Well, I guess I can stop gushing over all the incredible weather we had this past weekend. I didn’t mind the wonderful 60-degree weather, it sure made it much more enjoyable to hang Christmas lights, but it’s time to come back to reality. When you live in and around Chicagoland… 20’s and 30’s is more or less par for the course this time of year.
Right now, There’s a winter weather warning in effect and a huge snowstorm just around the corner. They’re reporting that we could get over a foot of snow in the next 24 hours.
Almost 60 degrees to one foot of snow in 36 hours. Welcome to weather in Chicago.
Did Wii break your TV? via Yahoo! Video Games
Looks like we’ll be getting in some more broken TVs at work, thanks to Nintendo’s Wii video gaming system.
I wish I could go to the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City. Not only because I love comics and cartoons, but because of a new exhibit that opened up - The Golden Age of Saturday Morning Cartoons.
MoCCA will be celebrating 60 years of television animation, focusing on the “Golden Age” of Saturday morning cartoons, which lasted from 1966 to 1990. The exhibit will also examine how television animation has changed since 1990.
From what I’ve read, the collection is huge. Character roughs, storyboards, scripts, and toys are just some of the items that are on display. The collection covers over fifty different shows and from what I read, the list of shows bring back great memories from when I was a kid.
It’s no secret, most current cartoons are terrible. And since the the rise of niche program networks, the major networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) have long since abandoned their previous Saturday morning cartoon line-up. Although, Saturday morning cartoons have become better in the last few years, a Saturday morning full of cartoons just doesn’t have the same “event” feel to it like it did when I was a kid. I’m glad, I had the opportunity to experience some of the Golden Age of Saturday morning cartoons. Saturday mornings were a lot of fun for me, watching cartoons, eating Fruity Pebbles. This exhibit would be great way to revisit some of those shows, and those Saturday morning experiences, one more time.
Recently, JibJab teamed up with comedy director John Landis (Blues Brothers… need I say more.) and several comedy troupes to bring about six funny videos as part of a project called The Great Sketch Experiment. You can vote for your favorite comedy sketch. So far, my favorite is Shawshank in a Minute.
WOW! That was my reaction at the end of last night’s fall finale of Prison Break. I was shocked that Kellerman shot Mahone in order to help Michael and Lincoln get away. But so many questions were left open. Is Mahone dead? What will T-Bag do now that he has found Mrs. Hollander? And of course, where’s Haywire?
Also, to answer one of my questions from last week… According to MediaWeek, FOX now has to plans to waive Prison Break’s hiatus. Just like last year, FOX had initial plans to pull the show at the end of November and bring it back in March with new episodes until the May finale. But I guess FOX reads my site and knew how much I disliked it when they took the show off for over three months. Well, OK… They probably didn’t pay any attention my rants. But I’m sure there were plenty of other angry viewers that they did pay attention too.
Regardless, it looks like we’ll be getting the second half of this season sooner than later. Prison Break will take the night off when 24 premieres in January and it will also be shelved for the two Mondays when FOX airs a couple of college football games. After that, it will return to its normal time on Mondays with Prison Break at 7 PM and 24 at 9 PM… making up the greatest night of TV ever.
TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: He creates fusion in his Oakland Township home via Detroit Free Press
In fact, on www.fusor.net, the Stoney Creek senior is ranked as the 18th amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion.
WOW, and I thought I was cool when I mixed baking soda and vinegar together.
This past weekend, we took advantage the incredible weather, and went to Tammen Treeberry Farm in search for the Pierson Family Christmas Tree. And even though the weather was enjoyable, somehow it just didn’t feel right looking for a tree without a little snow on the ground.
However, what I found even odder was my three year old son asking why we cut down the “poor trees.” Maybe they’ve been reading The Lorax to him at school, but I found it very strange that he would be asking such an environmentally minded question so young. A question, to which Beth and I didn’t have a real good answer to - other than to say; its tradition and they grow Christmas trees on tree farms for the very reason of cutting them down.
I think this satisfied my tree-hugging son, because we all had a good time.
I really enjoyed a great parade. Seeing the State Street Thanksgiving Parade (excuse me) McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade is always so much better in person than on TV. Then top that off with incredible weather and VIP seats and it becomes just that more enjoyable. Seeing all of the balloons towering above us, watching all the performances up close, hearing all of the great marching bands from all over (we even spotted the Hillcrest high school marching band - Beth’s old high school) is pretty special.
Afterwards, we all stuffed ourselves full of turkey at my Dad’s House and Beth’s Mom’s House. All in all it was a very good Thanksgiving. I have more to share from this past weekend, but I’ll have to share all our weekend festivities later. Right now, I should get back to work. In the meantime, click HERE to view and/or download more photos of the McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade at Flickr.
Looking back, a year ago today. Take a step back in time: November 24th, 2005.