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But I'm going to start making appearances...
Only a little under a month remains...
A remembrance of days gone by for you all...
It's Curveball... After Mini Golf perhaps the greatest flash game of all time.
Enjoy. Till I start appearing again.
Now that I got your attention... I've been neglecting the blog and it probably is going to remain this way until the weather turns to shit again. Yayy for summer finally. Anyways with Kendra Wilkinson being so prominent in the news lately for her 'sex tape' I am going to share with the world the origin of the breast implant...
Implants have been used since at least 1895 to augment the size or shape of women's breasts. The earliest known implant was attempted by Vincenz Czerny, using a woman's own adipose tissue (from a lipoma, a benign growth, on her back).Gersuny tried paraffin injections in 1889, with disastrous results. Subsequently, in the early to mid-1900s, a number of other substances were tried, including ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, Terylene wool, gutta-percha, Dicora, polyethylene chips, polyvinyl alcohol-formaldehyde polymer sponge (Ivalon), Ivalon in a polyethylene sac, polyether foam sponge (Etheron), polyethylene tape (Polystan) or strips wound into a ball, polyester (polyurethane foam sponge) Silastic rubber, and teflon-silicone prostheses. In recent history, various creams and medications have been used in attempts to increase bust size. Furthermore, Berson in 1945 and Maliniac in 1950 performed a flap-based augmentation by rotating the patient's chest wall tissue into the breast to add volume. Various synthetics were used throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including silicone injections, which an estimated 50,000 women received. Development of silicone granulomas and hardening of the breasts were in some cases so severe that women needed to have mastectomies for treatment. Women sometimes seek medical treatment for complications up to 30 years after receiving this type of injection
Kinda neat I suppose... the price to pay for attention/beauty I guess.
Stay tuned for some serious hard hitting stuff in the upcoming weeks, but don't expect me to be too reliant with the attempts at developing full blown melanoma have begun.
Happy Summer!
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I've neglected the internet as weather is beginning to turn to beautiful summerness... But I've got some time to share my opinions. This is the first of a recurring theme of greatest lists. I love reading them, so I figure the masses in the internet are just like myself. So the first I'll share is best Albums...
8) Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Comeback album of sorts for me and the only repeat artist on my chart. Love the Upbeatness (it's not a word) of this album. I state that if I can listen to an album from cover to cover without feeling the need to skip 'slow' songs, it makes it a quality album. This is the first of 8 albums that accomplishes that in spades...
2nd Best Song - Fireflight
Sounds Like - Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New (compliments of last.fm, I find sites that compare similar artists are always a great way to introduce you to new music that you should love)
7) National Product - Luna
Only album of the top 8 that I don't actually own (if they'd make a follow up and tour for fuck sakes I'd go out and pick one up...), it's a sharp alternative album with some serious edge to it along with some feather soft ballads to get you through the night. These boys from Hawaii can rock it a ton.
2nd Best Song - Explode
Sounds Like - Last Winter, BEDlight for blueEYES, Over It
6)Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
Sort of a retro album of sorts, one of two albums that wasn't made in the 2000's, this was one of the first core rock albums that I ever owned. There's some serious edge to it as well, seemingly this band still had some anger issues, before their albums began to mellow and become a tad more pop music friendly. Not sellouts, but working for a better paying demo I suppose...
2nd Best Song - Superman's Dead
Sounds Like - Raine Maida, Matthew Good Band, Moist
5)Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
I'd say this was my first introduction into pop-punk if you will, and a really all around great album from the beginning of the 2000's. Great stuff, a ton of extra tracks available out there on the internets if you look hard enough and something that brings me to a happy time of life whenever I listen to it.
2nd Best Song - Hear You Here Me (I fucking HATE The Middle for the record)
Sounds Like - Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New
4)The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
So I live in a quite interesting climate I suppose, but the main part of it is that we have the shittiest, longest winters out there. One of my only solaces, in Febrauary when the weather is at it's coldest, I can always put this disk on and I'll always, always think about sunny summer days. A true incredible album in my books. If you don't have it, get it. There new stuff, is a new sound, which really hurts me, but forced me to keep looking for other hits...
