Month: April 2012

  • Celebrity Round Up 4/13/12

    So here I am again.  Would've been on earlier but I went out for supper.  I think I did poorly on my interview.  The lady didn't quite care for my answer when I was asked what I'm looking for in a job.  Apparently financial stability and security aren't part of this job.  Sigh.  I guess I'll keep babysitting for a while.  Anyway, time for the round up.

    NSFW and NSFL


    Zac Efron was on vacation for Easter and apparently he was trying to find a Cabury Creme Egg.  I don't think he found it.  I've heard those high notes he hit in High School Musical.

    Tony Romo and his wife Candice welcomed a baby boy into the world this week.  They named him Hawkins Crawford Romo.  He weighed 8lbs and 8oz.  Hawkins Crawford...doesn't that just roll off the tongue like a cinder block?  Maybe he could go by Hawk Romo and become a WWE wrestler, bounty hunter, or gay porn star.  Oh and Jessica Simpson is still pregnant.  The sad news is that when the nurse handed Hawkins to Tony, Tony fumbled him and another father came and picked up Hawkins and ran him in for the touchdown thus eliminating the Cowgirls from the playoffs. 

    Tom Clancy and David Letterman both turned 65 this week.  They were born on the same day.  That's sort of amazing.  Both of these guys have contributed so much to comedy.  I seriously don't know who the bigger comedian of the two is.  If you ever want to read a laugh riot pick up copies of The Sum of All Fears and Roman Numeral Two!! An Altogether New Book of Top Ten Lists from Late Show with David Letterman.

    Ryan Gosling was photographed taking a stroll this week.  You know we have so much in common.  Whenever we go out for walks the streets are safe and people take our photos and admire us for being the handsomest man they've ever seen.  It's like looking in a mirror.

    Taylor Kitsch turned 31 this week.  You know, it's sort of funny how he spent his mid to late 20s playing a high school student.

    Three years ago, President Obama united Americans by expressing his hatred of Kanye West because he interrupted Taylor Swift at some meaningless awards show.  Now with gas prices soaring, North Korea threatening to do shit because they're being ignored, war with Iran looming on the horizon, racial tension flaring, an election, insurance companies dropping my dad from their coverage thereby giving him two weeks to live if he doesn't receive treatment, and a general overall shitty malaise in America, President Obama has decided he needed to speak out about Kanye West once again.  A writer, David Samuels, asked President Obama a hard-hitting question: "Kanye or Jay-Z?"  President Obama responded, "Jay-Z. Although I like Kanye. He’s a Chicago guy. Smart. He’s very talented."  Samuels replied, "Even though you called him a jackass?"  President Obama answered, "He is a jackass. But he's talented."  I see the president is once again trying to get his approval ratings to go through the roof.  If he said this two or three months from now after we've had to endure all the rumors of Kanye dating She with the Big Ass Who Must Not be Named it would've meant more.  Right now I don't know what to think of politics.  I mean the president likes Jay-Z and Mitt Romney supports plural marriage for straights.  Hmmm.  Maybe Kanye will support Mitt Romney and the 1% because most all of Kanye's songs are about him being rich.  Does anyone else feel that politics are becoming a reality show like American Idol?  Well the good thing is that the president didn't flip flop on proclaiming Kanye to be a jackass.

    Paris Hilton was spotted leaving a business in Beverly Hills this week.  You may want to enlarge this pic to understand the punchline.  It looks like Paris is missing something and, no, it's not her bra.  It's her fame.  HAHAHAHA...YOU SUCK, PARIS!

    People are claiming that Miley Cyrus' recent slimming down is due to her being anorexic.  Miley says otherwise.  She claims it's diet and exercise.  Oddly enough, three seconds after this photo was taken, Miley was chewing on that fence.  Miley took to Twitter to address all the skeptics: "For everyone calling me anorexic I have a gluten and lactose allergy. It’s not about weight it’s about health. Gluten is crapppp anyway!"  "Everyone should try no gluten for a week! The change in your skin, phyisical and mental health is amazing! U won’t go back!"  Miley, you know what you need to try?  Learning how to spell and how to type words like "you".  Then Miley brought her younger sister into the mix by Tweeting this: "Love u noie! U saw how much I ate today at Easter lunch but all of it was healthy and even more fulfilling! Health is happiness!"  Oh Miley methinks thou doth protest too much.  Oh wait, you don't know Shakespeare so I'll hillbilly it up for you, "Damn, girl, youse fixin' to get people on reckonin' that you may be tellin' fibs.  Now come sit on Uncle Skeeter's lap and take off them breeches for a paddlin'."  She also went back to talking about how she's considering moving back to Nashville because of negative attention from paparazzi.  The only reason why she's getting all that attention is now that Britney Spears has calmed down and is medicated, Miley is the last hillbilly doing hillbilly things like parking in handicapped spots while you go to yoga class or posing with a giant chocolate cake shaped like a penis.  You know those things are frowned upon in Nashville and Uncle Skeeter may just take you out behind the woodpile for more than a paddlin'. 

    Mike Wallace, one of the original correspondents on 60 Minutes, passed away this week at the age of 93.  He was with 60 Minutes for nearly 40 years and retired in 2006 and his last interview was in 2008.  Morley Safer wrote this one the CBS website: "For half a century, he took on corrupt politicians, scam artists and bureaucratic bumblers. His visits were preceded by the four dreaded words: Mike Wallace is here. Wallace took to heart the old reporter's pledge to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. He characterized himself as "nosy and insistent." So insistent, there were very few 20th century icons who didn't submit to a Mike Wallace interview. He lectured Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, on corruption. He lectured Yassir Arafat on violence. He asked the Ayatollah Khoumeini if he were crazy.  He traveled with Martin Luther King (whom Wallace called his hero). He grappled with Louis Farrakhan.  And he interviewed Malcolm X shortly before his assassination."  Wallace was 60 Minutes and did a lot for news reporting.  He will be greatly missed.

    Mayim Bialik has said repeatedly that she's not a conventional mother.  Apparently like her characters on both her TV shows, Mayim is a nerd and no-it-all type and she wrote a book titled The Sling: A Real-Life Guide To Raising Confident, Loving Children The Attachment Parenting Way and in this book she discusses how they don't use diapers, doesn't force her children to sleep by themselves, and doesn't put an expiration date on breast feeding.  She was interviewed and here's excerpts from the interview: The progressive parents live in a very small Los Angeles home — their one-bedroom has two mattresses on the floor on which the family co-sleeps.  The children don't have a playroom filled with the latest toys — Bialik and Roosevelt have made a conscious decision to keep their material lives simple and minimal. “Our society's obsession with consumerism, especially in the realm of baby things, baby soaps and baby products. ... That's something that my husband and I, partly for frugality and partly for environmental reasons, have really rejected.”  In “Beyond the Sling,” Bialik also writes about elimination communication as a form of early potty training that encourages parents to recognize their child's natural signals instead of waiting until the child is older, then introducing the toilet. “You're basically training your child to use their pants as a bathroom and then two years later we have to turn around and do all sorts of complicated manipulations to get them to unlearn that,” she said.  They were breast-fed until ready to quit — Bialik still nurses 3.5 year old Fred sporadically, as he slowly weans himself.  Yes, her son is 3.5 years old and she still breast feeds him.  I do think she makes sense on the potty training but then then that's all negated by breastfeeding a 3.5 year old.  If the kid can open a fridge door by himself he doesn't need to suck on the tit.  Oh well what do I know about breastfeeding.  Maybe 3.5 is perfect but when he needs a drink during his high school graduation ceremony you'll here my tap dancing shoes loudly doing a song and dance I call "Told Ya So".

    Remember when I was complaining about Lindsay Lohan and all those other wannabe starlets trying to be too much like Marilyn Monroe?  Remember when I said I hated reality shoes?  Well the two are going to combine.  A story broke on Deadline this week and this was a press release: "Entertainment One has teamed with the Estate of Marilyn Monroe to develop and produce Finding Marilyn, a competition reality series that will emulate Monroe’s journey to stardom by featuring twelve young girls as they travel to Los Angeles to compete for a chance to become the next Hollywood “it” girl."  The producers of this shoe may as well have called it "We Don't Have Anything Better to do Than Fuck with the Memory of a Dead Celebrity and Need a Fucking Clue".  I wonder how many will be named Norma Jean or something with a middle name of Jean.  I wonder if when the winner is declared she'll win a lifetime of sadness, broken relationships, and an addiction to barbiturates.  Then when she's dead, reality show producers can make a game show about her life.  It's the perfect vicious circle!

