Jazmine Sullivan Got them going in Circles!

Just as you wondered or asked the question, "where Ms. Sullivan", she comes back with a classic hit "Holding you down"! Rocking the 80's look and sampling a little of the House party feel Jazmine Sullivan sets herself in her own separate category. Now don't get me wrong she did that from the beginning with her first single, "I need you Bad!" But we all know when people goes missing most times they come back trying to fit in! Not Jazmine she came back not fitting in and brought the 80's back with her. Seeing Pepa, Pete Rock, Kwame and Doug E. Fresh all I wanted to do is pull out my bambo earrings and say, "A 1,2 A 1,2!" How can I forget Kid n Play! Nah they was not in the video, but samples of House Party was, with the dance battle! I love it! Hum can you tell I am a 80's Junkie? Best believe it!

I just cant wait to hear more from Jazmine's new album, which should be dropping October 2010!

FEEL GOOD MUSIC: N'dambi - Can't Hardly Wait

Labor Day Jump off | Fantasy Wednesday @ CLUB DREAM & The Beautiful Room @ B.E.D

FEATURED EVENT: WELCOME TO THE B SIDE

Time and time again you wonder if anything real can happen in South Florida. No unnecessary bling, no baggy jeans, no white tees, no music that has one base line with lyrics that makes no sense, no worries of being disrespected or "Grilled"!

Well come join The B-side Movement.

The B-side events is a place for the grown and sexy! Grown meaning Mature, Intelligent and open to see Art further then the image right in front of your face.

B-side events is here to put "POETRY" & "SOUL" on the South Florida map! Entertained and Inspired by "Quality" talent in the South.FL community, B-side hopes to be a portal to show case this talent. People always assume that South FL. has no soul, well the B-side movement is here to conquer those thoughts. For any other unnecessary thoughts about the soul/poetry scene., poetry lounges are not only about the "snapping fingers". Poetry lounges are meant to educate, bring out your inner sexy and to meet people that seem to be on your level. Being a B-side supporter and follower its easy for me to continue trying to explain this powerful movement. So to get a actual taste, check out one of the B-side tasteful events.

The Soulcial - Club B.E.D Restaurant and Lounge on South Beach. This event gives you a live music experience, which features Local & International artist & DJ's Sunday nights door open at 8PM Music by Jody Hill & Deep Fried Funk

The Monday Night Mixer- Satoro Lounge 2050 Hollywood Blvd. 9pm-1pm Comp Adm. This is a Karaoke night for you to come out have fun and get loose in a classy sexy way!

The Bohemia Room - Vlada Lounge 3215 NE 2ND AVE. Doors open at 8PM. Where some of South Florida's Hottest Poets and Sexiest audience meet! This spot will give you a spoken word experience, which features Local & International Poets. Music by Anomaly.

Flow Fridays - The Literary Cafe (95S to 125ST. head east to NE 9TH Ave on left Across from chase. This is your open mic night open to poets! Doors open at 9PM, showtime 10PM.

Don't knock it if you have not tried it!
Host of all events Ms. Ingrid B

SHOE FETISH: Fall Hott Fashion

Fly shoe wear for the fall!

LABOR DAY WEEKEND IS ALL WHITE EVERYTHING WEEKEND!

True Talent Mus Bus, just like Jus Bus

This month we Feature, Mr. Jus Bus, true talent hidden deep in the Caribbean. Like most people say, "True talent now a days is hard to find!" Jus Bus is one of the people who has talent and will soon be a name people will never seem to forget! With his swagger style, but down to earth, sweet mellow attitude, Jus Bus is a person you will want to be around. Which is hard to find now a days!!!

This Producer/Graphic Designer/Artist was born in America but raised in the islands of the Caribbean, were he has spent the last twenty six years of his life perfecting a natural talent for music and graphic arts. Known as "Jus Bus" to many, to promote his struggling brand and musical abilities, he unofficially remixed artist including Jay Z, Drake, Rihanna, Marcy Playground, John Legend and Nina Simone until 2009 when he landed his first official placement with Sony USA on the John Legend Evolver album for the remix of "No Other Love" featuring Estelle.

In 2010 he returned home to the Caribbean island of Antigua. It was there that he explored his artistic side as a recording artist through teaming up with long time friend and collaborator Logiq Pryce and German born producer Torsten. They are currently working on a debut album. Check out "Sometimes I" by JUS BUS & LOGIQ Produced By Torsten


Check out CECILE - LADIES IN THE CLUB ON THE CARIBBEAN GIRL RIDDIM PRODUCED BY JUS BUS

You Can't play with My YO-YO a Top female MC......

You can't play with Ms. Yo-Yo one of the industries top females MC's, well in my eyes. I had a flash back to my D.C. days after watching this video!! Man I how I do miss the 90'S!!!!!

Update

A lot of people have been asking me how the video went down so I thought I should share.

The teachers liked it and the students seemed to warm to it. I showed it at the beginning of the talk and the students looked like that couldn't figure out what to make of it for the first minute or so. But after that they started laughing a bit. Which is probably about as much as you can hope for from a high school group. High school doesn't generally make teenagers enthusiastic and excited about anything coming from the front.

At very least, it wasn't an major disaster, so I'm thankful for that.

KELLEY LYNCH: “I WANT TO SUE DONNA CLARKSON”

Kelley Lynch, following her arrest by Boulder Police for trespassing at Juanita's Restaurant after falsely accusing a patron of child molestation, then refusing to leave the premises (she was subsequently convicted by a jury)

If you have ever stumbled on an on-line discussion of either a Leonard Cohen concert or the Phil Spectors murder case and/or the related pending wrongful death case, chances are that you have encountered an ostensibly pro-Spector sycophant (e.g., the self-seeking, servile flatterer and fawning parasite) Kelley Lynch.

