PETA Formally Requests that the Pet Shop Boys Change their Name

To the Rescue Shelter Boys.
Seriously.

On This Day In History: Josephine Baker dies

African-American dancer Josephine Baker dies on this day in 1975. Baker, born in 1906 in St. Louis, was stranded in Paris in 1925 when a show in which she was performing went bankrupt. She landed a dancing job in the Folies Bergere, where her dancing and skimpy costumes became an instant hit with Parisian audiences. In France, Baker was considered the epitome of the jazz era, and French fans continued to adore her for 50 years.

Restaurant Review: Pizza Gourmet Express

I'd driven by Pizza Gourmet Express a bunch and it looked cute, plus I am always on the lookout for tasty pizza be it NY style joints like Bronx and Luigi's, Chicago style like Lefty's, or Sicilian like Venice Pizza. Our office has a bi monthly outing to check out San Diego lunch places and do some office bonding over food. This outing did NOT disappoint. PGE is cute and clean with outdoor and indoor seating. There isn't too much space but we comfortably had 8 people in our party and there was room for more customers. This place is definentely diffrerent than the beloved places above, KNOW THIS. There are pies that range from the classics like pepperoni and Hawaiian to BBQ, Mediterranean and even a Duck, Pesto, Gouda, fig one (I was going to try this but they were out of duck, great excuse to return!). The service was AWESOME and I was delighted to find they had beer and wine as well as Coca Cola, in the glass bottle! You can order a personal sized 10" pizza or a 14" pizza to share and you can build your own pizza with the many many ingredients they have on hand. I was suprised to find that the first pizza hit our table about 8-10 minutes after ordered!! They have convection ovens so you don't have the loooong wait I associate with pizza. They did have two different pizzas available for by the slice if you can't even wait 10 minutes. I had the BBQ pizza which had smoked gouda, shrimp, cilantro, carmelized onion, and delicious BBQ sauce. BOOOOOOMB!!!!! SO GOOD!!! Dude, their ingredients are off the hook. I was very impressed and I'm a foodie. You can either get a traditional crust or a flat wheat crust. I tried the flat crust and adored it. Since the ingredients are delicious and adventourous the crusts purpose here is really only to hold them, not to be the showcase and that's how I like my pizza, incredible toppings and a great crust that doesn't usurp. Did I mention the owner was a sweetheart? Check this place out, University Heights has some incredible food choices so make this one of your stops. You won't be dissapointed!! Try and branch out if your a cheese/pepperoni type of person, everything is delicious!

Pizza Gourmet Express
4615 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92116

(619) 546-7430

Check Out The Menu

Kumar to Work For Obama in Fight to save White Castle From the Recession

I kid. But Kal Penn who played Kumar in both Harold and Kumar Adventures was just killed off of show House: MD (he was on that show!?) so he could work for Obama. Penn, 31, will be an associate director for the Obama administration's Office of Public Liaison.

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Getting to know Americas Animated Families

I hate internet TV. Gone is the superiority I used to get from not having a TV in my house, I feel like I'm watching more TV than I did the 9 months I had a TV in college! Fuck, I'm hitting the library again, my brains just NOT as sharp...ANYWHO. Internet TV means I never miss a Family Guy or Simpsons episode ( I'm not proud of this, I'm just saying). I've been noticing lately just how different the two animated comedies are, the physical comedy of Simpsons and the non sequitur humor of Family Guy. More astonishing is the difference between the two leading men. Homer is an IDIOT, who thinks with his stomach and reacts first with anger but loves his family and really does try his best. He may screw stuff up at first but there was an episode where he worked 23 hours a day so Lisa could have a pony. Peter however is a trifecta of retarded, selfish and non-reedming. He never lets up and never has a moment where you know he really cares. But I don't watch Family Guy for Peter (Stewy, Brian and Chris is where the real humor is, if not in the off color side scenes that are the backbone of the show). It's funny because Peter's wife Lois stays mad at Peter and loves him hands down even though hes practically done every horrible thing known to man and never apologizes or does anything for her. Did I mention SHE is hot and rich?? Marge however has gotten so angry that Homer has spent entire episodes trying to get her love back! OK, Im getting to intimately know these characters, scary. I need more friends!! Anyway the openings of The Simpsons have been just sooooo rad. I can't believe they make a new one every time. Also, the second episode I posted below was just so incredibly sweet and cute and made me cry. Im PMSing so Im super emotional but its just soooo cute!!

