"Ghostbuster" Clouds

A storm came in yesterday that looked a lot like the scene from Ghostbusters!

via Pam Fischbein 

via Harris Graber 

Realities

Wanted to take a moment to think about some stuff.  

Take a moment today, just a couple seconds even, to imagine today is your 25th birthday. Now, imagine no celebration, no family and friends, no presents...nothing. Then imagine spending you birthday, for the 6th time, in captivity. This is the story of Gilad Shalit, on this very day.

Now, take a moment to think about the recent Hurricane Irene and be thankful.  Even if you are flooded, your car was damaged from debris, or you have no electricity.   This Hurricane hit New York City about 12 hours ago now and it was not nearly as bad as expected and we will survive.  But now think about New Orleans.  Do you know how long ago it was that Katrina hit?  6 years ago!  And they are STILL recovering.  Some may never recover.  Their entire homes, neighborhoods, were washed away.  Just put that into perspective for a moment.  

  

Whoopsies!

Keep It Light

I am trying to stay positive in light of the negative things going on in our world.  There have been some powerful photos that only prove a picture is worth a thousand words.

and on March 23, 2011 a bomb went off in central Jerusalem killing one and injuring 31. 

OxyMORON Of The Day

Today I read an article in The Daily News how Bloomberg is going to charge rent in NYC homeless shelters. Um, is that not an oxymoron?

RIP Pingping

The smallest man in the world died at age 21 on March 13th. RIP little guy.

Make this a movie

OK maybe a couple more before I go... Like this news story on CNN.com today. I feel like this should be made into a movie. Moonshining, grandpas, Mexican weed, jail, betrayal. It has all the elements. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/drugs.rural.america/index.html

Medical Marvels

This is crazy! http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/popup?id=2024851&contentIndex=1&page=2&start=false

Resign Yourself

It really amazes me how some "details" slip through the cracks with some people. Dumb assholes.

First Cranes, Now Planes!

Last summer New Yorker's thought it was a freak accident when the first crane collapsed. Then it happened again. I never would even notice those cranes around and now, I notice them alright.

Then, this weekend, I noticed I had quite a bit of anxiety when I was getting on the plane to Florida. I am usually a good, carefree traveler so this struck me as odd. Maybe I was getting sick? But after reading ANOTHER story about a "freak" accident dealing with a plane again, not to mention it being in NY again, I realized I had developed a slight fear of flying. Crash once, it's scary, but you don't really translate it to something that could be your plane. But four times in a few weeks, I guess I'm starting to get nervous! Private planes, The Hudson Crash, The Buffalo one, The Amsterdam one, and the most recent one at JFK. Shit airport people, fix this!

Come to think of it, sometimes those miracles and coincidences I am always talking about now, are easier to see in hindsight. Right before I left for Florida, I was watching Chelsea Lately and her guest was Kelly Carlson (from Nip/Tuck) and she was talking about her fear of flying and what she does to cope.

You are really trusting so many people and scenarios out of your control. You have to either trust it, or dont. And lately, I have not been given reasons to trust the system. A bit off kilter, but David sent this to me as a joke but Louis CK makes a good point that has crossed my mind a couple times. People are so ungrateful sometimes but when you sit back and think about it, YOU'RE FLYING! "You are in a seat, in the sky!" Just watch it, it's funny cuz it's true! Click HERE to watch.

Emergency!

When I feel bad about my life, I read the news and see stories like this that immediately lift my spirits.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0303091mcnugget1.html

I am a sucker for fast food cravings myself, so Latreasa, I know how you feel. When you are craving something so bad, and then after all the trouble you go through to get there only to find out that they don't have it?! Horrible feeling. And those chicken mcnuggets, are definitely emergency worthy I'd say. One time I wanted crunchy tacos from Chipotle and they didn't have the shells. They did end up giving me a free burrito though before I could even think about calling 911.

I went back to Cleveland

I was in Cleveland for the weekend. Wonderful weekend for the boyfriends birthday. First date was at Eat At Joe's, where the best hash browns exist. Finally went to Rock Hall. Def. something to check off the list but I can see why my friends don't need to go back there after going once. I loved the Bier Market and Cento downtown. We also went to an Ohio State bar called Dive. I am so happy I went to OSU! Then on the ride to the airport Monday morning, we are listening to the radio and a voice from my past comes on. Apparently Z100 gets picked up in 4 cities now?! Not only that, but they were talkin gabout some poll that just came out and 2 of the 4 cities they deal with are in the top 5 most unhappy in the country. Cleveland being #2. Go figure! Coincidences are so coincidental!

