grace: January 2008

Like Fred Flintstone Driving Around with Bald Feet

Rule # 1 - If you see Chris Berman stand f'n still, moron!

My Favorite Basketball Player

David Harrison is a Pacer who likes his mar-a-ja-uana. Dude just got back from a 5-game suspension due to his third failed drug test. The other day he was on 1070 AM and Indy Cornrows was good enough to pull the best quote of this year and perhaps any other from an NBA player.

"I made a mistake and if that mistake costs me my career, then that's where we need to look. Look at what I did and look at what I lost. You know what I'm saying. Does marijuana, is it that bad? That's the question I really want people to ask themselves sometimes.Following rules blindly, doesn't mean you're right just by following those rules. There needs to be a just rule. I mean, a long time ago George Washington sat around, didn't want to pay taxes to the crown. There's other things going on, but the rudimentary part of our American revolution was we didn't want to pay taxes. And we broke that rule and we have America today. You know, if we would've lost that war, George Washington would be Benedict Arnold.You know, it's whoever wins, you get the praise. Nicotine won, the tobacco industry won. That's the thing, they wouldn't want marijuana to be legal. It causes less cancer and actually, I've read studies where in cities with very bad air polution like in Indiana, it helps protect you from lung cancer."

Hey Big Tobacco! Stop keeping good, all-natural, healthy marijuana illegal. Jerks. And honestly I know you can get medical marijuana for illnesses like glaucoma, but do doctors know it protects you from lung cancer?! Hell, that sounds like we all need a minimum of 3 bong hits a day just to make sure our lungs stay cancer-free. Makes sense to me. C'mon American Medical Association when are you gonna learn that High Times contains valuable, well-researched studies? Granted, David's points about the medical benefits and society's view of marijuana would ring hollow if not for the history lesson he also provided. George Washington was this (bring your index finger and thumb as close as possible without touching) close to being Benedict Arnold. Way to educate David.
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Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--Gilbert Arenas and Mya?!

--Your hot piece of ass whose ass will now be expanding due to pregnancy is Gwen Stefani.

--David Harrison has to be loving any Pacers road trip to California now that it puts cannabis in vending machines.

--If you didn't know Jerramy Stevens is a piece of sh**.

--Your Dallas dumbasses of the week paid dearly for their dumbassery. Andreous Robinson was drinking with some friends when he decided to show off his pistol. Andreous went outside and shot off a few rounds in the air. Then he came inside and presumably thought he went through all the rounds so then he went back inside, put the gun to his head, and pulled the trigger. Yeah, he stopped being alive at that point. Probably a big downer at the party too. That was early Saturday morning in West Dallas. Early Friday morning four dumbasses were drinking vodka and smoking crack when one dumbass accidentally shot another one to death.

--Our non-Dallas dumbass of the week comes to us from Independence, Missouri. There Robert Macklin repeatedly asked his roommate to kill his friend's girlfriend. Why? Well because Robert likey his guy friend and they used to be together until that biyatch entered the picture. So the roommate alerted police and an undercover cop got in touch with Robert. Robert, apparently, doesn't have a lot of money so he offered the cop 90 Oxycontin pills to kill the girl. To show he was serious Robert put down a massive down payment of $5.

--Hottest female bodyguard ever...R.I.P.

--Congratulations America, Meet The Spartans is # 1. Sociey's downward spiral shows no signs of letting up.

--Finally Lost is back.

--Pros and Joes on Thursday night has Ricky Williams and Arturo Gatti. Crap, I may have to watch.

--The next Bond movie title will be Quantum of Solace. How could you have gone another day without knowing that? It comes out November 7th and this is one of the ladies, Olga Kurylenko.

--A good thing: AMC started rerunning Mad Men Sunday nights.

--I'm all for having FNL have Tyra jump up and down more, but please no more volleyball.

You da man Landry.

