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So we are now into my perhaps favorite month of the year. The days are longer, the weather warmer, school is almost done. The older I get, the more I enjoy going out the house at 8:30 PM and still seeing sunlight. Hopefully the weather starts to turn around, too many rainy days lately.
COMEDY: Kathy Griffin's Rough Week
So at least your week wasn't as bad as Kathy Griffin's week, so you have that going for you.
The Z-list comic posed with a replica severed head of President Trump, causing the right to go nuts and some on the left to go even nuttier.
My first reaction, believe it or not was to cut the lady some slack. This whole Trump administration has caused most of us to go insane, let's face it. With some of the crazy $h-t that comes out of his mouth and/or Twitter account, it has given license for anyone to spout off. It seems nowadays nothing is off-limits. Comedians, whether you are talented like Jerry Seinfeld or Ellen DeGeneres, or not talented like Pauly Shore or well, Kathy Griffin, always risk going over the edge. It's part and parcel of their chosen profession. As a writer, I have to be careful, and most times I am, but every once in a while I write something I wish I could take back. (I might actually do that today)
Griffin at first, seemed genuinely remorseful for what she had done. She issued what seemed like, at first glance, a sincere apology. And a fine and or suspension from CNN would have sufficed IMHO.
But as the week wore on, she seemed more sorry that she lost her gigs than she did that she pretended to decapitate a sitting US President (a-hole that he may be). She held a press conference with her lawyer in tow, and announced that she was being harrassed by the secret service and the Trump family, that she was being victimized because of her gender (as if a male comic wouldn't have faced the same backlash-puh-leeze) and that she would continue to make fun of Trump, which is funny, because her other gripe was that she couldn't find any gigs, so I guess she'll be confined to doing what the rest of us do and cracking our Trump jokes in front of a mirror (don't knock it till ya try it)
The icing on the cake for me though, as to why Griffin should go the way of the Edsel and New Coke, was a Vulture article I was directed to in which she said back in December that she would "go direct for Barron. I'm going to get ahead in the game. http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/kathy-griffin-comedy-should-go-hard-on-trump.html
That should have ended her right then and there. Instead she hung around and buried herself some more.
Now speaking of the President's young son, I'm naturally sympathetic to the lad, as he is not much older than my own prince. But if even my guy could figure out that wasn't really the Donald's head, I would imagine Barron could to, so I'm not buying Trump's story that Barron thought his old man had
really been done in by Griffin. If Trump is really that concerned that his kid would worry about being beheaded by the female version of Carrot Top, perhaps he should move his wifey and Barron to the White House. That would save taxpayer money and assure the poor kid that dad is safe from no talent comics.
Now some of my left wing friends have said that what Griffin did was no worse than what Ted Nugent did when he had pictures of President Obama in a noose. Fair enough. It's just that Ted Nugent may be one person who is even less relevant than Kathy Griffin. How can I boycott someone whose music I wouldn't listen to on a dare anyway?
That reminds me of the old WPLJ DJ Rocky Allen, who after James Brown was arrested (again) for domestic violence, vowed never to play another James Brown record on his program again. "I'm sick of hearing about him slapping his wife around'" Allen said, "so that's it, no more James Brown records on this show.
It was then that his sidekick, Blaine Ensely asked Rocky if they had ever played a James Brown record on the show. Allen told him that wasn't the point.
For the record, I have no desire to see anyone's head in a noose or otherwise separated from the neck. Possible exceptions to that rule of thumb include Osama Bin-Laden, Saddam Hussein, Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman. Three of those f-ckers are dead already and the fourth should be. Wishing death on the President of the United States is something that should carry consequences. No matter who might be occupying the Oval Office.
Give Bill Maher credit for this.. he doesn't care who he pisses off, as long as he pisses off somebody. I used to think as a Patriotic American and Proud Catholic, I was the main target of Maher's wrath. But he seems to have no issues offending my African American friends either. He may end of having a worse week than Kathy Griffin. Stay tuned.
BASEBALL: Mr. Met says We're No 1!
I am by no means throwing in the towel on the Mets season yet, although when I did that 2 years ago, they went to the World Series, so maybe I should.
Because this is shaping up to be one of the worst baseball seasons I can ever remember. I know the Mets have had some crappy teams lately, but at least from 2010-2014, I KNEW they were going to suck. Same thing in 2003,2004, and 1993-1996. 1984, 1997, 2005 and of course 2015 were unexpected treats
Years like 1991, 1992, 2002 and 2009, I thought they had a chance and then they ended up being lousy-those were the worst. And this year is worse than that because not only were the Mets expected to be good and have been awful...but the Yankees were supposed to struggle and have been awesome.
Now I'm not hating on the Yankees, Lord knows I have enough of their fans in my life that I can't be woofing on them too much. But geez it was nice to feel like we owned the city for that time. I'm old enough to remember the 80's where the Mets owned the city and George Steinbrenner turned the Yankees into the laughingstock of sports. From 1991-2014, this was Yankee town. I thought in 2006, when the Mets made it to the NLCS and the Yanks got bounced in the ALDS, that maybe we were taking over. The next season we choked away the division and the Yanks made the playoffs. Two years after that, the Mets finished under .500 and the Ynaks were World Champs.
This is starting to feel like 2009.
To add to the frustration, we have Matt Harvey and his shenanigans, Noah Syndergaard getting hurt because he tried to win a bodybuilding contest, and now, the one Met I can always count on, Mr. Met flipping off the fans at Citi Field. To me, that story epitomizes the 2017 season so far. We can't even rely on Mr. Met to do the right thing.
The worst season, that's where we are headed.
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Saturday afternoon, I was walking through Times Square, and there were a whole bunch of those characters hustling for money. I walked by a guy dressed like the Joker (who I have to admit bore a striking resemblance to Heath Ledger) started shoving someone dressed like a Minion.
A guy dressed like Spider-Man and one dressed like Batman came over and tried to seperate the two combatants. I sat down on one of those barriers and tried to take some pictures. Two cops came over and talked to the Joker and the Minion as well as Batman and Spiderman. Finally everybody went their own way.
Moral of the story? The reason we are the greatest city in the world is because when even Batman and Spiderman can't stop the Joker, the NYPD can.
On that note, Have a Great Week
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