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They done took Elmo down.  Down goes Elmo, down goes Elmo!  You may know or may not know that I have a 3 year old nephew who love the hell out of that Elmo.  He has one of these fucking Elmo dolls that eats up double D batteries like a burger at Micky D’s with that voice that drive me to roll up a dollar bill with pow wow on the counter but there go the 89′s right?

Oprah and Elmo

Kevin Clash dodged a bullet.  But destroyed Elmo in the process.  Elmo is dead.  He died no matter how the accuser of Kevin Clash who said the voice and puppeteer master that has clearly engrossed and engaged my nephew for the past couple of years tries to change what he was accused of by someone who clearly has issues.

This is why I hate some people.  Because these days it’s easy to ruin someone’s reputation by accusations that are false.

Elmo will not have the same image today as he had yesterday.  I like that fucking doll.  So I’m not going to go too deep in to this story because I have to go back to Philly to see my nephew and deal with this issue.

I hate Elmo.  Elmo.  I hate Elmo.

Rick Thomas

Guy Fieri, chef extraordinaire, Food Network television star and all around wild and crazy guy is getting a taste of what it’s like to be living in California and opening a restaurant in New York’s Times Square.   They say if you can make it in New York you can just about make it anywhere and right now Guy Fieri’s new eatery in New York is not getting any rave reviews.

Guy Fieri

This from the New York Times.  Yes the New York Times is lowering itself to do reviews on places like Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square as writer Pete Wells literally trashed the place like you were eating out of the dumpster in the back of the new restaurant.”I thought it was ridiculous,” said Guy Fieri of the writer’s scathing overview of the food and drink at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar.  One beverage was described as tasting like “radiator fluid and formaldehyde” by the New York Times Pete Wells which begs the question “how can you screw up a drink” at a bar in New York City?

Um, you really shouldn’t mess up a drink, right?

Guy Fieri is taking the comments by the writer seriously though as he admitted on this morning’s Today Show that the new place needs a couple of months before all wheels are turning correctly at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar.  “We’re trying as hard as we can to make it right, to do it right,” said Guy Fieri while chatting with Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie.

Another example of rushing to get a place open too soon but if you know the type of monthly rent Guy Fieri is paying just to have a location in Times Square can you blame him?  Is this good publicity for Guy Fieri’s brand?

More to come.  And you can read more about the review of Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen & Bar at the link below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/food-network-star-guy-fieri-got-flogged-by-the-new-york-times-but-does-it-matter/2012/11/15/13ed0b7c-2f64-11e2-af17-67abba0676e2_story.html

Rick Thomas

OK so I guess I won’t be a part of DVR7 as it’s called in the television ratings world.  Nielsen now rates those of us who have DVR recorders who watch shows withing 7 days of airing.  I keep a lot of my shows on my DVR for weeks some times so I can’t be counted all the time but the biggest problem I’m having these days is still having to watch political advertising many days after the election.

Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion in ABC’s ‘Castle’

I’m in California…lots of those state resolutions are all over my flat screen these days.  I’m like most.  Tired of the political  process even if my guy Barack Obama won.  I really, like most, wanted this to be over.  But I’m watching the last couple of new episodes of ABC’s Castle and every commercial break contains a political ad.

Yuck.

I love me some Castle.  Great show.  Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic lead a great cast for probably Monday’s best cop show drama although I’m still not liking the new sex situation between the two top characters on Castle.

But those damn political ads!

So I have a DVR with 64% of content.  12 episodes of Leverage.  A couple of Crime Scene Investigation episodes as well.  A Modern Family, just finished two hits of Two and a Half Men, a bunch of Maury “are you my baby daddy” shows, a New Girl, a The New Normal, shall I go on?

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION – Justin Bieber

So the politics is still going to be with me at least for a couple of weeks as I watch so many old shows which contain a bunch load of political ads.

What can I do?

Oh and for those who say why don’t I just fast forward past them I do.  Still I can’t get the taste of this past election period out of my mindset.

It’s going to be a rough couple of weeks.

