This could be the greatest thing I’ve ever toobed…behold:
Click here to see the new Kolchak video in a new window
I love the show. I have the boxed set and drive my wife nuts with it. She doesn’t understand the fascination with it. Oh well. Anyway, this fellow with the action figures?? Whoahhh. The Kolchak is home made apparently from a figure of McGavin from The Christmas Story. The thing that kills me though, is that he went and made a Vincezo doll! One of the first comments is something like, “…dood, where did you get the Vincenzo doll?”
The Night Strangler has to be one of the best low budget (heck, ANY budget) films of all time. And no, there can be no Night Stalker without McGavin and Simon Oakland. Don’t give me Depp; don’t give me stupid Fox Mulder, a show that went for, what? 10 years and paid off on nothing? Bah.
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While I’m at it. Football. The Giants were lucky. They couldn’t move the ball. Yes, their defense was good but without turnovers, they don’t score. I also think Flacco was robbed and that ball was a catch and if Brady had thrown that (tuck play?) ball, it would have gone for 6.
Why the number is only Pats -3, I don’t know. I’d take them to about -6. I didn’t think Tyler’s National anthem was that bad. It was not good, but it was not disrespectful. He honored the song mostly and he’s not a great singer without all sorts of production from the board. Honestly, people over rate these rock guys so much, I wanted to scream, “…what did you expect?”
Who should sing it at the Soop? Well, you can’t get more NJ than the Giants so you should bring in Floyd Vivino. That’s right, Uncle Floyd. He’s appearing for the Children’s Love Fund in Midland Park at the Catholic Church in Feb. Support the Floyd. He’s a little bit of vaudeville still going strong.
Speaking of Tyler, I heard a great factoid recently on Mental Floss, I think it was. Apparently, there are 2 grand children of President John Tyler still alive as we speak. This man became President in 1841. They are not great or great-great. They are grandkids. Their father was his son. Far out.
Heard the same thing about Tyler last week at work. During a very long and boring procedure the anesthesiologist brought up the same fact a we tried to calculate how that was possible, 160 years post his Presidency. The article in the Politico is as follows:
Tyler, who lived from 1790-1862, had 15 children during his lifetime, making him the most prolific president. One of his children, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, born in 1853, fathered Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. in 1924 and Harrison Ruffin Tyler in 1928, according to Sherwood Forest Plantation Foundation, the home of President Tyler.
Both men — Tyler’s grandchildren —are still alive.
Tyler was William Henry Harrison’s Whig running mate in the 1840 election, which spawned one of the most famous campaign slogans in American history, “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” On his 32nd day in office, Harrison died of complications from pneumonia. Tyler was then the first vice president to become president due to the death of his predecessor, serving from 1841-1845. Tyler also has the distinction of becoming the first president to get married while in office — after his first wife died in 1842, Tyler married Julia Gardiner, who was 30 years younger than him, in 1844.
15 KIDS!!!!!!! 15 KIDS!!!!!!!!! Fascinating story.
Comment by joe — January 31, 2012 @ 8:28 am |