Some of you that know me better will not be surprised to learn that I really like the show “Glee.”  I was checking out one of my sites (free.napster.com) the other night and discovered that they’ve just come out with an album featuring songs from the show.  Of course Jason and I were rocking out to the hot tunes.  I like today’s jam because there have been so many great versions of the original over the years.  Popular covers have been performed by the likes of Celine Dion and Carrie Underwood, but I still think I prefer this version.  Today’s jam: Kristen Chenowith and the Cast of Glee – Alone.  Enjoy….

Alone

Down on the highlights but everything else looks great!

No, he really didn’t say that, but he definitely hinted at the subject title.  The Seattle PI gives us the lowdown

First Jeremy Piven blamed sushi for mercury poisoning, and now the actor claims he grew man boobs (aka moobs) from drinking excessive amounts of soy milk.

Jeremy Piven leaves Broadway show on doctor’s orders

“I was the guy that dabbled in soy milk, but now I’ve found out soy milk has enough estrogen for me to grow breasts,” Piven told Scottish STV. “I had to put the soy milk down. It was a very confusing time.”

Consumer and nutritional sciences expert Jill Hamilton-Reeves told AOL that she learned the 44-year-old Entourage actor was drinking 12 cups (about three-quarters of a gallon) of soy milk a day. “That means he was taking in approximately 360 milligrams of isoflavones a day,” Hamilton-Reeves said. “And isoflavones are what people generally believe to be responsible for any effects in male reproductive hormones.”

Perhaps someone needs a lesson in moderation.

See Jason…this is why we wonder about you and it’s the reason that Ronin was worried about your health.  Stay off the soy milk…..

Forget about Raymond, everyone loves marijuana, or MJ, weed, cheeba, etc…

Even teh cops are trying to get it. At least in CA, with the right paperwork, its legal and good for what ails you

Especially actors, or people on TV with very little talent…

But, at least the dude is looking out for others…radaronline.com points out his generosity.

Andy Milonakis looked like he had had the munchies, as he entered Katsuya, a Los Angeles, California restaurant on Tuesday night.

As the 33-year-old MTV star entered, he brandished a bag containing a mysterious green substance, handing some of it to a beggar nearby.

Better yet, let’s just let Milonakis say it himself: “I just gave weed to a homeless man in front of paparazzi,” Andy Tweeted. “What was I thinking?”

ESPN.com tells the story of Tim Lincecum’s love of the weed…

SEATTLE — San Francisco Giants star pitcher Tim Lincecum is facing misdemeanor marijuana charges following a traffic stop in his home state.

Washington State Patrol spokesman Steve Schatzel said Thursday that the 2008 Cy Young Award winner and former star at the University of Washington was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 5 in the town of Hazel Dell, about four miles north of the Oregon border, on Oct. 30.

At least he reps other Bay Area sports teams...plus with the hat, he looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo

An officer approached Lincecum’s 2006 Mercedes and smelled marijuana as the pitcher rolled down his window. Schatzel said Lincecum immediately complied with a request to hand over the drug and a marijuana pipe from the car’s center console.

The amount measured was 3.3 grams. Schatzel said police consider that a small amount for personal use, well below the maximum of 40 grams before possession is classified differently and carries a more severe penalty.

The incident was first reported by The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash.

“It’s not really out of the ordinary. It happens every day,” Schatzel said of the volume of marijuana Lincecum handed over. “It was about the size of a thumb, the whole thumb.”

Lincecum could face potential fines totaling $622 for the misdemeanor possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia counts plus the citation for driving 74 mph in a 60 mph zone, Schatzel said.

The 25-year-old All-Star starter entered a plea of not guilty through his attorney on Monday, according to records in Clark County District Court. A hearing that had been scheduled for Friday morning was canceled, pending a pretrial conference between Lincecum’s attorney and a county prosecutor on Nov. 23.

Lincecum is currently scheduled to appear before a judge on Dec. 22.

The Giants said they were aware of the situation but did not immediately have a comment.