Rick Thomas

Frankie Edgar, UFC Fighter

So I don’t get a chance to watch the UFC or Ultimate Fighting Championship matches anytime, anywhere.  I just don’t see the need to watch a bunch of guys brutalize themselves every contest and don’t see the attraction to the sport at all.  But in an effort to extend the UFC game further in to the type of sports viewer that likes Ultimate Fighting match-ups to a different viewer Frankie Edgar and his wife made a really funny commercial or promotional spot for the contest on FOX.

This is a really funny video!

“Bad is bad, good is good,” says Chris Matthews who got caught up in this totally screwed up political process in making a statement that was unnecessary and vile.

CHRIS MATTHEWS

I like Chris Matthews.  He may be a bit liberal for me but I can understand his position due to the battery of this current President by the conservative wing of the Republican party that seemed to do everything in the book to screw over this President known as Obama.

It didn’t work, President Obama won, conservatives are depressed and because of the whipping Democrats provided in this past election that only the media thought was a race, Chris Matthews stepped across a terrible line.

Chris Matthews stated so clearly that he was “so glad” of the coming of Hurricane Sandy which some say made the difference between a win and a loss for President Obama.

“So glad,”?

What a stupid statement by a silly man.  This person known as Chris Matthews.  Sometimes he just goes beyond the level of liberal morass to a point where even some like me say he can be just an asshole.  He’s an asshole for what he said, putting the lives of those in the northeast region as a positive reason for the success of President Obama.

A friend of mine got lucky after Hurricane Sandy.  This bitch of a storm only knocked out his electricity for about a week, blew out one of the windows in his house and as he described to me his whole neighborhood was pitch black during the blackout and he had to spend time at his sister’s home in South Jersey, well away from his Northern Jersey location because of this weather incident.

“I wouldn’t wish this on anybody,” he told me as I checked in with him as he negotiated work and cleaning up after this mess.

Chris Matthews is a liberal mess.  He’s one of the reasons why some-days I have to admit my moderate status.  His statements are unacceptable as his apology.  A northeast dude, understanding the importance of the Jersey shore to him and to me, a former Philly boy, simply made me sick.

My mom and dad were born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  A city destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.  It was not a fun event by no means.

Apology, Chris Matthews, not accepted.

Rick Thomas

Well this is the new world order.  When it comes to just about anything these days.  Secrets are secrets no more.  How many people are coming out of the closet to announce their alternative sexual preference?  Or anything having to do with bumping nasties just ast CIA Director David Pertraeus announces his sexual misgivings.

But this is not a story about sex.  To bad, right?  Nope.  This is a story about those of us who have no problem admitting a diagnosis of cancer and telling the world.  At least in Brooke Burke-Charvet’s case, the Dancing With The Stars co-host went public with her thyroid cancer diagnosis using the world of video as her outlet.

David Charvet and Brooke Burke – Charvet

Brooke Burke -Charvet, the mother of four kids and now a staple on the reality show Dancing With The Stars, will undergo surgery to remove the cancer from her thyroid and be back with a noticeable scar when she returns to the show.  In this video she talks about her ordeal.

Rick Thomas

Yeah they will bitch and moan.   Whine and cry.  But it’s over.  Barack Obama is getting another four years as President of the United States.  Time to move on. 

Barack Obama (CNN Photo)

Yeah this is for real.  I’ve never heard of Jessie Andrews, porn star but I had to look her up to see if she was for real.  Um, yes she is for real.  I had to endure about 8 hours and 47 minutes of video content on PornHub.com to make sure that Jessie Andrews was a tried and true porn actress and do my due diligence as an upscale journalist that does the proper inside investigation in to the story topic.

Porn Star Jessie Andrews

Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus with Jessie Andrews in the same story.  Disney to PornHub.com is a stretch and yes the trend on the Internet has these two mentioned in the same story.

No I won’t put Miley plus Jessie in the same story together on this blog.  That would take away my journalistic integrity to the maximum and that I will not do.

OK I lied.