    This photo of Lindsay Lohan recently surfaced.  I thought she was sober and clean.  I wasn't expecting photos like these.  It probably came from Twitter or some old guy's private collection.  Also this week, a woman filed a battery complaint against Lindsay claiming that on Thursday night of last week, Lindsay shoved and punched her at a nightclub.  I cry foul, madam!  There is no way Lindsay could've been in a nightclub.  She was obviously reading to blind orphans.  Lindsay's attorney says the person who filed this complaint is just seeking fame and money.  Someone looking for money? So she picked Lindsay Lohan as her target? Either this chick is really fucking dumb or she's been living in Middle-earth for the past five years. Targeting Lindsay Lohan for money is like targeting Rosie Perez for English lessons. Good luck with that.

    well last week Lana Del Ray was spotted with Marilyn Manson at his hotel in Germany.  This week she was spotted at a hotel in L.A. with Axl Rose.  I figured it was only a matter of time for those rumors to surface since she does do a song titled Axl Rose Husband and probably has a replica of Stephanie Seymour's wedding dress from the November Rain video.  If she is sleeping with him then she is a devoted groupie since most people gave up on him in the mid 90s.  So if she's doing this trend of sleeping with musicians who have faded over the years, who is next?  My guess is the Baha Men or Right Said Fred.

    Kristen Stewart turned 22 this week.  She looks so happy and excited to be 22.  I'd be just as thrilled as her if I was 22 again.  I just hope she calms down or her heart may explode.

    This is quite possibly my favorite story of the week because it shows you can't teach old dogs new tricks or teach old men how to be culturally sensitive and politically correct.  A while back, Mel Gibson announced that he was going to make a movie about Judah Maccabee, a Jewish warrior who is commemorated with the celebration of Hanukkah.  Everyone saw right through it and knew he'd still burn yarmulkes and masturbate to photos of Eva Braun.  Mel hired Joe Eszterhas to write the script and Joe wrote more than just the script, he wrote a 9 page letter detailing Gibson's behavior while they worked together.  I could've summed it up in four words, "Dear Mel, fuck off."  Eszterhas says the reason the script was rejected by Warner Brothers was because of Mel ranting and raving about killing his former girlfriend Oksana Gregorieva while they had anal sex, which actually sounds like something Eszterhas once wrote(see the movie Sliver).  Here's the full letter but I'll include some excerpts if you don't feel like reading the whole thing.  On Mel's use of slurs: "You continually called Jews 'Hebes' and 'oven-dodgers' and 'Jewboys.' It seemed that most times when we discussed someone, you asked 'He’s a Hebe, isn’t he?' You said most 'gatekeepers' of American companies were 'Hebes' who 'controlled their bosses.'"  On the Holocaust: "You said the Holocaust was 'mostly a lot of horseshit.' You said the Torah made reference to the sacrifice of Christian babies and infants. When I told you that you were confusing the Torah with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ... you insisted 'it's in the Torah -- it's in there!' (It isn't)."  On Oksana: "You were raving at Oksana even after you’d reached a custody agreement over Luci.... And then you were even more explicit about your threat: 'I’m going to kill her! I’m going to have her killed!' You said you’d become friends with two FBI agents (or former FBI agents) and they were going to help you to kill her.  You said, 'I want to fuck her in the ass and stab her to death while I’m doing it.'"  On something I could've told you going into this project: “I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason you won’t make ‘The Maccabees’ is the ugliest possible one. You hate Jews."  Mel Gibson issued a statement through a publicist: "I will acknowledge like most creative people I am passionate and intense. I was very frustrated that when you arrived at my home at the expense of both Warner Brothers and myself you hadn’t written a single word of a script or even an outline after 15 months of research, meetings, discussions and the outpouring of my heartfelt vision for this story. I did react more strongly than I should have. I promptly sent you a written apology, the colorful words of which you apparently now find offensive. Let me now clearly apologize to you and your family in the simplest of terms.  Contrary to your assertion that I was only developing Maccabees to burnish my tarnished reputation, I have been working on this project for over 10 years and it was publicly announced 8 years ago. I absolutely want to make this movie; it’s just that neither Warner Brothers nor I want to make this movie based on your script."  COLORFUL WORDS!  If Mel Gibson's words were Crayolas they'd be Holocaust Hazel, Anti-Semite Sepia, or Razzle Dazzle I HATE JEWS Rose.  I'm not shocked Mel said of that.  He has problems.  I've heard Joe Eszterhas isn't an angel because his father wrote anti-Semitic propaganda in Hungary during the 30s and 40s but there is one thing that makes me side with Joe.  He wrote Showgirls.  All other arguments are invalid.

    Poor Jesse James.  We all know he cheated on Sandra Bullock.  We all know he then cheated on his next fiance, Kat Von D.  We also remember when he bragged that having sex with Kat was much better than sex with Sandra.  We also remember that book he wrote where he painted himself as a hero for his cheating and that if you cheat once it's the same as cheating 1000 times.  So by his logic I should rob 1000 banks and only be punished for robbing one.  Well this week Jesse was interviewed and said that he's being persecuted for his serial cheating and says he's been strung up for cheating. Jesse was also upset that no one talks about his poor brother who died of AIDs: "My older brother was gay, and looked just like me, and happened to die of HIV five years ago. Nobody ever cared to ask about that."  In Jesse's 800 page book he doesn't mention his brother or his brother being gay or dying of AIDs.  So maybe no one asks James about his brother who died of HIV/AIDS because he DIDN'T BOTHER MENTIONING IT!

    Jennifer Lawrence is hated by PETA.  OK Hunger Games fans, that's not Peeta.  It's PETA, People Enacting Terrorism for Animals.  During an interview promoting The Hunger Games movie, Jennifer was asked about her role in the movie Winter's Bones.  In the scene her character skins a squirrel.  She was asked if that was a real squirrel and if that prepared her for The Hunger Games(seriously, do people consider that movie to be a real story?).  Jennifer said, "I should say it wasn't real, for PETA, but screw PETA."  Well the story doesn't end there because PETA hasn't gone apeshit and overreacted about something or other because one squirrel might cause the world to go off its axis.  They released this statement: "She's young and the plight of animals somehow hasn't yet touched her heart. As Henry David Thoreau said, 'The squirrel you kill in jest, dies in earnest.  When people kill animals, it is the animals who are 'screwed,' not PETA, and one day I hope she will try to make up for any pain she might cause any animal who did nothing but try to eke out a humble existence in nature."  Was that squirrel working on a way to make my gas cheaper?  Was that squirrel going to create a new fuel source?  Was that squirrel about to make a breakthrough in inertial confinement fusion technology?  No?  Was the squirrel just collecting nuts?  Yes?  THEN WHY THE HELL ARE WE SO UPSET?

    Jenna Jameson turned 38 this week.  Wow, remember all the classic films she made back in the day?  I don't know which I enjoyed more, "Cum One, Cum All" or "Up and Cummers" or "I Love Pussy".  If she made a movie today, because of her age it would probably be considered granny porn.  I feel bad for her.  She needs to flip off whoever decided to make her look like a melted candle.

    Hayden Panettiere is on vacation in Maui this week and was spotted playing some tennis.  Since when did Keebler start making implants?  Her current boyfriend is Scotty McKnight, a wide receiver for the New York Jets.  Her former boyfriend was Wladimir Klitschko, a former champion boxer.  She must have a thing for athletes.  Maybe she also likes mathletes.  3.14159265358979323846  I can recite pi to 20 decimals.  I am an expert at pi.  Am I turning you on, you horny little minx?

    This is Dwayne Johnson, probably best known as The Rock, on the set of his new movie Pain & Gain which is filming in Miami.  Is it me or does it look like he might work out?
     
    Demi Lovato is currently touring in England and she was out with friends sight seeing when she tried to park into a space and almost hit a guy standing in the parking spot.  It turned out it was Paul McCartney.  Demi was so excited that she almost ran down a former member of the Beatles.  We were almost left with just Ringo.  Paul almost joined Heather Mills in shoe shopping for one.  Demi said he was cool about almost being hit.  Well he's not the real Paul McCartney so I guess she could've run him down.

    When you mix Twitter with no shame and drugs, you get Courtney Love being a fool.  Ever since Courtney's husband Kurt Cobain died, she has been accusing former member of Kurt's band Nirvana, Dave Grohl, of stealing money from her because he's misusing Nirvana.  Now she's accusing him of stealing something else, her 19 year old daughter Frances Bean Cobain.  Courtney claims she heard from a driver that drove Frances Bean and Dave to Dave's house that they were all over each other in the back of the car.  Watching Courtney tweet is like watching a hamster on meth running on the wheel in his cage.  Courtney went on protected tweeting but Gawker got screencaps and here they are. 

