Well I hope everyone has a fun yet productive St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow. Let us all celebrate that rowdy March holiday, in which people tend to get incredibly drunk and remember some patron saint dude named Patrick. To get into the season I give you the wonderful gift of me in Irish attire. Unfortunately, I’m not Irish at all (Mostly German/Swedish and a questionable amount of Scottish.) but let us still be festive and don’t forget to wear green!

Close one today.

So I could register catfancy.net if I wanted. John doesn’t think it’s necessary. What do you, the reader, think? It wouldn’t be that expensive, but money is money.

Man it sure has been sad hearing about all this Patrick Swayze cancer stuff. For those who don’t know Mr. Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few months ago and is currently undergoing treatment. I guess he’s still working but it’s a real shame when someone is diagnosed with such a serious illness. I’ve always heard that pancreatic cancer patients usually don’t live that long, I guess it’s supposed to have the highest fatally rate of any cancer. My grandfather died from it after only about a year, so it’s pretty depressing to think that Patrick Swayze might only have a few years left. I hear for the most part though that he’s optimistic and still trying to keep busy… If there’s anything I’ll ever remember him for it’ll definitely be him on SNL with Chris Farley, classic…

Though I missed the original airing of the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, I still managed to catch the induction of the only band I really cared about this year “The Dave Clark Five.” It was nice to see DC5 finally get some respect after all these years, as it would seem they’ve kind of fallen of the radar (You can’t even get any of their albums on CD) despite the fact that they were for about two years, The Beatles biggest rivals. Not to mention that they got enough votes to be inducted last year, yet the Hall of Fame still inducted Grandmaster Flash instead. Which I guess isn’t that big a deal except that DC5 lead singer/Organist Mike Smith passed away a few days before this year’s ceremony, and he could of attended if they hadn’t messed with the votes last year.

Anyways, inducting the DC5 was none other than 60s rock fan Tom Hanks (They even played “That Thing You Do” as he walked out). His speech wasn’t particularly engaging but whatever, you got to love Tom Hanks. It was nice to see the three remaining members of the band together finally getting some respect. Dave Clark himself gave a pretty emotional speech, it appeared that this really meant a lot to him. The performances to celebrate them weren’t half bad either, Joan Jett did “Bits and Pieces” followed by an all star tribute from John Fogerty, John Mellencamp and Billy Joel playing “Glad All Over” all in all it was enjoyable.

P.S. This year also marked the induction of the classic surf rock band “The Ventures” Who just happen to be from Seattle. I guess they played like Hawaii Five-O… So good for them.

(Pictured above The Guy from Big and Dave Clark)

Believe it or not, soon to be 60 year old Actor/Comedian Billy Crystal has signed a 1-day contract with the New York Yankees. He will work out at the Yankee’s spring training facility in Florida on Wednesday, and then play in a Spring training game on Thursday. I am very excited to see the highlights on sports center. Lets just hope this deal is temporary, and that a long-term deal is being discussed.

It’s hard to believe how fast they’ve been dishing out these god awful parody movies. I think we’ve all bee seeing the “Superhero Movie” ads on TV. Not only is this another one of those weak and embarrassingly bad parody movies, but it is already the second parody movie this year, and it’s only March!

I heard they were making another Scary Movie due out this year as well. I can see it now… An I Am Legend parody where Eddie Griffin is the last man in New York City, but I’m sure they’d give it a clever twist like he’s the last black guy in New York City Ha Ha. There’s no surprise why we get so many of these, they just do well at the box office, it’s as plain and simple as that. Though it’s a real shame that when there are so many aspiring, creative filmmakers ready to cut their teeth. I mean, the title of this piece of crap perfectly sums up the amount of effort put into it “Superhero Movie” I guess if they called it anything else they’d think people would be confused.

This new one, in particular, is especially perplexing. A superhero parody movie? Shouldn’t that have been done when there was a huge string of superhero movies coming out? I thought these films tried to be current… And that’s another thing, do they realize how none of this will hold up? Do they really think a parody of Britney Spears guy will still be funny five years from now? I guess that doesn’t matter because they make lots of money. Maybe they purposely make them bad for that reason?

Nah, they’re just idiots. These have definitely strayed from the original films that inspired this genre. Old Zucker and Abrahams movies gems like Airplane, Naked Gun, and Hot Shots. At least those weren’t directly ripping off movies. Now it’s literally repeating what we’ve already seen with no new added satire or kind of analysis. Hell, even the Zuckers and Abrahams have resorted to cheap gimmicks these days. It’s easy to say that the novelty has worn off (at least for any person with common sense) so let’s hope that these eventually lessen in popularity. It’s simply for the good of mankind.