Jennifer Aniston anounces, "I’m ‘Madly In Love’ With Chelsea Handler!"

Flaunting cleavage and leg in a black va-va-voom Versace dress, Jennifer Aniston proclaimed her love for her BFF, Chelsea Handler.  While introducing Chelsea at Glamour's Women of the Year Awards in New York City, Jennifer confessed her feelings in jest:
"I rarely comment on my personal life but I am here to tell you that I'm madly in love. And I'm madly in love with the one and only Chelsea Handler," Aniston told the crowd at the Carnegie Hall. She went on to say blushing: "Chelsea Handler is not only one of the funniest and the brightest and the sexiest women on the planet. She is inspiring a generation of women to be bold and daring and express exactly what is on their minds, whatever that may be."

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Truth be told Handler stirs up controversyat every corner, all the while maintaining surprisingly close friendships with A-listers like Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Earlier this year while hosting  E!'s "Chelsea Lately" she inspired outrage for launching into a profane rant against Angelina Jolie during a standup show.

Is Ice Cream Sandwich the next big thing?

In the next few months an Android phone running the operating system called Ice Cream Sandwich is supposed to be released to the public,  but maybe one unsuspecting eBay user got a rare sneak peak.

Tech site Engadget received some anonymous photos and a videos  from a tipster who ordered a Samsung Nexus S on eBay and after it arrived  noticed it didn't look like the phone that was ordered.  When he went to the "About" screen he discovered the phone was running the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Engadget talks about all the technical details of the video and photos:

We can see plenty of influence from both Gingerbread and Honeycomb here, as well as four shortcuts on the bottom (a definite bump from the two found on vanilla 2.3). There is a new Google Apps icon which opens up a tray containing a number of featured services put out by the search giant, and long-pressing the home button brings up a vertical Honeycomb-style multitasking menu. The notification bar, camera UI, and other menus also have a much different look. Granted, all of this could just be a custom ROM built to emulate the latest Google dessert.  We can't be a full hundred percent certain that it's authentic. If it's not, at least we can give credit for it being incredibly elaborate..

The eBay user later told Engadget that his phone was shut off and locked remotely.

It appears that "Ice Cream Sandwich" is a weird name but the Android versions have all been named after desserts.. The first phone was named Cupcake, followed by Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb. Ice Cream Sandwich(ICS) is the latest version to be released.  It is largely thought that the ICS will be a bigger step forward from the previous versions.

The Rams Steven Jackson Injured Again

The Rams will not update Steven Jackson's injury status (quad)  until Monday morning.

Jackson suffered the injury rushing for a 47-yard touchdown on the Rams' first play from scrimmage Sunday. The good news is that he was able to come in for one more carry, going for nine yards, before being shut down for good. Bad news is Jackson is as fragile as crystal vase, although Jackson has missed just one game the past two seasons, playing through multiple injuries. There's a good chance he'll be active against the Giants next Monday and always it will be a game time decision, but adding Cadillac Williams is a must if you're an owner. Sep 11, 2011

Zombie Caterpillars Attack

Scientists have identified a single gene that allows a "caterpillar-brainwashing" virus to do its deed, from a new study. This virus forces the "zombie" caterpillars to climb trees, where the attacker  liquefies its victims bodies and turns them into a dripping goo.

Gypsy moth caterpillars are healthy and happy, they go up into the trees at night to feed on leaves, and then climb back down in the morning to hide from predators during the day, they hide in bark crevices or in the soil-  according to the study co-author Kelli Hoover, an entomologist at Penn State University.
Although caterpillars infected with a baculovirus, which is a type of virus that infects invertebrates, are forced to the treetops and reprogrammed to stay there until they meet a death well worthy of a "B" horror movie.

"When they are infected, as they get sicker they stay up in the trees and die up there," Hoover says.
The virus "ends up using just about all of the caterpillar to make more virus, and there are other genes in the virus that then make the caterpillar melt. So it becomes a pool of millions of virus particles that end up dropping onto the foliage below where it can infect other moths that eat those leaves."*

*credit to National Geographic

Ormond Beach City Garbage Truck Backs Into A Small Car

An Ormond Beach Garbage Truck backing up, not seeing the white car behind him, totaled the hood and front end of the car.  Who's at falt is uncertain.  The Car should give space, and the garbage truck has a loud backing siren.  There was a lady taken out on a stretcher although high speeds were not reached, by far.  The garbage truck was going at most 5 miles an hour and backing up just as he does every day.  God forbid anybody gets hurt but I know the driver, seeing him every day at my driveway, and he has a family.  I hope he does not loose his job.  He's a very nice guy, and very honest.  Let's just hope honesty prevails on both sides and no one is out for a meal ticket.

