I love this video! a remix of the slap chop infomecial!
Vince gets his jiggy on!
May 18th, 2009Random Shots from the weekend!
May 5th, 2009First of all I want to say how glad I am that Norwich City finally got sent down to a league that is befitting of them, I hope they enjoy there trip to Boston next season!
Secondly over the weekend I got to do something that I had yet to do in all the years I’ve been out in the states. I got to go to a redwings game (that’s Ice Hockey to those who don’t know).
These tickets are hard to come by for paupers like me, so to get to go to a play-off game against Anaheim was great. Then for the game to go into triple overtime, well, I really got my moneys worth. Just a shame they lost 4-3. Good game though.
Daughter #2 with an angry octopus on her face!
Back in Black (again)
April 22nd, 2009The soccer season has started again. Coach Dave is back, screaming lounder than before. The Black Dragons fall season in a word sucked. We ended with a record of 1 win 1 draw/tie and 8 losses. My head was hanging in shame all winter.
But after a few decent practice sessions the girls seems to have woken up. Tonights first game was awsome. They played like they’d been told I was going to pay them. Winning 3-1 and it could have been a lot more, the post got in the way several times as did their goalkeepers face..oops.
I love coaching and in the summer I’ve signed up to get my official coaching badges. perhaps I can turn it into a full time job!
Go Dragons
Re-issue of the classic
April 2nd, 2009here it is for those who have never heard it.
The classic fourpints crank call
I listened to it yesterday for the first time in a year, still cracks me up!
The Ruins of Detroit.
March 14th, 2009Heres a link to Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography who have taken some sad but very good photos of Detroit that really show the decline and neglect this city has had. As readers will know I believe that downtown Detroit needs some love and TLC that it is not going to get from the current council members who constantly bicker and call the hard working people of the suburbs racist. Its the people who live in the suburbs who come downtown and spend their money which the coucil then wastes on stupid lawsuits rather than fixing the city.
All Major cities around the world have suburbs, and they all have to get along and support each other. Personally I think if Monica Conyers continues with her verbal attacks then the people of the surrounding communities should forget about spending their money downtown. If these people want Detroit to fail then they should carry on with their stupid actions over COBO. COBO may be in Detroit, but everyone in Michigan has the right to use it. Next and they going to say that the people of the Suburbs are not allowed to have a say on Joe Louis Arena, Commerica park or any other place that hasn’t been destroyed yet.
Perhaps the suburbs should forget about Detroit, it seems the council doesn’t care about it. It’s such a shame as Detroit should be a wonderful city, instead its a joke to the rest of the world.
Who Ya Gonna Call?
March 1st, 2009This post has taken me a little while to write. about an hour so far! Well I keep getting called off to do other things. In reality the happenings that will be covered in this post have been occurring for about two months now.
Lets go back a while. For those who don’t know, or can’t be bothered to read through all the back posts, a while ago we moved into my Mother-in-laws house, she is retiring and spends most of her weekends up north at the other house. Eventually we plan to buy this place. This is where things turn a little… weird.
One weekend while Mom-in-Law was away, we noticed that her bedroom door was shut. Mom-in-law always has her door open. We just brushed it off as some fluke. Paid it no mind and went on with out lives. Until it happened again, and again and again.
Now I know what you are thinking. It’s someone having a prank. Well I thought that too, hell I’ve pulled a few jokes like that myself. But no. On several occasions all parties in the house were accounted for and no one could have gotten up and closed the door without someone else seeing. My second guess was that someone was walking around upstairs and the vibrations were closing the door. Very plausible and a theory I held on to until last night.
Now I came up with a cunning plan.
I propped up a couple of cases that were full of blank CDs. Together the weight I would say is about half of a house brick, give or take a gram. I even experimented, I tried to shut the door. The bottom case dragged on the carpet and made it impossible to shut the door. Bingo, no more weirdness.
This morning I woke up to find the door shut. Instant shivers down the spine. And the CD Cases?
One was on the floor, and the heavier of the two was perched on the end of a cabinet at the end of the bed.
I love all things weird, love watching ghost hunters. And if you ask me if i think there is a ghost here, I’ll say no. There has to be a logical explanation. But why it only happens when Mom-in-law is not here is a little weird. And if one of the other family members is doing it, they are very clever at hiding it from me.