    You will have to enlarge this to read Courtney's madness.  Trust me, there are some gems there.  She claims a reliable source.  Courtney, drug hallucinations aren't reliable sources unless you work for FOX News.  The funny thing is, she brings up a Twitter account by the name of @davegrohl.  It turns out that there is an actual account by that name but it doesn't belong to the person Courtney thought it did.  It belongs to a German student.  Also by saying she wants to shoot Dave dead, she sort of set herself up.  She'll have killed two members of the three piece Nirvana.

    Frances Bean replied to Courtney's ramblings.  GOD...how can something so lovely come from something so hideous?  Frances tweeted this: "While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.  Twitter should ban my mother."   HAHAHAHA...biological mother!  If Courtney had any feeling left in her face after all the coke and Xanax she's snorted she would've felt that slap across that face. 

    I think I posted a similar photo to this before but once again Coco was photographed doing squats in her gym while wearing high heels.  Granted she's not lifting a lot of weight but I think keeping proper form while wearing heels that large is pretty impressive.

    This is Charlie Hunnam, star of one of my favorite shows Sons of Anarchy.  He turned 32 this week.  You know, last week I was happy to post half naked guys on my post because it made ladies happy.  I think I like this pleasing women thing.  But honestly, Sons of Anarchy...it's motorcycles meets mafia meets Hamlet.  So awesome.

    If there's a 14 year old reading this right now, you should probably leave because I'm sure you're violating Xanga's terms of service.  But if that didn't scare you off, then if you're a 14 year old thinking you're an uncoordinated dork with a horrible haircut who will never get laid, you have hope.  This is Brad Pitt at age 14 posing for a team basketball photo for the Cherokee Rejects of Springfield, MO.  The Rejects?  A public school team name is the Rejects?  Was the Fuck-Ups already taken?  I think I have to do a repost of an old post I did of funny team names.  Apparently Brad's move was clapping his hands and throwing pixie dust in the opposing team's face.  Now fast forward 20 years and Moses couldn't part the sea of horny women looking to jump on his pole.  So, kids, it gets better.

    Betty White is now on twitter and here are her first tweets.  In just a few hours, Betty had 105,000 followers.  That might seem impressive but Blanche Devereaux has more notches on her bed post. 

    Amanda Bynes just doesn't learn.  To celebrate the one week anniversary of her DUI and the 3 week anniversary for being pulled over for texting while driving, Amanda was spotted texting while driving by paparazzi while on her way to a party.  They also caught her driving over the curb while attempting to park.  When are people going to learn that driving like this is not good?  It didn't work for Billy Joel and it didn't work for Lindsay Lohan.  What makes Amanda think she's going to get by.  Well Amanda got the message and let one of her sober friends drive her home.  PSYCHE!  That didn't happen.  Besides, probably having alcohol in her system, driving up on a curb, and texting while driving she broke another law.  She was retransmitting a L.A. Dodgers baseball game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball.  She is a hellion.  We need Seal Team Six to take her out.  Amanda's dad spoke out about her recent arrest and said this: "She was not drunk. I was told that she blew a zero on the Breathalyzer. She didn't have a single drink that night. My daughter doesn't drink. She was arrested because she was upset and very emotional.  She is a good girl. She just chooses not to work, and because of that, people go after her." So apparently she is just like Lindsay Lohan who also chooses not to work but get drunk and crash cars.  Has anyone hit a wall faster and harder than Amanda Bynes?

    I hope everyone has a good weekend.  I'm sorry for wasting your life.

  • Lukewarm Links 4/12

    Yep

    1.  I've really enjoyed finding Easter eggs in my DVDs especially all the Easter eggs in the Futurama DVDs.  I thought that was a relatively new practice but it's not.  And for those that aren't familiar with an Easter egg in this instance, it's a hidden item that you have to discover.  Here are seven Easter eggs hidden in works of art.

    2.  I was going to do a separate post on this topic but I decided against it so enjoy some creepy sex advice books.  There's probably two of those books I'd be interested in...at least one that I need and one that I'd like to read.

    3.  I was going to post this before but it got taken down during that whole SOPA protest thing.  Well it's back.  You can now play Gameboy online and here is the online Gameboy Color with many games to play.

    4.  I know I'm a little late for Easter but here's a collection of geeky Easter eggs.  My favorite is Shake.

    5.  Here's some more quirky Easter eggs.

    6.  You know it's getting time for summer and outdoor activities such as camping.  Whenever I go camping the one thing I always want is pizza but you can't cook a pizza over a campfire and sometimes grilling a pizza is out of the question because it can be a challenging thing.  Well the good people at Coleman have answered my dilemma with their portable oven and stove.  YES!  Pizza in the great outdoors!  My life is complete...except for the wife thing but I'm sure that I can lure someone to my campsite with the smell of freshly baked pizza and they'll think it's delivery when it's actually Digorno.

    7.  This is one of those bizarre Tumblr sites that I find funny because it makes little to no sense.  It's called One Tiny Hand and it's simply photographs of people with one of their hands digitally manipulated to be much smaller than the other.

    8.  I'm pretty sure I shared this Tumblr before but I know some of you like it.  It's called Bake it in a Cake.  It's simply a collection of cakes and cupcakes with things baked inside them.

    9.  I found this on Tumblr.  It's a list of 343 words blocked by the Chinese government on the internet.  The rest of the site talks about other sites and things blocked by the Chinese government.  Even though we think our government is bad about censorship, they are no where near as bad as that.

    10.  A couple of weeks ago, syrup company, Torani, introduced a new flavor of syrup.  It was Chicken n' Waffles flavored syrup.  Everyone thought it was real and there were mixed comments.  Some people thought it was a disgusting idea for a syrup and others thought it would be good.  I use Torani's hazelnut syrup for my coffee and the thought of Chicken n' Waffles made me wonder how it would taste.  Well I'll never know because it was an April Fools joke.

    11.  I sometimes go to OKCupid just to see who is out there and lonely like myself.  Well I found a girl.  Her screenname is goldblumlovr.  I think it's a joke but who knows.  She is a 58% match for me.  Sigh...I guess I'm not Jeff Goldblum enough for her.

    12.  This site made me drool.  It's called Beercandy.  It's beer flavored candy....oh my gosh...so hungry.


    Good things are happening for the family.  Things are looking up for that Jon Wurster!  Still can't believe he said that was the first time he watched the show.

    Well, atheists?

    I bet this guy gets all the ladies on OKCupid

    I have a new found respect for Justin Bieber.

    I wish I could be in SWAG

    100 years ago...although I don't think Lana Del Ray was dancing on the water trying to keep the dying calm with her unnatural dance moves.

    There is a new female Viagra out and the side-effects include dizziness, diarrhea, flushing, headache, heartburn, stuffy nose, and the desire to pull a train.

    Story of my life.

    Also story of my life

    That rotten egg tried to ruin the whole batch this Easter.

    Well, are they?

    I really do hope everyone had a great Easter even if I act like the asshole that I am.

    Well off to study for a job interview tomorrow.  I have no clue what is going on and it's way too late.
    Sorry about this post.

  • Tattoo Thursday 4/12

    I haven't done one of these in some time so I thought it is time to change that dry spell.  It's time for a change in my choice of tattoos as well.  This change is one we can all...well we can all see.  I'm going presidential.




















    While I do have admiration and respect for the president, there is no way in hell I could tattoo his image on my body. 

    While I do admire and respect President Lincoln, there's no way in hell that I could tattoo his angelic skeleton on my body.  I'll just let his image remain in my wallet and back pocket.



    While I admire and respect Sarah Palin, there is no way in hell I could tattoo her image on my body.  That first one is pretty good but no...no way.

    OK, here's a challenge.  Tell me what this tattoo is.  If you guess correctly I will profess my love for you.

    Hope you enjoyed.