Great Simpson Opening




Really Cute Simpsons Episode

Whistle While You Work Harder Than The Rest of The World

Americans work two weeks longer than the work-till-you-drop Japanese, and two months longer than the Germans, who sometimes receive up to 15 weeks paid vacation each year, according to the Hay Group, a human resource consulting firm. Although our self-imposed "all work, no play" attitude doesn't necessarily make us dull, it does make us tired, cranky and overworked. For many of today's worker bees, the typical vacation is like a busman's holiday, on speed. American workers are wage warriors who work when they relax. With cellphone, laptop, pager, and email at the ready, there's no such thing as a vacation anymore.
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A Sample of Average Vacation Days By Country:

Denmark 31 days
Austria and Finland 30 days
France and Norway 25 days
Germany 24 days
Belgium, Ireland, the U.K., the Netherlands and Switzerland 20 days
Brazil 22 days
Australia 20 days
Colombia and New Zealand 15 days.
U.S., Canada, Japan 10 days
Mexico 6 days

Heart Attack Grill: Dying The American Way

One of the burger options has 8,000 calories. That is ample calories for 4 full days in one sitting. I'm going to have to guess it's high calorie due to, among other atrocities, it's lard smeared burger buns.....

Out-of-Wedlock Births Soar as do (Shot) Gun Sales

Makes sense right? More shotgun weddings and higher gun sales right?

Unwed Pregnancy
"I wish people spent as much time planning when to get pregnant, with whom, under what circumstances as they do planning their next vacation," said Brown, the CEO and founding director of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy."

From CNN.com
Nearly 40 percent of babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by unwed mothers, according to data released last month by the National Center for Health Statistics. The 1.7 million out-of-wedlock births, of 4.3 million total births, marked a more than 25 percent jump from five years before. These statistics include for the second year in a row a bump in teen pregnancies, after a 14-year decline.
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Gun Buying
Up due to fears the Obama Administration will places laws that make it harder to own an assault weapon. Also, Americans believe as economic times get tougher crime will increase.

From The Times:
According to the SportsOneSource, a research firm that tracks the sporting-goods industry, firearms sales in large retail outlets are up 39% this year. Shops across the country are reporting ammunition shortages because stores can't meet demand for bullets. Data from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which the industry uses as a proxy for overall firearms sales, are also revealing. From November 2008 through March 2009, FBI background checks, which are required every time a federally licensed gun dealer makes a sale, rose 29.3% over the same period a year earlier. In November alone, checks jumped 42%, to 1,529,635, the largest monthly total in the decade that the system has been in place. "Consumer demand is unprecedented," says Larry Keane, general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry.

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Odd Couple: Joanna and Victoria, BFF's Forever, K.I.T, XOXO, UR 2 Sweet 2B =4gotten!!

Excerpt from Pitchfork:
[You can hear] Joanna Newsom's "Sprout and the Bean" (sample lyrics: "I slept as though dead / Dreaming seamless dreams of lead") playing softly in the background during an ad for Victoria's Secret's Dream Angels push-up bra. [Ok, odd.] Even if it is their softest push-up ever.

Thunderstorms on Friday!?!

Let's Get Wet and Wild San Diego, I hope there is lightening!!! Let's here it for ACTUAL WEATHER IN SAN DIEGO!?!?!

Weather Channel Website

Friday April 10th, 2009
High 63°
Low 56°

70% Chance of Rain

Ok so maybe it won't be THIS severe.....

