The world needs more Lloyd Dobler

"Kickboxing. Sport of the future."

-Lloyd Dobler

If you do not know who Lloyd Dobler is then you have missed out. For God sakes he got a date with Diane Court.


Today at 5:30pm CST, I begin my kick boxing career. My first match will be against a 43 year old single mother from Smyer. She is going to feel the smoke coming from my guns of fury.

Seriously, it is just a class aimed at cardio conditioning exercise, although I am taking boxing lessons every now and again. I'm shooting for a debut at the O.L. Slaton Junior High Golden gloves classic next October.

The Great White Hope hopes to be not so great by then.

"I am looking for a dare to be great situation."

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. "

"The rain on my car is a baptism, the new me, Ice Man, Power Lloyd, my assault on the world begins now. "

Art imitates Advertising.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/05/tv.cavemen.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- Those Geico "cavemen" shouldn't be so upset after all -- they may get their own television series.

ABC said Friday it had ordered a pilot for a comedy, tentatively titled "Cavemen," that features the characters used in a series of ads by the insurance company.

In the ads, cavemen appear insulted by a Geico pitchman's claim that the company's Web site is so easy to use that "even a caveman can do it."

The potential series, one of 14 pilots that will be produced by Touchstone Television this spring, features the cavemen as they "struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta."

It's unusual for characters from an advertising campaign to move into shows of their own, but not unprecedented. The CBS comedy "Baby Bob" featured a talking baby that had been used in several advertisements, according to Daily Variety.

The advertising copywriter who helped create the "cavemen" ads is writing the pilot, the studio said.

A pilot order is no guarantee a show will make it on the air; in fact, the majority of pilots don't make it that far.

Thanks to Helmut for the find.

Would you rather be Hall or Oates?

Did you answer? Say it isn't so. I will put those mullets up against any hair band any day.

I might as well join Hall and Oates anonymous. I feel like there in inner 'consultant' in my brain like the one played by John C. McGinley in Office Space. I am a huge Hall and Oates fan and I celebrate their entire catalogue.

The reason why I bring this up is because yesterday while I was working out, doing 'cardio', crunches, and punching on the heavy bag. I was in the bliss of my MP3 player. Here were just a few of the songs I listened to.

"Blame it on Mexico" by George Strait
"Patience" by Guns and %&*#ing Roses
"Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction
"Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot
"One Bourbon, one Scotch, and one beer" By George Thorogood
"Sabotage" and "Intergalactic" by the Beastie Boys

Apollo Creed never punched to "Method of Modern Love", but I did. Even Rocky had a montage. None of those songs should be played together. I agree that if there is some kind of Judy Judy courtroom show for music abuse, I would be guilty.

I don't know about any of the rest of you, but I think that youtube is the greatest intention of the 21st century. Almost every evening when I get back from working out, I can find and old music video or movie scene I remember as a kid, teenager, or young adult. That is quite a luxury. Inevitably it brings me back to a place of small joys I can relive again.