MSNBC reports: J.Lo and Beyonce can take another bow. The booty-shaking stars have shaped the newest generation of mannequins, with hundreds of well-rounded plastic backsides appearing in shop windows across New York.
Better late than never, that someone else gets this right.
One last bit on the election, mostly because of people’s reaction to Kerry losing… I’ve seen “better get ready for a Draft,” “we need a Civil War!” and “Christianity will be the new official religion”. I’ve seen people taunting others with the blue states having joined Canada and the rest of the US labeled as Jesus land. Does that mean Kerry was French-Canadian? I don’t get it.
Continue reading Election Recap
Nanny 911. This might be the best form of birth control, ever.
Continue reading Birth Control in Prime Time
On this, the eve of Election Day 2004 – a prequel to a recount, as Comedy Central puts it – I sift through the voter’s guide that my state has so thoughtfully sent to me – trying to find where I have to go to vote – and I realize that I have but one question on my mind: will the politicians finally shut the fuck up?! I do hope so. Then again, I also hope that if Florida can’t figure out how to vote this year that they are expelled from the Union and forced to form their own nation with Quebec, or something… I guess that’s just too much to hope for.
It’s not often that I post pictures, but two things have popped up recently that I wanted to share.
Continue reading Photo Log (Fall 04)
So now that the Sox are going to the World Series, I’ve been hearing a lot of support from casual baseball fans. It’s been over 15 years since both teams have been to the World Series, but since Boston hasn’t won since 1918, they seem to have won the “we only watch the championship” type fan. I expect this… historically, I haven’t watch much of the NFL’s regular season, so I usually cheer for the “underdog” in the playoffs, so I’m not unfamiliar with the sentiment. What I am unfamiliar with are the Yankees fans that have been showing support for the Sox, now that the World Series is here, because that is unacceptable.
Continue reading AL Turncoats!
Know what never seems to stop amazing me? That even when my beloved Yankees screw the pooch – and make no mistake, this was a huge, Clifford sized dog that was screwed – they still some how make history… it just isn’t always good history.
Continue reading ALCS Recap: 2004
The other day I happened to notice that my nifty desk clock had stopped running. Ah, no worries – there’s a Movado store over at Bellevue Place Mall and that’s like ten minute from work… I’ll stop over there during lunch, I think. I went there taking side roads and encountered an accident, a dead traffic light (due to a power outage) and extreme lunch time traffic. I came back via i-405 and 520 and encountered a number of nasty traffic snags (since it rained for the first time in seven days) and a lack of speed from fellow drivers. All in all, it took me almost two hours to make this trip and the Movado guys replaced the battery in under ten minutes. The funny part? When I told the locals back at the office I hear “That mall? On a Friday? During lunch? Yeah, that sounds about right…” Grr.
Never again, and you shouldn’t try it either!
The ALCS cometh… Boston versus New York, for the pennant, once more. To quote former Yankee Yogi Berra: “It’s like déjà vu, all over again.”
The “World Series of the Northeast” begins this week – at least I don’t have to lose any sleep to see the bottom of the ninth inning for each prime time game, this year. Hurray for the PDT!
It’s 7:51am on a Thursday morning. On a normal Thursday morning, I’d be at my desk, looking through some test results that ran during the overnight, but today is not a normal Thursday morning. At the moment, I’m sitting in a Tully’s in the Eastgate section of Bellevue, all types of pissed off, and it’s not my fault that I’m pissed off… but it will be the first true test of my self control in a non-east coast setting.
Continue reading Today, I’m Being Tested
I’ve seen two ads campaigns recently, both of them concerning proposition I-892, which is up for consideration this November. One side says “lower property taxes – vote Yes on I-892”; the other I’ve mostly seen on TV, and it shows the expansion of slot machines across three WA counties, including King County, much like the virus spread on the map of the US in “Outbreak”. In CT there was an endless, and loud, debate on slot machines: people tried to get them in non-casino venues, like sports bars and Jai-Alai arenas, but they never succeed. What the hell is wrong with people, when it comes to slot machines?
Continue reading Why Are Slot Machines Taboo?
Tonight, everyone should be an M’s fan. That is, if you’re a fan of the game and have no hatred for the Mariners. And if would feel that way, it would be a Yankees fan like me, after they knocked New York out of the playoffs in 1995.
Continue reading Tonight, Everyone is a Mariner’s Fan
Have you called a Customer Service Center recently? There’s been a growing trend that I’ve noticed before, but it took a truly annoying CSR to make me get pissed off about it…
Continue reading Hey, CSR? Bite Me!
Having been born to an Italian family, I’ve inherited a natural ability to observe the Sicilian notion of omerta – the code of silence that was once the best defense of Mob Families. Keeping this in mind, I’d like to mention a few things from my trip to Vancouver, over this past weekend.
Continue reading What Are You Doing Here, Eh?
OK, so there will probably be spoilers in the comments, so you’ve been warned. The only thing that I’ll say is that if you’ve ever liked the show and liked it, catch the encore this Saturday. For the second time this week, I’ve been left slack-jaw’d (the first time from the Season Finale of Six Feet Under) – holy crap!