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YOUR OFFICIAL MAC-YAPPER SUPERBOWL PREDICTION!

STEELERS 31 CHEESEPACKERS 24

What to do to kill time Saturday night before the Bowl?

DRINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!


Feb. 5 -- Comedy

PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER PREVIEWS DANGEROUSLY LIVE COMEDY SHOW:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A90728
The eve of the Steelers' third Super Bowl in six years? Perfect time to ask, "Sports in Pittsburgh -- Unhealthy Obsession?" At least it's perfect if you're John McIntire, the freelance gadfly who dares in playoff season to inquire, "Do you know more about the Steelers' backup offensive linemen than you know about your own children?" Well, duh: Our kids won't bring home a Lombardi Trophy, but Doug Legursky might, is all we're saying. At tonight's John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy Talk Show, at Downtown's Cabaret Theater, the host is joined by comedian Gab Bonesso and guest panelists. BO 10:30 p.m. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $5 (free for Cultural District patrons). 412-456-6666

I must quibble with one aspect of this preview. I consider myself a professional gadfly. I mean, who would gadfly freelance? It's a commitment. It's a lifestyle.

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.



Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

In other random observations:

*Scream like an Egyptian. What a revoltin' development.

*Republicans want to redefine rape. My advice? Don't get fancy. Get Glenn Beck to make some shit up and repeat the big lie. Works every time.

*Don't these Egyptians know they can't find democracy unless we invade their asses?

*People way Ben Roethlisberger is a big ol' Sasquatch. I'm goin' with Lummox.

*Anderson Cooper was roughed up in Egypt.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anderson-cooper-attacked-mob-egypt-95628
CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted, "Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration."

*See, that's why this revolution may not succeed. Good intentions. But can they finish the job?

*Ice storm in Dallas at the Superbowl. But climate change is a liberal fantasy.

*It all depends on your definition of reality.

*If perception is reality then there is no reality.

*If only that could translate into the elimination of reality shows.

*Is the next scintillating trend "Perception Shows"?

*I would prefer to be referred to as an Egadfly.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

STEP RIGHT UP, PLACE YER BETS, KILLED THE RAVENS, CREAMED THE JETS, PUNCH YER WIFE, FLACK YER WACKERS, BEN'S GONNA RAPE THEM CHEESEHEAD PACKERS


COMEDIAN GAB BONESSO ON TROY



It seems like only yesterday we were savagely analyzing Humongous Benjamin and his spreading bodily fluids.



NEXT MAC-YAPPER COMEDY SHOW... "John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show" featuring Best of the Burgh Comedian Gab Bonesso!


Saturday February 5th (night before the Super Bowl) Cabaret Theater 7th St. and Penn Ave. Downtown Pittsburgh 10:30 PM!

Theme: Unhealthy Obsession? Pittsburgh Too Obsessed With Sports!

Scintillating panelists to be announced very soon!

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