And, how about a Garfield episode

I suspect there's a lawyer trying to get this removed from the Internet, but since Mark Evanier sometimes links to these, I'd guess it OK for me, as well.
This really is one of the better ones and is well worth the time you might invest in watching it.

One of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs

"Doctor Worm." 'nuff said.

An early clip of The Avengers

THE AVENGERS (1961) The Frighteners - Amazing videos are here
This is a really early clip of "The Avengers," even before Diana Rigg joined the show. It's a little long, at nine-and-a-half minutes, but kind of interesting to watch and see where the show went from the early start.

Max and Ruby: Latch-key kids?

Does anyone else wonder where the parental supervision on "Max and Ruby" is? The show, for those of you who don't know, is a kids show about two bunnies: Ruby and her little brother Max.
But, there are no parents on this show. Ever. All we ever see is their grandma who comes over occasionally.
Apparently, I am not the only one to notice this. This blog says the whole thing more eloquently than I could, and did it way before I ever heard of the show.

Rodney Carrington can suck my hairy @#$%

Every one of us has heard commercials that get under our skin, right?
Well, there's one on the local ESPN affiliate (WGH-AM 1310) that seems to play at every station break all day long. It's an advertisement for a Rodney Carrington concert, to take place in early April somewhere in the Hampton Roads area. (I'd look it up, but I am too lazy and I don't want to give it any more press than I have to.)
The commercial not only makes me turn off the station, but also never, ever want to hear Rodney Carrington live, on TV, on the radio or anywhere else. Not in a house, not with a mouse, not here or there, not anywhere, Sam-I-Am!
Potty-mouth comedians can be funny, especially when they are clever. In this case, however ... well, I'll let you read some of what I have had to hear every single stinking day and you can decide for yourself.
This commercial starts out with a song that must be called, "Don't look now, your momma's got her boobs out." At least, those are the only lyrics that we hear. I have no idea what its real title is. And, even though it appears to deal with breasts, I have no interest in hearing any more of it.
Then, the commercial proceeds to a few clips of ol' Rodney saying things like, "My wife and I made a homemade porno movie which somehow has ended up in the Internet. Because I put it there." And, "You think those things are ugly with hair on them? I stepped out of the shower and my wife said,'What did you do?' and I said 'Ta-daaa!'"
Then, it ends up with a few strains of his latest hit song, "Show them to me."
I think in this case, "hit song" means you want to hit someone when you hear it.
Someone obviously thinks this is funny. Someone is buying this guy's CDs and tickets to his concerts. Somewhere there's somebody sitting in his living room laughing out loud and reciting Rodeney Carrington jokes, such as they may be. And, there's probably someone else sitting beside this fellow roaring aloud with laughter.
But it sure as all-git-out ain't me.
With all that said, I can hardly wait for his concert.
Because when it's over, the commercial will be off the air. And, I won't have to think about his shaven member, his mommas boobs or his stupid homemade porno movie (which, by the way, may have featured this shaven member and his momma's boobs for all I know.).
I wish I could say I am offended by his lowbrow vulgarity, but I'm not. What offends me is the stupid banality he is passing off as humor. If this commercial features some of the funniest parts of his show to entice me to buy tickets, it ain't working.
Maybe there are some funny parts to his routine. Maybe there's something I am missing. If so, I'm sorry, Rodney, for taking you to task on this blog read by millions of people worldwide. (OK, how about it's read by up to a half-dozen people who know me and have nothing better to do right now than read this rant? Woudja believe two cops in a rowboat? *)
But I am so sick of that damn commercial -- which wasn't funny in the first time and hasn't gotten any better through what seems like 9,257 replays -- that I am never, ever gonna find out if he says anything truly funny or not.
It's almost as bad as political ads around election day. You remember -- the ones Gary Burbank used to "blow up" the day after the election was over. Boy, did that always make me feel good. In fact, I wish Gary was still on the air, so that after Rodney's concert is over, he could blow up that annoying commercial. That, I could listen to at every station break all day long.
I can hear it now: "Live, in person, Rodney CarringBOOOOOOOOOOM ... That sound like a big sa'plosion."
Music to my ears. And funnier than any of ol' Rodney's jokes about his hairless blue-veined throbber, I bet.**

*This joke was stolen from an episode of "Get Smart," which is good advice for Rodney when he hires the next person to make commercials advertising his concerts.
** But, what do I know? I am the guy blogging about what he has for breakfast, for cryin' out loud!

Serial cereal blogging

Well, today, I didn't have cereal. My lovely and talented wife made bacon and eggs for me.

(In case you are curious, the currently open cereal box from which I am eating is Golden Grahams.)

So, ya wanna be an NFL star, eh?

Here's an abbreviated version of the Wonderlic Test, which is administered to NFL hopefuls during the combine.
Some other interesting information from Wikipedia:
The Wonderlic Personnel Test is a twelve-minute, fifty-question intelligence test used to assess the aptitude of prospective employees for learning and problem-solving in a wide range of occupations.[1] The score is calculated as the number of correct answers given in the allotted time. A score of 20 is intended to indicate average intelligence (corresponding to an intelligence quotient of 100; a rough conversion is accomplished via the following formula: IQ = 2WPT + 60). A new version was released in Jan, '07 called the Wonderlic Personnel Test - Revised. It contains questions deemed more appropriate to the 21st century.
Though used in a wide variety of institutions, the Wonderlic test has become best known for its use in the NFL pre-draft assessments of prospective football players.
This assessment roughly corresponds to examples from Paul Zimmerman's The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football. According to Zimmerman, examples of average scores for each position are:
Offensive tackle - 26
Center - 25
Quarterback - 24
Guard - 23
Tight end - 22
Safety - 19
Linebacker - 19
Cornerback - 18
Wide receiver - 17
Fullback - 17
Halfback - 16
Pat McInally, a graduate of Harvard University, is the only football player to record a confirmed perfect score of 50.

So, say what you will, the smartest NFL players, by this standard anyway, are offensive tackles. That doesn't make much intuitive sense.
Vince Young, famously, got a 6.