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I remember when we ordered a pizza a few months ago, I sat there, as I always do, and thought, "What would happen if the delivery guy got into an accident on his way here? How late would he be? Would he try to hurry up with the situation because he has a $15 pizza order or would he take his sweet time? Would the pizza be cold? Would he have to offer the pizza for free to the customer because he was so late?" I mean, stupid stuff like this goes through my head all the time, but when the driver, a girl, showed up at our house sort of late due to a minor accident, I thought maybe I wasn't so stupid after all.
Have you ever had thoughts like this before? Things you think will never come true, like stuff right out of the movies or your day-dreaming fantasies. Oddly enough, it happens to me ALL THE TIME. I don't know why and I always kid with my family and say I'm "psycho" rather than psychic. But it's been happening a lot recently. What's weird though, is if I say it out loud or tell someone, it doesn't come true. Only if I think it to myself and say, "Nahh. That could never happen," it DOES happen. What's going on with me?
Ricky Gervais committed career suicide last night at the Golden Globes. His jokes weren't funny. In fact, he was just downright inappropriate and hurtful. People used to think he was a genius for creating "The Office" and "Extras". But now that they've seen him be this rude to his fellow actors and industry folk, I think he could officially be out of the circle. He did what Joan Rivers, Tom Green, Kanye West, Michael Richards, George Michael, the Dixie Chicks and countless others have done.
They were all on top of the world and then BAM! Done.
I'm no PR person or life coach, but to revive your career after you're at the bottom is one tough task. Some people spend their whole life trying to recover. Some succeed and most don't. A good example of this from the early days of showbiz would have to be Fatty Arbuckle. He allegedly squashed a girl at a party, raped her and she later died. (This story has since been proven incorrect, but either way, it ruined his career, whether the accusations were true or not.)
I think being the hottest thing of the moment, making the most money and being the most in demand makes you even more susceptible to failure. A lot of celebs have later written in their tell-all books or spoken on chat shows about how they really had no control during that time in their life. They're on every magazine cover, in each movie, dating the hottest person, earning the most money, making cameos in everything, and almost always, they venture into another career to try their hand at it. (Michael Jordan the baseball player? Justin Bieber the actor?)
I just wonder why people do such stupid things in their careers. They run so close to losing their celebrity but somehow hold onto it for just a little while longer. The question is, how do you stay relevant? How can you remain controversy free? I think one person who is a great example is Tom Hanks. The man is cool. He makes good movies, doesn't say stupid things and just does everything right. I think Kanye should stop, look and listen.
Chapters of A Screwed Up Celebrity's Life
I. Welcome to Fame! II. Breakout Star III. On Top of the World IV. Royal Screw Up (Option: Death) V. Nobody Wants You VI. Makeover VII. Comeback (Option: Go Into Hiding) VIII. New Found Fame (Option: Rejected) IX. No Longer Cool X. Fade Away (Option: Lifetime Achivement & Respect)
I have an upcoming project for one of my art classes where we have to make a 3-5 min. video showing what we think the 2000's are all about. Now, my teacher wasn't even sure what to call those years from 2000-2009. I've done some research and over in England, they've picked the phrase "noughties" - the word "nought" meaning zero. For my video, cause I know you're wondering, I'm going to do the 2000's from A-Z. A - American Idol B - Britney Spears C - Cellphones D - DVDs E - Emo and so on...
What do you think should be on the list? Let me know!!
I'm a fan of taking care of my feathered friends. And, because it's now February, the coldest month of the year, birds need extra care from us humans. So, I found a few tips on how to feed the birds over the winter time. They need us, peeps!
Feeding birds in the winter months is very important. During the winter months their natural food sources are often scarce and they heavily rely on us filling our bird feeders with seed and suet. Birds do not store lots of fat on their bodies, so they need to restock their fuel supplies every day. They often cannot go more than 24 hours without eating in severe weather. Here are some easy tips for you to keep your backyard bird friends flocking year round.
1. Place feeders near cover such as dense evergreens to provide birds cover from storms and escape from predators.
2. Feed black oil sunflower, or mixes that contain a high proportion of black oil sunflower. Black oil sunflower is an energy rich food that has a high fat and protein content. Birds need more energy to keep warm in cold weather.
3. Provide an all-you-can-eat buffet by keeping feeders full. Birds especially need to chow down at the end of the day to stock up on calories for the night, and in the early morning to refuel after a cold night.
4. Provide suet cakes in addition to seed. Suet is considered a high energy food for birds because it consists of fat. A gram of fat contains 9 calories per gram compared to 4 calories per gram for carbohydrates or protein. Thus, birds get more calories when they consume fat vs. the same amount of protein or carbohydrates. Birds need more calories in winter because they spend more energy to keep warm. Suet will attract woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and many more.
