A...So I've been watching a lot of episode of Man vs. Food lately. For those of you who have never seen this show....A guy, Adam, travels to cities around America to various cities. In each city he tries out some cool/locally famous food from a couple of places and then there is a food challenge. The challenge could be eating a 48 oz steak, some huge pancakes or some super hot wings....you get the picture. So while watching and thinking I came up with two half baked ideas.
1. To make the show more interesting, when Adam does his food challenge, he should also be challenging someone from the city. I think it would make the entire process more interesting and fun to watch. Maybe even teams....Adam brings a friend along. I don't know exactly, but something along these lines would give the show a boost.
2. This is the better of the 2 ideas. Open a Man vs Food restaurant. Here is why this works. First off, who would not want to go try to eat the ridiculously sized portions of food like on the show. Guys are always claiming they could eat a dozen hot dogs or 2 whole pizzas or whatever. Well here is the venue to prove eating challenges. Even to sit down with some buddies and eat a couple of these items would be a good time. Throw in some beers and wallaa.....fun time. And its not like the foods are exotic, so it should be relatively easy and cost effective. People would not be going there for the quality of the food or the decor. You could probably have picnic tables and old random posters on the walls and it would be good enough.
All that someone would have to do is watch the show, write down the crazy challenges and open a restaurant. Done and done.
B...Gotta mention the bachelorette. Who are the people screening the contestants? Are they as incompetent as weathermen? How hard could it be to find out if someone has a girlfriend? I don't think it would be that hard. And when they played his voice mail messages to his girlfriend as he was walking off was amazing tv. Well done.
C. After the untimely death of Blanche from the Golden Girls last month I was gonna propose a Golden Girls movie, but I think Sex in the City 2 may have destroyed the chance for a bunch of girls type movie.
D. So we take a post school trip to Monmouth Park racetrack every year. We get a picnic section reserved and you can basically bring whatever you want in, including booze. This is awesome because of the BYOB. Why dont more places try this. WNBA.....maybe I would attend a game if I could bring my own 6 pack in. Beers should not be banned on the beach. Movie theatres....why not? Your kid's school concert should be BYOB. Basically everything should be BYOB. Sure we make things BYOB, but I want places to encourage it
E...website of the week. This is a new section I would like to add to the blog. This weeks it's "People of Walmart" Basically funny picture of funny looking people taken in Walmarts. Plan on being on this site for 30 minutes minimum
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=14613
F. You mentioned back a few blogs about a Rewind button on the car radio. I saw a commercial for a Buick with some type of satellite radio that has a rewind button. But who wants a Buick?
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
A return in style- Bachelorette thoughts
No apologies will be offered or allowed. In the past few weeks my blogging took a back seat, and it is up to me to make it up to you with some witty thoughts, questions and ideas…
Getting right to it…
How have we not discussed the Bachelorette.
This show in general is phenomenal. It hits everything that is right with our country. Seriously think about it at the same time the show is: dramatic, funny (unintentionally, but funny nonetheless), romantic, and emotional. It is routine but unique with each episode and season following the same format but somehow offering the most dramatic rose ceremony yet. It is both self-referential and self-sustaining. They legitimately use their own cliché’s of “connections” and “here for the right reason” as judgment criteria and s much as we make fun of it, we nod our head cheer along. They have the perfect fit of familiar faces and new blood. Please tell me that we are all aware of the perfect chain we are witnessing right now… From bar owning twin who chose not to pick a final girl, to the Greek Girl to the guy with the kid who decided to switch his choice on the after the rose show, to the Canadian Chick with the greatest job of all time, to the most boring pilot ever, and finally to our blond bombshell drunken -party girl.
