Just in case you haven't seen this, I wanted to share with you all my new addiction. This song, and the video, have been on repeat on my computer for the past four days. It's like crack. I smile SO much when I watch this. It's like a happy drug that only lasts four minutes. I wanna be in Fire Island with these guys!

Contrary to what my last post stated, I have come up with something that I really need to talk about. And that is the ongoing health care "debate" that's going on right now. So many things about this "debate" upset me that this is going to be a ( long entry. )

It has been forever and a year since I posted in here. I don't know what to say. Maybe my time in Livejournal land is coming to an end? I suppose Facebook is taking more of online time and I just don't have much to write about I think. Maybe once life throws me some change I'll pick it back up and write some more. Till then though, I doubt I'll be on here much. Sorry folks, just lettin ya know. I do still read everybody else's journals though, so keep it coming.

Enjoy what's left of your summer everybody. Have a lemonade on the stoop and turn on a good record. High five me when I walk by.

My boy Rafa made it through the first round at the French Open this week....amen. And you have to love the man for knowing how to dress for the occasion....he is in France after all:

And if you have the extra time, you need to watch video of a certain Gille Simon from France. I watched his match Sunday and there's something going on in his shorts, something big.

If you're a fan of Legos, you have got to take a look at this article. You wanna build the Guggenheim out of little plastic bricks? Now you can! Amazing.

I had to write a bit about this fabulous new show I watched last night. For some ungodly reason, I watched the last bit of the American Idol final, and after it was over I was treated to the best new show on a major network since 30 Rock! And to top it all off, it was on Fox....WTF? It follows the formation of a high school glee club and it was funny, touching, and actually had great musical numbers in it. I was shocked to say the least. They say the pilot aired last night, but the regular season doesn't start till the fall. So I am hoping that enough people watch this show online to guarantee it a full season, and hopefully more after that. Here is the pilot in it's entirety, so make a cup of tea and slap on some headphones, you won't be sorry!

And if you don't believe me, check out this review.

Since my desperate search for employment has gotten me exactly nowhere, I decided to branch out and try new things. I recently placed an ad on two different sites to promote myself as a professional manny. Yes, I have turned myself into a babysitter. After several spam emails, I finally got a legit inquiry this past week and answered it.

I went to interview with the mother that needed her baby sat. First off, her place is a dump. I'm being polite with that description too. There is garbage all over and papers stacked on the dinning room table up to a foot high. Bill collectors called twice while we were talking (to which she yelled at the phone to stop calling her). They were nice enough people, but they really don't seem to be able to afford anything. I went in with the intention of asking about $7 an hour. She insisted she couldn't pay more then $5 an hour, and in desperation I agreed. (After looking at the house, I really wanted to ask for a lot more). Fast forward to today when she leaves me a message to call her back. She seems to have a problem with our pricing agreement. After much contemplation, she decides she can't afford more then $2 an hour. My first reaction is that of shock. I mean....really? REALLY? Would that even cover gas? NO. After I realized that taking care of her kids would not only infect me with new variations of herpes by just touching their kitchen counter but that I wouldn't even be able to afford a morning latte with her new pay rate, I told her there was no way I was going any lower. I suggested she find somebody else that will practically work for free and that was that. Unreal....that's all I can think about it all.


In other news, I just got done watching this French musical on Sundance channel this evening. It's called Love Songs, and it stars my favorite French beau, Louis Gerral.

It was an interesting film, and I absolutely loved the ending. I mean, how can you not love it when a gorgeous man buries his girlfriend only to find out he really needs a boyfriend? :) The musical numbers were not all that magical, but it was sweet and I would love to watch it again sometime.

