What did we learn in 2005? Lots. It's funny, when we all thought theirs no way the Bush Administrtions second term could be better than his first and we were all proven wrong. We learned that we're more than prepared for any disasters that awaits us around the corner. Thanks to Bill O'Reilly we learned that if those people in Loisiana were educated they wouldnt have stayed. We learned that only black people loot and white people fight to stay alive. We also learned that husbands know their wives less than the wives parents. An add on to that we learned that Dr's who have never examined you know your prognosis better than Dr's who see you on a daily basis.
On a lighter note Batman restarted this year with a big bang. It was one of the best movies of the year. Star Wars ended with Lucas's final chapter Revenge of the Sith which in a way is good news for people hoping that maybe one day Lucas's ideas will be given great care with a new Captain at the helm. Wouldnt a Spike Jonze or a David Fincher Star Wars be cool. Harry Potter also pleasantly surprised me this year since I was the only person that didn't like "The Prisoner Of Azkaban"I wasnt expecting much out of this one. I ended up loving it and happy that I was back into the series. Other good movies that were spawned from some kind of franchise were "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Sin City"
This year brought other great movies that weren't spawned from a franchise like "Weddding Crashers", "The 40 Year Old Virgin", "Good Night and Good Luck", "King Kong", "The Corpse Bride", and we'll just leave off with "Crash". Disapointment awards went to "War of the Worlds", "Bewitched", "Robots", "Mr and Mrs Smith", and "The Island". I wasnt expecting much from "The Island" but when I did see it it started off really good, it sucked me in , and than it became shitty. It's too bad, Michael Bay impressed me for about an hour.
An Obvious plus and minus this year was Arrested Development. A plus because it's a great show with no ratings that lucky has been able to last for 2 and a half seasons. A minus because it may only last 2 and a half seasons. When they keep cutting the episode order back it actually stresses me out. Something a TV show has never done to me before. TV this year also introduced us to the American version of "The Office" which started off slow but than they found their ground and ,like Arrested Develoment, started off with no ratings but luckily this show is gaining viewership each week. Jason Lee's "My Name is Earl started this year with critical praise and week rating but like "The Office" it's climbing slowly to the top as well. I don't really watch that many television shows so to end this portion I will just say we got Family Guy Back. Hopefully the same can be done for Arrested Development.
I'll tell you the one show that started this year that people are watching and shouldnt be. Fox's "The War at Home" which is on after the Simpsons and before Family Guy is a racist tasteless sexist ignorant show that is only on the air because its on a golden time slot. The show is done Naration style with each actor talking to the screen in between scenes. I sat through only half an episode and I got a sexist joke and a gay joke. There was a line that I prposly forgot but I remember it was similar to " I'll be damned if my faggy son becomes a fruit". Quality stuff there.
"The War at Home" has Arrested Developments old time slot which last year was after "The Simpsons" and before...something forgetable. I think it was reruns of "The Simpsons". With the Family Guy back "The Simpsons" this year is back in the top 20 watched shows each week and Family guy is in the top 30 which I beleive The War at home sits as well. It's too bad Fox decided to take their big Emmy winner off of the sunday slate and replace it with something repulsive. Since Fox did pick up the Arrested pilot 3 years ago should I now be thanking them or hating them?
Im not really knowledgable with music anymore. Im a 75 year old 26 year old man. Everytime I turn the radio on I either turn it back off and pop in a cd or I turn to Air America. Sitting here thinking about music this year Im really stumped. I'l just send shouts out to Madonna, Danny Elfman for Corpse Bride and Charlie and the choco- too long, the Spamalot musical, and well, I guess thats it.
I guess I will sum this up by mentioning my favorite entertainers this year. All of the people I will mention have been around for a while. its just that this year they impressed me. Theres no order except for the first one. This would be my entertainer of the year. Steve Carell for his success in writing and starring the The 40 Year Old Virgin and starring in The Office. I would also like to point out Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams. Cillian Murphy did a great job as the scarecrow in Batman Begins. He didnt play it over the top in anyway. He played it cool =0). Rachel McAdams gets props mainly because I realized this year that she one of the few beautiful actresses in Hollywood thats actually good. When losses like Lindsey Lohan and Hilary Duff are getting starring roles MacAdams is hiding out in the back of blockbusters. The last person I'll mention is Ian Mcdiarmid who played Palpatine in the Star Wars saga. Whether you like the movies or not you have to admit that he did a great job this year in Revenge of the Sith being a careing fatherlike figure to Anakin and than going insane once he took control of everything. I thought it was like playing two different characters but at the same time making us believe they were one. Does that make sense? Their were other greats this year but right now I need to wrap things up. Im leaving for Boston in the morning so I need to finish packing
Ok I covered some politics, music movies and oh books. I read Al Frankens "Truth with Jokes". Its not nearly as funny as his previous "Lies" book but I still highly recomend it. Ok so 2005 I will miss you. Take care and I hope someday we cross paths again.
