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Despite a wash out on getting together with my extended family, had a good weekend. Good Saturday night get together with Russell Landreth, the wifeage, and lots of prom people. Too many things in downtown GreenVegas this weekend. Armed Forces parade was Saturday- amazing turn out. The Greenville Drive home stand this weekend. The very delicious and great smelling Greek Festival. Greer has an awesome BBQ festival this weekend with WHOLE animals BBQ-ed and grilled. Apologies to my vegan friends, The BMW Charity Pro-Am with the awesome looking and newly engaged Holly Sonders. I miss Catherine Bell this year...

Other things this week....

Please keep Lana Kuykendall in your thoughts, prayers, and well wishes as she continues her fight for good health.

The SpaceX launch/ not a launch was freaking awesome despite not actually lifting off. The rockets fired and the clouds of exhaust enveloped the launchpad as the NASA guy counted down ending with the word "liftoff!" Yet the rocket carrying the Dragon space capsule remained on the launchpad. The computers cancelled the launch A HALF OF A SECOND before liftoff due to some issue with the #5 rocket. Mission specialists say they'll try again next week. I'm a fan of this and despite the setbacks hope this will prove a good thing.

The guy who was convicted in the Lockerbie plane bombing has FINALLY died. Are things better in that case now? Does everyone feel vindicated or justified? Sigh..

The Avengers movie continues it's havoc on the box office and box office records. At least until Spider Man and the nex Batman movie. The movie crossed $1.07 billion worldwide on Thursday to become the sixth biggest film ever and the largest Disney release in history. Freaking AWESOME action movie done right without a female thug singer on a boat. THIS WEEK

The reaper has been busy this week -
RIP Donna Summer, who blames 9/11 for her cancer.
RIP to 31 dates or the rest of the Van Halen 2012 tour.
RIP to Donald "Duck" Dunn and GoGo music creator Chuck Brown.

Saturday Night Live was actually pretty good this week. 69 year old Mick Jagger hosted this season's finale and was in nearly every skit. He performed a few Stones songs with Arcade Fire and The Foo Fighters backing him. The show ended with he and the rest of the cast singing a cool version of "Ruby Tuesday" as a goodbye to Kristen Wiig. Each cast member including producer Lorne Michaels, danced a few seconds with her during the song.

A Tennessee man needs help paying his 30 babies and 11 baby mamas.

Here's a story about how more is owed to student loans than credit card or auto loan debt.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg made the news this week. HE GOT MARRIED SATURDAY!

The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law. Amazing.

And finally, ALMOST finally. At least until the predictable rioting after a Zimmerman acquittal, facts and findings from the official police report! Pictures and xrays confirming the PRO Zimmerman side of George's injuries to the back of his face and head. Traces of THC was found to be in Martin's bloodstream and that he was shot less than 18 inches which would indicate a struggle. The official police report's findings side with the  Pro TRAYVON side stating Zimmerman should have just left Martin alone as he wasn't doing anything illegal and posed no threat to George Zimmerman. More to come!!

So This Is Thursday....

The world's longest cat Stewie - 4 ft long

Happy Thursday - or Friday or whenever you're reading this. Not much going on today. Still too freaking warm outside - near 80 degrees approaching Halloween- sheesh! Though it DID get down to around 30 degrees about 94 miles away from here this morning. As of Thursday afternoon, me and the missus have no “big” plans for my bi-weekly Friday/Saturday/Sunday off.


On Yahoo! News this afternoon, one of the afternoon's headlines reads "Obama says elections could set nation's future". NAH, REALLY? How Bush-esque...

What do you think of the "racy" photos at GQ of the cast of TV's "Glee"? I think the pedophilia concerns are kinda muddled because, as with most shows, you have early/mid 20 year olds playing high school teens.

Look for Jimmy McMillan of New York’s The Rent Is Too Damn High (www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/) political party to possibly make a cameo on this weekend's Saturday Night Live.


Conan O'Brien is lining up the expected "big" guest list for the initial week of his show debuting November 8th.


Katy Perry and Jack Sparrow imitator Russell Brand are getting married in India.


Why did NPR fire (terminate the contract of) analyst Juan Williams for telling Bill OReilly that one time on a plane people appearing to be Muslims dressed in religious garb frightened him?


A new study indicates that eating whole grains instead of refined grains may have benefits for your waistline. Will they ever come out with a whole grain cheesecake?

How do you feel about Collin Ferrell being in a "Total Recall" remake?


Looks like the on again/ off again production of "The Hobbit" is becoming just as long and drawn out as the movie/story will be.

