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Sanjaya goes home tonight. 2007-04-19 04:02:53 The votes are in, and while I post this, Sanjaya is finally singing his way off of American Idol.
More to come…
Sticking up for Sanjaya. 2007-04-18 22:04:01 In an article over at The Time of India site, it was reported that the crowd at a recent Dodgers-Padres baseball game in Los Angeles, booed Sanjaya simply for being there.
That’s just mean.
I won’t profess to being even the slightest bit impressed with his singing, or his shtick. Several more talented singers have gone home before him for reasons everyone has tried to figure out (and everyone has a theory on) but few can actually pinpoint, and while he did do better than others on latin week, he has not done well enough to warrant still being in the competition at this point. As I’ve mentioned in the past, much as I didn’t like Antonella Barba… I thought even she deserved to outlast him.
But seriously… read this quote and tell me if you don’t feel sorry for the lad.
“He was just sitting there having a good time with his friends, just like a regular person. And when the Dodger camera noticed him, the cameraperson ran over and taped hi
Jayleen B Photography and Digital Painting 2007-04-18 19:18:04 I was browsing over at Joy’s Photo Blog and was reminded of how good she is. I love her work and always have. She deserves to wake up one morning and find her email inbox so full of requests from everyone under the sun… including Interior Designers and regular people like you and I.
So go there… stick her on your blogroll, and tell other people what a great find her work is.
And to answer the question some of you might have; no, I don’t receive any kind of compensation for plugging her work… well save for the satisfaction of seeing a friend I call my “sis in California” succeed.
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You’ve fueled my blog! 2007-04-18 18:52:42 Today, fracas has finally made it to the “View Votes” page over at Fuel My Blog and I couldn’t have gotten there without all the kind folks who click every day. I may be the last on the list for today, but having only registered a short few days ago, I don’t plan on being the last entry on the page for long! It helps that people can vote once per day. Those fulemyblog folks sure know how to win friends!
For today though.. I’ll celebrate just getting on the page.
I thought about what I should do for everyone, but not knowing exactly who the votes are from, I can’t just offer a one-size-fits-all thank you. I plan to take this seriously and be back later with a little something available for anyone who wants it.
For now though… I really do think it’s pretty dang nice of you to take the time to click for me. I promise to do the same for those of you I know have signed up there.
No Virginia, there is no MSG in Tim Horton’s coffee! 2007-04-18 18:39:50 Recently, I was on my way to a morning appointment and thought I’d go through the Drive-Thru and pick up a cup of Tim Horton
’s coffee. Thought being the key word.
There were probably two dozen cars already in line before me.
I wasn’t that desperate for coffee.
So, I’m at my meeting and the line-up became part of the conversation. Someone suggested that the reason Canadians seem so addicted to their coffee, is that Tim Horton’s adds MSG to it.
MSG. Also known as a flavour enhancer, is also the cause of many a headache suffered by people out there everywhere. I wasn’t sure if I should believe it, and the Alpha part of me simply couldn’t let it go unquestioned, so there I was, googling for the truth. Sure.. I found lots of other people at lots of other places online, repeating the myth but I, fracas, can’t go on that. What I learned thus far, was that many people will repeat many a myth with facts unchecked. I suppose I already knew that, Read more:Virginia
Sanjaya Malakar - Maxim’s Girl of the Day for April 17, 2007 2007-04-18 17:54:46 I’m not kidding. You can see for yourself at the Maxim
website.The designation is accompanied by several photos of Malakar showing his various Idol hairstyles. A portion of the write-up includes these words of wisdom,
“Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: You’ve no one but the Devil’s lawyer to blame for this androgynous American Idol stowaway, who, despite being detested by the judges, somehow remains in the hunt for the show’s coveted prize as this year’s top 40 footnote. We stopped watching after the auditions (the only digestible part of the show), but it’s our understanding that we have Sanjina to thank for the “ponyhawk,” a hair-novation destined to tickle your underarm as you noogie hordes of copycat hipsters.”