Alas. This blog doesn’t exist to praise things that are perfect. It exists so Rob and I can share our unasked for advice, in an attempt to make things more to our liking. Hence I offer three quick notes on this season of the Bachelorette. Really two observations and one solution…
1. This wee saw the dismissal of two of the all-time awkward guys in Bachelorette history. The hearing-impaired guy was on my freak list from episode one. Then he lost his mind and got a tattoo and went to a list of people who are over 90% likely to have a collection of doll heads smeared with mayonnaise in his night-stand. And the other guy (Chirs N?) has been a slip-through-the-cracks character who finally was put on the spot; and when pressed to same something interesting or personal he offered up, “I like mexican food.” Really this is what you have to offer. Nothing more? What is the criteria to get on this show? Less than five electroshock treatments? Honestly if I was a single women I would be depressed with what this show represent as the crème de la crème of the male dating pool.
2. I think Ali agrees with me. Despite her general alcohol driven ambivalence, she seems to be relatively unimpressed with her choice of bachelors. You can almost picture the moment during her pre-rose-ceremony interview where they cut off the cameras and politely explained to her that she should act a little more enthused about her potential suitors. But honestly can you blame her? Lets take a critical look at each of the guys left. In no particular order we have:
- A professional wrestler.
- A guy who moved to France to chase his dream only to move back home with his parents 6weeks later. Also note this guy is developing a dangerous jealousy twitch.
- The guy from Massachusetts; who despite the sad story about his mother is a little too excited about introducing Ali to his family. Seriously, 10 year olds aren’t this amped about their dad and they usually thin their father has super powers.
- Rico Suave
- A guy who almost died of mold poisoning, and somehow used that as the excuse for why he hasn’t ever had a serious girlfriend.
- A cowboy. Trust me, the advertising account girl from San Francisco is not interested in moving to Tennessee
- And my dark horse favorite the lawyer- from now on called Darden Copeland II. (Darden Copeland I went to UR with me and is this guys twin.) He actually has the most normal points of everyone so far. Of course by writing this I’m sure he’ll rub peanut butter in his hair and poop himself in the next episode.
The truth is the show simply has the poor man’s bachelor’s and bachelorette’s these days… now I don’t think this is a problem, I look at it more as an opportunity to enhance and fix the show before it falls 100% off the tracks.
3. This naturally is where I have wanted to go all along, and that is giving my opinion for fixing this particular show. On a side note, my solution could work for literally every single “competition” based reality show. Next to my rant about airport luggage this is one of my most fully-baked “ideas I would implement if I was in charge of everything.”
We have already seen the concept of a reality show where there is a secret twist - either the guy’s not a millionaire, or it’s not a beauty contest it’s an inner beauty contest. All of these are a relatively flat take, but they get to the point of making the game something different. I want to expand on it, and I want to do so in a way that drives increased audience participation.
Let’s say we start with myself- a reality show fan who is smarter than the average bear. Now let’s say you pair me up against another reality show fan- for argument sakes lets say this other fan is an Irish hooligan from New England with a series of ill-advised tattoo’s- lets name him Casey.
Now both Casey and I enjoy watching, cheering, and critiquing the antics behind all of these guys as they try to win Ali’s heart. So imagine if there was a way where each of us is assigned one of the bachelors as a coach. We are given the opportunity to meet with our bachelor on a regular basis and give him tips insight and advice based on what we see in the episodes. Of course Casey and I are each able to solicit advice from the public at large. Say we leverage the concept of social media and ask the audience advice on whether our guy should play the sensitive card, the friend card, or the bat shit crazy card. All ways round the audience is now involved in the outcome of the game. They can cheer for their favorite bachelor as a traditionalist, they can cheer for the individuals versus the guys given and advantage, they can cheer for my style versus Casey’s style, and they can cheer for the guy that takes their opinion on a decision they weighed in on.
It is literally impossible to convince that my idea is not awesome.
Getting right to it…
How have we not discussed the Bachelorette.