Some good quotes from this year
"Is that the Six Million Dollar Mans boss?" - The 40 Year Old Virgin
"He's here"
"Who"
"The Batman" - What movie is this from
"See that on the back, Bullseye baby" - Wedding Crashers
" Are you threatening me Master Jedi" - Not saying this one either
"Aww yeah your doing me Nice" - The 40 Year Old Virgin
"I think Browny is doing a great job" - GW
maybe I'll add more later
By: Jeans Pants | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 11:49 PM | | 
Ok so for anyone who hasn't realized Im a huge Arrested Development fan than your not my friend, leave. Seriously stop reading you don't know me. Im sure alot of you know that my freind Mike and myself started a Save Arrested Development blog known as SAD. Ihave it linked under my links on the right hand side of the blog. Anyways well I came up with a name one day and figured I would start a blog much like this one, you know one that doesn't require alot of work to start. Before I knew it Mike put alot of time and effort into the SAD blog before I even started. If you havent been there yet please check it out. http://s-a-d.blogspot.com/ . So for a while the only members were Mike and myself. while he was working on the behind the scenes of the blog I wrote some posts...well so did he...Ok I didn't do much the point is that we were really just writing posts for each other to read. Now thanks to Mikes efforts there are now 30 members of SAD. If anyone would like to join and become a member just let me know. We'll send you a link and you can start posting.
This would also be a good time to tell you about Mikes blog, http://caliblog.com/ .Mike stays very up to date in politics which makes his blog interesting to me. I don't like to watch the LA news only because theres 50 car accidents a day and than bad news about what our administrations doing or how were going backwards in time with the banning of alot of scientific studies. Since the news is a mixture of being depressing and too comercial ("Is your son dead, find out tonight at 11") I get my news from Caliblog. Or at least its the news i want to know about like the War on Christmas. That was good times.
Well I guess this post should end with someone thanking Mike....................................................... Ok I'll do it. Thanks buddy. You did a good job. To everyone else, visit our blogs and let us know if you want to become a S-A-D member.
By: Jeans Pants | at 11:20 PM | |
Working today sucked. Today was one of those days you drive to work feeling pretty good, thinking to yourself today is only a monday what could go wrong only to arrive to a garage completly full and more dumb people than usual walking in the middle of the garage getting in your way. The Garage was so packed that my usual secluded spot that no one would want because its located in the middle of nowhere was taken and it took an extra ten minutes to find a spot. When I got inside it was so busy I got a sense of vertigo a few times.
The only weekness my manager has is under staffing on busy days and today was one of them. There was three of us all day with huge lines until 20 minutes after we closed. Luckily I dont remember any customers that were a problem which is a good thing and as a result today wasnt the worst day in any ways. I just cant beleive how many people want to spend the day after the holidays, including thanksgiving, shopping.
The other thing that got me today is that there was no mail. I thought today was a normal business day. Oh well I don't get it. I kind of dread going back tomorrow but I need the money and overall I like my job. I guess what Im saying is everyone join me in my boycott to shop. Bill O"Reilly tried to boycott any store who didnt say merry christmas well Im going to boycott retail all together. "Will you join in my crusade ? Will you be strong and stand with me? It is the music of our people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes!"
A little over dramatic but it works.
By: Jeans Pants | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 12:49 AM | |
I hate to give people mental images of me peeing but it's imperative for me to tell the story as it happened step by step to give you the full effect. Ok so I'm with Mollye and my freind Danny and we're at Best Buy. One of them wanted to run into Linens n Things so we did. Linens n Things is not my type of store. It's very Trading Spaces which is a good show I watch sometimes but nothing I could dedicate my life to. If I had to trade spaces with someone, and one of the decorators told me they were going to do something I think my freind would disagree with, I would probably not fight for what I think my friend wanted. I have no idea how to decorate therefore I would put all faith in the decorators.
