Anybody that knows me knows that there are only a handful of shows that I love as much as I love Saturday Night Live. There is no end to the amount of praise that I could bestow on this marvelous show, but I have decided to take another route. For anybody born in the 70’s and beyond, SNL has been there. Hate it or love it, SNL has been there providing commentary on the events of our lives. For some of us, Saturday Night Live has offered up some impromptu life lessons.

1. Humor Lives on Long After the Comedian Dies
Many SNL alum have died well before their time. Call it a curse. Call it fate. Call it what you want. Either way, Jim Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, and Chris Farley all died way too young. We all benefit from being able to go back and watch them on VCR tape or DVD. Their comedy will continue to live on long after SNL is gone.

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It's not often that I have the time to give my grandmother a shout-out, but  here it is. I want to give big props to my g-ma  for her helping me to reach my quest of 'World's Strongest Man in the Email-Deleting Finger Catagory'. Thanks to her, I have added millimeters of girth and amazing definition to my email-deleting finger.

On any given Monday, I could spend minutes a day deleting all of the unread emails that she has forwarded me. I don't mean any disrespect to my grandmother, but I pretty much got the 'Obama = terrorist' message in your first email. You know I am a well informed, educated man. I graduated from an accredited university (UNT '07); you were there.  I'm not amongst the undereducated masses that not only thought finishing high school was unnecessary, but also make up the majority of stereotypical Texans.  I just don't fall into that group of people that is swayed by propaganda whether it is political, racist, or fear based.
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Seeing how I am a self-professed comic geek, I am generally my friends’ go-to source for any and everything comic book related. Currently, the most often asked question that I am getting is: “Why did they make another Incredible Hulk movie? Didn’t they just make one a couple of years ago?”

To answer that question, Marvel (comics) is taking a new direction with their movies. They will not be auctioning off licensing to the highest bidder as was done with Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Hulk. In doing so, we were subjected Spider-Man with organic webbing, The FF looking like a 2 hour commercial for toys, and the Hulk trying to be cerebral and romantic – Ang Lee style. Also with different studios owning the movies, the fans were never going to see crossover cameos like Tony Stark made in the Incredible Hulk.

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The internet has brought us all into the information age. One could argue that in spite of the increasingly stupid things that people do, our society is relatively more informed, creative, and knowledgeable. How else would somebody have thought up Youtube, Myspace, and Bittorrent? For practically everything I loved as a kid, there is an online equivalent. File sharing replaced having to swap tapes and “dubbing” them with a dual cassette player. Myspace replaced handwriting letters to friends, family, and pen pals.

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I have never been one to dodge and weave when it comes to my feelings on dating, marriage, and the opposite sex altogether. While it might serve others to be a little more reserved or allusive, that’s just not my style. There is no need to keep the emotional “walls” when being totally open and upfront serves as something of a tool to weed out those that couldn’t handle my life experiences. At the age of 30, it is becoming more and more commonplace to find myself sitting across the table from a lady with a similar emotional background. Honestly, if you’re 30 and not married or divorced then you will probably fall into the minority in the dating scene.

Which leads me to my point: I have spent the last couple of years dating and finding myself in short-term relationships. I have met a lot of women through the more traditional means (i.e. through friends, family,work) as well as the “new traditional” means (match.com and other various internet sites). Continue Reading

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As Memorial Day nears, I have come to the realization that I have committed the unwritten 8th deadly sin – complacency. I have become so wrapped up in the rising prices of food and gas, how many TV channels I can get, and how many carbs are in the 3 burritos and 4 soft tacos from Taco Bueno that I just ate. This makes it very easy to forget that there is still a war going on. We have been at war so long, we're starting to creep into Vietnam territory.

It has become commonplace to turn on the television, hear about the attacks and death toll, and not even be phased. Why? Because we, as a society, have become complacent. We walk through our behemoth open-air malls buying useless crap, sipping coffee in the middle of the summer, and drive our air polluting vehicles without stopping to think about all of the men and women that are overseas protecting our right to do so.

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In poker, there is a common term for making a bad situation worse. It’s called “chasing bad money with good money”. It’s a gentleman’s term for doing something stupid rather than letting a hand go. I personally feel that the Economic Stimulus Package is just that. Yes, “free money” is always a good thing, but I’d much rather see a price fix on gas and food. That would help me out a lot more. And for most people, this one time check is only going to be a short term fix. What happens next month when the prices for food and gas are still outrageous and I still can’t afford them?

Don’t get me wrong. I plan on blowing my money. I know I should do something responsible with it, but screw that. George Bush wants us to spend it, and who am I to tell the president “no”? I’m sure that there were plenty of people that didn’t agree with the way Julius Caesar did things, but I would venture to say that few people ever told him “no”. And look what happened with that. We ended up with a really tasty salad dressing. So until I’m covering a bed of romaine lettuce with Bush dressing, I’m going to rip through my economic stimulation like a 7 yr old opening Christmas packages.

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In a recent article, I comically used the dysphemism “like a B-52 over Nagasaki” to describe my writing style. My aim was not to offend anybody. Well, not to offend anybody with that statement. I had an interesting comment that got me to thinking about how long is the moratorium for humorous references to tragic events.

I personally choose to laugh at as much of life as possible. I have found that it really helps me keep my sanity. Yet, at the same time, I don’t want to laugh at other people’s expense or in the wake of their pain. Now it’s one thing to laugh at kids that wipe out while riding their bikes and skateboards. It’s an entirely different thing when you outrage an entire generation.

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A recent conversation with a coworker gave me the idea for this blog. The conversation started out as most Monday morning conversations do, “What did you do this weekend?” This led me to respond with, “I found a box of cassette tapes and I sat around listening to them.” In which my young (I’d guess 20ish) coworker responded with, “what’s that?”

How does someone, presumably, only 10 years younger than me not know what cassette tapes are? At first I wanted to cry, but then I decided to just write about it. In doing so, I came up with a list of things that my daughter (and yet to be conceived other children) will probably never know about.

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This has been on my mind for some time now. It is said that as you age, your taste buds change. As they change, we start to enjoy other foods and dislike ones that previously we had loved. There have been scientific studies conducted that support this and we, as a society, have accepted this. In addition to the change in my taste buds, other things have changed. When I was a young boy, my hair was almost white and now it is a very dark blonde. Some might even say it is light brown. I’m not so much concerned with the physical changes I have undergone over the past decade or two as I am with the mental changes.

The most notable mental alteration is the metamorphosis in my preferences of the opposite sex. I can remember when I was a senior in high school (RHS  ‘96….whoo whoo Go Raiders!) and in a moment of pure enlightenment, I realized that every girlfriend I had ever had was blonde-haired and blue eyed. Many would write this off as a classic case of the Oedipus complex. Sure, I hated my father, who didn’t. And yes, I loved my mother, but not in *that* way. I think that it stems more from lack of exposure to other sects of our culture. I ended up forcing myself to date brunettes, Asians, redheads, and all sorts of other women. It worked.

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….I just saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico.
 
I have started a new website that is destined to be HUGE. OK, so I'm not sure about that, but I'm going to give it a hell of a shot. The website is: www.boomboomboombang.com. So far, there isn't much. I'm looking to turn the site into a monthly webmag (or webzine) that will have all sorts of awesome content and stuff.

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