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antigeekess

American Idol -- Vanilla Flavor

Well, Cuddle, Randy's got "America's Best Dance Crew" on MTV http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/dance_crew/series.jht… ...and had been active in the music business for many years before joining Idol. For example, I spotted him a while back in this Dionne Farris vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlkJ7JXETr0 You can check out his bio on Wiki. Like a lot of the former contestants, just because somebody's not extremely high profile doesn't mean they're not working. As I understand the Paula situation, she wanted too much money. If that's the case, she's an eejit. Idol truly rejuvenated her career and got her back in the public eye. Back in the day, I thought she was going to be a BIG star. She could dance, sing well enough to pass, and I thought if she could act, she'd be a triple threat in the tradition of some of the old movie stars. Simon rules the world right now. He can do whatever he wants.
— January 11, 2010 8:22 p.m.

Maggots, Flies, and The Cat's Meow

Oooooh, refried...Are you thinking what I'm thinking about that poor dead critter? Something very small, furry, and formerly cute that a female cat might be upset about? Most disturbing. Nice blog entry as usual, however. :)
— January 10, 2010 7:28 p.m.

Re #20: Yeah, I like it a lot, too. What I haven't really looked into is exactly 'what' the Mayan calendar says about 2012. Does it explicitly say it's bloody Armageddon, a time of global change, just end abruptly at that point, or what? What I can say with some confidence is that the U.S. is completely lost ethically, and entirely corrupt from top to bottom due to greed. I finally just started reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Cures-They-Dont-Abo… ...in which controversial author and pitch man Trudeau fleshes out the FDA/FTC/BigPharma unholy trinity. I'm on the fence about Trudeau. He's been painted as a complete shyster (which he might be), but it's just as likely that it's all a big smear campaign against him by the very institutions he's writing about, whose tentacles extend into the media as well. My impression so far is that he's a legitimate whistleblower who may be embellishing a bit, kind of in the same category as a Michael Moore. The U.S. is on the decline, socially, economically, spiritually, physically, ethically, etc. It's like the fall of Rome. The rest of the world is hungry, on the upswing and kicking some serious ASS, mostly ours. Take a look at this: http://www.burjdubai.com/ Take a look at that thing. Make sure you sit through the little slideshow, so you can see how it compares to the rest of the skyline. It's 2700 feet tall. For reference the Sears (Willis) Tower, tallest building in the world from 1973 to 1998, is 1450 feet tall. The Burj Dubai is almost twice as tall as the Sears Tower. It opens next week, on January 4. There are 30,000 apartments in it, and nine hotels. We might make ourselves feel a little better by the fact that it was designed by American architect Adrian Smith, from Chicago. :) If the pics don't give you an idea of how massive this thing is, check it out on Google Earth. What looks like a massive Ford T-bird symbol overtaking the entire city is in fact the Burj Dubai and its shadow. In between the Sears/Willis Tower and the Burj Dubai have been the Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Twin_Towers and most recently the Tapei 101, in China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101 ...which was only 1670 feet, even at the tip of its spire. The point of this little architectural trip around the world is that skyscrapers have always been symbolic structures for a culture. Based on this, ours has apparently reached its zenith and is now in decline. I find it interesting that the title of world's tallest has once again been returned to the Middle East, for the first time since the Great Pyramid of Giza's reign of 3800 years. I'm not sure what's going to happen in 2012 that isn't happening already. But the times definitely are a changin'.
— December 27, 2009 6:05 p.m.