Say it ain't so Coco!

This whole fiasco with the Tonight Show has left me in a silent hate rage against NBC & the toe fungus's that call them selves "executives". How can they do that to Conan?! They should have just let Leno walk! It simply boggles the mind how they stabbed him in the back like that!

Nearly everywhere I look, nearly everyone I speak to loves & supports Conan. Many celebrities, big & small do too. So why are these brainless executives treating Leno like a god while spitting on Conan? What dark powers are keeping him there?! I hope NBC has a massive backlash when the dust settles & Leno's Tonight Show 2.0 tanks worse in the ratings then his dog pile prime-time show has been doing.

Mad I tell you, MAD!

Yes, not everyone likes Conan, & yeah, it may not be all Leno's fault, they did supposedly “fired” him, but they also supposedly wouldn’t let him go according to Leno’s own words.

Really, the one to point the blame at would be Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal; he has made a lot of bad choices, he’s admitted it, but he also made them such an ugly public mess & screwed Conan over in the process. No matter if you prefer Leno over Conan, Conan did get short end of the stick, no doubt about it, he was given promises that were not kept.

I wish Leno could have somehow left when he was “fired”, then did his own thing on another network, then Leno fans would have their place to watch him & Conan fans would have kept him where he was supposed to stay.

As a big Conan fan I’m angry over this & yes I’m not a Leno fan, but I don’t hate people for liking him, I just don’t like this whole situation, but I guess Conan gets a nice last pay check out of it, though he’d probably preferred to keep the Tonight Show over the money, but I wish him the best of luck & hope he finds something good & is able to keep his most, if not all his staff if possible.

I was so thrilled when I heard that Andy was returning to work with Conan. That to me was like the Beatles reuniting! Then, not too long ago they got him back at the couch during interviews like the old days… it literally makes me sad that we may be losing this again.

Conan is my hero & I hope he finds a place that will give him the respect he deserves. God speed sir! *salute* I will follow you to the ends of the broadcast universe.

Also, If you're a super fan of Conan, or just like him a bit & you use Twitter, follow @InConanWeStand to show your support! I don't know (& kind of doubt) they'll hit a million by Friday, but we can help them try!

Thank you.

Fish.

The Twitter gadget has not been working for a while, so for now, I've replaced it with what I'm calling a Koi Pond, click to feed them. What fun.

Weather Sucks.

I hate that there are no subtle weather changes in Minnesota, it goes from nice to shit in literally a couple of days. Can we at least have some happy time at 60 degrees for a few weeks, then slowly, very slowly lower it from there? Nope.

We went from upper 70s to snow in less the a couple of weeks, insane, & we can never go the other way, it can't have been snowing & then suddenly it's in the 70s a couple weeks later, hell no.

I love to sit on my porch at night, it's warm out, don't need a jacket, t-shirt's fine, maybe a light breeze, & the crickets are chirping, that's heaven. Winter is a dead season, cold, gray & mostly lifeless. As an adult, no more do I get the joy out of freshly fallen snow, no, I think I have to go out & drive in this?! Are you kidding me?! I probably have Seasonal Affective Disorder! I could deck anyone who's all gung ho about winter.

I for one sure live in the wrong state, but there's nothing I can really do about it as my ideal state would be Hawaii. I mean there are regular Joes working there like you & me right? I'd still come back here for the summer, I mean I do like Minnesota, just not in the winter.

Now I just need a ton of cash to pull it off... solid plan.

Venture Northward!

I'm heading northward for a get together with some friends. It'll take approximately 20 minutes shy of 3 hours to drive about 50 miles less then what it takes to go to the Twin Cities. If you're good it takes a little over 2 hours to get to the cities. You got to love northern Minnesota driving... well, actually anything other then I35 can be a pain... & even then... It's almost 10 years into the 2000s, where are the damned fling cars?!

Car History Part III

Well, so now what?! Not having a car stinks when you always are driving places. So I got my self a new one, a Black 2008 Chevy HHR & I like her a lot. When I test drove her I knew she was the one. Lets see were she takes me.

A short story.

There, the ancient human probe has sat, alone, on the baron landscape looking to the heavens diligently, resiliently, for billions of years. Archiving & transmitting what her sensors have gathered for endless millennia, never knowing if her data was received.

On the stage of Universe, life, death, creation & destruction have all played out before her as galaxies collide, but her final task is finally at hand. The end is near, the Red Giant has come for her, to engulf her as he dies.

She embraces his face, the dying Sun, & Earth is no more.

Car History Part II

After the Golden Nugget debacle it was time to get serious, a white 2001 v6 Chevy Malibu with a spoiler & alloy wheels. I would later regret the v6 status during the big gas hike, but otherwise she was a fine car. Less then a week or two she got side swiped by a most likely drunk driver, the worst of the damage being a busted side mirror, she was fixed. Then some time later I got into a fender bender where I was t-boned by Saturn into the drivers side's back door, we were both on the way to our jobs. No injuries, and I guess it was mostly my fault, I didn't pause long enough at a yield sign, but they did admit that there was poor viability, so the same thing still might of happened if he had the yield sign, who know. So she was in the shop for about a week, maybe two, can't remember, but I got to drive a red Dodge Grand Caravan, and it was actually pretty cool. When I got the car back I feet so low to the ground.

Other then these things she was great, until the coolant warning light came on. It seems as I remember a section of tubing, a valve or some part of the cooling system was leaking, the part was cheap, the labor was not. This was because it required the removal of the engine, I actually had the money, I got it fixed, and shortly after that the coolant light came on again. So I take it back, I he tells me that "oh, there's another one on the other side that's probably broke, and it's going to cost another 600.00 or so dollars..." Are you kidding me?! The thought NEVER occurred that hey maybe, because the part is so cheap, maybe, just maybe, since we have the engine out, we should perhaps check on the other one?! Nope. Needless to say I did not have them fix it, I simply kept the coolant topped off.

I should have returned & just laid into them but it pissed me off so much. So the topping off of the coolant was a bit of a hamper & pretty much cut down on her reliability & trust factor that she'd get to where I needed to, but she did for the most part, she even made it over one hundred thousand miles.

Then after I got her last oil change I stopped using her more & more because in addition to her coolant leak, she now had an oil leak. So there she sat in my driveway for a while till one day I find that she's been given to a friend of my mother's because his car was dead. I was only put off a bit by this a little, and didn't get as as angry as one should be I guess. I mean, she's my car, 100%! But the prospect of getting some money for her soften the blow, at least that was the theory.

I've only seen about 100.00, needless to say repair bill mounted, culminating with the death of her engine... so, don't know if I'll ever see another dime for her and for some reason the name Judith Sheindlin keeps dancing around in the back of my mind... hmm...