On This Day In History: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain is found dead at 27

Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the rock band Nirvana, is found dead three days after committing suicide in his Seattle home. His death launched a world-wide outpouring of grief among millions of Nirvana fans. Cobain's "grunge" band transformed rock music in the early 1990s and, although he did not accept the title, Cobain himself was considered the spokesperson for "Generation X."

Cobain grew up in the small logging town of Aberdeen, WA. His life was thrown into turmoil after his parents divorced as Cobain lived with different family members over the next few years. He learned guitar as a teenager and developed a love of the Beatles. Angry and alienated in high school, Cobain found a love of local hardcore punk bands around the Seattle area. He dropped out of high school a few weeks before his graduation and worked as a janitor by day, playing music at night. He formed Nirvana in 1987 with his childhood friend Krist Novoselic and it provided Cobain an outlet for his anger and cynicism.

The band, heavily influenced by late-1970s punk, helped develop Seattle's "grunge" sound. Nirvana became an underground hit with its debut album, Bleach, in 1989, which they spent $606.17 recording. The album sold 35,000 copies. After a bidding war, the band signed with DGC for a $287,000 advance and released Nevermind, in 1991. The first single Smells Like Teen Spirit became the anthem for a generation. Nevermind, an album which most people hoped would sell 150,000 copies, eventually sold more then 10 million worldwide.

Cobain never seemed to be comfortable with his newfound fame as Nirvana became the one the biggest and most sought after bands in the world. Despite getting married and having a child in 1992, Cobain never seemed to be comfortable in his own skin.
Suffering from stomach problems since childhood, Cobain tried to easy the pain with drugs. In 1993, Cobain overdosed on heroin twice and, while in Rome in early 1994, attempted suicide by overdosing on the tranquilizer Rohypnol.After a brief attempt at rehab, Cobain killed himself with a single gunshot to the head on April 5, 1994. His body wasn't discovered for three days. Cobain joined other rock legends who died at the age of 27, including Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.

Three posthumously released Nirvana albums, MTV Unplugged in New York, From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah and the self-titled Nirvana have all topped the Billboard charts. Rolling Stone Magazine listed Nevermind at No. 17 on the list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl went on to front another multi-platinum band, the Foo Fighters.

Liquor Store Gem: Ballatore Sparkling Wine

Yes, I KNOW, "But Andre is only $2.99-$4.99!." Get over it, aren't you sick of those cheap champagne headaches yet? Ballatore is about $8.99 a bottle and is so far superior to Andre that I can't look back. It's very balanced with a fruit infused flavor and a crisp clean finish. It even has a cork. Can't say that for Andre. If you have a few extra bucks and have shit to do the next day that does not require a hangover, check this out! It is all very fun to pronounce Ballatore as "BALL ATER!!" when you get drunk.

Hillcrest Italian Food Gem: Bacione

It doesn't help that Bacione is in a shopping complex slapped up against a Radio Shack and Pick Up Sticks (It's by Ralps and Trader Joe's on University). Also doesn't help that the font on the sign sort of looks like you'll be eating fancily prepared musaka and not home style tortellini. We walked into Bacione and found a laid back atmosphere and friendly no frills service from the daughter of the cook herself. Ok so I had overdressed but I felt instantly at ease and even had a fun conversation with our server (who was also our host) about what to order. She recommended the rigatoni which was the house specialty but we got the Eggplant Parmesan instead and we started with wine, bruschetta and ordered a pesto basil tomato pizza for dinner as well.

