I switched up the game a little bit this week, and pitched a shut-out. Here are the correct answers, no one got all ten correct.
#1 -- High On You / Survivor #2 -- Graceland / Paul Simon #3 -- Wouldn't It Be Good / Nik Kershaw #4 -- Only The Lonely / The Motels #5 -- East Bound And Down / Jerry Reed #6 -- We Got The Beat / Go Go's #7 -- Saved By Zero / The Fixx #8 -- Take It Easy / The Eagles #9 -- Daydream Believer / Anne Murray #10 --You Got Lucky / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
My semi-lucky winner was Tom in lovely-yet-traffic-impaired Austin, Texas. His package is on the way, or will be as soon as I remember to send it out.
No trivia this week, it will return next Monday. Thanks for playing, and as always, don't just be good, be trivial!
I was in a K-Mart in Longview, Texas on Tuesday, when I saw a sight I had to snap a quick shot of for posterity. My trip raised a few questions.
1) What am I doing in a K-Mart, for God's sake? What up, Kerr? Am I shopping in the mid-1980's?
This K-Mart had roughly eight employees, and four customers. It was like Night of the Comet in there. It's the perfect store for shoplifters to hone their craft.
2) Is this the earliest (September 26) that anyone's ever tried to sell me a Christmas tree? Seriously. I understand advertising, and I get lead time, but three freakin' months is an awfully long time to expect me to sit around the house looking at a crappy, pre-lit K-Mart Christmas tree.
See, this is why I get so cranky around the holidays. By the time we finally get to the weeks before Christmas, I've had the trappings of Christmas hanging out of my Ho-Ho-Asshole for three entire months.
I can only assume I missed their Fourth of July sale on Halloween Costumes. I'll sure remember to come back in December to buy my Valentines Day candy, though.
For this week's Trivial Mondays, I've upped the ante a little bit. As always, it's based on the old "Radio Roulette" game. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the following snippets of songs. Email me the answers, and for every correct snippet you identify, I'll throw your name once in the "Metaphorical Reid About It Hat." Get one right, your name goes in once. Get all ten right, your name goes in ten times. At the end of the week, I'll draw from the MRAIH, and the winner will not only get the traditional shout-out, but also receive something from the Reid About It prize vault*.
* The Reid About It prize vault contains random items of pop culture, including but not limited to books, comics, CDs, DVDs, and whatever else Reid finds around his house. Prizes have no value, otherwise I'd be selling them on EBay.
Here's this week's array of sudden sound, identify the song and singer:
Send your answers to snowfire51@gmail.com, with the title "Trivia Answers." Remember, even if you don't know all of the snippets, send what you've got and you could still be the winner of some theoretically nice random stuff. I'll post the answers on Friday. Make me proud, you guys.
Here's your answers to this week's Trivial Mondays, my winner was Jeffrey in New York, New York, who got all ten right and for his troubles, won a package of useless, yet entertaining crap.
#1 -- Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam / Head To Toe #2 -- Billy Squier / Rock Me Tonight #3 -- Poison / Talk Dirty To Me #4 -- Night Ranger / Sister Christian #5 -- Eddie Money / Take Me Home Tonight #6 -- Frida / I Know There's Something Going On #7 -- Nena / 99 Luftballons #8 -- Steve Miller Band / Abracadabra #9 -- Irene Cara / Fame #10 -- Corey Hart / Sunglasses At Night
I was out to dinner last night with Kimberly, and our waiter started the meal by asking us what we'd like on our salads.
Kimberly: "I'll have Thousand Island dressing." Waiter: "Sounds good! And for you?" Reid: "No salad, thanks." Waiter: "Sounds good!"
I'm very confused at this point. What sounds good, salad with Thousand Island dressing, or no salad at all? How can "no salad" sound good? I somehow doubt he was listening.
Reid: "Instead of salad, bring me a bowl of lightly braised beagle ears." Waiter: "Sounds good!" Reid: "Then, I'd like you to take it out to the dumpster, and let a drunken hobo defecate in the bowl." Waiter: "Sounds good!" Reid: "After that, bring it back in and spritz it with some leftover 'Forever Krystle' cologne, then serve it to me." Waiter: "Sounds good!"
It's always good to begin your fine dining experience by realizing your server isn't really listening at all. Then, when he brought me a warm Dr. Pepper instead of the beverage I asked for, I wasn't surprised in the least.
You know, I never thought OJ would be the lead story on the news again until he finally died.
Say what you want about OJ, but it looks like he's aging well. Look at the mugshot on the left, from the legendary double-murder booking of 1994. Now, fast forward to the right side, where he was booked in 2007 for multiple felony robbery charges. It seems like he's been taking care of himself. Spending days and nights on the golf course searching for The Real Killers is doing wonders for his complexion.
My question here is about the memorabilia he was supposedly trying to retrieve. Is there really that much of a market for leftover athletic apparel from someone whose NFL career is totally forgotten, and who technically isn't even an infamous criminal? OJ's leftovers are worth about as much as Kato Kaelin's, at this point.