--Now there'll be something to visit in Milwaukee. They're putting in a statue of The Fonz. He'll join other bronzed TV legends residing in the cities who were the settings for the shows. Mary Tyler Moore's statue is on the exact spot where she threw her hat in the air in the opening. I never watched Bewitched, but Samantha has her statue in Salem, Mass. Newhart, Kramden and Andy Griffith have statues as well. Where will the statues of Street, Riggins, Saracen, Smash, Landry, Tyra and Lyla reside?

--The latest Fox abomination The Moment of Truth offered Roger Clemens $500,000 to go on?!

--Tell me Bobby Brown isn't gonna be in his own reality show chronicling his bid to become a country music star.

--To continue with awesome reality news apparently National Geographic is set to produce a reality show to show the rehabilitation process for the dogs Michael Vick owned. That'll be uplifting.

--Your life imitates art story of the week comes to us from Indiana. There two fourth grade boys were bored on flag duty and they must've just seen A Christmas Story. Victim # 1 Gavin Dempsey, "I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong." Yeah, the boys went to the nurse and she asked them who double-dog dared who and they went with "we bit our tongues." Yeah, nurse wasn't buying it. She knew they unsuccessfully tongued the flagpole. So yeah, they lose a few layers of their tongue, but do get to eat a lot of ice cream so there ya go kids, sounds like a perfect plan to insure an ice cream diet. And hey kids, if you try it please make sure you get it on YouTube for everyone to enjoy.

--College Gameday = good. College Gameday commerials = distrurbing.

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The Allure of a Veil

Sexy, smoky eyes peeking out from behind a veil - what could be more alluring? Ralph Lauren showed this hat, among others, in his Spring 2008 runway show. And Madonna used a veil to great effect in 1994 for her music video "Take a Bow".

But you don't have to spend hundreds on a new hat. At Couture Allure, we've got loads of vintage hats for you to choose from, including several vintage 60's whimsey veil hats.

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Like Sam the Butcher Bringing Alice the Meat...RIP Sam the Butcher

Some people are taking the Cowboys' loss harder than others...

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--Seriously the Patriots are 18-0 and yet I think the Giants have more momentum and are the hotter team. Crazy. Crazy as New England as two TD favorites.
Tom Coughlin wasn't looking so good.

--Mrs. Randy Couture, Kim, is gonna make her MMA debut next month?!

--UFC Fight Night 13 sounds strong. It's coming up on April 2nd before the premiere of The Ultimate Fighter 7. Kenny Florian vs. my boy Joe Lauzon is the main event. Stephan Bonnar and Matt Hamill also going at it as well as Karo Parisyan and Thiago Alves. If you forgot Quinton Jackson and Forrest Griffin are the coaches for the upcoming season.

--Since it came out I've tried to keep a running tab on all of the lawsuits Borat was facing. One has been settled by the Alabama Supreme Court. Score one for Borat against the woman he so generously offered a bag of feces to at the dinner table. The justices, presumably all related, overruled a lower court decision saying that etiquette teacher Kathie Martin can't sue in Alabama because she signed an agreement stating only New York courts could hear disputes that arose from her appearance.

--Maybe you remember on Kitchen Nightmares when Gordon Ramsay tried to help out Sebastian's in California. It was the restaurant managed by that idiot who had that ridiculous choose-your-own-adventure menu that had the potential for 10,000 different combinations. Anyway they're closing down and moving back to Brooklyn and supposedly he has some TV offer on the table.

--For the most part I like Rob Riggle, but these beer commercials ain't working at all.

--Biggest upgrade of the year: Ryan Reynolds goes from being engaged to Alanis Morisette to Scarlett Johansson. I mean I'm pretty sure Scarlett was never in a serious relationship with Dave Coulier.

--Fox probably could've worked in the return of 24 with Kiefer Sutherland getting out of jail after 48 days.

