Saturday, November 21, 2009

Random Thoughts From The Bottom Of The Glass



- I always thought there were very few things more beautiful than a guy throwing a perfect pass with a football and another guy making a perfect catch. Then I saw linguere football with hot chicks throwing not so perfect passes and making not so perfect catches. Holy crap, was I wrong.

- I've seen more hotel rooms in the last 3 years than I have seen in my entire life. I understand how people get burned out on the road now.

- Buen-pre-vecho means enjoy your food. That's about all the Spanish I've learned in Miami so far.

- Only in Miami do you see a car with a business promotion on it and on the back of the car it says "We speak English, too!!!!" I'm not kidding. I've actually seen this.

- I have heard various people in my life talk about going to jail in a haphazard fashion. This boggles my mind to this day. To this day, I can't think of anything worse than going to jail. Maybe it was my parents, and my wierd facination with super-heroes... But going to jail is bad. I get that. It's insane to me how others don't.

- I was in a restaraunt and they played Sinatra and then right afterwards, they played Boston.... and it segwayed really, really well. Wierd.

- Here's how much I care about the World Series: they already played 2 games of it before I found out what teams were playing.

- Pam, one of the lovely barkeeps at Anthony's told me about her skimpy Wonder Woman costume for Halloween and the mental picture of Pam in a skimpy Wonder Woman costume just appeals to me.... on so many levels.

- The 70's were right...love really is like oxygen.

- I thought about going out this Halloween as Flava Flav, but nixed the idea for three reasons: I could never lower my IQ that far, I actually brush my teeth and I'm still relavent.

- When I see an ad for Michael Jackson's "This is it", I really hope that, indeed, this is truly, really "it". Because in regards to him, I was over "it" a long damn time ago. They should make a sequel called "This Is After It" where absoluetly nothing happens and many people are grateful.

I was looking at a Moosehead beer promo hanging on the wall of Tom's Sports Pub...it's the Moosehead logo with a fake moose head protruding from the middle of it. And the marketing gimmick truly works. I want another beer...and I really want to kill a moose. And for some wierd reason, right now I wanna do Sarah Palin.

Everything has changed, man everthing is changing.

Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.



Monday, November 16, 2009

Rest In Peace, Edward Woodward


Hi.

Know I haven't been on the blog lately. Been busy being me.

I hate that I am coming back under these circumstances, but the geek in me is sad.

We lost one of the Great Ones today. Edward Woodward, The Equalizer.



See.... I'm a tremendous fan.

Because he was a tremendous actor. You can act, but it takes a Natural to bring charisma and presence to a role. Not many have the talent to acheive this. Woodward did it in spades.

I was a big fan of THE EQUALIZER. It is one of my favorite shows of all time, mostly because of the performance of this fine, fine actor. My parents thought I was nuts. How can our kid think this old guy is so cool? Well, he just was. Woodward's Robert McCall was one of the best characters ever to grace the screen. He was cool, man, he was just that damn cool.

He was great in any role he played, from Breaker Morant to Sherlock Holmes. Edward Woodward was THE MAN.

I have hoisted a cold Peroni in his honor this evening. And when I get home, I'm pulling out the 1st season of THE EQUALIZER on DVD and marveling at fine performance after fine damn performance from a true Original.


GOT A PROBLEM?


ODDS AGAINST YOU?


CALL THE EQUALIZER.



He was great in other roles, Breaker Morant and The Wicker Man being standouts. Here's some sampling of a magnificent actor's career.

A nice tribute by the BBC is here, as long as the link lasts.

Edward Woodward Wiki.

The Equalizer Wiki

Edward Woodward on IMD


The Leeboizer raises his glass to this Great Man.



EDWARD WOODWARD
ACTOR, ENTERTAINER, GENTLEMAN, EQUALIZER


1930-2009


R.I.P.