"Angela!"

2005-03-29

Thursday night at O'Leary's, James finally presented me with my belated birthday present. It came wrapped in an oversized cardboard box, and I could hear it bouncing off of the walls of the box as I rotated it in my hand. James' instructions for opening my present were as follows: "Dude, just open it [remove the single piece of duct tape that was the box's lone seal] and let it fall into your hand."

So I ripped the box. I tilted the box. I opened the hand. Then, into the hand it fell: The DVD set of the entire first season of "Who's the Boss." That's right! Steve the bartender actually took it from me and began walking it around the bar showing it to other patrons, not unlike the way a less civilized man would call other men into the bathroom to check out a really spectacular dump before it gets flushed.

I was never a big "Who's the Boss" fan, myself. Okay, in all the interest of full disclosure, I was too engrossed in the "How rudes", "Have mercies!" and "You'll be sowwy, mis-tuhs" of "Full House" to give a rat's ass about "Who's the Boss." But oh, how all that has changed...

Since Thursday - and mind, you, it's Tuesday - the Hobin-Sucik-Cummings household has not lived through a day in which "Who's the Boss" hasn't been on rotation for two straight hours. We've even got the episodes where Alyssa Milano gets a training bra and Tony sees Angela naked in the tub! (ANGELA: "Where in the Constitution does it guarantee the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of a bubble bath?" Ha! Ha ha! Gold, I tells ya! That shit is fucking GOOOOOLD!) And we haven't even gotten to the special features yet. TV on DVD truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

Mark your calendars, kids. April 22-24 is Surfacing, Webster U's Emerging Playwrights Festival. Yours truly has two little Surfacing milestones this year: Most-produced playwright (my fourth produced one-act out of four annual submissions) and first time a playwright will perform in another playwright's play in the same year. Admission is free. Please please please come.

I might even let you borrow a certain DVD of a certain 1983 TV season...

-Andy

The past is the past.

Creamy goodness

Important stuphph!

If I were any cooler, this motherfucker would burst into flames.

Drinkin' with LINCOLN! (And DAVID SEDARIS, despite no clever rhyming phrase!)