--I got free passes for Cloverfield so checked it out and I wasn't disappointed, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone because you might hate it like most of the crowd did. If you go in expecting answers and explanations you've obviously never watched Lost. It's a suspenseful monster movie that comes from one camera's point of view. A camera that is made out of titanium apparently. They could probably do five sequels from five more different point of views. The military's angle would be the one I'd most like to see.

--Kevin Garnett watches an hour of Family Guy before every game.

--Last week's Harris Poll gave us America's Top 10 Television Stars. This week's poll gives us the Top 10 Movie Stars. At #10 we get Bruce Willis (mental note: watch Die Hard 4 already). Number 9 is Sandra Bullock because well, hell I have no idea. I guess I underrated the Miss Congeniality franchise. We have a tie between James Bond the Connery one and Jason Bourne for 7th. Tiebreaker goes to whichever was in Rounders. John Wayne going strong at 6. Uh....I guess my dad voted in this. Will Smith at 5 though I'd thought he'd be top 3. Number 4 is Julia Roberts. Johnny Depp at 3. At 2 we find Eddie Murphy, not really, Tom Hanks at 2. Seriously Eddie your movies are crap and you got married for one whole week recently. Look in the mirror, what do you see? Be honest. The #1 favorite movie star is....Denzel.
One of these guys has an Oscar. The other does the best "Poison" dance ever.

--When you're hungry, you're hungry. In Nawlunz an 11-year-old boy was real f'n famished. Little man used a cell and called Domino's for $35 in pizza, cheesy bread and buffalo wings. So the driver pulls up and sees the boy in a car in the driveway and the boy starts questioning her about the order. She puts the order in her car to double-check it and the boy grabs it and the $250 heating bag ($250?!) and then pulls out a gun to complete the transaction. The cops got him and little man has a full stomach in juvenile.

--Ernest "The Cat" Miller is going to be in a major role opposite Mickey Rourke in a Darren Aronofsky movie?!

--We head to Clearwater, Florida for our little old lady story of the week. 75-year-old Jean Merola was at a McDonald's drive-through window and the workers told her to wait there for her food. Well she had some apparently famished cops behind her. Cop gets out tells the lady to pull her car up and she says no, that she's waiting there for her coffee and fries because that's what Ronald told her to do. Yep, that's an arrest. Disorderly conduct for her. Nice job, police. One more innocent, harmless 75-year-old woman behind bars.

--Pizza Hut is joining Papa Johns in taking orders via text message?! This will help America's obesity's problem.

--R.I.P. Heath Ledger.

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The Tomato Dress

Last week, over at the Vintage Fashion Guild Public Chat Board, we had a great time posting our favorite vintage novelty prints. Sellers were showing some really great stuff, while I was pulling out my hair trying to find something worthy to show off.

Today, I found this 1960's shift dress with the cutest print of tomatoes in pink and green!

Here in Boston, we only get tomatoes that are worth eating for about 6 weeks in the late summer. The rest of the year, grocery stores sell these pinkish red, hard orbs they'd like us to believe are tomatoes. Hah! But now, when I'm longing for a tomato fresh from the garden, I can look at this dress, smile, and wait for summer.

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The Prom Dress of My Dreams

My Junior Prom was in 1971. This was the dress I wanted to wear. I wanted to look like the fairy princess of my dreams. But I was not a risk taker, especially where fashion was concerned. I was one of those gals who attempted to fit in. I wore jeans and platform shoes every day. Our school dress code had just been abolished and girls were no longer required to wear a dress or skirt, so no one did. But I wanted to.

Instead of my dream dress, I wore one very similar to this with a large scale floral print, which was the style that fashion dictated. I did not feel beautiful or princess-like in any way. Of course, 37 years later, its easy to say I should have had the guts to wear what I wanted. Hindsight is 20-20, regret is a waste of energy, and I can't go back. But I can urge you to choose the dress you've always dreamed of, no matter what.