  • Dark Side of the Rainbow

    Back in high school, a few of my friends and I would hang out in the public park drinking...pop? and smoking...candy?  Anyway, during those days we would talk music and movies and then one guy started talking about how his brother told him about Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side of the Moon" and how it was the perfect soundtrack for The Wizard of Oz.  We all started laughing at him thinking he was experiencing some sort of sugar high...yeah, that's the ticket.  He got so pissed off at us that he ended up taking us to his place to show us.  My god, he wasn't lying.  Maybe it was the pop and candy but I thought this was the best thing ever.  I then graduated and went to college and I was discussing with a friend how in order for me to get to sleep at night I had to put on Dark Side of the Moon on my cd player and sent me off to sleep.  He then brought up how he had heard about Dark Side and Wizard of Oz being a crazy match up.  I explained how it was.  We both had copies of DSOTM but neither of us had Wizard of Oz.  We searched high and low for that movie.  Finally I found it during a winter break and when we were snowed in that next weekend after classes resumed we watched this strange phenomena over and over again.
    It all started in 1994 when Pink Floyd fans were discussing this phenomenon on a Usenet message board.  In the same message board they were discussing the Publius Enigma posts but that is for another blog post.  There is no mention as to who suggested to match the two but it seemingly works.
    Then in 2000 my prayers were answered and Turner Classic Movies aired Wizard of Oz and then afterward they aired the movie matched with DSOTM.  It was incredible.  I recorded it but wouldn't you know, I have since lost the tape. 
    No matter how many times I sit down and try this strange black magic, it works and gives me this really creepy feeling.  The members of Pink Floyd deny that the album has anything to do with The Wizard of Oz however the album is dedicated to the man who died in the production of the film; the same man whose death is said to be captured in the film.  The first pressing of the LP featured artwork that had a feeling for the movie.

    The Dark Side of the Moon cover

    This is the artwork that most people see when they look at Dark Side of the Moon but that first pressing featured the white line hitting the spectrum, turning to the rainbow and then narrowing on the inside of the LP to a single white line.  It follows the color "scheme" of Wizard of Oz. The movie starts in black and white, switches to color, and then ends in black and white. 
    Another rumor about the synchronicity comes from the production of the album.  Pink Floyd supposedly recorded much of DSOTM while in a screening room and they were watching Wizard of Oz while working.  I don't know the truth to that but The Grateful Dead were notorious for that.  A lot of their songs came from watching movies and matching rhythms with motions on the screen.
    How do you do this?  Well get a copy of Dark Side of the Moon and a copy of Wizard of Oz.  Put the entire album on repeat or what I do is program the songs 1-9 and then again 1-9 and then again 1-9.  The strange thing about this is that there is synchronicity on the second time through as well as half of the third.  I usually mute the tv so I can focus on the music and the sounds on the album.  There is debate as to when to start the music.  I say pause the music and then unpause it right before the MGM lion makes his third roar.  Some will say after the third roar.  Either way it is a split second.  I would print it first and then try it out because it talks about the synch between lyrics and actions on the screen.  Here's a site that tells you how to sync it and some things to look for.

    I found the entire movie synched to the album so enjoy and watch for the guitar riff plays as the producer credit pops up on screen and how Dorothy balances on a fence rail while the words "Balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave" are sung. Dorothy falls as the words "early grave" are sung.  The ringing of the alarm bells coincides perfectly with the entrance of Elvira Gulch. The song during this video is called Time. Notice the fortune teller's sign, it reads Past, Present and Future.  During "Breathe (Reprise)" you hear "Home, home again" as Professor Marvel tells Dorothy that she should return to her home.   The Great Gig in the Sky; is that a reference to the tornado in the video?  The music slowly builds in time to the intensity of the actors' movements in the video. The intensity of Clare Torry's wailing matches perfectly with Dorothy's frantic mood. Her vocals then subside as Dorothy loses consciousness and drifts off to the Land of Oz. The movie now changes from black and white to color just as the song Money begins and Dorothy enters the land of Oz.  Okay, if you've been thinking this is far fetched you have to admit that this is an interesting transition. Also, watch as the Good Witch has her hands on the wand.  It sort of looks like she could be playing guitar chords.  Watch as the ballerinas enter on "us.....us....us...." then proceed to dance in time to the music...the munchkins as well.  Watch as the Wicked Witch enters on the word "black".  Listen as they sing "which is which" while imagining that the singer is really saying 'Witch is witch' as they transition from the wicked witch to the good witch.  Notice the words "out....out....out..." as the good witch fades from the scene.  Dorothy finds herself along the Yellow Brick Road and comes upon the Scarecrow. Not a lot here as far as coincidences are concerned. The name of the tune is Any Colour You Like and some people say that the title is a reference to the Technicolor used in the film which was state-of-the-art in 1939 when the film was made.  The song Brain Damage plays as Dorothy and the Scarecrow are on the yellow brick road. Listen for the line "Got to keep the loonies on the path".  Toward the end of the album and this final segment Dorothy and the Scarecrow come upon the Tinman. The lyrics "All that you taste/All that you hear/All that you feel" accompany Dorothy's efforts to revive the Tinman by oiling his joints.  The Tinman lacked a heart. Eclipse, the last song on the album, concludes with the sound of a heartbeat. You hear this sound as Dorothy puts her hand and ear to the Tinman's chest while listening for a heartbeat as the music fades out to the sound of a heartbeat.

    So there the first play through is for your enjoyment.  Yes, I now owe you 45+ minutes of your life.  Give me a call some time and I'll make it up to you in a good Christian manner.  Oh and if you are ever snowed in I have some other rumored Pink Floyd synchs:  There is a reggae album called Dubside of the Moon which is supposed to synch the same way, the third act in 2001: A Space Odyesy is supposed to synch with the Pink Floyd song "echoes" found on the album Meddle this is strange because Roger Waters was offered the chance to score that movie but turned down the offer, the Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here matches up with It's a Wonderful Life.

    I forgot to mention that a few years ago I was walking around in Boulder, CO just exploring on my own while I was out there for a wedding.  The wedding party decided to have their bachelor and bachelorette parties at a park in the mountains and I was suffering from altitude sickness so I said I was going to stay at the house.  Well I went out in search of a music store.  Something on a light pole grabbed my attention.  It was an ad for a local band that was going to be playing Dark Side of the Moon and they were going to play it live with Wizard of Oz.  I didn't get to go see it because that was the night of the wedding.  Then a little while after that I was in Madison and found a flyer for a band playing DSOTM along with Wizard of Oz.  Didn't make that one because I saw the flyer a day after the performance.

    Another thing that comes to mind is the 1995 release of a Pink Floyd concert.  The video was called Pulse.  In the artwork there were some strange images that people have said are a tie-in to the Wizard of Oz.  There is a girl that resembles Dorothy and is wearing red shoes, there is a bike which people claim is the bike that Ms Glutch is riding, and then there is an axe which supposedly represents the Tin Man.  David Gilmour of Pink Floyd explained that it was an homage to their early material.  The girl was the titular character of a song called "See Emily Play", the bike was for a song called "Bike" and the axe represented the song "Be Careful with that Axe Eugene".  Either way that is still some strange coincidences. 

    Within the past couple of years, The Flaming Lips have released a cover of the entire Dark Side of the Moon album and they have bragged that it has synched up.  I didn't buy the CD but I did download it and haven't put it on a CD yet.  One of these days I hope that I can get it synched up to see if they are correct.  It's quite different from the original so it might make watching Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon a whole new experience.

    You know if you read this entry while playing Pearl Jam's album Yield...it doesn't match up but it provides you with some great music.  Hope you enjoyed.

  • Motivation

    I have no clue what I’m saying 45% of the time so please tread lightly.

    A teacher walks into a bar and a guy asks, “Can I buy you a drink?”  The teacher answers, “I don’t know, can you?”

    A recent study revealed that everyone is a little bisexual but to different degrees and that I should find a better hobby than reading scientific studies.

    Boomerangs are Frisbees for people without friends.

    Nicki Minaj is a perfect example of what happens when multiple personality disorder is left untreated for too long.

    I was so disappointed for the first year of my life because I couldn’t walk.

    If you get seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror, I think you should get a lifetime of bad luck for breaking a condom.

    I’m like MacGyver when it comes to finding nifty ways to fuck up my life.

    We always think we’re so advanced.  I bet in 1000 years some flying car insurance company will portray us as cavemen in their smellovision commercials.

    Guys, you can create a black hole if you drink Dr. Pepper 10 and use Secret deodorant at the same time.

    They always say, “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat forever.”  I tried that and the guy said,“Hey, remember when you gave me that fish? It would be awesome if you gave me another.”

    Sex is like a drug for me in that I have to pay for it.

    Do Transformers get auto insurance or life insurance?

    They say you can’t force people to love you but you can if you have a voodoo doll without pants.

    I always thought I’d be a professional writer by now and I had given up on that thought until I went to Barnes & Noble and saw a book in the literature section titled “Girls From Da Hood”.  Now I have hope.

    McDonald’s hamburgers have pink slime in them?  Well I’m still going to eat them.  I would eat their burgers if they were made from roadkill.  Why?  Because I’m loving it.

