Don’s Ego

02/22/2010

Happiness, Part 1: A New Blog Entry Title Header

Filed under: Happiness — Tags: , , , , , — donkowalewski @ 2:32 pm

Sometimes a blog entry just doesn’t fit nicely into “passions”, “inspiration”, or “random.”  Certainly, this entry is pretty random, but it’s more than that.

Someone sent me a link to a trailer for a MacGruber movie. There are some poor fools who don’t think the MacGruber sketches on SNL are funny, but you’re not reading the blog of one of those people. This movie …is gonna be awesome. Well, I can’t really guarantee that, but I bet there’ll be at least a dozen funny parts.

And then there’s this thing. Here’s the latest from Timbaland (who I don’t like all that much) and Justin Timberlake (who I want to trade places with in some sort of Freak Friday or Vice Versa movie-type scenario). Have I ever mentioned that I think Justin Timberlake is one of the coolest MFrs on the planet?  Hmmm. I should write the script about a guy who changes places with his idol, instead of that father-son or mother-daughter predictable stuff. Prediction: I won’t write that screenplay.

02/19/2010

Inspiration, Part 5: spunkybean, Don, and more Don

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , , , , , — donkowalewski @ 2:47 pm

Greetings, all (or should I say “spunky new year!!!”)-

“The only thing better than watching TV or seeing something for yourself, is reading someone else write about those very same things you’ve already observed.“   -spunkybean

It’s that time of year when I randomly email about 1,000+ people and tell them, “look at me!!!” What started as a stupid little hobby on a blog with about 5 or 6 people reading each week, has grown into a website with some great and talented writers, and for me …a couple hundred weekly readers of my American Idol recaps. At this rate, I’ll be dead long before I’m ever famous.

Added this year are my The Bachelor recap(s). But that’s not all you can enjoy at spunkybean. We’re also the best place on the interweb for Lost, Dancing with the Stars, and Survivor. And every Monday, we give you our View-Do Lists, a guide to important things on TV that you need to watch. And don’t forget Heroes recaps, Bound, Beaten, Brewed & Viewed (a guide to books, video games, beer, and movies), FlashForward recaps, Simpsons articles, and in-depth analysis of Big Brother and much more.  We still call it a “zesty pop-culture stew.” And for the moment, it continues to be some blogging-slash-writing friends of mine writing about TV and movies, all while they pursue stand-up, script-writing, sketch-comedy, and more.

For the long time readers …thanks! Hopefully this is still as fun for you as it is for me.

For the old readers who don’t read anymore …what the?!?!?!  Dude! What have I ever done to you?

For the new readers getting this crazy email for the first time …hi!  Guess what? I write stuff and now I’m begging you to read the things I write.

There’s still Don’s Ego, where I talk about my hair, my random observations, tell stories, and dump my brain from time to time. My goal for 2010 is to write something there just about every day…no matter how boring … but because the topic there is “me”, you know it’ll be riveting.

And finally there’s the new and improved Mel Robbin’s blog. Because of my first blog, and then spunkybean, and some luck and some fool-hearty stick-to-it’dness, last year I enjoyed taking off my “sillly” hat and wearing my “motivational” hat and I tried to turn the smart things Mel says into worthwhile blog entries. You thought I was preachy in 2009 …just wait until 2010 really gets rolling.

Thanks to everyone for reading. Thanks to those who didn’t put my email on a “Blocked Sender” list. I promise …these emails only come once a year. Have a great year.

And finally, you can email me at don@spunkybean.com, follow me on Twitter @spunkybean or @donkowalewski, friend me Facebook, become a fan of Don Kowalewski or spunkybean on Facebook,

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Don Kowalewski, Writer/Creative Director
http://spunkybean.com/ http://donsego.com/

p.s. over at spunkybean, if you know someone who likes TV and movies, we’re always looking for new words written by new people. Talk to me.

02/11/2010

Random, Part 13: Hot Mess

Filed under: music, Random — Tags: , — donkowalewski @ 4:34 pm

Until last year, I had never heard the phrase “hot mess”. It appears to describe the girl at the party (I suppose a male could also be referred to as a “hot mess”) who can’t find her phone, her panty-hose are ripped, maybe she’s carrying her shoes under her arms, her drink spilled all over her, her hair’s a wreck, she can’t find her friends, she’s completely wasted (and probably crying), confused, and too stupid to go home. Am I understanding correctly?

