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Delirious

Sunday
February 25, 2007

Finally, at long last, I watched the Eddie Murphy stand-up comedy performance Delirious today on YouTube. It came out in 1983, and as a result there are some very dated references in it, but the comedy is still laugh out loud funny almost 25 years later.

There's a skit on there that Murphy does about kids and ice cream. I remember being in 4th or 5th grade, 1986-87 or somewhere in there, and John Slowey doing him impression from that.

"You can't afford it, you can't afford it, cause you're on welfare, you're on welfare."

Naturally, I had no idea what he was talking about, but I was rather slow on the uptake on pop culture references at that time. It really took me getting to high school to turn the tide on that; maybe that's why I've spent so much time in the interim learning so many useless things.

It's no fun to be the only one not laughing (especially if you're the one being laughed at for not knowing about something); I've never really thought about it until now, but maybe being on the outside looking in back in my grade school years was a driving force in me trying to learn as much as I could about everything.

As I type this, the Oscars are on ABC. Normally I abhor the overly self-reverent tone of these award shows, but Ellen DeGeneres was actually pretty funny in the opening (which is tough since your material is limited and there are certain lines you can't cross) and the Will Farrell/Jack Black/John C. Reilly singing sketch, which could have been disastrous, was quite amusing.

The girl from Little Miss Sunshine and Will Smith's son just did the intro for another prelim award. Normally kids and live TV are not a good combo, but they were charming and poignant (as child actors are trained to be.) Even when Mini Will Smith read the opening for the next segment by mistake, he played it off perfect.

How is it that MySpace continues to have problems with its infrastructure in an era when tens (if not hundreds) of millions of people use it? Seriously, that thing is so terribly coded, and seems to run into slow-load issues, that it boggles my mind that Rupert Murdoch's money hasn't been able to go to fix it.

If you've used MySpace before, you've probably seen this message at one point or another:

Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred.
This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group.

If this was an isolated problem, I'd understand. But this happens all the time! I suppose that people put up with it, and thus it continues, but it's baffling that a top ten site for web traffic in the world has so many problems.

My neck has been killing me this weekend. The Baclofin has begun to not work as well, and my doctor prescribed me another muscle relaxer (Methocarbamol) which has not worked at all, no better than Skelaxin. But this weekend has been tough, with a shooting pain in my neck that has been tough to handle. Luckily it hasn't triggered a migraine (thank god) but it still has been pretty bad. Ugh.


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