1. Piper Palin is adorable… I can’t believe she licked her hand after rubbing that baby’s hair. What the heck was that all about?2. John McCain’s son looks like a clone of John McCain… interesting.3. Sarah Palin remind me of the lady from Harry Potter who takes over the school (from the ministry of defense). My roommate says Keith Olberman said the same thing.4. If a person I know say’s hypocritical things, I tend to not trust their opinion in the future. It confuses me then that political pundits say drastically contradictory things on TV and continue to be allowed to comment on the political scene (often claiming to be non-biased).5. John McCain’s chances of dying while in office if elected are probably about one in three (by my best guess)… it would suck if Palin were suddenly the president, no? (I mean yeah she’s okay looking for her age but she strikes me as somewhat evil).6. Do you think Sarah Palin was pissed at Bristol for getting pregnant? I bet she totally flipped out.7. Since when are tax cuts equivalent to stimulating the economy? Last time I checked, that issue was up for debate… the “Trickle-Down” effect if anything has been shown to not work.8. Don’t throw dirty bath water in baby carriages… think about it.9. Chris Matthews is super annoying.10. Pat Buchannon seems really nice and reasonable 90% of the time, and dangerously idiotic the other 10% of the time.
One of our authors had a post a while back about Cent Sports. I want to take a moment to revisit this genius site.
Why I like it: I personally know a few people with serious gambling problems, which pisses me off. This site provides a way for people to get their gambling fix without loosing money. The potential to earn money exists but the potential to loose money does not. I doubt anyone is quiting their day job to play Cent Sports but some people are making a couple of hundred bucks.
I don’t really like sports anymore… kinda got burnt out in high school, but I think the way this site is configured is genius. All the incentives are in their right place and even the way incentives are provided are phrased to look appealing. Bonus’ based on a percentage instead of a hard number is brilliant. I think a similar concept for a website could be implemented about different subject matter. Maybe a cross of Cent Sports and Trade Sports would be cool. I don’t know of many other online gambling sites but perhaps there are others who would make a decent partner. It’s a bit confusing though… is online gambling legal? Wasn’t there like a crack down on Poker sites a while back? I never understand that. I don’t understand how some sites can operate providing gambling services and others are forced to shut down.
If anybody can clarify please feel free to comment on this post.
Below is the logo for the site via freetimewasters.com.
Okay, to be fair, I’m not sure it was Jerry Seinfeld they were spying on but it was some celebrity who lived in the penthouse apartment of the building on the corner of 81st and Central Park West. I’ve seen Seinfeld around that area twice in a couple of years and he is rumored to live on that block. I have also heard that other celebs live in the area so who knows.
Anyway, these two guys with super telescoping lenses and cameras were set up with tripods one behind the other aiming right at the top of this building through the trees. My friend and I passed them and figured out that they were paparazzi. Well my friend was chicken so I went up and asked them, “Are you guys paparazzi?” which in hindsight was probably not the best phrasing. Well, after being shot looks of disdain, I was eventually told that asking someone if he was a paparazzi was “like asking a pretty girl if she were a prostitute.”
I falsely apologized (although my acting was pretty good… I doubt they found my apology insincere) and one of the guys said angrily and with an undertone of “get the f*** out of here,” “We are nature photographers. We are shooting pictures of birds.” He then turned his back to me as I walked away scheming of the awesome things I could have said if I had a remote control or a quicker wit.
Since they were obviously paparazzi, I found their analogy a bit off. I thought it would have been more fitting if they had said, “Asking us if we are paparazzi is like asking a prostitute if she is a prostitute… accept the difference is we don’t seem happy to have found a potential customer.”
So to get back at their rudeness (something they are known for for legitimate reasons apparently) I had my friends go up and ask throughout the next hour who they were taking pictures of. They replied with similarly douchy reactions each time, always sticking to some form of the “We’re bird watchers” story but never convincingly and never with the loving tone of an actual nature lover. Oh, I forgot to mention they were “inconspicuously” wearing press passes around their neck.
Eventually they moved from their spot in the park… must have thought people were getting too nosy.
Maybe we managed to save some poor celebrity some humiliation.
But the experience gave me the idea to start a web site where people follow around the paparazzi and take pictures of them. Haha. I wish I had a camera on me.
I went to the 12:01 showing of Wall E in NYC the day it opened. Man it was awesome.
There is very little dialog but it doesn’t matter… it tells the story. Oh and the short before the actual movie is AMAZING. It’s a bout a playful relationship between a magician and a rabbit. Totally sweet.
I just came across this you tube video of Gene Kelly… he is stunningly good. I don’t think there exists today a person with as much talent as this man. Check out this video of
him tap dancing in roller skates.
I got an annoying sore throat where I got all swollen and could barely talk for a couple of days in a row. I had to perform a show and barely got through it. The next day my voice was gone. I didn’t sleep too well and then the next day I got the sniffles. Then my girlfriends mom said the exact same thing happened to her when she was in NYC. It probably has something to do with the nasty NYC air that I can barely breath.
I teach a middle school rock band class (which basically makes me Jack Black) that has its first two shows (we’re touring Boston baby, oh yeah.) We’re kinda like Hansen except way worse. Ha ha. If you are in the area, you should come cheer us on. We’re called “The Buckley Boys” and the show is at the All Asia Bar * 332 Massachusetts Aveune, Cambridge MA @ 3:00 PM.
September 4, 2008 
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