Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Back in April, I posted a blog where I discussed Grandmom telling a blowjob joke to us as we left her house in Maryland. I put a link that in the blog that led clickers, who thought they would be able to see a video of Grandmom telling the joke, to a video of Rick Astley singing his infamous "Never Going To Give You Up".

This phenomenon of tricking unsuspecting internet browsers into clicking a link leading them to a destination that they might find interesting, only to be led to Rick Astley's video, has been dubbed "RickRolling".

Well, if anyone watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, you saw the majestic float that Catroon Network prepared for the cartoon "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends". And if you're familiar with the format of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, you know that the floats stop, then they talk to the people on the float, or the people on the float will sing a song.

Well, the "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" stops and they start singing the "Best Friends" song from their show. then the music stops, and Rick Astley comes out and sings "Never Going To Give You Up"! After he's done, one of the puppets on the float can be heard saying "I love RickRolling!"

Well done Cartoon Network, well done.

Time To Move

If anybody has ever needed to move, this is the lady. This is Kathleen Caronna.

Remember that Manhattan apartment building we saw on TV this week that New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into?

This lady lived in one of the apartments that was destroyed by the plane crash and the ensuing fire. The plane's engine landed in her bedroom!

An interview with Mrs. Caronna revealed that she was picking her son up from school, and if the plane crash had occurred just minutes later, both she and her son would have been in the apartment.

Mrs. Caronna seems to be a magnet for freak and bizarre accidents.

In 1997, during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Cat in the Hat balloon went out of control and knocked over a section of a lamppost that weighed several hundred pounds. That section of the lamppost fell on the head of Mrs. Caronna! The impact cracked her skull and left her in a coma for 28 days!

The associated press reported that: "Caronna had been watching the parade with her husband and infant son at 72nd Street and Central Park West. The plane crash occurred at 72nd and York Avenue, several blocks east."

What a weird coincidence!