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Hey there Katie, what is up?
It must be great having 14 cousins,
except for this time of year,
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It’s MONNDDDAYYYY!!! For the last 4 days, I have despised eating delicious food, watching football, movies and spending time with loved ones….thank GOD it’s all over. Whew!My camera battery died before I could extract pictures from the holiday festivities this weekend, but I”ll share one with you — taken by my Dad’s camera phone. [...]

Today is Thanksgiving Eve. I hope everyone has done their stomach expansion excercises to maximize turkey intake — for the vegetarians enjoy your Furkey.I caught a They Might Be Giants documentary on Sundance last night: “Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns”. In my pre-teen/early teen years I was a big fan — but I listened [...]

U2 invaded NYC yesterday — playing a secret show — first on a flatbed truck near Sean T. Conrad’s building in Manhattan, then one in Brooklyn, under the Brooklyn Bridge — Michael D. Ayers, was in attendance: “was a pretty sweet show; mostly new stuff, few oldies. “The new name for Washington’s baseball team has [...]

Special Weekend NBA video update — with 45 seconds left in the game, a bar fight broke out at the Pistons Pacers game — even the crowd got involved with it — here’s the video Note to self — don’t throw beer at angry NBA player.Honestly, they don’t look so threatening when they’re fighting in [...]

Rolling Stone has released their list of 500 Greatest Albums of all time. What confounds me is that I don’t see “Ace of Base’s ‘The Sign’” or Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Some Gave All”. Who wrote this list? Can I get an Amen?In more important news, Maria and Wes were fired off the Apprentice last night. [...]

I was watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow on PBS, and for a moment I saw a woman’s ankle — now, I’m normally quite mature about such things but think of our CHILDREN?? I mean — if my son or daughter were watching that appraiser stoop down to take a look at that Xinjiang antique [...]

Kmart & Sears are set to merge in an $11 billion deal — the new store will be called Smears.NASA got something to work — and it went 10x the speed of sound. For the layperson, if I were to say the word, “booger” then travel in NASA’s x-43A ScramJet, I would be able [...]

Old news, but if I owned a tabloid style newspaper this would be my top headline from the weekend: ODB RIP - ODB DOA IN NYCI was wicked pissed to see that a large number of ABC affiliates did not run “Saving Private Ryan” for fear of FCC fines. War is Heck.Although I’ve recently [...]

Yassir, that’s my Arafat — The Palestinian leader passed away at age 75GREAT episode of “Lost” last night with even better previews for next week — I was convinced Katie(the brunette chick?) was completely in cahoots with Sawyer.The holidays are coming up — what better way to say “I love you” than with the gift [...]