super mario brothers weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

so, i was on my computer working with the tv on as usual and suddenly i heard this familiar tune that i hadn't heard in a very long time. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS!!!!!!!!! what a hypnotic tune. there's a new one out on the nintendo ds and i might just have to get just for that game. what a perfect continuation.

where's my nintendo????????? it's gotta be around here somewhere! and you know what game's in it that has probably been permanently fused inside cause it's never been removed?

if you loved it as a kid and are prone to buying on impulse, you might not wanna click this.

i warned you.

ps - two best games ever - 1. super mario brothers (well, the entire original series) 2. mario kart

pss - yes, jesse, you're right. tony hawk 1 and 2. no one can deny how amazed they were at the first person they saw play that was absolutely incredible. i thought i was good and then i played robert lievanos. i spent my whole time watching his side of the screen!

dylan

65. happy birthday!
listen to some dylan today.

cruise, but not really

i went to see mission impossible 3 today. it was good. i enjoyed it. i thought this one paid way more attention to the finer details, which was nice. don't waste that 400 million or whatever it was the used to make the movie. i'm not going to say a whole lot about it, because i don't want to spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it yet BUT i did like how the villain died (shutup! of course the villain dies. BIG SURPRISE!). also, if my friend kacey was ever a villain, he would be that one.

so, walking and talking out the theatre, we passed a poster and headed down the esca.... waaaaaaaaaaaaaait a sec. i went back to have another look at the poster. now, i'm in no way any level or any kind of tom cruise zealot but only after scene after scene of close-ups of mr. cruise and his face fresh in mind, i couldn't help but notice the photoshop job done to up his appeal. seriously. one, and this is directed towards whoever decided it need to be done, tom cruise is pretty well known and it's pretty well known that his schnoz is a bit... haggared. two, people aren't attending because of the nose. you're not going to attract more people giving him a pseudo nose job. three, with the amount of close-ups, clearly it's not an issue. sorry if i'm ruining that part of the movie for you zealots. yes, there are close-ups. yay. four, if it's that much of an issue, get him a real nose job.



oh, and i wonder if there is a "running clause" in his movie contracts. by coincedence i watched the firm, another cruise film and he ran a bunch in that, too.
"movie sounds great. i'm running somewhere in it, right?"

more on the apple store, fifth avenue

neat. but i'm not trying to wait 5 hours just to see the store. it's not that crucial to my existance. it's not temporary. it's not going to self destruct after 1000 visitors; as much as bill gates would love it. it's going to be there tomorrow. as far as i know, they are going to be carrying the same stuff as all the other apple stores, just at a new, spiffy, "revolutionary" location. if i lived in new york, i'm not going to lie, i'd prolly check it out on the first day - at 2AM. remember the great thing about it is that it's open 24 hrs. nice to see people were really taking advantage of it. haha

check out the apple store, fifth avenue time lapse from the first day.

THE ultimate reporter

i really had no idea but mike wallace IS the man! period.

his career has been incredible. who hasn't he interviewed? talk about an accomplished career!!!!!!!!!
i can't wait for an official biography.


Mike Wallace

NEW YORK
60 Minutes and CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace (CBS)


(CBS) Mike Wallace has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since its premiere on Sept. 24, 1968. The 2005-06 season marks his 38th on the broadcast.

Among his journalistic triumphs of the past few years was his exclusive interview of John Nash, the mentally ill genius on whom the controversial Academy Award winning film “A Beautiful Mind” was based.

He arranged for Louis Farrakhan and the eldest daughter of Malcolm X, who has accused Farrakhan of indirect complicity in her father's assassination, to be interviewed together for 60 Minutes. The meeting, broadcast in May 2000, resulted in front-page news when Farrakhan admitted that his words might have egged on the assassins.

In 1998, Wallace had one of the biggest scoops of the year: He was the only reporter to accompany U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to Iraq on his mission to prevent war between Saddam Hussein and the Allies. His exclusive interview with Annan was broadcast on 60 Minutes on Feb. 22, 1998. His controversial report on Dr. Jack Kevorkian in November of that year, in which 60 Minutes broadcast Kevorkian's own videotape showing him injecting lethal drugs into a terminally ill man, spurred debate and media coverage for weeks.

Wallace's no-holds-barred interviewing technique and enterprising reportage are well known, and his numerous and timely interviews read like a who's who of newsmakers: George Bush, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Deng Xiaoping, Manuel Noriega, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Menachem Begin, Anwar el-Sadat, Yasir Arafat, the Shah of Iran, King Hussein, Hafez Assad, Muammar Qaddafi, Kurt Waldheim, H. R. Haldeman, Vladimir Horowitz, Itzhak Perlman, Johnny Carson, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Leonard Bernstein, among many others.

Wallace's experience as a newsman dates back to the '40s, when he was a radio newswriter and broadcaster for the Chicago Sun. After serving as a naval communications officer during World War II, he became a news reporter for radio station WMAQ Chicago. He first joined CBS in 1951, left the Network in 1955 and returned in 1963, when he was named a CBS News correspondent.

