Wednesday, April 26, 2006
President Bush Picked Fox News's Tony Snow as a replacement for Scott McClellan. Are they serious? Tony Snow? From Fox News? The State Run propaghanda channel?
If this comes to pass it will only be proof that we will not get a ounce of truth out of the White House.
I guess one thing is good. Tony Snow has experience reguritating the bullshit our government is giving us.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
This picture has 75 band names in it. I think I have found about 45 of them.
Link to a bigger version
Last night I went to the Boscos Brewmaster dinner. It's a 5 course meal in which each course come with a 10 oz beer. That a lot of food and beer. I will probably be eating on leftovers for a few days.
Of all that was on the menu I would have to say that the appetizer of sliced grilled tuna over gingered basmati rice with cubed avocado salsa and a smokey ponzu sauce was my favorite. The tuna was grilled perfectly with the center still redish and cold. The way tuna should be eaten. The sauce was a very nice compliment to the flavors. Very very tasty.
The salad was a watermelon, blue cheese, almond on baby spinach with honey vinergrette. Who would have thought that watermelon and blue cheese and honey would go together. That was mighty interesting to try.
All of the food was superb and paired perfectly with the house beers. I have to give props to Chef Jeff Grimaud and Brewmaster Fred Scheer for putting this on.
Also that night I had my first experience of someone recognizing me from my blog. Sarcasto from Watching the Defectives was there with a guy I knew. He recognized me from my prior post's picture. He seem like a pretty cool guy. Cracked me up on more than one occasion. Maybe I'll run in to him again someday.
All in all it was a pretty good night. Nothing like food, friends, beer and getting recognized.
Monday, April 24, 2006
This is action shot of me tapping the cask at Boscos in Hillsboro Village. I had to share this cause I personally think it is an awsome shot of me.Anyway tonight is one of the Boscos Brewmaster dinners. It a 5 course meal prepared by the chief that is pared with the beers that they make there. I am excited to be there cause this one looks pretty good. I think this one is sold out but they do one every quarter I think.
I can't find a link top the menu but I will review it later.
(for the record, this shot was posed, but still awsome)
Today in the Nashville City Paper is an article about a bill running through the Tennessee State legislature to have our driving test in English only. The opposition to this is saying that it discriminates against foreign born citizen. I think it does. First of all how can you pass a law that forces someone to read a language that is not that countries official language. That right the United States has no official language. How is that fair? Now, if the US Congress or the Tennessee State Legislature passed a law that would make our official language English this law would not be discriminatory. But that is not the case yet. Plus I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon because if it does it will have 2 official languages like Canada, English and French.
So Republican State Senator Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro said that "The logic... is to keep car passengers safe from drivers who can't speak English and may not know the rules of the road because they can't read some road signs." I have 2 responses to that. Has the Senator ever heard of International Driving standards? That a stop sign in Mexico is the same shape and color as a stop sign in the US? That the basic rules are the same? Secondly, if you want to make sure the that driver know the rules of the road, make the driving test harder. I can give you thousands of examples of English speaking drivers that don't know the rules of the road. Could solve 2 problems at once. Hmm??
Anyway I think this bill is discriminatory and is a bad thing to pass.
Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew Largeman: You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
From Garden State. Andrew Largeman is Zack Braff and Sam is Natalie Portman
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Or maybe I just haven't noticed till now.
I was checking my webstats out today to see if how I'm doing this month and I noticed this:
I usually check out who and how people are linking to me. But most of these are websites to order viagra and vicoden pill with out a prescription. So one of 2 things happened. Either I get traffic from people that actually do buy pill from those misspelled emails or this is a was that these people have figured out to spam. Hoping that I will hit the link to see what it is. I assume the latter. So beware.
Friday, April 21, 2006
With so much talk of gas prices rising, I have decided to get rid of my car. It's 1992 Pontiac Gran Prix with at least 200,000 miles on it, a dash light short and a blown Power Steering pump. A certified, dead in the water, POS.
So here is my plan. I will be moving from LA (lower Antioch) to Bellvueand this will solve my 1.5 hour Bus ride to work that I am doing now. It is a straight shot down Hwy 70 to Vanderbilt. Approx 15-20 minutes via MTA bus. SInce the buses now have bike racks on them I plan on starting to ride my bike home form work or at least from White Bridge Road. Should reduce my impact and maybe help me lose some weight and get healthier.
So if you driving down Hwy 70 and you see a big tall goofy guy riding a yellow colored mountain bike. Honk and say hi. Just dont run me over. Nashville drivers are bad enough.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Big day in history (all links via wikipedia) :
In 1999 the Columbine Massacre happened.
The First test of Pasteurization was done today in 1862
Alice in Chains frontman Lane Staley was found dead in 2002
Born today was Adolph Hitler (1989), Painter Joan Miró (1893), Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (1920), Heisman Trophy winner, Former University of Florida Football Coach and current South Carolina Football coach Steve Spurrier (1945), Andy Serkis, Gollum and King Kong ( 1964) Actress Jessica Lange (1949), The man that made cotton famous, Luther Vandross ( 1951) and Carmen Electra, woo hoo (1972)
Man, big day.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
I try not to comment too much on what celebrities are doing in their personal lives cause I really don't care but I have to comment on this. Could this be a form of Cannibalism?
Tom Cruise is going to eat Katie Homes Placenta!!! Yuck!! The placenta? Have you seen what one looks like?
Some people believe that eating the placenta (called Placentophagy) will help with postpartum depression. This is very common among other animals. I would assume as not to waste energy. Similar to a cat eating it still born kittens.
