Archive for January, 2008
I can has Robin Meade?
Sorry there was no blog yesterday. I’ve become very distracted in the mornings by CNN’s Headline News and the anchorwoman there. Her name is Robin Meade, she’s on from 6am-10am, and she’s way too hot to be on CNN Headline News. She needs to be in Maxim. And porn. And a hot tub… always in a hot tub…
Rock Hard: The No Power Story
I must apologize to my community. Friday night, I rocked so hard that I caused 3,000 people to lose power.
Around 6pm on Friday night I was killing time by rocking out with Guitar Hero II on the Xbox 360. When I hit the final note of Stop by Jane’s Addiction, everything went dark.
My living room is rather crowded and I was standing right in the middle of it when the lights went out. It was already dark outside and my windows face the woods, so there was absolutely no light anywhere. I basically had to inch my way over to my coffee table where my iPhone was, and I used it to light my path until I could locate a flashlight.
Apparently my rocking was so intense that a fire broke out in an underground transformer down the street, causing the massive outage. Two major shopping centers and a local mall were completely without electricity. Several major traffic intersections were completely jammed as traffic signals were out.
A few hours later, power was mostly restored to the area. My promise to you, good people, is that in the future I will tone down the rocking.
Where are you Precious?
I will see at least three movies in the theaters this calendar year. This is one of the three.
WTF Garfield
Trust me, I know this doesn’t make any sense at all. But it makes me laugh, and laugh hard, mainly because it is BEYOND absurd. Just look at it a few times.
100 Greatest Songs of the 90s
I love me some VH1 countdown shows.
Recently VH1 aired the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, which was
highly enjoyable if not somewhat predictable. I’ve posted the entire
list after the break, along with noting which songs are worthy of my
iPod (much like how I’ve been doing those Billboard Top 100 lists).
The list is a little hokey too, since only one song per artist was allowed on the list. It’s kind of absurd to spread everything out like that. I understand why they did it, but still… to say that each artist only had one great song in the 90s is ridiculous.
Lots of hip hop on the list. I don’t listen to hip hop.
Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You came in at #4. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Dolly Parton version is superior.
At #23 is Whatta Man by Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue, which is a pairing that did wonders for me as a hormonally-charged teen. Yummy. Who cares about the song though.
Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit grabbed the top spot, and my
bride to be posed an interesting question during the show. She asked
if it would be the "greatest" song of the 90s if Kurt Cobain was still
alive. I said it wouldn’t be. What say you?
Worst Way To End A Car Chase Ever
I realize that I haven’t posted one of my videos in a while, so today over at Watercooler Films you’ll find Episode 15 from the Worst Movie Scenes of All Time series.
This one contains a clip from the movie RPM, an overseas piece of crap starring David Arquette. The dubbing is bad, the dialogue is bad, and the stunt is absolutely ridiculous. Enjoy!
Hell Yeah! Another Dirty Dirty Teacher Sex Scandal
CORAOPOLIS, Pennsylvania (AP) — A high school gym teacher was charged with sending nude pictures of herself and sexually suggestive cell phone text messages to a 14-year-old freshman at the school.
Gym teacher Beth Ann Chester, 26, is accused of sending nude photos and lurid texts to a freshman’s cell phone.
Beth Ann Chester, a 26-year-old health and physical education teacher at Moon Area High School in suburban Pittsburgh, was arrested Friday and charged with child sexual abuse, statutory sexual assault and related counts, authorities said.Police said Chester, who is married, had sent a boy three pictures of herself, two of them naked, by cell phone on December 22, and the boy replied with a naked picture of himself.
The boy denied having physical contact with Chester, but there probably was contact, Moon Township Police Chief Leo McCarthy said. The boy also told police he "felt he was in love with the teacher now," police said.
McCarthy also said Chester made "substantial admissions" to police.
Police began investigating after Moon Area School District officials reported Thursday that Chester may have had inappropriate contact with a student.
The boy’s parents had discovered suggestive text messages and met with Chester on December 26, police said.
She handed in her resignation the next day, citing personal reasons. Authorities said another teacher had told school officials last week that she believed the resignation was related to messages that Chester had sent to a student.
The boy told police he and Chester began exchanging text messages in late October, and that they devised a system to spend extra time with one another at school, police said. In one message, police said, Chester called the boy "sexy" and made a graphic reference to his body.
She was being held in the Allegheny County jail after failing to post $50,000 bond. Nobody has entered an appearance as her attorney, according to District Judge Mary Murray’s office. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Tuesday.
Chester had remained on the school payroll pending the school board’s formal acceptance of her resignation. School district attorney Jack Cambest said Chester has been employed with the district for more than two years.
Mexican Boy Glues Self to Bed to Avoid School
A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said Monday.
"I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn’t make me go to school," the boy, Diego, told AFP. "I didn’t want to go, the holidays were so much fun."
"I remembered my mom had bought a very strong glue," he said of the industrial strength shoe glue he used to stick his hand to the bed’s metal headboard, where he stayed stuck for two hours.
His mother Sandra Palacios was unable to free him and called paramedics and police to help. Diego watched cartoons while they worked to unglue him, eventually using a spray to dissolve the chemical adhesive.
"I don’t know why this happened. He is a very good boy," said his mother.
Diego eventually made it school a few hours late.
Sounds like such a "smart" kid. Seems like he needs all the schooling he can get.
Or if I was a racist like my stepdaughter’s dad I’d just say: Too bad we can’t use the same glue to keep them all in their own country. Zing!
She REALLY Likes Turtles
I’m not sure what VH1 show this is from, but wow…
