Kim & Poochie

1989 - 2004

Jimmy & Poochie

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If ever there was an evil, lying, racist on planet Earth, it would be this man...world renowned hate monger and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Last week he made the claim that the levees in New Orleans were intentionally blown up to flood the black part of town and keep the white part dry. If that weren't stupid enough, yesterday he made the comment that the Red Cross should be destroyed if it wasn't going to help black people after natural disasters. What an idiot.

Courtesy of my beloved Kim! :^)

Yeah, yeah, yeah...the Cowboys lost last night and yes, you should certainly rub it in cause I would certainly be gloating about it had they won. The season is young though and anything could happen. We'll see how they fair against the 49'ers next week. Cowboys still rule in my book!

Thanks to some of my "connections" I found out when and where The O.C. would be filming this weekend so me and Kim went down to check it out. They were filming this beach scene Friday night in which Ryan gets in a fight with some new guy we've never seen on the show before. These pictures aren't all that great cause security was cracking down on anyone taking pictures so I was being very discrete after several of them converged on me from all directions and "asked" me not to photograph anymore. They were actually super nice about it but I got the impression that they wouldn't be if they had to ask again...but I did anyway!

It was fun watching how "TV" gets made and how many people it takes to film what looked like a ten second scene. I can't wait till it comes on so we can be like "hey...we were there for that!" :^)

Q: What's President Bush's position on Roe vs. Wade?

A: He doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.

Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

This is by far one of the best internet vids I've seen in awhile...not counting adult videos of course, ha-ha! It's a group of fifth graders performing Devo's Whip It complete with energy dome hats just like the classic video. These kids already have more talent than Kanye West! Ha!

• http://www.hawley.k12.mn.us/elem/gallery/hawleywood/web movies/devo.mov

Being the webmaster for the Redondo Beach Pier, I'm usually photographing sunsets there, but I decided to stroll up to Manhattan Beach tonight to diversify my photo collection a little bit. Kim rode with me and hung out on the pier as I roamed around taking various shots including some of the gems below. The tern (bird) is by far my favorite shot of the evening. (If it is a tern - I'm no bird expert.)

Sometimes I think we all forget what a beautiful planet we live on and take it for granted all too often. With today being September 11th, I think it's important we never forget about what happened that day, but at the same time, not forget to admire the beauty that's all around us because we will never be here again. Enjoy life!

We didn't do too much this weekend since we both worked so hard last weekend. We just stayed in and bummed around the house watching movies and having a few cold ones every now and again. We did go the book store Saturday night. Torrance has one of the best Barnes & Nobles I've ever been in complete with giant palm trees and Jurassic plants at the main entrance and cushioned sofas and chairs in which to sit while reading their books. We bought several books and at the rate we're going, we're going to have our own library before it's over.

Sunday we ordered pizza, watched some TV, and talked to my bro Barry & his wife before going to Manhattan Beach to watch the sunset...see above post. After that, we came home, crashed on the sofa, and watched Taxi with Jimmy Fallon & Queen Latifah which was very funny.

Football season officially got underway today much to my surprise. I've been so consumed with work that I totally forgot about it...not that I'm a big sports fanatic anyway. I'm usually only interested in three things when it comes to football, (1) seeing the Cowboys win, (2) seeing the Redskins lose and (3) seeing the Cowboys beat the Redskins even if they are losing to every other team in the league! Ha! At least they won today!

Here's some of the things that had me laughing this weekend...

• Fireworks & Hot Dogs - Hysterical clip of a dog stealing a lit roman candle.

• Exploding Microwave - These guys are like the grown up versions of all us Seven Oaks kids who used to blow things up and have the same general reaction. Sometimes I miss living in the country where you can get away with blowing things up.

• Energizer Bunny - Watch this bunny hump a balloon until it pops!

• Freudian Slip - Female news anchor talks about the price of heating oil being jacked up but must have something else on her mind.

• Unphased - Dick Cheney is so cool...during a press conference somebody tells him to go "F" himself and he just laughs and keeps right on going. I expect if the cameras weren't on him, he'd probably tell the guy to "F" his own self. Why can't Dick Cheney be President instead of the loser we have now?

Remember the James Bond movie "Octopussy"?? Well, here's a real one! HA!

Just plain funny...

Al Gore and Bill & Hillary Clinton go to Heaven.

(NO, NO, this is just the FIRST part of the joke----keep reading.)

God addresses Al first. "Al, what do you believe in?" Al replies, "Well, I believe I won that election, but that it was your will that I did not serve. And I've come to understand that now." God thinks for a second and says, "Okay, very good. Come and sit at my left."

God then addresses Bill. "Bill, what do you believe in?" Bill replies, "I believe in forgiveness. I've sinned, but I've never held a grudge against my fellow man, and I hope no grudges are held against me." God thinks for a second and says, "You are forgiven, my son. Come and sit at my right."

Then God addresses Hillary. "Hillary, what do you believe in?"

"I believe you're in my chair."

Courtesy of Shannon Powell

Okay...I'm sooooooo over the whole Kanye thing AND all the bickering on the guestbook. GET OVER IT PEOPLE!

Kim

Apple is about to cement their place as the undisputed kings of the portable music player with their new iPod nano which can hold up to 1000 songs. They unveiled it at one of their special events this past week along with several other awesome products including a iPod cell phone which holds 100 songs. How smart is Apple? Now that soooo many people have bought the big iPods they're releasing the iPod nano just in time for everyone to get one for Christmas. Now would be a good time to buy some Apple stock.

• http://stream.apple.akadns.net/

The video link above shows the whole event and all the products they're unveiling but also features something bizarre. After unveiling all these wonderful gadgets of human ingenuity, they parade out Kanye West to give a show in human ignorance. Watching Kanye West perform to a room filled with intelligent and affluent tech people was like watching something out of the cultural twilight zone. During his performance, Kanye dropped a wide variety of profanities including one segment where all the music stopped and he said "Fuck The Police...that's how I treat em" and then made the incredibly ignorant assertion that George Bush gets a cut of all illegal drug sales including crack. What a complete moron!

(He starts performing around the 50 minute mark if you want to fast forward)

Then it only got worse. He goes on to perform his new "song" Gold Digga and I actually enjoyed watching it because it was so horribly bad. It literally looked like one of those bad auditions you see on American Idol each year and if you didn't know who Kanye West was (and I imagine many in the audience didn't) you would have thought this was a joke. His little dance moves had me cracking up especially when he says "broke, broke"...you'll see. One of my friends IM'd me and told me that you can see a woman in the crowd mouthing the words "I hate rap" but I haven't spotted that yet.

I've heard so many things about Kanye West and his music but now that I've heard a few of his songs, it's painfully clear that he's just another ignorant rapper spouting off a bunch nonsense that has much to do about nothing. Rap music is a bunch of garbage and Americans really need a lesson in music appreciation. While I also believe that everyone has the right to listen to whatever they want, I think anyone that considers this music is seriously lacking in taste.

Kanye West Sucks!