Thursday, February 27, 2014

2.27.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Mother Nature


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Name: Mother Nature
Age: thousands
Occupation: the woman who decides what weather will be
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: punishing us

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There's an old saying here in Michigan: hate the weather? Wait five minutes.

Sadly, it's more like 16 weeks these days.

For the rest of this week, temperatures will be below normal. For this time, it should be 37 degrees for Grand Rapids and the snow should start to melt. However, it's supposed to be 11 today, 13 on Friday and 22 on Saturday. However, it dips back to 13 on Sunday, 19 on Monday and the late teens to early 20s the rest of the week.

The overnight lows will be worse. One degree overnight and -6 on Friday. However, it'll be -9 on Tuesday, -14 on Wednesday but it will be -4 on Thursday.

In other words, Brrrrrr.

I was watching a news report from Detroit's WDIV a few days ago and a man compared Winter to Justin Bieber: it was nice and adorable in the beginning, but it's turned into a little bitch that needs to go back to Canada. Sad, but true, I think we're tired of Winter and there's a little less than 25 days left of the season. I'll admit, I liked the warm-up on Saturday. I was so happy that I went to the mall and did some much-needed clothes shopping. But when it's cold, it's depressing. I just want to stay indoors and curl up on the couch.

I know, we've had mild Winters in years past, so this is bumper year. Also, I still believe in Global Warming, even if the weather is -14 degrees. But in all truthfulness, maybe it will be in the 30s and 40s all next Winter. Who knows?

All I can say is that Mother Nature is one bitch ass ho this year.

 
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

2.26.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Arizona Republicans



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Name: the Arizona GOP
Age: various
Occupation: right-wingers
Last Seen: Phoenix, AZ
Bee-otched For: trying to screw over the LGBTQ community

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Just what Arizona needs: another discriminating law.

A few years ago, governor Jan Brewer passed a law that allows police to ask people that look and act like illegal immigrants to hand over their papers. Even the Supreme Court - also leaning to the right - claimed it was constitutional.

Now, many in the state are trying to persuade the Republican governor to veto a bill that would allow businesses to kick out people who are gay. The law would protect Christian business owners and others from being forced to serve those in the LGBTQ community, such as bakeries that don't want to make cakes for gay weddings or a gay couple wanting to eat in a restaurant. Many in the GOP - including Arizona senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, plus former presidential nominee Mitt Romney - have all asked Brewer to veto the bill, claiming that it would have a negative impact on the state's economy, still recovering after the 2008 economic collapse.

One major factor as to why they don't want the bill to pass is because next year's Super Bowl is in Phoenix and a gay ban in the state could force the NFL to rethink another town to host it. Like we need hotels to ban guys who stay together in one room.

All this reminds me of an old folk story I heard as a little boy called "Stone Soup". Two young strangers go into a small town in need of a place to stay. But, the town innkeeper saw them coming and hid all the keys. The two come in and the innkeeper lied to them, stating that there were no vacancies. So, when the village heard about the strangers, they took action. The strangers carried a large pot with them, dipped it into a lake, put a huge stone in it and tried to boil it. Passersby saw what the men where doing, and they decided to contribute. One person added in onions, another added hamburger, another added carrots, one added in mushrooms and so on. In the end, the whole town showed up to help the strangers with their meal. Then, the innkeeper came to the party and apologized to the men for being so rude. There, he gave the two his best room, free of charge.

You see, I learned this story in of all places, Sunday School. As youngsters, we're taught to love thy neighbor, which means not to judge them by anything, especially race, creed, sex and especially their sexual orientation. I consider myself a Christian, but I don't judge people by who they sleep with. If homosexuality is a sin, that's for God to judge. To call yourself a Christian but to refuse service to a gay person because you think that it infringes on your beliefs, well, remember, the same shit happened back before the Civil Rights era between whites and blacks. Today, if you kick a man out of your store just because he's black, then that's discrimination. The same should go to a man who wears a pink fedora, a Tintin haircut and speaks with a lisp or a woman with short hair, t-shirt and blue jeans.

Maybe we all need to start with a pot and a stone and see what happens. 

 
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

2.25.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Madison Rising


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Name: Madison Rising
Age: 3
Occupation: dumbassed rock band
Last Seen: Daytona Beach, FL
Bee-otched For: destroying the National Anthem

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In its 202-year history, the "Star-Spangled Banner" has had its great singers and performers, but it's also been screwed-up a lot as well.

