Homestar Runner - Halloween 2020

Homestar Runner is still releasing Halloween Specials every year. It's still charming and fun.

Late Show - Kenny Sheehan on TV Shows

 

Happy St. Crispin's Day

 

Late Night - Mr. T Interview

 A while back I posted:

As noted previously, the best Conan bit of all-time is "Dudez A-Plenti" but only slightly less well known is the greatest Conan interview of all-time. That would belong to the Mr. T interview he did which, I believe, was the impetus for this segment. They realized there was gold and mined it.

I recorded the Mr. T interview and it was by far the most watched video I'd uploaded to youtube at the time that it was removed for copyright. Here's hoping Team Coco remembers and shares the official version because that thing is just the best.

Well something strange has happened. Although the official Conan channel has not uploaded the interview, it seems my version has be UN-deleted - through no effort of mine and without any notice from anyone...

If you've never seen it, here it is:

 Meanwhile, the video that replaced Mr. T as my most watched video (John Cleese on Letterman) has gone over 1 Million views. If that meant anything, it would really be something.

Actors with Famous Parents

 Not covered: Lou Walken, Bob Genghis Kahn or Thomas the Cable Guy.

The David Lynch Weather Report - 10/17/20

 

Animaniacs Is Returning

 

Animaniacs is being re-booted by Hulu. I was such a huge Animaniacs fan back in the day, not sure I really care much about a comeback. I also don't have Hulu, so there's that. I wish them well though and if it's really good, I'll check it out.

 New episodes start November 20.

What is the Value of a Dollar?

 One of the things you're supposed to be taught when you're a kid is "the value of a dollar". I've never I've technically learned that in that the value of a dollar seems to always be changing. But I've learned the lesson, in essence, since I'm pretty cheap.

So my cheap self is shopping Amazon for "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. The second result that comes up costs $1 and looks like this...

But the FIRST result that comes up is FREE and looks like this...

 So now I guess my cheapness has run up against my sense of reason and vanity. Is it worth one dollar to not have a book with a cheap Dime Store Romance Novel cover in my library - for my sense of self, no never have to explain what this book is, to let reason prevail? Or is the cover a book unimportant and free is free?

A third option is to just grab the free version from Project Gutenberg they went with this cover:

I mean... it's better. But what were they thinking? That's a Math book from 1986. Jane Austen wrote Romances in the Victorian era, her works are considered classics, it just makes no sense.

FATMAN Official Trailer

Uhhh...

 

 Well...

What If Eric Johnson Played the Stairway Solo?

Rick Beato asks, "What would happen if other guitarists played the 'Stairway to Heaven' solo?"

What a coincidence - I just posted Eric Johnson on Friday and then this is literally uploaded today. Funny.

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

 Just a little music for Friday.

This is so rare, it might even be the only instance of it that I know of. A rock star in 1988 is arrayed in "rock star" style and somehow he still looks completely cool when viewing in 2020. That never happens; I'm so impressed. I mean, the music is the most impressive thing, I guess, but man...

A small side note about me and my musical taste. I generally find instrumentals boring and I generally find "Guitar God" songs boring as well. For whatever reason, a million notes per second does nothing for me, somehow I have the paradoxical reaction of being bored by it. But this is one of the few exceptions where I really enjoy the song and am completely into it. I find general rules in music are useful but they're never hard and fast rules. Wherever I find a rule, I find at least one exception.