And now on the Today show doing the weather forecast. Form the Paris Olympics to cooking with Martha, where else have you seen him?
I want to say he was at a festival I went to, but I think it was actually after my festival attendance had all but ceased and I had gone from community college on to 4-year university.
I used to have a bootleg Snoop t-shirt back in the 90s. He was totally gangsta in his bandana and standing behind this chain link fence while glaring at the camera--a far cry from the lovable Snoop we know today.
Now I know beyond all reasonable doubt, why my late mother called televisions "Lunartics Lanterns" and refused to allow them in the house.
My father was the same way and resisted TV in the house for many years. But ultimately our grandfather took pity on us and brought us a black and white RCA back in 1959. Of course, he did work for NBC at Rockefeller Center then.
In Jane's childhood days, the only television in the street was owned by a rich snobbish woman who thought that it made her queen of the castle. After dinner, when she switched it on all the kids in the street (about 20 of them) congregated outside peeking through the gap in the curtains. She was furious. First she let her growling dog out to frighten them off, but one of the lads started bringing a few biscuits to solve that problem. Then during the ads, the woman started going upstairs. The kids knew to scarper, because 30 second later the upstair window would open and a bucketful of water come flying out. Life in the 1950's, in a small town in Ireland. The one and only television channel, RTE,1 had 20 minutes of adverts in every hour of adverts. They were hilarious, everything from tractors to pig feed, not forgetting the latest style in wellies. Have you read that wonderful book, a biography of a young girl who set out from the family farm to make a new life. The chapters where she worked in the care home were priceless, particularly the one where she stayed up overnight to clean the residents dentures. The following morning she handed them over to the nurse to return to their owners. Around 50 sets, all mixed up in the same bucket. The book won several awards and was a bestseller in Ireland, the UK and North America. I am not sure, but I think it launched in the 70's.
Just saw Snoop in an Apple commercial! He hit the big time now. Imagine what they have to pay him! He's probably the biggest influencer now. So when you see him hawking products like iPhones, realize he's also promoting cannabis simultaneously!