We all remember in 1969 when Jimi Hendrix performed it on his electric guitar at Woodstock, giving it a then-unconventional edge and sound. In 1983 - just one year before he was shot to death by his own father - Marvin Gaye gave it soul at the NBA Championship game. Last but not least, who could ever forget Whitney Houston's powerful rendition at the 1991 Super Bowl in the midst of the first Iraq war? Her rendition actually peaked at #6 on the Billboard Pop Charts and sold over a million copies.

But while Jimi, Whitney and Marvin have all left us, we're still stuck with those who've wrecked it one way or another. In the 1998 Super Bowl, Jewel was caught lip-synching it. Olympian Carl Lewis f'd it up before an NBA game (some referred to him as "Francis Scott Off-Key") and yes, Roseanne.

But now, we can add one more name to those who have caused Mr. Key and its composer John Stafford Smith to spin in their graves, and that's Madison Rising.

Madison Rising dubs themselves as "America's Most Patriotic Rock Band". They were named after the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, who was a champion of having a smaller government. The band is known for their Republican leanings, and their songs reflect that. "Right to Bear" is about gun rights, "In the Days Reagan Ruled" is about Ronald Reagan, "Where Was the Media Then?" attacks the media for bashing right-wingers and several songs about war.

Now, Madison Rising has been given the distinction of performing what many in the news media have all claimed as the worst performance of the National Anthem ever. At a NASCAR event on Saturday, the band performed the SSB, which they actually released as a single off of their debut album in 2011. (Here in Michigan, I think the only radio station that even played it was WKLT in Traverse City, whose listeners are all drunk hicks as-is.) Lead singer Dave Bray was holding a folded American flag like Paul Bearer holding an urn for The Undertaker while wailing the tune in front of thousands of spectators. Even NASCAR favorite Brad Keslowski (fact: my father was once pals with his father, Rick) trashed MR's performance of the anthem stating "I wish they would just sing the damn song".

Well, there you have it. Madison Rising sucks, and they're an embarrassment to America. No wonder why the rest of the world hates us. They are just a bunch of Nickelback wannabes, except that Nickelback actually has some good songs. Sometimes, I watch an NHL game from Canada and the guy singing "O, Canada" will stop and allow the crowd to sing the song for a few verses. That's how patriotic Canadians are, in my humble opine.

But also in my humble opine, the best way for Madison Rising to honor this great country is to shut up altogether.

 
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Monday, February 24, 2014

2.24.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Bill Cosby



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Name: Bill Cosby
Age: 76
Occupation: comedian, actor
Last Seen: ??
Bee-otched For: being America's favorite hypocrite

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Last year, a televangelist puppeteer who was part of a kid's show on TBN was to 20 years in prison for child pornography and conspiring to want to eat dead children.

On his show Joy Junction, Ronald Brown told kids about the so-called dangers of looking at porn. Since then, it has gone viral.

In a 1979 episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids called "Softcore", the gang hangs out with a young man who distributes porn to them. In the end, Fat Albert teaches children that all porno does is tell people that women are nothing more than sex slaves and that the best, honest way for people to learn about sex is through their parents or teachers.

This coming from Bill Cosby, a man who was a regular at the Playboy mansion, has written several articles for the magazine and has been accused of sexually assaulting women over the years.

It's proof positive that people who bash porn have some issues themselves. Earlier this month, a few women who accused the legendary entertainer of assaulting them came forward to the media and told their stories. California lawyer Tamara Green told Newsweek Magazine that in the 1970's, she was a young, aspiring model who met Cosby through her plastic surgeon. One day, she was feeling sick, and Cosby invited her to have lunch at a restaurant. He handed her two pills, and 20 minutes later, she was feeling better, but 30 minutes later, she was "face down" in her soup. Cosby took her home and because she was so sick from taking Cosby's pills, he started to undress her and she tried to fight him off. She took a lamp and threw at it the window and he ran off. She woke up later and found that Cosby left her two $100 bills on the table. She was pissed.

A day later, Green went to the children's hospital to visit her sick brother. She got angry when Cosby - who had visited the children there - have given them presents. Green's brother was given a portable radio.

For two decades, Ms. Green was silent about her attempted rape by Cosby, but after hearing about many women who had come forward about him trying to rape them, she stepped forward herself. However Cosby's team had the judge throw out the accusations in court fearing that they would ruin his credibility. After all, many consider him as one of Hollywood's big A-listers for all he's done to the industry.

