The Leslie Show

There Can Only Be One

I (heart) FotC!

Fit as a Fiddle and Ready for Love

I've been a Steve Martin fan for 30 years.  "A Wild and Crazy Guy" was the first album I ever bought with my own money.  (That's a meme question right there, eh?  "What's the first album you ever bought with your own money?")  I remember when this show aired in 1981.  I was impressed with it then, I'm even more impressed with it now.  Steve Martin is amazing.  So was Gregory Hines (God rest his soul).  Enjoy!

C.T.F.O.

I have a new acronym I use a lot these days "CTFO".  It's something I often need to do and am hoping to train myself to do more often.  My readers (who are all smart, funny, and have really nice hair) can figure out what it stands for.  The rest of you, look it up. 

Chillin' has never come easy to me.  Even as a kid, I couldn't handle watching Mr. Rogers.  He talked too slow.  I needed speed.  Action.  Gimme some Sesame Street and Electric Company, baby!

In the spirit of CTFO'ing (or is it C'ing TFO?) I give you this link to a heartwarming video of Mr. Rogers takin' it to the Senate. (Thanks to Steve at The Sneeze for pointing this one out.)

The man was some sort of martial arts master; using gentleness, quiet, and the slowest diction ever to move mountains. 

Mr. Rogers was The Chillmaster. 

Gladiator for Girls

There's a pasttime that I enjoy which I've always been a bit ashamed about, but I've had a breakthrough today and I'm ready to share:  I have the dvd to VH-1 Divas Live, the first one, and I really really enjoy watching it.  It makes me happy.  I don't watch the whole thing.  I just fast forward to the end where Celine, Maria, Shania and Gloria all sing with Carole King.  I watch it through to the grand finale with Aretha Franklin.  Here's what I've realized: 

This isn't a concert film.  It's a  Gladiator/Godzilla film. 

It's like this:  Celine, Maria, Shania and Gloria are all the little townspeople.  And they're good and pure and sweet and nice and they just want to be happy little divas who look so pretty and sing their songs.  La-la-la...don't we love them?  Aren't they sweet?  BUT WAIT!  Lurking in the wings is the most fierce and fabulous diva of them all.  And here she comes:  ARETHA!  The little divas scurry and try to appease  the  monster, but it's no use.  She mops the floor with their scrawny little asses.  Gladiator/diva (Gladiviator?) Celine and Gladiviator Mariah make valiant efforts:  They step over the bloodied corpses of Shania and Gloria (and Carole King, who's mike was turned off...oh, SNAP!) and  attack Godivazilla with their  mellifluous runs  and  scales.  But everytime they think they've  bested the beast, she  jumps it up an octave higher or drops a note down into the basement.  RAHR!  HOWL!  STOMP!  CRASH!  HALLELUJIAH!  Godivazilla has left another city in smoldering ruins.

Real-life Simpsons

Have you seen this?  It's the Simpsons intro done with live actors.  It's great!

You Know What I'm Sayin', Campbell?

President Bush's punkass nephew on the Today show.

It's downright eerie.

New Favorite TV Shows

I don't watch much TV.

It's not that I'm particularly averse to television.  I love good TV.  It's just that I  got out of the habit of watching it.  I'm always busy with kids or school or house stuff, and I'm not the kind of person who can do something else while a show is on.  I have to sit down and pay attention to it. 

Anyway, with the advent of digital video recorders (DVRs) like TiVo or Replay TV, my TV viewing got a whole lot easier.  I can record shows when they're on and watch them back whenever I feel like it (skipping past the commercials...No, I haven't seen that funny new commercial that everyone is talking about, I don't watch commercials.)

I still don't watch a ton of TV.  But I make a point to record and watch:

The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
and
MythBusters

I have two new shows to add to my list:

My Name is Earl
and
The Office

Both of these shows are on NBC on Tuesday nights.  They're on back-to-back, and they make me laugh out loud when I'm watching them alone (which is hard to do...you gotta be FUNNY for me to laugh all by myself.)