The former Leonard Cohen manager (1988-2004) who skimmed over $5,000,000.00 from the singer-songwriter, suffered a mental breakdown, became homeless in Santa Monica, and now has $10.4 million in money judgments against her, restraining orders in two states, an arrest record, and six California bench warrants for her arrest—you know THAT Kelley Lynch. (See our prior posts here, here, and here.)

In case you have been living in a cave, failed actress Lana Clarkson was found dead of an inter-oral gunshot wound on February 3, 2003 sprawled in a chair in Spector’s foyer while Spector’s relief chauffer waited to take Clarkson back to the vicinity of her hostess job at the House of Blues—where Spector had met Clarkson near closing time and coaxed the 40ish blond to visit his Alhambra home for a nightcap.

The defense, capitalizing on ambiguous forensics and independent evidence that the actress had become despondent over her stalled acting career and dismal finances presented a controversial defense: Clarkson shot herself in the early morning hours of February 3, 2003.

The prosecution countered by obtaining permission from the court to present a parade of females from Spector’s past who all claimed a drunken Phil Spector menaced them with firearms, then argued to the jury that the only mystery about the case is why Spector did not kill someone before the night in question, because he was a murder waiting to happen.

The verdict is on appeal, and this blog has been a staunch advocate for the position that the music producer did not receive a fair trial, that the conviction in all likelihood will be reversed on appeal.

In the meantime the victim’s mother Donna Clarkson is pressing forward with her wrongful death case.

Whether you are in the majority that believes that Lana Clarkson was a homicide victim, or you believe that the actress took her own life, odds are you have nothing against Donna Clarkson—who either way tragically lost a daughter.

Which is why Kelley Lynch has become somewhat of a lightning rod with her extreme views about the case, including that Donna Clarkson is a “money grubber” who belongs in prison.

One of Kelley Lynch’s more “charming” eccentricities ever since losing her mind when she got caught stealing millions from Leonard Cohen (then lost her home in foreclosure and the custody of her 12 year old son) is the prolific emails she writes daily to the IRS demanding the investigation of her perceived enemies (including over 5,000 such emails demanding the arrest, prosecution, incarceration, and disbarment of our editor) which she then copies to a host of current and former Spector defense attorneys, prosecutors, governors, police officials, music producers, Buddhist religious figures, the tabloid press, and the national print and broadcast media.

This morning, as she often does, Kelley Lynch was up at 3:00 am pouring over this blog, and by 4:30 am we had 12 new messages in our inbox.

So what’s new about that? Absolutely nothing, except that you will never guess who Kelley Lynch says intends to sue now. If you guessed Donna Clarkson, you would be right.

Here is Kelley Lynch in unsolicited email number 4,319 to Phil Spector appellate counsel Dennis Riordan--who has never responded to her--(copy to the IRS, this blog, and the rest of the world, of course). And no, despite the “Love, Kelley” she and Riordan have never even met:

Hi Mr. Riordan,

I have some questions I would like to discuss with you. They concern my conviction that Phillip and I should sue the District Attorney of Los Angeles, etc.

I want to know if I can sue Donna Clarkson.

From my perspective, if Donna Clarkson hadn't insisted (not being a forensic expert) that her daughter was shot by Phillip, I wouldn't be the target of a gang of malicious cyber-terrorists with motive who routinely refer to Alan Jackson and Pat Dixon.

Donna Clarkson appears to have concealed quite a bit of information about her daughter and I want to know if Clarkson was aware that her daughter (per Baby Doll Gibson) was a prostitute who played with guns. I am now being accused of being a prostitute. Jihad Gianelli and his terrorist organization are NOT turning me into Lana Clarkson who was not and is not glamorous. There's nothing glamorous about mixing drugs and alcohol, playing games with guns, raiding your friend's medicine chests, forging letters, etc. Only in Lost Angeles (and possibly on Nancy Grace and Court TV) would this be viewed as glamorous conduct.

[…]

Next, I want to know if I can sue Jackson, Dixon, and anyone else who has falsedly (sic) accused me of anything (including the thug that wrote the letter Thompson and Silva hand delivered to me) for unconscionable governmental conduct and abuse of power, obstruction of justice, etc. Alan Jackson does NOT have a private government email address. You cannot spam your government. That would be humanly impossible.

[I]t's illegal for these out of control judges (who like to get on tv, etc.) to falsely imprison people in hospitals. How about police officers? Are they entitled to weigh in on medical issues? No, they are not. They have no qualifications and no training to do so.

These are legal issues I want to address. Who else was involved in Phil Spector's sham trials?

Luis Pena. I want to sue him. He didn't do a forensic autopsy and the DA has an internal memo advising Jeff Jonas (probably of the aptly named Major Fraud Unit who realized Babcock didn't have jurisdiction in Greenberg's companion piece but who didn't have the decent to speak to me the "victim" again because his colleagues need to keep Cohen credible - obviously) that he is not credible, will lie for his boss, and may have altered documents. He also understands that his job is "political" which is bizarre at best.

To say Leonard Cohen and Steve Lindsey have used the judicial system as a weapon against me is true understatement. Cohen hired big time high priced whores to target an innocent woman.

Anyway (sic) who understands me and this situation understands that the type of people you hire to target innocent people are whores.

