I’m back in Jolly-’Ol-England. Touring with the band for the summer. If you’re trying to call me, you won’t get me. So leave a voice mail on the “answer-phone” and I ‘ll get back to you in…not so soon, it better be a funny message though.
Okay, That’s all for now. Cheers!
Weese
In honor of flag day, I thought I’d share a little story about my childhood. When I was young, I believed so strongly that there was a special police taskforce dedicated to enforcing the rules on how to fly and handle the American Flag. I believed that if you violated any of these set rules, they would descend upon you in helicopters with machine guns, and the whole 9 yards. This belief was driving me mad one summer day in my earlier childhood.
I was selected to participate in the daily flag lowering ceremony at Sunset Beach in Cape May, NJ. I spent the whole day worrying about what to do. What if the flag touched the ground, what if I messed up folding it, what if brought it down to fast. The fear was just so much for me. Needless to say the time came to lower the flag, and everything went splendidly.
Anyways, if any of you happen to ever be in the area of Cape May, be sure to stop by Sunset Beach. Grab some food at the grill, check out the gift shops, and look for cape may diamonds! Come sunset, be sure to be back by the flag area for the flag ceremony. You won’t be dissappointed.
Coldplay’s new album Viva La Vida comes out on the 17th on the American side of the Atlantic, and the 12th in Europe. If you want to take an early listen to the album, check out IHeartMusic. I’m a big fan of Coldplay, and am looking forward to this album.
Take a listen and let me know what you think about it.
Loading ...A while ago I posted about a neat book called Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan. I recently came across a post on LifeHacker on five secret Japanese tips to make life better. My favorite, and in my mind the most helpful, is how to make a baby stop crying.
1. How to make a baby stop crying
Dilemma: Sure, the baby’s cute. But why won’t he stop crying?
Solution: The secret to stop a crying baby lies in making the sound you produce during the mouthfeel stage of wine tasting.
Why this works: When babies are still in the womb, the noises they can hear are limited to those in the 6000-8000mHz range. The sound you make when you slosh the liquid behind your lips during wine tasting takes place at about 7000mHz, reminding the baby of a time when the world around was peaceful and the whirs and stirs inside Mommy’s tummy soothed him back to a sleepy state.
Last Thursday I was working on an elevator pitch for a business networking organization breakfast I was to visit the next day. I decided I needed to sit down and really wrack my brains to come up with something really remarkable. I was sure that if I put my mind to it, everyone at the meeting would instantly line up to become our clients.
However, I may have been overconfident in my literary ability, because after about fifteen minutes of hard thinking, this was all I could come up with.
Because of the beauty of having a laptop, I am not always at my desktop. Thankfully the internet community has been given a nice selection of Instant Messaging protocols with which to keep ourselves occupied, mine is always running with an away message up. With my ever present online status it gives my friend, Mark — who currently is working in Memphis, the opportunity to leave me a wide variety of humorous links to random things he discovers on the internet during his heightened state of boredom. I have decided that I should start saving these links, and share some of them with all of you! So here we have it… The findings of Mark!
I was on YouTube, and I found a bit of throwback video that a friend and my brothers and I made last summer. It’s quite a little feature! Check it out.
Well, have a lovely day. Hope you don’t feel too sick
-Weese
I picked this one up because I was in the mood for something that wasn’t all about youth trying desperately to understand their own emotions while constantly missing opportunities to confess their love. That’s not really the focus of Tokyo Crazy Paradise, but that sub plot is pretty much still present. I guess you just can’t escape it.
Tokyo Crazy Paradise (I’m tired of typing that so it’s TCP from here on out) is a manga that takes place in the year 2020 in a crime filled and indifferent future Tokyo (I doubt Tokyo will ever be as bad depicted in this manga). In order to protect their daughter -Tsukasa- from the constant sexual harassment women face in that day and age, a married couple (both cops) decide to raise her as another son along with their 3 other sons. Shortly before we enter the story, that married couple got caught up in a Yakuza dispute and were both killed, leaving the 14 year old Tsukasa and her 16, 14 (her twin), and 13 year old brothers alone in this world. I don’t remember the brothers names because they play very minor roles in this manga (so far).
After being kicked out of their home by their indifferent landlady (this is where we join the story) Tsukasa decides to try and get a free meal off Ryuji, a Yakuza “friend” (whom she has never actually spoken too). Bad idea of course, but she is kind of young and very hungry. Because of this (and the help of a few lies + her skills at fighting) Tsukasa is forced to work as Ryuji’s bodyguard.
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It’s around 1:30 am and I’m working hard with Sean and Paul. To keep me motivated, I’ve found the best work song. It’s the song Werewolf Bar Mitzvah from the show 30 Rock and it has the perfect grooving beat and happy tune to keep a guy awake and interested in the middle of a tough work session.
There is one drawback though. It’s a little hard to focus while this song is playing. I keep finding myself writing the word “werewolf” whenever I’m at a wall and need to think.
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