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Ray LaMontagne

All of this week I’ll be pulling out a favorite ticket stub and discussing the merits of each artist/event.

We’ll begin today with “Ray Lamontagne” at the 930 Club, Friday August 12, 2005.

I first heard about Ray from my sister — she normally has pretty good music recommendations (Barenaked [...]

Big Momma’s House 2

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Big Momma’s House 2 COMES OUT THIS WEEKEND!!!!!
Did anyone see the commercial where Big Momma goes “Oh no you dihn’t, suga!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Or the part where she goes, “I can put lotion on you” to that girl at the beach?!?! [...]

Amadeus, Amadeus Amadeus, Amadeus Amadeus Amadeus Happy Birthday, Amadeus.
Gosh, I miss Falco.
The Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest and most expensive cruise ship had to cut it’s tour around South America short due to engine trouble and there was nearly a mutiny, or as Morty O’Reilly would call it, a “minutiny”.

I’m a bit deflated with Disney “Pixar” purchase — as much as I enjoyed Disney World, Epcot, etc as a little Marty, a little part of me wanted to see Pixar eventually buy Disney out… oh well. Let the Disney regime continue… their latest joint venture “Cars” is expected to be the moneymaker of the [...]

Chris Penn

(From the Washington Post)
LOS ANGELES — Actor Chris Penn, brother of Sean Penn and singer Michael Penn, was found dead Tuesday at his condominium near the beach in Santa Monica, police said.
Police said they discovered the 40-year-old actor’s body around 4 p.m. Lt. Frank Fabrega said there were no [...]

Many people have seen the classic “cat with lime on it’s head” photo … here you can get a full on tutorial to make your cat it’s very own fruit helmet.
Scrubs hits it’s 100th episode tonight in “Wizard of Oz” style – am I the only one that thinks Zach Braff’s character suddenly turned into [...]

The Flaming Lips have a snappy new single available on iTunes called “The Wand” — check it.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of watching the Wizards lose to the Memphis Grizzlies in my first NBA game ever courtesy of JDRF — the highlight of the event was not how small a basketball court in a massive [...]

Before joining SNL, Andy Samberg (”Lazy Sunday“) belonged to a troupe that produced some hilarious web-videos called “The Lonely Island” — they created a pilot for Fox which they passed on, and then recut it to try to appeal to MTV or Comedy Central.
Check it out at The Lonely Island. NSFW - (mature themes)

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Urban Outfitters sucks and here’s why.
1) I’m walking the thin border of their demographic and it annoys me… I’m no longer an 18-25 year old, but rather a 26-30 year old — I was in there a couple weeks ago and found very little of interest — some jeans that were torn, and faded [...]