Dear Saturday Night Live,

What happened to you? You used to be so young with your humor being so witty and natural. Now it seems that you've gotten older and your did not age well it seems since now your humor seems forced and your wit has lost it's well timed feyness. I remember watching you light up the televisions and faces across the world, every word hung on to like a baby to it's mother--every joke met with an appropriate laugh or chuckle. Those years I spent looking up to you, wanting to be part of your glory and prestige, are but distant memories one can never venture to. You were on the fast track to greatness where you built your home using your bare hands and raw talent only building steam as you went on--Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd. Gilda Radner, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, and Mike Myers-- all were comedic legends and went on to have successful careers even after their SNL days, sadly the rate of excellence went down after that. Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Cheri Oteri, Chris Kattan, Colin Quinn, Chris Parnell, and Tracy Morgan were all funny, don't get me wrong, but they were really the last great cast era of SNL with the likes of Jimmy Fallon, and Horatio Sanz bridging the gap to next era. I don't know what happened, if it's the writers or the cast to blame but, sadly, the new SNL is marginally unfunny in comparison to the old SNL. Again don't be mistaken I do find a lot of the new cast funny including but not limited to: Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Tina Fey (originally a writer for SNL), Bill Hader, and Andy Samberg, but they're hardly anything close to anyone I named prior to Will Ferrell. Maybe it's not the cast (because they're all pretty funny), and maybe it's not even the writers, perhaps it's the outrageously fast evolving society that really is to blame for SNL being "unfunny" in a sense. SNL just isn't as big as it was before and it's glory is slowly fading like Britney Spear's career/life. SNL used to be a lauching pad for comdies and was the reason why many of the comedians became huge stars after almost like a trampoline--but after a while trampolines aren't as bouncy and they turned out to be kind of dangerous, some people threw them out or just left them out to become part of nature. The only thing worth watching are the digital shorts that are put out by SNL anymore, other than that you won't catch me coming home on a saturday night to watch SNL or even "DVR'ing or Tivo'ing" it--and I gotta say, it's kind of sad. I miss my trampoline



Ps: I really do miss my trampoline, it was sweet.

People Watching

I think one of my most predominate habits has to be people watching. Regardless of where I am, or who I'm with, I always watch or observe other people. For example, if I go to the mall I can carry on a normal conversation with whom ever I'm with but chances are I'm not looking at the person I'm talking to I'm more likely looking at everyone within a couple yards of me wondering what that person is there for or what's in their bag or why the hell they're wearing they're pajamas out in public--honestly you have the time to put on sneakers you can put some god damn pants on. Even right now I'm sitting in the student center at Rowan typing this but at the same time I'm looking at other people wondering what that girl in the hat got from the cafe and who that older looking lady is talking to on the phone or why that unattractive couple is thinking it's ok to cuddle on one of the couches and be all gross together--but hey far be it for me to judge them, I mean they look pretty happy even though they might be making some people uncomfortable with their gross, smell, ugly happiness. This kid in front of me has amazingly flexible arms and keeps showing me this by stretching constantly by the way. In any event, I guess being this bad of a people watcher has it's upside--it keeps my imagination up to par with the crazy stories or dialogues I make up for each character in this place or anywhere else i'd be. At the same time however it probably doesn't help my A.D.D. since a portion of my focus goes to the constant people watching I'm doing. At the end of the day, though, I wouldn't want to change it because I think it teaches me a lot about people, like their mannerisms and their body language--I guess I owe a lot of my ability to read people and socialize particularly well to crazy amount of people watching I do. So thanks over active imagination you keep me interesting and weird and possibly clinically insane--but at least I'm not boring.

-Chris People-Watching-isn't-creepy Gio

Valentine's Day

Some believe Valentine's Day was invented by the Roman's because Feburary 15th was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus The God of fertility. Others believe Geoffrey Chaucer was probably the first to link the Saint's day (Saint Valentine) with the custom of choose "sweethearts". Which ever you beleive I think most of us can beleive that this holiday is a joke glorified by the Hallmark greeting card industry. It's just another important day for lonely, down on their luck, men and women to kill themselves. You should be doing nice things for you significant other all the time not just one day out of the entire year. You can't just screw up you whole relationship then on the 13th go online and order a Vermont teddy bear with overnight shipping--You know that one that kinda looks like you becuase it's wearing an outfit you'd probably wear and the operator on the phone suggests the message to put in the card: "Here's a Teddy Bear that looks like me so you never have to sleep without me by your side."
AWWW
When you have someone this day seems to be important so you save up your money to get your girl or guy a gift and then go out to dinner because you made reservations at the Olive Garden two weeks in advance to beat the rush.
All I'm saying is if your going to embrace the holiday be unique be original don't get her a teddy bear and take her out to dinner--make the dinner, put some thought into it do something a little more special because any idiot can order a teddy bear and pay for dinner that's not romantic.

Happy Valentine's Day

A Baby's First Step

I don't know what it is about laying in a bed with the lights off that makes my brain race like a man on a bike with one testicle but it's a burden I've come to accept. One of the many many things I've been thinking about is how I'm majoring in writing for television and film, with a minor in journalism, yet--I NEVER WRITE. Maybe it's my ADD maybe it's my inherent laziness, but whatever the reason I guess starting a blog is my way of combatting this horrible habit. This isn't an online diary or journal where I'm going to cry about girls or complain about my problems all the time, it's more of just an outlet to stimulate my brain and to regularly practice writing as much as possible. That being said I'm not held responsible for my own hypocrisy since I'm sure I'll post about a personal issues or rant about certain things pertaining to my existence but I'll more than likely leave out names and details to avoid any complications since that's not the purpose of this--thing. So if your reading this feel free to comment on my insanity or perhaps expresses your opinion on whatever I post about from here on out.

-Chris


PS: First example of my hypocrisy: I don't like blogs.