Anyways moving on I had to use the restroom. So i go into the mens room which is extremely clean. Go up to the urinal, just kind of zone out until I tilt my head straight on and notice the funniest ignorant thing Ive ever seen written anywhere. The wall in front of me read "Fags go to School"... What? What does that mean. Was there some kid skipping school at Linens N Things taking a pee and figured that only fags go to school. Or did someone do research and find out that the majority of most people that go to school are gay therefore what he wrote on the wall was true...a little ignorant but true.
To be a little stereotypical aren't most men who shop at Linens N Things...ummm.....straight? You know what Im getting at. So is this person trying Holla out to his peeps at school maybe.
Oh well I guess Im happy the wall didn't say Die Fags or Mike is a Faget or Fags are gay. I hate to say I find something on a bathroom wall funny and quotable but really, what does it mean?
By: Jeans Pants | Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 11:38 PM | |
I just need to let everyone know that back in 2000 my girlfriend who was born Jewish and myself who is born Protestant created Chrismahka. For anyone who is familiar with The OC you may already know that The OC also created Chrismahka. They even have a Chrismahka CD. I just needed to point out that The OC didnt start until 2003. We had a 3 year head start. We started it on dec 7th of that year, yes Pearl Harbour Day. It's too bad I didn't Patent it. It kind of sucks that we've gone through centuries without Chrismahka and somehow within a 3 year time span it exists in 2 different worlds. I hate you OC. Chrismahka is mine...Ours...Mollye and me....and anyone else who wants to celebrate it with us...I hate Micha Barton.
By: Jeans Pants | Thursday, December 22, 2005 at 6:56 PM | |
Hello everyone. Im sorry it's been exactly one week since my last post. I've just been terribly sick. I called out from work for my first time last week and left work early for my first time today. Their hasn't been too much happening in my life. I saw King Kong. If you've seen the 1930's original you will enjoy this new version alot. If you havent seen it, this is coming from just about every single friend I know who didn't see the original, you probably won't like it. It stayed true to the original which is good but it could turn out to be it's down fall. From this point forward I will be revealing spoilers so be warned. I know alot of people find the fact that Kong going from Skull Island to New York without explanation silly and unbelievable. Well I don't have a comeback for that except that thats how it happened in the original. When the horrible 1976 version tried explaining it, that was silly. Some people are complaining that the boat ride to Skull Island takes too long. I enjoyed that actually. Maybe it's because I like watching most of those actors no matter what their in. Someone I spoke with thought the close up sad and emotionaly shots of Konk and Naomi Watts were drawn out and cheesy. That didn't bother me at all. In fact I thought those type of shots were done better in this movie than Jackson did in Lord of the Rings. By the end of Lord Of The Rings it became disapointing when Frodo and Sam didnt hook up. The last thing I'll talk about is the final line of the movie. Both the 1930's version and the today version ended with the line "twas beauty that killed the beast". Watching the original version I remember thinking, dont give me that crap it was man's fault Kong died. In this version I was hoping to not hear that line only because, as cliche as it is, I thought the message should be about how man is given a gift and they always destroy it. When looking at reality, whatever the human race dicovers , they usually study it and find a way to destroy it. In both movies they discover Kong and feel the need to capture it for money. If they left Kong their than no one would have killed the beast. But Im not Peter Jackson and Yes I liked the movie alot. If you saw the original than you'll probably love this movie, if you didn't , than it's up to you if you want to go see it. End of huge run-on paragraph.
Begin new run-on paragraph. Continuing my week...I don't really remember it. I rememebr watching Jack Black on SNL and it was OK. Arrested Development was good like always, and Mollye was on it. Tuesday Chicago came out on DVD and I tried throwing a Chicago party on Wednesday but nobody came. So I watched The 40 Year Old Virgin with some friends of mine. It was during the movie when I started feeling a sore throat, much like the one I had last week. I went home, went to bed, woke up feeling terrible but still went to work, now Im home. Tonight a friend good friend of mine from college, Ryan who you may remember a post about him, is in town visiting his sister and he's coming over tonight. Were going to get some eats and just hang since I feel awful. I so hope they don't get sick. I also hope Mollye doesn't get sick either. Well I'll talk to you all later. Alumnsay
By: Jeans Pants | at 6:25 PM | |
I guess Showtime and ABC have shown interest in buying Arrested Development once FOX is finished with it. Even though talks don't always lead to something it is still some good news and a good start. Bad news is that the Golden Globes didn't nomininate Arrested for anything. Eh Screw Hollywood Foreign Press.
