Thursday, November 30, 2006

203 in the hizzouse

Ok, I know it’s been a while since I posted, but I’m back and I’ll try to keep up.

I’m back in New Haven for Thanksgiving. Its nice to be back in the old hood now and then –ya know, gotta rembember ya roots! Word. So let me give a shout out to all the homies from the 203 who be keepin’ it real – Kano, Liu Kang, Rayden, Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sonya… (say it with me now) MORTAL KOMBAT! Aedan, Sandy, Ben, Spencer; never loose the faith!

I think it’s worth telling a short story about brotherhood. See, I live in Seattle, and my brother Jesse is currently in Miami. We talk frequently and recently have been planning trips home for Christmas, but apparently both of us had made plans to go home for Thanksgiving as well, but never told each other!
On one of the first nights home, Jared went out to a bar and ran into Jesse, saying “dude, if Jonathan knew you were here he would have come out” implying that if I knew he were at the bar I would have come out to the bar! Jesse, not knowing I was around thought he meant if I knew he were out in New Haven I would have come out from Seattle – but found it odd since he thought I knew he had come home. After Jared got home and told me he had seen Jesse I called him early the next morning, and the following ensued:
“Hello?”
“Dude, what are you doing here?” (Meaning New Haven)
“Um… (What the hell does that mean? What does here mean? Is he questioning my existence?) What am I doing where!?”
“Dude, here!”
“Dude! Where’s here!?”
Once we finally stopped saying ‘dude’ we figured out what had happened and what dumb-asses we had been. I’m sure this will be an episode of ‘Three Brothers, Three Mothers’ when it finally goes to air!

The rest of the trip home was smooth. Watched some good movies, went to the house in Vermont for good food and good converstion with the cousins, drove Jared back to Philly, and even got to see the Seahawks win on Monday night. All followed by a safe, if long, trip back to Sea-town and the 206.

Peace out.

Now you know...and knowing's half the battle!

I know that we all already know and love YouTube, despite the fact that Google is now removing some of the 'good stuff.' But, I recently spent a few hours searching through for a few classics from my childhood. If you grew up when I did, when cable boxes had a row of buttons and a three way switch, than you may recognize most of these...if not, well then , you can try and imagine what life was like back when we were tethered to the TV by a wire...

Tales of the Gold Monkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFN6agkNnQ

Buck Rogers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2I470eM5oc

Airwolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kz_mNvHBfw

Wonderwoman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAneMM1Ywhs

A-Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMjmyv1rNJ8

Dukes of Hazard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEnE4nakqW4

GI Joe 1eason 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPap2j4BIWc

GI Joe season 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_LUzZtqx0

GI Joe movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KaMFxGwSRw

Thundercats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qd_IsxgAf8

He-Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdGR54Sd8NQ

Superfriends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0t15lIl0o

Dynomutt and Blue Falcon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxxL2YvNkzE

Thundarr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAobPugvsk

Space Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LR3hVjJy8

Herculoids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKhIckp4ccY

Joaie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uUbWTFsbzw

Voltron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FaLY94dYVA

G-Force
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWMY4U1g4pg

Transformers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mrmjUBwTc

Mask
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0BzBFWt8V8

Gummi bears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eni0LHAS464

Smurfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1W-e44uQ8Q

Great Space Coaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddm5bQeKvg

Fraggle Rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc3aIUJgXqo

Muppet Show (SW edition)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cty5tZvrL00

Ducktales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42xM1kLPrYo

Telespin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wBV0yvuOz8

JabberJaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIzR6aXfiwQ

I can’t find Grape Ape or Laugh Olympics, but I did find this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G371tXKcG1s which I also have a ton of my father's old vhs recordings!