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| | Security: | | | Subject: | Alive | | Time: | 07:15 am | | Current Mood: |  awake |
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| | It's been 3 years since I've posted here... and things are still the same. Business has grown and kids are getting bigger but everything is still pretty much the same. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Years ago Grandpa Munster gave me this
photo during my years with the Peds. The Munsters TV Show was a childhood
favorite of mine and still is today. Al Lewis was one of a kind, a very special
man. Some of my favorite memories of him are of his later years. He would often
speak out about things that related to the younger generation. Here was this old
man talking about Sex, Drugs & Rock N' Roll. I once saw him in a hustler
magazine with all these hot women. He told me he really enjoyed listening to our
song (I Had) Sex With Your Daughter. He was such a crack up, made me laugh
sometimes without saying a word.
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| | Current Music: | Reo Speedwagon | | Security: | | | Subject: | Another Blog | | Time: | 07:36 am | | Current Mood: |  cold |
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| There are blogs, groups, games, music sites everywhere now. And ... one friend is on yahoo another myspace etc, etc ... it's crazy. Why can't there be just one. I like things simple and easy. Well, since Yahoo is my favorite email and I have now started selling on there too. That is going to be my home from now on. No more posting entries in several places! I will work on setting up that crossover thingy (xml? rss) When I get that all figured out I will spread the word.
Over and out ...
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| | Current Music: | Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go | | Security: | | | Subject: | My Christmas List | | Time: | 05:32 am | | Current Mood: | awake |
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| Gibson Les Paul Standard Tobacco Burst Guitar
Marshall JMP 2X12 Amplifier
Guitar effect pedals (anything)
Record player – Sony PS-LX250H
Records (anything cheap is always fun) or New popular music
· If Santa brings the record player, hopefully he will bring Led Zeppelin III to check it out with!
Button maker machine
Anything Kiss related
Anything Star Wars
Black T-Shirts size XL
Books on Photoshop
CDs :
Mars Volta (anything)
Boston – Self-Titled or Greatest Hits
DVDs :
Friday the 13th box set crystal lake to Manhattan
Halloween box set
Nightmare on Elm Street box set
Toy Story movies
Dazed and Confused | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Britney Spears considered parting with her bra. Corey Haim tried to peddle a tooth. But no star appears willing to give of himself more than Vincent Gallo. The indie film auteur apparently has offered to sell his sperm. For a Dr. Evil-esque $1 million.
"Price includes all costs related to attempt at an in vitro fertilization," the listing on the merchandise wing on Gallo's official Website says.
Fertilization by Gallo the old-fashioned way will run the buyer an additional $500,000, the site says, unless the star thinks said buyer is smoking hot in which case the additional fee is waived. (We paraphrase.)
Naming rights are not included in the purchase--i.e., any baby produced from Gallo sperm may not be called a Gallo, the site says.
An email and phone call to the acting, writing, directing multihyphenate were not returned. Unknown, then, is whether the site's serious, whether Gallo has had any takers, and how he's planning to ship the merchandise.
According to Gerry McKiernan, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, items such as sperm are indeed, as they say in the trade, "mailable."
"I would be very hesitant to say it happens all the time," McKiernan said Friday. "I would be very hesitant to say it doesn't happen."
In the supposedly anything-goes celebrity world, sperm sales are rare. Or at least they're not publicly advertised.
Judging by a post on his Website, Gallo began peddling collectibles--previously worn clothes, signed movie posters, semen--last month. The sperm is listed under "Miscellaneous."
The site vows that the sperm is "100 percent guaranteed" to be of the loins of Gallo, best known for his 1998 art-house hit, Buffalo '66, and that said owner-operator of loins is "drug, alcohol and disease free."
The buyer is informed that Gallo is 5-foot-11, an award-winning athlete and motorcyle racer, a dashing 43 (with "a distinctively full head of hair and...surprisingly few gray hairs"), with no family history of physical deformities. Or, as the site puts it: "No cripples."
Oh, and there's one other thing: An eight-inch-long penis. According to the site, Gallo has one.
"If you have seen Brown Bunny, you know the potential size of the [baby's] genitals if it's a boy," the site says. "I don't know how a well-hung father can enhance the physical makeup of a female baby, but it can't hurt."
If the buyer hasn't seen The Brown Bunny--it received an extremely limited release in 2003--it's now on DVD. Gallo's penis shares a scene with Chlo Sevigny at the end of the movie--the film's climax.
Um, really...