Cohen is not even a citizen of the United States but has no qualms, whatsoever, perjuring himself, commiting (sic) fraud, lying, concealing,
etc. And, he also felt absolutely entitled to steal from me. He has lied and turned Marty Machat into his business manager. I would confident that Steven Machat can and would testify to the fact that it's a bald-faced lie. Why?

Because it is. How many people's lives and reputations have to be destroyed so Cohen can commit criminal tax fraud, steal from me, and Phil can be nailed by some of the most unconscionable actors in our government imaginable.

And then there's (my son) Ray's "coordinated" custody matter. What judge on this earth would believe a woman was dragged out of her house, from Brentwood, taken to Killer King (psychiatric hospital), and there wasn't criminal activity involved?

There are also the fraudulent proofs of service. I intend to write the judge in the (unlawful detainer case against me) to explain I wasn't served and to remind the judge that there is no debtor's prison and if she's interested in my finances she should marry me.

How can you have a judgment when someone has not made an appearance? Is the judge guessing about service? That sounds illegal - particularly given the fact that there are so
many proofs of service.

[…]

In any event, trust me - some of the conduct and activity with the boys of the hood in Soviet Monica, Boulder, and LA had to do with Phil Spector.

People have rightly concluded that cops gossip. But - why would cops be interested in aiding and abetting Leonard Cohen in covering up his criminal tax fraud. Here's my theory: because Cooley and his merry gang of thugs have foot soldiers who were apparently interested in keeping Cohen credible so that they could nail Phil Spector.

I saw a quote by the man who recently made the documentary film on Phillip. He said his source told him that LAPD was going to nail a celebrity and that was going to be Phil Spector. That shocks the conscience. I have no idea if that's true but I want to know.

This situation is so out of control it's sheer luancy (sic).

Linda/Sydney Motley wrote me on my other account "No" - she won't cease and desist; she will not stop harassing me. Who are these people? What is their motive? Who are they affiliated with? These are incredibly sick, twisted, and sadistic people. Blogonaut is an absolute criminal. He lies about everyone - he has now lied and said, after sending me the letter, that Jim Walker (my sister's lawyer) told him to take out a TROagainst me. Read the letter again. Jim Walker did NOT say that. He lied about Bruce Cutler. Bruce Cutler did NOT send a letter to Deneuve about me. I have the fax in my possession and know for a fact that Jihad Gianelli is a bald-faced liar with motive. Gianelli and his gang of terrorist thug liars have lied about you, Mr. Riordan.

You never said I was spamming and you never said you were ignoring me. These people are utterly pathetic. But, more to the point, why would Jihad Gianelli think he found a sympathetic ear about me with Alan Jackson. Probably because Leonard Cohen showed up in Phil Spector's trial. Did Cohen testify against Phillip in the grand jury? Then why didn't he make an appearance at the trial - but showed up in a Motion in Limine as a prior bad act.

[…]

The tactic (against me) have been shabby and vicious. In fact, people are saying they have never seen anyone targeted like me. It involves prosecutors (I know this), law enforcement, judges, lying lawyers, Cohen Lindsey, and a bunch of other rotten crooks and criminals and it all relates to Phillip's SHAM trials. The DA of Lost Angeles nailed himself from my perspective. That's what happens when you set up innocent people. Also, the entire gang is out-lawyered and (from what I can tell) were too arrogant to see it during the trials. That includes Larry Fidler.

This story shocks the conscience. I want [Blogonaut] in prison. He is clearly out of his mind. He is dangerously unstable. He is a stark raving lunatic.

[...]

This man needs to be stopped dead in his tracks and I would assume, based on what I am seeing, that an investigation into his legal career will expose a tremendous amount of unconscionable activity.

I want that investigated.

[…]

Now, let's take a look at the latest round of absolutely unconscionable
commentary on [Blogonaut]. Don't get caught up in Blogonat’s obsession with when I go to bed or wake up. He's not my husband so that's a truly moot point. But, do look at what times the strangers obsessed with me are posting.

Love,
Kelley

EDITOR’S NOTE: There is no evidence that any of the persons mentioned by Kelley Lynch in the quoted email have committed “tax fraud” or any other criminal offense. In addition, the only person discussed here who has an arrest record or warrants for their arrest or has engaged in theft or other illegal activity is Kelley Lynch. Neither Kelley Lynch nor Leonard Cohen testified in (or even attended) either of Phil Spector's two murder trials. Kelley Lynch has not even heard from Phil Spector in years.

Ka Stacks does it again! Victim: Soulja Boy

Victim: Soulja Boy, nah bump that he already knew what Kat Stacks was about and his dump ass fell for her! So he should have been smarter then that! The drug thing damn, this is why little dudes don't last like Soulja Boy because they get foolish and got money to waste! This situation is made silly, but Kat Stacks gets my damn support, because its about time someone get this niggaz in action!!! However she better be careful, because some of these dudez are crazy and may hurt her ass!!

Bye-bye Baby Phat

Welll it's about time! But it was a shock to se this statement today by Kimora Lee,
“After 14 years of conceiving and nurturing Baby Phat, it’s time for me to move on and further expand my other businesses and create a new phenomenon. I adore all those who have faithfully been with me since the beginning. I’m forever dedicated to my family, fans and customers. My inspiration has always come from the fabulous women who have been with me through the years as we’ve grown from young party girls to power players! We’re ready for our next journey together and we’re taking a whole new generation of incredible young women with us. Girl power unite!”