The native of the Seattle suburb of Bellevue went 15-7 with a 2.48 ERA in 32 starts and 225 1/3 innings in 2009, his third season in the major leagues. He is 40-17 with a 2.90 ERA in his career and could be getting a huge, multimillion-dollar raise from salary arbitration this offseason.

Teammates consider the smallish right-hander a quirky perfectionist. They also consider him the “Franchise,” the nickname they gave him when he broke into the big leagues only a year out of college. Others see his boyish face, shaggy dark hair, diminutive frame — and his dominance — and call him “The Freak.”

San Francisco chose him 10th overall in the 2006 draft out of Washington, and he instantly became the organization’s top pitching prospect since Hall of Famer Juan Marichal signed with the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1957.

Just like I felt with Michael Phelps, this is not a story.  The story is really more ammunition that we just need to legalize it and quit trying to demonize people who are smoking it.

The weekend is almost here, and I’m very excited to be done with another long work week.  I missed yesterday because I was busy with work, errands etc. but, of course, I’ll make it up to you today with a little two-pack of tunes.  I’ve been meaning to rep these dudes on the blog for some time now, and I’ve picked out two of their early works to get you going today.  I first bought this album on cassette back in about 1991, and it was a staple for 5th and 6th grade dances (at which you know your boy E was getting his smooth mack on).  I’ll be dropping two songs from the same group, so I’ll just throw them up back to back.  They have so many great songs, but today I will just be featuring two of my fave’s from their first album.  They certainly don’t make groups like this one these days, and it’s too bad.  Jam one: Boyz II Men – Lonely Heart.  Enjoy….

Jam two: Boyz II Men – Please Don’t Go (A personal favorite from their debut album).  Enjoy….

This is Kim all made up....

SO much is made of Kim and her luscious cakes that the face gets lost in the shuffle.  Now, with her black eye, she will have something else to display for the paparazzi.

Are you sure Reggie wasn't practicing the Pimps Prayer?

Kim Kardashian’s charity boxing match got ugly when she left the ring with a black eye and her brother Rob ended up in the hospital with a concussion, according to the reality star’s blog.

Kim says her family took a helicopter to a charity event where they agreed to participate in boxing matches in order to raise support for The Dream Foundation. “We literally had three days of training to prepare for the event,” she explains on her blog. “We didn’t expect what happened…”

The reality star beauty says that her brother went against an opponent “at least 25 pounds heavier than him” and when his mask fell off, he got hit hard. “When he put his hands down, he got hit in the face and ended up in [the] hospital with a concussion. Rob’s a strong guy and can definitely hold his own, but he wasn’t expecting to get hit after his mask had fallen off! This guy just got really down and dirty!”

Kim says her opponent was tough as well. “I knew I had to do it for charity, since that’s what it was all about, but man, my girl could throw a punch!” Kim writes. “Look at my black eye!!!”

Regardless of the bumps and bruises from the event, Kim says a concussion and a black eye can’t hold her family down! She blogs, “Rob is doing fine now and my black eye will be gone soon … I hope. You can try to bring the Kardashians down … but we’re a strong family.”

But Rob got a foot broke off in his ass.  You might want to finish the quote with, but we can be knocked out.  Plus, why are you making excuses for him?  At the point he crossed the ropes, all excuses go out the window.  he got served, plain and simple.

I guess its all about perspective....

I don’t know what goes through the minds of some individuals, but this one had us dazed and confused at Too Old when this one came across the wire.  We first read that Rodell Vereen had a problem with the horses.  On first glance you might think that he has a gambling problem, but he has a different type of addiction.  Its with chopping down horse backs. No, he is not killing them and cutting them up, he is sexing them up.  Yes, a modern day bestiality freak. And we have the video!

You are sick.  we don’t have the video and would not want to watch a dude chop down a horse.

A Longs man was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday after he admitted to a Circuit Court judge he had sexual intercourse with a Conway woman’s horse.

Rodell Vereen, 50, pleaded guilty to buggery and trespassing after he was charged in July when the woman found him in her barn at Lazy B Stables in the Wampee community of Horry County, police said. The woman pointed a shotgun at him until police arrived.

Circuit Court Judge Larry Hyman also sentenced Vereen to three years in prison for violating his probation relating to another buggery charge from a 2007 incident involving the same horse at the same stable.