Ok right off the bat, I'll just cut to the chase: This was the best Italian food I have ever had. And I dine! And I've been to Italy! Bruschetta is a basic italian starter but easy to mess up. This bruschetta was perfect because of the ingredients, the ingredients make or break an Italian dish. I have never tasted such flavorful exquisite olive oil, oh and the crunch of the bread!! Then the eggplant parmesan comes out and I died and went to heaven again. I'll say the eggplant was just normally awesome but the side of spaghetti that came with it was FUCKING INSANE. And this is just your basic noodles and red sauce spaghetti you guys. Its just the noodles were sent from god, perfect, and tasted like I was sitting in some house kitchen in an Italian Villa. The sauce, perfecto. Ok and then the pizza with pesto, mozzarella, tomato and basil. It followed suit and was incredible. Crunchy light crust that was still somehow soft and intensely flavorful ingredients in their perfect amounts. I think I exclaimed and hummed happily through the entire experience, yes EXPERIENCE. We had a gift certificate to pay for most of it but found out we were $10 short of the required amount we needed to spend. At this point I was so full I was about to sleep in the booth so we ordered the rigatoni, house specialty to go. We ate it for lunch the next day and fucking died and went to Italian food heaven. Mushrooms, garlic, roasted red pepper and herbs in a spicy marina sauce over the best rigatoni pasta I've ever had. We flipped out and tried to make it last, savoring each morsel....WHEN CAN I GO BACK? Best 4000 calories I've ever eaten in all of San Diego. Please try it, they are family run and cook like you'd never believed. The Yelp reviews are mixed but at least try for yourself!!

Library Literary Gem: Confederacy of Dunces

This book can be read over and over again, word on the street is, Will Ferrel is going to play Ignatius in the movie version. Cept I've heard that for yeeeears so maybe not....

From Wikipedia:

A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.

The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. (Jacques) Reilly, an intelligent but slothful man still living with his mother at age 30 in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, because of family circumstances, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.

Video Store Comedy Gem: Almost Hereos

Next time your in a comedy rut and stumped at the video store, check this gem out!!

From Wikipedia:
Almost Heroes is a 1998 comedy film starring Chris Farley and Matthew Perry and directed by Christopher Guest. It is narrated by Harry Shearer, who is best known for voicing characters such as Ned Flanders on The Simpsons.

The story focuses on two explorers, a well-off dandy (Perry) and a boorish wilderness guide (Farley), in the 19th century American frontier who try to beat Lewis and Clark as the first expedition to reach the Pacific Ocean.

The film was Farley's last major film role and was released five months after his death; he later had a cameo in the Norm Macdonald comedy Dirty Work, which was released later in the year.

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Spinal Tap Embarking on "World Tour"!!!

Spoof band Spinal Tap have announced a "world tour" consisting of a single June date at London's Wembley Arena.

The tour marks the 25th anniversary of mockumentary film, This is Spinal Tap, which launched the band's career. The band will be backed by 1960s folk trio The Folksmen, the focus of another spoof film, 2003's A Mighty Wind.

Spinal Tap's lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel commented: "If we're going to do a World tour on only one night, at least it's this world."Bassist Derek Smalls added: "one night is not enough, and it's way too much".

Spinal Tap have used a variety of drummers over the years due several untimely deaths, including a spontaneous combustion on stage. The rest of the line-up for the world tour has not been announced but the group paid tribute to former members.
Singer and rhythm guitarist David St Hubbins said: "This show will be dedicated to all of our drummers who have passed on, either to their reward or to middle management at Sainsbury's."

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On This Day In History: First modern Olympics is held

On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating.

The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1894 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad. The ancient games are believed to have originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece, where athletes competed in one event: a foot race. Over the years, other events were added, including chariot racing, boxing, wrestling and the pentathlon. Participants, who were all young men from Greek city-states and colonies, often battled it out in the buff, as a way to celebrate the human body, and winners received olive branches. The last ancient Olympics are thought to have taken place in A.D. 393.

At the first modern Olympics, 241 male athletes (and no women) representing 14 nations competed in 43 events. America’s James Connolly became the first modern Olympic champion when he won the triple jump on the opening day of the Games. For his achievement, he was awarded a silver medal and an olive branch. Connolly later finished second in the high-jump event and took third in the long jump.

France, Great Britain, Germany and Greece had the largest number of athletes participating. Nevertheless, the U.S. took home the most first-place finishes (11) of any nation, followed by Greece (10) and Germany (6). All told, America placed first, second or third in 20 events while Greece scored in 46 events and Germany placed in 13 competitions. To the delight of the hometown crowd, Greek runner Spyridon Louis won the marathon. The first Olympiad closed on April 15, 1896.

