1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn your eyes towards a plain flat surface.
3. Blink your eyes quickly.

Ninety nine percent of the radio people I know do not write out anything they say on the air…it’s conversational, adlibbed and more personal. That’s the way my era of radio announcer was taught. We hated HATED being told we had to use liner cards and read scripts. We even used a little dramatic license when we read commercials – live or recorded – to give it personality and hopefully make you interested in the product.

So when I ran across this clip from a TV show from Saturday Night Live it again reenforced my belief that radio people can take any opportunity to make a break or a introduction their own – and TV people like to read scripts. And when it goes bad for them it can really go bad.

I have become a texter. I promised myself I would not. But the world is become a texting world and I am just trying to keep up. So I finally got unlimited texting in my cell phone service.

I check my email, my Facebook, my Twitter and take video and photos with my phone.

Over time I have learned that – no matter how much I enjoy the immediacy and convenience of my Blackberry – it needs to go away every so often and I need to experience life.

The women in the video below learned that the hard way. I’d bet money though that she Tweeted, posted on Facebook and texted her spill once her phone dried out.

Recently I have been slapped in the face with the realization that most of the generation behind me – those say 25 and younger – have become so dependent on their cell phones they have no idea what is happening in the world.

Not just that there may be a fountain right in front of them or a staircase or a pole or a car or a cliff – but the actual world around them. Politics, community, family. #2 Son who is living with us now is a perfect example of an 18 year old who is about to discover that everything he needs to survice is not gonna be found on his cell phone. It may not be his decision to put it down and look around but it will be his lot in life the next few weeks while he lives with me.

The other day I was driving him over to the school where he was trying to enroll. We were driving through Houston’s Chinatown – a very interesting section of the city – and looking for a specific address. I am not familiar with this part of town and was being very careful not to pass the address so as not to get lost.

You would think that me saying I was not real sure where we were going would put him on notice that perhaps he should put down his cell and assist me in watching for the address. But nnnnnnooooo…

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Yes, you read that right: Spocks.

And StarTrek.com brings you the logical conclusion.

Zachary Quinto has been making the awards show rounds on behalf of his film Margin Call, which he starred in and co-produced, and which just received an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category.

E! caught up with him the other day at the Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills and got him to talk about the sequel to Star Trek (2009) for a few moments. “It’s been really great,” he said. “We’ve been shooting for a week and a half, and it’s been an incredible return to that world.” And, speaking of his new co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Weller and Alice Eve, Quinto stated, “All of them have folded in so beautifully and brought a whole new level of intelligence and sensitivity.”

As for the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy tweeted the following message this morning: “I’ve been invited to visit the set of the new Star Trek film. Hope to do that next week. LLAP.”

What do you think? Will J.J. Abrams and Quinto convince Nimoy to don Vulcan ears and make a cameo?

To read our recent interview with Quinto, click HERE and HERE, and to read our recent interview with Nimoy, click HERE, HERE and HERE.

Have you ever texted someone to tell them you were emailing them something? Maybe if it’s really really important and it needs their response right away or maybe if you know that person doesn’t check their email very often it would be okay. Right? I have done that one or twice. Usually just for my friend Lisa who checks her email about once a month.

That’s not obsessive. Or at least I don’t think it is.

But we have decided #2 Son’s Mom has become our Stalker Mom. Because within a 3 day span of him being here texts become reminders to check voicemails, which are notices that an email has been sent which I’m sure are follow ups to smoke signals which I cannot see from Shreveport.

Example 1: Yesterday I got a text from her telling me to check my email regarding something that wasn’t gonna need my attention until today…and really should have been sent to #2 Son because it was concerning his schedule. Both the email and the text were sent when I was in the movie theater and had my phone off. Shortly after I turned my phone back on and had checked both the text and the email I got a call to tell me what the text and email had already told me.

Example 2: There is a possibility that #2 Son may get to play in a soccer game against the pro Dynamo team this weekend (he is here to practice and train with the Dynamo junior Club). Pretty much that’s all we know. It may or may not happen and he may or may not sit the bench since he’s the newest guy on the squad. #2 Son’s Mom called about 10 this morning to ask me if she should come and bring friends to see him. (I’m kinda sure that’s a decision she should be discussing with him)

When I didn’t answer my phone because I was cutting up chicken to make some delicious home made soup, she left a voice mail. I figured I’d call her right back when my hands weren’t covered in raw chicken juice.

Then Katherine’s phone rang. Katherine was still asleep and I heard her kinda stumble across her bedroom floor to her cell phone.

Seriously? After a Facebook exchange which I ended with “call you rson and ask him, he really knows more of the details than I” and leaving a voicemail on my phone was it really necessary to wake a late sleeper?

Yeah, I’m, being a bit bitchy about it. I admit it. And in a few hours I may regret this post. For now I’m just glad I decided to “Nip it in the bud” and let #2 Son’s Mom know texting to tell us she is emailing us to tell us she is gonna call is overkill and she has turned from Soccer Mom to Stalk-her Mom.

For a while I couldn’t get enough of Viral Video Film School on Cuurent TV. Then it got movved to another night and I lost track. Yeah for YouTube. Now I can catch up and share!

Brett Erlich scours the internet in order to teach you a summer-themed lesson on how to avoid poolside accidents and mishaps with this collection of ocean, lake, pool, and boat fails. It’s one of my favorites!

(At 1:56 you’ll hear Brett utter one of the funniest lines in TV history!)

Be warned this does include some rather blue lamguage – okay they drop the F-Bomb a few times. But Garfunkel and oates do such a lovely ode to the wealthy in our country I had to share. Grab a hanky you’ll laugh til you cry – or just cry.

Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci sing about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Shot by Raul Fernandez.

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