My Halloween Costume

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For those wondering what Kim dressed up as for Halloween...she was a silicon wafer cause that's what they make where she works. She made the costume herself and won third place in her company's costume contest. She bought the top hat, cane, and tap shoes off eBay to jazz it up a bit making her a Silicon Wafer...Broadway Style!

Q: What could be funnier than watching a crackhead like Bobby Brown singing "Monster Mash" on Jimmy Kimmel Live?

A: Crackhead Bobby singing "Monster Mash" with mental retard Mike Tyson on back-up vocals!

• http://gorillamask.net/monstermash.shtml

UNBELIEVABLY FUNNY! (And sad...and pathetic....and funny!)

It's no big secret that big oil companies and terrorist nations are both getting RICH on the backs of Americans and here's a good example of what oil money can do in the space of 14 years.

When was the last time you ever saw an American city like this spring up so quickly? And keep in mind this is the desert of the middle east!

Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1991

Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2005

Even though I voted for this moron twice (like there was really a "choice") I totally agree with the news ticker.

Even in retirement, Bill Clinton can't keep his hands off a young lady in the White House...in this case, Supreme Court nominee Judge Alito's daughter. 

Stare at the cross in the middle of the image...almost immediately you'll see the pink dots turn green and eventually just vanish altogether. Very cool!

I posted this clip a few weeks but it's worth reposting for anyone that missed Trading Spouses last night and wants to see the crazy conclusion next week. Essentially, the show takes two husbands or two wives and has them switch families for a week to see how other people live. This time around they switched two wives (one a completely unhinged religious freak, the other a sort of timid new age mystic) and it has been nothing but pure entertainment.

The religious woman thinks she's in hell because the new age family had a summer solstice party and has a star (not a pentagram) in their backyard. Meanwhile, the new age woman has to contend with the local "Christian" women brow-beating her and basically condemning her for not being a Christian within 10 seconds of meeting her. I guess that's what Jesus would do right?

You can check out a highlight clicking the link below and tune into Fox at 9pm next Wednesday to see more insanity.

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/tradingspouses.html 

I didn't really get to dress up Halloween night unless you count my photographer's vest as my costume. I actually had to photograph a Halloween party at the Redondo Pier earlier tonite so that was my Halloween. A far cry from the days of terrorizing my old neighborhood of Seven Oaks. Ha! It was actually pretty fun. Kim may have some photos of her Halloween costume to put on here at some point so check back late this week.

Everyone gets their 15 seconds of fame sooner or later and my very first boss (Priscilla [Welcher] Agioni) got hers today on News 7 in Virginia today during a Halloween costume. She won scariest costume in the Downtown Roanoke Employee Costume Contest. I think she was a bloody baker or mad chef. Way to go Priscilla!

You can see her 15 seconds of fame by clicking here and then clicking on the Halloween video.

Priscilla was my first boss waaay back in the day when I worked at the local skating rink at the tender age of 15. Of course I didn't remain tender for very long...I actually "became a man" while working there one night so my skating rink job still remains the coolest job I ever had. LOL!

So not much of an update this week...we've both been extremely busy lately but here's our weekend update none-the-less...

Friday - We stayed in Friday nite and watched a few Halloween movies including Hellraiser I & II. Enough said.

Saturday - We were all over the place on Saturday...running here and there and everywhere and even had to go to the mall where they already have all the Christmas decorations up. We got invited to several Halloween parties at the last minute (as always...I don't think anyone ever plans more than 24 hours in advance out here) but after running around all day and not having any new costumes, we stayed in. Kim worked on the costume she's wearing to work tomorrow (she's going to be a silicon wafer cause that's what her company makes) and I played on the pc and watched Halloween movies simultaneously.

Sunday - Even though we got an extra hour of sleep, we still slept late but got up around noon and headed out for another busy day. We're both working with nutritionists to improve our diets and overall health (it's the thing to do in Cali) and so we went to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's and started stocking up on all kinds of organic foods. I'm mostly moving to a diet of fish and organic meats like Buffalo and Ostrich while Kim is moving to a varied diet of organic meats, veggies and fruit. It should be an interesting week but hopefully we'll shed a few pounds and start feeling better....not that we're feeling bad or anything...but our nutritionists said you don't know how good you can feel until you start eating better and living better. We'll see.

Sunday evening we cleaned up the house and did something we hadn't done in ages...chilled out completely. We cut off everything in the house including our pc's (shocker!), put on some soft jazz and crashed on the sofa to read for a few hours. Maybe it was the early darkness now that we've switched to DST but whatever made us do it, it was nice to really relax for a change.

So that's it for now...I'll try and do some better updates as time permits this week. :-)

If big boobed women work at Hooters, then where do one legged women work?

IHOP

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IHOP slogan - Come Hungry, Leave Happy

Hooters slogan - Come Horny, Leave Horny

Courtesy of Stacey Lowery

(This is NOT me!)

(Hopefully this won't get me arrested the next time I'm in my hometown!)

If anyone knows how much of a cynical nerd I can be sometimes, it's definitely Kim. She was playing on her pc earlier tonite and starting giggling and grinning uncontrollably. When I asked her what was so funny and she IM'd me a link to the South Boston Police Department website and told me that it was going to crack me up and sure enough...it did. Looks like someone discovered an old copy of Microsoft FrontPage 95 and put together the best website of 1995. Ha!

Seriously though, I think I should offer them a free website makeover in exchange for a "get out of jail free card" in the event I ever get into a row with any of the natives! Ha-ha!

• http://www.southboston.com/police/index.htm

(No hard feelings to whoever created this website...you gotta start somewhere)

This is classic...

Go to Google...type in the word failure and then hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. And yes, I agree!

(I also discovered that if you type in my name or Kim's and hit I'm Feeling Lucky, Google takes you right to jimmypowell.com. Google Rules!)

Courtesy of Shannon Powell

I hear my bro and his wife were awarded Best Aunt & Uncle of the year to our little niece Alex this past weekend but the way I see it...the year isn't over! Ha!

Seriously speaking though, I can't wait to see her again this Christmas and shower her with gifts and I'm glad she's got a great aunt and uncle in Virginia.