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Bit o Sports

--Too bad those Cowboys lost. Hate to see a Dallas team lose. You have to root for any team from the state of Texas. Do you understand those people who say that? When a call starts off, "I'm a Houston fan, but I'm a Dallas fan too" I feel the urgent need to knock said caller off the air. Same with these Titans/Texans fans, huh? Pick a side! We're at war!

--Maybe someone can remind Congress that we are STILL at war. That Pakistan is unstable and has nuclear weapons. That a recession seems to be on the horizon. That unemployment is a problem. That our health care system is a mess. That Social Security ain't so freakin' secure. That we are one fat ass country. Basically there a ton of things that are in need of Congress' attention and yet we have these elected officials worrying about baseball?! Huh?! Priorities, people, priorities.

--Wow Darren Sproles goes 56 yards to give San Diego the lead 21-17 on the final play of the 3rd quarter. Only one way to begin the 4th quarter. Yeah, let's get all the players on the field and then announce the names of the eight winners of the Punt, Pass, and Kick. Awesome. Great timing although maybe it'd be better to do this at the two-minute warning. Seriously this couldn't have been done at the half?!

--After seeing Rick Majerus' St. Louis team score all of 20 points the other night I think I can speak for everyone when I say how in the hell are you guys 9-6?! At one point in that game they missed 23 straight shots. They went 7 for 48! Probably sucks to hold an opponent to 49...and still lose by 29! The lowest scoring game in D-1 history was in 1973 when Tennessee beat Temple 11-6. That was the final of some Vols tournament. The night before UT put up 96 in a rout of DePaul. The Vols played zone against the Owls and their coach Don Casey was patient as Job. Temple held the ball for 32 of the 40 minutes trying to get Tennessee to come out of its zone, it wouldn't. UT went up 7-5 with 12:44 to go in the first half and Temple promptly held the ball until just before the half when it turned the ball over. The second half came and went without a field goal. The crowd was apparently not pleased as it pelted the court with ice. UT's president at the time ordered the coach to put the team back out on the court after the "game" for an intrasquad scrimmage. UT coach Ray Mears used it as an opportunity to lobby for a shot clock, which came 12 years later or about 30 years after the NBA went to a 24-second clock.

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--Maradona doesn't even try to hide it...was that guy who poured the moutain of coke on his fist a player? coach? just the coke guy?

--I had no idea that Jordans were still being released. This month the 23rd edition of MJ's shoes are being released. The first launch will be the special edition of the shoes that will be sold for $230 at only 23 retailers. Then when us commoners are allowed to buy these ugly ass shoes they'll only cost us $185 for a pair. I had some expensive shoes in my day, but never sported Jordans. The first ones looked cool, but I think every pair since then were, what's the word, ugly. Of course, we'll probably see Turtle wearing them next season.

--Rogue waves = scary, especially for the boys on Deadliest Catch. Rogue black holes = scary, especially for planets in Milky Way. Can't wait to see this explored on The Universe.

--Seems to me there are certain people you don't want to mug like Jesus, Santa, or Barack. Someone had the audacity to rob Bibleman at gunpoint. Little did the mugger know that Bibleman/Willie Aames and his son had all of $15 on them. Police not investigating how Willie Aames came into $15. I assume his son works. Willie one of the best Celebrity Fit Clubbers ever.
--The latest hot piece John Mayer was dating, but now no more was lovely Lyla/Minka Kelly.

--How good is TMU gonna be next year with Smash and Chip? How hilarious was it seeing Rick Barnes try to get that verbal from Smash. Though they shoulda just had Mack Brown guest again.

--Way to go America NBC has already greenlighted another season of American Gladiators. Apparently the other night they had some soft porn star female contestant. Yay...

--I don't want to jump to conclusions, but Pac-Man is accused of, it doesn't matter, guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty.

--Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles looks promising and not just because of Lena Headey and Summer Glau...but mostly...

--Seriously there are $50 lottery tickets?!

