If you can take a break all take a break from rending your garments over the departure of Don Imus, there’s actual news here.
Beginning next week, my friend and recently-former-Fanatical Apathist Mo Rocca will be hitting the boards on Broadway. His engagement will last but a month, but from next week ’til mid-May you can see him in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” in the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch. I’ll be there. Look for me. I’ll be dressed as an elderly matron in a black dress. If you spot me, pull off my wig and win a prize! Remember to pull it hard - I intend to affix it firmly in place.
Also, if you haven’t been reading Mo Rocca 180 over at News Bloggers, you’ve been missing some terrific stuff.
What does all of this prove? Er… “Nothing bolsters a career like leaving Fanatical Apathy,” I suppose. Not the proudest slogan ever, maybe, but it’s kind of catchy, at least.
Fanny Roborat
18 comments
It's Pat!
April 13, 2007 at 12:08 pm
1I’ll never leave, I’m having too much fun.
Jason
April 13, 2007 at 2:29 pm
2Good luck to Mo in his Broadway debut…
Landis
April 13, 2007 at 5:59 pm
3Don’t you DARE leave us Adam! Not even for a career-bolsterization.
Good luck Mo - can’t wait to see the show on the road. You going to be on the tour when it comes to SF? OK, maybe I’ll catch it on video.
cooper
April 13, 2007 at 8:08 pm
4O.T. - Sorry but I must take this moment to briefly pat myself on the back. After 4 nights with a non-functioning clothes dryer; after hour upon hour of telephone calls to appliance repair mavens, scanning the internet for possible clues, testing every electrical component at least twice and repeatedly slicing my hand on sharp edged sheet metal panels, I buttoned it all back up, thoroughly defeated. I was ready to bring in a repairman or just punt and buy a new dryer. I thought - “What the heck, try it one more time; mash the same start button that has failed to start it after 4 nights of futile effort.” I know that’s a sure sign of mental illness - to repeatedly execute the same failed procedure expecting a different result. Well, sum’bitch. Chalk one up for mental illness. The dryer works!!! And for one brief shining moment, my wife thinks maybe I don’t suck so quite much - of course, I know this too will pass.
waterfowler
April 14, 2007 at 2:58 am
5Amen, Mr. Cooper.
Break a leg Mo.
cooper
April 14, 2007 at 5:03 am
6oops - “…quite so much”. Sorry, I was giddy with a fleeting moment of success. They happen so rarely.
Good luck to Mo. This is one of the few times I’ve really wanted to be in New York City. Apologies to Adam, Susie, Dale, et al.
Okay, I’m off to another episode in the hobby of all hobbies - launching Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships. It should be a beautiful day. Ciao.
dee
April 14, 2007 at 12:51 pm
7cooper, congratulations. The Ways of The Mechanical will always be mysterious, but at times we are given but a fleeting moment of oneness with the machine.
I enjoy somewhat of a reputation for mechanical prowess at my place of employment, having fixed two computers, two printers and an EKG machine. Of course, the “fix” consisted of PLUGGING THE FREAKIN’ CABLES IN, but in the land of the blind the one-eyed woman is queen.
hedera
April 14, 2007 at 1:44 pm
8dee, i too once earned a reputation as the Mistress of the Microfilm Reader in the San Jose Public Library - I changed the light bulb… Throughout a 19 year second career as a computer geek, I have been constantly entertained by how little one can know and still be the resident expert on a subject.
siobhan
April 14, 2007 at 2:26 pm
9Dee - my husband is a broadcast engineer and, when he still worked in radio (back before commercial radio became supremely un-fun), he was the go-to guy for anything with a wire attached to it. His first question for most problems was “Is the oh-en-slash-oh-eff-eff switch in the oh-en or oh-eff-eff position?” It was startling how many times that solved the problem.
SpottedDog
April 14, 2007 at 3:23 pm
10I guess we will soon be seeing a new section on the web page labeled ‘Formerly Featuring’ and the requisite profiles below. I recommend placing it just below the section labeled ‘Featuring’. Or perhaps that is the significance of Sienna’s greyed profile. Is Mo due for some greying?
Murray
April 14, 2007 at 3:46 pm
11Dee, you will always be the blue suede shoed queen of Grouseland.
Hot Tub Tommy
April 14, 2007 at 5:56 pm
12Well, I hope everyone caught me on TV this week dumping huge loads onto Rosie O’Donnell. “The Donald” made a contribution to my campaign fund for a future election to a public office, yet to be named, and I agreed to sucker punch Rosie in return. It’s a continuation of my recently launched “Reach the Moral High-Ground by Stepping on Shlemiels Crusade”. (Adam, you like the yiddish word? I been watching Chuck Schumer on C-SPAN. That city boy always did have a way with words.) The tie I wore to the press conference was from the Frangi Collezioni and I thought it really complimented the tasteful cut of my Giorgio Armani black pinstripe. You don’t want to know how much that outfit cost.
Keith Olbermann made me the Worst Person in the World again this week. Thanks, Keith, that really helps me with the Christian Conservative base. He keeps fixating on the “Hilter/my felony indictment” comparison I made in my latest book - “No Retreat, No Surrender: One American’s Fight” (available at Amazon.com) and on the talk show tour I’ve been doing. Keep venting your spleen in my general direction, old buddy. There no such thing as bad publicity.
Oh well, I’ve got to get to my corporate jet and fly down to Cancun for the Univision interview. I’m taking Newt with me as a translator and it’s all a great big tax right-off, even the beach front condo and the cigarette boat rental. There nothing like writing the legislation to know all the secret handshake tax loopholes. Hasta Luego, compadres.
cooper
April 14, 2007 at 6:27 pm
13Hey, just back from flying the big boys and what a day it was, though one of my buddies landed a $250 rocket about 50 feet up a spindly pine tree and severe thunderstorms are predicted for tonight and tomorrow. That’s not a good scenario for his high tech electronic altimeter exposed to the elements like it is now. Maybe it will blow down in the storms and he’ll at least be able to get his motor hardware back. The number one rule in this hobby is do not fall in love with your rockets. They’ll break your heart every time.
On a cheerier note, for those of you who may have missed the story recently about Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School and how the Bush Administration is packing the Justice Department with these Bible thumping barracudas, here is a link to Bill Maher’s take on this whole sad affair.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/14/maher-blasts-regent-law-schoo ls-transformation-of-the-doj/
dan
April 14, 2007 at 8:48 pm
14mo, no! i just found this damn blog onna counta my love affair with WWDTM. now you tell me he is recently-former!?
dammit!
oh well. i still have adam.
Lurker Dave
April 15, 2007 at 1:08 pm
15Picking up on siobhan’s comment, I’m a broadcast engineer currently slumming in the world of live television. At our station we use this acronym for user caused technical issues… PEBCAC
Problem Exists Between Chair And Console
I’ll report various issues as “user x reported no audio, I found their headphones were not plugged in… pebcac”
I second that commercial broadcasting is supremely un-fun.
commence lurking
Rebecca
April 15, 2007 at 3:41 pm
16I would like to agree with Adam that Mo Rocca 180 is quite good, perhaps great, even with all of his stuff about American Idol.
And since we’re talking about his theater career, Mo just posted this gem of a picture on his blog.
David
April 15, 2007 at 4:12 pm
17Great picture. And having been a skinny kid, and I do mean skinny, Mo is now a hero for another reason.
hedera
April 15, 2007 at 8:07 pm
18In the world of general computing, as opposed to broadcasting, that acronym is PBCAK - Problem Between Chair and Keyboard. I’ll admit the broadcasting version is more pronounceable.