Considering that fellas stopping by the Maxim site to check out the girl of the day are accustomed to being greeted by the likes of (today’s girl) Gina Gershom, the fracas is not so sure their attempt at humour was a Read more:April
Sanjaya sings country, Shyamali’s still a hoot(er)! 2007-04-16 22:36:07 What will Sanjaya choose to sing on American Idol’s country week? Martina McBride will serve as the mentor, offering advice on song choice, arrangement and performance. Might his choice be Shania Twain’s She’s Not Just A Pretty Face or will it be Faith Hill’s Take Me As I Am? Will he focus on winning Simon’s approval with a breathy rendition of Faith Hill & Tim McGraw’s Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me, or McGraw’s catchy Just To See You Smile… or will he take the macho man route with some Lonestar, perhaps Amazed?
Will the country theme finally be Sanjaya’s undoing, and so, would a choice of Lisa Brokop’s How Do I Let Go leave Sanjaya in for an emotional singing out just as it was for Gina, when she chose Smile? Playing it safe with Martina McBride’s version of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden would be just as fitting, but allow for Sanjay to leave on an upbeat tone, tongue planted firmly in the
The Monday Melee - April 16, 2007 2007-04-16 19:32:09 To find out how you too, can participate in The MondayMelee
, please read the main Monday Melee page, grab The Monday Melee logo (and view the participant list too).
Fracas’ The Monday Melee for April
16, 2007
1. The Misanthtropic: Name something (about humanity) you absolutely hate.
(Lack of manners) Spitting. It’s a disgusting thing to do regardless of whether you’re a male or a female. Every person who spits/gobs/hocks up a loogie in public would just as likely be grossed out were someone (they considered to be less kempt than themselves) to spew a wad onto their shoes… so what makes them think theirs is any less offensive to someone other than themselves?
“Saliva carries many easily caught diseases including tuberculosis, flu, encephalitis, meningitis and hundreds of cold bacteria. Lethal viruses can incubate and spread to other individuals who contact the spit in its slimy liquid form. Pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma and some communicable childhoo
The Sunday Snopes - April 15, 2007 2007-04-16 18:39:29 Lead in Lipstick.
Last week’s SundaySnopes
feature, in honour of Easter, dealt with a story about a giant rabbit.
Anyone who uses email is bound to, at some point or another, receive an email containing a ‘warning’ about some terrible crime or event that they should beware of. These emails always tell the recipient to pass it along to everyone they know in order to warn others and ’save’ someone else from the same terrible fate. Most often, these emails contain some sort of claim relating the event or crime in the warning, to a specific location or police department in order to convince the recipient of its authenticity.
In mostly every case, these email warnings are hoaxes, nothing more than malicious chain letters that scare the uninformed into becoming pawns in the spamming of hundreds of thousands of people.
Snopes.com is a credible place to verify such stories you might receive. As a regular Sunday feature, fracas will highlight a different story eac Read more:April
Sending you off with your Friday Funnies! 2007-04-13 12:20:02 There are places you just know you don’t want to go to…
And places maybe you ought to try…
There are foods you just shouldn’t think about too much…
And some foods you might think about a lot…
Sometimes people get too much information…
And sometimes they get not enough…
Sometimes people should get a second opinion before going to print…
Sometimes people should get a second opinion before going to production…
And sometimes, it’s just up to us to wonder…
Have a great weekend!
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, Friday
, Funnies
The Cho Seung-Hui Manifesto: News, lurid voyeurism or a mental health wake-up call? 2007-04-20 12:12:13
Boston Herald columnist Peter Gelzinis titled his April 20th article Carnage a daily problem: Violence plagues us all. He couldn’t have found a more fitting title for an issue that threatens to become lost in the rush to create a macabre celebrity of Cho Seung
-Hui.
Said Gelzinis, quoting Ulyen Coleman, the director of Boston’s Regional Resource Center,
“The two things that struck me about (Cho’s) picture,” Coleman said, “was the access to guns, especially sophisticated weapons like that. And the second was how those weapons always seem to find their way into the hands of kids with serious mental
issues.”
Indeed.
I’m sure to be verbally flogged for suggesting so, but I do believe that someone mentally ill and determined to wreak havoc in the world as justification for whatever reality their illness allows them to create, will find the means to do so. We live in a world where even gun control can’t prevent that.