    The last line of “To Kill a Mockingbird” (the film and the book) has played a huge part in the inspiration to be the best father I can possibly be.  I don’t think I could ever top Atticus Finch and I need to have kids but where was I going with this?  San Dimas High football rules!

    Fun facts about Wisconsin: Wisconsin is second for the state with the most UFO sightings.  Wisconsin is the number one state when it comes to the production of meth.  I don’t think this is a coincidence.

    Have you ever noticed how some historians speculate that certain historical figures were gay?  How and why would you study that?  Why would you speculate that the dead leader of the Nazis secretly craved penis?  Do they get paid for that?  If so I want money for these ideas: Catherine the Great had sex with horses, Julius Caesar was gay, and Genghis Khan was a sex addict.  PAY ME!

    Is it possible to sell your soul?  I might consider selling mine if it meant having a lifetime supply of barbecue ribs or being forever with certain people.

    Have you ever been talking to a girl and you let out that she looks like an actress you admire and then you realize you shouldn’t have said it because the actress is a porn actress?  This is what happens every time I talk to a girl.

    Even though I don’t have one, I fear for the future of my uterus.

    I went into a Barnes and Noble looking for a self-help book for men with small penises.  I asked the girl at the counter if they had the book despite not knowing the title.  She said, “I don’t think it’s in yet.”  I answered, “Yeah, that’s the one.”

    I accidentally used the word “then” instead of “than”.  I now know what it’s like to feel imperfect. 

    I have this disease where I want to marry every girl that is nice to me.

    No matter how much I begged and pleaded, I still didn’t get the two things I wanted most in life in my Easter basket: true happiness and a wife…you know to sort of balance out my happiness.

    I often get the dollar sign($) confused for the “no snakes allowed” sign($).

    When people offer me a penny for my thoughts, I counter-offer with $1million and then from there we negotiate.

    Money making scheme #873: Make random Xs on the ground and hope that a lazy pirate will bury his treasure under one of them.

    I have slapped the snooze button so many times on my alarm clock that it should probably get its own Lifetime movie.  I was thinking the alarm clock was on the fritz because the radio would start up at random times and the clock doesn’t even have a radio.  I thought this was a nuisance until the other day I was masturbating and it played a song that went,“Let’s hear it for the boy; let’s give the boy a hand.”  I will never threaten to throw that clock away ever.

    And your weekly dose of motivation:


















    I was trying to come up with the next joke and one of my cats jumped on the keyboard and it said “kiiiiiilllllllllllll”.  I will never sleep again.

    I quit my job at the bank because every time I counted money my fingers would smell like cocaine and strippers.

    They say you should never judge a person until you walk a mile in their shoes.  If you do that make sure you wear an extra pair of socks because athlete’s foot is nasty.

    I think I am the only guy not interested in a threesome.  I guess I don’t want to letdown two women at the same time.  Then,what do you do during a threesome?  I’d probably just stand there and do jazz hands.

    I asked the self-loathing windmill what he thought of windmills.  He said, “I’m not a big fan.”

    If there was an Eagle Scout badge for “talking to a girl outside of the internet and your World of Warcraft game” then there wouldn’t be any Eagle Scouts.

    Nobody means it when they tell me to have a good day and if they do they think that good is if I’d leave the planet for good.

    Now that Facebook bought Instagram, there will be less nudity and more photos of food.  I hear they bought it for $1billion worth of fake Farmville farm land.  Am I the only person that is concerned that a FUCKING WEBSITE is worth $1billion?

    My last girlfriend and I had a system.  If I was in the mood and was kissing on her,she would tug my penis once to mean she wanted to have sex.  If she didn’t want to have sex I’d have her tug my penis 50 times.  And when I was dating her I ate an apple a day because she was a doctor.

    I got a Ouija board to find out if I’d ever find truelove.  It replied “H A H A H A H A H A HA.”  Obviously, it’s broken.  Oh well, at least when I’m alone, I’m only with one person who doesn’t like me.

    Whenever I’m depressed and someone comes up to me and starts saying, “You know it takes 37 muscles to frown…” I yell before they can finish,“Yeah and it takes 72 muscles to say ‘Go fuck yourself!’ Well worth the extra effort.”

    I’m not very athletic but I am graceful like a gazelle when it comes to running away from my problems.

    On Xanga, people respect you when you share your deepest,darkest flaws.  Unless those flaws are filled with typos; then you must burn in hell.

    New Xanga motto: Xanga, a place where you come to escape the assholes in your life only to be harassed by assholes you don’t know.

    Whenever I post on Xanga, I imagine Slim Pickens riding it through the internet, waving his cowboy hat around, and yelling until it hits your inbox. 

    With all the fat hate on Xanga, I get the feeling that if Marilyn Monroe had an account here everyone would make fun of her for being fat and unattractive.

    If you really love someone, never introduce them to Xanga.  If you do, they will always give you the“What the fuck is wrong with you”-look every time you see them.

    I think on Xanga, I’m the little annoying kid who thinks they’re friends with all the popular people but they don’t actually notice me.

    Have you ever wondered how fucked up you were in a past life that you must endure all this Xanga drama?

    Xanga is sort of like Las Vegas.  You can be whoever you want to be and people will think they are more important than they actually are.

    Whenever I log in to Xanga I feel like there’s drama waiting to happen.  Maybe it’s me.  Maybe I should leave this place and then Xanga would be drama free.  I think the reason there is so much drama is that we can’t sit on each other’s faces.

    I sometimes feel that Xanga is a clique and I’m that weird kid who is not in any clique and thinks that I’m friends with all the cliques but they take pity on me because I’m nice but really strange to be around.  I do like to think I’m on good terms with most of you here.  Why am I getting all gushy like this?  I love you people.  You actually have done a lot more for me than you’ll ever realize.  OK enough of that mushy stuff…boobs.  Yeah, same old godfatherofgreenbay.

  • Homework Assignment 4/2

    Class, I really enjoyed your last assignment. I think I'm falling into that Hunger Games bandwagon.  It's a nice story and from what I've seen on the Tumblr it looks like a swell movie.  I really appreciate your participation in these posts.  You get an A.  There's always room for improvement and no one expressed interesting an an autographed photo.

    Now here's your next assignment.  It's going to be a little lengthy.  You're going to create a video game story.  You just drag the photo on the left to the blue area and write down what it says and that will be your story.

    A. 
     


    B.  
      

    Answer whichever question you want.  You can answer both for extra credit. 

    Now get to work.

    A.  My weapon: Assault rifle  My partner: Link  The Conflict: Saving the princess  My line when my partner dies: KYRIEEEE! 

    B.  I couldn't really remember a worst injury so I thought I'd share a few.  When I was 3, I thought I'd be like my dad so I took a lit cigarette and tried to smoke it but I put the wrong end in my mouth and burned my lip and I still have that scar.  When I was 4 or 5, I drove my Big Wheel down 3 or 4 flights of stairs and had a nasty concussion.  When I was 5 or 6, I drove a trike down some stairs.  When I was 7, I slipped on a Slip and Slide and severely bruised my coccyx.  When I was 8, I had a heat stroke and my kidneys shut down and I had a bladder and kidney infection and was unconscious for a few days.  When I was 10 I wanted to ride my bike...during Christmas break...and I hit an ice patch and got road rash all over my face.  When I was 14 I broke multiple bones in my hand after being hit by a pitch during baseball.  When I was 18, I tore all the ligaments in my knee during the state championship football game.  When I was 18, almost had a finger torn off by a dog that had the canine equivalent of Alzheimer's.  When I was 18, I busted a few ribs in a car accident when I hit a deer.  When I was 21, I rolled my car off a cliff and suffered really bad cuts and a bad concussion.  When I was 25, I was trying to multitask by washing dishes and watching the Packers on Monday night football.  One of my glasses shattered in my hand and I had to get stitches.  My pinky finger on my right hand is no longer rounded but has an angle to it because of the scar.  I had to drive myself to the emergency room that night and to keep my hand from bleeding I held it out my moon roof during the 25 minute drive.

  • You Know What's Great about Cottage Cheese?

    Everything...and now it's #caturday



    For a certain someone...it pretty much sums up the internet.

    Jennifer Lawrence








    Russian gravity testing












    Have a great Easter.

  • Celebrity Round Up 4/6/12

    Back for another week of celebrity foibles.  I really don't have much to say here.  What do you want me to say?  If you have questions for me I'll answer them via a vlog sometime.  It'll be boring.  On to the round up...