By: Jeans Pants | Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 12:09 AM | |
I was kind of excited to go to work. I think because I knew I was closing with people I like. So I get their, things are going well, Mollye visited me which was nice and I don't know what happened but I got extremely depressed toward the end of the night. It could have been a mix of the fact that everyone took there breaks late and we had a bunch of customers that needed their hands held for every little thing they were interested in. All those needy customers showed up when everyone was on break so it was a little stressful for me. Once that ended the store closed, my friends came back from break and I just got overwhelmed with depression. It's the selfish needy kind where you just want to hear nice things from others about yourself which is hypocrytical of me because I'm not usually a big fan of people who are like that. I just tried keeping to myself because everytime I tried saying something I just got more depressed. I was hopeing to help cheer myself up that I would come home to a new netflix movie in my mail. A few days ago my mail box broke. As a result the mail lady kept my mail. They fixed the mail box for yesterday but today it broke again. So what happened when I got home was someone else's mail was in my box and I have no idea where my mail is. Was it not delivered it is it in someone else's mail box? hmmmmmmmm......It also sucks because Mollye has been expecting some work checks so we're not sure where they are. I think I will seek blog therapy. Its when I post something that just talks about how depressed I am but in return I feel much better because I let it all out. What you think? Maybe I'll recomend this to others. Or maybe I'll try and patten it and than everyone who tries to vent on their blogs with owe me money. Im a genious. Thanks Blog readers for cheering me up. What great powers you secretly have.
By: Jeans Pants | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 11:28 PM | |
Today, still sick. I woke up, watched some Colbert Report, did the dishes, took out the trash, took a shower and than went out. I think all in that order actually. So when I went out I first deposited 4 of Mollyes work checks woo hoo. Than I went to best buy to pick up the 40 year old virgin. It was 16.99. Not bad for a new release price. Than being forgetful as I am, I remembered I had 2 DVD's I wanted to trade into Blockbuster. So i go to blockbuster after, already purchasing The 40 Year Old Virgin from Best Buy, I trade in my DVD's which now makes the 40 year old virgin 11 dollars. So I bought that with the thought of returning my other copy later. As Im driving along I get a call from my friend saying that the movie is on sale at circuit city for 13 dollars. So, I go there to buy it with the plans of returning the other 2 copy's I bought later. Than I start feeling more and more sick so after picking up a bite to eat to take out I head straight home with my three copy's of The 40 Year Old Virgin. Guess what I did than? ...I watched it. Than Mollye came home from work and we watched The Island which showed up from netflix. The Island started out great and than just became and hour of car shases which were cool but tireing. The ending was pretty good too. So that was my day. Maybe next time some one can experience it with me.
By: Jeans Pants | Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 8:27 PM | |
(SPOILER ALERT)
This movie sucks. There's your spoiler. Ok so maybe it doesnt suck. Maybe it's not terrible. I just found it disapointing. I'll make this quick and painless. Im not trying to say join my crusade and defeat this movie. I don't have a crusade and if I did than I'd be wasting my life. I just know alot of people love this movie. Everytime I think back to it I think of the problems I had with the movie. If your a freind of mine and really liked the movie than don't hate me. In fact don't read any further =0). To end this I'll just leave my questions about the movie.
(remember spoilers)
10. When an unidentified object comes to earth and the ground around the are starts to rise, why does noone run
9. When the object crashes using lighting as it's trainsportation and the lighting fry's everything around including, TV's, radios, cell phones and card why is it that there is still a working camcorder to record people dying on the street.
8. When the son realizes everything around him is destroyed, it would have been nice to meet someone he cared about to make him angry enough to go on a suicide rage. My question, Why would Ray (Tom Cruise) allow his son to run over a hill where the military were bombing with the only reason " I gotta know I gotta see I gotta know"? If I was Ray I would have convinced the son that his sister's safety is top priority
7. When the aliens have destroyed everything and everyone is running for their lives ,Why would running into Tim Robbins house be safe?
6. Why was it safe?
5. Again the aliens destroyed everything, except this house their hiding in. Why did the aliens decide to go on a Jurassic Park style search through the house? Bonus question, What were they looking for in this particular house that allowed to not be destroyed?