Spiritual Gifts

I'm speaking at a school on Thursday in a series they're doing called "Life According to YouTube". This is an excellent idea. They asked me to speak on spiritual gifts, and I couldn't find any videos on YouTube that would work, so I decided to make my own. I'm really hoping the 200 high school students get the joke.

Special thanks to Howie for being Director of Photography and lending all his technical equipment to the cause.

Hung

I'm really looking forward to a hung parliament. That would be the perfect outcome. Two good election results in row. I hope so.

Mo Kelly

Mike Kelly has an awesome moustache. If only I could have voted for him.

Now It Gets Exciting

I had a really good time voting today. I almost numbered 1-84 below the line for the Senate, but I wasn't inspired enough this year. I went with Gem and Jem. We voted at the RSL so rewarded ourselves with lunch. We met Lesley in the line to vote so she joined us for the celebratory lunch.

Now I'm settling in now for a night of election coverage with Jem and Lesley with Gem joining us latert. From what's been a pretty unimpressive election lead up from both major parties, it means that the election will be close. I'm excited because I like a close election. I may be unhappy with both the major parties, but I'm quite happy to watch a battle of the mediocres. Plus I'm hoping for something new to happen, like a hung Parliament, or perhaps the Greens to take Government by some freak voting event. I'd love a freak voting event. Maybe even the Sex Party will hold the balance of power in the Senate. I really doubt it, but wouldn't that be good for a laugh?

I love elections.

WHO IS READING BLOGONAUT?

If you have ever started a blog from scratch, you know how difficult it is to build up a significant readership. You also know how frustrating it is to note site visits in the double digits.

In that spirit, and for no other reason (because this blog is educational and not-for-profit) every few days we check our visitor statistics, and marvel at the geographic diversity of our readership.

For those of you new to web-surfing, every time you visit a web page, you reveal information about yourself, including the “IP address” of your computer or network on the world-wide-web, your city, state or region, and country, and even your web browser and the resolution of your computer monitor.

The first thing you will notice about this site (apart from the fact that we have posted over 3,500 amusing and sometimes fascinating posts) is that we post infrequently.

This is a function of our limited time—since we practice law and juggle many additional responsibilities—as well as the realization gained over time that if the subject matter does not at once engage, it ain’t worth posting.

But we digress.

Here are the cities and countries of origin of our readers during the last 20 site visits:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

High Point, North Carolina, United States

Esbjerg, Ribe, Denmark

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

San Francisco, California, United States

North Bergen, New Jersey, United States

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Los Angeles, California, United States

Drummondville, Quebec, Canada

Walnut Creek, California, United States

Laurel, Maryland, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Faridabad, Haryana, India

Staten Island, New York, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Manchester, United Kingdom

Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

But don’t be misled—we receive weekly visits from almost every country in the world with internet access.

Dysfunctional and Loving It

I'm kinda enjoying this song at the moment. Perhaps enjoying is not the word. I'm glad there's a song on the radio that's about more than sex. Plus it is a good song.

What worries me however is that girls in dysfunctional relationships will hear it, it'll resonate and they'll think "Yeah, that's my life" but guys in dysfunctional relationships will hear it and say "Yeah if she ever does try and leave me again I will tie her to the bed and set the house on fire. Good idea, thanks Eminem." I'd really like the song to end with Eminem saying "If you beat up on your girlfriend, you suck" or something equally non-ambiguous. But I guess there's a difference between art and social service announcements. I just hope people who suck understand art.

Wednesday Nights are Election Nights

I love Wednesday nights. It's all politics on the ABC, and one of the programs is even funny (Thank you Gruen Nation). It's good because this election has been pretty dull. Since my last post on the election the only really interesting thing that has happened is the Libs absurd broadband plan. Actually it's not totally absurd, it's just mediocraty, spun as a good idea. "Our answer to a high quality but expensive plan, is a low quality but cheap plan." It's like everyone was thinking we were going to get a new car and now the Liberals want us to get excited about 1984 Datsun.

Not that I'm too worried, because I don't think the Libs will win, and even if they did I don't think their broadband plan is sustainable in the long term, it'll only be viable for a little while before Australia is forced to catch to the rest of the developed world.

And I really enjoyed seeing Tony Abbott getting schooled by Kerry O'Brian on the 730 Report.

Other than that I guess Latham has been mildly entertaining but he hasn't really been part of the campaign, just part of the side show. And I did enjoy seeing Julia getting asked lots if questions from loyal Kevinists at the People's Forum in Brisband tonight even if her answers were as dull as concrete. Actually duller than concrete, sorry Dad.

I still don't know who to vote for. I have noticed that if I donkey vote in my electorate Joe Hockey will get my vote and I'd like to avoid that. Maybe I'll do a reverse donkey. That sounds vaguely rude, but it's not, you've all just got dirty minds.

Gruen Youth Ministry Brilliance

I think I heard what could be the greatest youth group advertisment ever today. I was at a school speaking in their chapel and this plucky little year 6 girl got up to do an announcement and proceed to tell us everything about her youth group. I found out that year fives aren't allowed to attend but year 6, 7 and 8 are. Year 7 and 8 should attend because they need some fun in their life, they always look so bored in chapel. I found out that at youth group the girls have dance parties, go bowling and go to the movies and the boys just eat chips and wrestle. I found out that there's no food at youth group because the boys would eat it all. I found out that the boys always win Minute to Win It, except last week the girls won because girls are the best (at this point she commanded the girls to scream, which one half-heartedly did). Last week they played throwing ping pong balls at toast covered in peanut butter. They got to eat the toast afterwards. I also found out the name of every female youth leader in the youth group, but none of the male leaders (presumably because, as I also found out, boys suck). I found out that the youth group runs across the road from the Bi-Lo. The end.