2nd Best Song - Looking Back on Today
Sounds Like - MxPx, Allister, New Found Glory
3)There for Tomorrow - There for Tomorrow
A newer band, of which I have traveled much of Central North America to see three times in venues at least 400 miles from my hometown. Was worth it (even the time they're band's bus broke down and I was only privied to an acoustic set by the lead singer. Alt rock at it's best and at least 10 people have asked me what we were listening to when it was on the cd player, so that means it is good...
2nd Best Song - I Can't Decide
Sounds Like - Mayday Parade, Every Avenue, All Time Low
2) Every Avenue - Picture Perfect
Some time in the past 3 months usurped TfT for my second fave album of all time. Upbeat, pop-punk at its finest really. Easy to rock the entire album and always puts you in one of those happy go luck moods. That's why they make music folks...
2nd Best Song - Saying Goodbye
Sounds Like - The Summer Set, Artist vs Poet, We the Kings
1)Michael Jackson - Thriller
Well now I'm going to really show my age I suppose and it's about time cause a pile of the last albums were all for little teenage girls (or I'm lead to believe that from the tenants at the concerts that I'm always going to). Best album for sales of all time (over 100 million copies), I think the most #1 hits from one album of all time (that's not really written anywhere, but I'm assuming it's fact) and one of the most interesting singers of all time (no comment here). My favorite album forced me to purchase 4 copies over my lifetime (2 cassettes (one total white cassette...cool!) and 2 cds (as recent as last year I think or the year before)) and it remains untouched by any other music out there. Changed the way everyone listened to music, basically launched MTV. Basically we can blame this album for Heidi Montag, which makes me think I should like it a little less...
2nd Best Song - Thriller
Sounds Like - The Jackson 5, 3T, Diana Ross (I'm thinking I need a better music comparison generator right now instead of last.fm...)
Well I hope you enjoyed my list. Was weeks in the making to be honest and wasn't really easy to order my faves like this. Happy Friday and happy summer!
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Well here's a semi rant for you all to enjoy. Reading the newspaper daily is an occurrence that happens and people need to buy food as well, so when I'm waiting and waiting at the till trying to get out of the store after paying for my food I'll see the tabloids. I'm not a junkie like many people that are out there, but I'm not ignorant in the fact that unfortunate I know more about celebrity happenings than current international events. I know there's rioting going on in Greece currently (and I'm aware that there was rioting 2 years ago, while I'm on that fact I got some links to some seriously incredible pictures from the last set of riots, worth a check believe me... http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_greek_riots.html ) I have no idea why there is rioting going on in Greece this time. Basically that is the nature of the beast I suppose, the fact that we are more in touch with the current celebrity gossip rather than actual life.
I digress, let's get to the point of this conversation here. Read 2 things that jumped out at me this week. First is that Kendra Wilkingson (sp?) has some sort of sex tape coming out. Other than being famous for being a plastic blond with huge plastic surgery improved breasts and a body that I suppose is pretty impressive and for being one of Hugh Hefner's 'girlfriends' for a couple years, we should probably know nothing about her. I personally know that her husband/marketing tool possibly was one of the reasons that the Colts lost the Super Bowl last year cause he fumbled a catchable on side kick (sports rant... why isn't there more of these on this blog by the way...). Anyways the whole story is that she was fucking some random dude and there's a sex tape out now that's going to be realeased sometime soon. Well that's big news! But wait, a couple days later I read that she had multiple sex tapes lying out there and had been trying to sell these to the highest bidder ever since she broke out of the Playboy mansion. Well I suppose that's a little more pertinent news. Far be it for me to say someone shouldn't get rich for being good looking, that's what our society has been predicated on for the last hundred years or so. What bugs me so much is the constant surprise when these silicone enhanced beauties or not (see Paris Hilton) are shocked when these tapes are released and then are able to parle these 'accidents' into a lucrative career, whether it be based on appearance fees or whatever people are willing to give them money for... What kind of money would one of these quasi celebs be able to hook up if they were to say fuck it, I'm just going to fuck someone on camera and let it be well produced and look good. A porn tape for the ages. I imagine it would do pretty well... I've heard things along those lines of Tila Nyguen (the 'bisexual' crazy that was the star of two tv shows based on her choosing between a pile of men/women for her love, and claimer that she got beaten by Shawne Merriman of the SD Chargers (another sports reference... oh god!)) that she has done that, signed on to do some straight up porn. Whether her plastic surgery induced bod is enough to sell movies, who knows, but if someone was to say Jessica Biel was going to do a straight up porn movie, what would the buys be like? Couldn't they seriously sell 1 million copies at the very least. Couldn't they offer her some 50+ million to do it. Who would lose?
