HeyJaredAl Townsend
37 year old writer, pop culture fanatic, news junkie, concert goer and global citizen.
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Public Announcement #65 (opens the original)
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I was born in 1988 so I can safely say I’m of the last generation that remembers seeing music videos on cable television playing in the morning as I getting ready to go to school, on the weekends and sometimes at night when I couldn’t sleep. I still went through that phase of seeing music videos late at night during a nocturnal phase of my life thanks to MTV Classic. But I can safely say as grateful as I am to CMT, MTV, & MTV2 for airing great music videos on a regular basis before YouTube shook
Public Announcement #64 (opens the original)
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If you were born in the late 1980’s and 1990’s like I was, you were lucky to have grown up with great cartoons especially on the very popular kids cable channel Nickelodeon. Rugrats, Rocko’s Modern Life, & Doug stood out the most to me. October 7th, 1996 added another animated work of genius entitled Hey Arnold. The series was created by Craig Bartlett who honed his creative chops at Pee-Wee’s Playhouse & Ren and Stimpy. I can safely say Hey Arnold was the closest thing I saw to a Peanuts gang a
Public Announcement #63 (opens the original)
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I’ve always admired stand-up comedy even before I knew exactly what the hell it was and why people love it. People talking with a microphone to total strangers not knowing whether what they talk about will get a laugh or not but the excitement when it occurred was great. One day I turned on the TV and saw a funny guy in a suit talking about what annoyed him but he still seemed happy even if he was a little cranky. I’ve learned that’s part of the NYC charm and that cranky but very funny comic was
Live with Al Townsend (opens the original)
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Public Announcement #62 (opens the original)
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When I was about 13, I was likely watching Behind The Music or Game Show Network at my grandmother’s house and I remember seeing a commercial for a British rock singer named Rod Stewart. The first track in the commercial I heard that I said during my wild man days, I could have written called “Maggie May.” The tune was released in 1971 and was Rod’s first #1 single. I was blown away but this raspy yet warm welcoming voice that seemed to understand what a man should say to a woman. I was only 13
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