Thursday, September 24, 2009

Guess the Music Bands

ok, some of these are kinda easy, and others you might say huh?? but I just made these images real fast, so...  See if you can figure out each of the five images, which music bands do the images represent?  Scroll to the bottom of this post to see the answers!


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ANSWERS

Band #1 - Black Eyed Peas
Band #2 - The Doors
Band #3 - Earth, Wind & Fire
Band #4 - Neil Young
Band #5 - Radio Head

Monday, September 21, 2009

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The Dallas Cowboys played their first NFL game at the new digs, a one BILLION dollar city, uhmm stadium, that seats 85,000 to 105,000 (comfortably?).  Shame they lost, by the way!  :-)   One minor detail in all the luxury that they overlooked, when the punter kicks the ball, it goes UP, and wassup above the field?  a very LARGE 60 yard long JumboTron screen, and when the ball goes up there, it hits the screen, and will continue to do so unless they plan on lowering the field!  HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS?  :-)




Architect George Kostanza, who was on loan from the Yankees, says there should be no issues with the height of the scoreboard, and that the Cowboys are considering a contest for fans to hit the board during a halftime punt contest on Festivus.




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There was a story in the Courier Post yesterday, that caught my eye "NJ Man Gets Prison Term After 16th DWI Conviction".  The "16th" part actually made me read it.  How are you out and driving after FIFTEEN DWI's??  Then you read on and the guy had 78 license suspensions.  78...  But he's  s-o-r-r-y, more this time then the others, because he had a head-on with another car this time and will now have to spend time IN the slammer, instead of drinking slammers!... and speaking of  s-o-r-r-y...

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You are a jerk, yes you look fat in that dress, wish I had a bazooka to launch at drivers like you, and you talk too much!  oh, excuse me for that outburst, I'm s-o-r-r-y!  There, are we ok again?  :-)  Interesting times of people in the spotlight, speaking their mind without thinking, then being s-o-r-r-y.  There are a lot of stories about what's up with people acting like this, and the examples they set.


But anyone who is a fan of the HBO show True Blood, can tell you exactly what is happening.  MaryAnn put her spell on them, to help gather the non-vampires in town, into a mass sacrifice for her "lord" and husband, the big Ox, as she chases Sookie with lobster claw arms. But wait, that Ox was really shape-shifter Jack, who gores out her heart.  Who didn't see THAT coming! ha  Everyone bounces back to normal and apologizes for their actions, including Joe Wilson, Serena Williams and Roger Federer. Happy endings for everyone...


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Friday, September 11, 2009

Memories of THAT September 11

Today is a rainy 9-11, unlike the clear skies on this date in 2001. I was in Washington, DC that morning, there to attend a class later that week in Arlington, VA. Stayed at the Washington Hilton, the same hotel where Ronald Reagan was shot, situated a few blocks northwest of the White House. Woke up and had the television on, and it looked like they were playing the movie Die Hard, so when I changed the channel and saw that "movie" again, I knew this was real. A plane had crashed by "accident" were some early reports, and you saw the smoke coming from the World Trade Center tower. Then as you're watching this, BAM, another jet hits the other tower. I don't recall exactly when I then heard, "We have reports that the Pentagon has been hit by another jet". But, if the NY incidents made your jaw drop, knowing you were blocks from the White House and Washington was a target really shook you.

Washington was in a lock-down, you couldn't get in or out of the hotel without a few forms of identification. There were military humvees along the roads and hardly a soul was walking around for a day or two. I did end up getting to that class later in the week, which was amazing they still had it, a few miles from the Pentagon, in Arlington.

I saw this video on the Internet a few days after 911, and kept it since then. Hope nobody minds me sharing this here, assuming the link still works!



911 video

I have those memories, but also knowing how the heroes of Flight 93, that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, saved many lives and whatever targets in DC, by their actions, and I thank them!