This show in general is phenomenal. It hits everything that is right with our country. Seriously think about it at the same time the show is: dramatic, funny (unintentionally, but funny nonetheless), romantic, and emotional. It is routine but unique with each episode and season following the same format but somehow offering the most dramatic rose ceremony yet. It is both self-referential and self-sustaining. They legitimately use their own cliché’s of “connections” and “here for the right reason” as judgment criteria and s much as we make fun of it, we nod our head cheer along. They have the perfect fit of familiar faces and new blood. Please tell me that we are all aware of the perfect chain we are witnessing right now… From bar owning twin who chose not to pick a final girl, to the Greek Girl to the guy with the kid who decided to switch his choice on the after the rose show, to the Canadian Chick with the greatest job of all time, to the most boring pilot ever, and finally to our blond bombshell drunken -party girl.
Alas. This blog doesn’t exist to praise things that are perfect. It exists so Rob and I can share our unasked for advice, in an attempt to make things more to our liking. Hence I offer three quick notes on this season of the Bachelorette. Really two observations and one solution…
1. This wee saw the dismissal of two of the all-time awkward guys in Bachelorette history. The hearing-impaired guy was on my freak list from episode one. Then he lost his mind and got a tattoo and went to a list of people who are over 90% likely to have a collection of doll heads smeared with mayonnaise in his night-stand. And the other guy (Chirs N?) has been a slip-through-the-cracks character who finally was put on the spot; and when pressed to same something interesting or personal he offered up, “I like mexican food.” Really this is what you have to offer. Nothing more? What is the criteria to get on this show? Less than five electroshock treatments? Honestly if I was a single women I would be depressed with what this show represent as the crème de la crème of the male dating pool.
2. I think Ali agrees with me. Despite her general alcohol driven ambivalence, she seems to be relatively unimpressed with her choice of bachelors. You can almost picture the moment during her pre-rose-ceremony interview where they cut off the cameras and politely explained to her that she should act a little more enthused about her potential suitors. But honestly can you blame her? Lets take a critical look at each of the guys left. In no particular order we have:
- A professional wrestler.
- A guy who moved to France to chase his dream only to move back home with his parents 6weeks later. Also note this guy is developing a dangerous jealousy twitch.
- The guy from Massachusetts; who despite the sad story about his mother is a little too excited about introducing Ali to his family. Seriously, 10 year olds aren’t this amped about their dad and they usually thin their father has super powers.
- Rico Suave
- A guy who almost died of mold poisoning, and somehow used that as the excuse for why he hasn’t ever had a serious girlfriend.
- A cowboy. Trust me, the advertising account girl from San Francisco is not interested in moving to Tennessee
- And my dark horse favorite the lawyer- from now on called Darden Copeland II. (Darden Copeland I went to UR with me and is this guys twin.) He actually has the most normal points of everyone so far. Of course by writing this I’m sure he’ll rub peanut butter in his hair and poop himself in the next episode.
The truth is the show simply has the poor man’s bachelor’s and bachelorette’s these days… now I don’t think this is a problem, I look at it more as an opportunity to enhance and fix the show before it falls 100% off the tracks.
3. This naturally is where I have wanted to go all along, and that is giving my opinion for fixing this particular show. On a side note, my solution could work for literally every single “competition” based reality show. Next to my rant about airport luggage this is one of my most fully-baked “ideas I would implement if I was in charge of everything.”
We have already seen the concept of a reality show where there is a secret twist - either the guy’s not a millionaire, or it’s not a beauty contest it’s an inner beauty contest. All of these are a relatively flat take, but they get to the point of making the game something different. I want to expand on it, and I want to do so in a way that drives increased audience participation.
Let’s say we start with myself- a reality show fan who is smarter than the average bear. Now let’s say you pair me up against another reality show fan- for argument sakes lets say this other fan is an Irish hooligan from New England with a series of ill-advised tattoo’s- lets name him Casey.