Like I said, probably the greatest youth group ad ever.

Meet Miss Haiti Sarodj Bertin

Sarodj Bertin is a young lawyer who speaks four languages and is happy to be able to help her country after the horrific earthquake that devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation last January. Yeah this 22 years is not the typical contestant you'd find in a beauty pageant. Sarodj Bertin was crowned Miss Universe Haiti 2010 on May 16, 2010 at the Ritz Kinam, where 18 girls participated. She will be the first Miss Haiti contestant in 22 years!

Sarodj Bertin had a privileged childhood in Puerto Principe until age 9, when her mother, lawyer and opposition leader Mireille Durocher Bertin, was gunned down in 1994 after announcing the creation of a political party that would compete with that of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the upcoming elections.

How dear these Insane Clown Posse!!??

How dear these people harming my boo Method Man! This video shows why Meth is one of my besties other then Biggie!

So now Ms. back and forth Tila Tequila is pursuing a rap career now. During a show she was pelted with rocks, bottles and human feces during last week's “Gathering of the Juggalos”; a festival for fans of horror core rap group Insane Clown Posse. Method Man was also attacked when he took the stage with his partner in crime Redman and was hit below the eye with a beer can. TMZ captured footage and photos of the event showing a bleeding Method Man continuing with the show despite Redman's curses and pleas for him to receive medical attention.

Shaking off the incident the member of the Wu picked up the mic and said,
“Start the music we're continuing the show, let's f**k these motherf**kers up!"

Bilal - Soul Sista

Behind the Eyes of REAL SOUL: BILAL

With this interview on the Soul Survivor Series Bilal gives a insight of who he really is and where he comes from! Bilal returns with AIRTIGHT'S REVENGE,
his new album due out September 14, 2010.

D-Nice Presents Soul Survivors: Bilal from D-Nice on Vimeo.

Puppet Fail

Yesterday I did a visit to a school as I was doing a talk in their infants chapel about kindness and goodness. I had never done an infants chapel before, so I thought I might do a bit of puppetry. So I went and found my old friend Ron. Ron is a friendly, blue puppet who's been in our family for a very long time. I decided to do it ventriloquist style, rather than say, to have him whisper in my ear. The upside is that Ron can say funnier things. The downside is that it's much easier to stuff up. I love puppets, but I was pretty scared of doing this. I'd never done ventriloquism in front of an audience before.

I had decided to give Ron an Irish accent so as to differentiate his voice from mine. On the way down in the car, it worked perfectly. Ron was sounding like a Dublin native. It was brilliant. Unfortunately, I wasn't performing on the way down in the car. When it came time for me to stand up in front of the kids, I'd completely forgotten how to do an Irish accent. I stood up there and all that would come out was this demented Ernie-voice. And while I could have gotten away with that, the first thing I did when Ron came out of the bag is have Ron tell everyone that he was from Ireland. Dumb. And while the kids probably had no idea my accent wasn't anything like anyone from anywhere, the parents and teachers in the room could definitely tell that I was doing what was probably the worst Irish accent they had ever heard. It was a little embarrassing.

Oh, well you know, as Jesus said: "Those who suck at puppetry are sometimes competent in other areas." Or perhaps that was fake-Jesus. Thanks fake-Jesus, you minister to my wounded heart.

FASHION: APPLE BOTTOM returns with Fall 2010 Campaign!

Mr. Nelly is back on the scene and it's not with that Country Grammer music! He is back with his 2010 Fall Campaign of his line Apple Bottom!

Robert Wilson from GAP BAND PASSES ON! (1957-2010)

Robert Wilson, known as the "Godfather of Bass Guitar," has passed this Sunday (AUG 15). Wilson died in his home in Palmdale, Ca. from a heart attack, he was 53!

Wilson formed the Gap Band with brothers Charlie and Ronnie in the early 1970s, and the Tulsa group expanded upon the funk sound of George Clinton and Earth, Wind & Fire. The band's hits include "You Dropped a Bomb On Me," "Party Train" and "Early in the Morning."

Wilson is survived by his wife Brenda and two daughters, Robin and Latina Wilson.

Pajama Passion Mix & Mingle

THIS SATURDAY AUG 21, 2010 FROM 7PM-12AM @TEMPO LOUNGE COME BEGIN YOUR NIGHT WITH A LITTLE TEASER. This will be the Pajama "POLE EDITION", so come out in your PJ's or sexy Lingerie. Come comfy to enjoy all the entertainment!!!!

RSVP by Wednesday and pay only $5 (mypassionx@gmail.com) or simply test me your name to 954-759-1064! $7 reg Adm. and groups of (2) $10 if you RSVP! This event is for open minded people, so come out to have fun & learn new things!!!!!

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On Singleness

I'm not sure if I'll ever post this, but I thought I might write it because sometimes I think about it. Obviously, if you're reading this, I posted it.


I'm twenty-seven years old.

I'm single.

I'm happy.

I'm worried I won't be.

I'm worried that one day I'm going to wake up, I'll be forty, single, creepy, childless and lonely. All my friends will be married and have kids and I'll have no one to hang out with on a Saturday night. The issue is, while I see this as a possibility, my current contentment with my situation gives me very little impetus to do something to change it.

