Back in the Groove

I’ve been a little busier recently so there hasn’t been a great deal of time to write.

I initially wrote a bunch of baseball stuff and then read my last post and a lot of it was the same so I have chopped it out.

Since revenue is still down for me it means that I have to stay around the house as much as possible and that means lots of TV when I need to rest or be entertained.

The new season has started and I’m now locked into watching Survivor on Wednesdays. It is still the best reality-type of game show out there and I’m just a huge fan of it and the production crew that puts it together.
I watched the new Two and a Half Men with the debut of Ashton Kutcher on it. I like Kutcher as an actor. When I first remember seeing him I wasn’t impressed but he grew on me and I think he is truly talented. Charlie Sheen, despite what his odd fans think, did not make that show good; the writing made it good and it’s still good. Kutcher will enhance the show and provide some new story lines. Some do say that this means that the show will “jump the shark,” but I think that unlikely.

I watched the new comedy “Whitney” with comedienne Whitney Cummings last night. She is a new face to me and I liked the trailers so I watched the pilot. The pilot show was decent so I’ll flip it on from time to time to see how that goes. She created and wrote this show.

If you aren’t watching Raising Hope on Fox you’re missing a real funny show. This has entered it’s third season and 84-year old Cloris Leachman has a fantastic role on the show.

Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. was the winner of America’s Got Talent and I thought that was a great pick by the voters. He did beat one particular group (I-luminate) which was probably the better overall routine, but Murphy’s literal rags-to-riches tale was just too good to vote against in this contest and now he moves from a job washing cars to the strip in Las Vegas. THAT makes that show great this year. We could do without Piers Morgan hitting that stupid buzzer in the middle of final round performances so I would hope they could find someone with some sort of talent to actually judge talent, but so be it.

I tried to watch X-Factor over the past couple of days but couldn’t really get through it. The auditions are taped in front of a live audience and they still feel the need to dub in extra crowd effects, much like The Voice did this year. It is way over-produced and even though Paula Abdul is still pretty hot she is even more annoying as a judge than she was on Idol.
As girl who was crying at the end of her audition because she wasn’t moving forward, Abdul climbed on stage to console her. It was so phony and so dumb.
Another act made her “sick” to her stomach and she had to leave the judge’s table. I mean, come on now; this show is not supposed to be about Paula Abdul. In fact, I don’t think any of these shows should be about the judges at all, yet somehow they get way more attention than they should.

Geez…people need to throw me some more work, don’t they?

Speaking of work…I have a public hypnosis show appearance coming up on October 1 at Widener University in Chester, PA. Showtime is 7 pm and tickets are $10 at the door. It’s family and friends night at Widener so stop on by if you can and say you are my friend. You still have to pay; students only are admitted for free.

Also, I am 99% sure that another public show is on the schedule for 10-27. This one is in Pt. Pleasant, NJ. I need a signature and venue details before I can make that call for sure. Well, the show is happening; I just need to find out where exactly it is taking place.

So that’s about all I wanted to say. I needed to get back in the groove here.

Done