Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Deep Thoughts By No-Look McFadden: Episode 56





#1
I can’t contain my curiosity anymore: When did NBA players decide that it would be cool to start dressing like Urkel for postgame press conferences and who signed off on it?

#2
As a writer, I’m not sure whether this infographic about how a book is born is supposed to make you chuckle or weep. So I did both, and now I think there’s a book in it somewhere.

#3
A 94-year-old woman reunited with her son after 67 years. Good story. But I have to ask the obvious—if all it took was a quick Google search, what have they been doing for the last 20 years?

#4
Miami Dolphins coach Joe Philbin is a dead ringer for Father Jessup (played by Bruce Ed Morrow) from the epic “Seinfeld” episode “The Implant.” Maybe we can get a Costanza cameo on “Hard Knocks” this summer.

#5
That thing where a 19-year-old kid lived on the AOL campus in California for two months without them knowing. Side note: who knew AOL was still around?

#6
Maybe the most underrated new show out there is Fox’s “Touch,” and it gave an involuntary nod to a previous generation of comedy by casting both Mike Damone of “Fast Times at Ridgmont High” and Jean-Paul of “Seinfeld” (the marathon runner in “The Hot Tub”) in the same episode recently.

#7
As people are forced to come up with more and more clever means of barter in a dying economic system, you have to love the idea of the Little Free Library on the corner.

#8
Apparently, NBA analysts have decided that “volume shooter” is a more politically correct way to call someone a ballhog.

#9
The smile of a paralyzed woman who’s able to use her mind to get a robot to give her coffee gives you optimism that sometimes technology is on the right track.

#10
So perhaps I should just go ahead and scratch Australia off the ol’ bucket list ...

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