Six episodes of my inTVernet show, RANDOMONIUM, are in the can. I've arranged them below for your viewing pleasure, later, when you get out of work. Episode 7 is gonna be sweet. Stay Al Toon'd.

Episode 6. (Skip to 11:35 to see the #1 Halloween costume) (Celebrity guest: Bettysioux Tailor)
Episode 5. (Celebrity guest: Jon Campbell)
Episode 4. (Celebrity guest: D of The Regulars)
Episode 3. (Celebrity guest: Bill "Spaceman" Lee)
Episode 2. (Celebrity guest: [half of] The Pist)
Special Episode. From FooFest.
Episode 1. (Celebrity guest: Andrew W.K.)

Went to NYC on Thurs-Sat to visit Chan and do some Eckersleysmas shopping. Above, "the tree," with the GE building rising high above.

Looking through one of the restaurants at the skaters at the Rock Center rink.

This was the exact moment I got into the Choliday spirit (it's hard when there's no snow in sight). I also realized this is probably the only spot where you can get the tree and the Empire State Building (blue spire, left) in the same shot. I'm not sure I knew that was possible.

Between GE and the tree.

From inside doorway of 30 Rock.

More skaters.

More tree/building.

Elaine of Elaine's died. And Chan lives right near there. Funny this should happen while I was there, since I always see celebs in NYC, and Elaine's is known for its celebs. Therefore, you know some of them would show up upon hearing of Elaine's death. So Friday night, I kept tabs on who was there--Governor Patterson and Alec Baldwin were the two biggies. So I kept going over there while Chan laughed at me and stayed in his warm apartment. Besides channel 11's Mary Murphy and the channel 4 reporter whose segment I just missed walking behind, the only possible famous person I saw was the guy in the video below. But I can't think of where I know him from! I know he's on TV for something. Can anyone help?



He's being interviewed so I know he's somebody. Anyway, yes, I know that per that Billy Joel song it's not cool to be bragging about people you saw at Elaine's, but I don't play by Joel's rules!

I think I may have mentioned this building before. I think it looks really cool. But in a city like NYC, even a cool skyscraper can get lost in the shough. I hereby christen this building "Underrated Tower."

Did some shopping for the nieces/neffs at FAO among other places. Take a look at this. The "big piano"--get it? It's big but it's also...forget it--has become so sterilized. Instead of sharing a spontaneous moment with your child-like employee, now you stand in line, wait for your group to be released onto the keyboard, get your picture taken, and move along:



That's it. Except for this picture of Long Island Sound from Old Saybrook, where I stopped to eat a bagel:

"Dave Roberts is a good friend of mine." --Adrian Gonzalez

That's all I need to hear! Woohoo!

The deal that was done but then wasn't is on again. It appears. Adrian Gonzalez WILL be a Red Socker. Press conference tomorrow per that Heyman Law Associates guy. Adrian appearing at Xmas at Fenway next weekend. (That last sentence is just wishful thinking.)

Update: The press conference will be at 11 a.m. Monday. (I only linked to that Boston Herald page so you can see that they're still using the old Red Sox logo. The new one begins its THIRD year in five days! So the Herald is in the running, with several other outlets who somehow missed the news and haven't figured it out in two full years, for the last-to-notice award.)

The Adrian Gonzalez deal is off. For now. I guess. More here.

Report: Yanks tried to get Adrian Gonzalez to play short but Jeter wouldn't budge! In all proverbial seriousness though, in a move that's been pretty obvious for a while now, the Sox, it appears, are getting Adrian for prospects. I'm happy enough getting Dustin and Youk back in the lineup, but with Gonzalez we will be MegaMega.

And with the right field wall supposedly moving in, are we gonna call the new bullpens...Gonzburg? Yeah I know he goes to left a lot anyway--maybe he can teach JD Drew how to do that.

Recently the 92nd St Y refunded an audience of people who felt the interview they saw with Steve Martin was "too boring." My reaction to this was, How could Steve Martin ever be boring? Fortunately I found an article by someone who feels the same way.

It's time for the annual "Fun With Sox Pax Names" post!

This year it's very straightforward. But I'm still generally disappointed in their naming system. Each pack has four games, and each one has a "highlighted" team. This year, those teams are the Yanks, the Padres, and the Brewers. The Padres packs are the Padre and the Friar. The Brewers packs are the Bernie Brewer and the Brew Crew. The Yanks packs are the Bomber, the Babe, and the Bambino. Uh...Babe Ruth was a Red Sox star who brought us World Series titles in years with completely un-cringeworthy names such as 1918 and 1916. Okay, fine, go with Babe, whatever, but I still say Red Sox fans aren't comfortable buying things with cutesy Yank-ified names. Okay, maybe no one cares about any of this. But I'm still wondering why the highlighted team gets the whole back named after it. I think I'd rather see creative and dumb over thoughtless and dumb. Oh and you can also get the "Sunday Best," "Saturday Special," or "TGIF," which actually include ALL FOUR games for whichever day you get, which they haven't always done, or the "Patriot's Day," which has Pats Day, a Yanks game, and two others. Then there's the coveted "Opening Day" pack, which is your best chance to get to OD. (Also note that the highlighted team games will also be the only non-April/May/September ones.)

Thanks to Amber for sending me this article, the whole scoop on Randy Quaid and his wife.

I'm reminded of when that dude in A Mighty Wind says how he and his wife's belief system isn't one of those "crazy systems," just one that, obviously, sees that...humankind is simply materialized color operating on the 49th vibration. Anyone can see that!

Note: If you knew my friend Kerry Quaid you'd think the title of this post was genius!