R.I.P. Billy Mays

I love watching infomercials. Period. I have only ever purchased one product from an infomercial, but I love watching them all the same. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, pitchmen of all time died this week. Billy Mays brought the world all kinds of products, and he always did it with a smile on his face. I recently read that everyone that attended his wedding got some Oxi-Clean, and he was known to give visitors to his house various cleaning products as well. I can only imagine what a trip to Billy's house might have been like - probably would've been pretty entertaining - just like watching him pitch a new product.

R.I.P. Billy Mays

For more info on Billy Mays, check out Wikipedia.


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R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Say what you want about Michael Jackson (and hundreds of thousands of people are, all over the internet), but he was a hell of an entertainer. Even at age 50 he was planning on a multi-show comeback tour that would have undoubtedly set records for attendance, ticket pre-sales, everything.

Michael's influence on pop music, dance and culture is undeniable. Even though I won't miss hearing about his surgeries, the constant references to him and little boys, or the general madness that followed him, I will miss his presence as an entertainer. (And the fact that we both liked David Blaine.) But I do own a lot of his music and I'll still continue to listen to it.

For more information on the situation, feel free to check out this article on Yahoo.com. Beyond the fact that I don't agree with one commentor's comparison of Michael's death to the Kennedy assassination, it has some generally good information and background on MJ.

RIP Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009).


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Random Thought (#3)

I can't wait for "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" to come back. I love that show.

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Random Thought (#2.5)

Something I meant to mention before - before The Hills premiere last night, they did a little "retrospective" commentary from people on the show, famous bloggers like Perez Hilton, and other socialites who are equally famous for doing nothing.

Anywho, one of the show's characters, "Justin Bobby" was accused of kissing a girl right in front of Audrina, his girlfriend at the time. The point of this random thought is that JB, during the retrospective said something to the effect of, "I know there's some "skepticalasism" about whether I kissed this girl." Sweet Pseudo Reality TV. I'm gettting dumber watching this show, and I fear I'm making all of you dumber as you read this.

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Random Thought (#2)

I watched the season premiere of The Hills last night. As I've mentioned before, it's one of my favorite guilty pleasures. I only mention it here because while my desire to do a particular thing had waned since last season, last night confirmed that if I ever see Spencer Pratt in person, he's getting kicked in the nuts, no questions asked. He has to top my list as the World's Single Most Useless Person. So Spencer, if you ever come across this and you're planning on visiting KY, it would be in your best interests to wear a cup. There's no excuse for your repeated and blatant aggravated douchebaggery.

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Random Thought (# 1)

New (hopefully) recurring post on the Blog. If the title isn't self-explanatory enough, you shouldn't be reading my blog. Anywho, I just had a random thought today and wanted to post something about it, but realized that over-analyzing it would take away the randomness of it. And since I have these random thoughts on a daily basis, it seemed that posting them was a natural progression.

So, for today's thought...

I think it's hilarious when they subtitle British people on TV.

Told you - it's random.

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edit: I had originally named this "Completely Random Thought of the Day", but then realized the thoughts weren't "completely" random, so I took that out. PV.

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