I think it's all a setup. They'll pretend to put OJ in prison, and then when The Real Killers finally come back out of their decade-long exiles to play golf again, the feds will swoop in and grab them.
Back with more Trivial Mondays, based on the old "Radio Roulette" game. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the following snippets of songs. Email me the answers, and for every correct snippet you identify, I'll throw your name once in the "Metaphorical Reid About It Hat." Get one right, your name goes in once. Get all ten right, your name goes in ten times. At the end of the week, I'll draw from the MRAIH, and the winner will not only get the traditional shout-out, but also receive something from the Reid About It prize vault*.
* The Reid About It prize vault contains random items of pop culture, including but not limited to books, comics, CDs, DVDs, and whatever else Reid finds around his house. Prizes have no value, otherwise I'd be selling them on EBay.
Here's this week's array of sudden sound, identify the song and singer:
Send your answers to snowfire51@gmail.com, with the title "Trivia Answers." Remember, even if you don't know all of the snippets, send what you've got and you could still be the winner of some theoretically nice random stuff. I'll post the answers on Friday. Make me proud, you guys.
Several of you guys got close this week, but my winner, Martha from Massachusetts, was the only person to get all ten right. For her vast trivial knowledge, Martha is my Random Pop Culture Crap winner for the week.
Here's this week's answers:
#1 -- Things Can Only Get Better / Howard Jones #2 -- Here I Go Again / Whitesnake #3 -- Someday Someway / Marshall Crenshaw #4 -- I Want Candy / Bow Wow Wow #5 --Only The Lonely / The Motels #6 -- Destination Unknown / The Missing Persons #7 -- Heartbreak Beat / Psychedlic Furs #8 -- Who Can It Be Now? / Men At Work #9 -- Ghostbusters / Ray Parker Jr. #10 -- Let's Go All The Way / Sly Fox
Thanks to everybody for playing, I'll have more trivia coming up on Monday. Have a good weekend, and good luck to everyone's fantasy football team. Unless you're playing against me, of course.
For those of you wondering what I do with my day/night job, here's a link to some of my on-air stuff at KLTV Channel 7. Click here, and you can pretty much watch all of our high school football scoreboard show, "The Red Zone."
Remember, I live in Texas. This is football country. We see "Friday Night Lights" as a light-hearted comedy that's not serious enough about high school football.
That's something I love about living in Texas. You never know when you're going to run into two guys in a pickup truck shopping for clothes dressed as the Dallas Cowboys.
"You know how I know you're gay? I know you're gay because when I picked you up in my truck wearing my Terrell Owens jersey, you went and changed into your Tony Romo jersey so we'd match."
I'm trying to stay out of the whole Britney Spears debacle because a) who cares, and b) calling that thing at the VMAs she did a "performance" is pretty generous. She wasn't singing, and she wasn't dancing either. She was just walking around onstage in a crowd of people, mumbling to herself. Millions of insane people do that everyday, many of whom are dressed better then she was.
Is this a surprise to anyone? When you have a love triangle between two trashy musicians and...whatever Pamela Anderson is, there's going to be trouble.
Especially when one of them gave the other two Hepatitis.
Trivial Mondays returns this week, everybody! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the following snippets of songs. Email me the answers, and for every correct snippet you identify, I'll throw your name once in the "Metaphorical Reid About It Hat." Get one right, your name goes in once. Get all ten right, your name goes in ten times. At the end of the week, I'll draw from the MRAIH, and the winner will not only get the traditional shout-out, but also receive something from the Reid About It prize vault*.
* The Reid About It prize vault contains random items of pop culture, including but not limited to books, comics, CDs, DVDs, and whatever else Reid finds around his house. Prizes have no value, otherwise I'd be selling them on EBay.
Here's this week's array of sudden sound, identify the song and singer:
Send your answers to snowfire51@gmail.com, with the title "Trivia Answers." Remember, as of this week, even if you don't know all of the snippets, send what you've got and you could still be the winner of some random stuff. I'll post the answers on Friday, and the lucky winner gets to also give the shout out on Friday. Make me proud, you guys.
I've been doing a lot of reading lately, hoping for inspiration. After reading several crime thrillers and being disappointed, I've decided to write my own non-cliched novel.
My novel will be centered around a man in prison for a crime he did commit, and a mafia hitman who has no problems killing women, children, and dogs. There's a hooker without a heart of gold, but rather with a fiery crotch of chlamydia. Tracking the case is a policeman with two weeks until retirement, who has one last case he doesn't care at all about solving.
Some of the minor characters will be a henchman who's a former ballet dancer, a PI who keeps breaking the laws the cops wish they could break, and also keeps getting arrested for it, a wisecracking bartender who's new in town and doesn't know anybody, and a mafia don who spends nights surfing Match.com.
The story begins with the murder of a bookie who takes odds on "Big Brother," and a shipment of guns coming into town from an arms dealer with a huge comic book collection.
I plan to have the case solved by a former cop who drinks, but not too much.
