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Another retarded and cliche headline pun.....

For whatever reason, news sources love to use puns in headlines when reporting on stories. Examples of one's I've seen:

"CIRCUS PERFORMERS ARE DONE CLOWNING AROUND, DEMAND RAISE", " COPS BUCKELING DOWN ON DRIVERS WHO WONT". " TIME'S UP FOR LOCAL TIME PIECE STORE".The one below is BY FAR THE WOST:

'Bachelor No. 1' wins date with executioner

By Gabriel Falcon
CNN's AC360

March 10, 2010 5:47 a.m. EST

Rodney Alcala, 66, chose to represent himself in the penalty phase of his trial.

(CNN) -- A California jury recommended Tuesday that a man who once appeared on "The Dating Game" be executed for the murders of four women and a child.

The jury deliberated an hour before deciding that Rodney Alcala, 66, should pay with his life for the murders of Robin Samsoe, Jill Barcomb, Georgia Wixted, Charlotte Lamb and Jill Parentau, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said.

Alcala will be formally sentenced Wednesday in Santa Ana, Orange County, where the case was tried even though most of the crimes were committed in neighboring Los Angeles.

The slayings took place between November 1977 and June 1979, covering a wide swath of suburban Los Angeles from Burbank to El Segundo, prosecutors said.

Before he was a convicted serial killer, Alcala was a winning bachelor on "The Dating Game."

"Oh yeah, I remember it quite clearly," said Jed Mills, the game-show contestant who sat next to Alcala in 1978. "He was creepy. Definitely creepy."

Alcala was found guilty on February 25 of murder, kidnapping and an array of sexual offenses. He acted as his own attorney during the penalty phase of the trial.

At the time of the murders, no one knew that the man with the wavy long hair and toothy grin was a serial killer. That included Mills, a veteran television and film actor, whose only encounter with Alcala was when both of them appeared on "The Dating Game."

"That's when I became part of a nightmare, and I didn't realize it was a nightmare until 32 years later," Mills said.

Alcala, who already had been convicted for the 1968 rape of an 8-year-old girl, was the first contestant to be introduced in the game-show episode.

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"Bachelor No. 1' wins date with executioner"

HA HA HA HA ... That's is sooooooooooooooooo funny! ( sarcasm) . People are dead. The bastard killed them. Using a pun in this story was tasteless, cliche, and just shows you how retarded people in the media are. Using a humorous pun in a story about murder and murder convictions isn't funny. ATTENTION THOSE WHO WORK IN NEWS AGENCIES: SAVE THE PUNS IN HEADLINES FOR STORIES INVOLVING ANIMALS RUNNING LOOSE IN MALLS, AND "ZANY" BUMBLING BURGLERS.

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Meet The Craigslist Creep Bot 6900

Two common questions I get asked are: “Where’d you get the Creep Bot?” and “ What does the CLCB 6900 look like? These two questions/ mysteries are now being answered.

1. The CLCB 6900 is the worlds most powerful super computer, capable of computing: 900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

(nine quintillion) yotta flops per second. Originally, it was built via secret government contract for NORAD. So how did I come to own it? That I can’t tell you.

The CLCB 6900 scans Nashville’s Craigslist “casual encounter” section over 50 billion times a second, and then computes which one is the “creepiest” by 11:00 pm that day.

2. The picture you see is the ONE AND ONLY Craigs List Creep Bot 6900.

Beauty.... and the radio beast.

My ole� boss on Beavis & Butt-Head

If I were to ask “ Do you know who Dick Dale is?” I’d say 70% wouldn’t know. However, if I were to say “ What’s the most memorable song from Pulp Fiction”- almost everyone would say “ That one in the very beginning”. That song is “ Miserlou”, and the guitar player is my ole’ boss Dick Dale. During various intervals between 1999-2006, I went on the road as his Tour manager/guitar tech/ bass tech.

My introduction to him came in 1994 watching Beavis and Butt-Head. One of my favorite parts of the show was when they’d watch music videos and comment on them. During one episode, the attached video came on, and I was forever changed. “ Heh heh, yeah YEAHHH!!!!... Huhhhh, settle down, Beavis”….

SEXISM IS OKAY- AS LONG AS IT'S DIRECTED TOWARDS GUYS.

One of my BIGGEST pet peeves about the media today is the blatant sexism in tv commercials. And it’s always the same thing; the guy is portrayed as an effing moron ( or burglar/ rapist) - while the woman is portrayed as the intellectual.

If you were to REVERSE roles in these commercials- OH!!!, there’d be protests and calls for boycotts from every woman’s advocacy rights groups out there. But as long as the idiot/rapist is portrayed by a male- then no one says a word. I'M FED UP!!!

