The Daily News
1 I knew we had it yesterday from the git go.
2 Yesterday morning I got pulled over by a cop for not having my registration sticker on my license plate.
3 I bought my car in the summer in the middle of doing a remodel and a vacay, and must have forgotten to put my registration sticker on the car.
4 Just forgot. Didn’t occur to me until two days ago when I glanced down at my license plate. So the sticker is somewhere in a house that was remodeled during the summer.
5 Somebody tried to ruin my day, but it just wasn’t going to happen.
6 Two other times I had to avoid cops. One was near Walgreens, and I re-routed, not because I had done anything wrong; I just wanted to avoid being detained for any reason on a key vibe day.
7 I then pulled up to a stoplight and saw that a cop was lurking in the bushes waiting to ambush some poor bastid.
8 I turned into a parking lot to avoid trouble, but realized I was WAY late in getting back from lunch because of the minimum day.
9 I deliberately turned in to a parking right, and detoured through a parking lot, only to find a huge garbage truck in front of me, blocking my access to Quimby Road.
10 I was irritated, because I had already come to school late in the morning because of the cop who had pulled me over.
11 And now a garbage truck…
12 A garbage truck…
13 Did I not hope to see a garbage truck in the other day’s DN?
14 I believe I did when I talked about Duane Kuiper freezing his ass off in Cincy, and seeing the appearance of garbage as the sign of a dove from above.
15 I broke into a huge smile, hopped out on Quimby, only to see ANOTHER garbage truck.
16 You can’t make this stuff up. I broke into a huge smile.
17 Moving on, Part One: Two days ago I told David, our director for Midsummer, and his sound girl Ashley that I had sort of inherited a puppy that we named Rocket J. Dog.
18 Yesterday, because I was late and on a minimum day, I decided to grab a Twilight Zone to start off my ghost unit.
19 I had hoped that I had the Twilight Zone episode called Living Doll, the one that had Telly Savalas at odds with a talking doll named Talky Tina. It’s a classic.
20 In the episode, Savalas plays Erich, the step-father of little Christie, the daughter of his wife Annabelle. Annabelle can’t get pregnant with Erich’s baby. At the beginning of the story, Annabelle has just bought Christie a doll that moves and talks. The doll was based on Chatty Cathy, a popular talking doll manufactured by Mattel at the time.
21 Erich is worried about how much Annabelle spent on the doll. After alienating both Christie and Annabelle by talking about finances, Erich is left alone with the doll, which suddenly opens its eyes.
22 He winds the doll up, and it says, “My name is Talky Tina, and I don’t think I like you.”
Talky Tina. You might remember her. Mwahahaha!!!
23 It gets creepier from there, and is now considered a classic. Season Five, Episode Six if you want to get it. I got mine at Barnes and Noble. It holds up quite well as you can imagine.
24 Anyway, I researched it and found an interesting tidbit, which plays into all of the amazing coincidences of late.
25 The actress whose voice they used as Talky Tina, a gal named June Foray, was also the voice of Chatty Cathy.
26 And she was the voice of a lot of female characters in myriad Looney Tunes.
27 And she was also the voice of Rocky, the Flying Squirrel.
28 Rocket J. Squirrel.
29 Which inspired the name of the puppy, Rocket J. Dog.
30 Particles.
31 Moving on, Part Three: So the Giants make mince meat out of the Tigers biggest Tiger.
32 Zito drenches Verlander, and even gets a base hit, which scored two runs.
33 Pablo goes four-for-four with THREE home runs, putting him up there with Reggie Jackson in 1977, Albert Pujols last year, and Babe Ruth, who accomplished this same feat in 1926 AND in 1928.
34 Panda is dancing with the big bears.
35 And when we were threatened, Bochy brings in the circus act of Tim Lincecum, who came out smokin’.
36 Okay, I’ll lay off those jokes.
37 Meanwhile, we have another game to play. You take each day one at a time in these instances.
38 No Hubris. This game is too unpredictable, as yesterday proved.
39 But you gotta like getting up this morning.
40 I’m going into a little Poe today. We’ll talk of Talky Tina, because it is an awesome piece.
41 I’ll tell my students of the coincidences, and they won’t see the larger picture of this entire month of annual coincidences.
42 I just hope I see a garbage truck this morning. That was awewsome. I get right where Kuip is coming from.
43 I kept the vibe going well after the game by blasting Beatles 1, their album of Number One hits. It was raining good vibes well into the night.
44 I wanna throw some great birthday vibes out to my sister Linda, who deserves another Giants’ victory tonight.
45 Let’s get it going early.
46 Three more games. That’s a bit of a mountain.
47 Pray for garbage trucks.
48 Go Giants.
49 Baseball in ‘Tober.
50 Unworldly.
51 An orange-and-black Twilight Zone.
52 Let’s do this.
53 Peace.
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Talky Tina. You might remember her. Mwahahaha!!!23 It gets creepier from there, and is now considered a classic. Season Five, Episode Six if you want to get it. I got mine at Barnes and Noble. It holds up quite well as you can imagine.24 Anyway, I researched it and found an interesting tidbit, which plays into all of the amazing coincidences of late.25 The actress whose voice they used as Talky Tina, a gal named June Foray, was also the voice of Chatty Cathy.26 And she was the voice of a lot of female characters in myriad Looney Tunes.27 And she was also the voice of Rocky, the Flying Squirrel.28 Rocket J. Squirrel.29 Which inspired the name of the puppy, Rocket J. Dog.30 Particles.
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