The second Olympiad was held in Paris in 1900 with 997 athletes (22 of them women) from 24 countries competing in 95 events. The U.S. hosted the Olympics for the first time in 1904, in St. Louis. The third Olympiad marked the first time gold, silver and bronze medals were given out to first, second and third-place finishers.

Starting in 1992, the summer and winter games, which had traditionally been held in the same year every four years, took place two years apart. The Summer Games returned to Athens in 2004, with 10,625 athletes (4,329 women and 6,296 men) from 201 nations participating in 301 events.

Trippin On Cactus Man

Adapted From Wikipedia:

"Mescaline is a naturally-occurring psychedelic alkaloid . It is mainly used as a recreational drug and a tool to supplement various practices for transcendence, including in meditation, art projects, and psychedelic psychotherapy.

It occurs naturally in the peyote cactus, the San Pedro cactus, and the Peruvian Torch cactus."


Having a hard time finding peyote? Get a Trichocereus Peruvian, it's a common household cactus plant ($15 on ebay) that can have you contemplating the beauty and simplicity of life in a forest meadow in no time. Sage advice from a kind OBecian gave me these directions:

-Cut up the cactus and bake it for 8 hours at 180 degrees.
-Blend cactus, honey, and yogurt in a blender
-Drive to Mount Laguna with trusted friends and find an open meadow or grove of trees
-Drink
-Resist to the urge to barf (smoking herb helps, also, don't eat too much prior)
-Expand Your Mind

Drop Dead Gorgeous

This might be one of my all time favorite movies. If you like mockumentaries (Best in Show, Spinal Tap, etc) and dark, at times quirky humor, then RENT THIS. You know how youre always looking for those diamonds in the rough at video stores? Well this one found me long ago and it gets better and better. Back then no one really knew Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, or Denise Richards but they put on some of their best performances in this hilarious comedy about a corrupt beauty pageant in a podunk town of Minnesota. Check it out, put it in your queue, borrow it or buy it. A sure favorite!

Snoop Dogg & Slightly Stoopid Plan Summer Tour

At first I was like, say WHAT? I saw Slightly Stoopid at Canes with Trapt, how the HELL are they playing with Snoop? But that was years ago and my young soft punk rock spirit has faded, Slightly Stoopid got better and now they tour the world, weed smoke trail thick as a Snoop Dogg blunt. So I think that actually, this show might be really fun. The dates haven't been announced yet. I like reggae/punk, Snoop, weed, dancing and summer. I hate douche bags though and this lineup is rife with douche bag leanings...hmmm. I think ACTUALLY what I really wanna do is toke with Snoop. Yea. I'd go if Snoop called me.....

On This Day In History: Singer Sarah Vaughan dies

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Internationally renowned jazz singer and pianist Sarah Vaughan dies at the age of 66.

Vaughan, the daughter of a carpenter and a laundress, was born in Newark in 1924 and grew up singing gospel hymns and playing piano in church. Encouraged by friends, she entered the famous amateur night competition at New York's Apollo Theater in October 1942, at age 18, and won first place.

Musician and bandleader Billy Eckstine hired her six months later as a pianist and singer for the Earl "Fatha" Hines big band, where she performed with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. The three all followed Eckstine when, in 1943, he formed his own band. In 1945, Vaughan launched her solo career and scored her first hit, "Tenderly," in 1947. Later hits included "It's Magic" (1948) and "Broken Hearted Melody" (1950). She scored 20 hit singles between 1954 and 1966.

In the 1970s and 1980s, her reputation only grew. Her live performances at nightclubs and jazz festivals won her an international following. Many said her versatile voice, with a range spanning more than two octaves, could easily have lent itself to opera.

Vaughan, whose mischievous sense of humor won her the nickname Sassy, won a Grammy for Best Vocal Jazz Performance in 1982, for "Gershwin Live!" A heavy smoker, Vaughan died of lung cancer.