Accident In Ormond Involving City Garbage Truck 9/8/11

Snoop Dog New Yahoo CEO?

Snoop Dog wants to be the next Yahoo CEO.  Will He?  Not yet, but is this for real?  Talk is buzzin cuzzin.

Carol Bartz was recently fired from her post as CEO of the online portal and the company's Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse was named, the temporary, interim CEO.  Snoop Dogg Tweeted: "Im takn over as tha CEO of Yahoo , after hearing the news. A message posted by a Twitter account said to be Morse's and named @NewCEOofYahoo  read: "Haha Snoop Dog, sorry that position is already filled I enjoy listening to your music on @Yahoo_Music available @music.yahoo.com. Yahoo! has not verified the authenticity of the Twitter username.
Snoop Dogg, a popular southern California hip hop performer from Long beach, continued joking , later Tweeting: "My name is alread raisn tha stock price of Yahoo uhearme!  Bout to call a board meeting!"
The rapper made a name for himself in the 1990s and is known for hits such as "Who Am I? (What's My Name?)," "Gin and Juice",  as well as his collaborations with Dr. Dre, most popular is the 1993 hit "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang."
Snoop Dogg is a popular figure in mainstream pop culture commonly associated with smoking weed and has also appeared in numerous movies and television shows, such as "The L Word," "Weeds" and "90210" and movies such as "Half Baked." In the Nineties he was and still is  the "go to " guest star for the "cool" hit tv shows or "wanna be cool" shows.  He and his family also starred in the E! reality show, "Snoop Dogg's Father Hood."  The rapper has often released music that relates to popular topics - he recorded a song that salutes Anna Paquin's character Sookie Stackhouse from the R-rated HBO vampire series "True Blood." In December 2010, he released a track called "WET" in honor of the United Kingdoms Prince William and Kate Middleton, who wed in April.

NASCAR 2011 Schedule And Results

Another exciting year for NASCAR fans check out this link for year end results including Winner, Pole, and Purse:

NASCAR 2011 Schedule And Results

10 Bad Movies We Love to Watch

As a director or producer in the movie business you always start out with a vision, as with any art.  With movies , particularly, there is a journey and characters to connect with.  Characters we want to love or love to hate. But one persons vision or one teams vision doesn't always connect to mass appeal.  Or what looks good on paper, sometimes can get lost on the way to the big screen.  Some of these "bombs" get totally lost in translation, but then some of these "bombs" for one reason or another we can't get enough of.  Here's a list of the Top 10 Worst Movies we can't stop watching:

10.  Street Fighter    - There still hasn't been a good "game-to-film" adaptation, but even by the standards of the genre, this one's a pretty poor effort. Despite combining the martial arts skills of JCVD with the being very perky skills of Kylie Minogue, was just not convincing.


09.  Scary Movie    - The original in the slap stick-spoof genre, where the wisdom of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker is rudely shoved aside in favour of replaying whole scenes from better films with worse casts, and fart gags are substituted for wit or visual humour. This one is far from the worst of the genre, but gets points deducted for sparking so many bad sequels and spin-offs. Also for spoofing a film that was, in itself, a satire.



08.  Jaws: The Revenge    -To steal from Dennis Pennis, this is a C-movie in every sense of the word. Alongside a hoaky script and B-rated dream sequences, it's got a replica Great White so rubbery you could cut circles out of it and use it for spare tires, several glaring continuity errors, and a confused-looking Michael Caine in desperate need of a new agent. Oh, and don't forget a shark eating an plane.



07.  Blade Trinity  -David Goyer takes credit for this top example of franchisicide. The screen writer's decision to step behind the camera backfires explosively in Blade's third installment, with Dracula roped for a fiendishly silly vampire plot to infect humanity. Anyone else could fairly blame his scriptwriter for the muddy, incoherent storyline. Unfortunately for Goyer, he's also the head writer.



06.  Epic Movie -This lazy collection of spoofs is recreations of scenes from blockbuster movies and, for no obvious reason, the likes of Nacho Libre and Borat, but with added scatological humour. Even if that were forgivable, the waste of actual talent like Crispin Glover, Kal Penn and Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald is not.


05.  Batman and Robin -Gaining nearly three times as many votes as the next entry, this was a runaway loser. From the neon design to the overblown script to the infamous Batnipples, it's become a byword for franchise-killing (no other Batman Movie was made for decades) and bad movie-making. The only thing that saves it is the cast of A-list actors including George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more.  Even though the acting is cheesy it's still fun to watch.