Generally my life has gone like this: Be single and content, find a girl I like, like her for way too long, ask her out, get a "No", feel depressed and analyse what I did wrong, eventually I stop liking the girl, then I be single and content again. At least that's the general process, it doesn't always go like that but it's always been variations on the same theme - unrequited love and a general lack of wooing skills.

So singleness rather than being a curse I must bear, is a blessed relief from the angst and disappointment of long term attraction. And in the positive, I love being single. I love being free to do whatever I want, whenever I want. I love having time to devote to whatever takes my fancy. I love not having to consider the needs of someone else a lot of the time. And most of the time, I don't feel any great need to be in a relationship.

The goodness of this is that when my friends get engaged, I get excited. When they get married, I love it. When they have babies, I think it's awesome. These significant life moments don't make me feel depressed about the lack of ladies and babies in my own life. What they do do, however, is give me this sense of being a somewhat late developer. Like somehow I'm stuck in the happy bachelorhood of an early-20s bloke, and everyone else is off being adults. It does make me feel like I'm immature. Maturity becomes not about age but life experience. And the experience of almost an entire life of singleness seems far less impressive or valuable than a couple of years of relationship, or marriage, or parenthood.

The other day someone close to me who loves me and who I love and respect a lot, challenged me on my contentedness, they told me that if I think God is calling me to be single I should be pretty darn sure God is calling me to be single. They said that by not being overly pro-active in relationship pursuing I'm depriving a girl of the chance to have a relationship that they may desperately want, and more than that, I'm missing out on all the joy, and happiness, and growth that being in a relationship brings. They implied that my love of romance and marriage and love stories, is hypocritical in the light of my lack of action on the romance front.

Of course, I'm not sure God is calling me to singleness. I'm sure that right now I have the opportunity to use my singleness to be free to do God's work. Right now, singleness is a gift from God. And I really like being single - totally free to do God's work. I'm probably selfish too and happy being selfish, independent and unchallenged.

The thing is that intellectually all this makes sense. I see the sense in putting the effort in to find a relationship so that my love of love isn't mealy theoretical. I know that I may be depriving someone of a life with me and I could be depriving myself of an excellent life with them. I understand that out-there there are probably many girls I could be very happy with. I understand that I may one day end up bald, sad, lonely and unhappy.

But what I understand in my head, and what I know in my heart are two different things. I may be in the middle of my own personal climate crisis. And while I say "Peace, peace" the oceans are rising, and soon I'll find that I'm treading water, searching for dry land, because I didn't do anything about it when the time was right. I am Al Gore's polar bear. I am Al Gore's unconcerned citizen.

But this isn't about my head, it's about my heart. I feel disinclined to pursue people just because they're single, Christian and female. I can't be bothered putting myself or anyone else through the awkwardness of date asking, coffee drinking, emotional ambiguity, engineered situations and strange relationship defining conversations if I'm not really committed to the idea of having a relationship with them. I don't want to hurt them or get hurt if I have just gone through the motions because I'm intellectually committed to the idea of relationships, or desirous of a relationship just not one with that particular girl.

That said, I know that my past experience of dates and hanging out with girls, while having had their disasters have also, at other times, been greatly beneficial and enjoyable. And I'm sure I have good friends now that I wouldn't have if it wasn't for doing a bit of awkwardness and flirting.

I guess what I'm waiting for is for a girl to come along, who I fall totally in-love with, who I really want a relationship with, and who I pursue, and who somehow, by the grace of God, is attracted to me and wants a relationship with me, maybe because of my excellent wooing skills, or maybe just because God predestined it that way. And while liking girls in the past has generally only caused me pain, I'm totally willing to do it again. I'm committed enough to love that I'll make myself vulnerable once more and I'll take the risk that my love is unrequited once again if it's for the girl. As long as I'm longing for her, I'll endure anything.

But as for anything else, as for pursing girls because I don't want to become old and lonely. Or seeking out a relationship because I have read that "it is not good for man to be alone." I don't know. It makes sense, but my heart's not in it, and I could be wrong, but it just seems to me that this is one area where you need your heart on board.

But maybe not. Maybe the times are changing, and my heart needs to catch up.

I don't know.

Singleness may be something you only really understand when it's over.



So if I stumble
And if I fall
And if I slip now
And lose it all
And if I can't be all that I could be
Will you, will you wait for me? - Alexi Murdoch

The Expendables

On Thursday The Expendables came out in cinemas and I was pretty freakin' excited. This is an action film with Sylvester Stallone, Jason Stratham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Mickey Rourke in it, and cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Swartznegger. How could any self-respecting action fan not be excited?

So I saw it on Thursday night and it was pretty awesome. It's like they got all the greatness of 80s action movies, all the over the top violence, all the explosions, all the big men punching each other, all the evil Military Generals, all the over sized guns, and mixed it all together and pretended Jason Bourne never turned action into a small man's, small gunned, smart hero's game. While James Bond responded to Bourne by imitating him, Stallone has respond by telling Jason Bourne to go...um... I can't finish that sentence on my blog.

The story is about a group of mercenaries who go and blow up a small, Latin American country that is being ruled by an evil military dictator, who is in turn the puppet of a corrupt-CIA guy. That's pretty much all there is to the plot. It's not exactly heavy on story.

The film really is just an 80s action dream come true. There a plenty of dumb, smart-ass lines whenever someone does something cool. There is a beautiful woman whose only job is to be rescued, there are hundreds of henchmen whose only job it to get blown up by an exploding shot gun. And to have some of the greatest (and not so greatest) action heroes of all time doing it, it's brilliant.