My second story read this week is about Lindsay Lohan deciding to go into some sort of soft core porn industry and do the biopic of the chick that was in Deepthroat. Never seen the original myself, but is something like this going to get her back on the top. Really feel it's a cop out, sort of doing the celeb porn thing to the square root. She's fallen from grace many years ago. Stuck in the tabloids, known for getting drunk, seemingly being anorexic (had one of the nicest little bodies when she was shooting Mean Girls, just my opinion) and dating some gay dj. Now she's going to apparently act as a porn star... who knows what is going to be in the movie, but another diva going out with her possibly nice body (hopefully her breasts haven't shrunk down to nothing after eating nothing for 5 years) and trying to capitalize on some sort of independent film. I don't see it doing anything for her. Does anyone have Vivid on speed-dial so we can make this girl some real money and make her relevant again. You can only live on prior greatness for so long and once your once incredible body starts to sag and grow sideways you better hope your bank account has a pile of zeros or you can remember to act for some slightly less glamorous supporting roles.
Just my thoughts about society for the week...
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Hello world. If anyone from GM or any of the dying American automakers decide to happen upon my lovely little blog, perhaps something positive will be done to the auto indutry in North America. Let's review. Car companies were chugging along nicely, charging people their large amounts for suspect cars, reliability was often an issue and gas mileage non existant. Whether all or none of those statements were true, it really doesn't matter. What matters is that is what the image of American car makers is. Inferior product at a high cost. Paying people 60 dollars an hour to install mufflers... In the last few years there's been an improvement at least at the fuel economy standpoint, but car sales are still fairly stagnant now that all the great deals to pump up the American economy have vanished. Oh oh I got two great ideas that can solve the selling crisis, ideas that aren't I don't know, creating reliable electric cars to save people oodles of money or going the crazy way of the hybrid/hydrogen car.
1. Bring back the classics
Now this is a real simple proposition (as I really think idea number 2 is, but we'll get to that in a couple). The companies have the blueprints for the cars of the past sitting in their vaults, presumably gathering inches of dust on them. Well get out the feather dusters and take these old classic cars that are and were hits in their times and remake them. When I say remake them, I don't want them to be doing the half assed 'remakes' of say the Mustang, a car that looks nothing like the original. I'm saying make the original, only with improvements in the technology. We got all the nice carbon fiber technology, computers up the ying yang, why can't the people who make the decisions make an easy one and just do a new and improved Corvette that looks identical to the old and classic one. Simplicity at it's finest I say.
2. Make attractive economy/mid range cars
Why is it all cars now in the lower classes all look the same. Boring, no curves, sterile, gross... Ease of build I suppose for the bodywork at least. I don't see why the companies can't look into getting someone with an imagination and making a fucking Toyota Yaris look like A Porsche 911? People would be more than happy to be paying what they are paying for a lower end car, especially if it didn't' look like a pile of metal put together like a blind person. Affordability would lend to people clamoring for a car that may have a 1.1L engine under the hood, but looks sporty and fun to drive.
Simplicity I really think both of these ideas are. They'd get the ball rolling in a quicker fashion and effectively and hopefully save cities like Detroit that are falling to pieces. Oh and stop paying high school grads 60 bucks an hour for that muffler install...
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Oh and while we are at it, why does the lighter pop back out when it's done heating (except in my piece of shit car?) What doesn't the internet know?
Cigar lighters work on a principle of mechanical thermostatic action (that's scientific notation for "popping out when it's hot"). The handle has a spring that is compressed when pushed in. Pushing the handle in also causes tabs in the top half of the "barrel" of the lighter to "lock" into slots in the bottom half of the barrel and pushes the heating element against the "hot" electrical contact point in the base of the lighter receptacle. The element heats up -> the bottom half of the barrel heats up -> the slot openings expand -> the top of the barrel is released -> the spring pushes the top up quickly -> the top pulls the bottom away from the contact. Pop! Pull it out quick before it cools off!
Hmm... Now if you are stuck in a traffic jam and fucking with your car lighter, you'll know just a little more about what is going on there...
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