Now both Casey and I enjoy watching, cheering, and critiquing the antics behind all of these guys as they try to win Ali’s heart. So imagine if there was a way where each of us is assigned one of the bachelors as a coach. We are given the opportunity to meet with our bachelor on a regular basis and give him tips insight and advice based on what we see in the episodes. Of course Casey and I are each able to solicit advice from the public at large. Say we leverage the concept of social media and ask the audience advice on whether our guy should play the sensitive card, the friend card, or the bat shit crazy card. All ways round the audience is now involved in the outcome of the game. They can cheer for their favorite bachelor as a traditionalist, they can cheer for the individuals versus the guys given and advantage, they can cheer for my style versus Casey’s style, and they can cheer for the guy that takes their opinion on a decision they weighed in on.
It is literally impossible to convince that my idea is not awesome.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Weekend at Bernie's
Long overdue
Sorry for the delay folks, lots going on with both of us, but here is a nice, rambling blog.
1. If you have kids or plan on having kids you probably made a statements along the lines of "my kid is gonna love watching espn" or "my kid is gonna love listening to 80's rap" or "my kid's stuff will not take over my home". Sadly all of these statements are true. Well maybe not the music totally, I've seen jackson bopping to the 80's music channel on tv. We hit rock bottom on trip to Williamsport Pa, a few weeks ago (3 hour drive) about half way there our son started getting a little fussy so we thought popping in one of his kids music cds we made may help. It did, only there was 1 major problem. Kids songs are no longer the 2 minutes, so a CD of 20 songs is still only like 25-30 minutes. Well I think we listened to the CD like 4 times on loop. During the 3rd run through Ady ad I were just singing and laughing at ourselves b/c we were jamming out to "itsy bitsy spider" and "you are my sunshine" amongst others. It was then we realized how far we had fallen. If you are reading this and you have been to this place, you know exactly what i'm talking about willis (RIP Gary Coleman). And if you cannot relate, you will someday and think of this.
2. So I go to drop off some stuff at the dry cleaners the other day, not thinking anything would happen to dumbfound me, but then I walked in. The man behind the counter was wearing baseball batting gloves. I was speechless. Still kinda am. Batting gloves? Yes batting gloves like the pros wear. They were white Easton batting gloves. Why batting gloves? Why not some rubber gloves? I have never even seen a dry cleaner person wearing any kind of gloves, let alone baseball batting gloves. Toll booth workers sometimes wear rubber gloves, as do some checkout people in stores, but a dry cleaner? I need some explanation on this one.
3. RW/RR Fresh Meat....What a crazy final quest. Talk about challenging, holy crap. Canoes, crazy uphills, 80 lb bags, ice axes? I was tired from watching it. Kudos to Landon and Carly. They peaked at just the right time. In the last 3 episodes the won an exiile, huge obstacle course and the finale. They really handed it to kenny and Laurel who dominated the entire season. Jenn/Noor...thanks for playing, that sucks. Overall great season for me. I think the events/challenges were a great change in "beautiful British Columbia" How many times you think TJ said that? Seriously.
4. Andrew McCarthy......So we had a school retirement party this past week. The woman retiring is the aunt of none other than the star of Weekend at Bernies and Manequin, two great movies from our childhood. I entertained the idea earlier in the week that he would be there, but who goes to their aunt's retirement party? I would not, so I quickly dismissed it. Fast Forward to the party and who's in the program as being a speaker? You guessed it, Andrew McCarthy. A quick buzz immediately washed over our table, and many others unknowingly. He missed cocktail hour so when he arrived we were all seated and the speeches had begun. We quickly plotted our attack. No joke, the second people started to get up when it was time, he was flooded with people. Its gotta feel good for him, after not making a hit movie since Weekend at Bernies, that people still wanna meet him. He was a nice guy, I was drunk, who knows what I said. Night goes on and we were outside the place and he comes out to leave and I decide lets get another photo while we wait for the valet. We are posed for the photo and the person taking the picture is fumbling with the camera for what seemed like a good minute. So there we are in a semi awkward situation with an arm around each other, I could not help but laugh and mutter something about Weekend at Bernies. He took the photo and quickly dove into his awaiting car. Meeting famous people is cool and if you say otherwise you're a liar. I hate the Giants but have met Simms and Strahan and both were still cool to meet. Anyhow Andrew if you are reading this, sorry for the drunken semi-harrassment at the Landmark, your pal Rob
Sorry for the delay folks, lots going on with both of us, but here is a nice, rambling blog.