Thursday Night Thing!!!

Sadly this is the last Thursday Night Thing (TNT) until November 5! Holy Moly, another economy casualty. This Thursday night event hasn't disappointed yet and tonites art and music lineup look sure to follow suit. If i'm not to sweaty and worn out from the gym I will probably go if only to have my fortune read!!

Check out the event description from the MCASD Website:

TNT
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
Thursday April 2, 7 pm, Free ($3 welcome donation)
1100 & 1001 Kettner Blvd. (between Broadway and B Street)


Psychics meet Spirographs as TNT examines the shapes of things and the shape of things to come.

What if museum-goers responded to artworks with their minds AND bodies? Catch Yoga One yogis bend, twist, and balance their bodies in conversation with geometrical works featured in the new exhibition Primary Forms: Illuminated and Opaque. Arrive at 7 pm for a tour of this exhibition with curator Lucía Sanromán.

Flashback to your days on the playground as you make your own folded paper fortune teller and then fast forward as you pen a postcard to your future self. Using Spirographs to decorate the front, write a message to yourself predicting where you will be in three month's time. (Leave these self-addressed postcards behind and MCASD will mail them to you in a month.)

Curious about your future? Enjoy an array of fortune-telling activities, including readings by real live fortune tellers. Then transport back to the present to listen to live music by Lights On, The Traditionist, LDR & The Kates, The Color of Glass, and DJ TRAIL-MIX-ALOT.

Why, thank you! It's from.... Costco.

Bulk beef jerky, a years supply of jalapeno poppers, toilet paper to tee pee all of Rancho Bernardo AAAAAND her engagement ring. Yeah you can pick them up all at Costco. Im not talking some Mervyns, high end cubic zirconium. Im talking about a mother fucking 5.01 carat diamond ring. How do you explain that, do you include that fact that it was on sale and hope she understands? Because if you have a fiance who already requires a ring that is $100,000 I doubt shes the type of broad who will be A-Ok with it being packaged next to your bulk peanut brittle and tube socks. Do you get 10 rings for $100,000 or is that for one?



5.01 ct
VS2 Clarity, H Color
IGI Value: $153,450
Item # 397452
$99,999.99
( A savings of over $50,000!?! On second thought maybe it's better to have a guy that knows how to save. And hell, if a guy can spend this much on the RING then Id probably be fiiiiine with it coming from Costco, means maybe a big house and boat? Or maybe he's rich but annoyingly thrifty...Oh well, as long as he remembers to pick up some bulk Fire Feta)

Se San Diego: Can you 'se' cheap gaslamp happy hour?

From CityBeat:
Word on new hotel Se San Diego (1047 Fifth Ave., Downtown) is that it's a swanky place probably too much so for most of us. But the hotel's restaurant and bar, Suite & Tender, just launched a happy hour that us mere mortals can afford when we want to chill high-class style. Mondays through Fridays from 5 to 8 p.m. specialty cocktails, normally $11, are half price (the "Painkiller" looks mighty tasty" and "bottomless" glasses of select wines are only $20. We encourage you to save the latter for Friday evenings so you can take full advantage of the deal and then sleep of the vino hangover on Saturday.

LA Story

LA Story

A friend recommended we rent this movie, she'd seen it as a kid and had inklings of remembering she really liked it. It also had our love Sarah Jessica Parker in it, done deal. Right off the bat: IT WAS BIZARRE. It started off hilariously, it was rife with LA spoofs and loving mockery. The other worldly happiness we have from all this sunshine, fitness and health fad fanatics and 80-90's new agey references. But then it spirals into crazy characters and humor with references that I think were just before my time. I had to read reviews on this movie and I found it was rated at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes! Most movies are happy to get around 40%!! I couldn't help but constantly wonder WHAT I was missing. Lost satire, odd and crazy comments, constant romantic scenes with "Enya Does Scotland Bagpipes" type of background music. Oh and Sarah J Parker was super annoying in it as a valley girl (with WAY to much energy) love interest. I don't think it is one of those movies I will watch again that will get more and more funny over time. It's just to early for me to identify with comedically. Role Models on the other hand, was hilarious and I will definitely be watching that again!

