The Quick Glance "Look Away"

You know how you run across someone you kind of know in a store. They haven’t spotted you yet but you have spotted them. You wonder what you should do. First reaction every time is to turn your head the other direction and pretend like you didn’t see them. Then, if by chance they see you and say something you act surprised. “Hey, how you doing?” Come on! That’s why I always try to say something if I see somebody. Now, my wife always says to me, “Can’t you just say hello and that’s it? Why do you always have to chat forever?” Honestly, I’m trying to get better at that. But here’s the follow up. After you do the right thing and say “Hi”, maybe have a little small talk, you still got some shopping to do, so do they. So up and down the isles you go and you run into them time and time again. What’s the proper thing to do? Talk to them some more? Just leave them alone? You know their just as uncomfortable as you are when they see you again! Maybe the second and third time you see them it is the time to pretend like you didn’t see them. I don’t know. What’s proper etiquette? It’s so confusing. Why didn’t they teach us this in elementary school? I’ll tell you why! Because one day I saw one of my elementary school teachers in a store and you know what I caught her doing? Pretending like she didn’t see me. I caught her eye and she looked away real quick; amazing. I think we need to make Busted stickers when someone turns away and acts like they didn’t see you. When you bust them you walk up and say, “Hey, how you been. I saw you look away real quick once I caught eye contact with you. You weren’t going to pretend like you didn’t see me were you? I’ll bet you were! Here’s a Busted sticker you can walk around with for the rest of the day to show everyone what an idiot you are!” Awe but I jest! I’ve done it, you’ve done it, and we’ve all done it once or twice. Some of you arrogant people out there have done it quite a bit more. I know you’re too good for us common people.

The fact remains that there are some people that we don’t want to talk to. Hey, there are some people we flat out don’t like and don’t want to associate with but we’ll run in to them from time to time. Now I think that if you don’t like each other it is quite alright to do the “look away” and not say anything. But when I see people I know doing it, people I like, and then I just think that’s rude. But wait a minute! I just thought of something. Maybe I like them but they don’t like me. I think I just got a whole new take on this “look away” thing. Wow, I’m going to have to reconsider my whole thought process now. Just when I thought I had it figured out!

What do you call Rock and Roll?

If you ask me this is a no brainer but for all of you that don't follow this as close as I do, the great Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just came out with their new list of nominees for 2010 and here they are:

ABBA, Darlene Love, Donna Summer, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, KISS, Laura Nyro, LL Cool J, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Chantels, The Hollies, and The Stooges.

Now I look at this list and agree with some of the choices on here. But I've got to say that the rock hall should change it's name because to be a true Rock and Roll hall of fame how can you nominate the likes of ABBA, Donna Summer and LL Cool J? No offense to any of these artists. They are great writers and singers. They are all talented individuals. They are not Rock and Roll any more than Madonna, oh wait, she's already IN the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

My question is, how can you nominate ABBA, LL Cool J and Donna Summer who are not true rock and roll artists and not nominate Heart, Electric Light Orchestra and (this is the one that really kills me!) Alice Cooper? I mean, who comes up with this list? What group of morons are out there trying to be politically correct and, in the process, skipping over true rock and roll artists to vote in people like Run DMC, Madonna and R.E.M.? It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel (not so) fine. Pop artists, rap artists, while true rock and roll artists get dissed year after year.

This is the first year that KISS was nominated. At first I thought if they got inducted they should not show up at the induction ceremony. Show the rock hall that they don't care anymore. But then I said, "They're better than that! They can be bigger than the rock hall and say yeah you dissed us for many years but we're here now and here to stay!"

But back to my point, of the 2 groups of 3 artists that I posted up at the top. The first group consisting of ABBA, LL Cool J and Donna Summer and the second group consisting of ELO, Heart and Alice Cooper; which of these 2 groups most says rock and roll to you? Stupid question right? EXACTLY! Come on rock hall. Either change your name to Our Favorite Artist's Hall of Fame or keep it rock artists. I mean come on what song of Madonna's or ABBA's shouts Rock and Roll?