The film isn't perfect. I would have loved to have seen Willis and Swartznegger doing some actual fighting but I guess they were busy. I think Wesley Snipes and Kurt Russell would have made awesome additions to the team. I didn't really think anybody did any good acting in the entire film, but then, you don't watch films like this for their action. I mean, Randy Couture is from the UFC, he's famous for beating people up, not for acting.

I know action movies will never be like they were in the 80s, and I'm not sad about that. But this film, this to me is their last hurrah, this is the 80s action flick going out with a bang. There will be no more Rockys, Rambos, Predators, Commandos, Terminators or Die Hards. Actually there will be, but they won't be like they were in the 80s. The 80s were a special time for action movies, but the world has moved on. Hong Kong, John Woo, Jason Bourne, The Matrix, Christopher Nolan, Kung-Fu and Brian Singer have come to town, and they're all awesome. The Expendables is a fine and fitting farewell to a genre that will probably never be back. At least until the sequel comes out.

But for now, I feel like I need to watch Die Hard as soon as possible, because that is probably the greatest action movie of all time.

Pride

I was reading a document one of my housemates left lying around the house on pride. It my have been deliberate.

One of the things it said is that we have to be continually waring against pride and putting on humility, and I thought to myself "But if I get rid of pride I won't appreciate how awesome I am, and then what will I have to enjoy?"

It probably was deliberate.

Introducing the "Y Dildo"

Never complain again with the new Girls Best friend the Split Dildo also known as the Y-Dildo. Instead of pushing a dildo in and out or moving it to get that get spot. With the Y-Dildo it does all the work for you! The Y-Dildo stimilates not only your g-spot, but it also rubs your PS-Spot.


What is your PS-Spot? Well, just beneath a woman’s perineum (that short bridge of tissue between the vaginal opening and the anus) is a tightly packed tangle of blood vessels alternately known as the perineal sponge, the perineal body, or — you guessed it! — the PS-spot. Like other erectile tissue, this mass fills with blood upon arousal and can be sensitive to massage and pressure via the perineum, via the lower back wall of the vagina (opposite the G-spot), or via the anus. (source: www.emandlo.com)

So Now that you have an understanding about your PS-Spot, here is a little peak on how the Split Dildo works.

Tank singing that "SEX MUSIC"

Gotta love Tank! I love that he is coming back out, because R.Kelly kinda had him hiding in his shadow! Now that he is gone and its only Trey Songz, he has a major chance. So lets see how it goes with this album due to come out September 21st, 2010.

Feel Good Music: Miguel featuring J.Cole

Miguel featuring J.Cole - All I Want Is You

Results

I'm sure you're all on the edge of your seat wanting to know my City2Surf results. After coming with me these past two weeks for all the highs and the lows, the big day finally came.

Well... let's just preface this by saying, it's not about the time. It's not about whether you win or lose it's about having a go.

Yeah, that's what losers say. Winners say "I'm freakin' awesome, losers!"

Well I wasn't a winner today, in any book. But didn't I have a good time! And I had a go.

My time was 1h 21mins 03secs, or there abouts. So it was no where near the 60mins, 11mins of the 70mins, and a minute into Your Body is a Wonderland territory.

That said, I really did enjoy myself. I wasn't too concerned about my time because it's not very easy to go fast when you're in the back group with lots of walkers and joggers. There are so many people to dodge, I rarely felt like I was pushing myself. There are times you get slowed to a walk because there is just no way around the people in front of you.

So I'm not too concerned. It's pretty exciting to be going for a run with 80,000 other people. And it's fun taking cups of water off the volunteers on the side of the road. It's was enjoyable hanging out with Jem and Gem before and after the race. And it's a pretty nice run too. It's just a shame there are too many people.

The other great thing is that, next year I will probably get a better time.

All I had a good day. I want to do it again, in about 10 weeks when I could train better, but hey, now I've got a year.

Next run though is the 9km Brigde Run on 19th September. Unless I get really excited and I'll do the Half-Marathon, but that'd probably be dumb.

Oh and Thank you to everyone who donated to Jesus: All About Life. You've been very generous. If you still want to donate you can do so but going here.

Money for Running

As you may have noticed I'm running the City2Surf tomorrow. I'm doing it for Jesus: All About Life. If you dig the Bible, please sponsor me by going here; you can help raise money to get Bibles in Public Schools and celebrate that I'm going to sweat a lot tomorrow.

The Bible is probably the better motivation.

End of money pitch.

City 2 Surf

Well tomorrow is the day all my inspirational training will pay off... perhaps. I ran about 15km yesterday as a final preparation run. I did it in 80 minutes. I think I'd like to do much better tomorrow, I'd really like to do this run in under 70mins. It's a small possibility as I haven't been pushing myself for speed at all these past two weeks, only distance. But cutting 5 minutes off my time (considering I'm running about 5'30"/km). Next year I want to do under 60mins, but that's probably dreaming.

I'm currently making my City 2 Surf playlist. Here's what I've got:



If things were going great, I'd finish at the end of I Like it Like That. Hopefully I'll finish by Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - that's my power song. If I don't finish before John Mayer and John Paul Young, I'll be very disappointed. Knowing their songs are lurking at the end there is motivation to run faster.

I would like to say that this only a small reflection of my musical tastes. Some I like and enjoy running to - Battle Without Honor or Humanity, Feel Good Drag, some I've got because they amuse me - U Can't Touch This, one I have for Hamish and Andy - Far From Over. Whatever the case, I'm pretty happy with the play list.