OK then....it is a dark 2:26am and I really need my sleep. Gotta wake up early to get the kiddos to school on time. Babysitting for a bit tomorrow, then hopefully I can meet up with Kevin in some fashion. :)

Just because I feel like, I think I'll ramble on about thingy things. One, I went to see Star Trek last Friday and it was AWESOME. I took my mom for mother's day and she loved it as well. Seeing as how she's the one that made me the Trekkie that I am, I figured she'd appreciate it. It was a slick fast paced movie with a good story and a brilliant concept to reboot the entire franchise. My only gripe is that I couldn't see it in IMAX since the lame Harrisburg theater isn't playing it. Bastards. But I have to agree with Becky that Spock is indeed HOT. And I've actually liked him long before this movie or even Heroes. One might recall a a show from long ago that stared him and Tori Spelling, where Zachary played a gay Iranian friend of Tori's. You don't remember it? Well don't feel bad, nobody watched it.....except me. :) Check it out, here is Spock in some nice gay action in the steam room:



Secondly, I would love to tell the world about my ongoing ubercrush on Mr. Seth MacFarlane. He was recently on the Bill Maher show last Friday and he has managed to make me love him even MORE. Somebody get me his home number!

To see the ultra-awesome part where the cutie Reza Aslan admits his love for Seth, you'll have to skip to 4:18 or so, but the more time spent with Seth, the better, so feel free to watch it all.
There just isn't anything better then man love.

It's been clear for awhile now that the Republicans have had NOTHING to of substance to say, but when your right wing agenda creator, Fox News, has to run a bit like this, then you know they're just full of shit and can't handle how insignificant they have become. Seriously Hannity, SERIOUSLY?

I wasn't planning on ranting, but by gawd. It's bad enough that the republicans are happy just sitting around and screaming no about everything while providing no kind of leadership in any way when there are huge issues to be tackled.....but when they have to resort to TEA PARTIES (laughable at best), and "listening tours" that aren't listening tours after Rush Limbaugh says so, then they're just becoming a joke. And now they're reporting on presidential mustard consumption. Cause EVERYTHING that a republican doesn't like must be unamerican. When are they going to realize that they don't corner the market on being "American"? Or knowing what patriotic is? How about all you republicans take a page out of Arlen Specter's book and look at your party and how divisive and mean spirited it has become. And how completely useless it is making itself. The answer is not to grasp onto your southern/confederate roots and try to push the country back to the days when women had no vote and gays were killed freely. That's just not going to work anymore. And for the last time....Rush Limbaugh is a jack ass! Stop doing everything he tells you to!! It's embarrassing to you and it's embarrassing to your party. I mean, did you check out how he rationalized that the economy isn't really happening since he has a $400 million contract? (Never mind that the employer that paid him said contract just cut 12,000 jobs that could have been financed with his salary!). Yeah, he's so rich that the economy is just fine. COME ON! How do you follow such a shit head around like a lost puppy? Right wing or left wing, how do you NOT see how much of an asshole this man is? And yet here is the republican party....taking points from this asshole while propping up "Joe the Plumber" as he goes around saying he "doesn't want gays near his kids". Good...fun...yeah, way to enlighten the young ones "Joe". And if the republicans keep saying how happy they are to lose Specter and how he should take McCain and Powel with him, then I think the democratic party is gonna grow leaps and bounds. While we will have a bigger and bigger tent with different thoughts and ideas, the republicans can sit in the sidelines and provide us with our comedic needs....cause they are getting awfully laughable.


Check out this interesting new Time article as well.

It has come to my attention that I am in love with quite a few journalists these days. Why is it that these anchors and correspondents are SO unbelievably hot? Take a gander:


Hottie BBC journalist with the best accent!


Hottie Iraq correspondent for NBC.


Hottie CNN weatherman. SMOLDERING hot!


And the hottest of all hotness....my beloved, Anderson Cooper. Ahhhh.

Can you tell that I'm horny and I watch too much news?

Watching the charming movie "You've Got Mail" on the tele today, I am reminded of a simpler time of internet usage. I often think of the time of America Online and dial-up (circa 1996) with great fondness. I loved chatting with strangers in random chat rooms and then finding instant message friends from across the country. It was all so new and amazing at the time. There were so many nights that I stayed awake well past three AM chatting with people and having the best time.

