President's Day, Comedies, & Kids These Days

Today is Monday February Fifteenth Two Thousand Ten, Its also President's Day ! Woo, woo ! What is really means is that I have today off and plan not to do a whole lot. Mellow time with coffee, cereal, and the Fox25 news then some quality time at the gym. Perhaps a nap in the afternoon and then the Welcome All meeting this evening. I've said this before but one of the biggest things that AA gives me is the fellowship. I always look forward to seeing folks and its really awesome to have something to do on an otherwise zero activity day. I know I just listed what I was going to do today and I said I wouldn't do that but hey, its my blog and I make up the rules.

I may have to delay my gym time because "History Of The World Part One" just came on. Since its on AMC it should be unedited and its one of my favorite silly comedies. Mel Brooks was a master and I like almost all of his stuff no matter how schlocky it is. I don't really like most new comedies because well, the aren't funny. Everyone said that the "Hangover" was supposed to me funny and maybe I just didn't get it but I didn't think it was all that. Maybe I am just more of the schlocky fan with "Caddyshack", "Fletch", "Vacation", "Airplane", & "Blazing Saddles" among my favorites. I think for many years I didn't like comedies because I just wasn't psyched to laugh. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention are all the Monty Python movies. I feel like a total dork liking them so much but they are funny as shit. In the end of "Life Of Brian" Eric Idle is crucified and singing "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life." is great. The TV series was great as well and probably the only thing I liked on PBS as a teenager. Well Flying Circus and Doctor Who.

I just had a "Kids These Days" moment. Broadcast television, LPs, and the World Book encyclopedia were my main sources of entertainment and information. My folks bought the World Book in Seventy Eight and I bet I used it at least a thousand times to look shit up. Whenever something came up in discussion one of us would race to the WB and look up whatever we were talking about. I would love purchasing an LP and would spend the first hour going over every detail even before I would listen to it. They were also great to de-seed pot and split up ounces. I guess there isn't too much to say about how good broadacst television was, snowy and crappy but I like to remember how special TV was then. I was only allowed to watch a couple of hours of television and only on weekends. My mom would come up and immediately feel the TV to see if it was warm and then yell at me for watching it.

So I decided to change my profile pic on this blog. I did it because who knows who is going to read it and I will be sharing things here that I don't want everyone to know the author. I don't have a problem sharing with people I know but I think its a good idea to be a bit more careful. I want to be comfortable with what I write here and not have to worry about what I write. Well, thats about it for today I don't have much to share. I plan to write some more war stories this week starting tomorrow as there are many more thoughts and feelings about my past actions that I want to get out there.