Bridge over major troubled water
Thanks to coworker Naomi for pointing me out to this article about a man in Utah pretty much subjected to torture that was analagous to making sales. It’s wrongly hilarious so don’t laugh.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Friday, September 21, 2007
Bad Idea of the Day
Electronica musician Jeremy Gloff posted the following on a myspace bulletin:
Party at my apartment tomorrow night! Songs from my next CD
If you want to come let me know. It’s not a PARTY party but it’s a party. Bring food everyone else is! it’s gonna be a bunch of people who all don’t know each other, so you won’t be out of place!!! Email me for directions! I’ll be going a couple new songs.
I’m tempted to ask all of you to contact him for directions. What’s more, he’s based out of Tampa so asking him for directions from Dallas could have some hilarity factor. Of course this is me going back to my prank calling roots. But it was just something I was thinking about. Not at all suggesting anyone to do it. No, not at all. Me? Never. How could such an idea get in your head anyway?
This guy has tons of CDs to his name (13 if I counted correctly) but failed to put his profile under the Music Artist section of myspace so I’m not quite sure what he sounds like. But I recommend checking out some of his reviews of other music. Seems to have a good ear.
Hello from the Lone Star State, Mr. Gloff. Photo by Ryan Prado.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Please keep in your thoughts…
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
I can deal with this headline (thank you, New Jersey)
Gay couples gain rights as N.J. becomes 3rd state for civil unions
Baby steps.
James Estrin/The New York Times
Mark Rado, left, and Degn Schubert applied in Asbury Park, N.J., for a civil union license early Monday as a state law on same-sex unions took effect. New Jersey is the third state to offer civil unions.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
A Little Local at the Golden Globes
Well, local in an Austin sort of way. Latin funk group, Grupo Fantasma, got to play with the big boys last night. Even if one of ‘em is a little short. Read on:
*** Grupo Fantasma performs at Princes’ Golden Globes Afterparty ***
After the Golden Globes last night, at Prince’s Golden Globes Afterparty, which was held at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Bevely Hills, Grupo Fantasma hit the stage at the 1am to a packed house!! Celebrites seen enjoying their performance: Tom Cruise w/ wife Katie Holmes, Leo DiCaprio, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Rock, J-Lo, Lindsey Lohan, and P Diddy just to name a few.
The highlight of the evening was when Grupo Fantasma performed with Prince, Mary J. Blige, Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and Marc Anthony.
A truely unbelievable night. Grupo Fantasma is now on their way to Las Vegas where they will perform at Prince’s club, Club 3121, where they are 3121’s house band every Thursday night through the end of March.
Not a bad gig it sounds. And we get to have them back here (ok, Grapevine) at the Glass Cactus at the Gaylord Texan, January 24. I would be curious of their rendition of Little Red Corvette.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Same-sex marriage ban advances in Massachusetts
Just got this update from advocatemagazine.com. A little deflating to hear.
Lawmakers in Massachusetts, the only state where same-sex marriage is legal, voted Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional amendment to move forward that could effectively ban the practice. The amendment’s backers had collected 170,000 signatures to get a question on the 2008 ballot asking voters to declare marriage to be between only a man and a woman, but they still needed the approval of legislators in two consecutive sessions.
for the rest of the article go here.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Was his name Louis Vuitton?
First of all, how does ‘mistakenly’ come into it? And second, did the security worker notice the shape or the skeleton? (shudder)
10:22 AM CST on Thursday, December 21, 2006
A woman mistakenly put her 1-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport. A startled security worker noticed the shape of a child on the carry-on baggage screening monitor and immediately pulled him out, the Los Angeles Times reported in yesterday’s editions. He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he did not receive a dangerous dose of radiation.
Associated Press
Friday, November 17, 2006
Not as wonderful as I hoped…
Is it just me or was Good Morning America’s big project revealing the official new Seven Wonders of the World a little anticlimactic? The polar caps? The Hawaiian reef? Dunno. Maybe I just don’t like change. But who knew about all these?
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Another sketchy election?
Just got this:
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
THE VIRGINIA BOARD OF ELECTIONS CONFIRMS TO ABC NEWS THAT THE FBI IS INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF VOTER INTIMIDATION AND POLLING PLACE MISDIRECTION SURROUNDING THE BRUISING SENATE RACE THERE. GET SPECIAL UP-TO-THE-MINUTE ELECTION COVERAGE AT ABCNEWS.COM
And so it begins
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Not even a week has passed…
and the New York Post goes and publishes this
I guess I should expect it but it doesn’t mean I/we have to take it. Ya know Mr. Sean Delonas (at 212-930-8000), I am glad that free press allows you such but free press also shows me your just another person that can’t respect the power of positive legislature to move the country forward.
Thus, I forgive your ignorance and bigotry. And only hope for one of your kids or grandkids to be gay and you can live with ideas like this on your conscience as they struggle for equal rights.