    NSFW and NSFL


    Good news, everybody, the Situation is out of rehab and was spotted at an airport in Newark, New Jersey.  The guy on the left spotted The Situation, took a photo, and promptly posted it on Twitter.  You know, this may be the first time that any member of the Jersey Shore has been on camera with a black person.  It's surprising but I bet they're all racist.  Oh and in related news, the rehab facility where he was receiving treatment has closed for two weeks for fumigation.

    Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were spotted in some park this week.  This is totally not staged.  I bet somewhere else in that park a mountain lion attacked some mice.  Where are the priorities of the mountain lions?  They have free food right there.

    Researchers are trying to figure out how a marriage between a devout Christian and a devout sex addict didn't work and while they are conducting their research, Russell Brand is making men everywhere look bad.  Earlier I talked about how he didn't want any of the $20million from their divorce.  Now, he's surrendering his stake of the $7million house he and Katy Perry bought.  Wow, this is sort of weird.  It's like Katy was the man and Russell the woman because usually the women get the money.  Maybe by turning down this money, Russell is regaining his manhood because we all know women are motivated by money and everything to do with money.  Just watch Beauty and the Beast.  A woman will be cool with Stockholm Syndrome and bestiality as long as the dude owns a castle.

    Speaking of being motivated by money, Paris Hilton is very sensitive and her sensitivity got a news crew banned from a red carpet nightclub opening in Australia this week.  Paris was in Australia for some club opening and was on a morning show and the newsreader asked Paris, “What about when you’re not famous anymore, what are you going to do?”  Paris spouted something about raising a family and being a mother and wife but in her fashion she told the TV station that she was upset and livid through her publicist.  She said that if they ran the interview they would not be allowed to the red carpet opening.  Well the network doesn't negotiate with biological terrorists and they ran it anyway.  Paris, what's the best way to get the media to not give a damn about you?  Prevent them from doing their job.  Paris doesn't get it.  She's already lost that fame.  I only write about her because I refuse to write about "she with the big ass who must not be named".  Paris is seemingly only relevant because of her boyfriend Afrojack and that was the only reason she was involved with this nightclub.  She is the Robin to his Batman and just like Robin, she has to have sex just to ride in the Batmobile.  Good luck, Paris.

    Octomom is on welfare and just like that photo she feels shame about it.  On the Today show she said that she did feel shame but she said who cares how she feels.  Since she makes less than $119,000 a year and has 15 mouths to feed, she qualifies for $2000 a month in foodstamps.  She's also starting to look for ways to save money and one of those is pulling all but one of her children out of private school.  Just wait, pretty soon we'll see a book called "How to Save Money when You Have Fourteen Children".  A person can say she did this to herself but you can't blame the children.  They didn't agree to being injected into her eggs.  I don't know what type of food will feed a family of 15 on $2000 a month.  They might have to develop a college diet consisting of Top Ramen, popcorn, and Boone's Farm.  She should also learn from the good people of the TV show Extreme Couponers.  Those people can buy $1000 of groceries for 6 cents.  It's either that or she starts doing more porn.

    OMG Miley Cyrus is going to quit acting in big time Hollywood movies and plans on moving back to Nashville.  Billy Ray heard the news and is quoted as saying, "YEEHAW!  Ma, put more grits on the stove, baby Smiley's comin' home."  Why is it that whenever I picture Billy Ray, I think of Cletus Spuckler.  Miley went on Twitter and wrote this: "Highly considering moving back to Nashville. I can’t stand these D Bag paparazzi anymore. Couldn’t even take my dog on a walk today"  I can hear you screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" right now.  I think it also has something to do with her alleged feud with Jennifer Lawrence.  Apparently Miley felt that the star of The Hunger Games needed some advice on how to handle fame.  Miley didn't know that Jennifer has been working in movies since she was 15 and has already been nominated for an Oscar.  Jennifer told Miley to mind her own business and whenever her boyfriend Liam mentions his work on the Hunger Games, Miley goes mental.  I think we need to start a petition to keep Miley in Hollywood and out of Nashville.  Email me at MileypleasedontgotoNashvilleyoureneededinHollywoodbecauseweloveyou@gmail.com

    If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times especially in these posts.  Madonna is a shady woman and if you don't think so, well I hate to break it to you but you're dumb.  Madonna's new album, MDNA, is supposed to be the #1 album in the country this week, however it should be Lionel Richie's album "Tuskegee" which sold 200,000 copies making it his highest album debut in 20 years.  It turns out the majority of Madonna's albums weren't sold in the normal way.  Her record label, Interscope, owns Ticketmaster and bundled her album with all ticket sales to her concerts.  For every ticket sold online to one of her upcoming concerts people either received a link to get a free copy on iTunes or if they wanted they a physical copy they would be mailed one.  It didn't matter how much the ticket cost, $50 to $350, everyone got an album.  That's sort of a smart move on the record company's part but it unnaturally inflates sales and makes CDs into nothing more than a souvenir.  Old lady Madonna is fudging numbers.  As a good Christian soldier I can't tell because I think that's the kabballah voodoo math the kids are doing nowadays. 

    This is Lisa Robin Kelly.  She is probably best known for being Laurie on That 70s Show.  Well she's best known as being Laurie #1 on that show.  She sure has changed since her days on that show.  She was arrested this week for spousal abuse and held on $50,000 bail.  Red Foreman wasn't around to pay her bail so she had to sit in jail.  When her mugshot was released everyone on the internet said, "Holy shit!"  A lot of people felt bad for seeing her fall but drug dealers all over California were happy to see her because they realized that they were once blown for meth by a former actress on That 70s Show.  Lisa told TMZ that she was framed because she never beat the guy and that he isn't her husband or boyfriend but just a roommate.  She also claimed that this guy beat her because she tried to move out.   She called the police because he was beating her but he fled.  When the police arrived at the house she didn't want to press charges however he went to the police station with cuts all over his face.  She says she couldn't have hit him because she wants to work again.  I don't know who or what to believe but I'm just waiting for Lindsay Lohan to sue Lisa for identity theft.

    It looks like Saturday Night Live is going to go back to sucking because Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudekis, and Andy Samberg are done once this season ends.  Kristen basically saves every skit.  Andy has those funny video shorts and Jason Dudekis...Well representatives from Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg said the report on UsWeekly is false and they they are dedicated to Saturday Night Live.  I don't know.  I'm sure Kristen will be busy writing a remake of Bridesmaids because that is how Hollywood works these days and Jason Sudekis is involved with January Jones and I would give up everything to be involved with her and Andy Samberg will probably plan his wedding ceremony with Justin Timberlake one of these days.  If they quit, I have nothing going on, Lorne Michaels.

    Because Leonard DiCaprio is busy trolling Victoria's Secret catalogs for his next girlfriend, Kate Winslet has had to do all the promos for Titanic 3D.  Spoiler alert: Titanic 3D ends the same was as Titanic 2D.  I just saved you a lot of money.  Lavish me with hugs and kisses...NOW!  Kate was interviewed and she came off as that one type of girl at your high school reunion who is always drunk and talks about how much she hated the class song and how everyone looks much different.  Here's what she said: "We do look very different, we’re older. Leo’s 37, I’m 36 – we were 21 and 22 when we made that film. You know, he’s fatter now – I’m thinner. It’s true though!"  You know in 1997, Leo sort of looked like Hillary Swank's twin and in 2012 it looks like his face grew and his eyes shrunk.  Personally I think she looked better in 1997 but that's me.  AS for the class song, here's what Kate had to say about "My Heart Will Go On": "I wish I could say, 'Oh listen, everybody! It's the Celine Dion song!' But I don't, I just have to sit there, you know, kind of straight-faced with a massive internal eye roll. [It makes me] feel like throwing up. It's thrilling for people to surprise me with the Celine Dion song."  To that, I direct her to this.

    This is Jeannette McCurdy.  She's some sort of country singer but she's best known for her work on iCarly.  I think that's more like iWow.  She's much older in real life than her character on that show so don't think I went all Roman Polanski over here.

