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Posted: 10:07 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Friday - 9/21/12 

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By Jennifer Tyler

Rolling Stones "Grrr!". Happy birthday Bruce Springsteen. Lennon Ono Grant for Peace. You can get drunk at the Magic Kingdom! Facebook stalking your ex. Dating profiles do's and don'ts. TV relationships can ruin yours in real life. What kind of bird are you....based on your email habits.

 

ROLLING STONES

In a bizarre promotion for their upcoming greatest hits collection, titled, Grrr!, the Rolling Stones have "unleashed" 3,000 virtual gorillas in 50 cities worldwide viewable via a special new uView app. For reasons unknown, the career spanning compilation features a cartoon painting of a gorilla with the Stones' signature tongue and lips. Ultimate Classic Rock reported that the gorillas, which are only viewable when your smart phone is pointed at the structure through the application, have been spotted at such landmarks Manhattan's Empire State Building, London's Big Ben, and Australia's Sydney Opera House.

Fans can email their gorilla photos to compete for a prize or twitter to @RollingStones including the #GRRR! hashtag. Several shots have already popped up on the RollingStones.com site.

 

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Happy Birthday to Bruce Springsteen, who turns 63 on Sunday (September 23rd)!!! On Wednesday (September 19th) Springsteen & The E Street Band kicked off a three-night stand at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, and on the first night, welcomed back original drummer Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez for a rendition of 1973's classic "The E Street Shuffle," before Max Weinberg mad his way back to his drum stool. Later in the show, Lopez returned to shake a tambourine for "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Twist And Shout."

Back In March, Springsteen scored his 10th career Number One album with Wrecking Ball, which sold 196,000 copies in its first week on sale. The album's chart placing tied Springsteen with "The King" himself, Elvis Presley, for the third-most Number One albums in the history of the Billboard 200.

Springsteen says that there's always been a form of interactive journalism in his songs, in which his fans can experience situations that differ from their lives first hand: "My job was always to put you in somebody else's shoes and have you walk a while in those shoes. You're out there, and you feel what's in the air out there, and you feel what's on people's minds. People are looking for ways to try to get a handle and make sense of what's happening."

 

LENNON ONO GRANT FOR PEACE

Yoko Ono and Amnesty International have announced that members of the jailed Russian group Pussy Riot are among the winners of the 2012 Lennon Ono Grant for Peace. Rolling Stone reported that the members "will be awarded an unspecified grant" during today's (September 21st) ceremony in New York City. While some members of the group fled Russia, three group members remain imprisoned and are appealing their two-year sentence for hooliganism after a demonstration in a church where they burned a poster of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Ono will be on hand on October 9th in Iceland to salute the other recipients of the biennial Lennon Ono Grant for Peace -- Rachel Corrie, John Perkins, Christopher Hitchens, and an "unidentified peace activist."

Pete Townshend, who was friendly with Lennon, says that he felt that Lennon's late-'60s peace campaign was well intentioned, but ultimately naive: "God, I have to be very careful here, because I'm good friends with Yoko and one of her great defenders. I don't want to get into trouble with her, or with Sean (Lennon), or Julian (Lennon), who I'm also very friendly with. But I think sometimes John Lennon got it wrong. That's what I think. Y'know, I think there's a difference between peace and stupidity, y'know? And I think that pacifism as a banner is a lovely idea but y'know, when somebody comes to burn your house down, you have to do something."

 

YOU CAN GET DRUNK AT THE MAGIC KINGDOM!

Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, will now start offering beer and wine for the first time in its 41-year history -- but only at the Beauty and the Beast-themed Be Our Guest restaurant, which is set to open this November. According to Maribeth Bisienere, vice president of food and beverage for Walt Disney Parks, "You cannot walk into a French restaurant and not get a glass of wine or beer. It made more sense to do it than not to do it." Disneyland Paris already sells alcohol liberally. Orlando's Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot also all offer booze.

