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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 20 (2025)

JNA said:
Who watched the SNL Special ?
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I came in and out of the den where my wife was watching it so I saw some bits and pieces. We have Peacock but she was watching it on the local NBC affiliate so she actually missed the final few minutes, including Paul McCartney's performance, because WDIV elected to cut away at the originally planned end time of 11:15 PM not realizing the show was running late. :omg:

I guess viewers were not. happy. :cursing:

We did sit down last night and watch the end of the special with McCartney's very good performance.

As a nice bookend to Saturday's fiasco on WDIV, the affiliate also elected to not show the first couple seasons 50 years ago. Nobody aired the first 2 episodes locally and after that, the affiliate passed the the rest of the season and the entirety of the second season off to a local UHF station. :rofl:

One of these evenings when I have nothing else to watch, I might watch the entire 50th anniversary episode.


Last night we did watch the 50 Years of SNL Music documentary and that was really good. Questlove is a great producer of these types of documentaries and this was no exception. Even our 14 year old sat up until just after 11:00 PM to watch the entire thing with us and I cannot remember the last time she voluntarily spent that much time on the couch with her parents. (We did skip through the "Dick in a Box" segment... She's old enough that I'm sure she's heard worse so I don't really care if she watches it, I just don't want to watch it with her.)
 
JNA said:
^^^^
The dream police
They live inside in my head
The dream police
They come to me in my bed
The dream police
They're coming to arrest me
Oh no
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My wife and I just took a Cheap trip to Vegas for our anniversary (Feb 8). Cheap flight ($111 round trip), cheap hotel, cheap prime rib, and Cheap Trick :) They were great. They were in a small theatre at the WestGate (Old Vegas Hilton), so even in the balcony, we were maybe 75' from the stage.

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Wifey and I spontaneously went to an Amy Grant concert when we saw she was in town over the weekend. I had no idea she* was still touring. I don't think she's had a hit in decades, but, regardless, puts on a decent show given her audience's age. No flashy lights or huge effects common nowadays.

Wifey and I bonded a lot over an Amy Grant cassette back in the day. Had to "turn the tape over"** 3 or 4 times during one phone call back in the day. All in all, it was "Good for Me" to go.

* Amy, not my wife.

** You kids: "Do what now?"

Jim
 
estromberg said:
My wife and I just took a Cheap trip to Vegas for our anniversary (Feb 8). Cheap flight ($111 round trip), cheap hotel, cheap prime rib, and Cheap Trick :) They were great. They were in a small theatre at the WestGate (Old Vegas Hilton), so even in the balcony, we were maybe 75' from the stage.

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When my kids became teenagers, I played and sang along to Surrender to them until they said stop, which was pretty quickly
 
Love reading these reports. I knew our freeways were fast, but 85% of cars on the freeway are traveling 75.19 mph.
 
jumbach said:
No flashy lights or huge effects common nowadays.
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To me, that's a plus. We saw Suzy Bogguss last year (again, no major hits since the 90s), in a small venue (~200), with her and a couple of other musicians. They just played and sang. We picked up her new CD (from 2023) and it's actually better (I think anyway) than her 1990s album Aces which had a couple hits and was probably her best seller.
 
luckless pedestrian said:
When my kids became teenagers, I played and sang along to Surrender to them until they said stop, which was pretty quickly
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You're alright. You just seem a little weird.

DVD said:
Love reading these reports. I knew our freeways were fast, but 85% of cars on the freeway are traveling 75.19 mph.
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Sounds about right for the sunbelt.
 
Our kids are off of school all week for "Mid Winter Break". :r:

Our 14-year-old is "hanging out" at the mall with some friends of hers. That was fun when I was in high school but IMO the mall by our house is sort of lame for hanging out for some teenagers. There is no movie theatre, there is no arcade, there isn't a puppy-mill-pet-store where they can go see some animals, there's no Spencer's Gifts (does that still exist?). There isn't even a food vendor that sells pretzels or frozen yogurt! On the plus side, I guess they can go to Neiman Marcus or get something to eat at J. Alexander's. Again - lame!

Hopefully she and her friends at least know to fear and respect the escalators!

 
I am not usually one to buy a product because of a celebrity endorsement, but, dang, this look on Howie's face when he is wearing his Slip-Ins in exactly how I feel, even after a month of wearing them.

I think I have new favorite shoes.

Jim


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Doohickie said:
To me, that's a plus. We saw Suzy Bogguss last year (again, no major hits since the 90s), in a small venue (~200), with her and a couple of other musicians. They just played and sang. We picked up her new CD (from 2023) and it's actually better (I think anyway) than her 1990s album Aces which had a couple hits and was probably her best seller.
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I hadn't thought about Suzy Bogguss in decades.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Our kids are off of school all week for "Mid Winter Break". :r:

Our 14-year-old is "hanging out" at the mall with some friends of hers. That was fun when I was in high school but IMO the mall by our house is sort of lame for hanging out for some teenagers. There is no movie theatre, there is no arcade, there isn't a puppy-mill-pet-store where they can go see some animals, there's no Spencer's Gifts (does that still exist?). There isn't even a food vendor that sells pretzels or frozen yogurt! On the plus side, I guess they can go to Neiman Marcus or get something to eat at J. Alexander's. Again - lame!

