EDIT:: I don't understand why there was/is a giant space at the top of this...



So I made a motorcycle jacket! It's based off one I made a few years ago, but I didn't LOVE it. Everyone else did. I like my new one better. So does everyone else :D

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/015280.html

Mom: You're not cooking anymore. You're awful.
Daughter: I don't like cooking. I'd rather bake.
Mom: Of course you would, you fucking stoner.

--A Train

Overheard by: A Birdy Told Me

Or other Smart-type phone?

Corporate? Or Personal?

Got to talking with some folks at the office yesterday. Most of them had corporate models. A few, like me, had their own (I am owned by an iPhone). We *ahem* don't really mind having the leash, because it ain't tied to the corporation.

Folks have my number, but most are aware that I'm not required to work nights or weekends (except in one off situations). I will answer the phone if possible or call back promptly if not. I work on a global team, so they don't call me unless something is REALLY screwed and I'm the only one that can really help.

"Help me Obi-wan! You are our only hope!"

Most (not all, but most) of those that are corporate are pretty sorry that they have them. Why? Because the expectation is that they will be available 24/7. Some of this is their own perception. But for others, not so much. They ARE expected to be "always on". And they get annoyed because people will just call and call and call and then start emailing if they don't get a response. It is taken for granted that a response will be made...

Some are able to ignore it. Others just turn the damned thing off!


So how about y'all?

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It started with this, a negative review of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" by some random (yet very good looking) YouTuber...



Obviously Katy could not handle the bad press (from a kid on YouTube, mind you), so she retaliates by posting this on her blog, sicking her "Katy Cats" on the Hot YouTuber:

"You… were almost fuckable…sick em’ boys! (KATY CATS TO THE RESCUE!)
BRUTAL!
p.s. if you know this cutie pa tutie, please advertise his car for sale on craigslist.

p.s.s. how did you know about the big fat guy in the back room that writes all my songs… that is supposed to be a secret.

lylas! (sike!)"

The "Katy Cats" retaliated in a big way, posting 160 comments on the Hot YouTuber's video, including one from PEREZ HILTON:

"Hey sexy. Thanks for getting naked on cam with me the other night.
P.S. Sorry I barfed after I saw your 4 inch dick!
xoxo "

Random right?  Well, Hot YouTuber had the last laugh, posting this "Review of the Review"...



Idk why, but I love him. Can ONTD ban together and push Hot YouTuber to mega-fame?

Source:  Hot YouTuber, Katy Perry's Blog

Stardom seems to have gotten to Miley Cyrus' head.

The "Hannah Montana" star describes herself as the "coolest person ever" in an interview with People hitting newsstands tomorrow.

"Really, I think I'm chill," Cyrus added. "I am very hyper, but I'm very carefree."

The 15-year-old even went so far as to compare herself to the Queen of Pop.

"Madonna always reinvents herself, and that's what I want to do," Cyrus says. "Whatever comes my way that sounds good, that's what I want to do. Whether it's designing clothes or photography or whatever."

Or posing half-nude with her dad. Cyrus caused controversy last month when she appeared in Vanity Fair with her back exposed while holding a blanket against her chest. In another shot, she rests her head on her dad's thigh.

"A lot has happened," she admited. "There have been a lot of changes, but it's all good. I've been really blessed."

Source: ...so Sara said.

This may or may not be "big news" but Cindy Brady (aka Susan Olson) was in my city today and was hung over and about to puke while on air with a local radio station:



According to local sources, she demands some kind of apology for the video and such coming out. Yeah right.

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(I haven't seen this on ONTD so hopefully I am not a repeat.)

It's the first question asked. He calls Rihanna Big Head; though he should not be talking with that hairline of his:


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Pierce Brosnan's Springsteen Ambition



Pierce Brosnan wants to star in a musical about Bruce Springsteen. The 55-year-old actor - who debuts his vocal talents in the ABBA-inspired musical 'Mamma Mia!' - has got the taste for singing on screen, and is keen to take on the challenge of performing Springsteen's most famous tracks.

Pierce told BANG Showbiz: "I'd love to see a musical of Springsteen songs. His songs have got such imagery and poetry. I would like to star in it - I'd have a crack at it. I really enjoyed doing 'Mamma Mia!' so why not? In for a penny, in for a pound!" Pierce's 'Mamma Mia!' co-star Colin Firth had another suggestion for a band-based musical.

He laughed: "My son suggested Radiohead, but I don't think that's particularly upbeat - it wouldn't have people dancing in the aisles!" 'Mamma Mia!' is released worldwide later this month.

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This makes me really nervous. NO ONE can touch The Boss.....except maybe Clarence. Or Patti.

HUGE BBUK NEWS

( SPOILERS )

OMG AMIRITE

http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=1093

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Posted by Bill on 7/3/2008 3:46:00 PM

By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press Writer
49 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
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His publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press he died at his home.

Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular clown in countless appearances and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly dozens of television stations around the country. The stations in turn hired actors to be their local Bozos.

"You might say, in a way, I was cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown) before anybody else out there got around to cloning DNA," Harmon told the AP in a 1996 interview.

"Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us," Harmon said.

Pinto Colvig, who also provided the voice for Walt Disney's Goofy, originated Bozo the Clown when Capitol Records introduced a series of children's records in 1946. Harmon would later meet his alter ego while answering a casting call to make personal appearances as a clown to promote the records.

He got that job and eventually bought the rights to Bozo. Along the way, he embellished Bozo's distinctive look: the orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red, white and blue costume.

"I felt if I could plant my size 83AAA shoes on this planet, (people) would never be able to forget those footprints," he said.

Susan Harmon, his wife of 29 years, indicated Harmon was the perfect fit for Bozo.

"He was the most optimistic man I ever met. He always saw a bright side; he always had something good to say about everybody. He was the love of my life," she said Thursday.

The business — combining animation, licensing of the character, and personal appearances — made millions, as Harmon trained more than 200 Bozos over the years to represent him in local markets.

"I'm looking for that sparkle in the eyes, that emotion, feeling, directness, warmth. That is so important," he said of his criteria for becoming a Bozo.

The Chicago version of Bozo ran on WGN-TV in Chicago for 40 years and was seen in many other cities after cable television transformed WGN into a superstation.

Bozo — portrayed in Chicago for many years by Bob Bell — was so popular that the waiting list for tickets to a TV show eventually stretched to a decade, prompting the station to stop taking reservations for 10 years. On the day in 1990 when WGN started taking reservations again, it took just five hours to book the show for five more years. The phone company reported more than 27 million phone call attempts had been made.

By the time the show bowed out in Chicago, in 2001, it was the last locally produced version. Harmon said at the time that he hoped to develop a new cable or network show, as well as a Bozo feature film.

He became caught up in a minor controversy in 2004 when the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee took down a plaque honoring him as Bozo and formally endorsed Colvig for creating the role. Harmon denied ever misrepresenting Bozo's history.

He said he was claiming credit only for what he added to the character — "What I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like" — and what he did to popularize Bozo.

"Isn't it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done, they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn't do anything for the last 52 years," he told the AP at the time.

Harmon protected Bozo's reputation with a vengeance, while embracing those who poked good-natured fun at the clown.

As Bozo's influence spread through popular culture, his very name became a synonym for clownish behavior.

"It takes a lot of effort and energy to keep a character that old fresh so kids today still know about him and want to buy the products," Karen Raugust, executive editor of The Licensing Letter, a New York-based trade publication, said in 1996.

A normal character runs its course in three to five years, Raugust said. "Harmon's is a classic character. It's been around 50 years."

On New Year's Day 1996, Harmon dressed up as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena.

The crowd reaction, he recalled, "was deafening."

"They kept yelling, `Bozo, Bozo, love you, love you.' I shed more crocodile tears for five miles in four hours than I realized I had," he said. "I still get goose bumps."

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Harmon became interested in theater while studying at the University of Southern California.

"Bozo is a star, an entertainer, bigger than life," Harmon once said. "People see him as Mr. Bozo, somebody you can relate to, touch and laugh with."

Besides his wife, Harmon is survived by his son, Jeff Harmon, and daughters Lori Harmon, Marci Breth-Carabet and Leslie Breth.



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DH and I are having a bunch of people over on Sunday to celebrate his parents coming into town for a visit. I've planned on making my grandmother's broccoli casserole. Unfortunately, that day I have to work from 11AM - 7PM and won't have time to make it when I get home. DH could make it, but I've actually helped my grandmother make it before, and would prefer to supervise.

Can I premix it that morning? Could I even bake it up and stick it in the fridge? What would be my best bet here?

Back when I was an extremely silly young thing in college, I had a semester in which I met a number of extraordinary women who seemed to have mastered the mysteries of life--or at least learned to surf them with effortless grace. I asked each of them at what age they felt like their lives 'clicked', when they felt confident in who they were, felt they had a solid understanding of their values, and when life just felt right--even if the details were chaotic.

Each and everyone of those women said they felt their lives really began in their forties. Three of them specified their 42nd year as the time it all came together. From the far away age of twenty-three, I could hardly imagine living to my forties, but told myself if I did, I'd strive to have my life together by 42. Well, I'll reach that magic age in just over a year--and amazingly, I feel nearly there.

Is there a point you can point to in your life that you suddenly felt more solid, more grounded, more confident, that you'd figured out who you are?
(not discounting, mind you, future growth and woes). If not, is there a "magic" age that you feel will mark the point at which you will feel that way?

My baby Mark Ronson was looking fine as hale in some tight white pants in Paris yesterday. I think they were white. They might be those striped ones he wore to Glasto. But either way, goddamn. HATERS TO THE LEFT. Please bring on the Ronson picspam.

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