Back in late August of last year, I did a commercial for Best Buy, where I race another guy towards the store. It was a fun?shoot. My wife was Tanya Henley, an actress/comedian I’ve been friends with for?many many years. This guy Bill Turnbull - who’s the drummer in a Toronto band called Debaser - was the other character in the spot, and?a funny, good guy. The commercial ran a whole bunch in the fall, and returned to the airwaves last night during the Flames game. Ironically, a few weeks ago I was kinda pissed off at Best Buy because they screwed up the delivery of my TV by a week. I’m still kinda unhappy with the service I received, but happy I’ll be getting a cheque in the mail soon. Guess it all balances out.

My stunt double and I (I’m the pasty guy on the right):

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Bill (on the right)?and his stunt double (wearing a padded suit and red wig:?

Kind of a boring show this year. Long, with no big dramatic or hugely funny moment. Ellen is likeable, and funny, but it’s kinda fun having someone who might offend the staid Hollywood audience. Word was Sascha Baron Cohen was invited to present, but only if he’d present as himself and not Borat. Too bad. Borat would’ve been the highlight of the show.

I had a bunch of station people over to my swingin’ bachelor pad, and I tied for first in the pool (13/24) with the boss, who immediately fired me. So I gave him my share of the pot, and we’re all good.?

A listener pointed out that Switchfoot had mentioned me (not by name) on their tour blog. Here’s what they said:

today started visiting a radio station and doing a couple tv spots for canadian tv. i’ve been to my fair share of radio visits with these guys, but this dj seemed to be one of the smarter ones in awhile. he actually asked good questions, which then jon somehow turned into the guitar being a metaphor for songs. i don’t know how that worked, but it did.

See the post here.

Here’s some new words to add to your vocabulary courtesy of Urban Dictionary:

• Alphaholic: 1) Someone who always wants to be the first to do something or the winner of some event; 2) A person who can text a message faster than they can dial a 10 digit phone number.
• Aqualibrium: When using a water fountain, the point at which the water stream is at the perfect height to sip.
• Mandaid: The manly form of a band-aid. It consists of a strip of duct tape and either a paper towel, napkin, or any absorbent cloth. The duct tape is then placed on any wound.
• Nausty: Someone who is naughty combined with nasty.
• Neighbornet: The neighbor’s wireless network (often used on vacation). Usually unencrypted and slow but great when yours goes down, or you need to do something questionable.
• Ungoogable: 1) A way of not being part of the Google-able world; 2) Things that Google, i.e. the general world, can’t pick up or define the nature of.
• Wikidemia: An academic work passed off as scholarly yet researched entirely on Wikipedia.com.

Hey, if you want to comment, criticise, compliment, castigate (but not castrate!) me, here are some simple ways.

On-Air Phone Line: 403-239-X929

E-mail: josh@x929.ca

Mailing or Dropping Off Address: 6940 Fisher Rd. SE T2H 0W3

MySpace: www.MySpace.com/JoshHollidayShow

…or just come by the RV.

These are simple rules, with very few exceptions. The mullet hair cut is never cool, not even in an ironic way. The only exception is for hockey players, like Ryan Smyth of the Oil, who have had it for years. Like mandatory helmets, he’s grandfathered in this case. As for moustaches, if you’re under 40 years of age, you shouldn’t have one. They are ridiculous. Exceptions: Cops, gay guys, and guys in bands with super-ironic handlebar or fu manchu styles. I don’t know why cops often have moustaches, but you can’t fight tradition. The moustache seems to play a part in gay culture, and that’s cool too. The worst moustaches are those guys with young or babyfaces who grow a moustache cause they think it makes them look more mature. No. It makes you look more ridiculous.

Mike D came in to talk about his calendar. It’s basically a different landmark in Alberta for each month, with Mike standing naked, back to camera, in front of said landmark. It’s pretty funny. I’ll get some pics up later today. You can check out the website or e-mail Mike at ass@assberta.com.

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So I went to the launch of Triple-X Thursdays at Tequila Nightclub, and met some nice people:

I talked about how there is no left lane discipline in Calgary, and that many drivers seem to be oblivious to the rule: keep left, unless passing. Here’s an example of a guy who just doesn’t get it:?

Josh,? ?The left lane is not “the passing lane”, it is not “the fast lane”.The rule is: ?Slower Traffic Keep Right.? That means slower than the speed limit.If a vehicle is in the left lane and travelling at the speed limit he has every right to do so.? If you want to go faster then you can pass on the right, a?manoeuvre that takes little or no imagination.If tail-gating someone who is travelling at or exceeding the speed limit in the left lane is a?symptom of the problem, then the problem is that you have s$%t for brains.My custom is to travel at ten kmh over the speed limit (when safe) because if you exceed that you get a speeding ticket.? If I move into the right lane I have to come down to a speed that is below? the speed limit because that is the speed the vehicles in that lane are doing.S%$t-for-brains who charge me from behind and tailgate and try to intimidate me into moving over are offering me two choices:? 1.? drive excessively fast and risk getting a ticket.? 2.? move into the right lane and travel slower than the speed limit.Neither of these choices is acceptable to me so f%*k off.? ?Colin??I appreciate Colin’s passion for the issue, but I disagree with most of what he says. The right lane is not for traffic that travels slower than the speed limit. It’s for drivers going slower than the flow of traffic. The left lane is the passing lane. Talk to any driver who is passionate about driving and knows the international rules of the road, and you’ll soon find out: keep right, except to pass.??I found a good website that explains the issue and the benefits pretty clearly:??Slower Traffic Keep Right

216-333-1810. Scary stuff!!!

Here’s another odd website relating to the call.

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