Penthouse founder Bob Guccione Sr has died.


And finally, a U.S. satellite has detected increased activity at a North Korean nuclear weapons test site, suggesting it could be preparing for a third test, a South Korean government source was quoted as saying. If we went into Iraq because of alleged WMD's and the argument is being made that even though the WMD's were moved out of Iraq and it's a GOOD thing Saddam is gone, can't we make the same argument concerning Kim Jong Il/Nam/Nong?

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY TO PAUL DAVID HEWSON!!

actually, it was Monday, May 10-th.

My brother, an internationally famous radio guy, sent me this LINK to IGN's ranking of the 100 Comic Book Villains- what say you?

A 40-foot sculpture in rural Maryland of three New York City firefighters raising the U.S. flag at ground zero is being offered on eBay, but there's a catch: You can't take it home. Click HERE for the story..

Thanks to the GINORMOUS media coverage and success of Betty White's appearance on SNL this past weekend, MORE SNL campaigns have already started popping up on Facebook.

Wanna know what the most USELESS college degrees are? Well, least paying anyway. Yahoo! has compiled the list HERE.

Happy Tuesday!!

Happy Chock-Full-O-Stuff Monday Morning!!

Happy Monday!

Well, as happy as it can be, I suppose. I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day. My wife really enjoyed the card and stuff from “the dogs”.

What beautiful weather we’ve had here in SC this weekend! Saturday, I walked around downtown Greenville and experienced some of the downtown festival/sales event that WAS “Artisphere”.

Later that night, I saw one of the best Saturday Night Live episodes ever. I expected Betty White to be funny in a couple of skits. Especially the predictable ones with sexual content and extreme age variances. Her appearance brought out seemingly every female SNL alum from the 90’s- Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon & Rachel Dratch. I’d have to say, every skit on the show was funny. Even the news segment. Jay Z was Jay Z.

On Friday I saw Iron Man 2 with a couple of GREAT friends (you KNOW who you are). I totally disagree with the few reviews I read concerning too many characters and a plodding story line (a couple compared Iron Man 2 to what doomed Spiderman 3). Though I wouldn’t suppose anyone would seek a complicated, cerebral challenging storyline in a movie such as Iron Man 2. One reviewer stated she thought the movie was too “cartoonish” at times. Really?!?!?! A comic book movie too cartoonish? In my opinion, there’s no reason not to go see Iron Man 2, if you’re into that kind of movie. I’m now of the opinion that sequels and subsequent movies mad in a series never have the charm or appeal of the original and never will (with the exception of the 1st Star Trek movie). Much like the many book-to-TV/Theatrical lost in translation scenarios, this is just something I guess we’ll have to live with. That being said, Iron Man 2 is a good movie, with a good pace. You can argue that Scarlett Johansson was wasted in this movie, but to me it’s a GOOD kind of waste, LOL! There’s a reference and a little poke at another MAJOR Marvel Character who is getting his own movie. Wait until after ALL of the credits have rolled by for an extra special tease about a certain Thunder God’s upcoming flick. It’s estimated that Iron Man 2 made around $133.6 million this weekend.

ON another note- I just learned about “smart dust” over the weekend. Conspiracy theorists unite!!!
Check this story out and let me know what you think….

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/03/smart.dust.sensors/index.html

According to Wikipedia, Smartdust is a (not so anymore) hypothetical wireless network of tiny microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS), robots, or devices that can detect (for example) light, temperature, or vibration. I’ve read where certain cities are using smart dust to detect open or available parking spaces. A couple of cities are utilizing smart dust to reconfigure efforts to control traffic patterns. Of course, there are the moral implications that are too Orwellian.

other stuff I saw on the ol interweb this morning…

Lena Horne has died at the age of 92.

Looks like Barrack Obama is going to nominate the sexually ambiguous Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she will be the youngest person on the bench; replacing the oldest serving person.

A couple of sources are saying that gas prices may actually go DOWN in the coming weeks.

And finally, in Australia, An under-16 Australian Rules football team has come under fire for entering a sponsorship deal with a local Hooters franchise, with critics saying the move could give adolescent boys the wrong message. The Broadbeach Cats team in Australia's Gold Coast were cheered on by two skimpily-dressed staff from the Mermaid Beach franchise of the American restaurant chain during their home game against local side Labrador on the weekend.

"The message these boys are getting -- and bear in mind we're talking 15 and 16-year-old boys -- is that ... as a young footballer you have an entitlement to large-breasted women in skimpy outfits bouncing around at your games," women's advocate Melinda Tankard Reist said on an Australian morning television show.