His numerous television credits include "Night Beat" (1956-57) and "The Mike Wallace Interview" (1957-60). From 1959 to 1961, he anchored the Peabody Award-winning public affairs series "Biography," which focused on a wide range of historical figures including Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Helen Keller, Mark Twain, Babe Ruth and Clarence Darrow. His book, "Mike Wallace Asks," a compilation of interviews from "Night Beat" and "The Mike Wallace Interview," was published in 1958. His memoir, "Close Encounter," co-authored with Gary Paul Gates, was published in 1984.

Wallace reported from Vietnam in 1962 and, after returning to CBS, covered the war several times between 1967 and 1971. In September 1990, CBS News presented a one-hour special, "Mike Wallace Then and Now," which recalled Wallace's 40 years of reporting and interviewing.

In June 1992, he anchored the CBS News/Washington Post-Newsweek co-production "Watergate: The Secret Story," which marked the 20th anniversary of the break-in at the Watergate complex. In December 1993, he anchored "CBS Reports: 1968," which chronicled that watershed year in U.S. history.

His newsmaking interview of the highest-ranking tobacco executive ever to turn whistle-blower, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, who revealed critical tobacco industry secrets for the first time on television, was broadcast on 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News in February 1996.

In September 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, marking his 20th Emmy. In May 2002, he won the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award given by Quinnipiac College for his journalistic contributions to free speech. Wallace won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award grand prize and television first prize in 1996 for the "CBS Reports" broadcast "In the Killing Fields of America" (January 1995), a three-hour report he co-anchored on violence in America.

His other professional honors include 19 Emmy Awards, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, a Robert E. Sherwood Award, a Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Southern California School of Journalism and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the international broadcast category.

Wallace was elected a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi (November 1975), and was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the University of Massachusetts (1978).

In May 1987, he received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, and in 1989, an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Pennsylvania. He was honored in September 1989 by Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications for his lifetime contribution to radio and television.

In June 1991, he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, and in September 1991, he was honored by the Radio/Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) with the Paul White Award. In 1993, he was named Broadcaster of the Year by the International Radio and Television Society.

Wallace graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939 with a B.A. degree. He has a son, Chris, and a daughter, Pauline, and lives in New York with his wife, Mary Yates.

appreciate the small things

i ventured to the bank the other day to make a deposit. exciting, right? i put my card in ABM and all that jazz (nope. not going to reveal my PIN number if that's what you were hoping, though i'm sure some would have - stupid is as stupid does), got the envelop, put the check in, folded it up and finished the transaction. whenever i have had to make a deposit, i always remembered the disgusting after-taste that came from having to lick the envelop that sat in my mouth. it lasted the entire way home. but that whole experience is now extinct! self-sealing envelops people!!!! it such a small thing but such an amazing thing. it's so great to know that i'll never have to lick and envelop at the ABM AND never have to lick stamp because those are stickers now.

why this "technology" wasn't implemented earlier, i have no idea. but i am glad that it's in production now. having to indulge in the less-than-sensational taste of adhesive wasn't something i enjoyed, or anyone enjoyed for that matter. there was never a warning on envelops or anything about "over-use" but it couldn't have been good for you. i bet secretaries and bank tellers are psyched!

definition of prodigy

i'm speechless. what can i say? kids got some rhythm. just watch.
thanks chuck!

apple what!

The Apple Store Fifth Avenue to Open on Friday, May 19
NEW YORK—May 18, 2006—Apple® will open its newest and most extraordinary retail store yet on New York’s Fifth Avenue on Friday, May 19 at 6:00 p.m. EDT. The Apple Store® Fifth Avenue is Apple’s most architecturally innovative store, featuring a distinctive 32-foot glass cube that creates a stunning new destination on Fifth Avenue, one of the world’s most popular shopping areas. The Apple Store Fifth Avenue will be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to offer an unprecedented level of service.......

More here.

shit dip

i was downtown early this morning and witnessed a new level of creative vugarity. i couldn't help but laugh.

so this older biker riding happily down the street was viciously cut off by this speeding hummer, blindly in a hurry to get somewhere. lets just say after the biker saw his life flash before his eyes, he was pissed and conveniently they arrived at the next stop light together.

"HEY!" the biker yells slapping the window.

as the person in the hummer rolls down the window, the biker continues to go off screaming at her about their road etiquette.

after a few seconds of arguing,
"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE? YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE? SHIT DIP!......... YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I SAID. SHIT! DIP!"
and he rode away.

i was on the opposite side of the biker, parallel to the hummer so as the biker rode away, i could see the woman, clearly stunned. i was crying!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don't think she appreciated it. whatever, it was her fault.

shit dip. if you're eating shit, you obviously have an attraction to things that taste awful. now, what could you possibly be dipping shit in to make it taste worse? (not that i've tasted it but i'm guessing it doesn't like an oh henry bar) i dunno but i thought that was pretty creative! haha

burn.

one red paper clip

wow. check it out. this guy, kyle macdonald, started with one red paper clip and his goal is to eventually own a house by simply bartering.