5. Be consistent. Do not stop feeding in the middle of winter because birds become accustomed to using your feeders as a food source, especially in very severe weather when your feeders may aid their survival. If you go away, ask a neighbor or friend to keep your feeders going.
6. Provide feeders that have a good size capacity, or use multiple feeders so you can have an ample supply of food available for the birds, especially during snow storms.
7. Shovel snow off feeders and from around the ground below your feeders after storms so birds can access the seed. Mourning Doves, Juncos and White-throated Sparrows are ground feeders and need to access the seed that falls to the ground – help them out & throw some seed on the ground.
From Beatle Bob Matonis' excellent Johnny Rabbitt piece in the June 1997 issue of Night Times:
"...It was September of 1964, when Don Pietromonaco arrived in St. Louis. The theater for his inimitable brilliance was KXOK, 630 on your AM dial...
Manning the prime slot of 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight, the new Johnny Rabbitt was like nothing that had ever shot out of the cannon of St. Louis radio: a suave, high strung word machine flashing on the latest rock and roll impending mania. His motormouth partner was Bruno J. Grunion, a character that only existed on reel-to-reel tapes, whose gravelly voice was that of Johnny Rabbitt's in disguise.
Coolness busts all over, in bits and frames; The transcendent cheesiness of their commercials, a series of unparalleled skits where Johnny Rabbitt and Bruno would carry the listeners down a twisting word-road where puns sway and far-out concepts bloom. Their fandom grew in such numbers that the Johnny Rabbitt Army membership grew to over fifty-thousand in number, with enlistees joining in from twenty-three different states! From the years 1964-1967, the Johnny Rabbitt Show was the highest rated in its time slot in the St. Louis area. Even Harry Caray, Jack Buck, and the Go-Go Baseball Cardinals could not best the dynamic duo of Johnny Rabbitt and Bruno J. Grunion. During those same three years, Johnny Rabbitt continually placed in Billboard Magazine's weekly ratings as one of the Top Ten disc Jockeys in the country.
A live Johnny Rabbitt broadcast was pure pandemonium. Once the Rabbitt urged everyone to come on down for a Columbia Records give-away inside downtown's Stix-Baer & Fuller. Thousands jammed the store. Thousands more mobbed the streets, forcing cops to close down a virtually gridlocked city! On their first U.S. tour, in 1964 Paul Revere and the Raiders drew a scant three-hundred to their Chain of Rocks Amusement Park show. Johnny Rabbitt's Teen Town singin' soiree the same night [featured the Rabb] in an ocean blue sharkskin suit and top-hat with the trademark Rabbitt ears protruding from the sides. The gym was packed to the limit with continental hipsters and transistor sisters all razor-cut and fabulashed, moving and grooving to the Push and Shake. and over by the bandstand with Bob Kuban and the In-Men, there's Johnny Rabbitt again- hart askew, hully-gullying with a bevy of capri-clad Ronettes clones as the band blasts "Money."
If you were a local band, a Johnny Rabbitt plug was a 'Ticket To Ride' for area stardom... A local group could bring their single to KXOK, and by the end of the evening it'd be airing as an extra on the Johnny Rabbitt show. It didn't matter if your band was new on the scene, if you made a killer disc, the Rabbitt would blab it through the airwaves indefinitely...
At least once a month I pull out a taped Johnny Rabbitt show and introduce someone else to the man. Sometimes when I listen I dance. Other times I have a perpetual smile on my face, and there are times that I cry because he brings back some of the greatest memories of my childhood when the bulk of my family and friends were young, living, and loving me... He was part of my family, the invisible guardian who sat with me sometimes when I was alone, filling the room with his voice that boomed out of our big Motorola combination radio-record player. The compartment at the bottom held all the 45's he gave me when I was his gopher at KXOK from 1964-1965...
Donald Pietromonaco-Johnny Rabbitt, 61 died of complications from emphysema, April 18, 1997 in West Los Angeles, ending his illustrious career as a child actor on TV and the big screen, and St. Louis' greatest rock and roll DJ.
American Idol - on FOX, Tuesdays/Wednesdays @ 8/7c (Premiered 1/12/10)
Lost - on ABC, Tuesdays @ 9/8c (Premieres 1/26/10)
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - on CBS, Thursdays @ 8/7c (Premieres 2/11/10)
I'm really excited about the Lost series finale. No more Sawyer with his shirt off...darn it.
