Louie Louie Life

I told you…let some Louie Louie into your life, and your life will have more life. I’m sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room trying to keep from doing a one man wave. A Harvard professor by the name of Ellen Langer says I’m right. I’ve told you lots of helpful things through the years, like, “Rectal thermometers are the best way to take a baby’s temperature, and besides it really shows who’s boss.” And “If your kid picks his nose a lot tell him ‘stop that till you’re old enough to buy a car and sit in traffic.” And my buddy Big Louie is always telling you that, “If you have any moving parts left, for heaven sake Move ‘em.” And, “You never know when something wonderful is going to happen. But an annoying number of you totally ignore this wonderful advice from Louie and me. Sure. Probably because we’re not Harvard professors. We tell you that you know you’re in love when you don’t mind that she’s eaten all your French fries. And as far as love itself is concerned, that’s what’s left in the room with you at a family Christmas party after all the presents have been opened. It’s in today’s podcast.

As I have explained in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot, there are three basic kinds of people. There are the Pimple People who, when they are not driving nails through their tongues and other private parts, can often be found trying to climb out of the nearest manhole, having stumbled into it while texting to someone in an alternate virtual reality. There are the Dreary Drones, who have been around for a long time, but they just keep going around and around sopping up TV re-runs and beer. And then there’s us. We are The Louie Louie Generation. We don’t have those rock hard abs and perky breasts like the people in the beer commercials any more. But we certainly have no intention of letting ourselves turn into a bunch of luke warm chunks of meat either. And As Professor Langer has shown, the song Louie Louie is probably an important part of the reason we look so happy, healthy and hot.

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