I am doing this whole thing because Dan asked me to run for Jesus: All About Life. It's to raise money for getting Bibles into public schools. I like Bibles, so I'm happy to run for that. If you want to sponsor me click here and donate lots of money. If you click there now you may notice that no one has sponsored me, as of now. I'm not a very good fundraiser. I'm going to write the above too so people don't ignore the long post.

STEVE COOLEY LEADS SF DA HARRIS IN AG RACE, NEW POLL SAYS

Embattled San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, whose quest for the job of California’s top prosecutor has been plagued by her opposition to the death penalty for cop killers and a subpar trial conviction rate now has something else standing in her path to the Attorney General’s Office: A new poll, giving her Republican opponent Steve Cooley a clear lead in the race.

A separate, earlier poll gave Cooley, the Republican Los Angeles County District Attorney, a small marginal lead over Harris, the Democratic District Attorney for San Francisco County.

The Field Poll had Cooley ahead of Harris by three percent, with Cooley at 37 percent and Harris at 34 percent.

But second poll conducted by Hill Research Associates July 10-12 gives Cooley a seven percent lead. The results showed Cooley with 41 percent and Harris with 34 percent, and also projected Cooley as the leader in all media markets except San Francisco.

The death penalty remains a key point of contrast between the candidates, with Cooley for and Harris opposed. Over 70 percent of Calif. voters continue to support the death penalty, which Harris has said she is personally against, and which she has consistantly refused to seek when it was up to her as San Francisco District Attorney--even for cop killers.

In 2009, Harris came under fire when her office decided not to seek the death penalty for triple-murderer and illegal alien Edwin Ramos, who shot three men, a father and his two sons, to death. Harris was also criticized in 2004 for refusing to seek the death penalty in the killing of a 29-year-old San Francisco police officer by a gang member.

The feeling in the law enforcement community is that cop killers are among the most dangerous of offenders, and taking the death penalty off of the table for cop killers endangers officer’s lives.

Harris has also come under fire for having the worst trial conviction rate in the state, with an accused murder in San Francisco having a 50% chance of acquittal if he decides to make Harris’ office prove the case at trial.

However, Harris has strong support from the DNC, listing $636,603 cash on hand with Cooley reporting just $222,729 as of May 22, 2010. So don't count the anti-death penalty conviction rate challanged SF DA out of the race just yet.

I'm living in Inception

Have you ever had a dream where you turn up to do something, like give a speech, but your totally unprepared? I have.

Today that happened to me in real life. I was at a school, I did a talk in their chapel, went to the staff room, and then one of the chaplains stood up and said "Right, it's almost time to go to chapel."

I spent a little while trying to work out what chapel this was they were talking about. I had no memory of going to another chapel today. I had a feeling it was a primary school chapel seeing as I had just done the high school. So I asked and the Chaplain said "Yes, this is primary school, and you're speaking. You didn't know?"

I had no idea it was about to happen. I thought the chapel was on Thursday and so I'd done no preparation for it at all. I don't know who had stuffed up, it could have been the chaplain's lack of communication, but I think it's more likely I just clean forgot. I do so much teaching when I visit this school, it's hard to remember everything.

Anyway I literally had 10 minutes to figure out what I was going to do, while having to hold a conversation with the chaplain about the schools upcoming holiday club. Happily, unlike the dreams where the moment where your realise you have to do a talk and you have nothing prepared streaches on for hours, till you wake up or find yourself on a train with your year 5 teacher, in real life it's not nearly so terrible. I adjusted my talk from the morning as the chapel was on the same topic and rejoiced that I just reduced my preparation load significantly. I don't think it was my best talk ever, but it did the job, and I'm happy to see that those dreams aren't so bad in real life.

Poos, Oranges and Flowers

We have air freshener in our bathroom. We used to have Orange Power which eliminated any unwanted odours by totally over-powering them with the smell of orange. It smelt like an orange had exploded. It was like citrus flavoured chemical warfare. The problem was whenever you went in there it made you associate poo and oranges, and that's no good, because I like to eat oranges but I don't like to eat poo. So the orange bomb went.

Now we have just the usual flowery stuff you get. It's pretty useless. The bathroom just smells of poo and flowers. Like someone's eaten a bunch of magnolia and cherry blossom and then shot it out the back end. Poo and flowers don't really go together. If you got given a bouquet of flowers and poo you probably wouldn't be all that impressed, which is why I'm not all that impressed with the smell of our toilet. I think I want the orange bomb back.

Trivia

Last night I went to a trivia night. My team won. I think that's the first time I've ever been on a winning team at trivia.

I did, by the way, learn that Kiwi fruit is native to China. Those sneaky Kiwis stealing from the Chinese and calling it their own. Now I don't feel so bad about us stealing everything of theirs that's successful and calling it Australian. Pavlova anyone?

Speaking of Kiwis, I heard Mel Gibson originally came from New Zealand...

Not So Rocky

I went for another run today. It was my first run since last Saturday. I've been hobbling around on sore arches for a week, so I figured I should give them time to recover.

But today I went for a 9km run from my place down to Middle Harbour and back. At least it would have been a 9lm run had I not gotten lost and found myself stumbling through the bush. The running gets pretty slow when you're clambering over rocks and roots and trying not to fall into creeks. Still I probably ran 8 of the 9km.

Anyway, all this is to say, my plans last week, of running 17km today, were a little too optimistic. I doubt I'm going to run 14km in one run before this City to Surf comes around.

Maybe I'll count this all as training for next year.

By the way, is anyone here a Nike+ user? If you are be my friend in Nike+ land. My name's Thomasw. I want some people to have competitions with.