Carol of the bells claymation special

In 1987 the California Rasins were taking the world by storm. They even got their own Christmas Special. Such and underrated Christmas special. The show was just basically music videos linked together by two dinosaurs who hosted the show. IT was actually really well done.

The rasins come at out later to close the show. This was my fav. and by far the most funny of the bunch. If people want I will post more.

"Richie Richard$"

First off the the Penguins/ Flyers game Tuesday was easily the most fun I had at a game in years. WoW! Fights, two hat tricks, trash talk to the penguins fans, and just energy all over the building. Upon leaving people were just yelling and cheering. Made me almost forget the snoozefest of a Bruins game.

My record is 2-1 this season.


Secondly, Micheal Richards (giddy up!)will be playing with the Flyers till I am 40. Or at least that is what his contract says. Richards the future captain of the team signed a 12 year extention. Thats just insane. I am happy to keep a center to build around like that. But, I must say I didnt see it coming so soon. The money is something insane like 69 million over 12 years.

I really hope they keep this core team together. The Flyers in the past has seemed to given up on young talent to quick. Partrick Sharp, Jon Sim, Justin Williams, and Vinny PRospal were all players we got crap for in return.


Now the Flyers have to break this win/lose streak that is driving me up freaking wall.


Also, I offically HATE sid Crosby. I mean what like weasel. Takes out Biron than is too much of a chicken to return to the ice. PLease. I hope Eager nails him next time we play. Although, I bet he refuses to go out there if Eager is on the ice.

"Legendary Letter"

I came across this letter to the fans of the best comedy on tv right now. How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM to the fans). Basically the two creators/writers are addressing their loyal fans who have suffered ups and downs including a rumor of cancellation at the end of season 2. Season 3 was to have 24 shows instead of the usual 22, which was going to be Legendary. But, instead we have nothing but our DVDS to clench close to our hearts for who knows how long.

Here is the letter from the Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. It is a good read even if you are not a fan of the show. If you don't watch the show, netflix it during the writers strike and introduce yourself to the best comedy since Seinfeld.

Hello HIMYM fans. Motherheads? Howsiers? What are you calling yourselves these days? So first things first, thank you for the incredible support you guys have given us over the years. We mean it. When you create a show, you never think you're doing anything more than telling a funny story. But apparently we've created a community, and it seems to be a community of pretty decent people. It's a community we'd probably want to have a beer with. Our fans seem cool and smart and funny, and it drives us to want to make the show better, to never let it stagnate, to always push ourselves to try something interesting and new.

So thank you. Anyway, we'd like to take a little moment here to come out from behind the desk, cool-11th-grade-english-teacher-style, roll up our sleeves and "rap" at you guys for a bit. We want to talk about the strike. By now you probably know what strike we're talking about, but if you don't, watch this movie: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk

What it boils down to is this: Tonight’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” is the last new one for a while. Starting next week, we grimly trudge off the map and into the desert of reruns and reality TV. We can’t tell you how difficult this last month and a half has been for us, both personally and professionally. We work with the best people in this business – the best at their jobs, the best at being nice and decent human beings – and the thought of all of them out of work over the holidays is almost too much to bear. We miss them all every day. That’s by far the suckiest part of the strike – nothing tops that.

But there’s other suckiness, such as the suckiness of having to put this story on pause. We love our show. We love the stories we get to tell. And this year on How I Met Your Mother, we think the story is particularly great. A very juicy, breathtaking, funny, and (to use our director Pam's word) yummy story was just starting to unfold as the ax began to fall. We're very excited about the second half of this season, and not bringing it to you right now, factory-direct, sparkling-new, is simply killing us. But enough with our problems. The reason we’re writing today is to beseech you guys, the fans of this show, to bear with us. The love and support you’ve shown us over the last two and a half seasons has been truly surprising and awesome, and we hope you’ll rejoin us when this whole mess is over with.

But for now, this is going to have to be a long distance relationship. We know you’ll get lonely, and Mario Lopez is such a good dancer… but come on, hang in there. Sure, long distance doesn’t ever work for anyone, but we’re different. What we’ve got is special. We can make this work. But in the meantime, if you want to help us end this strike quickly, please visit www.fans4writers.com. That site explains exactly what the WGA is asking for, exactly why it’s completely reasonable, and exactly how you can show your support. And just in case the strike goes on so long that the medium of television goes out of business forever and we never get to make another episode, the mother is the coat check girl.

Happy Holidays! Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

"So they Marched All Night Long"

The writer's strike has reached its sixth week. I will be honest, I don't think its really had much the impact so far aside from screwing lots of people who are not on strike out of jobs. I mean as far as the public giving a damn about it.

Aside from myself, and people I know who take an interest in the enterainment business, people are either unware or apathetic about a strike at all. I talked to some co-workers about it recently. Another person after I told him that Leno, Letterman and Conan were in reruns for a month, brought up that he thought late night tv was dead anyway. He said as long as The DAily Show and Colbert report were still new, he hadn't even noticed the shows had gone dark for over a month. To be honest, my concern about the strike would be down about 2 or 3 notches if it wasn't about to ruin the final Season (and many ways the series) of SCrubs.

Very few network shows have any new scripts left before the strike, so many shows have shut down production. THe shows that do have episodes left were intended as shows like 24 or Lost that start mid-season anyway. But the problem is they have only a few. I had heard 24's upcoming season was so bad they had to rewrite it. Lost will only have 8 shows. Aside from a few other mid-season replacements, come 2008, it will be reruns and reality.


After two weeks of talking, talks broke off last friday bettween studios and writers. During thanksgiving weekend the writers took off and didnt picket, and studio big wigs arent used to working during the holidays. So, I figure that we might be looking at the 2nd week of January before the two sides even go back to talking about anything.

The writers are taking a stand, but sadly they are screwing lots of people who will never benefit from the strike during the holiday season. Makeup people, camera crews, wardrobe people, and various others are all losing their jobs.

The crappy thing is, people love reality tv, and will eat up many of the new shows launching after the holidays. Which means if the strike is ever settled many of the shows will be canned anyway to make room for the new over night reality show hits. Leaving some writers with no job to return to.

Not sure if its the fact that there are still a few new shows of popular programs left or if people are distracted with their own problems right now. But its been 6 weeks, and for the most part America aside from Hollywierd has moved on with their lives. We live in a society where we entertain each other anyway with MYSPACE and YOUTUBE. Maybe we are not on the edge of a new media but different pop-culture all together. Recent studies have shown that pretty much all of the young europeans prefer the Internet to TV anyway.

One wonders if people will make time again to see what Republican is getting slammed on REal Time, too see Leno's headlines, or spend time with the zany office workers. Bettween when now and when the strike gets settled is plenty of time for people to pick up new routines to get them their their mundane work weeks.