Reports of individuals being able to obtain Read more:Manifesto
Buying your vote with a sexy bra… 2007-04-20 09:34:47
Go ahead&hellip
; click it. You know you want to. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Sure… at anyone else’s blog, you might have to worry that you’ll click and you’ll be sucked away into that nasty world of porn pop-up and pop-under windows, the kind where there’s no way out but to either run screaming from your computer or turn the damn thing off, hoping you can come up with some kind of explanation for how “all that stuff” got onto your computer.
Would I do that to you?
You know I wouldn’t. Fracas is a nice, kind soul. I might be a tad silly, I might like the toilet jokes, but I would never ever subject you to pop-ups.
Click it, and vote for me over at Fuel My Blog. Yeah.. I’m stooping so low. I’m posting half naked bra pictures to make you vote for fracas over at Fuel My Blog.
Wait a second…. I’ve posted half-naked bra pictures here before I ever registered at Fuel My Blog.
That means you owe Read more:Buying
We went to great lengths (literally) to enter this contest. 2007-04-20 07:08:24 Better late than never.
Fuel My Blog has had a photo contest on their site since the end of March. The deadline is April 20. It is nearly midnight of the 19th, and I finally had to slap myself and tell myself that I simply needed to choose a photo. How was I supposed to know it was going to be so hard to choose?
The theme of the contest was “View from my window” and upon checking out the entries already submitted, I was asking myself if I should even bother with some of the really interesting photos already there. I mean, seriously… there’s a photo taken from a balcony in front of the Mediterranean Sea in Port Said, Egypt, a photo taken from inside The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower and a picture taken on a safari trip to Ayers Rock National Park. There’s a couple of really beautiful sky/sunset pictures, a couple of photos taken while in flight from two different types of planes, a beautiful night shot taken in Shanghai and the list just goes on.
I Read more:literally
, enter
Teri Hatcher wears toilet paper. 2007-04-24 19:35:39
Another tip from The Toilet Paper Posse…
Eva had a shower, the girls played “the game”. Teri Hatcher
was chosen the winner.
Pssst. Keep this quiet, ok? Don’t tell Sheryl Crow….
(I’d hate for this to be the start of some ugly feud.)
Source
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, Teri Hatcher
The Toilet Paper Posse takes on Sheryl Crow 2007-04-24 07:32:41 In an effort to let Sheryl
Crow know that we the people, do not intend to stick to “one square per use”, fracas has decided to create TTPP, otherwise known as The Toilet
Paper Posse
. What will TTPP do? Why, we will scour the internet to find that which celebrates toilet paper use - and lots of it! Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow will keep us from our task.. we will burn the midnight oil (’cause yeah… that ain’t environmentalist either) searching, and while doing so we will consume endless cups of coffee and eat countless bags of all things deep-fried in order to create a desperate need for… additional toilet paper usage.
We’ve heard her ideas and we know the folly of her ways. Toilet paper is a necessity of life, and just look what can happen when people are deprived: Man kills roomate over lack of toilet paper!
Honestly Sheryl… do you want things like this on your conscience?
I don’t think so.
So.
I shall lead the Posse, with Read more:Sheryl Crow
Sanjaya’s hotter than Eliot Spitzer! 2007-04-24 06:02:20 For those who’ve been fretting about the fate of poor Sanjaya… fret no longer. Earlier, on Regis and Kelly, he’d told them that he couldn’t believe it when the Governor of New York (EliotSpitzer
) told him he was a fan. According to this article over at The Celebrity Cafe, what Sanjaya didn’t tell Regis or Kelly, was that Spitzer was initially shooed away from Malakar at the dinner and was only able to get an autograph after playing the “But I’m the Governor of New York!” card.
It seems that People Magazine, which puts together celebrities and politicians for the dinner, was behind the invitation Sanjaya received for the dinner.
In addition, Sanjaya will be reading the Top Ten with David Letterman this evening.
Not too shabby for a 17 year old with questionable talent. Since his demise from the American Idol competition, Malakar has been busier than ever, and has made it clear that he intends to be around for a long time. Noted in this Forbes.com Read more:Eliot Spitzer
Note to Sheryl Crow… I don’t want to see Rosie’s ass. 2007-04-23 22:15:35 ‘In light of Sheryl
’s recent campaign to have us all using only one square of toilet tissue at a *ahem* sitting, Rosie
O’Donnell took a moment on this morning’s “The View” to express her incredulity at the supposedly enviro-friendly suggestion, asking Crow, “Have you seen my ass?!”
