Saturday, October 31, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN





These are some cool pumpkins!

For those with little ones, be careful and enjoy! And for you adults out there partying on a Saturday night, be careful and enjoy!



Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Barry White On Ally McBeal, Um, Like Fourth Time Around LOL

I will try to go back over past posts and insert this new YouTube Ally McBeal video. Right now, I just want to put it up, in whatever language it is (shit, I've uploaded it in French and English already) before the YouTube police pull it.


Arnie's Fuck You To California Legislature!


Screen capture by SnapIt.

Seems Arnie had a bit of fun with his latest bill veto! On purpose or just a coincidence?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Stripping For Appreciation

I love this song and video. Back when it wasn't as acceptable, the only dancing gigs I could get was as a stripper ... and that was well before poles were a permanent fixture.
Have to say stuff like this video from Ann Margret and others influenced my dancing style, made for some great stripping, and truth be told, I can still do most of those moves, even though I am 57 and not exactly dancer weight!!!!
Bonus track .... Elvis performing with Ann in "Viva, Las Vegas."
Remember, I was born in Vegas (lady luck, please let the dice stay hot).

Definitely Bummed Didn't Have Video Camera Today

The winds were really out there today. This, I swear, happened.

Across the street, interspersed between the palm trees, are quite a few maple trees, with that traditional Canadian emblem, the maple leaf.

So, as I was leaving for work today, standing on the corner of La Brea and 6th St., heading south, the winds suddenly picked up dramatically, and like thousands of maple leaves were blown off the trees. They made a little crackling sound as they all hit the street, and they looked like large bugs hopping as they were blown east down 6th St. But, here is where things got weird, and again, I swear it happened.

At La Brea, the leaves all turned south! Yes, nothing went east, the leaves, hundreds upon hundreds of them, turned the fuck south and went down La Brea. I was like "what movie am I watching, and where is my damn video camera?"

First cold night of the year. Not cold enough to turn on heat, just cold enough to not have the air conditioner on, and a few windows open.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Demoral for a root canal?

I am watching some stupid reality show about 20 somethings that sell high end real estate in Los Angeles. As they say, "uber" people.

One of the agents goes for a "quickie" root canal, and the dentist gives him demoral, intravenously. Shit, all I ever got for my five different root canals was a local, damn it! I could have asked for demoral? OMG!

Who Reads Your Blog?

Screen capture via SnapIt.
It gets downright eerie sometimes when I see who actually views my blog. The Pentagon?

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Lights Out For Angels, Oh, Hell, Yeah!!!

And the curse lives on! Angels are out (until they repeal that Los Angeles moniker they have placed on their team), and the World Series teams will be the Yanks and Phils (last year's champs).

Go Phillies!!!!

It's Fourth And Ten, And Obama Is Bringing Out The Punting Squad

Obama was handed the football at the Democrats one yard line. The team outlined eight plays it needed to get a touchdown. Close Gitmo, repeal DADT, repeal DOMA, run a transparent government with no secret meetings, reform health care, bring our troops home from Iraq, and provide a stimulus to energize the economy and create much needed jobs.

The home team fans are in shock that we're not even close to a goal, and it's fourth and ten at the fifty yard line! This administration is preparing to punt as there is absolutely no possibility they will pull out a fourth and ten with their playbook.

Recapping the game, with the ball on the one yard line, the administration threw for a few yards gain on the closing of Gitmo. But Obama was sacked for a loss and back at the one yard line, as the opposition lined up with a "not in my country you don't" mantra that held the offensive line. However, Obama was able to complete a pass, giving the administration a first and ten at their own fifteen by managing to release a few prisioners from Gitmo -- although not "in this country," as the defense still held the backs from running anywhere.

First and ten at their own fifteen, Obama threw two incomplete passes with his failed DOMA Department of Justice brief filings. The opposition had the receivers covered. On third and ten at their own fifteen, Obama was able to get a first down, on their own twenty-five, with a hard run through the opposition on the DADT, only to be sacked for a loss on his first and ten attempt to pass which failed to repeal DADT. Instead he was almost intercepted with his backpedalling on his second and fifteen. The administration completed a long pass at third and fifteen, and got the ball out to the forty yard line with a completed pass and short run when he brought home some of the troops from Iraq.

Still in the first quarter, and no score, Obama completed a wobbly pass with the stimulus package. It was a bad pass, but was clearly caught at the fifty yard line, and there was five minutes left to go in the first quarter. It was looking good, so Obama threw an incomplete pass, was sacked for a loss on his decision to not release the names of people who visited the White House, another promise broken. However, he did regain the advantage with a long pass caught at the fifty yard by a reversal, along with an agreement to go public with White House visitors.

