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Back to Basics

Today Christina Aguilera released her new album "Back to Basics". I encourage everyone to have a listen!

This is Outragous!

Click on the link below and watch this video which is described as "an Incredible 1961 film warning teenage boys about friendly men with moustaches"

We'd like to think we've come along way as a society today, but have we really? Does America really think all that differently about gays then the people who made this video in the 60s? Ask yourself those questions...

http://www.outzonetv.com/video_player.html?bclid=70762798&bctid=70257307

Congratulations!

My beautiful cousin Alice (on my right) got engaged to her awesome boyfriend Dave... I couldn't be happier for you two!!

 

Summer Vacation 2006 - Ocean City, NJ

Aunt Jules and I... My wonderful Grandparents
Sandy & Rob on the beach
Catching some rays...

 

So Cute

Could he be any cuter? 

Album of the Month: Steve Tyrell's "The Disney Standard"

If you are fan of the whole Rod Stewart type of standard covers, then you will be pleased to here there are others out there doing it and doing it a lot better. Steve Tyrell for example. I don't actually remember what type of music was his claim to fame, but needless to say he is very suited to this type of music. He has put out quite a number of albums filled with lush renditions of many wonderful classics and this one is no exception. Through the years, Disney has produced some of the most beautiful and memorable pieces of music and on this album they take center stage! Mr. Tyrell covers the Disney classics "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" which have been done a thousand times. Unique to the album, however, are the best tunes. My favorite is "Baby Mine" which also happens to be the oldest tune, which is from the film Dumbo... This soft melody is so touching and is sung just so simply, not over produced... quite beautiful. I also love "Bella Notte" the song from Lady and Tramp whenever the two dogs are eating the spaghetti. I almost forgot how beautiful this song is. Steve also has some fun with renditions of "Cruella De Vil" from 101 Dalmations and "Kiss the Girl" from the Little Mermaid. Although the songs I've mentioned are my favorite, every one of the tunes on the album is noteworthy, but I'll let you discover your own favorite... It was released in Febuary '06, so you should be able to get it in any record store. Pick it up!

Dieter's New Doo!

Dieter went to get a nice clip at Petsmart... He could so be a puppy model!!! So Cute... I think he just gets cuter with each passing day... I love you Dieter! 

Personal Shopper at GIANT EAGLE

Ok, this is like my dream come true. I walked into the Giant Eagle on Centre Ave, you know the one... all billboards are calling it the "Market District" Giant Eagle... its a super fancy grocery store that gets to charge an extra dollar for macaroni and cheese. ANYWAY... I walk in and they have this panel of hand-held scanners on the wall... I am draw to this display like flies to my dog's shit and I have to find out what is going on. So I watch the little info-merical they have playing on a LCD screen in the middle of all of these devices. Apparently, you can fill your cart with empty bags and walk around the grocery store and scan and bag everything right then and never have to "check-out". You have a little screen on the scan-gun that lets you see the running total and if you have an coupons, you can scan them too! WOW! This is the grocery store of the future... only.. now. So I go about my shopping and get all of things that I wanted to buy and of course a few extra things, because I shopped when I was hungry... All the while, my little scanner was telling me how much I was spending. So when I was done getting everything I needed, I was a little perplexed on how I go about paying for everything... After all, I had all of my groceries bagged up already, I could just waltz right out of the store. But I am honest and I guess I looked like a lost dog, because this energetic young woman with horrible garlic breath asked me if I needed help and I told her I was done, while showing her the scanner in my hand... She told me to follow her and we down to the last lane which is just a little stand with a screen.. you scan your "Giant Eagle Advantage Card" and it brings up everything you've purchased and I paid my bill... Wow that was cool. All the while, my little brain is just wondering how in the heck does the Giant Eagle know that I've paid for everything in my bags!!! So I asked the girl who really was talking very close to me and serverely needed a tic tac how did they know that I paid for everything and she told me that they do a random scan of about every tenth customers who use the Scan-Gun system... And if the items they scan aren't on your receipt you get banned from the system!!! So like what if a small apple or something fell into my bag or someone stuck a can of soup in cart to try and set me up! No worry she said, you have TEN TRIES!!! So I have to have more than ten stolen items in my card to get banned! Jeez.... This seems like highway robbery. So really I'm guessing that if you are lucky enough to not get a random search and scan, which I believe could possibly be against my constitutional rights... I'll look into this later... Then you could skate out of there with hundreds of dollars of free groceries... We'll have to see if this system takes off. Discuss.

My 25th Birthday, Part 2

At the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was sold out... they had these guildlines posted on the door!

 

My 25th Birthday!

Thank you Carla & Michelle for a wonderful 25ht Birthday!

 

Flowers

My flowers in my back-yard are coming along nicely... Begonias and Snap-dragons.

The Pirates Game

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, I was present at the historic record-setting 13th loss in Pirate's History game last night! Thanks to Dan for the tickets!

Rio came to visit for the weekend!

