Bob Sassone

The Return Of The Boy Who Hated Summer

It's raining again. That could be the opening line of several blog entries on other blogs that complain summer hasn't really arrived yet because it has been cooler than usual and wetter than usual. But I don't mean "it's raining again" in a negative way because, well, I hate summer. I could talk about how the summer is too humid and muggy and the TV is worse and the movies are worse and I hate the shorts I have to wear and the bugs and all that, but just saying it's too hot is reason enough for me. To put it simply: it's easier to warm yourself up than to cool yourself down. You can always put on another piece of clothing or a blanket. But there's only so much you can take off before you're naked. Hot tea is better than iced tea. I like wearing jackets. I hate hot cars.

But if you summer folk want to have hot and humid weather, I guess I can spare one month. How about we have August be as summer-ish as you want and then we go right into fall on the day after Labor Day. Deal?

Holes

This is a new ad from Hardee's. First there was the commercial where the Subway guy and the oven were having sex, then the print ad where the woman tries to eat a 7-inch sub (ahem), and now this.

What The Hell Is Going On With Bazooka Joe?

So I was chewing gum last night (wow, there's an exciting opening for a blog entry). Bazooka Joe, to be exact, something I haven't done in years. They still put the comics in there, and they're as lame as ever. Case in point:

 

Yes, it must be 1998 in the world of Bazooka Joe. And what's with Mort's hair and body? Did he have some sort of accident involving radiation at some point in the past several years? As for Joe, I understand that classic characters have to be updated, but now he just seems like another skateboard kid. I haven't seen any other recent strips, but I'm sure he has a cellphone.

It's funny: we just accepted Joe's eye patch and Mort's face-covering sweater when we were kids, but now I want to know what exactly is wrong with them. What happened to Joe's eye? Is Mort's mouth all Phantom Of The Opera-like?

I'm Back

Since I last typed something here, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Gale Storm, and Fred Travalena died. Obviously I can't go away from my blog for a week or so without pop culture crumbling all around us. I apologize.

I've started a new schedule over at TV Squad and it has me working even more during the day than I was before, constantly looking for news stories and other things I can post as short posts throughout the day along with doing a couple of regular posts during the day too. It's been a blast but intense, one of those deals where I don't have a ton of words left in my fingers at the end of the day to do anything here, but I've gotten used to it and I'll be getting back to doing daily posts here starting this week.

One thing that I have done is bring all of the posts over from my old blog and posted them here so they are all in one place. This process took approximately 29 hours. The old blog didn't have any kind of export feature, so I had to actually to into every single page and cut and paste each entry into a new, backdated post for the archives here. If you click on the "more" link in the archives list on the left you can see stuff I did from several years ago, all the way back to the mid-90s. So if you came here only recently and want to see what I had for dinner back in October of 2000, you're in luck!

Talking/Coughing About TV

Tomorrow I'll be on TV Talk, around 6:25PM ET or so. Allergies (or whatever) are kicking in so I might cough every 10th word, but tune in anyway.

So As I Was Saying...

Yes, it's been over a week since I updated the site. Sorry! Very busy. More coming tomorrow, though, so stay tuned...

TV Talk

I'll be on TV Talk later today around 6:25 ET. I'm coughing a bit (allergies, I think) but I'll try to get through it.