Elfin’ Generosity
Customers who bring a new, unwrapped toy for the Toys for Tots campaign to a Division of Motor Vehicles office on Thursday will be given a special return ticket allowing them to go to the front of the line to process their transactions. The Toys for Tots Ticket will be good for one year.What hammerhead came up with this epiphany? You’re not supposed to BRIBE people to donate to Toys for Tots. People are supposed to donate out of the goodness of their hearts! Here’s a thought….not everybody CAN AFFORD to buy a new toy to exchange for preferential treatment.
DONATIONSto Toys for Tots (which buying a place at the front of the DMV line doesn’t qualify as in my opinion) are being accepted in Cranston, Wakefield, Woonsocket, Middletown and Melrose Street in Providence. You can also drop off toys at all Cardi’s Furniture locations and tomorrow night at Warwick Mall, Bob Venturini, local interconnect TV superstar, holds his annual Toys for Tots Drive beginning at 5p.m.
What’s Cookin’?
Props to Garfield, New Jersey 8th grader McKenna Pope who has started an online petition asking the
Pawtucket based Hasbro toy company to make the easy Bake Oven in gender-neutral colors. Mckenna’s four-year-old brother, Gavyn, loves to cook and put the Easy Bake on Santa’s list, but when Mckenna went to buy one, she discovered the oven only comes in “girly pink and purple” with only girls on the box cover and in the commercials. By Friday, McKenna’s petition had generated 30,000 online signatures.
Among McKenna’s biggest supporters is Food Network star Bobby Flay who says he asked for the toy when he was five. Flay says it was a “putrid” green color. The Food Network star has a simple suggestion….keep the burned in brand (sorry) but make the toy in multiple colors. Flay says he has tons of young boys who are his fans and want to grow up and cook.
Uncomfortable Monologue
Jamie Foxx was the celebrity host of Saturday Night Live this past weekend and not only was his opening monologue unfunny…it was downright uncomfortable. His whole bit was how “black is the new white” with a recurring theme of asking the audience “now, how black is that?” The bit was going nowhere (unfortunately not going “nowhere fast”) to begin with but when Foxx joked about how his new film “Django Unchained” in which he plays a slave, “I kill all the white people in the movie…how great is that?” the reaction was a sea of moaning.
Tell me how it helps race relations in the country when a black Academy Award winner takes center stage and jokes about killing white people? Can you imagine what the outrage would have been if Jim Carey hosted boasting about killing blacks in his next release?
Did SNL creator and Executive producerLorne Michaels approve of the monologue? Hard to believe he would.
By the way, the show in its entirety sucked. Too bad because I think the show has been pretty funny the past few seasons.