Seem a bit gross to me but to each there own I guess.
So since he will probably eat it no matter what most of us say here is a placenta recipe that might help it go down. (from Mothers 25 plus):
Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. To prepare a placenta, cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes.
Roast Placenta
1-3lb fresh placenta (must be no more than 3 days old)
1 onion 1 green or red pepper (green will add colour)
1 cup tomato sauce
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 tspn bay leaves
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn white pepper
1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)
Method
(Preheat oven to 350 degrees)
Chop the onion and the pepper & crush the saltines into crumbs. Combine the placenta, onion, pepper, saltines, bay leaves, white and black pepper, garlic and tomato sauce. Place in a loaf pan, cover then bake for one and a half hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid. Serve and enjoy!
Dehydrating your placenta!
Instead of cooking your placenta whole, you can dehydrate it and then add it to meals! The following method is extracted from an article entitled "Thinking About Eating Your Placenta?" by Susan James, which appeared in the winter 1996 issue of "The Compleat Mother". It was discovered posted on a newsgroup noticeboard, so we cannot absolutely guarantee its authenticity, or that it is an actual verbatim account of the magazine article.
Method
"Cut off the cord and membranes. Steam the placenta, adding lemon grass, pepper and ginger to the steaming water. The placenta is "done" when no blood comes out when you pierce it with a fork. Cut the placenta into thin slices (like making jerky) and bake in a low-heat oven (200-250 degrees F), until it is dry and crumbly (several hours). Crush the placenta into a powder - using a food processor, blender, mortar and pestle, or by putting it in a bag and grinding it with rocks. Put the powder into empty gel caps (available at drug and health food stores) or just add a spoonful to your cereal, blender drink, etc. The recommended doses vary, some suggest up to 4 capsules a day, others just one. Perhaps the best advice is to take what makes you feel good".
Yuck!!!!!
UPDATE: apparently he was joking in the interview. Yea real fucking funny ass monkey.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
From Good Will Hunting. Will is Matt Damon.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
From Last weeks Newsweek Perspectives page. Cartoon by Jeff Stahler of the Columbus Dispatch
Monday, April 10, 2006
I got an Email the other day for Preston over at Six Meat Buffet informing me that I had won the NCAA Tournament Pick'em this year. Rock on. I guess my final 4 of Illinois, Florida, West Virginia and UCLA paid off. I picked Illinois and UCLA in the final (I picked Illinois to win).
So apparently he is going to drop an Advertisement on his side bar for my blog. Hopefully it will draw lots of traffic. Which will be cool even though I don't agree with him or the readers politically. But who cares? Traffic is traffic. Nothing like generating a little discussion.
We will have to see if I can repeat next year like Florida will.
Anyway thanks to Preston for allowing me to join.
Bill: An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero, and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit, that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race. Sort of like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plympton.
From Kill Bill Vol 2. Bill is David Carradine
Friday, April 07, 2006
Check out what a Charlotte retail broker, Harry Taylor, said to President Bush at a recent appearance at Central Piedmont Community College (from the Charlotte Observer):
"While I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap mytelephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me frombreathing clean air and drinking clean water and eating safe food...If I were awoman, you'd like to restrict my opportunity to make a choice ... about whetherI can abort a pregnancy. What I wanted to say to you is that I -- in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened, by my leadership in Washington, including the presidency......And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself.... I also want to say I really appreciate the courtesy of allowing me to speak.... That is part of what this country is about."
It about time someone was able to do confront Bush on his own ground. I need to find the Video and see if it shows his reaction. I bet his face was priceless.
Anyway I hope we see more and more of this. The President needs not be "sheltered"form statement or questions like this. I am tired of hearing softball questions like this one that was asked later in that same appearance, "I wanted to say to you, Mr. President, that on the war on terror, Social Security, the tax cuts, Dubai Ports, immigration, you have shown immense political courage," one woman said. "And also I wanted to know, what else would it take for me to get my picture taken with you?"
I guess we shall see if the American People get some balls to stand up to this Government and all its bullshit.
But we shall see.
Update: Woo hoo I found some video via youtube.com and The Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Thursday, April 06, 2006
From eKantipur.com:"The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot."Is this fake? It did get released March 29th, a few days before April 1. Snopes.com seem to think it may be real and linked to some pictures a known disorder called anencephaly. These pictures from the University of Utah Health Science Center show strikingly similar case to the child pictured above. I would be willing to bet that it is real.
It reported the child did not live very long after it was born.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Especially if your a Star Wars fan.
Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the link, made my day.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Sid: You want subversion on a massive level. You know what one of the greatest fucking scripts ever written in the history of Hollywood is? Top Gun.
Duane: Oh, come on.
Sid: Top Gun is fucking great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots.
Duane: It's about a bunch of guys waving their dicks around.
Sid: It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man. You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the fucking line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.
Duane: What about Kelly McGillis?
Sid: Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: no, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie... He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fuck, what the fuck is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'll do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it. Okay, now let me just ask you - I'm gonna digress for two seconds here. I met this girl Amy here, she's like floating around here and everything. Now, she just got divorced, right? All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting fucking force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they fucking land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last fucking line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! Fuckin' A, man!
From Sleep With Me . Sid is Quentin Tarantino and Duane is Todd Field
From Yahoo:
Don't let the door hit you on the way out..."..Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he is resigning from
Congress.."
And this from now Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio
"He has served our nation with integrity and honor,"
Do what???? What part of honor and integrity did he fit? Go read the court document and then tell me how this works.
This just shows that some in the Republican Party are delusional.