1. If you have kids or plan on having kids you probably made a statements along the lines of "my kid is gonna love watching espn" or "my kid is gonna love listening to 80's rap" or "my kid's stuff will not take over my home". Sadly all of these statements are true. Well maybe not the music totally, I've seen jackson bopping to the 80's music channel on tv. We hit rock bottom on trip to Williamsport Pa, a few weeks ago (3 hour drive) about half way there our son started getting a little fussy so we thought popping in one of his kids music cds we made may help. It did, only there was 1 major problem. Kids songs are no longer the 2 minutes, so a CD of 20 songs is still only like 25-30 minutes. Well I think we listened to the CD like 4 times on loop. During the 3rd run through Ady ad I were just singing and laughing at ourselves b/c we were jamming out to "itsy bitsy spider" and "you are my sunshine" amongst others. It was then we realized how far we had fallen. If you are reading this and you have been to this place, you know exactly what i'm talking about willis (RIP Gary Coleman). And if you cannot relate, you will someday and think of this.
2. So I go to drop off some stuff at the dry cleaners the other day, not thinking anything would happen to dumbfound me, but then I walked in. The man behind the counter was wearing baseball batting gloves. I was speechless. Still kinda am. Batting gloves? Yes batting gloves like the pros wear. They were white Easton batting gloves. Why batting gloves? Why not some rubber gloves? I have never even seen a dry cleaner person wearing any kind of gloves, let alone baseball batting gloves. Toll booth workers sometimes wear rubber gloves, as do some checkout people in stores, but a dry cleaner? I need some explanation on this one.
3. RW/RR Fresh Meat....What a crazy final quest. Talk about challenging, holy crap. Canoes, crazy uphills, 80 lb bags, ice axes? I was tired from watching it. Kudos to Landon and Carly. They peaked at just the right time. In the last 3 episodes the won an exiile, huge obstacle course and the finale. They really handed it to kenny and Laurel who dominated the entire season. Jenn/Noor...thanks for playing, that sucks. Overall great season for me. I think the events/challenges were a great change in "beautiful British Columbia" How many times you think TJ said that? Seriously.
4. Andrew McCarthy......So we had a school retirement party this past week. The woman retiring is the aunt of none other than the star of Weekend at Bernies and Manequin, two great movies from our childhood. I entertained the idea earlier in the week that he would be there, but who goes to their aunt's retirement party? I would not, so I quickly dismissed it. Fast Forward to the party and who's in the program as being a speaker? You guessed it, Andrew McCarthy. A quick buzz immediately washed over our table, and many others unknowingly. He missed cocktail hour so when he arrived we were all seated and the speeches had begun. We quickly plotted our attack. No joke, the second people started to get up when it was time, he was flooded with people. Its gotta feel good for him, after not making a hit movie since Weekend at Bernies, that people still wanna meet him. He was a nice guy, I was drunk, who knows what I said. Night goes on and we were outside the place and he comes out to leave and I decide lets get another photo while we wait for the valet. We are posed for the photo and the person taking the picture is fumbling with the camera for what seemed like a good minute. So there we are in a semi awkward situation with an arm around each other, I could not help but laugh and mutter something about Weekend at Bernies. He took the photo and quickly dove into his awaiting car. Meeting famous people is cool and if you say otherwise you're a liar. I hate the Giants but have met Simms and Strahan and both were still cool to meet. Anyhow Andrew if you are reading this, sorry for the drunken semi-harrassment at the Landmark, your pal Rob
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