4. The goal of the movie was to get the kids back safe with their parents. The parents were in Boston. Why would Ray think takeing the kids to Boston was a good idea when the aliens have been attacking every major city? Another Bonus question. When everyone arrived to Boston they could see from the path they had taken that at least two alien ships were in the middle of destroying it. Why was everyone still walking towards Boston?
3. Ray (Tom Cruise) kind of became the hero when he noticed birds were sitting on top of one of the alien ships. Ray connected that with the Aliens shields being down. As a result Ray pointed the birds out to the troops, they open fire and destroyed the alien ship. Here my thing. Earlier in the movie we say aliens picking people up left and right while at the same time blocking itself with shields from the military's weapons. If the people can enter the ship with the shields up, why can't birds sit on the ship with the shields up? Something seems flawed.
2. How did the son make it to Boston Alive? He was weapon less
1. OK this book is based on a classic. I remember watching the original as a kid and thinking how smart the ending was. It just seems like the ending is dated. I know I know, blasphemy. I guess the question is, why would these aliens who, according to the movie, have been planning this invasion for years forget to ask themselves if they can survive on the planet they want to over take?
Someone is bound to say that the answer to these questions are "it's just a movie". I jsut expected so much more out of spielberg. I dont think hes ever done me wrong.
By: Jeans Pants | Monday, December 12, 2005 at 10:51 PM | |
Here's the "Thing". I never liked The Fantastic Four growing up. I found them boreing. I guy who stretches, and an orange hulk never appealed to me. Before going in the theater I heard that just about every reviewer tore this movie apart. Let me just reitterate that I never liked the concept for the Fantastic Four, I thought the comercials looked fun so I thought I'd give it a shot. Ok now heres where I drop the bomb...I liked it. It wasnt great but the movie i felt was a fun theatrical ride. They did some back story but sut most of it out which I think is part of the reason why critics and people hated the movie. For me takeing out the back story did me a favor. We just kind of jumped right in.
The technology in the movie was extremly advanced for today but since the movie wasn't set in a specific time frame they can kind of get away with it. Plus with everything being so advanced it made the movie visually interesting. Since it's a comic book movie I can forgive and forget things I've just mentioned unlike movies like Armegaddon which did have a time frame with technology very advanced dealing with real issues as opposed to Dr Doom and his want to control New York.
I also feel that this is the type of movie horrible film maker Joel Schumacher was shooting for with his Batman sequels. He was going for a visually pleaseing action packed movie with cool digital effects and good fight scenes. The thing is that since Shumacher is such a terrible director he couldnt accomplish those things and as a result we get left with a train wreck of epic porportions. If you think Im exagerating go watch them again. Here are some quote reminders.
6. "Sing Sing, come on Sing"
5. "What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Age
4. "Kill the Heroes"
3. "Hey Two Face show me how to punch a guy"
2. ""Bummer"
1. "Cowabunga"
And Remember these faces, Eh.
Awww Robin is frozen
FantasticFive
AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok I can easily turn any topic into a Joel Schumacher sucks conversation so before I go to far I will end this post. Plus I need to save these pics for my Joel Schumacher Sucks post. Coming soon. Rated-R. Bottom Line. Fantastic Four isnt too bad.
By: Jeans Pants | Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 7:12 PM | |
Yesterday I woke up extremly sick. My throat was closed up and my sinus's were stuffed up. I contimplated on calling out of work. When I looked at the schedule I notice that they were fully staffed so if I did call out it would be no big deal. I didn't. When I got to work I was doing pretty good for the first 6 hours. Following my last break my body was overwhelmed with a cold feeling running down my bones and with my nose being stuffed up I felt extremely tired. The whole day went by pretty quick until those last two hours. I was scheduled till 7:30 and I felt that the second hand just kept getting slower and slower.
Well... As we all know 7:30 never apporached and were all trapped in some sort of time warp causing me to stay at work until this is all sorted out. Ok it did approach, I went straight to my freinds house and watched our weekly dosage of SNL even though I knew it would suck. It did suck, but it wasnt terrible. It was hosted by Alec Baldwin and if anyone is familiar with him hosting usually it's a big plus.
