Here is the thrid in a series of six games I’ve found, which are actually fun to play and have some replay value.

woot woot… shuffleboard!

left;” hspace=”8”>It looks like Downey is home to some band-wagoners. I woke up this morning and while I was watching footage of the lame protests (in Huntington Park and Detroit) for immigration. I heard the sound of voices over a megaphone directing people to cross the street. I looked out to see about 30 kids being directed to sit on the curb of the Methodist Church by 5 Downey Cops. They looked to be high school aged kids, a few of them had signs saying something like NO to Prop HR 4437, Honk for Immigration and then a few were waiving mexican flags in the air. They were carried away in small groups by the Paddy Waggon. A few cars drove by and honked to support them, which caused them to scream every few minutes. I finally shouted out my window, “Shut up, go back to school.”

People can protest all they want, I don’t care. What I find lame is those kids should be in school learning (or maybe not, they’d probably just distract the others from learning), they’ve caused 5 Downey Cops to be distracted for more than an hour (basically babysitting these little dummies), and they really didn’t get their point across (although I’m not sure they had one as this didn’t seem to be planned very well.)

Boy I can’t wait until the 5th of May… maybe we’ll get to see another oversized soccer ball rolling down the street.

Here is the thrid in a series of six games I’ve found, which are actually fun to play and have some replay value.

AWWWWWW…

Here is the thrid in a series of six games I’ve found, which are actually fun to play and have some replay value.

THE MUSIC SUCKS!

Yet another great example of PC gone way too far…
A newly hired radio host (had been at the station for 2 weeks) was commenting on how great it would be if Condoleeza Rice was to become the next NFL commissioner. During this commentary he slipped and spoke the word ‘coon’ instead of ‘coup’ by accident, he immediately realized his mistake and began to apologize. He was fired 20 minutes later and his boss came on the air to apologize to the audience and Condoleezza Rice. His boss was complimented by an NAACP spokesperson for the ‘swift’ response. Here, have a listen to his flub and you decide if he should’ve been fired:

This kind of stuff drives me crazy. It’s obvious it was a mistake, he feels bad for it and immediately apologizes (instead of hitting a delay button or trying to cover it up) and for being noble and recognizing his mistake he’s fired. Man I hate hippies… they’re ruining our society!

I ran across this a few weeks back, forgot about it, now I remembered and here you are.

It was made by Sky who broadcasts the new episodes in the UK. According to Sky it cost a lot of money to produce, took quite a while to shoot, and was originally going to be released to promote the new season but they decided it would be more effective if they released it on the internet. It’s pretty cool and mostly true to the animated version although there are a few minor differences [and a regional goof]. It makes you wonder how different the show would be if they actually filmed a live action movie or episode.

Update: Tune in this sunday as they will show this during the 8pm simpsons on FOX.

Here is the thrid in a series of six games I’ve found, which are actually fun to play and have some replay value.

watch out yahoo pool!

Here is some rambling from our trip…   photos here

Friday morning we left for our early flight (arrived late) and just made it on to our Jet Blue plane flying from Long Beach To Oakland. We arrived in Oakland to find it had just finished raining. We took the AirBART to the Bart Train to catch a cab to our hotel. We checked into our hotel (Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf) freshened up and went for lunch at the Boudin bread bowl factory. We walked around and eventually made our way (via cab) to Union Square. Here Lori shopped (H&M) while I decided it was St. Patrick’s day and I should celebrate in a local Irish bar (they serve Murphy’s on tap… that’s how you know they’re authentic!) Later we returned to the hotel for some rest and had dinner at Tarantino’s.

Saturday we had breakfast and made our way over to the pier to catch a ferry to Alcatraz Island, If you haven’t been go, it’s a cool / unique piece of history (and not too expensive, get the audio tour), watch Escape from Alcatraz before you go and it’ll make your experience even better. Later we had dinner at A. Sabellas which is not cheap and the portions are not overwhelming but the service, view (up on the 3rd floor looking toward fisherman’s wharf) and food quality is spectacular (linguine & clams, scallops and salmon, can’t say enough good about them.)

Sunday we woke a bit earlier ate a quick breakfast and got on a tour bus to visit the wine country. Our bus driver / tour guide had a great sense of humor, he was super nice and a ton of knowledge. There are too many wineries up in the Napa / Sonoma counties so visiting a few can take all day. It’s a fun experience and because you’re on the bus you get free tastings. The whole buying wine from a vineyard is a bit of a scam, they want you to join their club so you can get the best deals (% off) and they always brag you can’t get their wine anywhere but there… some of their wines are of better quality than what you buy at cost plus or the market, we did buy a few bottles (it does help to taste the wine you buy first) but i’m still happier getting my wine at TJs or Cost Plus. After the bus ride, some returning traffic we took a quick rest and then went off to our final dinner of the trip.

Monday is a short day we have to be on the plane by 3, so to kill time before the shuttle comes to get us (no taxi-bart-airbart for us this time as it’s raining men, literally) we head back down to Union Square to visit my favorite (non mom and pop) Italian Deli (A.G. Ferrari) for a few good sandwiches and then begin our walking trek after a quick stop at H&M (the rain finally dies down). From there we walked up through China Town then across to the Embarcadero Mall coast. After making it back to our hotel we have a quick drink at the hotel bar and catch a shuttle to airport (the worst driver in the city).

I had an amazing time during this extended weekend the weather cooperated for us (and I was worried) giving us nice sunny but cool days. It’s nice spending time away from your day to day life with the one you love, we hope to be able to do something like this every year. .

P.S. Thank you to Donovan for not letting us eat frozen cake, it was also fun to be able to slice into your cake a year later in the comfort and privacy of your own home.

Be sure to bring you’re IPOD there!  I think there may be some kind of a tax credit in SF which allows everyone to buy an IPOD.  I wish I had taken some statistics but it seems like 70% or more of the people walking down the street, riding public transportation (Doing the BART-man!!) or just standing/sitting pissing their pants and yelling obscenities have those little white headphones in their ears.  Way to go Apple Marketing!  I’ve never felt like such a minority.  I’m working on digesting our trip (photos / thoughts) so I should be posting our weekend / anniversary update.

Here is the second in a series of six games I’ve found, which are actually fun to play and have some replay value.