Uh oh
It looks like the folks who run Blogger are being evicted from their offices, and they’re selling off a bunch of their crap. I wonder if that means their service will no longer be available. Maaaaan, I’m too lazy to write the code myself! I have been redesigning my page over the last few weeks, and the blog is an integral part of the new design. Well, there’s probably another site out there I can steal bandwidth from.
I just saw a commercial for a Dale Earnhardt clock. Every hour on the hour a little car races around the outside of it and a little speaker announces, “And the winner is… Dale Earnhardt!” Is it possible that Dale Earnhardt put in his will that something like this should be manufactured upon his death? Unless his actual statement was, “If you have to make a Dale Earnhardt clock with a little car that races around the outside every hour on the hour and a little speaker that announces, ‘And the winner is… Dale Earnhardt!’ please do me a favor and wait until I’m dead, or at the very least, kill me first,’ it’s not bloody likely. Also peculiar is that the announcer for the commercial says the clock is dedicated to the memory of “the immortal Dale Earnhardt”. Well, clearly he’s not immortal, or he would be alive today. I suppose it’s possible he has returned to Asgard or Olympus or New Genesis or wherever the particular race of gods to which he belongs is based. Er, no pun intended. Come to think of it, maybe he is immortal now that he’s dead. Once you’re dead, you can’t die – am I right, people? I’m not talking about “oh well he still lives on in our hearts and minds and memories”, I just mean that once one is in a state of death, the act of dying is impossible, for one must be alive to die. Unless one is undead, which is arguably the same as alive to those of us who watch Angel and sigh over hunky David Boreanaz. But I don’t think Dale Earnhardt is a vampire. Vampires generally stay out of the racing industry.
Speaking of death, now that both Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon have passed away, it falls to Jack Klugman and Tony Randall to carry the torch in any future Odd Couple sequels. However, the Grumpy Old Men franchise will have to resort to prequels. May I suggest Kevin Spacey and Oliver Platt as the leads? But do keep that Ann-Margret around, for she’s as young and beautiful as ever. I saw this TV-movie Bye Bye Birdie that aired in 1995, and she looks AMAZINGLY young in it! She’s playing a TEENAGER, for crying out loud! Dick Van Dyke looks pretty young, too… good makeup artists on that flick.
Dark is the main thing; it is there I am tender and undying.