A week later, Newsweek published an interview from Barbara Bowman, another woman claiming that Cosby abused her multiple times in the 1980's when she was in her late teens. She claimed that Cosby drugged her to the point that she blacked out and was vomiting in a toilet. The last time Cosby attacked her was when he claimed she embarrassed him because the hotel they were staying at lost her luggage, so she beat her and tried to pull off his pants to rape her. After the incident, the aspiring actress was dropped by her agent and was kicked out of her house for embarrassing the comedian. She tried to personally sue Cosby, but her lawyer laughed her out the office.

In the end, the 12 women who sued Cosby all accepted a settlement. Plain and simple, Cosby didn't want to deal with a court case that would have derailed his career and even his now-50-year marriage to Camille. Recently, Cosby announced that he was creating a new "multi-generational" sitcom for NBC that reunites him with Cosby Show co-star Phylicia Rashad and that show's producers, Carsey/Werner as well. He's also at work creating a new version of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

It's sad that Cosby's victims were left voiceless while he was out making millions starring in TV shows and touring the country with his stand-up act. The only real reason why Bill is so loved by many is because he's black, he doesn't swear and he entertains children. Yet, he's a two-faced prick.

If he were to tell the truth, his confession would sound like this: "yes, I give her those pizzils, and she plippity plopped them in to her mouth and then she fell head first into the sizzoup and I took her to the hotel where I treated her with my Jello Pudding Pop...."



 
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

2.20.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Judy Cox


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Name: Judy Cox
Age: 54
Occupation: ??
Last Seen: Provo, UT
Bee-otched For: playing morality police


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Looks like PacSun has a new customer: me.

Sometimes, when somebody bans something, it only promotes them. In the case of Judy Cox, she's on a mission: getting so-called "filth" out of the popular mall retailer.

Last week, Ms. Cox went shopping with her 18-year-old son at the University Mall in Orem, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. She and her son went to PacSun and was aghast seeing a display of t-shirts that contained models in provocative poses. The shirts, known as Visual by Van Styles, show models wearing lingerie or even no clothes at all but covering up their naughty bits.

So, what is a doting mother of an ADULT child to do? Simple. She took all the shirts off the display and purchased them all, totaling $567. Her plan is to take the shirts in to the county commissioner to see if the shirts are indecent and to return the shirts to PacSun 59 days after she bought them. Utah County - where the PacSun in particular is -  has very strict indecency laws in part due to Utah's ultra-conservative Mormon leanings.

According to one of the managers of PacSun, Ms. Cox was the first person to complain about their display. If you're the only person who complains about semi-nudity in a store display in an ultra-conservative area, that speaks a lot.

When asked why she's offended by PacSun's sexy displays and not the ones used at Victoria's Secret, she claims that VS's clientele is way different than that of PacSun's which is aimed towards teens and young adults. However, VS was forced to remove one display at the mall a while back for containing too much nudity per the county ordinance.

You know, even though I think it's a cult, I respect the people of Utah's choice of religion, even though Mormonism is dying. I think people know that Mormonism was founded on a bunch of lies and are trying to break free of it's sick lifestyle. However, I feel that if people like Judy Cox want to tell me what I can and can't buy, well, guess what? I now plan on going to the PacSun down the street this weekend to buy a Visual shirt and maybe some shoes. All the morality police does is tell people like me what to buy so I can piss them off. What's her problem? She bad in the sack?

All this from a woman whose last name is "Cox". (giggle giggle)

 
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

2.19.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Townsquare Media


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Name: Townsquare Media
Age: 18
Occupation: radio giant
Last Seen: Greenwich, CT
Bee-otched For: screwing over their Grand Rapids stations


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If there's a theme song playing at Townsquare's Grand Rapids stations, it has to be "Another One Bites the Dust".

It seems that if you have a job there, good luck keeping it. In recent months, the owners of WGRD, Channel 95-7, Classic Hits 98.7, 100.5 The River and 1410 The Touch have been on a firing spree. Just recently, midday jock Matt Hendricks and morning duo Andy O'Reilly and Dave Kaechele were let go from 98.7, leaving Craig Russell as the station's sole local jock.

Now, the guns have been pointed at WGRD, Townsqaure's best-performing station in town.

On Monday, afternooner Shaffee was let go, and told his fans on his Facebook page. Like many experienced jocks, Shaffee has worked in markets big and small; he's worked in Detroit, Lansing and not too long ago, Atlanta, GA.

