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Random Thoughts (Jan 19, 2007)I dreamt that Tom Rockwell of Sudden Death came to my house with a DVD rental of a cartoon turned into a live-action movie. I was thinking "The Flinstones". But, no. Would you believe the obscure Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch!"? When that happens for real, we'll know that it's time to shut the movie studios down for good as they're out of ideas. THE HAIR BEAR BUNCH chronicles the adventures of Hair Bear (voiced by Daws Butler), Bubi Bear (Paul Winchell), and Square Bear (Bill Callaway). In each episode, the fun-loving bears escape the zoo in an invisible motorcyle, much to the dismay of head zookeeper Mr. Peevley (John Stephenson) and his blank-brained assistant, Lionel J. Boch (Joe E. Ross). The show originally aired in 1971, and the influences of the era are very apparent -- Hair Bear sports a big afro, and all three bears (who, interestingly, bear a striking resemblance to Scooby-Doo) are clearly meant to be hippies. I'm not sure how that dream got into my head.91X has been playing songs with the F-word as of late. I swear I heard the Mexican-owned station play "F--k Authority" unedited, while 94.9 played the songs with the F-word reversed. 91X used to play songs like "88 Lines About 44 Women" unedited including the F-word before Clear Channel told them to run an edited version of the song. Looks like 91X has returned to its original self, but still, they have to cut the crap goth music. I was listening to Rock 105.3 for the football game this past Sunday and The Chargers lost to the New England Patriots 24-21 on Sunday. What offended me wasn't the loss of the Chargers, in fact, I congratulate the Patriots for being responsible for a upsurge in people falling off the Charger bandwagon. What offended me was the stadium speakers started playing that awful song by Evanessence "Bring Me to Life," then I flipped off Rock 105.3 and went to 91X. Whoever played that song in Qualcomm must have a brain IQ below that of Nicole Ritchie. And finally, is it possible that there's really nothing on in prime-time television anymore? I hear radio ads for TV shows all the time on the local stations and can't seem to get interested in any of the dreck that's being produced by Hollywood anymore. Now they're putting CBS show adverts on...eggs? If you're convinced to watch the CBS shows, the yoke's on you! Anybody care to advertise a prime-time TV show on my car? I'm offering for My Network TV to pay me $50,000 for the privilege to advertise a show on my car (that means, a complete wrap of my car with the advert including the rear window and hood) for a month airing on "My Network TV". |