Their last sketch of the night was a spoof on Glengarry Glen Ross with Baldwin recurring his same role from the movie role except instead of him talking to realators it was him tallking to elves about how slow their making toys. The dialogue was basically the same except instead of the word fuck he used elf or elfen and instead of him preaching to "Always Be Closeing" he was preaching "Always Be Cobbling". For me it was hilarious.
Now to Today. I woke up kind of confused. I coudlnt tell if I was sicker or better or what I should do about going to work or not. I usually pride myself and never calling out especially on a sunday. Today I had too. I called out, went back to bed and slept until noon which I havent done since I lived in Tampa back in 2002. Once I woke up I tried convincing myself I was well enough to go to work but I wasn't . I layed on the couch all day watching "The Music Man" (from my netflix) , "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" and "Jackass" while Mollye did her super clean thing all day. I offered to help but she wouldnt let me. So now here I am sitting at the computer, still feeling terrible, hopeing I feel better tomorrow. Let rise up and help me fight this cold, except you. You keep sitting down, I don't like you.
By: Jeans Pants | at 5:51 PM | |
I am an ass. In one of my blogs below I forgot 2 very important people in my life and as a result I am dedicating a post to them both. They are my old college buddies Chris and Ryan pictured here...
When I was in college they were both music majors like me. Ryan was sound recording and Chris I believe was performance, he played the trumpet. Anyways Ryan already had a Liberal Arts Degree and was going for a second degree. I believe he is now studying some sort of Robotics. I met him in The University Choir. I remember he showed me lots of short films he had made in the past and introduced me to lots of drinks. A consequence when drinking and watching his short films were that I dont remember some of them. I do remember likeing them.
Ryan and I dont talk as much as we'd like to but when we do there is still that same bond we had years ago...aaaawwwwwwww cheesy but true...Fuck you.
Chris's story is a little complex. I was freinds with a guy who went to high school with him. This freind introduced me to him when Chris was throwing rocks at a squirrel in a tree in the University's Cafeteria court yard after the squirrel stole his lunch. He was mostly trying to get his lunch back as opposed to hurting the squirrel. I remember thinking this guy has character , mostly because there was snow on the ground and he was wearing sandels and socks. Anyways we didnt really become freinds than until a year later when my freind was kicked out of school and Chris and I had dorms close to each other. We were good and bad influences on each other. I remember staying up late every night either watching movies or playing a computer game called" Armegeddon Worms". I forgot to mention Chris became an art major that year so I remember some nights staying up all night helping him do projects. Well I he would do the work I would just give my opinion...or just hang out and be loud. I really dont remember when we slept. I remember going to class until 5, doing homework until around 10 than staying up all night hanging out. He left school mainly because of the teachers. Even though we hardly slept he worked hard on his work. His work also looked good. I believe his teachers would give him B's and he coudlnt figure out why. If he was doing his job and creating pictures from the heart than how is that a B. He did the assignment and he let it come from inside. He also left school because his art teacher made him watch "The Phantom Menace" at elast 3 times that one semester because he felt it was true art and something they could learn from. He would have rather learned through lectures than through a bad movie.
Anyways Ryan is in Mass still and Chris is in San Francisco. I know there both working well paying jobs and working on side projects they love like film making. Ryan passed through LA in August and I got to see him for an hour when he visited me at my job and Chris I havent seen since 2002 but i talk to alot on the phone.
So I guess to you both, if you read this, I would like to say Alumnsay and hope to see you both soon.
By: Jeans Pants | Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 12:02 AM | |
Ok this story is a mess. I don't even fully understand it. What I've heard is that Howard Dean supposedly owes Republican Maryland Governor Michael Steele an apology for racsit comments he made about Steele being a black Republican. Dean was suppose to meet the Republican National Commitee chairman Ken Mehlan on Meet the Press to rebuddle the accusations that he made some sort of "Uncle Tom" comparison about Michael Steele when he was running for office back in 2002. Howard Dean didn't show up on "Meet the Press" and as a result the New York Post's Front Page read "Coward Dean". Thats good journalism when a no show appearance on a sunday morning TV show makes your front page. Hey Lindsey Lohan was a no call no show on Regis and Kelly this week, where's the front page?
You'll notice that I said Dean made "some sort" of comment, that's because I've been doing some research and I can't find the quote. If someone would like to send me a link so I can read what was said I would love to know. They say Dean also owes and apology on behalf of the Democrats for the throwing of Oreo's at Governor Steele during a speech symbolizing the fact that Steele was black on the outside and white on the inside. He owes an apology for that? I feel like I'm owed an apology for being taxed out of my ass to pay for the most expensive inauguration to date, Rich dinner parties, senate pay checks that may help overturn Roe v Wade, and a war that can't be won. How do you defeat Terror? Go ahead and tell me. I dare you.