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com

just blogging

not much to tell.

looks like i'm going to being having more adventures at woodward camp AGAIN. should produce some interesting posts on here so be prepared. i kinda wish the canadian dollar would die for a bit so i could really cash on american money.

on the david blaine thing, basically he blew it. what was the point in the handcuffs, really? all that hustle and bustle used up a ton of oxygen through his muscles. if he had done his research, he probably would have known that, and set the record. maybe not because if he had done some more research, he would have known a guiness representative would have had to be there for it to count, which there wasn't. oh well. he got his 7 minutes of fame.

sorry, ive been corrected. "it's the american dollar that has gone to shit because of bush."

mario brothers LIVE

Super Mario Bros. Re-enactment
Talent show at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts

Mario Live


thanks wingnut!!!!

sneezing, itchy eyes, runny nose.........anyone have a guillotine

so, yesterday was BEAUTIFUL!!!! no clouds, super warm out, one of those days that you do not want to spend indoors. luckily there's a decent cement park not too far from me so i took the opportunity to go out and enjoy the weather. got there, it was crowded as i expecting with a plethora or 6 year olds skating in circles with their parents screaming at them to go faster, skateboarders posing everywhere, looking "cool" but doing nothing more than getting in others way, and bmxers tearing around the park, cutting everyone and anything off. but i had my shuffle so i just skated where i could, enjoying being outside and skating.

got home....

WAIT! completely off of what i was going to talk about but i can't further without telling you what i witnessed yesterday. most of you that don't rollerblade or skateboard or anything like that probably won't get it but those of you who do, will. so while i was there, there was a skater hanging out, not really skating. had some groupie girls with puffed addidas and loads of eye shadow hanging around him. anyway, he finally gets up and starts skating around. mind you, this guy is trying to look "hard." he's got his baggy pants, ripped korn t-shirt, grizzly beard, long, flowing brown hair, thick wallet chain, little bit heavy set etc. know the type? so, this dude finally gets up and tears through the park COMPLETELY out of control. i could tell he was trying to make it look like he knew what he was doing but you can't really hide ability. so he tears at this quarter pipe, stumbling the whole way, front flips out of the pipe, lands on his heels and washes out into a biker sitting on a bench. some people we're cheering, clearly because they wanted to see him try it again and fail. i think most were just kinda in awe and thinking "wow. this guy is going to get ruined." as one guy said. so he tries it again, lands it, sort-of, and his girlfriends cheer and run out to congratulate him. great! he's done. oh, no he's not. so for the next little bit, he just tore around the park, fumbling, stumbling and falling all over the place. no tricks, just... that. at this point i just sat, enjoyed the sunshine and watched. i didn't want to run into him and get impaled by his studded bracelet. so, there's this one part in the park that has this guard railing. it's probably about 4 feet tall or so. it's not meant for grinding, it's high! it's just there to block people from the bank going in the opposite direction. i'm sitting relatively close to it. i see this guy skate really hard at this rail, slow down abruptly and grab the rail with his hands as if he was just testing it out first. the guy i was sitting with, aaron, said "oh, he's probably going to try a hand-stand flip over it or something dumb like that." we both laughed because we thought it was true. we looked over at him because he's groupie girlfriend were egging him on. "you can do it! we have faith in you!!!!!!!" next thing you know, this guy is skating at this rail full speed. when i say full speed, i mean FULL SPEED. sketchy, but fast. he approaches it, straight jumps it attempting to clear it from the ground (no handstand), smashes both knees into the top of the rail, wips around and hits his face on the edge of the ground under the rail and disappears down onto the bank. REAL TV candidate for sure, but nobody was filming. so we go over, he's moaning, his girlfriends are freaking out. the entire park is over to see what happened. anyway, to cut this story off, ambulance came, 2 bruised knees, he walked to his brothers car and they left. what can i say. the guy got lucky. there's no reason both legs shouldn't have been folded at the knees the opposite way like an ostrich. what have we learned from all of this: 1. know your limits 2. groupie girls are the devil 3. wallets with big chains belong in the 90's

so i got home and my eyes started itching. i started sneezing all over the place (i actually pulled a muscle in my back with one sneeze). my nose was a faucet. what the hell happened to my amazing day? allergies happened. now as i sit with 4 empty boxes of kleenex, i wonder to myself at what point did i become allergic to the outdoors? i think it's pretty safe to say i spent much more of my life outdoors than indoors. if anything i would think i would be immune to anything the outdoors could dish out. i've eaten my share of dirt and grass, more of course when i was little haha. i think most of us would be. i just don't understand why allergies to the outdoors exist in so many people. it sounds ridiculous to me. i guess i just figure the more time you spend doing something, the more you "adapt" to its environment. i suppose adaptation takes hundreds, probably thousands of years but still. we've been on this planet for a long, long time and so has grass and dandelions. we've had more than enough time to get along. you could always look at the big picture. i'd rather be allerigic to grass and such than air or water. and for those of you that are thinking "Ptsh! No ones allergic to air or water!" you'd be wrong!

Allergic to Water

Allergic to Water 2


what a great way to ruin a day. allergies!!!!