GIRL WHO ONLY EAT MCNUGGET FOR 15 YEAR IN HOSPITAL! BET THIS IS FIRST DOCTOR SHE EVER SEE NOT NAMED PEPPER!

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We’re bringin’ brighter days, they’re all in line, waitin’ for you…

SO COLD! DRUNK HULK NEED AT LEAST FIVE DEAD TAUNTAUN TO GET WARM!

http://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/exhibits/1968

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6648229/siri-argument

Not as bad as Star Wars Mickey, but still sort of wrong…

Is this Florida?

http://www.mtv.com/shows/beavis_and_butthead/video.jhtml?filter=fulleps

See I got this friend named Joey Joe-Joe Junior Shabadoo…

It’s alright to cry, crying takes the sad out of you.

http://online.wsj.com/video/mike-judge-on-the-return-of-beavis-and-butt-head/1BF77FE9-99C8-4417-9D3C-D662AA59764D.html

Great idea, great story.

From R.E.M. HQ today:

“To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.” R.E.M.

After a while, it seemed like the newer R.E.M. albums all blurred together, but Automatic for the People, Life’s Rich Pageant, Document and even Monster played a huge part in my life growing up. I can’t remember how many times we saw them in concert (maybe just once), but I’ll never forget secretly following Stipey around the British Museum while trying not to look too much like a star-struck fan.

Cheers to you, Messrs. Stipe, Buck and Mills!

Plans for this fall:

• Hawaii Five-O, CBS, Mon@9PM
• Glee, Fox, Tue@7PM
• Survivor, CBS, Wed@7PM
• Modern Family, ABC, Wed@8PM
• CSI, CBS, Wed@9PM
• Community, NBC, Thu@7PM
• The Office, NBC, Thu@8PM

I’d also like to catch Boardwalk Empire and Hung on HBO, depending on when the replays air at the resort. Lots of Showtime series too, but we don’t get that channel here…

Dragonfire, Demon Attack, Beauty & the Beast, Atlantis, Swords & Serpents.

I really liked Imagic games back in the day. So much so, I guess, that I actually wrote them in 1983 (when I was 14) asking when their stock will go on sale. Kathleen Booth, Consumer Affairs, wrote back and said I should contact Merrill Lynch to see what information they could give me. She also enclosed an application for the “Numb Thumb Club.”

Such a nerd.

It’s sort of easy to see how I came to work in technology, isn’t it?

I really was spoiled growing up – I’m pretty sure I owned every one of these games at some point.

I remember how totally cool I thought this was when I first got it – “B-17 Bommmmmber!” That particular game was even cooler for me, as my grandfather actually was a B-17 bomber pilot in World War II.

Space Spartans and Bomb Squad were pretty lame and I don’t remember if that Tron game ever actually got released. I wonder if anyone has those sound clips somewhere now…

UPDATE: Of course there is, this is the age of the internets, after all.

A Mark Goodson – Bill Todman Production

My dad tried to get on this show more than once. I was always mad that I wasn’t old enough to be on it. Too bad that’s not the problem any more, eh?

This bottle made me a little sad as I realized that Disneyland is celebrating their 55th anniversary this year. The 1980 penny inside is still shiny and kid two wants to know how they got it in there to begin with. Good question!

As some of you know, my family members have been big Disney fans as long as I can remember. The first trip I can remember to Disneyland was 1975 during the bicentennial celebration. With my mom working at Northwest, we pretty much just alternated between California and Florida for many, many years.

I really like the old Disney souvenirs. I found a bunch of older postcards too that I’ll scan soon. Stay tuned…

How many nerds out there can say they have one of these bad boys? That game was pretty terrible, too, if I remember correctly…

This weekend I did some cleaning in the basement and found all sorts of fun stuff. I’ll start posting photos here this week, starting with this this excellent Northwest Orient egg plane. I think the “Orient” name was dropped in 1986 after the Republic merger, so I’m guessing this is from the mid-80s.

Yesterday Colleen and I made our annual trek over to the Walker Art Center to see the British Television Advertising Awards in the beautiful McGuire Theater.

Before the show, we spent some time going through the galleries, including the new Benches & Binoculars exhibit. The layout reminded me of museums we saw in the UK and was well done. Be sure to pick up the handouts if you go – they have a lot of great info in them.

After the galleries, we had lunch at Wolfgang Puck’s 20.21, which was surprisingly crowded for that time of day. Colleen tried the tasting menu and selected pot stickers, salmon and chocolate cake (with a 20•21 bellini to drink). I had the Singapore style street noodles with masala braised short ribs and the cookie sampler for dessert. Pastry chef Corinne Sherbert helped us select the desserts and brought them to our table. They were all good, but I really liked the cheesecake brownies.

As for the awards, it seemed to be an average year. I had already seen the advertisement of the year online and didn’t think it was very good. As usual, the public service announcements were shocking and effective, while VW had some of my favorites:

The show lasts about 80 minutes and tickets are $10 for the general public ($8 for Walker members). The last screenings are on Saturday, January 2, but many of the remaining dates are already sold out.

Colleen and I went to the Walker Art Center on Sunday to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary by watching a favorite of ours, the annual British Television Advertising Awards.

The 2008 edition had a number of ads that we liked a lot, but here is my favorite (semi-NSFW):

Many of the ads are funny, but as always, the PSA’s were hard hitting:

The best commercial of the year was a let-down, as we’ve seen it before many times. One other weird thing happened – during the show, the cane of a person sitting behind me slipped and hit me square on the back of my head. It scared me more than anything, but it was one of those canes with a brass duck head, so the impact was more than just a love tap. Ouch!