Things to do when you're drunk at Disney (Jezebel.com) 

(I totally don't recommend that you do ANY of these.....  <3 JT)

It's a Small World. And you are big enough to destroy it. The Disney World staff operating It's a Small World (the nightmare ride that takes you on an generalized ethnic journey around the globe) will tell you to stay safely in the boat but your drunk brain will say otherwise. Do yourself a favor and trust your instincts by dismounting and smashing those mechanic broad-faced things to pieces. You are the alien sent to destroy their planet and they have no Will Smith to fight back and "make this look good." They have nothing. You are everything. Not a robot soul will survive your ethnic cleanse.

Fight a mascot. Everyone needs to get in a physical altercation with someone wearing an animal costume at some point in their life. On the other side of that coin, no mascot is truly accepted by their mascot peers until they've had a battery thrown at them. Everybody wins and Mickey has been acting passive aggressive toward you all day.

Buy a tiara. The costumes in the Disney gift shops are expensive, generally costing in the hundreds, but they're also beautiful. You could never buy one sober, but who hasn't indulged in the occasional drunken purchase? Last time, you bought the For the Love of RJ DVDs, this time you bought a head-to-toe Jasmine costume. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND DRUNK AND WORTH IT.

Barf in the tea cups. When you've hit the bottle too hard, why not purge it all out on the tea cups? You'll be clean thanks to centrifugal force and someone else will have a great story about the time they got barfed on at Disney World. Yaaaaay!

 

BREAKING NEWS -- FACEBOOK STALKING YOUR EX IS NO GOOD

In a new study, participants were asked to evaluate their Facebook perusing and "emotional recovery" following the end of a romantic relationship. Participants were asked questions such as, "How often do you look at your ex-partner's Facebook page?" and "How often do you look at your ex-partner's list of Facebook friends?" After analyzing the responses, Marshall found that people who "Facebook-stalked" their exes, tended to be emotionally stalled, experiencing greater distress and more longing for their ex. However, they concluded, "Former partners with whom we are no longer in contact, by contrast, may remain shrouded in an alluring mystique, suggesting that remaining Facebook friends with an ex-partner may actually help rather than harm one's post-breakup recovery." (Gawker.com)

 

DATING PROFILE DO'S AND DON'TS (Chemistry.com)

  • One of the biggest turn-offs for both men and women is the use of old photos in a dating profile.
  • Women tend to look at a man's smile and eyes first in a profile photo.
  • Men's eyes focus on a woman's smile and physique. Men also prefer to see full-body shots.
  • The majority of singles (81 percent) want to see casual photos in a dating profile.


 

TV RELATIONSHIPS CAN RUIN YOURS IN REAL LIFE

 Getting too invested in on-screen relationships, like the classic Ross and Rachel on Friends, could be bad for your real-life relationships. A study of 392 married individuals by psychologist Jeremy Osborn, of Albion College in Michigan, showed that the more people believe in unrealistic portrayals of romance on TV, the less likely they were to be committed to real-life partners. Those surveyed with a higher 'belief' in TV romances were more likely to be drawn to alternatives than their current partner -- including a preference for being single. They also felt their real relationships 'cost' them more in personal freedom and time alone, and also made them more aware of their partner's flaws.(Daily Mail)

 

WHAT KIND OF BIRD ARE YOU -- BASED ON YOUR EMAIL HABITS (Daily Mail)

Woodpecker: Can't resist reading email at all hours of the day and night.

Peacock: Broadcasts emails to all, claiming that people 'need to know' when actually he is grandstanding.

Crow: Leans on others by means of email, sending multiple versions of the same document, or sending multiple emails about the same topic. This bird inspires fear and loathing in the hearts of other birds.

Emu: Sends emails in order to be able to prove, at a later date, that the information was passed on.

Ostrich: Reads emails but does not reply to them.

Parrot: Sends abusive or inappropriate emails and fails to understand why others get upset by them.

Mockingbird: A serial forwarder, sending chain emails, online petitions and anything else that takes his fancy. Most of these emails have a subject line starting with 'FW'. This bird is easily ignored by other birds, but does not know why.

Owl: The midnight emailer, who fails to understand that others do wish to have 'time out'.

Hummingbird: Responds immediately to email, and expects an immediate response in return.

 

Thanks for listening to The Eagle while you work. Keep it fabulous, Houston!

xoxo,

Jennifer Tyler

Fabulous Mid-Day Diva

 

 

 

 

 

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