High School Reunion is always sure to bring about crazy cat fights and backstabbing, so that'll be great for Hump Day.
American Idol, as I see it, will only be on for this season and that'll be it, until a reunion show is made. I just think they've run out of originality after all. Plus, the viewership has steadily gone down each year, so if the numbers are down, so are the paychecks, which means cancellation. Look at the best shows; did they last more than ten seasons? No. Viewers and celebrities alike get sick of the same old stuff. Besides, without Paula's half-brained comments, I don't think I'll enjoy the show as much.
Survivor, as I thought would happen eventually, is re-hashing their old players AND old challenges. Clever idea to have the good vs. bad though. We'll see some serious fights laid down here!
Finally, the Celebrity Rehab show is on again, and this time they have really messed up folks. Not vicious, violent people like Jeff Conway or Gary Busey, but mentally unstable folks, such as Heidi Fleiss and McKenzie Phillips. I like McKenzie, but when you've lived a life like hers, you're sure to have some problems. And god love her, she's doing her best to get better. That book was a huge step. People were just floored when she revealed that her dad did all that stuff. I feel for her, I really do.
Overall, I think the winter 2010 lineup looks pretty good. Plus, we've got the winter olympics to enjoy. If you've got Apolo Ohno, what more do you need?
As my family and I were watching the American Music Awards last night, we witnessed a spectacular comeback performance by J-Lo herself. Running through the crowd with a posse of people surrounding her... She was dressed like a boxing champ who was ready for the fight. Halfway through the song, as she's climbing up her shirtless men like stairs, she goes to jump off the final "step" and falls on her bum. Wow, was that embarrassing for someone like her! Heck, it'd be for anyone, really. But when you're trying to top Lady Gaga's performance and take the focus off MJ for just a second, and you fall, oh boy, all they're gonna talk about is how you fell on your ass. Sure nuff, what do the headlines say? See below:
And watch the video. The song was actually pretty good and catchy, but the fall ruined it all. Sorry J-Lo. We're a society of criticizing freaks!!
**Update: The video I featured above when I first posted this blog was removed the very next day by Dick Clark Productions. A cover up, perhaps? But rest assured, those who DID see it will NEVER forget what they saw. Besides, everyone has an embarrassing moment now and then. So what. J-Lo should be glad people are even talking about her after this little hiatus she's been on. If you want to stay popular and fresh in the minds of the viewing public, be active. Don't EVER go away or you'll be forgotten. Sorry.
This is from the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, which was hosted by Mike Myers. This video is one of the skits from the show. When I first saw this, I almost peed myself. Hopefully you're wearing Depends....
Ghost Hunters Jason and Grant entertain UMSL - News
Monday, September 28, 2009 @ 10:19 AM
Great article on Jason & Grant (the Ghost Hunters) from last year, where they spoke at UMSL during their FREE lecture series. I was in attendance, thank you very much...
Ricky Gervais committed career suicide last night at the Golden Globes. His jokes weren't funny. In fact, he was just downright inappropriate and hurtful. People used to think he was a genius for creating "The Office" and "Extras". But now that they've seen him be this rude to his fellow actors and industry folk, I think he could officially be out of the circle. He did what Joan Rivers, Tom Green, Kanye West, Michael Richards, George Michael, the Dixie Chicks and countless others have done.
They were all on top of the world and then BAM! Done.
I'm no PR person or life coach, but to revive your career after you're at the bottom is one tough task. Some people spend their whole life trying to recover. Some succeed and most don't. A good example of this from the early days of showbiz would have to be Fatty Arbuckle. He allegedly squashed a girl at a party, raped her and she later died. (This story has since been proven incorrect, but either way, it ruined his career, whether the accusations were true or not.)
I think being the hottest thing of the moment, making the most money and being the most in demand makes you even more susceptible to failure. A lot of celebs have later written in their tell-all books or spoken on chat shows about how they really had no control during that time in their life. They're on every magazine cover, in each movie, dating the hottest person, earning the most money, making cameos in everything, and almost always, they venture into another career to try their hand at it. (Michael Jordan the baseball player? Justin Bieber the actor?)
I just wonder why people do such stupid things in their careers. They run so close to losing their celebrity but somehow hold onto it for just a little while longer. The question is, how do you stay relevant? How can you remain controversy free? I think one person who is a great example is Tom Hanks. The man is cool. He makes good movies, doesn't say stupid things and just does everything right. I think Kanye should stop, look and listen.
Chapters of A Screwed Up Celebrity's Life
I. Welcome to Fame!
II. Breakout Star
III. On Top of the World
IV. Royal Screw Up (Option: Death)
V. Nobody Wants You
VI. Makeover
VII. Comeback (Option: Go Into Hiding)
VIII. New Found Fame (Option: Rejected)
IX. No Longer Cool
X. Fade Away (Option: Lifetime Achivement & Respect)
For my video, cause I know you're wondering, I'm going to do the 2000's from A-Z.
A - American Idol
B - Britney Spears
C - Cellphones
D - DVDs
E - Emo
and so on...
What do you think should be on the list? Let me know!!
I'm a fan of taking care of my feathered friends. And, because it's now February, the coldest month of the year, birds need extra care from us humans. So, I found a few tips on how to feed the birds over the winter time. They need us, peeps!
Feeding birds in the winter months is very important. During the winter months their natural food sources are often scarce and they heavily rely on us filling our bird feeders with seed and suet. Birds do not store lots of fat on their bodies, so they need to restock their fuel supplies every day. They often cannot go more than 24 hours without eating in severe weather. Here are some easy tips for you to keep your backyard bird friends flocking year round.
1. Place feeders near cover such as dense evergreens to provide birds cover from storms and escape from predators.
2. Feed black oil sunflower, or mixes that contain a high proportion of black oil sunflower. Black oil sunflower is an energy rich food that has a high fat and protein content. Birds need more energy to keep warm in cold weather.
3. Provide an all-you-can-eat buffet by keeping feeders full. Birds especially need to chow down at the end of the day to stock up on calories for the night, and in the early morning to refuel after a cold night.
4. Provide suet cakes in addition to seed. Suet is considered a high energy food for birds because it consists of fat. A gram of fat contains 9 calories per gram compared to 4 calories per gram for carbohydrates or protein. Thus, birds get more calories when they consume fat vs. the same amount of protein or carbohydrates. Birds need more calories in winter because they spend more energy to keep warm. Suet will attract woodpeckers, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and many more.
5. Be consistent. Do not stop feeding in the middle of winter because birds become accustomed to using your feeders as a food source, especially in very severe weather when your feeders may aid their survival. If you go away, ask a neighbor or friend to keep your feeders going.
6. Provide feeders that have a good size capacity, or use multiple feeders so you can have an ample supply of food available for the birds, especially during snow storms.
7. Shovel snow off feeders and from around the ground below your feeders after storms so birds can access the seed. Mourning Doves, Juncos and White-throated Sparrows are ground feeders and need to access the seed that falls to the ground – help them out & throw some seed on the ground.
Lookie what I found!
From Beatle Bob Matonis' excellent Johnny Rabbitt piece in the June 1997 issue of Night Times:
"...It was September of 1964, when Don Pietromonaco arrived in St. Louis. The theater for his inimitable brilliance was KXOK, 630 on your AM dial...
Manning the prime slot of 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight, the new Johnny Rabbitt was like nothing that had ever shot out of the cannon of St. Louis radio: a suave, high strung word machine flashing on the latest rock and roll impending mania. His motormouth partner was Bruno J. Grunion, a character that only existed on reel-to-reel tapes, whose gravelly voice was that of Johnny Rabbitt's in disguise.
Coolness busts all over, in bits and frames; The transcendent cheesiness of their commercials, a series of unparalleled skits where Johnny Rabbitt and Bruno would carry the listeners down a twisting word-road where puns sway and far-out concepts bloom. Their fandom grew in such numbers that the Johnny Rabbitt Army membership grew to over fifty-thousand in number, with enlistees joining in from twenty-three different states! From the years 1964-1967, the Johnny Rabbitt Show was the highest rated in its time slot in the St. Louis area. Even Harry Caray, Jack Buck, and the Go-Go Baseball Cardinals could not best the dynamic duo of Johnny Rabbitt and Bruno J. Grunion. During those same three years, Johnny Rabbitt continually placed in Billboard Magazine's weekly ratings as one of the Top Ten disc Jockeys in the country.
A live Johnny Rabbitt broadcast was pure pandemonium. Once the Rabbitt urged everyone to come on down for a Columbia Records give-away inside downtown's Stix-Baer & Fuller. Thousands jammed the store. Thousands more mobbed the streets, forcing cops to close down a virtually gridlocked city! On their first U.S. tour, in 1964 Paul Revere and the Raiders drew a scant three-hundred to their Chain of Rocks Amusement Park show. Johnny Rabbitt's Teen Town singin' soiree the same night [featured the Rabb] in an ocean blue sharkskin suit and top-hat with the trademark Rabbitt ears protruding from the sides. The gym was packed to the limit with continental hipsters and transistor sisters all razor-cut and fabulashed, moving and grooving to the Push and Shake. and over by the bandstand with Bob Kuban and the In-Men, there's Johnny Rabbitt again- hart askew, hully-gullying with a bevy of capri-clad Ronettes clones as the band blasts "Money."
If you were a local band, a Johnny Rabbitt plug was a 'Ticket To Ride' for area stardom... A local group could bring their single to KXOK, and by the end of the evening it'd be airing as an extra on the Johnny Rabbitt show. It didn't matter if your band was new on the scene, if you made a killer disc, the Rabbitt would blab it through the airwaves indefinitely...
At least once a month I pull out a taped Johnny Rabbitt show and introduce someone else to the man. Sometimes when I listen I dance. Other times I have a perpetual smile on my face, and there are times that I cry because he brings back some of the greatest memories of my childhood when the bulk of my family and friends were young, living, and loving me... He was part of my family, the invisible guardian who sat with me sometimes when I was alone, filling the room with his voice that boomed out of our big Motorola combination radio-record player. The compartment at the bottom held all the 45's he gave me when I was his gopher at KXOK from 1964-1965...
Donald Pietromonaco-Johnny Rabbitt, 61 died of complications from emphysema, April 18, 1997 in West Los Angeles, ending his illustrious career as a child actor on TV and the big screen, and St. Louis' greatest rock and roll DJ.
Arrivebirdie-Rabb!"
Here are the shows I'll be watching this season...
I'm really excited about the Lost series finale. No more Sawyer with his shirt off...darn it.
High School Reunion is always sure to bring about crazy cat fights and backstabbing, so that'll be great for Hump Day.
American Idol, as I see it, will only be on for this season and that'll be it, until a reunion show is made. I just think they've run out of originality after all. Plus, the viewership has steadily gone down each year, so if the numbers are down, so are the paychecks, which means cancellation. Look at the best shows; did they last more than ten seasons? No. Viewers and celebrities alike get sick of the same old stuff. Besides, without Paula's half-brained comments, I don't think I'll enjoy the show as much.
Survivor, as I thought would happen eventually, is re-hashing their old players AND old challenges. Clever idea to have the good vs. bad though. We'll see some serious fights laid down here!
Finally, the Celebrity Rehab show is on again, and this time they have really messed up folks. Not vicious, violent people like Jeff Conway or Gary Busey, but mentally unstable folks, such as Heidi Fleiss and McKenzie Phillips. I like McKenzie, but when you've lived a life like hers, you're sure to have some problems. And god love her, she's doing her best to get better. That book was a huge step. People were just floored when she revealed that her dad did all that stuff. I feel for her, I really do.
Overall, I think the winter 2010 lineup looks pretty good. Plus, we've got the winter olympics to enjoy. If you've got Apolo Ohno, what more do you need?
As my family and I were watching the American Music Awards last night, we witnessed a spectacular comeback performance by J-Lo herself. Running through the crowd with a posse of people surrounding her... She was dressed like a boxing champ who was ready for the fight. Halfway through the song, as she's climbing up her shirtless men like stairs, she goes to jump off the final "step" and falls on her bum. Wow, was that embarrassing for someone like her! Heck, it'd be for anyone, really. But when you're trying to top Lady Gaga's performance and take the focus off MJ for just a second, and you fall, oh boy, all they're gonna talk about is how you fell on your ass. Sure nuff, what do the headlines say? See below:
MTV Artcle
And watch the video. The song was actually pretty good and catchy, but the fall ruined it all. Sorry J-Lo. We're a society of criticizing freaks!!
**Update: The video I featured above when I first posted this blog was removed the very next day by Dick Clark Productions. A cover up, perhaps? But rest assured, those who DID see it will NEVER forget what they saw. Besides, everyone has an embarrassing moment now and then. So what. J-Lo should be glad people are even talking about her after this little hiatus she's been on. If you want to stay popular and fresh in the minds of the viewing public, be active. Don't EVER go away or you'll be forgotten. Sorry.
This is from the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, which was hosted by Mike Myers. This video is one of the skits from the show. When I first saw this, I almost peed myself. Hopefully you're wearing Depends....
Labels: 2008, awards, bucky, eisenstein, funny, mike myers, mtv, parody, skit
Great article on Jason & Grant (the Ghost Hunters) from last year, where they spoke at UMSL during their FREE lecture series. I was in attendance, thank you very much...
Ghost Hunters Jason and Grant entertain UMSL - News
And mark your calendars, because Jay & Grant are hitting the road again and coming to the STL on October 20th. (More details on the TAPS or UMSL page)
Official TAPS site
UMSL site