Rodell Vereen (right) is motionless as Ed Chrisco tries to explain Vereen’s repeated buggery charges at the Horry County Courthouse on Wednesday.  What do you think that he could of said in that proceeding?  Your honor, I am sorry that my client is totally out of his mind.  He likes big butts and he cannot lie… (cue Sir Mix A Lot)

A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.

Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near the stable where the horse’s owner caught him and held him for authorities at shotgun point over the summer. He apologized to the woman and to himself after admitting to buggery at the Horry County courthouse.

“I’m sorry about what I’ve done. I didn’t mean to do it. It’s my fault. I’m sorry for what I’ve done to myself,” Vereen said during Wednesday’s court hearing.

The sentences will run concurrently.

“I’m sorry about what I’ve done,” Vereen said. “I didn’t mean to do it. It’s my fault. I’m sorry for what I’ve done to myself.”

Hyman sentenced Vereen to five years in prison on the latest buggery charge, but suspended it to three years in prison and two years of probation. Vereen also was ordered to undergo mental health treatment once he is released from jail and was told not to go near Lazy B Stables.

In July 2008, Vereen, who owns a landscaping business, pleaded guilty to the same charge after he was caught Thanksgiving Day of 2007 having sex with the same horse.

“I’ve been through hell for the last year, and it’s caused a lot of hardship,” said Barbara Kenley, who owns the horse. “There’s a lot of ridicule and jokes going around about this thing. And a person can only take so much.”

The woman told police she caught Vereen having sex with a 21-year-old female horse named Sugar. She told officers she had video of Vereen “having relations” with one of her horses on July 19, according to a police report.

Before the plea, Hyman found Vereen was competent to take part in a plea.

But Vereen’s attorney, Ed Chrisco, said he had concerns about Vereen receiving the mental help he needs in prison.

“He openly talks about abnormal sexual impulses,” Chrisco said during the hearing. “A person who thinks having sex with dogs, chickens, cows and horses and talks about it in routine terms, there’s something disturbed in the mind.”

Vereen also had prior convictions of burglary from 1991 and 1995. Vereen has been registered as a sex offender since pleading to the buggery charge last year, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.

Rodell had his life somewhat together.  He owned a landscaping business.  Now, he will be in the mental ward in prison if he is lucky.  I think that people will leave him alone, just because of the nature of the crime.

I apologize for being so negligent with my posting lately.  As you may have heard, I started a new shift at work and am still getting adjusted to the early hours.  Not a great excuse, I know, but when I get home I have little energy for much of anything.  Today’s jam is from the first episode of the new season of Friday Night Lights.  I haven’t really watched much of the show sine the end of the first season, but I’m excited to get back into it.  Today’s jam: The Books – Cello Song.  Enjoy….

I really don’t have much to say about this one…actually I do and when I have to say, ” What in the hell is this world coming to?” then you know it is bad.

An 11-year-old girl became one of the world’s youngest mothers – and went into labour on the way to her wedding.

Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven in Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara as she was rushed to hospital, where she gave birth to 5lb 8oz Violeta.

Proudly displaying her baby, she told reporters: ‘I’m not going to play with toys any more – I have a new toy now.’

My new toy: Korteza Zhelyazkova, 11, shows off her baby Violeta – the 19-year-old father is facing six years in jail for having sex with a minor.This is the thing that is wrong with parenting.  Now,  I believe that you should have to have a license to have a kid now.  You should have to pass a test and go to some parenting classes.  A child is not a toy.

Kordeza – who fell pregnant within two weeks of her 11th birthday – spent the night in hospital with Violeta and then headed back to church for her wedding with 19-year-old Jeliazko Dimitrov.

Kordeza told the News of the World: ‘It feels strange to be a mum and have a baby.

‘I used to play with my toys but now she is my new toy.

‘She is so beautiful, I love her. Violeta is the child and I must grow up. I am not going back to school – I am a mother now.’

See….that is the silliest and most naive thing that could have come out of her mouth.  What skill set do you have that can earn money for your family?  Don’t you know that you don’t have to stay at home and raise a family?  You were going to school to better yourself.  You have a chance to NOT be dependent on the system for your survival.  Don’t become another welfare mom.