At one point I had acquired an online admirer from San Francisco. Mind you, there is no way to prove that anything he said was the truth, but that was a huge part of the AOL appeal back then really. His name was Peter, he went to Stanford and was quite wealthy. I loved talking to him online, and eventually even on the telephone. He would send me postcards from everywhere he would travel to (which included New Orleans, Paris, the Caribbean, Boston, and other more "woodsy" destinations). They were always very well written and reminded me of some sort of Victorian romance correspondence. I kept them all actually, and they are now placed in a book with many other pictures and such from my life back then. Peter would send me birthday presents and such all the time, I couldn't believe how thoughtful he was (one time it was over $100 in gift cards).

In all the time I talked to him, it never occurred to me that we should "date" in real life. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe because it wasn't something I thought the internet was able to do.....hook couples up in reality. At some point though Peter must have gotten disheartened because he fell off the face of the Earth. He had just inherited his grandmother's flat in Paris and was buying furniture for it when he seemed to disappear (seriously, he inherited an entire floor in a great part of Paris). Over the past few years I have tried to find him again, but to no avail. I still remember his screen name to this day, and I wonder what would have happened if we actually did start a relationship. Maybe I'd be sipping coffee at my favorite cafe in Paris right now while I take a break from shopping with my husband's money. *sigh*

For all the reminiscing I do about AOL days, I suppose things are better today. I do still remember the busy signals and the wait to actually get online. And if you wanted to download a picture, prepare to sit around for a half an hour. It was quite frustrating at times. And don't get me started about the billing. The first month or so, not knowing the different packages, I racked up a bill of $275. So while I think of the time positively, I probably would have given anything for the internet to be as fast as it is today. One thing I do kinda miss are the chat rooms. I could literally go into different chat rooms and just start talking about anything. And usually you'd find somebody with similar tastes that would talk to you. Nowadays it's nothing but sex talk or spam about some website. I haven't found a single chat room where you just went in and talked with people. But so is the price of being able to download entire porn films in three minutes, read seven blogs and watch a video about a singing fish on youtube all at the same time. Oh progress.

Don't ask me why, but after a bit on Keith Olbermann's show a few weeks ago, and now this video:

I officially have a crush on Seth MacFarlane. NO IDEA why. He's not even that cute. But man, I'm sure he could make me laugh like there's no tomorrow, he would only have to do Stewie over and over. :)

One of the only semi-funny bits on SNL this past weekend....


Seth Rogan does look a lot better these days though, I must say. But my heart will always beat for Seth Meyers, he's just too cute.

From the look of this picture, and from video in Iraq, I think it's safe to say we finally have a president that we are all proud of. And it's a beautiful thing:

Sorry, but I TOTALLY agree with this video. I just can't figure out what purpose Twitter serves. I still like phone calls...

The weather has been getting a tad better these days and occasionally we'll have a great day where you can actually go outside and appreciate it. Even though, my idea of outdoor fun is taking my nieces to the park. How things have changed. I still went and found some new tunes that I would love to blast out of my window while driving through town. Most of them are just face paced Euro pop, but I love it. Just picture yourself driving in an old Altima, a stereo system that costs more then the car, the windows down, sitting in traffic in the gayborhood in Philly and watching the locals sing along with you. :) (I've even had gay guys break out in dance right there on the corner before). Here are a few to brighten your day:

Calvin Harris- I'm Not Alone (LOVE this one!)

Frankmusik- Better Off As Two (doesn't he kinda sound like he might be deaf? I dunno)

MJ-Smooth Criminal Remix (new spin on a classic)

Ciara and JT- Love and Sex and Magic (pretty catchy, but not mind blowing)

Friendly Fire- Skeleton Boy (not exactly euro pop, but I still love it)


I wanna go for a ride!

I was reminded of a moment in my childhood today while listening to This American Life and I kinda feel the urge to write ( something. )

Look at that, I feel like writing some ( more... )

The way to a man's heart is his stomach, right? I should so have this covered then:

Hope everybody is having a very green and drunken kinda day today. As for me, I'm just filling out stupid online forms so I can attempt to get a job. The crap you have to go through to apply for a state job is ridiculous. Everybody have a drink for me!