--Congratulations to Glen Rice for being a former professional athlete, beating someone's ass and that victim not being a woman. Rice was at his estranged wife's house and didn't like that she had a man over. The man was trapped in the closet until Glen found him. Glen punched him causing "severe bleeding" and then escorted him out of the house by his neck. Dude then tattletaled to police.

--Venus and Hank Kuehne engaged?!

--How strong was 3:10 to Yuma? Christian Bale is right below Daniel Day-Lewis in actors who consistently knock it out of the ballpark (even without the use of performance enhancers).

--Apparently John Singleton is singling out Woody Harrelson for Murdock in the A-Team movie. Perfect. Ice Cube could be B.A. Baracus. Cube has been on fire lately with such instant classic fare like Torque and Are We Done Yet?

--How excited are you that the real Greenlee is back on All My Children? Rebecca Budig = hot. So why did she marry The Bachelor Bob Guiney?

--Hell hath no fury like a swim team who has had snowballs lobbed at them. Just like the swimmers Dowling Catholic High in Des Moines to bring snowballs to a pig fetus fight. Yeah, the swimmers at Roosevelt High responded by going to their rival school's parking lot and impaling pig fetuses on 15 cars. For good measure they also smeared crawfish all over the hoods and windshields. Your move Dowling Catholic.

--If you're keeping score at home Pamela Anderson pregnant and back to divorcing Rick Salomon.

--Ricky Williams on Pros vs. Joes next season. Yay for us.

--Not that this is a reason to watch women's college basketball, but Colorado's team has a Brittany Spears and a Whitney Houston.

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A Touch of Color

We've started to list dresses for spring at Couture Allure Vintage Fashion and my office is a riot of color. After months of dealing with winter woolens in navy, grey, brown, and black, it feels like the proverbial "breath of spring" around here. Outside, we still have 3 months of winter winds, boots, scarves, and mittens to deal with. But inside, we're daydreaming about warm sunshine and butterflies.

This cute day dress from the early 50's is one of my favorites so far. This is the type of dress a typical homemaker would wear around the house while doing laundry and ironing, washing the dishes, and caring for the kids. Who wouldn't want to do chores in this bright yellow and red plaid cotton? Today, I can see this dress worn with a red belt and red wedge sandals for a day of shopping. Sweet!

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You Know That I'm Gone And I'm A Tell You All Why

Who Wants Some of Obama?

Quick Hitters and Random Thoughts

--How awesome was it when Roger Clemens tried to take down Vioxx? With his yeah, I'll go talk to Congress tell them about this Vioxx. Hilarious. You're doing a great job Roger, top-notch. Personally I could care less whether or not he did or didn't. I think he's a Hall of Famer, but apparently he could give a "rat's ass" about that. What gets on my f'n nerves is this need for Congress to get in on this and have another hearing that'll amount to nothing. We have a f'n war that's been going on for years in Iraq, a potential war in Iran, craziness in Pakistan, and oh yeah, just a few issues here at home. Did any of us elect officials to help with baseball's steroids problem? I didn't. It's a joke.

--Warner Brothers is going all-in with Blu-Ray. Lovin' that.

--First off on Gladiators, how much larger are those buckets in PowerBall than they used to be. You shouldn't be able to shoot in there like that. Anyway, this show could use male gladiators like Buff Bagwell and Scott Steiner. Who wouldn't watch this if Scott Steiner was going up against normal, non-roided humans? Geez remember in the old one when there were nothing but rings and now there are what, four? How cool is that guy who screams like a Wolf? How about that awesome music, Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye and Another Bites the Dust?! Earthquake is a nice, stupid addition. Yeah, I'm thinking I'm not gonna be able to watch another episode. Just terrible. Holy sh**!! Venus' comeback in The Eliminator was the greatest comeback in sports history! This is just awful.

--Yeah, Floyd doesn't need boxing anymore his music is gonna make him mad money...

