This is so incredible. Notice how the lead singer guy’s face and hair resemble He-Man.
Armi and Danni – I Wanna Love You Tender
I still remember Dan Patrick dumping baseball bats from a helicopter for a promo. SportsCenter commercials have been some of the best on television for over a decade. I stumbled upon this archive of these great commercials today, including Charlie Steiner yelling “Follow me to freedom!”
Being up all night tonight, I finally decided to throw a little info in the BillyStyle.com About page.
So that new mattress I got a little over a month ago is working out just fine. In fact, it may be too comfortable. Today I laid down for a nap around 6:00 pm, figuring I’d do my standard 2 hour nap. Now, I did realize that naps taken on my bed tend to last longer than those on my couch. I felt pretty good about it though, figuring I’d be able to wake up to catch most of the first game on ESPN, and all of the second one while getting some things done.
Next thing I know, I’m wondering if it’s almost time to go to work. See, what I soon realized had happened was that my nap turned into a serious sleep session. When I came to, I checked the time to find that over five hours had passed! I woke up about 11:30 pm instead of my planned 8:00 pm.
Taking a nap this long gives me roughly the same feeling as sleeping in til noon or later. I feel that I’ve missed out on the day. Since I worked today from 7 to 4 like usual, I missed out on the time of day that I get my stuff done. Now I’m up when I’d usually be sleeping, and it’s just not the same. I find it much harder to get anything productive done in the early hours of the night than in late afternoon – evening hours.
So, now when I take naps, I’ll either stick to the couch or set my alarm so I don’t fall too deeply asleep. All that said, man I like my mattress!
This is great news for Bills fans such as myself. Link
Only now, Moulds is gone. Blast, it’s either one or the other. It could be a while before two Bills receivers each have over 1,000 yards in the same season again.
Well, I got some quick replies on that last post about the one thing Stephen A. Smith said. Naturally, there are more people out there with the same feelings toward him as I have, most likely much stronger. My disapproval of him is more of a dislike for all in-your-face, shock style sports analysts. I generally mute the television when these guys come on because they give me a headache. I don’t have as much specific critique as do others, but here are my problems with them.
Ever since Jim Rome grew very popular, most sports networks have tried to find another Jim Rome, or a sports analyst who will not back down from his opinion about athletes, teams, and other issues in sports. I never watched his show much, but I like a guy who stands by his opinion. This idea has grown into something much worse. Now the idea seems to be to find anybody with a columnist/analyst background, an opinion, a loud voice, and they must be as obnoxious and arrogant as you can find. They have escaped the boundaries of their own shows and now show up in mainstream programs, such as NBA Shootaround (Stephen A’s second home), invading the calm, humorous, considerate style those shows used to share. PTI (Pardon the Interruption) is a popular show on ESPN; that’s fine. I don’t watch it. I know it is just two guys with opinions yelling at each other about issues that can be discussed in an orderly fashion, so I avoid it. It bothers me to see those style columnists bleeding into other programs.
There are so many great play by play guys, color commentators, and analysts out there, it is sad to see these guys coming in and ruining sports shows. Stephen A. does have a columnist background and currently writes twice a week for the Philadephia Inquirer, but I have yet to hear any well spoken bits of information come from his mouth, only empty guarantees, waffling, and lots of yelling and screaming. True, the viewer these programs are trying to attract are used to ADD style programming, where there needs to be bright colors, quickly changing cameras, and loud noises to keep them tuned in, but it’s getting old quick.
As an NBA fan, I have to praise TNT for avoiding any shock style analysts. They stick with good quality content coming from rational people with plenty of basketball history. I enjoy listening to comments by many guys including all the TNT staff, Doug Collins, Hubie Brown, Tom Tolbert, Kevin Harlan, John Thompson, Steve Jones, and even Bill Walton (although I can understand how most people wouldn’t like his asinine comments, I find them very comical now that his sidekicks are calling him out on his overuse of superlatives).
I’m a rational person. I don’t need to be yelled at about why a basketball player should be rated higher than another. Greg Anthony and Scottie Pippen seem to voice their opinion with calm control. Maybe Stephen A. was raised by deaf geriatric people and he can’t help but yell, I don’t know. But I wish he would just calm down and listen to somebody else from time to time.
Stephen A. Smith is a fool. I’ll save a rant on him for another time. I just have a quick note to make about him.
Tonight while watching NBA Shootaround on ESPN, he made a remark which is rather typical of what he usually says. “Ron Artest got a lot of dog in him, literally and figuratively.” This reminded me of a funny story, but first I’ll wind this one up. John Saunders, the host of the show, replied a minute later, “Literally?” With some hesitation, Smith shamefully admitted “Well, not literally.” Saunders resolved “I was going to say, we might have to get some doctors involved here.”
Okay, now for my memory. I first learned the word literally when I was ten years old, in the fifth grade. A girl I knew said something that made me angry and I remember saying to her “You’re a pig, literally!” Later that day, I realized I was an idiot and decided to never misuse that word again, because it just abused the integrity of the word. Using it in that sense means there is no use for the word literal at all. Again, I was ten years old when I did what Stephen A. Smith did tonight on national television. We live in great times.
