37! (in a row?)

 Happy Easter, everyone!

And since it's the end of March, last week was my 37th birthday.

It's just a weird age, in general. That feeling that I'm closer to 40 than 30. You know, I was afraid of turning 30, but my thirties haven't been so bad. Forty is just a bigger number.

Yep. Bigger number.

I'm not happy about that. Lemme post some pics I took this month.

Birthday lunch! Yes, I somehow managed to finish the whole thing. I should've gotten a half rack.

And just this past Friday I went back to NYC for lunch at Ichiran! Still real good, but my intestinal tract isn't liking that I went spice level 8.

I finally put up a second corkboard to fit the pins I've bought that didn't fit on the original corkboard. And I'll have you know I only cried three times trying to put it up, too.

And here's that original corkboard:

It's funny, it took about ten years worth of collecting to fill up the first board. Almost everything that's on the second board is what I've gotten since *October.* And I've bought more since I've put it up. I have a problem.

McDonald's had another gimmick McNugget sauce, this time a spicy sweet chili sauce for an anime WcDonald's promotion. It was definitely spicy, but wasn't exactly my cup of tea. I liked the Mambo sauce way better.

And probably one of the coolest things I ever saw happened by pure chance. A few Sundays ago, a lil Merlin falcon landed in my backyard and started going to town on a dove.

It mostly yanked out the poor dove's feathers before it flew off with the carcass. I didn't get a pic of that, mostly because I was too mesmerized by the sight.

I hope you all had a good month, and I'll see you all in April!

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Leap Day Sweet Sixteen!

 Can you believe this blog has been around for SIXTEEN years?!

The first posts went live on February 27th and 28th 2008. For whatever reason, I never posted on the 29th that year. Nor the next time in 2012. But I've posted on the 29th every time after that.

As the internet landscape has changed so much over the years, I nevertheless still manage to post here once a month, every month. I'm grateful for anyone still reading this site.

But I can't let this Leap Day go without acknowledging the death of Richard Lewis.

Comedians joking about death is nothing new, and Richard Lewis is a guy that's talked about dying for as long as I've been alive. Still feels weird to actually see it happen. He hadn't been doing too well with Parkinson's lately, and a heart attack is what does him in?!

Richard Lewis was never one of the biggest comedians, but he is one of the most well known. Neurotic Jewish Man was his niche, and boy did he ride it. You needed that type of guy, you called him up and he came running.

He was even the neurotic Jewish spokesman for Boku, and the commercial is painfully 90s. It's incredible.

And Total cereal!

It made him the best kind of foil for Larry David, especially the exaggerated versions of themselves on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Hell, he was just in an episode last week talking about leaving something for Larry in his will!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJcI1Shd75A

Blogger won't let me manually embed youtube videos anymore if I the little search bar can't find it, but I assure you it's hilarious. 

He will be missed. I hope you left Larry something good.

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A Family Guy!

 There's no time to lose, National Gorilla Suit Day is almost over!

But today we celebrate another milestone!

Twenty-five years today, Family Guy premiered after the Super Bowl!

Since it was 1999, I was only 12, and not old enough to stay up that late to see it or the Simpsons episode that followed it. I did see that first episode eventually, and I was immediately hooked with the show. It was the Simpson's edgier Gen X cousin, actually airing on network tv unlike South Park and Beavis & Butt-Head.

It was one of many prime time animated shows that popped up in the late nineties after the success of King of The Hill, like Futurama, Mission Hill, the Dilbert cartoon, and the rest. It was swiftly cancelled after three seasons, after a season of changing timeslots because while it had high ratings when it premiered, Fox tried to see it it would be successful outside of Sunday night.

It wasn't.

But as we all know, the story didn't end there. DVD sales and constant reruns on Adult Swim gave it a new life with a new audience and made its triumphant return in 2005 and hasn't left the airwaves since. 

And once again, Fox is testing the waters to see if it'll succeed outside of Sunday night, moving it to Wednesdays starting March 6th. Blame Fox actually having more than four animated shows going on at once (Simpsons and Bob's Burgers are staying where they are, with The Great North, Krapopolis, and Grimsburg all playing musical chairs in programming slots this year) and one of the shows had to go somewhere.

Will it be the new anchor show to fill the hole The Masked Singer or one of its copycats are gonna leave? Only time will tell!

Unlike a lot of shows that get meme'd to death, Family Guy's impact on pop culture doesn't rely on screenshots (the most notable one being Peter surprised to see someone at the door), but more in short clips taken out of context. When I'm rewatching it, I have to constantly say, "Oh, it's from THIS episode" since most of their cutaway gags have nothing to do with the episode they're from and could've been slotted in anywhere.

Probably my all time favorite was the one where Peter turned the house into a giant puppet.

If not in short, random gags, Family Guy is probably best known for keeping random bits of 70s and 80s culture preserved for all time. 

From Surfin' Bird

To Conway Twitty

To KISS 

Even to The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show.

Unlike a lot of clips that get run into the ground because the gag is because of how long they are, you NEED to see the whole thing of this one. It just gets crazier every moment, and that was just the theme song to an actual show back in the seventies! One of the Hudson Brothers is Kate Hudson's dad. I forget which one.

Not to mention I have this brag:

I knew Peter Griffin since college. Cool guy.

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