I would also like to add that as Im writing this Im also researching. I just found a picture(that Im not able to upload) from the New York Post. It's a caricature of a billboard that Read Coward Dean and some empty boxes with against the war checked off. So thats what makes him a coward. Him using his freedom of speech. The Freedom we're supposedly fighting for in Iraq. If the New York is so concerned about Howard Dean possibly convincing people that the war is a bad idea than maybe the New York Post should get their asses over to Iraq to set an example. If you want to see the picture I was talking about do a google image search for Coward Dean.
"A war on terror is like fighting a war on Jealousy" ~David Cross
By: Jeans Pants | Thursday, December 08, 2005 at 10:29 PM | |
After doing a little rant you may have read above, I would like to share something cute with everybody. This is something some of you know about and others don't. It's a word my little brother Jared invented when he was between 5 and 7. The word is Alumnsay pronounced Alemzay. Alumnsay is a word used to basically spread love or plutonic love to others.
For example~ If your saying bye to someone and you want to say something that says your a good freind than you would say alumnsay. If your on the phone with your girl or guy and for some strange reason you feel weird saying I love you out loud than say alumnsay. People will just think your speaking another language or that you know smart words. WARNING- saying Alumnsay out loud instead of I love you could lead to a fight, possibly even...the couch.
Where did this brilliant alumnsay come form you ask. It's easy to tell. My brother was watching Tiny Toon Adventures after school one day. I can't say what the epsisode was about but one of the character gets thrown in space and goes whipping past the moon. The moon than turned around and it had the face of Telly Sevalis and it quoted "Who Loves ya Baby?" Jared turned to me not hearing what the TV said correctly and says Alumnsay Baby. Jared is now 21 and Im old and to this day with still use Alumnsay. My freinds Danny, Shawn, Scott, Gisella Chris and my girlfreind Mollye use it. Now it's time to spread the love. If you still don't get it than try saying it. It will at least make you smile.
By: Jeans Pants | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 11:42 PM | |
I figured that since I have some people who view my blog who I have never met maybe I should put some background about myself on here. Im sure maybe even some people I do know may be interested to get a quick back story about me as well, that way they'll hate me forever. I may need write this on two posts because I would like to post alot of pictures.
To begin, I was born in Lowell Massachusetts, it's 30 minutes north of Boston. It's 15 minutes south of tax free New Hampshire, woo hoo. I lived in this house
Yeah I dont know how to rotate the image when posting it, anyone? Moveing along, I attended Lowell High School and than The University of Massachusetts in Lowell. Anyone ever been? I was a music education major for 2 of my 3 years there. I can tell you I recomend not going to U Lowell if there studying Music. There are some great Professors there, but when I left the Dr's were all on there high horses. I had one Dr not show up for about 18 classes I counted.
Anyways I couldnt afford to finish college , which is OK, I made some great freinds I still have and I came to the realization that I didnt want to major in music anyways, Film is more of my calling. Around this time I was talking to one of my bestfreinds girlfreinds via Instant Messanger, she was studying in FL. I was just saying hello, she had to walk away from the computer for a bit and she put her roomate on to talk to me. Which is a little weird since neither one of us new each others names. We talked for a bit , We learned each others names, her name is Mollye, and out of habit I just added her to my buddy list, that was something I automatically did back than.
A few weeks later I was up later, saw Mollye sign on, I had nothing else to do so I sent her a hello. Strangely enough we talked everynight from midnight to around 6 am. Never once talked on the phone. Since Mollyes roomate lived close to me, Mollye took a leap of faith, she bought a train ticket and spent 19 hours on a train to meet someone she's never seen. This is a long story but since this is about my background Mollye is now my life, so this is an imporant part. Well short story long. Mollye walked off the train, we saw each other, and it was one of the best moments , from the best beginnings to the best week of my life. Make sence? I hope so. We spent the week together. I showed her some of boston and where I grew up, Luckily we hit it off. When she had to leave on that train one week later we both made another leap of faith. She would move in with me that summer and I would move to FL with her when summer ended.
