If you’re a Mad Men fan or just another joe from the East, I’m dedicating this edition of Friday Fun to you. If you haven’t had a chance to check out this hilarious spoof of the popular AMC show yet, this is your chance. It’s starring none other than former New Kid Joey McIntyre and features a hilarious performance from Rob Delaney as a Bostonized verson of the handsome Don Draper. While the language and content may not be appropriate for some offices or homes or maybe even virgin ears in general, I think that anyone who knows a couple of true Massholes will find this worthy of a chuckle or two.
Last night, by a strange twist of fate, I ended up at the Happy Days off Broadway musical, where I spent a few hours trying to figure out whether they were making fun of Happy Days or celebrating it, and consequently, trying to decide whether I wanted to stay till the end of the show or just leave and go get blindingly drunk at a nearby bar. I could never decide– I don’t think the cast could either. All I know is that through two and a half hours of lyrics like “I’ll take you dancing on the moon,” no one jumped a single freaking shark, and that’s just plain annoying.
Later today, I’ll be going to see a Star Trek movie based on the original series, which is something I haven’t done since 1991.
All this retro craziness began Friday morning when the New Kids on the Block performed “Hangin’ Tough” on the Today Show to a crowd of screaming women and gay men–just like old times. I watched this and had instantaneous post traumatic flashbacks of the first concert I ever went to, which was, of course, a NKOTB concert. I went with my friend Yari, who got so excited when they came on stage that she choked me until I blacked out. We were in the third grade.
I was always a Jon girl, and it’s nice to see that, like Harison Ford in that Tomb scene at the end of Last Crusade, I have chosen wisely. He’s aged well and doesn’t reek of having pickled his liver in pills and booze the way the rest of them have… with the exception of Jordan. Jordan seems like his addictions would trend more towards Botox and oxygen bars.
Oh, and Danny still looks like a monkey.
Well, got to go tease my bangs, put on my new Roos, and head out to Topkapi so I can buy some new slap bracelets.
It’s sooooooooo slow lately that I’m going to post an actual item about Joey McIntyre’s baby’s name, because you know what? Everyone else is doing it. You know why? Because there is nothing else going on! You know why? Because Lindsay Lohan doesn’t drink anymore. She is single-handedly destroying my life by being sober. I hate you, Lindsay.
If you got your drivers license any time in the past decade, you probably have no idea who Joey McIntyre is. He was in a band called New Kids on the Block, which is probably considered classic rock at this point. Joey McIntyre was cool at about the same time slap bracelets were being banned, because that was the biggest problem in the high schools. He is currently about as relevant to your life as New Coke.