That brings Obama, unfortunately, to where he is now. He's blown three downs on his health plan, by not handing off to his backs, who had a clear line and yardage with the public option. Instead, Obama thought he could throw completed passes over the heads of the defense, who had all the top line receivers covered. Now, it's fourth and ten, on the fifty yard line, and despite his favorable numbers when the game started, it's clear he's not going to get the first down before the first quarter ends, based on the fact that he has brought in the punting squad on the health care reform play.

It's sad for those of us that put money on this game, and felt Obama was the best quarterback this country had for taking back our rights and leading us forward in popularity in the eyes of the world. Instead, he has failed to follow the calls made from the sideline, lost yardage and was sacked when he made audibles, and now is forced to punt because the team is not sure they can complete a fourth and ten on the fifty yard line with their true health care reform play.

And all of this against a team whose record is worse than that of the Detroit Lions.

Americans want health care reform. Americans want a public option. The Democrats control the White House, the Senate and the House. So, we keep asking, what is the problem? Is it possible our quarterback and his team sold the Americans a pack of lies, just so we would purchase tickets to the game? I, for one, paid good money to watch this team, shelled out bucks for a team jersey, but now I want my money back. This team sucks.



UPDATE: I was totally shocked when AMERICAblog put up my post. Totally made my day!!!!!!!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Time For Pie In The Sky, RIP Soupy

Soupy Sales died Thursday. He was 83.

I remember watching his television show, where he was always getting hit in the face with a pie.



I had a microscope like that when I was a kid, and it had slides which we could put stuff on and look at, like dead ants, buggers, spit, etc.! My grandson wants to "experiment" and I told him to ask Santa for a science kit for Christmas. I remember the kit contained some harmless chemicals you could mix to make stuff change color, or bubble up. It came with glass tubes and other stuff.

I had a different video, which was x-rated, and pulled from YouTube, but it was funny. You know that door he always opens and wierd stuff happens that you don't see on camera. Well, this video had the music from the song "The Stripper" and he kept opening up the door and cracking up. Finally the camera panned around the door, and there was a naked lady shaking her titties at him! It was funny as hell, but got TOS'd, as they say in the internet world.

Soupy was hysterically funny to us kids and teens back when his show aired. He was silly, absurd, and often not working from a script, but winging it.



RIP, funny man.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Close My Eyes Forever

Time for bed. Lights out.



Ozzie fronted his band, but Lita played the guitar like a mofo. She's the real thing.

Hard Rock Cafe, Carrie Style

I'm in a hard rock/heavy metal mood tonight.

Jump by Van Halen. Road Trip song. Whenever my girlfriends and I would do a road trip, we usually started off with this song ... or with Boston's "Smokin'"





Of course, there was Talk Dirty To Me, by Poison .. .yeah I was a sucker for them, and yes, I am guilty of watching the Brett Michaels reality shows. I'm pretty sure he's never going to find his "rock of love."
"lock the cellar door and talk dirty to me!"



Then there were the Gunners. I got my tatt's because I had such a crush on Axel.

"Welcome to the Jungle"



Not many give props to Lita Ford, but she was hot, and her duet with Ozzie didn't hurt her career none!



I could draw the line here between hair bands and the harder rockers, but I know many of you out there have Warrant's Cherry Pie!



Who didn't date/sleep with Bobbie Brown????? LOL!

Next to her would be Tawny Kitaen in Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again," but, alas, the video is embeded and I can't put it up, so fuck it, fuck her, and fuck Whitesnake!

Rock rules!

Franken - 1; Diana Furchtgott-Roth - 0

This is an excellent video of Senator Al Franken (I love saying that) at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning medical bankruptcies.



Because Franken is a comedy writer, a lot of people who have never read his political books or listened to him when he was on Air America, have no idea just how brilliant he is, how cool and calm he is when he smacks you in the face with your bullshit and lies, and quite frankly, I am glad he finally ran for office, won, and is now in there fighting for the rights of real Americans.

H/T to Think Progress.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

"Put It On My Blog, Grandma"


My grandson built this Lego plane from parts of his Indiana Jones kit, even though a plane is not in the instruction booklet, but was in the magazine that accompanied the kit showing a Lego product you can buy to build a plane for Indiana Jones.

He then plopped it on my desk and said the following:

"Grandma, you can take a picture of the plane and put it on my blog."