Following The Brown Bunny's disastrous premiere at the 2003 Cannes International Film Festival, critic Roger Ebert declared the movie "the worst...in the history of the festival." Gallo responded by cursing Ebert, and wishing prostate cancer on him. (Ebert was treated for a cancerous tumor of the saliva gland later that year. And a year after that, he awarded a three-star review to a recut Brown Bunny.)
In a 2004 interview with The Onion's A.V. Club, Gallo described his cruel remarks about Ebert as "partly humorous," and offered that he thought the reviewer was a "beautiful, interesting person."
Given that, perhaps the more incendiary sperm-sale copy on Gallo's site should not be taken at face value. Then again, humor does fail some when it comes to race and Nazis.
On the merchandise site, it's stated that Gallo "maintains the right to refuse the sale of his sperm to those of extremely dark complexions."
"Though a fan of Franco Harris, Derek Jeter and Lena Horne," the site says, "Mr. Gallo does not want to be part of that type of integration."
But wait, there's more: The Gallo site offers a $50,000 sperm discount to anyone--well, any female--who can prove she's naturally fair-haired and blue-eyed, and/or related to "any of the German soldiers of the mid-century."
Gallo's reproductive offer, however, does not rule out Jewish buyers, and, in fact, encourages them. It's said that the actor would consider his potential offspring's Jewish heritage a bonus, as this would "guarantee [the child] a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival."
No word if the $1 million covers shipping and extremely cautious handling.
After reading this news article, Fred Ped founding member of the outlandish punk metal group the Peds said. "Hell, you can have mine for $10,000". "Free Shipping and no reserve". | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| NEW YORK - One of the hottest-selling T-shirts around the country shows a simply drawn snowman with a menacing expression.
It's not Frosty's evil twin. The image popularized by drug-dealer-turned-rapper Young Jeezy symbolizes those who sell a white substance known on the street as snow: cocaine.
Anti-drug campaigners and education officials are alarmed, saying the T-shirt and others like it are part of sophisticated marketing campaigns using coded symbols for drug culture that parents and teachers are not likely to understand. Some schools are banning kids from wearing the snowman images.
"The snowman is made of white, grainy stuff like sugar," said 12-year-old seventh-grader Mailik Mason, standing next to his mother in a Manhattan store selling the snowman shirts. "It has to do with a certain drug, crack or coke."
Young Jeezy's hit debut album, "Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101," peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard album charts. On one of his songs he raps, "Get it? Jeezy the Snowman / I'm iced out, plus I got that snow, man."
The shirt was first produced solely for Jeezy by Miskeen Originals, a hip-hop fashion firm in New Jersey, the company says. The owner, Yaniv Zaken, says his artists produced a handful for the rapper to wear on TV appearances.
They then sold a larger batch to retailers, but pulled them when Zaken discovered that his employees had not licensed the T-shirt from Jeezy.
"I wasn't sure what the snowman meant until the artist explained to me that it was a drug dealer, the man delivering snow," Zaken said. "Now everyone is selling the snowman — all unlicensed. It's become a street-hood hit worldwide."
A spokesman for Young Jeezy's record label, Def Jam Records, confirmed that the rapper held the rights to the snowman image but declined to comment on complaints that it was sending children the wrong message.
"This is part of a phenomena in which parents have no idea what their children are exposed to. There is a code that children are aware of but not parents," says Sue Rusche, president and CEO of the anti-drug group National Families In Action.
Rusche's organization has tried to pressure companies that they believed were targeting children with drug messages, like fashion companies marketing "heroin chic" in the 1990s. She was unaware of the snowman T-shirt.
Mason says he'd like to have a snowman T-shirt — but that his school in Brooklyn has banned it. His mother, Autherine Mason, 34, said she had been unaware of the snowman's meaning and wouldn't buy it for her son now that she knows.
Dr. Gilbert Botvin, director of the Institute for Prevention Research at Cornell University Medical College, has been studying what influences children to use drugs and alcohol. He believes that pop culture does play a role.
"The research tells us that influences coming from the media can have a profound effect on kids and influence them to use drugs," he says. "All of these things help to convey the impression that engaging in these behaviors using drugs is normal and that drugs might help you be successful or sexy or something."
Botvin says parents need to educate themselves about the media their kids are consuming and pressure schools to monitor what messages they allow students to advertise.
But sometimes it's hard to overcome the buzz on the street.
Ali Kourani, a Manhattan wholesale salesman, says the T-shirt is their top seller across the country.
"It's big money," Kourani said. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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