Yes That’s Miley Cyrus

Jessie Andrews is this year’s winner for Best Actress of the AVN Awards which clearly is not an Oscar and she used to bang Israeli disc jockey Borgore who got Miley Cyrus to shoot a video at Los Angeles hot spot the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard.  The song is called Decisions which quite frankly sucks.

Yeah this song Decisions stinks to high holy hell.  But so is Miley Cyrus’s career if the best she can come up with is hooking up with pornstar Jessie Andrews.

Well you listen to this clearly over-produced song and let me know if you would pay 99 cents on iTunes for this piece of crap.  But anyway go to the link below to read the whole story.

DeeJay Asaf Borgore

Oh yeah the video is the unofficial video for Borgore’s Decisions but we thought it was kinda funny.

Rick Thomas

http://www.poptopictv.com/9/post/2012/10/miley-cyrus-secret-new-project-with-hot-porn-star.html

Well if you’re a baseball fan you’re getting a lot of the new season of American Idol content but it may come to an end tonight.  FOX is broadcasting the World Series and tons of promotion highlighting the January start of season for American Idol 12 is running during these sports broadcasts.

Problem for FOX…the San Francisco Giants are three games up on the Detroit Tigers and are about ready to sweep the mid-westerners out of any championship talk should the Tigers not win game four.

But here we go.  New judges on board for American Idol.  Some new formatting for the show this new season as well.  And the challenge to regain some of the lost viewers by having some of America’s top music artists on board that surely will hope.

They hope over at American Idol this will stop the audience erosion.

Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, Nicky Minaj are all on board with Randy Jackson that and their involvement in American Idol  should make a big difference.  But enjoy the pictures and video as we all look forward to a solid new season of American Idol.

AMERICAN IDOL: Mariah Carey.

AMERICAN IDOL: Randy Jackson

AMERICAN IDOL Judge Nicki Minaj

AMERICAN IDOL – Keith Urban

Oh you gotta love this crazy lady, Ann Coulter.  You really gotta give Ann Coulter a lot of credit.  Ann Coulter knows how to promote and market herself which is a quality that most people don’t have.  Well let’s say most people have it but segment producers on The Today Show used to book Ann Coulter all the time.  Now she may have to come up with a new marketing approach, at least for this morning show.

Conservative Talker Ann Coulter’s New Book “Mugged”

Matt Lauer disses her.  They don’t seem to get along.  And I kinda like Ann Coulter not because I am a Republican.  Fret not I am not even close.  But I like Ann Coulter because she reminds me of some of the dopey blonds I date down in Orange County California.

OK maybe that’s a bit too much information.

Now Ann Coulter seems to have crossed that proverbial line that puts her in line for FOX News segments only.  The loud mouth conservative writer, commentator, talk show host or whatever you want to call Ann Coulter is strongly under fire from, well just about everyone.

Even people who call themselves conservative are calling out Ann Coulter.  So what did she say?  Well read the image content for yourself….

Oh what a mess Ann Coulter what a mess.  Calling the President of the United States a “retard?”  Well that’s what this dumb blond did and quite frankly if she can call the President a ”retard” why can’t I call a dopey blond a dumb blond?

Because it’s wrong!!!  It’s wrong!!!  No matter how I feel about dopey blonds in Orange County California I have the right to feel that way only to myself.

Period.  End.  Stop.

Ann Coulter does this all the time.  Here’s what’s sad about how she’s perceived.  No one and I repeat no one except the hard core Obama haters will use Ann Coulter as a guest for a long time now.  Nobody, especially shows that are targeted to women like The Today Show, will put her on as a talking head knowing that a show’s audience is full of viewers who have kids suffering maladies that have significantly changed the lives of those viewers do not want to see Ann Coulter.

But that’s how Ann Coulter has built her brand.  Pissing people off.  And to be real as a marketer it works for her.  Ann Coulter will not change and quite frankly those continuing to follow her only give Ann Coulter the foundation she needs to be, well, Ann Coulter.

Rick Thomas