Yeah, he's only seven, but he knows he has a blog!

I find it funny when he is with me, and we go places where other young kids are, he always introduces himself by saying his name, his age, and then says that he has a blog. Most of the kids look at him funny. I get a chuckle or two out of the parents, though.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Games, Games, Games

I've added a fun, interactive game on the blog, right side, after the Star Trek Quiz. It's a Boatload Puzzles cross-word puzzle you can actually play on my blog.





I love word games!

I used a new program to capture the screen for this post, which I will review later on.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

October Is Major League Sports Month

October is an interesting month in sports in that all four majors are in play, football, basketball, hockey and baseball. It's the only month out of the year that happens.

It's past midnight in New York, raining as hell, and the Yanks/Angels game is tied, bottom of the 11th. It could go either way, and I don't really care. Everyone knows I hate the Angels for usurping my beloved city's name, but I would relish a freeway series for the bragging rights.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

NYC Leaves New Orleans, Courtesy Of 9/11 Steel


The USS New York cruises on the Mississippi river near Avondale, Louisiana. Photograph: AFP/Getty



The USS New York, built with tonnes of steel salvaged from the World Trade Centre towers, began its journey to New York today after undocking from a New Orleans-area shipyard.

Read the short article about this ship built from steel from World Trade Center.

The Flinstones And Winston Ciggies -- Now There's A Memory

You know, you have to be my age or older to realize that when The Flinstones was initially aired on television, it's target audience was adults, not children. I personally remember it was on Friday NIGHTS, at 8:30, which was a night every other week that my mother went out with her married lover (laughs) and my sister and I were left home alone (I was only 8 when it first came on, but back in those days, people left siblings alone at home if someone was at least in elementary school). I remember it mostly because I would go to bed, with my mom not home, so I would put on the television in the living room and pretend she was home watching TV.



The series was initially aimed at adult audiences; the first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston (dictated by the custom, at that time, that the star{s} of a TV series often "pitched" their sponsor's product in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode).


Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Oh, No He Didn't ...

From AMERICAblog:

NBC just did a piece about today's gay rights march in Washington. For the political context of the gay community's ire, NBC went to Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood. Harwood was asked if the White House was worried about "the left as a whole," and concerns they have that the White House isn't doing things that "the left" expected them to do. Harwood said the following:

Barack Obama is doing well with 90% or more of Democrats so the White House views this opposition as really part of the Internet left fringe.

Harwood then went on to say:

For a sign of how seriously the White House does or doesn't take this opposition, one adviser told me those bloggers need to take off the pajamas, get dressed, and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult.

Unbelievable! The netroots which elected this president, and the GLBT network that worked their butts off to elect a president that ran on his opposition to their discrimination, now refers to the GLBT community as part of the "blogs," you know, those Cheetos eating, youngsters, in their parents basements in pajamas!

The right wing nutjobs have lost their enthusiasm for using that metaphor to describe the bloggers. I am surprised that the White House is now slandering the bloggers, and more importantly, the GLBT bloggers.

Nobel prize or not, if Obama doesn't get his "team" to recognize the netroots, and the GLBT part of the scheme, he will not survive the next election. We, the people, will put our money on someone else to run in the primaries against him. Trust me on this.


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Obscene, just obscene.


The Angels Are Not In Los Angeles, Damn It


As you can see from the map, I have circled Los Angeles and Anaheim, and I have drawn the line that separates Los Angeles County from Orange County. Anaheim is not in Los Angeles County, nor is it in the City of Los Angeles.

Why, then, are the Angels baseball team, who are in Anaheim, which is in Orange County, called the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?

Nothing in sports has infuriated me as much as this misnomer. Watching the playoffs and having to listen to the announcers say things like "Los Angeles takes the lead" really pisses me off. The Angels are not located in any fashion or in any manner in the City or County of Los Angeles. In fact, as you can see from the map, Anaheim is at least 27 miles from Los Angeles, and on a good day, takes about an hour to get to (given the congested freeways).

Anyway, it is my belief that as long as the team uses the name Los Angeles and tries to be associated with all things Los Angeles, instead of showing pride in its own, for its own sake, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will not win a World Series.

Now it will be up to the Yanks to spank the shit out of that team.

