Well, I Guess They're Staying Put.

At least for one more year. D'OH! I guess the city of Glendale/Phoenix don't mind keeping a team that can't draw flies and hasn't made a profit in 16 plus years. Oh, and hasn't made it past the second round of the playoffs since 1987. Where was the team then? Oh yeah, where they shouldn't have been moved from in the first place!

Jerry Lewis to Retire from MDA Telethon

After 45 years, Jerry Lewis is retiring as host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Labor Day Telethon.

I remember watching this as early as the mid-1970s. Back then you had all the same stars of the day as you would see on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (the only real host that's ever been on that show. There will never be another Johnny) and Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts. At any given time on the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon you wouldn't be surprised to see the likes of Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Even Dean Martin appeared after the "Chairman of the Board" got he and Lewis talking again after years of not doing so during one of Sinatra's surprise appearances.

Every year the telethon would beat its own final tally of contributions sent in by the American public. One year would see $25-$30 million dollars. The next year would be $35-$40 million. The year after that would be $45-$50 million and so on. International donations based on regional telecasts would go to local MDA affiliates. 2010's telethon raised almost $60 million for Muscular Dystrophy research.

Lewis has been doing this since 1966 when one local New York television station broadcast the event that raised in excess of $1 million. He ends every telecast with his rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone."

They've Killed Obi Wan, Those Bastards!

Lord Vader has announced the killing of Obi-Wan Kenobi at the Imperial Palace on Coruscant.

Another KISS Show in Windsor, Another Show to Get Excited and Blog About

Yeah, that's right. I'm posting to let everyone who doesn't care one iota that I'm going to another KISS concert in Windsor, Ontario.

When KISS last appeared at Caesar's Windsor in 2009, just prior to their October release of "Sonic Boom," I though maybe it was a mistake. Perhaps a booking faux paux that somehow landed the Hottest Band in the World right in my own back yard; much like what happened when I was still living in Winnipeg in 1993 when Paul McCartney was booked to appear at Winnipeg Stadium due to a scheduling conflict somewhere in North Dakota. Now, after purchasing tickets to an upcoming show at the same venue (the Coliseum at Caesar's Windsor) I'm thinking, wow, these guys will really indeed play anywhere their fans want to see them!

I won't go into my love of the band or how I got into them (that can be found here) but suffice to say, I am once again jacked! This will be the fifth time seeing them and the first since back in September of last year at the DTE in Clarkston, Michigan. On 9/11 to be precise.

I will be posting about the show, per usual, about one or two days later. Hopefully some pics to follow as well. This show is going to be about a month before the release of their yet un-named 20th studio album. At a great KISS fan site (aptly named KISSfansite.com) of which I am a member, of course, they asked the community there what in their opinion should be the name of the new album? There was everything from "Destroyer II" to "Annihilator" (with the cover of the band laying waste to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-which the HOF so richly deserves. Not just because they have continually failed-on purpose-to induct one of the most influential and successful bands of all time, but also because the idiots at the "Hall" put in "artists" such as Madonna, ABBA and rappers) although I believe ZZ Top's juggernaut of an album-the one with Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, etc-had that name already. My personal favourite of names for the new album was "The Return of Abner Devereaux." If you've seen the crappy, but oh, so awesome KISS television movie of 1978, "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park," you'll understand the reference.

The tickets cost me $268 Canadian. Which is only slightly cheaper than the last Coliseum show in July of 2009. But now, just as then, I don't care. As long as the tickets aren't in the neighborhood of $250 each (which may be in the next couple of years) I'll pay whatever. More over, if no one wants to go with me (and for the love of God, how could they not?) I'll go by myself if I have to. In this case, my roommate is going to go , because he never turns down a party. Holly, my usual road/concert buddy, who went with me the last two times at the Coliseum and the DTE, can't go this time due to previous engagements. BOO! Ah, I'm sure she'll hear all about it. And I'm sure she's sure, too.

So, as of this writing, 78 days till Paul, Gene, Tommy and Eric rock Windsor like it's 2099!

Did I mention KISS rules!?

Yeah, Really! WTF!?!?

How does this happen? How can this be legitimately recognized?

Just A Random Chart

YESSSSSSS!

Is it really happening? I can't believe it. I always knew it would, but it looks like just a matter of time now.
I know, I know. It said the possible relocation. But it is the best news since Gary Bettman said on national television in an interview on Hockey Night in Canada that if the NHL were to expand or relocate north of the border, Winnipeg would have the right of first refusal.

Things are coming together. Me so happy!