The couple met when Jeliazko rescued Kordeza from bullies in the playground.

However he now faces six years in jail for having sex with a minor, telling the paper his fears when he found out Kordeza was pregnant.

He said: ‘I was really scared.

‘We didn’t plan to have sex or a baby although I fell in love with Kordeza the moment I saw her.

Don’t worry Jeliazko, someone is going to fall in love with you at first site too.

You will be the bell of the ball....good luck to the new Ms. Jeliazko Dimitrov

Plus, what were you doing hanging out at the playground?  That alone seems pretty creepy, like Herbert.

Herbert the pervert is what to think about when you think about this union...

He added: ‘I was walking past the school when I saw some boys mocking her and I told them to leave her alone.

‘Then she arranged to meet me and asked me out on our first date. I thought she was 15. She didn’t tell me she was 11.’

Kordeza added: ‘I didn’t want to say in case he wouldn’t fancy me.’

Their daughter was conceived within a week of their meeting.

Kordeza said: ‘I didn’t know I was pregnant until my grandmother saw I had put on weight. I just thought I’d eaten too many burgers.’

Her grandmother Dida, 55, said: ‘It’s normal for our girls to have babies young. It’s our tradition. But I didn’t want it for my Kordeza – I felt she was too young.’

The family planned a three-day Roma wedding for October 22 – so Kordeza and Jeliazko could be married before the baby was born.

But Kordeza went into labour a week early, on the second day of the ceremony.

She said: ‘I had been having pain in the morning and a couple of hours into the wedding it got worse.’

She was rushed to hospital and gave birth 20 minutes later.

Kordeza said: ‘It was quite easy but painful too. I was very happy when I saw her. She has a nose like me and hair like Jeliazko.’

Both grandmothers will be guardians of baby Violeta, and Kordeza and her daughter will receive £70 a month in state benefits.

The age of consent in Bulgaria is 14.

The whole story is just shocking to the mind.  The fact that the parents are so blaze about it and I am up in arms has me a little worried…

Doesn't this look like McGruff the Crime Dog?

Getting fired is something that most of use go through during our quest to move from having a job to having a career.  While I have never been fired, I have seen the writing on the wall and quit a job or two to avoid the stigma of getting fired.  Getting fired is embarrassing.

Getting fired on your day off is even worse.

The Cleveland Browns are a franchise in total disarray at the moment.  I feel bad for the franchise, because they always seem to be stuck with the worst luck possible.  In their long, and storied history they have championships, but once Jim Brown decided to retire early for a career in Hollywood, they have been cursed.

You have the The Drive

The Drive refers to an offensive series in the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship Game played on January 11, 1987, between the Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns. Broncos quarterback John Elway, in a span of 5 minutes and 2 seconds, led his team 98 yards to tie the game with 37 seconds left in regulation. Denver won the game in overtime with a field goal, 23-20.

Then you have the Fumble, which happened the next year AND was against the same team…

The Fumble refers to a specific incident in the AFC Championship Game between the Cleveland Browns and the Denver Broncos on January 17, 1988 at Mile High Stadium. With 1:12 left in the game, running back Earnest Byner appeared to be on his way to score the game-tying touchdown, but lost a fumble at the 3-yard line.

Then Browns fans suffered, as their team was ripped away from them by greedy ownership.

On November 6, 1995, with the team sitting at 3-4, Modell announced that he had signed a deal to relocate the Browns to Baltimore, Maryland in 1996 – a move which would return the NFL to Baltimore for the first time since the Baltimore Colts relocated to Indianapolis, Indiana after the 1983 season. The very next day, on November 7, Cleveland voters overwhelmingly approved the aforementioned tax issue to remodel Cleveland Stadium.