UPDATE: You know, the more I think about it, it would be interesting to finally have it out with the Angels. At least the announcers could not keep saying "and Los Angeles takes the lead" because no one would know who they were referring to. If it turned into a freeway series, they would have to call the Angels and the Dodgers by their names, and leave the "Los Angeles" out of the equation. But, more importantly, it would be the be all and end all of who dominiates this area, Angels or Dodgers. I'd be up for that.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

A Day In Hollywood, 2009




Pizza, on Hollywood Blvd., with my grandson. After that, we went to the costume shop and bought him a GI Joe (movie version) costume to go trick-or-treating in. These things are really expensive, and cheap as shit in construction, but whatever. The kids grow out of them, anyway. No point in investing in a costume of any value until you are an adult.



Pago Pago Tsunami Pictures

I found these pictures browsing an Hawai'ian newspaper, the Honolulu Star Bulletin. I read a few other state newspapers online.

These series of photos show the tsunami waves hitting the FBI offices in Pago Pago recently.

Eeerie to view.

Go, Doyers, Go!


Picture courtesy of Ogle's Broom Shop.

My Doyers swept the Cards. Now, on to the LCS.




Picture courtesy of Denny Medley/US Presswire

Friday, October 09, 2009

Congratulations On The Prize, Obama

I woke up to reading all the criticism from the Republican party over Obama's Nobel Peace prize award. At first I was not sure if it was a truth, and had to go to Google News to check for a fact that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

I am not surprised at the right wing nut jobs in the Republican party are all in an uproar. They've derided the Nobel awards for years now, ever since Al Gore won it in 2007. Regardless, the rest of the sane world holds the Nobels in high esteem.

But, it does prove the point I've made before on this blog that the right wingers of the Republican party are so out of touch with America and American values in today's world, that they continually go out of their way to support outlandish ideology that is at odds with mainstream thinking. As Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said, the “appropriate response” is to say “congratulations” to Obama. If Pawlenty can say that, let that be a lesson to the rest of the Republicans. Sit down, shut up, and show some respect for this country, damn it.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Michael Moore v. Sean Hannity

Great smackdown by Moore. I wanted to put it up, but there is no way to embed the video, so you'll have to go to Crooks and Liars to watch (click on the link in the heading). Moore is so good at redirecting the liar in Hannity. He checks him on his hypocrisy, and all-in-all, it's a good watch.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Good Health Care Piece By Olberman Tonight

I don't usually put up television news program pieces, but tonight there were two really good ones. I'll post Keith Olbermann's health piece tonight, and put up the Michael Moore on Hannity's show, tomorrow. Well worth watching all of them.


"Doyers" Up One In Playoffs

The "Doyers" took the first game from St. Louis, 5 to 3. Kemp's home run early on gave them the lead, and they stayed ahead for the rest of the game. Oh, and Yanks and Phillies won as well.

Of course, I am rooting for Angels to lose their series against BoSox. I put a curse on the team ever since they decided Anaheim was in Los Angeles.

Give me a break.

Monday, October 05, 2009

"Modern Republican Party Has The Emotional Maturity Of A Bratty 13-Year-Old"

While we have been on the subject of the Republican party getting all ecstatic over the Olympic Committee rejecting Chicago as the site for the 2016 Olympics, renowned and Pulitzer prize winner Paul Krugman has a few words that are relevant.

There was what President Obama likes to call a teachable moment last week, when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago’s bid to be host of the 2016 Summer Games.

“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of the magazine’s staff, with the headline “Obama loses! Obama loses!” Rush Limbaugh declared himself “gleeful.” “World Rejects Obama,” gloated the Drudge Report. And so on.

So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.

But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America.

Exactly my point. Read the rest of the OpEd. It is spot on.

Saturday, October 03, 2009

"Failure We Can Live With"

It doesn't cease to amaze me how the nutjobs on the right root for failure, failure, failure ... as if somehow that will equate to Republicans being "right." The constant "boo" and "no" attitude is wearing thin on the American populace, where generally, this country wants to be first in everything it does, and continues to strive for excellence. Except, of course, in the wingnuttery universe.

Where in history, has anyone in America cheered for failure? The Olympics, once the prize for any city to be awarded, is now cheered for failing to select Chicago as the city for the next games. Of course, just cheered by those small numbered defeatists that pretend they represent the American agenda, when, in fact, they are really stupid idiots that are wearing out their welcome very fast.

I do find it a tad funny that all these "birthers," "tenthers," "teabaggers," etc. really do believe that if everything our government is currently doing to lift Americans out of the depression we are in (and don't for a moment think we are not in one), will somehow result in Republicans taking over the government again! The party of "no" does not have many members, and they are losing them more and more each day as the mantra continues to be "failure we can live with."

Good luck with that one, guys.