Dear Tyler,

Can’t find it on the web, don’t know what to call it…do you know what background “running with the pic-a-nic basket” score is used during the show? Strings, harp, brass accents. It would complete a sampler moment of life to be able to refer to this in emails to my son.

Your choices punctuate the commentary with unusual accuracy; I could care less about sports but the music and John Littlefield both put the games on a level of understandability. For me. Thanks.

1. The Yogi Bear Xmas movie/bomb/fiasco was brought recently to the LA Times attention (and thus to your letters segment), re. ominiously scored and scripted fake prequel, courtesy of Boo-Boo, who in a false prequel, shoots our beloved Hanna-BarBEAR-uh character for $5,000 and parting shot of his old ursine pal as a rug in the ski chalet they once called home. Pic-a-nic baskets, being long theived, are at the soul of Boo Boo’s dilemma, so despite the many hits on the “Music for TV Dinners” Gary Has run, in the workaday world known as nature’s way, Yog fought the paw and, the paw one. Oh, god that hurts, only from holding back 20,000 Yogi Bera jokes heard to similar traumatic mental effect, but that named baseball player during his career.
-Walking On The Moon-The Police, 1979 A & M: it would have been nice, barring Mp3 pasting on the comments by Gary, to see if the Zambonis were parodying Andy Summer’s shimmering multi-effects racks in order to keep up with Stings natural gifts, many of which were jazz way beyond any Japanese 64bit processor, or 128 or 256 or 512 or…look at your own computer’s memory…there’s a little piece of Andy p.o’d into your Intel chip (if you don’t believe me, just watch a Intel commercial and listen to the four notes…they are basically identical to the beginning of the ultimate identity theft movie, ‘THe Excorcist’s Tubular Bells”. Coincidence-I think not…the demon Pazuzu was just jealous of more famous Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair…just another theme of a triple threat.
-The Creature From The Black Lagoon-Dave Edmunds: being too young for Saturday’s UHF syndicated show, ‘The Ghoul’, I missed the original, and had to settle for picturesque song lines like.. “unsuspecting maiden will be clutched from where she sleeps, and taken to a hole down under and that’s for keeps”: hmm, down under…is the surfing really THAT bad in the ol’ land of Aus?
-Gonna Take Off My Pants-Randy Newman: kind of like my entries, even “the president can’t stop me”. Dare Tina Fey to do a striptease in Palin skin (rifle sight spotlight not available in blue states).
-Wake Up And Make Love With Me-the late, greater Ian Dury, New Boots And Panties, 1976…”have a proper wriggle in the naughty naked nude” sounds as fresh today as Prince’s ‘Controversy’ sounds dated “People call me rude, I wish we all were nude”…he spent several years elaborating that ‘nude’ meant devoid of defenses…yeah, and Purple Warrior meant he waited, skin frostbiting, for hours at the Minnesota Vikings outdoor ticket office at 40 below!