After extensive talks between the NFL, the Browns and officials of the two cities, Cleveland accepted a legal settlement that would keep the Browns legacy in Cleveland. In February 1996, the NFL announced that the Browns would be ‘deactivated’ for three years, and that a new stadium would be built for a new Browns team, as either an expansion team or a team moved from another city, that would begin play in 1999. Modell would in turn be granted a new franchise (the 31st NFL franchise), for Baltimore, retaining the current contracts of players and personnel. There would be a reactivated team for Cleveland, where the Browns’ name, colors, history, records, awards and archives would remain in Cleveland. The only other current NFL team to suspend operations without merging with another was Cleveland’s previous NFL team, the Rams, during the 1943 season.^[1]

So, I feel your pain. As a raider fan, I know the feeling of having another city enjoy the fruits of your labor.  Heck, you even have the Dawg Pound, similar to the Black Hole.

Not your smartest move, Ochocinco....

But, even after all that, you have to remove your GM with the Sheriff? NFL.com is reporting this story, as well as others….

According to multiple published reports, Cleveland Browns GM George Kokinis was escorted out of the team’s facility Monday.

This is Hipster J. getting escorted out by the police, not the GM, but funny nonetheless....

The Browns have yet to officially respond to any of Monday’s reports, but team director of public relations Neal Gulkis said late Monday, “I haven’t heard anything, I can’t confirm those reports.”

Even so, as news on the situation continues to surface, it is becoming apparent that Kokinis is likely on his way out in Cleveland.

NFL Network insider Michael Lombardi told NFL Total Access Monday that Kokinis will be fired, and that Kokinis is aware of the situation. According to Lombardi, Kokinis has not been involved in any of the team’s recent decisions and has been something of an outcast within the organization, with coach Eric Mangini making the front office decisions.

Browns play-by-play announcer Jim Donovan told NBC affiliate WKYC-TV3 in Cleveland that the Browns have already ”severed ties” with Kokinis.

Following Sunday’s 30-6 loss in Chicago, Browns owner Randy Lerner said he was “sick” about the state of his team, and that he would like to bring in a “strong, credible, serious leader” to help run his team, according to multiple published reports.

More on this story to follow.

Update: The team released a statement Monday night that Kokinis is “no longer actively involved” with the Browns organization.

Did you really have to have him escorted out of the building?  Did you think that he was going to steal the stapler like in Office Space?

Just like my Raiders, so have to comport yourself like professional if you want people to take you seriously.  That goes twice for my Raiders.  Good luck Browns….it starts with firing Mangini.

October 24th 2009 Richmond California

A truly All-American story.

City Lines: Just imaginary lines drawn to make people feel better about themselves by ignoring the plight of others and sell newspapers and real estate.

I read the headlines, all pointed to Richmond as the real criminal. None pointed out that the suspects were from other parts of the Bay Area. How about “Pinole and San Pablo teens rape helpless Richmond girl”. This might have been more accurate but was not published. Or more accurately a headline of “Young teenage girl raped at her Homecoming dance”.

In more homogeneous countries stories of crime are not presented as problems of just a few that live close but a concern for all. The Chinese, the Germans, the Japanese, even the Cubans.

What sold this story was “Richmond”. Plucked from the news cycle to make us assume this was the only crime of that day.  Or that this was the the most important crime law officials needed our help solving thus worthy of such publicity. It was neither. But what we do know is that the above headline gave us some sort of emotional response.

Whether it was “shame” or “disgust” or “pity” or “anger” or even “glee”, it wasn’t the first time we felt that way. We need something to keep us feeling the way we need and this was the medicine of the day.

These stories are propped up because they reinforce not change our existing feelings. So why the labels of “city”? Because this is what sells. This is what makes us feel better or worse. But it also causes apathy. Assigning a city label only matters so that we can geographically ignore the problems of others. Sometimes the boundaries are within blocks of our imaginary safe existence. Think Palo Alto v. East Palo Alto or Watts and Hancock Park.

Richmond is a beautiful proud diverse city of  thousands of hard working patriotic Americans. But there is no need to charge or defend any imaginary lines drawn called towns, cities, counties, or states because all are just a reflection of our society and culture as a whole whether we acknowledge it or not.

Other crimes of that week received little or no attention. The two “Salinas” teens charged with a double murder or the elderly “Concord” man nearly beaten to death were just ignored. Maybe because these stories hit a little too close to home.