An “Old Lang Syne” to people we will miss from 2008

Of course, I cannot list all the people who passed away in 2008 so here are just a few of the people I will miss from 2008 whose lives touched my life, even in a small way. Your list may vary and you can click below for the complete Death List 2008.

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Gay Trek (2009)

After three decades and four series, the Starship Enterprise has never seen a gay character. Star Trek producers decided they did not want to cross that final frontier. In an odd distinction for the franchise that, 33 years ago, gave America its first televised interracial kiss, the top-command in Star-Fleet did not want to travel down a path filled with political and moral landmines.

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The 25 Sexiest Women of all time. (The definitive list)

The 25 sexiest women of all time
Because a man needs to know more than just the arbitrary ratings put out by magazines like Men.Style.com. Cosmopolitan, FHM, Esquire, and other magazines that unenlightened twenty-somethings write for.

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The new national past-time (kicking people when they’re down)

While kicking celebrities and politicians when they’re down might make for media ratings and great newspaper fodder for the purpose of selling advertising space, it does not serve society well when we as a society stoop so low as to kick a person when they’re down. It’s petty, mean, and beneath us as Americans.

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THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS SINGERS (PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE)

Every year, they trot out the same lame Christmas songs we have heard for half-a-century, It’s starting to fewhitechristmas1el “contrived.” There’s Burl Eives singing Have a Holly Jolly Christmas or Frosty the Snwoman (the two biggest hits he ever had), Bing doing the Ba-Ba-Ba-Boom, “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,” as I begin to nod off while Dean Martin crooning Christmas Blues on another station and Elvis strumming Blue Christmas on a Gibson sun-burst guitar on yet another.
To honor the festiveness of the holidays I present to you, oh blog-readers, my version of the best and worst of Christmas singers past, present and future.

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Today’s sex in advertising goes from ‘So Fly’ to ‘No Fly.’

The use of “sex” in advertising to sell a product has been around as long as there have been advertisers. Where in the 1960’s, with the strict FCC, it was an innocent form of flirtation. Today’s FCC seems to have relaxed the rules to the point where the sex being hinted at is kinky and quite perverse with sado-masochism, bondage and other forms being hinted at.

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The Lost Art of Bond, James Bond.

I was severely disappointed with the latest Bond release (Number 22 officially, number 24 total) Quantum Of Solace not just as an author of a Bond novel, RED INDIANS but as a James Bond fan. Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond never intended that 007 become a “terminator” or two-dimensional cardboard cut-out action figure. Violence was always an annoyance for Bond which distracted him from his passions in life, girls, cars, Baccarat, and his number one passion, the Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred.

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The Rule Of Three

Maybe God, up there in his heaven, feels a void or has need of three great talents in the same career field at the same time so he takes them all at once. Maybe it’s just the Wiccan Rule of Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), creator of ER and other TV series, died unexpectedly in Los Angeles November 4, 2008 after a courageous and private battle against cancer.

Three- whatever energy a person puts out into the world, be it positive or negative, will be returned to that person three times or conversely, when that energy is taken out of this world- it is taken from us three times.

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AC/DC Rock-N-Roll train rolls on

As a child of the ’60’s, many of todays blog readers are too young to remember that in the 1960’s and 1970’s- most rock songs were protests songs, in fact; much of the rock-n-roll movement was a protest movement, (anti-government, make love – not war, burn your brassiere’s). People bought rock albums as a political statement not because slick marketing executives at Wal-Mart made a big media event out of it.

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Is the bar too high now even for “Superman” to leap in a single bound?

Hell Boy II theme song (Rammstein – Mein Herz Brennt) The Dark Knight sure raised the bar for super-hero action/special effects movies just as Harry Potter raised the bar for children’s fantasy books. Over the next few years the movie-going public will see a proliferation of super-hero movies, all trying to “cash-in” on the success [...]

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