(Heres a picture of us, I love her very much)
Thats what we did and thats when I moved to Tampa FL. I dont know about FL. I used to hate it but in retrospect it had it's perks. Great sky, rain once a day( i love the rain) good food and warm beaches. Horrible working conditions, bad drivers, some spoiled rich people is what helped ruin the experience. I did make some great freinds there too. Freinds who I miss alot. Mollye and I also got our babies in FL. Heres a pic.
(Baby Shoes)
(MoJo Shoes)
(Heres a picture of Tampa, the minarets below the picuture are from Mollye's school , University of Tampa)
Mollye took some time off from school and both she and myself moved back to Lowell in May 2002 to help take care of my grandmother. I forgot to mention that I started working for the evil Target corporation back in 1999. I started in NH, than Tampa and when I moved back to Mass I worked for the same NH store as before. In order to make extra money when we moved back both Mollye and myself worked overnight at Target. It was definetly an experience I wont forget. If you've never worked overnight let me just say you get to meet a whole different kind of characters. Some really cool, some sad and some strange. I remember a guy in his late 20's early 30's. He worked overnight 5-6 nights a week and than went to school all day. He liked to talk about the destruction of the planet and make smart ass remarks which always through us off. Another guy talked to himself all the time. I remember unloading the truck and hearing him say to himself "God Damn Cunt". That same guy once through a 27 inch TV across the stock room because it was in his way. That was a hilarious sight to see.
Well lets just say returning to Mass wasn't as eventful as both Mollye and myself had hoped so we packed up our things and moved back to FL so Mollye could finish school. This time around we had a really beautiful apartment along the Hillsborough River in Tampa. Lets see If I have a picture.
(heres a picture from one of our Thanksgivings in Tampa, it's the best apartment pic I have)
(heres a picture of what our view looked like from our balcony)
I transfered Targets again. I still hated the working conditions in FL compared to anywhere else I've worked. They say we get paid less in FL because cost of living is cheaper. They don't take into the account that electricity is extremly high because we live on a penninsular, sales tax is 8 percent,and auto insurance is expensive because Tampa is in the top ten most dangerous cities to drive in in the country. To me I think everything should break even but whatever. My experience working retail in FL also involved being scheduled to 10:30 pm on somedays which is fine, but the store was never cleaned by 10:30 so we would be locked in until the store was finished. The earliest we left was midnight. Some nights we worked from 2:pm till 4:am the next day. That was fun.
So 2 years went by, Mollye Graduated With Honors with a degree in Musical Theater and I was still with Target. I made some more great freinds but it was time to move on again. Not back to Mass but to LA. Mollye could use her degree and I could do my thing which I wasnt sure what that was yet. It was either writing or acting. We packed up out things and moved to LA. I quit Target and got a job at IKEA and I spend most of my free time writing...or stareing at a computer screen. Mollye does extra work full time and she has recently been made eligible to join the actors union which does cost over a thousand dollars but once she joins she gets paid more than double from what she was getting. Life is better here but I do miss alot of things from the other states Ive lived in. Tampa had Busch Gardens, Disney World, Sea World, Good Food and good freinds. Mass had Family, Good Food, Good Freinds, Tax free NH, Maine and Boston. Boston may just be my favorite city. Here are some pics of Boston I took.
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Ok I need to wrap this up. Ive been writing this for 3 days. I guess As I sign off I will introduce you all to people who mean alot to me. In no particular order. Enjoy
Above is a picture of my Married freinds in Massachusetts Scott and Gisella. Ive known them for 10 years. I miss them alot.
These are my freinds Danny and Shawn. Ive known them for 10 years as well. I knew them when I lived in Mass and now they Live here in LA too. So i dont miss them
This is my beautiful girlfriend Mollye. She may look a little different from the picture above. Thats because she was wearing clothes
This is a picture of my freinds Mike and Amanda. Amanda got a little sick the other night so this is a picture of Mike helping her at home
Heres a recent picture of me, it was taken yesterday.
This is a picture of Amanda on a normal day
This is a picture of my brother Jared in what used to be my room. Now its his... Looks the same
And this is a picture of my freind Eric, He's on the back of the bike.
By: Jeans Pants | Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 12:19 PM | |
I apologize that I have been writing so little this past week. Tomorrow will be my first day off in 8 days. If I dont post anything than than Im officially lazy.
By: Jeans Pants | Friday, December 02, 2005 at 1:00 AM | |