And guess who else shares my thoughts? A woman! Sara Haskins, from my favorite TV show “Infomania” ( the Soup and Madmen have been bumped down to a tie for 2^nd) digresses:

Ron Jeremy- my long lost dad?

A couple years ago when I was working at CBS radio in Portland, OR, I came to the station on my day off ( after running a marathon THAT day) to grab something, and who do I literally bump into? RON JEREMY! I was like " Well, hello, Ron Jeremy". We talked for a bit and I got a picture with him- but then after I saw the picture, I noticed that we look verrryyyy similar.....

Seasons After- " Cry Little Sister"

As heard on the 3 am New Rock Adventure Hour'uhhh ( said like James Hetfield) here is the audio for the remake of "Cry Little Sister" . The band is called Seasons After, and I'm diggin their sounds. Normally I'm anti- remake of songs, but it's not half bad. What do you think?

Attention: Tiger Woods personal life is none of your effing business

Tiger Woods is rumored to be worth around a BILLION with a “B” dollars. He is unarguably the best golfer of all time. I am sick and effing tired of turning on the news, and seeing Tiger Woods and his alleged affairs presented like THEY ARE AN ACTUAL NEWS STORY. If you are a public official- then your personal affairs do automatically become public business as they can and will effect important decisions. But in the case of Tiger Woods- and any other pro athlete or celebrity… WHO THE F*&K CARES???!!!!!!

He owes no one in the public or media an apology, and if I were him, I’d give everyone the finger and walk away from golf and the spot light. He doesn’t need any more money, and he has nothing left to prove. The PGA and The Same Press who have now ruined his public image need Tiger 100000000000000000000000% more than he needs them. Time for the shoe to be on the other foot.

23 Million people watched "American Idol" last night. Every single one of them are idiots.

From the Associated Press:

"Fox's "American Idol" took home the gold Tuesday night, easily beating NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics in viewers and key demographics.According to Nielsen, "American Idol" averaged 23.6-million viewers and a 9.1 rating in adults ages 18 to 49".

Over 23 million ADULTS were glued watching a mindless KARAOKE SHOW. And we wonder why this country is in the shape it is.

�We are the world 25 for Haiti�- one of the worst things I�ve ever heard/seen

I was 4 or 5 when the original “ We are the world” came out, and remember the song being EVERYWHERE. Along with it being written by then superstars Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, it also featured some legendary talent. The song was a bit cheesy back then, but it’s allure and power was undeniable and those who sang on it were actual “singers”- as there was no such thing as auto tune back then. It truly became a cultural phenomenon.

Fast forward to the winter Olympics when the somewhat re-written/complete with a rap verse “We are the world 25 for Haiti” debuted. Lionel Ritchie for years as asked to re- record it. And up until the Haitian earthquake, he repeatedly said.. well... “NO!” The reason was simple: Why potentially ruin a classic song? And his logic was correct. So WHY re- record it now? My suspicion is that he might have been “pressured” into doing it, after fearing that if he didn’t- and it was leaked that he turned down to record it again, people would call him a racist or that he doesn’t care about Haitian people, etc…

I watched the debut of the new version, and as I suspected, it is…..horrible, forgettable, awkward, and is like hearing/watching a jigsaw puzzle with the wrong pieces smooshed together. But what do you expect with a chorus that includes Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Bros, Kanye West, and Vince Vaughn?

I can hear “auto tune” on almost all of the singers, and on some of them the auto tune is so up front and center it’s embarrassing. The “ rap” at the end does not belong there at all, and it obvious to me that most of the singers/ yellers ( you’ll see what I mean on the “ yeller” part) were there for PR purposes. Also, some of them didn’t get the memo that it’s not necessary to hit EVERY NOTE on the musical scale in 2 seconds. For the most part- this all was amateur hour.

You can also see on some of the participants faces that they knew the song was an absolute bomb, and wished they never agreed to do it. There are two lessons to be learned from this fiasco:

1. Today’s pop musical talent – especially when compared to the singers on the original SUCK.

2. The song should have NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER been re-recorded. This is egg on the face for almost everyone involved with the new creation.

Kids should be in school today. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

Today is Tuesday, February 16^th. The roads are clear. There are light flurries. However, for whatever ridiculous reason, most counties in TN have cancelled school, including Davidson. My first thought was “WTF FOR?”. The reason given is supposedly the back roads still might be bad. Ummm- SO? This is the equivalent of shutting down the whole free way because there’s an accident on a couple on ramps.

Two things here: 1. Though I do have respect for teachers ( both of my folks were), every time I hear teachers bitch and complain about “ they don’t make enough money for what they do” , all I have to do is reply by saying “ Name one other job that pays what it does, where you get paid days off when the weather sucks, and oh yeah- where you get the summers off? “.

2. Kids NEED to be in school. There is no reason that 98% of schools shouldn’t be in session today.

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!