Colonblow

Today I have taken the first dose of COLON BLOW... yes you heard me right COLON BLOW. Experts agree that an excellent prevention method for Colon Cancer is to get a high colonic from a doctor. Well I don't want to go that far. So this COLON BLOW stuff is an all-natural alternative. I know that name is kind of funny, but we'll see what happens. I will document the results here! If you want some more information.... check it out here: www.colonblow.com

The Family Stone Review

The Family Stone (4.5/5 stars)

This movie was just terrific. Sarah Jessica Parker was excellent. It was a little hard getting past seeing her as Carrie Bradshaw, but she did a great job of shedding that image. Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson and Claire Daines also had wonderful performances. I really don't want to say anything about the story, in case any one actually reads this and goes to watch the movie. Needless to say, it is superb and you wont be disappointed.

Today I was carded for... ALLERGY MEDICINE?

Well gone are the days that one can walk into a pharmacy and purchase some good old nasal decongestant and not be accused of being a crystal meth addict. Today, my allergies were at their worst... I was doing my laundry and I just couldn't stop sneezing and my eyes were itchy and watery and I couldn't handle it. So I left the Bloomfield laundromat and strolled down to my local Eckerd Pharmacy. I picked up a single box of the generic form of Claritin-D, which has the lortadine allergy medicine and the decongestant psuedophedrine in it. This box has five, count them twice, FIVE pills in it. Now, I may be wrong here, but if I was going to start my own meth lab, I might need for than FIVE pills of pseudophedrine to do it. But oh well, that's besides the point. The nice teenager working at the register politely told me that I needed photo identification to purchase my allergy medicine. I was taken a-back. I really couldn't believe it. I was like.. "Umm do you have be a certain age?" She told me no, and went on to say that everyone who purchases anything containing Pseudophedrine, the main ingrediant in meth, needed photo identification so they could log it. I couldn't believe me ears.. LOG IT???? So now all of my allgergy medicine purchases are being tracked by the federal government and I presume that if I purchase to much, some sort of agency will come after me. Never mind that I can walk right up the street and purchase crack from one of the many dealers on the block or solicit sex from a local prostitute, but the more important thing is that the government needs to know where, when and how much Clariton-D I have purchased. This is CRAZY. Now I understand the otherside of the coin. There are countless people, probably some in my own neighborhood, that are addicted meth users, brewing their own home-made stash in their basement and this is a plague that needs to be quashed. But there HAS to be a better way of doing it, other than inconviencing the consumer and the poor phamarcy clerk who apparently gets screamed, cursed and swore at all day long for this new federal regulation. Perhaps I shall write a letter of my discontent with this new regulation to my local legistator. I'm sure I'll get a response.

Movie Reviews: Hostel & Date Movie

Hostel (3.5/5 Stars)
If you like scary movies, then you'll probably like this one. There is plenty of fake blood, screaming and of course lots of boobies. I don't know why, but the latter is always a pre-requisite for scary movies. Think about it, when was the last scary movie you saw without some d-list actress taking her top off. (Well actually to be fair, SAW was the last one, I don't think had any boobs in it, but ANYWAYS...)
The story is actually fascinating... There is a pair of naive and helpless Americans backpacking across Europe. Apparently these two guys want to have sex with pretty European women and this one gentleman conviently recommends they travel to a remote Croatian town... The two guys check into their Hostel (which I guess is the European word for "hotel") room only two learn they will be sharing it with two other gorgeous, tanned and topless females... Queue pair 14 of 68 sets of breasts. The two girls seem to take to the American gents quite well and invite them out to the "disco" ... They still call it a disco.... The girls wiggle and wobble their gigantic racks in front of the Americans and slip them some sort of little white round pill. Now, I know that when I travel abroad, I always let conviently beautiful women place unknown substances into my mouth. Anyways, the Americans eventually get laid... and fade off into a drug induced sleep... can you just imagine the cheesy blurred camera effect? They wake up to find themselves in a strange dungeon like room, hand-cuffed to a chair... All sorts of medical instruments and torture devices line the walls. I wont give away any more of the movie.. But where I leave is actually where the movie starts to get interesting. Ok, so the way that it happens in the movie has lots of scary music playing in the background... And of course the whole story is based on true events, thus making the whole deal all the more scary! Gee mom, this can't really happen to me can it? So, should you see it? If you have two hours and four bucks to waste, like apparently I do, then go for it... (rent, this is not one for the living room DVD shelf) Don't expect to be completely terrified, but mildly freaked out. Also, if you are the least bit squeamish.. Like my dad is.. Then don't see it.. There are GRAPHIC scenes of bloody human torture. Then again, some of us like that kind of thing...

Date Movie (1/5)
I actually watched this movie first in my line up Thursday night of excitement. I had high hopes for this flick. I like Allison Flannigan and I enjoy the other "Scary Movie" movies, so I thought what they heck, I should get a good chuckle or two out it. On the cover, they let you know that it was written by two of the six writers of Scary Movie. Let me just say those other four writers were sorely missed. I tend to like campy, turn your brain off comedies, but this one was bad. The two remaining writers made a valiant effort, spoofing everything movies like Hitch, Meet the bookers, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the Wedding Planner and every romantic comedy in between. It amazing that I've the originals of most of these. Two times I laughed out loud in this movie were a scene involving a cat and a toilet and another scene with a GIGANTIC zit. Other than that, it wasn't as great as all those commercials made me think it would be. Also, if its one of the movies that is "guaranteed In Stock" at Blockbuster, you know it isn't going to be any good. Its always the movies that they only have two copies of that are any good. So, should you see it? My answer is no.

Next up... "The Family Stone" and the playstation games "Mission Impossible" and "The Simpsons: Hit & Run"