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A faithful Saturday Boy reader sent along the comic shown above. He is also a faithful They’ll Do It Every Time reader/submitter and thought we would get a kick out of it over here.

Speaking of wax, Huey Lewis and the News are getting a lot of requests in our house lately. My garbage- picked copy of Sports is Syd’s record of choice. Last night I tried to put on Zenyatta Mondatta during dinner and was told, “I don’t want to like the Police. I want Hooey Woowiss.” Her favorite song is “Heart of Rock and Roll,” or as she calls it, simply “Rock and Roll.” As it doesn’t seem that these concepts are completely formed in her mind, I think that to Syd, Huey Lewis IS rock and roll. And shouldn’t it be that way? It was back in the summer of ’83 when a bold Huey Lewis broke through the cold darkness to declare that although the old boy may have been barely breathing, the heart of rock and roll was indeed still beating. Now a century later, the revolution continues with another generation of youngsters. Her aunt Karen should be proud. I think you would have to be pretty cynical to be in your 30’s right now and not agree that Sports is actually a really enjoyable and catchy album.

A literally LOL’d while reading the article about Sting:

http://www.slate.com/id/2160017/

The analysis at the end kind of lost me, but the description of Sting in the first half of the story is bang on and hilarious. And I found out that Andy Summers and Paul McCartney are the same age.

Yesterday morning, the Today Show actually aired a story about a family of four who went a week without their appliances. At least the story on Monday involved the drama of cutting off a busy, active executive from nearly all forms of communication. The story yesterday was basically about a boring family that couldn’t watch television. The unintentionally hilarious part was that the family missed the State of the Union Address, so a clip of their darkened television in an empty den was briefly shown over the president’s opening words. Based on how it was shot, you would have thought they had missed something important. Otherwise, they illustrated that it’s a lot tougher washing your clothes in the sink than using a washing machine. I’m glad they proved that, because I always wondered why washing machines existed. I wonder what it would be like if the bed was never invented and you had to sleep on the floor. I wonder if it would suck.

The 30 pack of Labatt Blue I bought yesterday includes a $5.95 offer for a Sabres cap. I don’t like the new Sabres logo any more than I did, but I like sending away for stuff. Truth be told, the hat does look pretty decent, with a Labatt logo on the side. Great win the other night against Philadelphia. Beating that team will never ever ever get old. If I couldn't watch the Sabres two or three times a week, winter would be bleak.

It's typical that big events happen whenever a topical show like The Colbert Report takes a week off. Not only is today the day when tens of thousands of supporters of a christian media organization will pray for Steven to use his influence to uplift, unite, etc., but there is big news again out of Bollywood. Saif Ali Khan, star of around 40 films, was admitted to hospital on Sunday after complainig of chest pains that are apparently due to smoking. The Colbert Report is the only program I can count on to provide insight into the dizzying intrigue of Bollywood, most notibly the red hot rivalry between uberstars Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. I am praying that an update on Saif Ali Khan is Steven's first point of business on Monday.