Dressing up like KISS!

It was a lot of fun! I still remember it like it was yesterday. Paul and I were big time KISS fans. Now this wasn't always the case. I remember when I was in 9th grade (let me date myself here, this was back in 1975-1976) I used to hate KISS and all KISS fans. I remember saying KISS was a bunch of fags and using the old KISS my A$$ line but hey, we were just kids. Anyway, I used to go to my friend Mark Morrell's house and play pool. One day he put on an album while we were shooting pool. I said, "Who is this?" Mark said, "KISS". The album was KISS ALIVE. I was a fan ever since. Typical of not knowing the music and just judging by the looks. The interesting thing is once I started liking the music, the looks didn't bother me at all. As a matter of fact, I started to like them. One day, Paul McGowan, a personal friend of mine that had a lot in common with me (Martial Arts and now KISS) and I got together and decided to dress up like KISS. It was a spur of the moment thing. He liked Gene Simmons and I liked Paul Stanley. So here's what we did, we went to Murphy's Mart and bought some white shoe polish and used his mother mascara and lip stick and painted our faces as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and walked down the street. We got whistles, comments and horn honks. In case you were wondering, it wasn't Halloween. We just did it! And we did it time and time again. I vaguely remember one day, a friend of ours named Tad Morrison wasn't feeling well and we painted our faces and stopped over to Tad's house. I don't even remember Tad's mom taking the picture! But, by the power of Facebook, Tad posted it online and here it is today! Thanks Tad for the post. Now everyone can see how crazy we really were!

What a week!

This has just been a crazy week. Not only has Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died but work has been nuts. I must say I am going to remember this week for a while. If anything positive came out of this week it would be the trade the CAVS made for Shaq. But why turn it back on sports? If that isn't enough, I just read a book on Stage Hypnosis and then felt convicted to not do it, and quit mentalism. All in one week. Wow, I'm exhausted! I am looking forward to performing at the Cleveland Zoo on Saturday for the Make a Wish Foundation. That will be a lot of fun. Well, next week will be a good week, I'm sure of it!

Thank God for His Provision.
For Life.
For Family.
For a Career.
For Talent.
For Salvation.

Just a test from my phone.

I'm just testing my phone to make sure I can send a blog from it. Looking forward to a great day.

Kreskin

Isn't Kreskin just amazing?

Isn't Sarah Palin Mean?

My goodness what is wrong with todays society? Sarah Palin and her family go to a Yankees game while they're in New York just to have a good time and what shows up on late night TV? David Letterman telling a joke about A-Rod having sex with their daughter during the 7th inning stretch. Letterman later appologized and said that the joke was in bad taste and he meant it towards their 18 year old daughter not the 14 year old that was actually there. Now I don't know how many of you have daughters but somebody makes a comment like that about my daughter, I don't care if shes 35, I'm gonna get ticked. And whos side is the liberal moronic press taking on all of this? Why David Letterman's of course. Here's a quote from AP just today: And Sarah Palin charged Letterman with "sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity." She CHARGED him! And he was so wrongly accused wasn't he? If you ask me she's just calling them like she sees them. Ah, but no one is asking me.

Oh poor David Letterman! Is that Republican picking on you? I mean, you're just trying to do the right thing apologizing for a bad joke! That joke was wrong from the beginning. He knew it and said it anyway. So why is the media making it out like Sarah Palin's in the wrong here? Because it's a Democrat versus a Republican, the Republican has always got to be wrong. Come on! I'm so fed up with the liberal media I just want to slap someone. Maybe if David Letterman would go back to his roots and talk about the woman cooking bread in wesson oil again it would be a much better world! That's it! Let's go back to the 70's again. When life was a little easier. What did Letterman expect making a joke about someones child like that? There's 2 things you don't joke about 1 - someones kids, 2 - someones mother. Joke telling 101! Honestly David, don't forget your roots. And media, for the love of Pete, get of Palin's back. You'll have plenty of time to harass her in 2012 when she's running for President!