Yesterday I posted on the need for South Korea to arm itself with nuclear weapons to defend itself from the Kims up north. But I found this and had to share.
So your country is a 5th world s^&*hole, you've got more people in prison labor than with proper nutrition, George Orwell likely looks upon you as going a bit too far, even for Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. You still gotta laugh sometime.
I've had a rough few weeks, and a friend put out a roast of Frank Senatra. The man of the hour was being punctured by Mr Warmth himself, Don Rickels. A man who can insult you all night, and all you say is, "More! More!"
Unfortunately the man died last year. I really wanted to see him live before he passed. but there is always YouTube, and great memories. Don Rickles' opeing on Saturday Night Live. Enjoy.
A long week, and I'm looking forward to the end of the weekend. But now we have football to watch (at least the NFL has gotten its head out of its ass on these "Social Justice Warriors). And I gotta say, this is a great commercial:
For some reason I thought of this great video from Cheech and Chong.
It has been one long ass week. Started with a very early morning on Monday, but it was well worth it. I attended the Texas Peace Officer's Memorial in Austin. Every year the State of Texas commemorates the members of the Thin Blue Line who have passed in the line of duty. Followed by two days of overtime, plus getting up early again on Wednesday for an extra job. I'm dead.
And I need a laugh. Here are six great videos from Ron White. I saw him back in 2008, and I learned it's better to see him at the late show. He's already drunk when he walks on the stage. And my Christmas present for last year was two tickets to Ron White in San Antonio. The wife laughed her ass off, and so did I.
Growing up, I spent many an evening with friends watching the 10:35pm rerun of M*A*S*H on WWL, Channel 4 in New Orleans. Still a great show, over thirty years after it has signed off.
Unfortunately, we must say good by to one of it's greatest members, David Ogden Stiers, always to be remembered as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III.
One of the strengths of M*A*S*H was as characters left the show, they were replaced by other characters who were not the same. Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) was a strict Regular Army officer, replacing the walk over Army Reservist in Lieutenant Colonel Henry Black (McLean Stevenson). With Charles, he replaced the hapless and incompetent Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville). Whereas Frank was always unable to get the better of his tent-mate opposites, Charles was not going to take anything from Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and BJ Honeycutt (Mike Farrell).
He was also a much deeper character than Frank, as arrogant as the day is long, but with abilities to back it up. Charles was a superb surgeon, not as good a businessman, and not enough to evade Colonel Potter's gaze.
One of the more moving scene of Charles was in 1980s Moral Victory, when he helped a concert pianist realize, although his hand is no longer able to play the instrument, his gift for music is still there. And always will be. In a human moment for the reserved Boston Blue Blood:
Don't you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be. The gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life I wanted to play, but I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. You have performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you've already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head and in your heart and in your soul. Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world - through the baton, the classroom, or the pen. As to these works, they're for you, because you and the piano will always be as one.
One of my favorite quotes of the man was in a recording to his parents, "Please send me some deodorant. I don't care about the others, I just don't want to offend myself!" From the episode, this signing off quote:
Back to Charles' love of music, the final episode of the series, Goodby, Farewell, and Amen, shows him working with a North Korean army band. At the end, the members are killed in an artillery strike. One of the few things that gave him relief from the war, music, is now a reminder of the war.
Charles was famous for his goodby phrase, "Gentlemehhhhhhhhhn." From the final episode, his goodby to the M*A*S*H. Loretta Swit said he was a very private person in real life, and none of the cast had his private phone number. The scene where he hands her a book, the inscription was his actual phone number. The reaction was real.
RIP David Ogden Stiers. Another great one goes. As it was well said, it's not how you're buried, it's how you're remembered. You will be remembered well sir.
One of the things that has aggravated me with the BLM/ANTIFA movement is their interfering with people going about their business. You have a right to "peacefully assembly for regress of grievances," that does not give you the right to block traffic, etc.
Now the fun thing is the source seems to think this article will offend most people. It won't. Most people are adults who can take a joke and understand this is not inciting violence, but saying "Get your ass out of the way and get a job!"
Let's just say I'm not exactly impressed with the "Day without Women," more accurately with the "Day without some women working." Personally I've met with several personnel working today and they generally don't have time for this bulls@#$, they have jobs, families to support, etc.
But seeing there are females out there protesting something, here is my contribution. One of Norman Lear's greatest shows, Maude, the cousin of Edith Bunker (if I have to explain this, you're too young for this blog) conducting a bicentennial play, commenting the women of the American Revolution.
As I haven't figured out how to cut the video, I recommend you just go to 20:00. Enjoy!