04.  Escape from LA  - Yes a follow-up to Escape From New York and equally stupid.  Although no smart action film has included climatic scenes like a goofy basketball challenge from half court, or an underground sewer surfing scene with equally goofy CG.



03.  Disaster Movie -  Friedberg and Seltzer (director and screenwriter), talentless hacks behind a string of godawful spoofs, turn their sights on a genre, but with their usual scatter shot aim they end up hitting innocent bystanders in their endless journey to fill 90 minutes without using a single original line of dialogue or funny gag. Woefuly Freidberg and Seltzer persist, but don't succeed, in their notion that replaying entire scenes from better films, word for word, can be funny.


02.  Glitter - It must have seemed like a good idea: one of the biggest selling record artists of all time, a couple of good tunes, a familiar Star Is Born storyline and lack of acting from our star? Although the star could sing, the music didn't spawn a hit and the film itself is stupefyingly dull and badly put together on every level from cinematography to plotting.


#1.  Waterworld - Directed by Kevin Renolds, Kevin Coctner puts his brand on an"snails paced" post-apocalyptic epic tale.  Aside from the average sullen Costner facial expressions there is a hidden gem of a typically deranged performance from the late Dennis Hopper and some stunning cinematography.  But overall too long and too wet.

So why do we watch 'em, cause we love bad movies and mindless humor, most of which requires little thought.  At least I know I do!

Chris Johnson Meets With Titans General Manager Mike Reinfeldt

After Wednesday's meeting with Chris Johnson, Tennessee Titans general manager Mike Reinfeldt said it was beneficial even though no deal was reached to end the running back's holdout. The GM expects to talk with the Johnson's agent again in the "next day or so."  Reinfeldt and Vin Marino, the Titans' vice president of football administration, met Wednesday morning with Johnson and his agent Joel Segal.  Segal was the first person Tennessee called when the lockout ended.

Chris Johnson to Meet With Titans GM Today in Nashville

Chris Johnson does not consider himself a Running Back, he considers himself a play maker.  So for one of the best "play makers" in the league Johnson's looking for top play maker money.  With still 2 years left on his contract Johnson seeks a re-negotiation.  Johnson's still holding out and Titan's camp says they are willing to make Chris the highest paid Running Back in the league he just has to report.

Chris Johnson and his agent are in Nashville today to meet with GM Mike Reinfeldt.  Johnsons projected Numbers for 2011 are 1,471 yards , 417 yards, and 12 touchdowns.

Burger King Retires "The King"

Burger King Corp. announced on Friday that it is retiring "The King" mascot, a man dressed in royal attire with an over sized plastic head and a permanent creepy smile who in recent years has been shown in ads popping up next to people in bed and giving them breakfast sandwiches.

The move is an effort by a struggling fast food chain to boost its slumping sales pointing its marketing on the freshness of its food rather than the humor of its ads.  It's rolling out a new campaign on Saturday showing off the freshness of its ingredients and new products like its California Whopper, which has guacamole. Burger King spokesman BJ Monzon said Friday, "We won't be seeing The King for a while."  Stating that he's not banished from the kingdom for ever, he may come back in a different form.  Although the company still plans on giving kids paper crowns in its stores.

Katy Perry Ties Michael Jackson's Record For Singles

Katy Perry has tied Michael Jackson for hits. The hit-maker scored five number one songs from one album, "Teenage Dream" on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.  This is a record that has not been matched since Jackson's five hits from his album titled  "Bad."

Ormond Wild: Chupacabra Caught

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Ormond Wild: Kim Kardashian pre-wedding weight anxiety

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John Mellencamp Divorces , Dates Meg Ryan

The rocker John Mellencamp and his estranged wife, model Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, are divorced. This ends an 18 year marriage and the couple have two sons together. The divorce, now official, was amicable and the couple will have joint custody of their children.  This clears the way for the actress Meg Ryan. The two, who are dating, have been spotted around New York City, Martha's Vineyard, and Bloomington.  John is 59 and Meg is 49 years old.

Watkins Glen Race Moved to Monday

NASCAR fans, drivers, crew and vendors alike patiently waited Sunday August 14, 2011 for a race that was inevitably rescheduled for Monday.  There was a glimmer of light when the downpour slowed to a light drizzle which prompted race control to fire up the track's eight jet dryers and bring then out onto the 2.45-mile track.  But conditions went from drizzle to monsoon and the decision was made at 4:40 p.m. to postpone.

