-based sauce. A+ will eat again

Watching clips of Night After Night shows it wasn't any better or worse than any current talk show.

I was a big fan of Night After Night with Allan Harvey. And youtube comes through:

There was channel splitting yeah, but I don't recall much of it happening beyond the early 90s, outside of the ultimately failed integration of Much Music onto US airwaves. In my town, it had to share airtime with whatever was that shopping network that featured Don West. And man, youtube is proving useless in finding clips of old Comedy Central shows. Locating MST is easy enough, but there's nothing pre-'94. Afterdrive? Clash? Sports Monster? Short Attention Span Theater, when Jon Stewart was a co-host?

Anyone remember Afterdrive? It was already out of production when Comedy Central came to my town in 1991, but they showed it often enough, anyway. (This being when Comedy Central had little else to run other than mediocre movies and numerously repackaged stand-up clips.) EDIT: I specifically remember Comedy Central debuting on our cable network on a Thursday, in the summer of '91. The next day, at 10am, I saw MST3k for the first time. Thus began an adolescent love affair that didn't wane until the Sci-Fi years.

Bill Hicks was such a blowhard piece of shit.

I'm gonna burn my copy of You Can Run But You Can't Hide, outraged.