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February 28, 2005
Vote for some mates across the pond!
Hey sharkblog readers. A great friend from college, elisabeth Schuchman, needs your help. After college she left for a job in England and she's been there ever since. She's married to a great musician who will soon be tearing up ipods across the world. Here's some more info from shuchman.
Hi All
I need your help...Wayne is a finalist in the National Student Music
Awards for the UK, but he needs votes to get to the final three. This is the same contest Coldplay won that broke their career so if you all get voting...I could be the next Gwyneth...OK so that's a stretch, but you know what I mean! It's really easy so if you could pass it on to all your email pals and get them voting, the band would be much obliged!
Go to www.nsma.com
Click on UK
Click on Vote
Enter your email address then press Go and NSMA will send you an email(hotmail may go to junk mail so don't forget to check.)
When you get the email click "vote now" and vote for JIMMI JUKKA!
They only take one email per address, and you have until the end of
March.
Feel free to check out his website where there is a short MP3 of their single "Captains Table" if you want to have a listen.
Thanks very much!!!
Elizabeth
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February 27, 2005
My New York City Stadium Plan
After the huge success of "the gates" I have submitted my proposal to the city to resolve the west side stadium debacle. I have ended the bitter feud between cablevision and bloomberg. Also, my plan will allow for the west side rail yard to be converted into lots of high rise buildings for rich people. If rich people are happy, everybody is happy! My plan calls for moving the stadium to the great lawn of central park. We aren't allowed to walk or protest on the great lawn, so lets put the J-E-T-S..Jets.Jets.Jets there. I went to a Dave Matthews concert on the great lawn and I hurt my back because i had to sit on a blanket. Boy I could have used a nice stadium seat. Another time i went to the great lawn to listen to great tenors. Well, we ran out of cheese and wine at our picnic.. and i was like. i could use the beer guy right now selling $12 beers! This also solves the olympic 2012 issue. Don't put the stadium in queens and make me take the 7 train! anything but that. In order to get approval from the central park conservationist people, I will be offering shuttle service to a great park upstate, Fahnestock. I mean do we really need the whole central park? I feel that the benefits such as bringing high paying vendor jobs, binge drinking and tailgaiting far outweigh any damage that will be done to the park. I'm waiting for bloomberg's approval on this - but it's obvious to me. I will even paint the stadium safron for those who love the gates. stay tuned on how my proposal is going. Here is my rendition.
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February 25, 2005
Shark and J9 Celebrity encounters
Living in nyc you can get into some unique celebrity encounters. I've had a couple of funny ones, but this is not page six. 2 of the brightest ones are captured below. One is me meeting knick legend John Starks at a book signing. I re-enacted "the dunk" for everyone at the bookstore with a trash bucket and i dunked over j9. Notice my head size vs. his. heead! It's like an orange on a toothpick. J9 got to meet the pop culinary legend Rachel Ray. I could bet that half of my readers love rachel ray and half will hate her and the show. You can hate the shows, which can be awkward since she is essentially cooking and going to restuarants by herself and then talking out loud. I mean on $40 dollars a day take someone with ya would ya i feel bad. But anyway. After you meet her you see that's she's an amazing person and one you wouldn't mind hanging out with.
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February 23, 2005
My singing career has been halted by living in HK!
Ok. My mom has always told me that i have a beautiful voice. Even wanted me to join the chorus in high school. Jeannine makes fun of me because i am really an awful singer when you turn off the radio that is singing backup. However, I am a masterful songwriter with such cb radio hits as "big sweater girl" and "slurpee". These climbed up the charts and you may be able to hear them covered by Mike. St. Laurence in a bar in new hampshire (he pays me 7cents a rendition). So I don't have the best voice, but ashlee simpson is doing it! Here's why I will never make it. I am too embarrassed to practice. Why you ask? I live in hells kitchen. The mecca of broadway singers and apartments with thin walls. My apartment building is filled with great saxophonists, opera singers and a lead in hairspray right next door. I hear them all day doing scales and warming up for their show. They also just sing while they are hanging out. Sometimes they sing conversations like they are living in an actual musical. What does thin walls have to do with my future singing career? Well, it's simple. I can't practice. The whole building will hear me. I am an avid shower singer, but i can no longer do that. Professional singers may hear me and think that i am going to be competing against them at their next audition. I don't want them to think i am a hack trying to make it. Plus, i like to make up songs and sing them so that wouldn't be appropriate either. So my singing career is on hold right now, plus i am too old for american idol. I will continue to write dope rhymes though. Here is some freestyle i did after watching 8 mile. It's getting me a lot of street credit.
