Hi, folks.  I know I usually write a long post about this every year, so I won’t (for now).  Just please, go here, click on one of the hospitals, and buy a game or a book or a toy.  It all goes to the hospitals to help sick children.  It’s not like you’re just giving money to an organization and you don’t know what they’re going to do with it.  You’re buying the item and it’s going directly to the hospital where it will then give sick children some joy.  This is the only charity I support and I do my best to donate to it and support it every year.  Please take a minute and go to the site.  Even if you just donate a book or a package of batteries (yes, they’re on the list), those are things that these hospitals need.

Okay, I’m done.  I’m counting on all of you.

I was putting mics on kids at Willingboro High School today.  We were talking about how I used to perform when I was in high school.  It later occurred to me that when I was acting on stage in high school, many of these kids weren’t even born or were no more than 2.

Y’all know I’m not exactly a huge sports fan, but if there’s any sport I don’t mind watching on TV, it’s football.  You also know that I come from a lineage of schools with losing football teams.  I went to Hightstown High School, and I don’t recall if they ever won a game.  And then I went to Rutgers shortly after they joined the Big East, and well, they sucked.  So I wasn’t exactly following the team or anything, because, well, I don’t follow sports, and they were a losing team, anyway.  I still have a bit of school pride, though, and for those of you who don’t follow sports at all, I must call your attention to the fact that the Scarlet Knights just beat #3 Lousiville tonight.  This makes them 9-0 for the season.  That’s…..that’s insane.  Rutgers?  Really?  Well, maybe I’m just jumping on the bandwagon, but that gives me a bit of pride in my old school.

Whatever happened to the television hiatus?  Remember when a show would just go away for a few weeks or a month around Christmas-time, and then it would come back and finish its season?  Now, apparently, they have the Fall Season, and I suppose there is also the Winter Season.  A show will now have it’s “Fall Season Finale” in November and then not come back until February.  I understand that the idea, as the networks see it, is that they now have an audience used to watching TV in that time-slot and so they hope that they can bring in a new show mid-season to try it out and see if it works.  But what they are also doing is annoying and confusing their audiences who watch a show like Lost for the first half of the season and then forget everything that happened by the time the second half of the season finally airs.

A beautiful butterfly princess…

I really hate “Yosh” Tanagawa.

Jesus Christ, Wegman’s.  Was it so important to get your Christmas crap out that you couldn’t wait until after Halloween to get rid of all the candy?  You couldn’t keep it out one extra day so that if someone needed a last minute bag of candy they could get it?  Thanks, a lot.  Merry Christmas to you, too.

Y’know, I kinda like paying bills.  I mean, I love that feeling, when I’m done, of being free of a financial burden.

I just wish I didn’t have to do it so often….

Being a fan of U2 as well as a fan of anything that makes fun of George W. Bush, I found this to be rather clever.  Someone took clips from numerous speeches and edited them together so that our president is singing U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday.  Go look.

Check this one out….I was asked to write a guest post over on Consumerism Commentary about shopping for home theater equipment.  Keep in mind, I’m a lousy writer and I put that together late at night, so it probably sucks, but go read it anyway.  It’s the first of two parts.