Category Archives: The Obvious

The things that are so obvious that it is funny.

Gilmore Girls

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Jessica told me this evening that Gilmore Girls is being cancelled.  If you don’t know who or what Gilmore Girls is… you’re lucky.  Its one of the weirdest television shows since the X-Files.  But instead of being freaky they go for quirky comedy but end up coming across as a combination of having the flu and Groundhog’s Day (the movie) combined.  Each episode is exactly the same.  Sure, the ‘plot’ changes, or at least re-orders the events a little, but each episode is about a mom and a daughter who are both ADD/ADHD and who have the emotional stability of a woman in labor.  I take that back.  Women in labor are more stable than these two gals.  To top it of there are men [MEN!] on the show who are also emotionally unstable.  The upshot is that the humor on the show (I’m not making this up, they actually consider it humor) is entirely non-sequiturs.  Entirely.  Completely.  Fully.  Monotonously.  Here I will attempt to give you a script (pulled out of my scary imagination) that represents this show:

Scene: Inside of the house the mother is on the phone with the daughter.

Mom: “Rory, if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a kabillion times I’m fine.”

Daughter: “Mom, I’ve lived with you since I was in your womb, I know when you’re not fine.” [to be said with a straight face because its not a non-sequitur]

Mom: “Rory, it was my womb, and you still owe me rent.”

Daughter: “I didn’t have any money at the time, but I think I can sell pictures of myself like that Barba gal from American Idol…”

[End Scene before I throw up in my mouth]

Its not good writing, and the acting is dry, but not funny dry like the Brit-coms.

Good-bye Gilmore Girls.  I hope all of the ‘actors’ find other ‘roles’ that ‘suit’ them but are not type-cast as mannequins.

All-in-One

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I got a new printer last night.  The reason that I might need a printer is that data trapped inside of a computer is often useless unless you can gather a large amount of people around your computer, get them their own computers with the same data, or transfer it to them over the Matrix.  Since I can’t afford a connection to the Matrix I took the cheap way out.

My old printer wasn’t old, it was barely over one year old when it stopped working.  I don’t believe it was an equal rights thing, it just quit working because the fine employees at HP computers worked their backsides off and still didn’t produce the printer that would have worked its backside off.  I have to now find a place that will allow me to recycle the printer so that folks can disassemble it and turn it into lawn clippings or some such nonsense.

The new printer has fax capabilities built in.  I feel so 1988.

Lines

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When I’m walking on the sidewalk I have to take a consistent number of steps per ‘chunk’ of sidewalk.  The average sidewalk rectangle takes about two steps to traverse.  I know this because I’m more than likely counting the steps.

I also like to visually follow lines in the sidewalk to their destination.   If they were lasers they might cut through that house or tree or fence and then they would keep going.

I blame my parents for these problems 😉  My dad and mom cultivated a healthy imagination in my young mind which has served me well for various things, but it also means that at times my imagination doesn’t shut off or that, worse, when my imagination takes hold of something morbid, something wicked, or something strange, it keeps going.  My co-contractor and friend Matt once told me to stop when I was riffing on something with a waiter because everyone else had run the concept through their minds and were done and mine was still going.  I think the waiter was glad Matt asked me to stop.

You’ll notice on other blog posts that I like to write about things that escalate or lists that have three things in them.  I write like this because its part of my brain’s imaginary trajectory of things.  If it has three things its thorough enough for my laziness, if it has more than that it is my brain letting loose.  The mouse trap story from a few days ago is a perfect example.  I had to take the mouse in the garbage can to a large universal perspective because my brain didn’t let go.

I have problems, but they’re ones that I’ve lived with for so long that I don’t think about them.  My imagination tells me that my father-in-law will read this and say, “Ah, it all makes sense now.”  My mom will read this and think, “Randy, I’m sorry for somehow making you weird.  Its mostly your father’s fault.”  My dad will read this and he’ll think about all of the weird things he did as a kid and how he continues to do them, too.  I’m most certain that all of this is not related to weird Freudian sexual tension but more than likely related to the fact that I’m probably just an anomally in the Matrix.

Call the RIAA!

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This is a weird sarcastic poem that probably will scare more people than amuse 🙂

Today the car next to mine

was cranking his music up to nine
I could hear the lyrics just fine

I hadn’t purchased or paid a dime

Call the R-I-A-A

there must be some fine to pay

The lines are clear, there is no grey

Call the stinking R-I-A-A

He took off when the light turned green

I turned after him to stop his scheme

I had been intending to go straight

But I had to stop this violate

I swerved and shouted at this cheater

Until the cop stopped me like a speeder

He didn’t understand the trouble

With the music outside the bubble

As if the sound wasn’t copyrighted

He arrested me and I was cited

“Call the R-I-A-A,” I rioted

Screaming loudly, angry, violent

I had the right to remain silent

This is for My Mom

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This is a post that is not about mice.  It is not about dead mice either.  And it is most certainly not about mice being killed by snakes in her house while I was in school because my brother had a snake that ate mice.

Nope.  This is about other things like me scraping my body all over gravel roads when I was younger and her having to clean up the wounds.  She did that so well.  She also helped track down several snakes my brother had when they would get out of their terrariums.  She was a good mom who was much more patient with us at times when I probably would have lost it with my girls.

Nope, this post isn’t about mice except for the comparison where my mom was strong like Mighty Mouse**.

**Except for the cocain that mighty mouse snorted.

Out of Tune

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I submitted a cover song to a podcast cover song competition last month.  Actually, it was recorded last year, but submitted last month.  I got routed.  Spanked.  Demolished.  But such is the way of music, subjectivity and the fact that I can’t hold pitch very well compared to better trained singers.  However, this was a learning experience and if there is a next time I’ll take what I learned from this and attempt a better submission.  What are those things I learned you ask?

  1. Re-record your vocals until they’re as close to spotless as possible.  I’m certain this cost me.
  2. Work out your arrangement and refine it.  I have tried to communicate this to others but somehow didn’t apply it to myself (can you believe I’ve produced a band before?)
  3. When you play your recording for someone and their first reaction is to laugh… it might be best to figure out how to get a smile instead

I appreciate that Dan Klass, one of the judges, was the Paula Abduul of the group 🙂  He at least liked the beginning few seconds of the song 🙂

Denver Weather Gets Residents and Newscasters Angry

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I just happened upon this link:[contains naughty language that accurately reports what the innacurate weathermen/women feel] Weather forecasters get the flack for what’s not their fault.  They report it, and viewers have a cow.  Too bad we can’t grind the cows into hamburgers or something more useful 🙂  I’m not thrilled about more snow on a shovelling, traveling level, but for goodness sake, its not their fault that we’re getting the weather.

I used to do music at a church with a weatherman and he said that once he got his first angry phonecall he made sure his number got unlisted.