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February 21, 2005
Please have Rush The Court Etiquette
Something is really driving me nuts about college basketball lately. The rushing the court phenomenon after every victory is taking away from truly great moments when an unranked team takes out the number one team in the country. This weekend, the 6th ranked Boston College Eagles rushed the court after beating 9th Ranked Syracuse AT HOME!! Here are the rules. This is simply ridiculous and it's one of those things that schools will let happen until something really bad happens, similar to the NBA. Colleges, which supply the smart people, don't always use the same techniques they apply in the classroom. It's risk analysis 101. Everyone is following Duke and putting their student section on the court. College dorks who can't pass gym are believing that they are part of the game. They've gone so far as to chant FU JJ Redick every time the duke guard touches the ball. Now they are going on to the court after every game and taunting players on their personal cell phones. I don't understand why anyone would camp out to see a basketball game - maybee it's because of the ban on alcohol on campus or just more dorks. I like this idea from an arena who is fining the school. I don't mean to sound old, but if this continues this way one day the NCAA will be sorry.
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February 19, 2005
Take a walk in HK
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I know my time in the HK is going to be limited. Here are some moments from a walk in the brisk kitchen today.
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February 18, 2005
Bloomberg needs to crack down on bad pizza shops
New York has it all and to me one of the greatest things about nyc is the fact that you have the ability to stop anywhere in the city and pickup a slice of pizza that is better than any other slice anywhere in the good old u-s of a. Well that used to be the case. There was no risk. There is a major shift in new york city pizza. Fancy neopolitan pie shops are popping up everywhere trying to compete with the masters, like Grimaldis and Patsy's
Meanwhile, the manhattan pizza shops are no longer run as a family business. The kids headed for wall street and the pizza headed south, along with their parents who head to Boca. New York has the perfect environment for making pizza - the dough rises perfectly, lots of experts to learn from and of course the dirty water factor. The other day I went to a place that was by far the worse pizza ever served in nyc. Something needs to be done about this - pizza lovers unite, lawyers please sue. We need to keep the nyc pizza tradition alive. The place is called casa nova. I should have known by the name of the place. I asked them if they had any fresh slices and they said it's fresh when they heat it up (again!) I should have walked out but i felt trapped . I had to try it. The second worst pizza i've had recently is right outside my apartment. I soo wanted this place to be good that i have even tried it 10 times, waiting for it to be good. I was even in a denial phase since it would be awesome if the place was good. The cheese doesn't even melt on the pizza at pizza city. Our children and their children deserve the right to be able to go into any pizza place in nyc and enjoy a quick slice. We can not take a drago attitude and say if the pizza dies, it dies.
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February 14, 2005
Saffron is not just an expensive spice for Paella
IT's like a huge orange under 2 toothpicks!
Dude - the 3rd gate does not count - DO OVER!!!
I'll take what is behind curtain number 27000!
Who needs the gates we have a MALL inside!
Port-o-John's enhanced the gates by passing additional wind!
Orange has some bite on this bark
Man, I can't even escape the gates in the bathroom
Here are some of my pics from the hyped up Gates. My review is simple. The Gates didn't suck! The most interesting part to me is the passion behind the project, the funding and actually pulling it off. It's a neat buzz that got me and a million others to the park in February. However, a masterpiece it is not, the park is already one in itself.