Apparently, afternoons on 'GRD are now handled by a voicetracker out of El Paso. Aside from the syndicated Free Beer and Hot Wings morning show - which is based at WGRD - Jackie Green's midday show is the only live and local broadcast left on Grand Rapids' second-highest-rated station. However, rumor has it that Shaffee got the shaft because his ratings were far from phenomenal and the station was charging advertisers the same rates as the top-rated FB&HW.

IMHO, GRD has tumbled in quality tremendously since the man who rescued the station a decade ago, Jerry Tarrents left to go to WCSX in Detroit. Since then, both the afternoon and night positions have been voicetracked and the station doesn't have a real programming director. The biggest plus, though is the fact that they've dropped the outdated slogan "Grand Rapids' Rock Alternative" since they're no longer alternative.

But still, this is why I'm not in radio. Townsquare's the lesser of all the radio evils in Grand Rapids, and they're still evil. It's sad that the underperforming 100.5 The River has live jocks but GRD doesn't. They're just another fucked-up radio company that puts money ahead of people in priority. Yes, they need to make a profit, but when radio stations fire top jocks for no-name weasels, the listeners leave.

I just hope that GRD doesn't become another KLQ.

 
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

2.18.14 Bee-otch of the Day: The National Geographic Channel



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Name: The National Geographic Channel
Age: 17
Occupation: cable channel
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: making me proud that I don't have cable


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126 years ago, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a rich dude who helped to create AT&T and father-in-law to Alexander Graham Bell founded the National Geographic Society as a foundation that inspired people to care about the environment and to move them closer to other worlds. Its National Geographic Magazine reaches five million readers monthly and its membership is some 8.5 million people.

Although Hubbard should be happy about how National Geographic has evolved over the years, he should be spinning in his grave knowing that the cable channel that the society owns is just another channel loaded with trashy reality shows aimed towards those with a room temperature IQ.

On Sunday, The Rev. Jamie Coots, the Kentucky pastor whose snake-handling efforts made him a star on the channel's Snake Salvation died from, well, a snakebite. He was 41 years old. Coots' association with serpents is because of the Bible verse Mark 16:17-18: "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

Other shows on NetGeo include Rocket City Rednecks and Polygamy, USA, but it does seem that most of the shows on the channel do attract the above-average IQ'd readers of NatGeo. But remember, a portion of the channel is owned by.... Fox.

In 2010, I got into a car accident and because the car I purchased was a clunker, it hit me in the pocket book severely. So, something had to give. Since I was paying $90 monthly for cable, that went bye-bye. Man, what a great decision. Now, part of my bill doesn't go to Honey Boo-Boo, Duck Dynasty or even Snake Salvation even though I would never watch those shows in a billion years. Since then, I've learned how to be a life hacker. If I want to watch something, I'll pirate it. Yes, it's kinda illegal, but my money doesn't belong in Rupert Murdoch's pockets.

And maybe when NatGeo purges all of the trash from their lineup, they'll be the ones getting salvation.   

 
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Monday, February 17, 2014

2.17.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Rick Snyder


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Name: Rick Snyder
Age: 56
Occupation: governor of Michigan
Last Seen: Ann Arbor
Bee-otched For: raising taxes on the middle cla-er, working poor


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As Gene Autry and Aerosmith once put it, I'm back in the saddle again.

I was away last week as I was pushing shit around my apartment since I was getting new carpet. Well, that's done - even though I still have a few boxes here and there - so it's time to get back to business.

Like any good taxpayer, I did my taxes for this year. I think I made *slightly* more than last year, mainly due to heavy amounts of overtime and I did get a raise. But nonetheless, Rick Snyder punished me.

In all, I made about $27 LESS than my tax returns from last year. I remember hearing about the billion-dollar surplus Snyder bragged about during his State of the State Address a few weeks ago. So that's the culprit.

By all means am I not rich. I average around 50 hours a week at my job and my hourly pay isn't that big. For me, $27 can go a long way. To me, it's a week's worth of groceries, or being able to fill up my car. But yet, that money will probably end up in the pockets of the Devoses.

And speaking of the Devoses, they mentioned that Amway made record profits last year. Question is, who in the HELL buys Amway products? True, the Devoses also own Fox Motors, the Grand Rapids Griffins, Artprize, Devos Place and the list goes on. They are, after all, the wealthiest family in Michigan and huge sponsors of Republican and Religious Right groups.

This makes me even more happier to be a part of CREDO Mobile. My money goes to progressive causes and not Republican bullshit. It also makes me happier that I'm seeing more ads on TV for Mark Schauer than Rick Snyder's cheesy Super Bowl ad. The truth must come out. Snyder's surplus came from the majority of Michiganders, not his rich buddies.

