I watched Pollyanna with Haley Mills this weekend. I haven't seen it for awhile, but I used to watch it quite frequently in high school. This was one of my favorite scenes. When my parents were not home, my brother and I used to crank the TV all the way up and listen to Reverend Ford "sermonize something fierce", then crack up the whole time. Obviously, we were not too concerned about the actual message he was preaching, or we probably wouldn't have been rolling on the carpet with giggles.
It's a wonder I started going to church if this was my expectation ... but then again, DEATH COMES UNEXPECTEDLY!!!
On April 3, 2008, Donnie Wahlberg told CNN that The New Kids on the Block had reunited, they were recording an album of new material, and they were planning to tour.
Really.
I haven't heard NKOTB's newest release, so I'm not judging them on their ability to make music. If "Step By Step" and "The Right Stuff" is any indication, they will still be "totally awesome" ...
NOT!!!
I listened to your music, watched your cartoon show and played with your dolls with friends. I was also twelve. Now I'm 30, and you range in age from 36 to 41. Isn't the point of being a boy band to be ... boys?
Fine, get back together ... but why keep the same name? You're not "new" and you're certainly not "kids"!
Forget about "Oh oh, oh oh oh!"; "uh oh!" says it all!
As much as I frequently make fun of current children's programming, my generation had our fair share of bad examples, such as Sesame's Street's Don Music: the poster boy for shame and self-loathing.
Who can forget his classic line,
"Oh, I'll never get it right! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!!!"
which, of course, was always punctuated by banging his head against the keys of his piano. There's a lesson every parents wants their kid to learn ...
That poor guy always looked like he was barely holding it together, even when he did manage to piece together some rhyming lyrics, but we loved to laugh at his pain even more than at that guy who always fell down the stairs with dozens of pies. Even worse, no one else ever offered Don Music the advice that "if at first you don't succeed, try again" or "doing your best is all that matters".
Don stopped doing new material after his creator, Richard Hunt, died in 1992 and because parents were complaining that kids were imitating his defeatist headbanging at home.
However, Don Music left us with such gems as "Mary Had a Bicycle", "Can You Tell Me How to Get To Yellowstone Park", "Whistle, Whistle Little Bird" and "Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car".
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you ...