For pictures way better than mine, go to the best photo blog on the planet Rion.Nu or check out flickr
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February 11, 2005
The GATES
Why I am so excited about this weekend? I am surely not an art buff, but the Gates is going to be an awesome experience. It is an art project 26 years in the making and solely funded by the artist. Read more about the passion of the artist in New York Magazine and check out other web sites on this big event. The buzz meter on this event in nyc is at all time high. I'm predicting this could be bigger than the launch of New Coke.
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February 07, 2005
Super Boring
I haven't blogged in a while due to a trip north for some wedding planning and taking care of Jeannine. You can't exactly make blogging a priority when you have a sick fiance. Here are some random things from the past couple of days..
- how bad were the superbowl commercials? they were worse than watching the boring patriots win again. mc hammer, carson daly in a pepsi truck, talking animals and babies? - how pathetic. I can't remember one commercial so they did an awful job.
- Saw super size me the movie. Awesome and you probably will never go to mcdonalds for at least 1 road trip on the nys thruway. I give credit to anyone who can walk by a mcdonalds and not even think of the possibility of going in. I always fight it.
- wedding planning update
Things are going well with some interesting items along the way, such as a major drug bust at the hotel we blocked off rooms. Well needless to say we now aren't blocking off any rooms there. Photographer is booked and i am psyched he did work for the allman brothers. Jeannine has put a suggestion box for some of my ideas for review. Here are a few that didn't make it
- the random invite - send a random invite to someone in the phonebook selected at random and invite them to the wedding...
- On the train this weekend. a man was overheard talking to a family member about their proctocologist who was going to do a house call - no lie. He said. Well is he still going to be able tonight and check out my AS$? Just another reasons people should keep quiet on cell phones.
- how weird is the song don't let the sun go down on me by elton john - oh well. Hope all is well! happy monday everybody.
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February 01, 2005
Let's start February with some musings
Ok everyone in blogland is saying that there blogs are full of musings. I did not get a perfect score on the verbal SAT and I sure is no grammar expert, but i think it's a lame stab at the word. If you look below a muse is either engaged in meditation or thougtfull sayings. I read a lot of blogs and rarely when you need to update everyday are you going to be deep in meditation or very thoughtful. Oh well - i've learned the meaning of the most overused word since the invention of blogs.
v. mused, mus·ing, mus·es
v. intr.
To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation.
v. tr.
To consider or say thoughtfully: mused that it might take longer to drive than walk.
n.
A state of meditation.
The building on your left is my absolute dream NYC apartment, designed by Richard Meier. It's in the west village, open floor plan, nicole kiddman lives there and overlooks the hudson. I would do just about anything to one day be able to live here, but realize it's a pipe dream. What happens when your desire for a great bargain for NYC real estate becomes an obsession, read this awesome article from this months New York Magazine.
- I got a SPAM email today. I get a lot of these because someone signed me up for a mailing list for free movie tickets! Now each and every day I get tons of spam that can not be picked up by our spam removal program. I got a spam telling me to buy a tsunami bracelet to support the victims. In reading further, this is a complete scam and they are not a valid charity - they even try to give you a free dvd of the catastrophie for your home movie collection - sickos!. How could anyone in their right mind, do something like this? I guess the only thing suprising is that the email is from socially adequate canada.
- I love the NY POST. I especially love how it is a right winged paper in the craziest left wing city in the world. Even with this liberal nyc'ers pick this up as religiously as the right wing states go to bible school. During the election Bush was on the cover everyday with a go bush slogan. kerry supporters were buying it up just so they could see if king of all boneheads ben affleck was spotted in manhattan. I was suprised that they broke the front page article yesterday on Pataki hiring a maid on our dollar. Why am i not suprised? because they already know Pataki is completely done as governor and really have no chance at the governor election so they might as well bash him to say they are "fair and balanced".
- Hillary Clinton passed out during a speech yesterday and i had 2 questions - 1 is did you get that on film. That is usually hilarious, like the guy on the bachelorette a few weeks ago. and 2 was did she pass out after eating too many wings at the best place on earth for wings in buffalo, the anchor bar
- New Jersey Link of the day - What does Jersey Fresh mean according to the state?
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