    Last week I wrote about Jaleel White being accused of being abusive.  Well this week a story surfaced that may shed truth on those rumors.  Apparently if you screw up his timing on the samba or Viennese waltz, Urkel is going to go ballistic.  While rehearsing with his dancing partner, Kym Johnson, he flipped out at her and had a confrontation with another pro dancer, Mark Ballas, and producers of Dancing with the Stars.  It all stemmed from Kym saying "ouch" after he accidentally stepped on her foot while practicing a dance.  He stopped dancing, got in her face, and started yelling at her to quit acting like a baby.  Then he started calling her an idiot.  That shit would've never happened if Carl Winslow was around.  Mark Ballas didn't like how Urkel was treating Kym and producers stepped in to prevent the confrontation from getting physical.  I'd be a bigger fan of ballroom dancing if it wasn't so violent.  Producers banned him from returning to the practice facility for the rest of the day but Urkel is refusing to go back period and wants to practice at his own studio.  I really am beginning to think those rumors of him beating his ex-girlfriend are true after reading those reports.  The world now knows how much he sucks and how he sucks down every drop.  We live in a day and age when anyone can become rich and famous i.e. Jersey Shore but Jaleel White is neither.  He's a contestant on a dancing show and a gameshow host on SyFy network.  I think porn would be a step up for him.  I mean, one of his co-stars on Family Matters became famous for her work in porn.  Just think of how he could be famous once again for the phrase, "Did I do that?"  Wait, I think the person he performs with would say that while pointing at him.

    This is Indiana Evans.  This is a photo from the set of the remake of Blue Lagoon for the Lifetime Network.  I wonder if they are changing the story anymore.  I'll just assume Blue Lagoon is once again a story of two cousins who get shipwrecked, kiss and hump on each other, and have an inbred baby.  That's called a "romantic adventure" movie.

    Instead of squeezing every last nickel out of a magazine for exclusive photos of her son, Hillary Duff posted this photo of her son Luca Cruz on Twitter.  Weird, I thought celebrities treated their children as uncashed lottery tickets.  Just wait for the hoopla surrounding Jessica Simpson's baby.  I have a feeling she'll auction off vials of her amniotic fluid and her placenta on eBay.  I have to say, Luca Cruz is a cute kid but then they are all cute and then they grow up to be a jaded Xangan.

    Oh, Coco...I like a nice booty as much as the next guy but this isn't doing anything for me.  I'm expecting that dress to burst at any moment because the fabric can't handle her breathing.  Oh and never wear horizontal stripes.

    Christopher Walken turned 69 this week.  He is a fine actor and a wonderful dancer.  I guess my Christopher Walken impersonation is best typed out.  He was also spotted by TMZ buying lottery tickets last weekend.  When they caught up with him they asked what he'd do with half a billion dollars.  Walken said he'd buy a yacht.  You know, he's only worth $30million so he needs the lottery winnings to help buy a yacht.  #GetChristopherWalkenayacht

    Christie Brinkley was photographed this week.  She's 58.  Just saying.  fap fap fap fap

    Chris Brown was out shopping for a new car this week.  He settled on a new Range Rover.  He said he bought it because of the combination of sportiness, versatility, and roomy interior which provides full range of motion when punching the woman in the passenger seat.  No more weak Lamborghini jabs.  We're talking Range Rover haymakers, people!

    I heard a voicemail this week on Sunday that featured Chevy Chase cussing at the creator and producer of Community, Dan Harmon.  Apparently it wasn't a joke because Chevy and Dan Harmon have had problems since shooting wrapped up for the season on Community.  Chevy had a meltdown and stormed off the set.  Chevy showed up with his wife and daughter at the wrap party and Dan lead the cast and crew in a chant that was simply, "Fuck you, Chevy."  Chevy left and then he left the voicemail.  Chevy is a notorious asshole but chanting that in front of his family is another thing.  Well Dan Harmon took to Tumblr to write an apology.  Read it here and remember he writes for a living so he comes off as sincere, calls himself an asshole, admits to alcoholism, and assures us that Community is not in jeopardy.  Read it here.  I bet Pierce will be killed off.

    Bruce Willis' girlfriend Emma Hemming gave birth to a baby girl this week.  The baby weighed 9lbs and was named Mabel Ray.  Wow, 9lbs, I wonder how much of that is chin weight, the chin being the prominent feature of all of Bruce's children.  I once knew a Mabel Ray.  She was a bar owner and bartender.  She then worked at a chocolate factory and as a cashier at a liquor store and as my babysitter.
     
    Ashton Kutcher has been signed to play Steve Jobs in a movie titled Jobs.  Why do we need another movie about Steve Jobs?  I thought the one with Noah Wylie was enough.  I wonder if this movie will go straight to Flash.  Why did they get Ashton Kutcher?  Now like Macs, everyone's eyes will be infected by his taint.  Oh and just think of all the fun that people will have with the movie posters that will feature Ashton's face and the word "Jobs".

    Amanda Bynes turned 26 this week and she celebrated it in memorable fashion.  Since Lindsay Lohan pressed pause on her felony foolishness, another former child star has to fill the void.  Enter Amanda.  The reports are that Amanda tried passing a police car at 3AM on Friday morning and she ended up sideswiping the police car.  The cops pulled her over and deemed her unfit to be driving.  She was hauled in and held on $5000 bail.  Earlier this month, Amanda was pulled over by police for talking on her cellphone and actually drove off before the police officer finished writing her ticket.  She resolved that by signing the ticket at the police station.  I think Agent Cody Banks needs to come and rescue this mess.  Hitting a cop car when you're drunk is pretty low but she has to look on the bright side, she didn't sideswipe KITT from Knight Rider or Christine, a '58 Plymouth Fury from Stephen King's novel.  And because she just sideswiped a police car, she's still alive to receive her title as the new Lindsay Lohan.  Congratulations, Amanda!  I bet all the ladies in D-block were happy to see you and loved your new hair.

    Alec Baldwin turned 54 this week and his celebration was more subdued than Amanda Bynes'.  Alec got engaged to his 28 year old yoga trainer Hilaria Thomas.  Hilaria?  Is that the plural form of "hilarious"?  Well if it is, then Alec has found the perfect woman because it seems like all his relationships end in hilarious fashion.

    This is Wilmer Valderama and he officially doesn't give a shit about anything anymore because he's wearing a mesh shirt in public.  He's grown cocky after nailing so many Hollywood starlets, Minka Kelly being the latest.  Wearing mesh in public?  If you make fun of him, he'll nail your mom and sister and then won't call them back.  He's that cocky.

    Tim Tebow was photographed getting a manicure and pedicure this week in preparation for giving a sermon at a megachurch for a Good Friday service.  I was in the ministry and I never thought that having sparkly fingernails and toenails made me speak any better.  Maybe the mani-pedi will help him throw a football better.

    Tara Reid has been promoting the new American Pie movie and she was asked about all the plastic surgery she has had and she got pretty upset.  She said that most everyone has had plastic surgery.  I know I haven't had plastic surgery.  Have you?  Maybe Tara will have to go consult with Dr. McGillicuddy and his partners Drs. Jack, Jim, and Jose.

    OK, I want to apologize.  I guess I've been posting a lot of half naked females in some of my posts and I've been neglecting my female readers.  I guess my loneliness has been breaking through in my posts.  Anyway, I offer these gifts.  I would've posted half-naked photos of myself but I don't think any of you want to see that.  I'd probably lose half my followers if I did that.  This is Michael Fassbender.  He turned 35 this week.  He has complained about one of his recent movies taking out a scene featuring his penis.  Yeah so I imagine all of you will be running out to see that movie.

    Marky Mark Wahlberg, hamburger entrepreneur, actor, musician, and terrorist killing machine, is busy filming a Michael Bay movie in Florida.  I bet hurricanes and police officers feel pretty foolish since Marky Mark's in town.  Police officers can go back to eating donuts and hurricanes can back to the Caribbean because nothing goes down on Marky Mark's watch.  He's a 5'5" superhero who cleaned the streets of Boston by hurling rocks and racial insults at a bus of African American children on a field trip and beating Vietnamese men with a stick until they are permanently blinded.  To be honest, I'm actually frightened by this guy.  Since, at my tallest, I was nearly a foot taller than this douche, he'd probably want to beat me up because I'm bigger than him.  Just stay in your houses if Marky Mark is on the loose.

    Robert Downey Jr. turned 47 this week.  He's enjoying a resurgence in popularity.  He went through that long spell where he wasn't in anything and some people thought he was dead and then he was everywhere.  I think Zodiac was the movie that brought him back to prominence.  Either that or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or Good Night, and Good Luck.  Anyway, this is for the ladies.