Cobra Starship, a group I’m only supposed to like if I’m a h.s. girl, I guess, has a new song and I like it. I knew some hot messes back in the day.  Enjoy.

Seriously, when I say a blog entry is “random”, don’t think I’m kidding. I’m not always going to hide the meaning of life inside blog entries. Sometimes these are just here so some evening when I’m sitting at home playing Soduku on Facebook, I can remember I heard this song on a radio station and I want to download it. For all I know, I’ve written that last sentence dozens of times prior.  I’m a hot blog-mess, I guess. Shut it.  (p.s. I also don’t know if I’m legally supposed to embed this video, so you might be reading about a song and not have any idea what I mean. If so …click here.

02/10/2010

02/06/2010

Random, Part 12: Snuggie

Filed under: Random — Tags: — donkowalewski @ 5:28 pm

My household now owns a Snuggie. It’s pink. So I won’t be showing up at any outdoor sporting events in it, but I was pretty stoked to finally have one. Though I laughed at the commercials, from the first time I saw a Snuggie I knew it was awesome and I wanted it. But now that I have one, I’m not so impressed.

The most disappointing thing about it is that it falls off if you walk around. I walked 30 steps from my family room to my kitchen and it fell off me as if it was an untied hospital gown. And, it’s not very warm as far as blankets or afghans go.

I envy the guy that invented it (and no, I’m not going to look it up). I’ll bet for years he drove everyone crazy explaining how we was inventing a “blanket with sleeves” because “ya know how when you are all cozy under a blanket and you need to change the channel or answer the phone, you can’t get your hands free?” And his family and friends all were like, “um, well …I just uncover myself and work the remote. It’s not that big a de’” …”No, no, no,” he protested. “It’s a pain in the rear-end, man. A blanket with sleeves, man. Everyone’s going to want one.”  And whenever he left the room …I’ll bet they all howled.

Well, he now has the last laugh and he’s made a mint. I need a horrible idea that I can pursue with reckless abandon. But I’m comin’ up blank.

The other purpose of this blog entry (well, the main purpose) is to see if Kodak Easy Share Gallery now has pictures as permalinks that can be linked into blogs. Short answer …they do. And Flickr isn’t doing that for me anymore. Bummer.

02/05/2010

Inspiration, Part 4: Look at What I Didn’t Do Last Year

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , — donkowalewski @ 10:18 pm

Last year I read a really cool article about being a writer, and a guy bought all these composition books and filled them day after day, month after month, with ideas and pictures and idea-starters. And from that, he launched a super successful writing career. So I thought, “gee, I’m going to do that, too.” And I went right out to Office Depot and, lucky me, they were selling these composition books for, like, .50 cents each. I liked everything about this idea …(a) I’d  have some place to write lots of stuff. I could graduate from my spiral bound notebooks which kinda fall apart, and are currently full of writing-class  homework, stand-up bits, jokes, clippings from newspapers …really, all sorts of random stuff. So random in fact, I may burn them one day to avoid post mortem embarrassment when someone opens them up someday (like my kids), reads the, and then they all will have to come to grips that their old man was borderline insane.

What I’m saying is, I need to really make sure my journals and diaries reflect the person I want to be remembered as, and not the random, bizarre person I might actually be.

Oh, the other reasons …(b) writing in composition books has a very cool “Dead Poets Society” type vibe that made the idea seem pretty cool. If I could write only in leather bound journals using an ink quill and feather quill pen, I would. Trust me.  It’s like …well …imagine keeping a diary on a series of sheets of loose leaf paper all stapled together. That would suck and the Feng Shui would be all wrong. Put those papers in a three ring binder. Better. But use a composition book, and keep careful track of margins and style and …well …now you’ve got something historians can marvel over.

And the last part …(c) having a stack of composition books all full of prose and quotes and stories, full from cover to cover, stacked 20, 30 or 50 high – that’s just damn impressive.  “Oh, hey, Don …what are those.”  “Oh, those? Those are just my random thoughts and observations and some unfinished stories I’ve been writing over the past 4o years.” (Note: I’m having this imaginary conversation when I’m in my 60s, and I’m also an accomplished author and columnist at that point. Otherwise, my journals are no better than the ramblings of the Unibomber).

So, there you have it. One year later …another new year resolution unfulfilled. Guess how many pages I’ve filled in the four pictured composition books? Guess.  Nope, lower.  Lower still.  Yep. 12 hole pages.

What will it take me to follow through and fill those?

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