Friday Finisher: It’s Not in The Way That I Blog All Week Long
May 9, 2008 – 2:47 pmThe Friday Funnies are dead. Long live the Friday Funnies! Welcome to the Friday Finisher… a dumping ground for links, videos, and all the half-baked ideas I had during the week.
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I still don’t know whether I’m amused or disgusted by these three new commercials for Mohegan Sun. The singing and dancing is a nice touch, but they’re desecrating Toto, Rick James, and The Knack. And who thought to use Toto? And who actually knew that song was Toto? And who knew that Toto’s bass player has a massively long beard? These questions and more will be answered in my new book, Questions About 80s Pop Bands, Casino Ads, and Other Things You Never Thought To Ask Nor Really Need To Know The Answers To (Is This Title Gramatically Incorrect By Ending In A Preposition? Sort Of.), in stores next year.
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What I Learned From This Comic in Today’s World Journal (Placed Right in My Face on the B Train this morning): Chinese people think American public schools are violent places. Also, there is no Chinese word for “meathead.”
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In the mailbag this week:
no no nanette is having a revival this week with rosie odonnell. you may remember the original as being financed by the sale of an ok baseball player from the sox to the yankees - babe something or other. - J$
I’m glad that my readers bring things like this to my attention, but Red Sox fans don’t believe in curses anymore. Now let me go back to watching the game while wearing my six year-old Red Sox cap and faded Jason Varitek t-shirt.
I thought you’d enjoy this if you haven’t already seen it. In today’s AM NY on p. 13 there’s a great sentence about Jennifer Hudson:
“Jennifer Hudson might be busy becoming a bonified movie star, but she still has time to pick ‘American Idol’ favorites.”
Wow. Makes “bona fide” look like a verb. To bonify? My old Latin prof would flip. - StuyGirl
Who needs me to write amNY Watch? My readers do it for me.
Subject: Guess who walked by me today
Body:
- Mike
Congratulations, Mike, for taking one of the least discreet camera phone pictures of a famous person… ever.
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Music Video of the Week: I blame Mohegan Sun for this. Thanks, fuckers. Now I’ve got Toto stuck in my head. Crank it up!
Have a great weekend, folks. This is your weekly reminder that Triviotic is Monday at 8pm. Plan your Monday accordingly, and RSVP by Monday to get a sneak preview of one of this week’s questions.
5 Responses
re: the chinese comic- It looks like she’s breaking his heart. She’s shaking his confidence daily.
By brookLyn gaL on May 9, 2008
Ah, I feel young again!
By Mom on May 10, 2008
OK the Chinese comic and your interpretation were damn funny. Where’s your myspace gone?
By paulie on May 11, 2008
“No No Nanette” had NOTHING to do with the sale of Babe Ruth. The original play debuted on Broadway 5 YEARS after Ruth’s sale to New York. How they got linked together is anyone’s guess.
BTW, to read more about the lies regarding Harry Frazee and the Red Sox, read “Red Sox Century” by Richard Johnson and Glenn Stout. An excellent read and one of the best books ever about the Sox.
By The Omnipotent Q on May 12, 2008
Oh. My. God. Those Mohegan Sun videos are damaging to the mind… and boston.com left out a word in this blurb about them, which I have thoughtfully inserted in brackets:
“As if the ads weren’t [lame] enough, Mohegan is having those songs performed around town today [May 9]. It’s part of a big marketing gimmick…. If you want to see the spectacle, performers will be at Downtown Crossing from 7 to 11 a.m”
Geez, too bad I missed that!
ps, you can see all 3 of the monstrosities here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mohegansunrecords
By Liz Goldstein on May 12, 2008