Role Models


(Don't forget to watch the outtakes and deleted scenes. This movie is hilarious because lots of these actors can improv so well and these extra scenes really showcase that. This movie has all the regular cast of characters from 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up in roles that they have already played (and still do well) or never played before (and totally pull off). Check it out!!)

April Fools Pranks

UPDATE: A dude at my work found this article on all the internet pranks going around today!! Twitter, YouTube and Google to name a few, are in on the fun!!
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I think Burger King's left handed whopper prank was really funny!! My brother and I took April Fools to some high levels. Im in a constant state of paranoia on this day and maybe you should be too. Over time some huge pranks have been pulled. Click here for some pranks done over time or read my classics below:


Golden Splash
Put a tight layer of saran wrap over the toilet bowl (stretched so tight you cant see it) and then put the seat down over. Nothing like getting a golden pee splash when you least expect it.

Kool Aid Waterfall
Unscrew the shower head and put 3-5 packs of green or blue Kool Aid in the head. When your dwelling partner showers they'll think an alien is jizzing on their hair.

Nozzle Power
If you have a separate spray sink nozzle on your sink (lucky) put a rubber band around the ON lever and when someone turns on the sink, it will spray and eternally annoy them.

Doggy Bag
Replace someones cereal with kibbles. This is really messed up. And very funny.

Car Hijinks
Put fake tickets on cars. Also, tape pictures of angry faces to the back wind shield of cars so when the driver checks in the review mirror they see a screaming face.

Olive Juice
Put black olive juice in place of dark beverages. That stuff is disgusting.

Fat Smile
Put Crisco in someones toothpaste tube. Very disturbing and way cooler than yeast infection cream which is NOT ok.

Up In Smoke
Trade someones cigs out for a different type, try menthol or some girly Camel experiment brand. This will be pricey.

Sure Fire Freakouts
Tell your parents you're pregnant, joining Al Quaida, and/or reviving the Jonestown cult practices in Brazil.

Baja Fresh, Just Get the Tacos

Mostly everything else has around 100 grams of pure grade fat in it. And we ALL know its saltier than the Lake City of Utah. The Shrimp Burrito Dos Manos Enchilado-Style will pack 5,130 mg of sodium in your arteries—that's more than 2 days' worth in one lunch!!

Cigarette Tax Hike, This Might Be the End of "Bumming Ciggies"

The cigarette excise tax that tobacco companies must pay the federal government rose Wednesday by 61.6 cents per pack, or $6.16 per carton. The tax now comes to about $10.10 per carton, or $1.01 per pack.

I think now it's fair to charge for or decline someones request for a cigarette! Especially in NYC where each cig is now worth about 50 cents. I mean come one, you gotta take a loan out to buy a carton and no banks are even giving out loans! I bum cigs but I usually drive so I find it's a fair trade. And I definitely always hit up the Marlboro or Camel people handing out free cigs (and no they don't report you to your insurance company!) I wonder if this will make people smoke less? Not sure, I only know that Im going to be using the line, "Oh sorry this is my LAST one!" a lot more often....

(Incidentally on this day in 1970, President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio forever. So thanks to him I get some awesome gifts and free cigs from Camel. Sweet)

On This Day In History: April Fools tradition popularized

On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other.

Although the day, also called All Fools' Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools' Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as "poisson d'avril" (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.

Historians have also linked April Fools' Day to ancient festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises. There's also speculation that April Fools' Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.

April Fools' Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition became a two-day event, starting with "hunting the gowk," in which people were sent on phony errands (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird, a symbol for fool) and followed by Tailie Day, which involved pranks played on people's derrieres, such as pinning fake tails or "kick me" signs on them.

In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their audiences. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In 1985, Sports Illustrated tricked many of its readers when it ran a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour. In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a "Left-Handed Whopper," scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich.