Throw Out Your Garbage

Seeing that it's the last day of 2007, I thought I drop a note in my journal.  It's been over 3 months since I've done so.   I saw the following story today and thought "I bet this guy has a smelly home":

I'm all for recycling, however, I don't think it's ever a good idea to just keep in your home for a year.   This dude "saved every piece of trash he has generated during the past year to see how much garbage one person creates."   According to this report, "the experiment began as a way to examine his own consumption habits, Derfel said, but grew into a statement about consumerism and the environment."

I think the only statement you made here is that you're too lazy to take the trash out.  You want to make "a statement about consumerism and the environment"; keeping your funky trash in your home isn't the answer.  

You would think that maybe, just maybe, there is some sense to this.  Sure, doing something like this does make a pretty strong smell, er, statement, but the story goes on to say that "Derfel said he eventually hopes to donate his accumulated waste to a sculptor."   Yeah, I'm sure a sculptor would love to make art with your year old garbage over using clay, or marble, or anything other than garbage.

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Man keeps year's worth of garbage in apartment

• Story Highlights
• Ari Derfel trying to make statement about consumerism, environment
  
• 35-year-old California man accumulates about 96 cubic feet of trash
  
• Derfel wants to donate trash to sculptor
  

BERKELEY, California (AP) -- Ari Derfel leads a trashy life. He just wants to remind everyone else that they do, too.

The 35-year-old Berkeley caterer said he has saved every piece of trash he has generated during the past year to see how much garbage one person creates. In his case, it was about 96 cubic feet.

The experiment began as a way to examine his own consumption habits, Derfel said, but grew into a statement about consumerism and the environment.

"When we throw something away, what does 'away' mean?" Derfel said."There's no such thing as 'away."'

The refuse -- including every tissue, receipt, food wrapper and plastic bottle -- lies in bins in the kitchen and living room of Derfel's apartment. He composts his food scraps.

Derfel said he eventually hopes to donate his accumulated waste to a sculptor.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/31/trash.man.ap/index.html

"Just A Friend"

I love this song because I can sign the chorus and sound just fine.  Put another way...my signing voice is awful:

Perfect Dating Service

YIKES!!!!

U.S. Americans???

I think my IQ dropped 5 points while watching this clip.   I think the best part of the clip isn't her messing up; it's watching Mario Lopez trying to keep a staright face at the end of the clip.   I feel bad for her, but, wow, what was she trying to say?

Crazy Guinea Pig

The Outfield. "For You"

Anyone that knows me knows that I have a wide range of musical interest.   I like Rock, Rap, Hip Hop, R&B, Ska...you name it.   The Outfield is one of my favorite bands of all time, so I was sad to hear that John Spinks "undergone major surgery due to a rare liver cancer".  Apparently he is doing better.  Hope all goes well. 

NOTE:  Looks like the embedded file for this clip is no longer on YouTube, however, you can see it here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YTA84EXi9hY

Dear Class of 1989

Dear Class of 1989,

I just realized today that we are old.  How do I know this?   Next summer, when the Class of 2008 graduates from high school, it will mark the first graduating class that wasn't alive when we graduated in 1989.  

Here's to winkles, hair growing in weird places, and getting older!!!

Cheers,

Gerard Stone

Back To The Future

I think we're just a few weeks away before this time capsule is dug up:

This drink is callled what?

I'd like to meet the marketing genus who came up with the idea of creating "An energy drink called Cocaine."  What, why didn't you call in crack?

The company that makes this ill-named product "pulled from stores nationwide amid concerns about its name."  I so wish I could have been in the room when they decided to come up with this name.  Unreal.

 

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) -- An energy drink called Cocaine has been pulled from stores nationwide amid concerns about its name, the company that produces it said Monday.

Clegg Ivey, a partner in Redux Beverages LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada, said the company plans to sell the drink under a new name for now.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter last month that said Redux was illegally marketing the drink as a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement. May 4 was the deadline for the company to respond.

The FDA cited as evidence the drink's labeling and Web site, which included the statements "Speed in a Can," "Liquid Cocaine" and "Cocaine -- Instant Rush." The company says Cocaine contains no drugs and is marketed as an energy drink. It has been sold since last August in at least a dozen states.

"Of course, we intended for Cocaine energy drink to be a legal alternative the same way that celibacy is an alternative to premarital sex," Ivey said. "It's not the same thing and no one thinks it is. Our product doesn't have any cocaine in it. No one thinks that it does. We think it is most likely legal in the United States to ship our product."

Ivey said the FDA did not order the company to stop marketing the drink, but officials were concerned about possible legal action. They will announce a new name within a week and hope to have the product back on store shelves within a few weeks.

"What we would like to do is continue to fight to keep the name because it's clearly the name that's the problem," Ivey said. "What we can't do is distribute our product when regulators in the states and the FDA are saying that if you do this, you could go to jail."

Attorneys general in Connecticut and Illinois recently announced that Redux had agreed to stop marketing Cocaine in those states, while a judge in Texas has halted distribution there.

"Our goal is to literally flush Cocaine down the drain across the nation," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who announced the company's agreement with his state Monday. "Our main complaint about Cocaine is its name and marketing strategy seeking to glorify illegal drug use and exploit the allure of marketing 'Speed in a Can,' as it called the product."

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection pulled 300 cases of Cocaine from state stores on April 23, saying Redux Beverages did not license the product as required by law.

As part of the agreement, Connecticut distributors and retailers can return unused product to Redux for a full refund.

A message seeking comment was left with an FDA spokeswoman.

Fans responded to the announcement that Redux would stop marketing Cocaine by leaving dozens of messages, many of them profanity-laced, on a page created for the product on the social networking site MySpace.com.

The energy drink is the first product marketed by Redux, which wants to keep the name Cocaine because it fits with the company's tongue-in-cheek approach, Ivey said.

"We like to think we have a great sense of humor," he said. "And our market, primarily folks from ages 20 to 30, they love the ideas, they love the name, they love the whole campaign. These are not drug users."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/07/energy.drink.ap/index.html

A bad person

It's been almost a month since I've been on here; about time I add something, so here I go:

Just when I begin to think that there is some decency in everyone, I came across this story where "a woman forced an 83-year-old housemate to smoke crack cocaine so she could steal personal information to get a credit card and run up more than $3,000 in charges."

I would like to know how this 41 year old crook was able to use "Shirley Hathaway's name, birth date and Social Security number to open the account."    Think someone would know that most 83 year olds don't look 41?

No matter.  Karma will get the best of her.  By the way, don't you just get a kick out of stories, such as this, where they list the perps full name?  Shouldn't that honor go to someone that did something good?

Thief made woman, 83, smoke crack, police say

NEW PORT RICHEY, Florida (AP) -- A woman forced an 83-year-old housemate to smoke crack cocaine so she could steal personal information to get a credit card and run up more than $3,000 in charges, authorities said.

Pasco County sheriff's investigators accused Theresa M. Stanley-Morgan, 41, of getting the older woman to smoke the drug at least twice to make it easier to exploit her financially.

Stanley-Morgan was arrested April 28. She admitted to investigators that she used Shirley Hathaway's name, birth date and Social Security number to open the account, a sheriff's report said.

Hathaway and a witness told investigators that Stanley-Morgan forced Hathaway to smoke a lit crack pipe, the report said.

Stanley-Morgan was in jail Monday on $23,000 bail, charged with criminal use of personal identification, use of another person's ID without permission and retail theft, according to jail records. Records did not indicate if she had a lawyer.

The sheriff's office said more charges were pending and asked the court not to reduce her bail.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/08/elderly.crack.ap/index.html

 

I can't stop laughing!

The first time I saw this on ABC Family I almost peed my pants!   Funny doesn't even begin to describe it.  Enjoy:

Mmmmm, what did she say?

Whatever she's selling, I'm not buying....

Block Rockin' Beats!!!

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

Gingerbread Men Rock Out Loud!!!

They taste yummm, too!!!!

Circle Circle Dot Dot

Has anyone ever made better use of Lego blocks than this?  I don't think so.

Principal Druggie

I don't remember where or when I heard this, but I was told that one of the most admired jobs in our country is that of a principal.   And why not?  Education is probably the most important resource our country has to reinforce our society.  

Needless to say, I was a little pissed off when I saw this story that alleged "a middle school principal was charged with dealing crystal methamphetamine after police found the drug in his school office."

Principal John Acerra apparently dealed at his school and "police said they found meth on his desk".

Isn't a Principal suppose to be your "PAL", and not you're drug dealer.  I wonder if he'll get to be Principal of his cell block when he goes to prison.

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Principal charged with dealing crystal meth

BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A middle school principal was charged with dealing crystal methamphetamine after police found the drug in his school office.

John Acerra, 50, of Allentown, was arrested Tuesday in his office at Nitschmann Middle School in Bethlehem, where police said they found meth on his desk.

Police said they began investigating Acerra in early February after an informant told them that the principal was using and distributing the drug, The Morning Call newspaper reported Wednesday. Acerra was arrested in his office after allegedly selling drugs to the informant, authorities said.

There was no indication that Acerra sold the drug to students, but Acerra did allegedly sell the drug from his school office after hours and on weekends, said Dennis Mihalopoulos, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Acerra has an unlisted phone number and it was not clear if he had an attorney. He was arraigned on felony drug charges and sent to county prison, with bail set at $200,000.

Bethlehem Area School District Superintendent Joseph Lewis did not immediately return a phone call from on Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/28/meth.principal.ap/index.html

 

Thanks alot, Snickers!!!

Thanks alot, Snickers!  While this ad is funny, I had a very hard time trying to explain to my seven year old son why these two dudes were kissing.   How could I when I don't know myself.  Anyway, this is pretty funny; I just wish my son didn't see it.

Beer in a Baby Bottle

It never fails to amaze me that, every once in a while, I come across a story like this; "An 18-year-old Chickasha woman is charged with child endangerment after police found what they say appears to be beer in her baby's bottle."   Wait, it gets better.  As it turns out this woman's boyfriend, or whatever he is, was "smoking marijuana...when they (the police) checked the welfare of the baby".

While this story doesn't indicate the woman (heck, she's still a kid; 18) was giving the baby beer to drink, there is never a reason, ever, that there should be beer in a baby bottle.   Can we all agree to that?  And whatever your opinion is of smoking weed, you shouldn't be doing it anywhere near a child, especially a baby.

How many levels of wrong is this?  Beer in a baby bottle; smoking tree near a baby.  Morons!  I'm just speechless....

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Chickasha woman accused of putting beer in baby's bottle

CHICKASHA, Okla. An 18-year-old Chickasha woman is charged with child endangerment after police found what they say appears to be beer in her baby's bottle.

Candace Marker was arrested after police found her at a Chickasha hotel with Ricky Holley of Chickasha.

Officers say Holley was smoking marijuana and when they checked the welfare of the baby they noticed the bottled smelled of beer.

The baby was hospitalized and later released into state custody. The contents of the bottle are being tested by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Holley is charged with possession of drugs in the presence of a minor.

http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6017617

 

Fish Fight

I have a link to the following commerical on the right, however, I just located the following on YouTube.  I love it!

This is never right

If you're like me, you throw out unwanted mail; you also delete unwanted email, hang up on unsolicited phone calls, and walk on the other side of the street when you see a man in a chicken suit walking towards you....right?

In any case, I don't think it's ever right to mail dog poop to anyone.  However, "a retired French professor sent dog feces to her congresswoman office after becoming angry with receiving too many mailings."  Oh, and her rocket scientist lawyer said that "she had a constitutional right to do it."

I'm not an expert on the Constitution, but I don't believe the framers meant to include Professor Ensz crap-o-gram's as a way of practicing free speech.   To bolster her defense, one of Prof's Ensz lawyers stated "the act was probably crude and boorish but all the same likened it to a form of political protest such as Thomas Jefferson's criticism of the King of England. At a hearing Tuesday, she also cited Mr. Hankey, an animated, talking piece of human excrement depicted on "South Park," as evidence that it is commonplace to use feces to express disdain."

Oh, ok!  Using that logic, if I wanted to drop an anvil on someone's head I can go with the Looney Toon defense.  By the way, I don't think I've ever seen King of England and Mr. Hankey referenced together.  This lawyer is awesome!

In short, it's never right to mail poop.   Never.  Never ever. 

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Retired Professor Claims Right to Send Feces

AP

GREELEY, Colo. (Jan. 19) - A retired French professor sent dog feces to her congresswoman's office after becoming angry with receiving too many mailings - and her lawyer says she had a constitutional right to do it.

Kathleen Ensz faces a misdemeanor charge of "use of a noxious substance" after taking dog feces from her backyard, wrappingit in a political mailer from Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, and leaving the putrid package at the Republican 's office, according to court documents.

Ensz, a Democrat , was angered by repeatedly receiving mailings from Musgrave. Her lawyer calls the poo delivery a form of free expression, protected by the First Amendment.

Patricia Bangert, one of Ensz's attorneys, admitted the act was "probably crude and boorish" but all the same likened it to a form of political protest such as Thomas Jefferson's criticism of the King of England. At a hearing Tuesday, she also cited Mr. Hankey, an animated, talking piece of human excrement depicted on "South Park," as evidence that it is commonplace to use feces to express disdain.

"Etiquette and propriety aside, it is commonplace in today's society to equate a distasteful or disliked person, situation or thing, to feces," Bangert said.

At the time of the incident last May, Musgrave's camp claimed the gesture was a political dirty trick and demanded an apology from Musgrave's likely Democratic opponent, state Rep. Angela Paccione of Fort Collins, who went on to lose the election to the incumbent. Paccione's campaign denied any involvement.

Ensz, 63, a retired French professor from the University of Northern Colorado, is scheduled for trial in Weld County on May 15. Musgrave's spokesman Aaron Johnson said, "Right now, this issue is between Ms. Ensz and law enforcement officials."

 

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/retired-professor-claims-right-to-send/n20070118212209990002?cid=2194

What's that smell?

Beepers may have gone the way of Beta and 8-tracks, but this commerical is priceless:

You Tube Rocks! It Takes Two!

One of the things I love about YouTube is that I can go back and find old vidoes from high school, including this one!

Word to the Kane!

Just A List

There are a few things I wanted to talk about that have happened recently, like this freakin' ice storm that has totally wrecked by hopes of having a globally-warm winter, and this whole Trump v. Roise v. Paula v. Simon v. "monkey-boy", but instead I would like to share my list to ten strange things I have seen or done in my life. While this list is in random order, it's worth nothing that each of these things are tres freaky.

1. At a Wal-Mart here in Tulsa I saw a Hasdiec Jew and a Rastafrain together. Even back in New York the chances of these two types of people hanging out together are slim, even slimmer here in Tulsa.

2. At Waikiki, I saw a man and his women...well, you know, out in the ocean. Anyway, they were about 20 yards offshore when I saw them. It was near midnight, so they probably thought it was safe. Alas, it wasn't, because I showed up. At first I thought it was a shark trying to kill a sea lion, but as I got closer to the water I saw them! Don't ask my why I was at the beach that late.....

3. In 1998, I was driving down Peachtree Street in Atlanta, and I saw a man...an apparently homeless man, trying to help a women into a red corvette. She was coming out of an restaurant and the car hop brought her car to the front. Homeless man pushed him out of the way, opened the driver's side door, and let the woman into her car. She gave him a tip. About ten minutes later I was waiting outside the Hard Rock, waiting to get in, when this same weirdo came strolling by. The speakers outside of the Hard Rock starting playing Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean"; Dude started to moonwalk, doing the running man, you name it. I think he made about $10 in tips.

4. Speaking of tips, I made $3 dancing on a bar in Waikiki. I needed the cash.

5. I met Pat Morita (aka Mr. Miagee) in Honolulu. I walked up to him and said,"Hey, Mr. Miagee. Wax on, wax off!" His response; "Yeah, very funny. Like that's the first time anyone has ever said that to me."

6. In Korea, some buddies and I came across a temple built into the side of a mountain. We didn't see anyone, so we walked up to the entrance, and were chased away by a horde of Buddhist monks with brooms. At least they didn't go crouching tiger on us.

7. For this you need to see a picture of me.....when I was in Somalia, there were a group of kids that were trying to guess what "nationality" some of the African-American soldiers were based on their appearance (Kenya, Nigerian, etc.) When they saw me, they said I looked like Michael Jackson! Thanks, kids! I almost get shot over there, and they're calling me Michael Jackson.......

8. I saw Wayne Newton in concert....USO tour. Wayne rocks!

9. I saw Garth Brooks at a McDonald's drive through in Owasso, OK.

10. I almost fell out of a helicopter over Miami Beach, FL.

11. I met Chewbacca....couldn't understand a word he was saying. Chewy has bad breath!

12. I sat next to a super model on a flight from Seattle to Seoul. I can't remember her name...Cindy something....OK, she wasn't a super model, but she did show me some of her modeling pictures. She was, how you say, hot!

I think that's enough for now. I actually came up with more than ten things. I'll have to do this again sometime. Rock on!