--The Iron Chef America match this week was/is my boy Mario Batali v. The Naked Chef.
Food Network needs to start replaying the old Iron Chefs again
By the way, The Professor Alton Brown has re-upped with the network for three more years. Apparently some sea version of his Feasting on Asphalt is on the horizon.

--It probably won't happen, but some UK entertainment site was saying that a possible Extras spinoff could happen featuring Barry and Stephen Merchant (the agent). That would be a VERY good thing.

--Welcome back Daily Show and Colbert Report. You've been gone far too long.

--I checked out Black Dahlia because it was on cable and I thought my inebriation would make it entertaining. Apparently there's not enough Jager in the world to make Josh Hartnett a half decent actor.

--Getting closer and closer to Lost coming back. Must...be...patient...

--Loved Pan's Labyrinth so I can't wait to check out Guillermo Del Toro's The Orphanage. That looks crazy.

--Someone named Gemma Arterton is your new Bond Girl.

--Yeah, note to Will Bynum: When you're in Israel you probably don't want to get into arguments with what the paper described as members of the African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem who believes they are descendents of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. It just doesn't sound like a good idea. Apparently it was Will's b-day and he and some of his boys got into an argument perhaps about a girl Will tried to hit on who was with the H.I.C. (I assume they abbreviate, it's just easier). So Will and teammate Vonteego Cummings are leaving the club and according to the paper they were "confronted by five youths and then stones and fists started flying." Stones?! Only one way to answer when someone brings stones to a carfight, yep, Will is accused of running to his car and then running over one of the youths. He made it back to his place, but the cops came a callin' and he says he didn't know he ran over anyone, but eyewitnesses kinda have a different story.

--At some point or another we've all been stuck in an elevator with a hot chick and then had relations with said hot chick who is about to get married (at least that's what Cinemax tells me, I'm still waiting). In Niles, Illinois two women were stuck in an elevator for two days. (Sounds like it has potential, huh?) They were cleaning ladies. (Well, maybe they...)they were mother and daughter. Anyway, two finish the story, aw f it who cares now?

--Seriously this dude named Scott Gomez Jr. is serving time in a Denver jail. He's tried breaking out twice. So what do you do when you've tried to break out twice and you keep getting your ass kicked by inmates and prison guards on a daily basis? Yeah, you sue. Gomez is suing alleging that guards beat him and didn't do enough to stop him from breaking out. I sue you for making it so tempting to try to escape, this should work out for the plaintiff.

--So hilarious to see Chris Rock's Never Been Scared on Comedy Central Sunday night and see him cracking on Dubya and other things that are sadly still very topical despite it being filmed nearly four years earlier. If you don't remember this particular Rock jewel it's the one where he says his only responsibility as a father is to keep her off the pole. He also talks about you married folk...

--If you ever find yourself in Wisconsin and come across someone named Bryan Hathaway run, don't walk. This sick mofo was found guilty in April of 2005 for killing a horse in order to have sex with it. The sicko did 18 months in jail, got out and promptly had relations with a dead deer. This animaniac, necrophiliac is back in jail because, well I think it's obvious.

--Apparently Brooke Hogan is hoping and even auditioned for the next Dancing With The Stars. They audition now?!

--Wow, awesome move Papa Spears, Britney breaks down and you bring in Dr. Phil. Your move Britney. What? You walk out? Damn smartest move Britney made since, well...

--If you're keeping score at home Jose Lima is apparently close to signing to play in Korea next season. So yeah, there ya go. Seriously would Lima not be the 2nd starter behind Roy?

--Rest easy America we're getting another season of The Two Coreys.

--If you're keeping score at home Eko from Lost and whoever he was in Oz will play Heavy Duty in that G.I. Joe movie and Marlon Wayans will be Ripcord.

--I love me some Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers: Marauders is getting going and Casper Van Dien will be back. Probably need to find a way to bring Denise Richards' character back from the dead and definitely need the brain, Doogie, back as well.

--There was one reason to watch the GMAC Bowl...

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