November can't came soon enough.

 
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

2.6.14 Bee-otch of the Day: Birmingham, Alabama's TV stations



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Name: the Birmingham, AL TV market
Age: 65
Occupation: purveyors of televised entertainment
Last Seen: north central Alabama
Bee-otched For: making the locals miss an important part of TV history 50 years ago


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If you visit Birmingham, AL today, you're connected with all the major TV networks over-the-air.

CBS is on WIAT-42, NBC is WVTM-13, ABC is on WBMA 33/40, Fox is on WBRC-6 and so on.

But it wasn't always that way, and 50 years ago this weekend, the city paid the price when four young lads from Liverpool visited The Ed Sullivan Show.

It's almost hard to believe that it was 50 years ago this Sunday that John, Paul, George and Ringo played in front of hundreds of young, screaming teenage girls live from CBS Studio 50 on Broadway and some 73 million viewers at home over the CBS Television Network. At the time, CBS was seen in well over 90% of the country, even in small towns.

However, the ratings for The Beatles' Ed Sullivan appearance could have been much higher if it aired in the largest city in America at the time without a full-time CBS affiliate, that being Birmingham. If you lived in the area at the time, your best bet would have been picking up WAGA-5 Atlanta, WCOV-20 in Montgomery or WHNT-19 Huntsville.

So, why DIDN'T Birmingham, a town of over 200,000 citizens and thousands more in their viewing area get to watch The Beatles be a part of American television history? Well, it all began in the late 1940's when the FCC gave Birmingham four allotments for VHF channels, in this case being 6, 7, 10 and 13. There were four networks at the time - NBC, CBS, ABC and DuMont, which signed off for good in 1956 - which would have been great for Birmingham.

Bear in mind that most TV sets didn't have UHF (channels 14-83) capabilities until 1964. Until then, most people who wanted UHF channels had to buy a converter, which was quite expensive. Therefore, most broadcasters fretted even at the thought of broadcasting in UHF.

In 1949, Birmingham's first TV station, WAFM-13 signed on, carrying CBS, ABC and DuMont shows. Later that year, WBRC-6 also went on the air with NBC and carrying some of the ABC shows rejected by 6. However, in 1954, WBRC was sold to George Storer, who was a board member of CBS. He also owned CBS stations in Detroit (WJBK) and Cleveland (WJW) amongst others, so Channel 6 went with CBS while 13 went with NBC. However, Storer helped Alabama Educational Television to secure channels 7 and 10, to make sure that Channel 13 was his only commercial competition in Birmingham.

But then, the plot thickened. In 1957, Storer was forced to sell WBRC after purchasing a station in much-larger Philadelphia. So, he sold it to Taft Broadcasting. However, Taft had a great relationship with ABC, so in 1961, in an unprecedented move, WBRC-6 became a full-blown ABC affiliate. In most two-station markets in the 50's up until the 00's, one station usually had CBS and another had NBC and both stations cherry-picked at ABC since it was the least-popular of the Big Three networks. But there was another unfortunate reason why Channel 6 went with ABC full-blast: they didn't have a strong news department while CBS did, and they were pro-Civil Rights, angering many white segregationists in the Birmingham area.

When Channel 6 went with ABC, 13 - now WAPI-TV and owned by the Newhouse family - picked up some CBS shows. WAPI cherry-picked between the two networks, usually choosing NBC over CBS. When it came to news, 13 was with NBC, which meant that when JFK was assassinated, Birminghamians probably didn't get to see Walter Cronkite left off his glasses proclaiming that he had died.

One of the shows 13 didn't air was indeed Sullivan. Instead, they aired Disney's Wonderful World of Color from NBC. Channel 6, on the other hand aired a show that is well-remembered by all Americans these days: The Travels of Jamie McPheeters.

Thanks to corporate bullying and southern racism, rock fans in Birmingham were screwed out of rock history when The Beatles sang "All My Lovin'" on live TV. Of course, this was the ways before most people had cable or even the internet. Thankfully, a year later - and thanks to an FCC ruling that forced TV manufacturers to put UHF dials on TVs - Birmingham finally got their own CBS affiliate again.... Sort of. WBMG-42 signed on and they wanted CBS all to themselves. But CBS was scared that if they lost 13, they would lose more viewers. So, 42 settled airing 6 and 13's 'rejects', such as Sullivan, The Tonight Show and even Bewitched, which Channel 6 yanked off the air because it was about a man marrying a witch.

Thankfully in 1970, 6, 13 and 42 called a truce. 6 got ABC, 13 got NBC and 42 got CBS. 42 boosted their wattage, although CBS decided to affiliate themselves with the original 33/40, now Birmingham's ABC affiliate.

Even though virtually all TV shows are cleared in Birmingham's spacious TV market, nothing can replace the sadness of being a young teenage girl upset that she lived in a town that forbade The Ed Sullivan Show all because of being in a fierce city for TV. But thankfully, just about every episode of Sullivan still exists, including The Beatles' appearances.

And here they are.  

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

2.5.14 Bee-otch of the Day: heroin


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Name: heroin
Age: 140
Occupation: drug
Last Seen: on the black market
Bee-otched For: claiming another victim


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On Sunday, I was looking at Wikipedia's 2014 deaths page and there were only two names.

But, that was going to change.

I went to my aunt's house for dinner and at the table, she asked me, "did you hear about the actor who died?"

I asked, "who?"

My cousin replied, "Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He died from a heroin overdose."

I was shocked. He was one of the finest actors of our time, winning a best actor Oscar for Capote and most-recently appeared in the Hunger Games movies. But yes, heroin played a role in his passing, as a needle was in his arm while he laid on his bathroom floor dead. Over 65 bags of heroin were discovered in his New York apartment.

Hoffman was at the pinnacle of his career. Many considered him the finest actor of our time. But, he had his demons, and the big one was heroin. He was open to his addiction, especially when he was in his 20's. As Hoffman's career grew, some would have thought that a man with a soulmate, three young children and a lavish career in movies and Broadway would never think about hurting his life with the needle in his arm. But, bad things happen to good people.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman is yet another great entertainer whose life ended because of heroin abuse. He joins the likes of John Belushi, Chris Farley, Janis Joplin and Cory Monteith whose lives were cut short because of the drug. Others have fought the abuse of the drug and won. Ironically, Hoffmann died the same day down the street in New Jersey where the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl. It was 20 years ago this year that Kurt Cobain - who fought heroin abuse for years - died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He, like Hoffman, were born in 1967.

Seattle was also the home of Alice in Chains. Their lead singer, Layne Staley, died of a speedball in 2002, eight years to the day Cobain died. He was also born in 1967.

You know, I'm proud that I never tried heroin. Give some to me, and I won't even touch it. When I was a teen, I saw Trainspotting and it scared me. The erratic behavior, the losing of bowels and the irresponsibility of the mother who gave her kid her heroin-induced breast milk. Are people that stupid to even want to try it?

True, Phillip died a junkie, but his talent did overshadow it. I think the best answer is to never try it at all, and if you're a user, get help. I hope that his death will help others and will prevent it from ever happening.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

2.4.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Peyton Manning


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Name: Peyton Manning
Age: 37
Occupation: quarterback, Denver Broncos
Last Seen: holding his head in shame
Bee-otched For: choking


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Ladies and gents, this year's Super Bowl was one of the most-lopsided in history.

It was also a dream come true for the middle class.

Within just the first few seconds of Sunday night's game, the Seattle Seahawks were two points ahead because of a safety. But it was uphill from there on for Russell Wilson and his team. The Broncos only had one touchdown the whole game plus a two-point conversion. The 'Hawks, however had 43 points overall, giving them their first Super Bowl victory.

For Peyton Manning - who screamed "OMAHA!", which lead his team to the Super Bowl - the big game ended up being more of an aha moment to him. The man who led the Indianapolis Colts to a Super Bowl victory in 2006 is now washed up comparing to the young Seahawks, led by 25-year-old Wilson. Many wonder if it's time for his 37-year-old ass to retire.

For starters, he's doing OK. After all, he owns 20-plus Papa John's franchises in Colorado. After all, he's buds with Papa John himself, you know, the douche who cried last year that Obamacare was going to eat up his profits so he slashed hours at his restaurants? Yet, he's worth over $200 million and lives in a castle in Kentucky.

Lest we forget, Peyton is also a holier-than-thou Jebus freak who is also buddies with the right and even dumped money on Dubya's campaigns. Too see a man who seems to be one of the biggest quarterbacks in the NFL play like a middle schooler with four interceptions on Sunday would make anybody who is struggling.

Well, all I can say is that there's always next year. Who knows? I hope my Lions would *at least* make it into the playoffs this next year. But in the meantime, I think the ghost of Marlin Perkins is haunting Mr. Manning.

 

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