Glenn’s Blog Thing

Why would anyone want to go to New Years Eve in Times Square?

In the wake of that jackass on the plane who put a bomb in his underwear, authorities in New York City are chirping and IMO- over reacting. As one million tourists and local 20-somethings stand in the freezing rain predicted for tommorow night, there will be barricades, bomb searches, snipers on rooftops, and what they are calling Hercules Units.

I sh** you not! That’s the name they gave them!

It will be kind of like the movie Robo Cop- but minus the suckiness of the two sequels. These “Hercules” units will be armed up the wazoo with weapons ready to pounce.

Happy 2010 everyone!

If they really want to make New years eve better, force Dick Clark to retire and make commuters puke BEFORE they get on the LIRR train home.

Morning show producer Chris is a great example. He says “that’s one less person I have to buy a present for and I don’t have to deal with another side of the family.”

My friend Paul plans on spending Christmas morning alone and says, “I am looking foward to it!”

Another single guy I know -whose name is also Glenn- says his ideal Christmas morning would be to play the Xbox game Left For Dead 2. That’s a game where you battle through a zombie apocolypse with shotguns, chainsaws, tire irons, and an M-16. (Kind of like a Christmas in C.I.)

Why should that be frowned upon if that’s what makes someone happy? Why should anyone “feel sorry” for folks like this if they are happy?

What’s the difference between people like this and the multitudes who are jamming the roads, filled with road rage as they travel to the mall????

Just because “society” dictates what we should be doing during the holidays does not make it right or wrong!

I have been married 18 years and have two wonderful small children. I love watching the kids open the presents on Christmas morning and would not trade that for anything in the world. But I also have GREAT memories of Christmas morning being single. For many years I was very content not having any woman in my life at this time of year. When I met my future wife, it was totally a chance meeting because she was checking out an apartment for rent.

So to my single friends I would like to drop some wisdom on you…..

True love comes along when you are not expecting it…… kind of like violent diarrhea.

Happy Holidays!!!

A few months ago Captain Kevin, our afternoon drive guy and LI radio legend, told me about a show on cable called Dexter. It’s on Showtime and last night was the finale of season 4. I will not give away the ending but it was the most frightening, disturbing ending I have ever seen on television or maybe even on the big screen.

The worst thing you can do right now is to look up on the internet(s) what happened  because you would be depriving yourself of one of those glorious, rare, MAGNIFICENT moments that don’t come around very often in dramas or horror movies. I highly recommend you buy, rent or watch the series from the very beggining. Let me say that again for emphasis.

You must buy, rent or watch the series from the very beggining.

I am lucky enough to have Showtime on demand and I found the show so compelling I watched the entire first three seasons in less than three weeks.

I will not tell you what happened last night in the season 4 finale because that would be cruel to someone reading this who may be interested in watching. But I will say this. I have seen thousands of horror movies and dramas. I have been shocked and surprised many times by twist endings. And there are quite a few times I guessed what’s going to happen far in advance. (Like the movie The Mist which came out last year.)

I was so shocked at what happened last night I actually rooted for the ending I most hated.

“Please let it be a dream!” I repeated out loud over and over again.

I was watching the Giants-Eagles on DVR after the Dexter episode and I couldn’t even keep my concentration on the game. And it was a GREAT game. (Well….except for the final score)

I went to bed thinking about the Dexter episode and when I woke up it was the first thing I thought about!

If you complain there is nothing good on tv than you are doing yourself a terrible disservice. There are forty episodes of pure drama-horror GOLD you NEED to see if you are a fan of the genre.

Radio stations will switch to all holiday music before Thanksgiving and most people I talk to ask me, “Why?!”

(To be completely honest most people I speak with say “WTF!”)

And they never believe my answer which is 100% true!

THEY DO IT BECAUSE ON EVERY SINGLE STATION ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE RATINGS GO UP WHEN YOU SWITCH TO ALL HOLIDAY MUSIC.

You could be a DJ on the “Charles Manson Show” and your listeners will skyrocket if you switch to all Xmas all the time. And while every single guy or girl  chirps happily on the air between songs, when they go to commercial they universally say the same thing.

In the quiet studio ….where nobody can hear them…… the “happy Holiday jock silently whispers “Kill me……”

Can you blame him or her? Imagine yourself locked in a room and having no choice but to listen to this stuff. The most frequently asked follow up question I get is, “Who the HELL are these people that want 24/7 Christmas music the last week in November??!!”The answer my friends is they are not people.

Stores want that stuff playing all day and night while shoppers celebrate the most holy of days by buying an HD tv for themselves.