The event was moved to 10:00 a.m. Monday morning (August 15) and was called a little more than three hours after the original race was slated to begin.  NASCAR knew the weather was coming and moved up the scheduled start time by several minutes to try and get the race underway but mother nature could not be fooled and brought large drops during the national anthem prompting competitors to scramble for their umbrellas.  After that all that could be done was to wait and watch.  Which turned out to be a long three hour wait and Mondays forecast?  Not much better calling for a 60% chance of showers.

Metallica and Megadeth Supergroup?

    Dave Mustaine, lead singer of Megadeth, is trying to set up a supergroup with former Metallica band mates James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Surprisingly Hetfield is considering the merger.

    The relationship between  Mustaine and Metalica has been sour since Metallica fired him in 1983, but time heals all wounds and since reaching equal success with Megadeth, Mustaine says he'd love to put their musical talents together in a collaborative project.  He's vowed he'll keep working on the Metallica frontman in  hopes of persuading him to join in with him, Lars Ulrich (current and original drummer of Metallica), and Megadeth bassist David Ellefson.  According to Mustaine, Hetfield never said no.

 

    Personally I've seen both groups more than once and although I'm against Supergroups, they usually don't work (too many large egos on one stage), I don't see this as a bad idea. Metallica was the very first concert I ever saw and believe it or not they played at the Ocean Center back when large headliners booked arena gigs in this "small town" venue on  February 11, 1989.  From what I remember, it was awesome!  They clicked back then before they went mainstream commercial.  Jason Newstead on bass drove that reverb straight through you while meshing with Ulrich's double bass drum, Kirk Hammett's shredding riffs, and Hetfields monster vocals.  It worked, and it worked well.

    Megadeth just recently performed at the Hardrock, downtown Disney, which I had the pleasure of attending, also a hell of a show.  Mustain is an extremely talented musician / song writer.  Together this could be a driving force.  So we'll wait, fingers crossed, and see.

 

Hairy Legs

    It's hard to get my daughter to eat scrambled eggs.  I mean what 5 year old doesn't like scrambled eggs with cheese, but she doesn't.  So just for fun I told her "if you eat your eggs you'll grow hair on your legs" I mean all girls love to shave there legs, don't they?  Mortified she protests "I don't want hair on my legs!" My plan had backfired.
    Another day my wife is bathing my daughter and as she does sometimes in our shower she jumps in with her killing two birds with one stone.  Well normally my wife shaves regularly but she had been lazy and hadn't shaved for a week.  My daughter screams, scarring my wife, "Mommy, Mommy  you've  been eating too many scrambled eggs." My wife looks at her puzzled.  "You have really hairy legs!"

Unexplained Noises

Just after I posted the previous blog I hear two loud noises, "BANG" "BANG". It was louder than fireworks or muffler backfires. It shook the windows prompting my 5 year old to run out of the room screaming "Daddy, Someone's knocking on my window!" Clearly it was gunshots. Upon further investigation, after talking to my across the street neighbor who was closer to the noise, we determined it was gunshots and decided to check into it. So I got in her car and we drove down Arrowhead in the direction of the disturbance. When we spotted a man of smaller stature he quickly ducked into the house and disappeared. After finding no dead bodies or damage of large proportions we decided to end our quest and returned to our respected places of residence and chalk it up as an unexplained weather phenomena until more evidence is turned to light.Until then....

The Arrowhead Redneck

    I'm not lazy.  Well maybe I am lazy, but not as lazy as my wife says I am.  Sometime during the last year, I don't know exactly when, the muffler on my lawn mower fell off. One of the bolts broke at the threads the other, missing.  The mower itself still worked fine.  It was nothing a pair of earplugs couldn't fix.
    All is good  until the other day when I'm mowing the lawn and a unfamiliar truck drives up slows down near me then continues to the end of the cul-de-sac.  This guy pulls up next to me and with a slurred aggression proceeds to tell me how annoying my lawn mower is and that I'd better take care of it.  Not to be impolite I point my head lamp away from his face and politely ask him what time it is.  He beer burps 9:30 PM and I make a mental note that it is still early.
    Now I am not one to back down from an argument nor am I one to place labels on certain "types" of people but noticing the gun rack, scraggly beard, trucker cap, and his friend, whom may or may not be called Bubba, in the passenger seat, I figured he was right then persisted to tell him so.  With so little resistance I believe I caught him at a loss for words. He repeats the same words " yah better get it fixed".  So I mumble a few choice words while turning my light back on and turned to finish at least the front lawn.  No use in waisting the rest of a beautiful day.
   I found out he lived  a street over, hence never meeting before.  Which brings up a question, are your neighbors just limited to your street or is there a certain area of radius?  Where does your neighborhood end?   I fixed the muffler the next day before mowing the back yard which incidentally only took two screws and 15 minutes.  Does that make me lazy?