Chastity

(more like ‘Chesty’)

Nichole!

[via The L&Ts of JC]

(for no particular reason) a brief chronology of 70s bleeps & colors & patterns & fun & games & lames…

1974 – Atari’s Touch Me Touches Down In Video Arcades

Atari releases Touch Me, a screen-less arcade game where you have to remember sound patterns and push buttons to prove you remembered the sound patters.  Gamers say BLEEP THIS, and no one ends up touching it all that much

November 16th, 1977 – Humans Tone Home in Close Encounters of The Third Kind

Steven Spielberg, John Williams & François Truffaut communicate with aliens thru the use of 5 tones.  these ‘wild signals’ obviously do the job cause the aliens remove Richard Dreyfuss from earth 9ever!!

May 15, 1978 – Milton Bradley says Simon

Ralph H Baer encounters Atari’s Touch Me at a trade show in 1976 and thought ‘Nice gameplay. Terrible execution. Visually boring. Miserable, rasping sounds.’  Then he thought up Simon and Milton Bradley got all bleepin’ rich and stuff.  So they basically ripped off Atari AND the sweet sounds of John Williams!!

The launch of Simon was hactually held at Studio 54(!!!), where a four-foot model of the game hung suspended over the dance floor!!!!  Would probably donate our penis to science if someone could find pictures of a bunch of coked-up nekkid people dancing underneath a giant Simon at Studio 54!!!

1978 – Atari Gets Handy & Touchy Again with Touch Me

Atari releases ‘a little product called Touch Me, which was a hand-held version of Milton Bradley’s Simon, which was Milton Bradley’s version of Atari’s coin-op Touch Me.’ - Dennis Koble

Obviously no one really touched this product either, and so Atari’s Electronics Games division scrapped their plans for handheld versions of Space Invaders and Breakout.  Atari waited 11 years before releasing their next handheld system - 1989′s Lynx!!

1978 & beyond – The Copy Cats Meow

Simon‘s popularity brings on a rash of imitators.  One of them was Tiger Electronics’ Copy Cat, although it was probably more like Copy Crap!!

the one we played with as a child, was the Simon-esque Merlin by Parker Bros

remember kids, Parker Bros before hos!

Peace The Forks Out

to

Allen ‘Al’

‘A Commitment To Craziness‘

Davis

1929 – 2011

You wouldn’t think it, and most of you don’t even know anything about it, but ESPN’s new (week)daily sports show Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable is highly amazing.  And after only 2ish weeks on the air, we’re ready to declare it the mos entertaining show currently on television.  Yep, we’re that crazy for it, and you could be too, even if yer not a sports fan

If you have (or have ever had) a father, this is required viewing.  Why should having a father matter?  Well, Miami Herald journalist and frequent PTI guest host (the only acceptable one besides the no longer used Norman Chad) Dan Le Batard is certainly smart & engaging enuff to carry a show by himself, but in the ultimate sign of love and respect, and to the audience’s HUGGGGE benefit & delight, he makes every day of his show ‘bring your father to work day’

By employing his enthusiastic and HIGHlarious papi Gonzalo, Dan’s show elevates itself from a mill-of-the-run sports talk head-ache into something quite special, and significant.  Not only is the Le Batard father-son banter an endless roller-coaster of riotous laughter, it’s also a moving (in 2 senses of the word) picture postcard of the modern American family (eat that Modern Family), thus making it also the best family AND reality show on television (eat that every family AND reality show on TV)

These guys are so loving and loveable that you’ll wish you were a Le Batard, or could at least bring your father to work (unless of course yer dad is a giant prick)

Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable airs week-daily on ESPN at 4pm EST.  set yer DVRs to fun!

celebrate the living, while it lives

a look back at RFK Stadium

love it how RFK still (barely) stands, while Texas, Giants & Veterans stadiums have all gotsen demolished!!!!  SO LONG DUMPHOLES!!!