The good folks at TMZ were able to add to that tidbit, noting that “Barbara Walters was good enough to warn viewers not to use their sleeves, another of Crow’s helpful suggestions”. What they didn’t specify, was that Barbara wasn’t advising viewers not to use their sleeves as toilet tissue, but was referring to another of Crow’s stupid ideas where people would wear “dining sleeves” instead of using napkins which Crow says are wasteful. The sleeve would then be washed after use.
Ahem&hellip
; Sheryl. We already have those. They’re called cloth napkins. Oddly, they haven’t caught on in the fast food estab Read more:Sheryl Crow
The Monday Melee - April 23, 2007 2007-04-23 21:01:45 To find out how you too, can participate in The MondayMelee
, please read the main Monday Melee page, grab The Monday Melee logo (and view the participant list too).
Fracas’ The Monday Melee for April
23, 2007
1. The Misanthtropic: Name something (about humanity) you absolutely hate.
I really hate it when people believe that having more formal education than someone else actually makes them smarter or superior to someone else. Hey.. I happen to know some really cool people who are self-taught in their field, and who totally kick the asses of more “educated” people.
2. The Meretricious: Expose something or someone that’s phony, fraudulent or bogus.
I know a few fraccers who will be pleased that this Monday, I’m choosing to name (and link) to Michael Moore as my pick for a big phony. See Michael Moore documentary sheds light on his controversial filmmaking tactics
3. The Malcontent: Name something you’re unhappy with.
The fact that I have to get my ea
Benchmark Bloggers 2007-04-23 20:26:14 Thanks to brahnamin, over at j u g g l i n g C a t s, I’m now able to display another award. It’s kind of neat. I just show up here and be me, and someone comes along and gives me a pat on the back for it. Kind of makes me feel like Sally Field…
Click the link above and check out the blogs of the other people he’s chosen to present the first Benchmark
Blogger awards to, and then click his main page link to check him out too. He oughta get one of those awards himself, although people might think he had an unfair advantage.
But, thanks again! I’ve been wearing it proudly on the sidebar for a few days, and thought it about time I thanked him properly for it.
Update: This is the more detailed button mentioned in the comments. Seems brahnamin hasn’t learned enough from skywindows yet… (you know, about giving us women too many choices.) I can’t decide which one to use in the sidebar… hmmm. Does the plain background suit me
Is vomiting sexy now.. and what’s that about paris hilton’s vagina? 2007-04-23 06:23:13 Oh those silly spammers.
Once upon a time, I checked the askimet bin thoroughly just in case some poor blogging soul was suffering through askimet considering their very worthy posts to be spam. I hated the thought that some unsuspecting blogger who might have been kind enough to read here and want to comment, might be accidentally in the spam bin and my blindly hitting “delete all” would thus “teach” askimet to permanently consider them a spammer.
However…
Once upon a time I had less than a hundred hits a day and spam accounting for just less than ten percent of comments, it was easy to go through them back then. At this time, I have more than 7,000 spam comments that have been caught by askimet. Easily, there are hundreds to check each time. I no longer am able to do that.
But for kicks and giggles (as Austin would say) I will sometimes have a peek. I found this “gem” in the bin last night and I had to wonder if I’ve finally gotten to Read more:vomiting
The Sunday Snopes - April 22, 2007 2007-04-23 05:50:20 Kaleb Owens Email
Last week’s SundaySnopes
feature dealt with a claim about lead in lipstick.
Anyone who uses email is bound to, at some point or another, receive an email containing a ‘warning’ about some terrible crime or event that they should beware of. These emails always tell the recipient to pass it along to everyone they know in order to warn others and ’save’ someone else from the same terrible fate. Most often, these emails contain some sort of claim relating the event or crime in the warning, to a specific location or police department in order to convince the recipient of its authenticity.
In mostly every case, these email warnings are hoaxes, nothing more than malicious chain letters that scare the uninformed into becoming pawns in the spamming of hundreds of thousands of people.
Snopes.com is a credible place to verify such stories you might receive. As a regular Sunday feature, fracas will highlight a different story each week to do our par Read more:April
Marilyn was hot. Fracas is hot. Vote! 2007-04-29 23:33:20 I’ve just emailed this widget into the design competition over at fuelmyblog.