I need to try this and one day I will

I heard about this when the trade first happened and for some reason, when I was thinking about creative ways to make some money, this popped into my head. I think it is one of the coolest things to accomplish and think of. I hope to achieve something like this one day. Here is his schpeal if you are too lazy to click a link...

"My name is Kyle MacDonald and I traded one red paperclip for a house. I started with one red paperclip on July 12 2005 and 14 trades later, on July 12, 2006 I traded with the Town of Kipling Saskatchewan for a house located at 503 Main Street."

It's almost unbelievable that this occurred in so few trades! Mad props yo. I wonder what I could start my trade with. A hair tie? A coconut painted like a buckeye football from Jamaica? A Billy Joel bumper sticker from The Last Play at Shea? Cotton balls? Maybe I'll start multiple trades. I'm kinda excited regardless.

End of the World, 2012? WTF

What the hell is this all about? Many people have mentioned it recently. I really don't have the tolerance to get too far into it. Frankly it's just disturbing for me to think about. Even right now on The Daily Show there is a man talking about an asteroid hitting in 2029. Guess that is kinda comforting though because that means he doesn't believe the 2012 theory. Hm...

Advertising vs. PR

Some argue that this economic situation is great for public relations. If people can't afford to pay for an advertising campaign, they turn to editorial because generally, it's cheaper. But others will say that in this economic situation, people are cutting back a whole lot more, and that means getting rid of things they really don't have to have, like pr. I hear one women running a pr company is doing the best she has ever done, yet I hear another company with similar clients and overall business, is suffering.

I guess it's just in the eye of the beholder, or at least that's what I will stick to until I really form a better, more factual finding. Working with socialites, sure they don't NEED pr, so they cut it out of the budget. But an actress, who can't handle all the press on her own, well, she probably needs us. Or a restaurant who normally advertises may lose the ads and just stick with the pr. But a small company that can't really do either, needs to just cut out the outreach in those conventional ways entirely. So really, I think it just depends. I personally like to think the glass is half full...pr will flourish in these times!

But on the other hand...
I just read all at once that 4 places I would have given my left arm to work for (still probably would) have laid people off. One cut out the events staff, where I would have been included had I got that opportunity. Another I would have been the assistant for the women who ran the company and she decided to step down from the throne today. A third company decided to go completely digital and no longer have their print version of a magazine. The forth job just nixed their New York office all together! I guess everything happens for a reason.

Don't Mix Acid and Gnomes

One time, these three boys decided to take acid. They went out that night, drove around for a while, and came across a lawn covered in lawn gnomes. The boys were convinced one of the gnomes was moving around and speaking to them in a language they couldn't understand. The boys decided it was best to "get rid" of this gnome because it was freaking them out so they took the gnome and put it in the trunk of the car. They drove around a while longer, went about their night. Went to dinner, met up with some friends, etc. When they got back to the house, they took the gnome out of the trunk and put it in the bedroom closet. The next morning the boys were woken up by noises coming from the closet. When they opened the closet they were shocked to find a 4 year old Mexican girl. They kidnapped a little girl speaking Spanish the night before. Panicked, they anonymously left her at the doorstep of the local police station and later got in some serious trouble.

WTF

You know when you are searching for something online, and one thing leads to another and you suddenly went for looking up a brand name for a shoe you saw in the window of a store to 3 hours later, looking into lizards tails falling off? That just kinda happened to me but much quicker. I was looking for the video of this whole Bush shoe throwing incident and saw this entry in Wikipedia. They already added the incident to it.


All that comes to mind..."Who throws a shoe? Honestly!" - Austin Powers

Kinda Really Funny

"Kids with names that are outside the norm usually end up wanting their names changed to something more like everyone else's. Now Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's two-and-half-year old daughter has upped the ante.

Shiloh will only respond to the name 'John.'

Brad Pitt made this hilarious admission to Oprah Winfrey on her program scheduled to air Nov. 19, reports People.com.

"She only wants to be called John. John or Peter. So it's a Peter Pan thing," Pitt says. "So we've got to call her John. 'Shi, do you want ...' – 'John. I'm John.' And then I'll say, 'John, would you like some orange juice?' And she goes, 'No!' So, you know, it's just that kind of stuff that's cute to parents, and it's probably really obnoxious to other people."

-FoxNews.com

Would you rather

Be blissfully happy in a delusional world, or in pain in reality? Ignorance is bliss people!

TG's

In my sorority we had these themed gatherings with the fraternities, a.k.a. TG's. Known as Socials, Parties, etc. by others. Some examples...devils and angels, candy, iced out, Buckeye, Mardi Gras...it could have been anything. We were always cautious with the "gangsta" theme but nontheless, had those too. I heard of a couple schools getting crap for that one though. But NEVER this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/14/oxford-students-bring-a-jew-party


Come on "scholars"!