So as I end this strange entry. I have once again propped open the door with the CD cases, and offered up the challenge to the wee ghostie, “Go on then you clever bastard, do it again.”
Charlie the Unicorn.
February 28th, 2009Once in a while after playing on the internet you get bored of going to the same old sites. Then you stumble upon a link that leads you to a world of a whole new pile of crap that you have to go visit everyday. Why oh why do we torture ourselves this way.
so, anyway from this link http://www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com/ I came across this. Possibly the funniest video I’ve seen since the last really funny video I’ve seen, and it will remain the funniest video I’ve ever seen until something else funnier comes along.
whatever!
enjoy
Beware of this post!
February 19th, 2009This post may well change your life!
Or your sanity!
Below is a video of a commercial currently airing here in the States.
Now its freaking stuck in my head and won’t go away, so I’m returning the favour and showing it to you.
Watch it once and I think you’ll be fine, but you will want to show it to someone else, and then, BAM, it’ll be stuck in your head!
ITS BANANA PUSS!
Shuttin’ Detroit Down.
January 31st, 2009
John Rich is recording a song called Shuttin’ Detroit Down, about the only place you can find it right now is on you tube. Its a great song, WYCD have been playing the hell out of it (So the Wifey says, I’ve mostly been listening to WCSX lately.) Its all about the fat cat Wall Street mob getting lots of tax payers money to go buy a new jet while the hardworking men and women of this country suffer.
Detroit has a bad reputation. And sadly it deserves it because of people like Kwame Kilpatrick and Monica Conyers. They had/have high place jobs in the City and all they did/do is lie and cause embarrassment to the City of Detroit. And its a shame.
I have been living here seven years now and I love Detroit. I notice new things each time I go downtown. The architecture is some of the best in the country. Detroit does however need a facelift, Just not from money being thrown at the place. It needs people in charge who are going to behave like responsible adults, who are not going to lie and cheat to line their own pockets. I for one hope that Dave Bing gets voted in as the new Mayor. And I hope he starts by turning the worlds media’s eye to only the positive.
Today the wifey and I were planning on having a quiet day and home, tucked up in the warm away from the snow. But my back was aching so we went to out chiropractor. Then she needed to buy some computer stuff, so we traveled down to 14 mile and John R to a computer center. It was while I was looking around there I got to thinking, “I wonder if I jokingly said to the Wifey “Lets go to the casino.” I wonder if she’ll want to go?” So I asked her, she said, “OK who are you and what have you done with my Husband?” You see I’m not the most spontaneous of people. I like to mull over my choices, think about all that can go wrong, then flip a coin, and still want to stay home. But today spontaneity was my friend, and I got to go downtown to the casino’s. Yes Plural. First we went to Motor City Casino and then on to Greektown.
I’d never been to MCC before and really liked it. We spent a while in there (a while is a new amount of cash. just slightly smaller than a butt load) and I broke even on the slots after being about $100 up.
We then got hungry and moved on to Pizza Papalis. I had a very good lasagna. If you go to Greektown you have to go there. Another place you have to go to is the Astoria pastry and bakery place.
Every hour on the hour they wipe the droop off the outside window. Normally this place is three or four people deep but we got in and out of there without any hassles. Then we went into the casino and I once again broke even. Actually I spent my winnings from MCC at lunch and then won it back at Greektown, so really lunch was free.
But this time I had a nagging in my brain as I was about to walk out my sense of adventure came back and I said to the wife I’m going back to the slots. And I’m glad I did, I won another $116. “Cash out now,” said a voice. I looked up and questioned, “God, is that you?” It of course was the Wifey bringing me down to earth. The fun was over. So as she dragged me screaming and kicking back to the car I pondered my day. And to be honest it has been a good one. God Save Detroit, cos its a lot of fun here.
Here are some other pics I took today.
8 Mile Road sign.
Recognize this sign below? Well it was in the movie Transformers. Watch out for it in the fight between Optimus Prime and Megatron.
This is Larned street sign. I always imagine pronouncing it with a Cornish accent!
This shot below is me being artsy! I took a blurry pic of the slots. So instead of wasting it I screwed with the colour settings. I think it looks pretty good.
And for some reason I took a picture of this window?!
Old Tiger stadium. Which is currently being torn down.
Fourpints and the Boiling water!
January 16th, 2009Heres how you turn boiling water into instant snow.
And also please use this as a guide as to how not to make a video!