If you click the widget, it will register a vote for fracas, and I really want you to!
Mark asked his readers to vote for blogitude.com, and they voted to the point of bumping his blog up to first place so hey… if Marilyn
can’t prompt a few more votes for fracas, then what on earth is the world coming to?
Marilyn was hot. Fracas is hot…
Need I say more?
Vote daily!
The Sunday Snopes - April 29, 2007 2007-04-29 22:12:50 Virginia Tech Tragedy Repercussions
Last week’s SundaySnopes
feature dealt with the true medical story of Kaleb Owens.
Anyone who uses email is bound to, at some point or another, receive an email containing a ‘warning’ about some terrible crime or event that they should beware of. These emails always tell the recipient to pass it along to everyone they know in order to warn others and ’save’ someone else from the same terrible fate. Most often, these emails contain some sort of claim relating the event or crime in the warning, to a specific location or police department in order to convince the recipient of its authenticity.
In mostly every case, these email warnings are hoaxes, nothing more than malicious chain letters that scare the uninformed into becoming pawns in the spamming of hundreds of thousands of people.
Snopes.com is a credible place to verify such stories you might receive. As a regular Sunday feature, fracas will highlight a different stor Read more:April
Melamine in pet food may have been deliberate. 2007-04-26 22:15:27 FDA: Tainted Pet Food May Be Deliberate
By Staff
Apr 20, 2007The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said pet food protein imported from China could have had the toxin melamine deliberately added to boost protein levels.Dr. Stephen Sundlof, FDA chief veterinarian, told reporters melamine had been found in Chinese shipments of corn, wheat and rice gluten.
“That melamine was found in all three of those, it would certainly lend credibility to the theory that this was intentional,” Sundlof said.
Read the rest of the story here.
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Are you a Canadian who likes to play dead? 2007-04-26 21:54:08 “One CTV viewer will get the chance to play a corpse on the hit series CSI next season after winning the “CSI Miniature Killer Contest,” launching tomorrow, Thursday, April 26 on CTV. The contest will see one CSI fan win a “to die for,” “lie-down role” on the series next season as well as a trip for two to L.A. and a complete tour of the CSI set.
The “CSI Miniature Killer Contest” is inspired by the provocative “miniature killer” storyline that continues to heat up on CSI through May on CTV. In upcoming CSI episodes, Grissom, Willows and the rest of the Crime Lab Technicians continue to search for clues to catch an elusive criminal, nicknamed the “miniature killer.” Not only has the murderer been terrorizing Las Vegas by committing carefully orchestrated crimes, but he or she has been taunting the CSI team by creating, and then delivering, freakishly exact miniature replicas of the crime scenes.”
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Sex… for money. 2007-04-26 20:43:25 Over at Bluepaintred, (another Saskatchewan blog where I have.. until now, been but a lurker), I was reading her tale of where money comes from. After a very lengthy description of how the penny begot the nickle (and so on), her husband proceeded to decide that the penny could not, because the product of two should be smaller.
However&hellip
; in Candian money, the coins are penny, nickle, dime, quarter, loonie ($1 coin), toonie ($2 coin). His logic would have the toonies as the one to begat. However… the toonie is a fairly recent invention, so it’s like the chicken and egg thing… how could the toonie begat anything if it wasn’t here?
So is he right, or is she?
Yeah… this post follows The Toilet Paper Posse. We have nothing but intelligent discussions here at fracas.
Sheryl says she was joking… TTPP doubts. 2007-04-26 19:39:59 In a recent Playfuls.com article, we learn that Sheryl
Crow now states that her plan to save trees (by limiting toilet paper usage to one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required) was a joke.
The Toilet Paper Posse here at fracas is not so quick to believe her story. We’ve heard a rumor that just prior to revealing this information, Ms. Crow was seen eating a very large bean burrito washed down with a large soda. TTPP suspects Ms. Crow was suffering (understandable) guilt when she made the new claim, likely due to a post-burrito half-roll-in-one-visit TP usage a faithful Posse member has uncovered rumors of.
TTPP advised Ms. Crow to stay away from the burritos in the future and while we sympathize, we don’t plan on buying this story. The Posse will fearlessly continue our work. We will not be caught without our markers as a result of being fooled by this “joke” theory.
Onward!
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