    Ryan Gosling is such a better man than I.  He makes millions for acting and can stop fights and now he's a real life hero.  A British journalist, Laurie Penny(I wonder if she's a James Bond character), walked off the curb and a speeding taxi was heading her way while she was looking the other way.  Ryan pulled her out of the way and the whole time he was wearing a Canadian tuxedo.  Laurie went to Twitter with it, of course: "I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. Literally. That actually just happened.  I was crossing 6th avenue in a new pink wig. Not looking the right way because I am from London. Ryan Gosling grabbed me away from a taxi.  He did not say 'hey, girl.' He said 'hey, watch out!'  Identity of no-idea-if-actually-a-manarchist-but-definitely-a-decent-sort Ryan Gosling confirmed by girl near me, who said 'you lucky bitch'  Confession: I did a double-double-take because, initially, I thought it was @jedweightman. Then realised Jed would not wear double denim."  I sort of want to know how she paid him for saving her life.  I bet he made her his slave like and The Brady Bunch.  That whole incident was almost a real-life remake of Closer.  I bet Hollywood is salivating over the movie rights to this story but hopefully without all the denim but then since he's a better guy than myself all the denim must be cool.

    I couldn't resist.  Courtney Stodden and I wish you all a happy Easter.  Have a great weekend and a blessed Easter.

  • Lukewarm Links 4/5

    Hey, I haven't done one of these for a couple of weeks.  I hope you didn't miss them too much.

    1.  I'm not a fan of hiphop music and here's 5 reasons why.  Sorry, Coco, but that really sucks.

    2.  I love Cracked and I could spend hours over on that site.  I found this one the other day while looking for the wingdings font trick for 9/11.  Here's some absurd and mind-blowing conspiracy theories in pop culture.  #2 still blows my mind.  Hey @peridot21 remember when I posted about that?  I may have to post about it again.

    3.  And because in my last post, I talked about grunge music, here's some grunge trivia.

    4.  Hey, did you know that April is National Grilled Cheese Month?  Well April is National Grilled Cheese Month and you can celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month by visiting the Grilled Cheese Academy.  Just make sure your volume is turned off because that site's voice scared me something fierce tonight because the first time I viewed it I had my speakers turned off.

    5.  Remember when Officer John Pike was the most hated man in America?  Remember that whole Occupy Wall Street thing?  Well reminisce with some Pepper Spraying Cop meme photos.

    6.  Anyone want to buy some land in Austria?

    7.  A former Xangan sent me an email this week, or maybe it was that because I've been bad with emails I just opened it this week.  Inside there was a like to The Tutu Project.  A guy photographs himself in random spots while wearing a pink tutu.  I find that funny because just when I thought I'd seen it all...

    8.  This week marked the beginning of the baseball season.  Blah blah blah...right?  Well if you don't like baseball but love attractive women, here's a collection of some of the hottest significant others of major league baseball players.  Larisa Fraser was once asked if Ryan Braun was the Hebrew Hammer in the bedroom because of the positive banned substance test.  Supposedly steroids diminish your manhood.  And while I'm talking about the Milwaukee Brewers, you get a twofer, check out Brewers fan Front Row Amy.

    9.  Here's a fun game on the Coca-Cola website.  It's called Sticky Hands Toy.  OK so it's not a game but lets you relive those days of your youth when you had a sticky hand toy.

    10.  I probably shouldn't share Tumblr sites here because it is competition for Xanga however Xangans need to see these so they can think of something creative for this site.  The first Tumblr this week is called Texts from Hillary.  It involves a photo of Hillary Clinton texting on her phone.  I guess you just have to see it to get it.

    11.  This week's celebrity Tumblr belongs to Bill Corbett.  He's one of the minds and voices behind Mystery Science Theater 3000.  I used to wake up early on Saturday mornings in high school and college to watch that show.  I think it may have been one of the funniest shows on TV. 

    12.  And because I'm an asshole, here's one of my favorite Tumblr sites called Shit My Students Write.


    I'm a little late but we really have to stop killing animals based on the color of their fur.  It's a real thing.  I lost a Rottweiler because an ethnic group didn't like the color of her fur.

    And I wonder how many guys are off to get some baked beans to experiment.

    Yeah, 14 more years of rebuilding, they could be a playoff contender.

    Oh, Albert...POO HOLES!  I wonder if anyone over at ESPN realized they wrote that.

    I wish hot dogs were that big.

    You think he's evil now, just wait to you see the concentrated evil he left for you in his diaper.

    YOLO!  SWAG!  Do kids even speak English anymore?

    Jesus is such a bro.  I was sitting in church this evening and there was this banner above the altar that said, "Crown of Thorns" and I had to do a double take because the first time I thought it said, "Game of Thrones".

    I think a lot of people think Jesus actually said that. 

    Beaker was shocked to see his likeness was stolen.

    Corn Dog

    No wonder he hates Mondays.  He's always out getting shitfaced on Sundays.

    Finally all my sixth grade art projects depicting the pope wearing a sombrero are coming true.  Holy shit!  I'm a psychoic.

    Yes, they do.

    I really am.  I do care what you think.  I hope you have a great time period after you read this post until my next post where I will wish you another good time period.

  • 18 Years Ago

    I was sitting at home alone for most of the day.  I can't remember why I was home.  I think I was on spring break but then we didn't have spring break when I was in 8th grade.  I'm thinking it was Easter break but then I could have been skipping school but then I probably didn't skip because part of the day was spent with my girlfriend at the time.  Lets go with Easter break.  Oh I should have done more research because I just looked it up, it would have been Easter break.  Whew...crisis averted.

    My parents were at work and I was home alone watching TV, playing video games, listening to CDs, making out with the girlfriend on April 8th.  So maybe I wasn't home alone but I was free from parental supervision.  We were really into that grunge sound and spent the day blasting the Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole and Nirvana. 

    At that time I had gotten my hands on everything Nirvana had recorded including numerous bootlegs.  I connected with Kurt Cobain.  I was supposed to be this happy ray of sunshine in a dark world but I felt miserable.  I maybe dwelt too long on the lyrics from "All Apologies" when Kurt opined "Everyone is gay".  You know it's sort of true.  When straight guys and girls masturbate they are touching the genitals of their sex.  I know, I know, it's different but as I argued, "Why would someone who is straight want to touch a dick?"  I also think Kurt was the brains behind Courtney Love's band Hole because some of those lyrics had to come out of his lyric book.  I sort of lost my connection with Kurt once I heard the song "I Hate Myself and Want to Die".  I know there was supposed to be some irony in the title but something about it made me feel uneasy. 

    Well it wasn't much longer that Kurt overdosed on tour after he was taken to Rome for medical treatment for bronchitis.  His overdose was amusing to some at the time because it was on champagne and roofies.  Courtney Love stated later on that Kurt tried to kill himself.  Kurt returned home and a few days later Seattle police were called to his house by Courtney because she thought Kurt was going to kill himself.  Kurt told the police he locked himself in a room with his guns to hide from Courtney.  At the end of the day Kurt went into a detox program in Los Angeles but it didn't last.  He escaped and boarded a flight to Seattle.  Courtney Love hired a private investigator to search for Kurt on April 3rd.  On April 7th the band decided not to play the Lolapalooza Tour and this fueled rumors that Nirvana had split.  Kurt's body was found on the 8th.  Coroners estimated that he died on the 5th and said his body was filled with heroin and valium.  A light was extinguished and the 27 Forever Club gained a new member.

    It was weird sitting at home on the 8th after they announced Kurt had died.  Did I cry?  I don't think so.  Was I sad?  Yes but more disappointed but as I've aged I've figured that maybe Kurt saw his future and didn't like where it was headed.  Maybe he feared a lounge act in Las Vegas.  Maybe he wanted an out but the demand for his work was too high.  We'll never really know.  There have been so many conspiracy theories surrounding his death.  I can remember the first being that the "kit" used for heroin use didn't belong to Kurt and if he was so high on heroin how could he lift a shotgun.  There have been documentaries about the subject so I'll let you watch them to form your own opinion.

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    The last thing Kurt ever wrote.  Those last lines make me tear up.
    http://www.celebritysmackblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/kurt5.jpg
    So young and full of life.
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    I should really post these on Caturday.
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    Kurt with Courtney and their daughter Frances Bean, who turned into quite a knock-out.
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    Kurt...I wonder if he's playing "Rape Me" for the angels these days.  I also play some guitar lefthanded in his honor. 
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    My favorite Nirvana photo

    I know these are just mash-ups but I'm pretty sure that Kurt would have loved them.

    I always think about what Nirvana could have become.  Nirvana is getting some heavy play on my jukebox these days.  Be it "Bleach", "Nevermind", "In Utero", "Incesticide", "Unplugged", and "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah".  And not to forget all the compilation albums I own featuring songs by Nirvana.  I fixed that video.  I forgot to check it and I took it for granted that it'd still be up.  Stupid copyright laws.

    It's hard to believe it's been that long since he left us but because of his music Kurt Cobain will live forever.

    Jared Leto posted this video on his website in honor of Kurt.

    He looks and sounds so similar...wow.