Hopefully she and her friends at least know to fear and respect the escalators!

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Hell yeah Spencer's still exists. At least it does in my local mall which has all the things you mentioned. Theater, puppy mill, arcade with bowling place, pretzels, yogurt, and cool mall food like rolled ice cream. You need to hang out at our mall.

On sad mall news, Metrocenter, the mall where Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was filled is working on demo permits.
 
We opened for so many late 70's rock bands, but Cheap Trick was not one of them. Off the top of my head:

REO - 3 times
Head East - Twice
Styx
Foreigner
Survivor
Kansas
Gregg Allman
Little Feat
Parliament
Blue Oyster Cult
Foghat
 
DVD said:
Hell yeah Spencer's still exists. At least it does in my local mall which has all the things you mentioned. Theater, puppy mill, arcade with bowling place, pretzels, yogurt, and cool mall food like rolled ice cream. You need to hang out at our mall.

On sad mall news, Metrocenter, the mall where Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was filled is working on demo permits.
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I didn't know teenagers still hang out at the mall. Glad to know that, but I thought that was very much a thing of my generation in the 1980's.
 
TOFB said:
We opened for so many late 70's rock bands, but Cheap Trick was not one of them. Off the top of my head:

REO - 3 times
Head East - Twice
Styx
Foreigner
Survivor
Kansas
Gregg Allman
Little Feat
Parliament
Blue Oyster Cult
Foghat
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How does that work - were you guys with an agent that hooked you up for shows, or what? Is it a booking for one night, or did you do a series of shows? Inquiring minds and all that ...
 
jumbach said:
I hadn't thought about Suzy Bogguss in decades.
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She was outstanding in concert. Voice is still strong. If you liked her back in the day, check out the album Prayin' For Sunshine. It was mostly written during the pandemic and released in 2023. Some great lyrics.
 
Maister said:
Mommy's alright daddy's alright they just seem a little weeeird...:music:
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That was actually my soundtrack to the pandemic. The CD player in my car stopped ejecting CDs and Live at Budokan was the CD stuck in the player, so I just played it over and over and over. Never got tired of it. In fact I like it even more now.
 
Doohickie said:
That was actually my soundtrack to the pandemic. The CD player in my car stopped ejecting CDs and Live at Budokan was the CD stuck in the player, so I just played it over and over and over. Never got tired of it. In fact I like it even more now.
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I'm glad it wasn't a "Baby Shark" CD.
 
DVD said:
Hell yeah Spencer's still exists. At least it does in my local mall which has all the things you mentioned. Theater, puppy mill, arcade with bowling place, pretzels, yogurt, and cool mall food like rolled ice cream. You need to hang out at our mall.

On sad mall news, Metrocenter, the mall where Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was filled is working on demo permits.
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My wife's aunt and uncle live on a cul de sac that backs up to Metrocenter.
 
I once saw Collin Raye out and about, back when had still had a second house here in Reno. He was at the Safeway. I started talking to him, throwing in how we are not that different, and asked him how his career selling VCR's at WalMart was going. That was how he knew I knew who he was. He was a very nice guy. (But I ain't got a witness, and I can't prove it.)

We've seen him in concert a couple of times since then.

Fun fact: his song "One Boy One Girl" was our wedding song.
 
Doohickie said:
That was actually my soundtrack to the pandemic. The CD player in my car stopped ejecting CDs and Live at Budokan was the CD stuck in the player, so I just played it over and over and over. Never got tired of it. In fact I like it even more now.
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A few weeks ago I heard "I Want You to Want Me" on the radio but it was the studio version from In Color. I don't know that I had ever heard that version before and had probably only ever heard the one from Cheap Trick at Budokan live album. After all these years, the studio version just felt... wrong.


Maister said:
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That's kids stuff!

 
Gedunker said:
How does that work - were you guys with an agent that hooked you up for shows, or what? Is it a booking for one night, or did you do a series of shows? Inquiring minds and all that ...
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We had a number of agents over the years, but mostly it was just regional cred. Being a 9 or 10 piece band with horns, it was just a little bit off mainstream to get us booked. But let me tell you these were never high paying or glamorous gigs. Fun but rarely great. Driving 400 miles to play with REO in Nashville for 150 bucks isn't exactly high brow.
 
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www.cyburbia.org normally uses encryption to protect your information. When Chrome tried to connect to www.cyburbia.org this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be www.cyburbia.org, or a Wi-Fi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection. Your information is still secure because Chrome stopped the connection before any data was exchanged.

You cannot visit www.cyburbia.org right now because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.
 
estromberg said:
So I am able to access the site with Safari, but not Chrome. I get this error in Chrome:

www.cyburbia.org normally uses encryption to protect your information. When Chrome tried to connect to www.cyburbia.org this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be www.cyburbia.org, or a Wi-Fi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection. Your information is still secure because Chrome stopped the connection before any data was exchanged.

You cannot visit www.cyburbia.org right now because the website uses HSTS. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.
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You can bypass the error by typing "thisisunsafe" within the browser window.

- Jim
 
Last of Us Season 2 is off to a great start! While not explicitly stated, Pedro Pascal looks like he’s become the Community Development Director in that Wyoming commune.
 
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