A Valentine's Day Card For You...

Thought it would be nice to have a Valentine's Day card that my readers could download and share with their loved ones. Enjoy everyone! And, have a very happy Valentine's Day!

Random Thoughts

Some random thoughts on a Wednesday evening...

• Why is good mexican food so hard to find in NYC? It really doesn't seem that hard to make. Spices, meat, tortillas... am I missing something here? Note to all taco truck operators in California -- if you move to NYC there's an absolute KILLING to be made here. Seriously.
  
• Do not buy 2-in-1 stain and polyurethane. It way too hard to control the depth of color and amount of sheen this way. Definitely buy them separately. It's a little bit more work, but you'll thank me in the long run.
  
• Whoever created the 25 things about me phenomenon on Facebook, kudos to you! Even I'm surprised at what a phenomenon it's become. Although, I highly doubt it was just some individual user somewhere in the world that started this. I'm sure Facebook slyly perpetuated the chain letter to make people aware of the Facebook Notes feature, and show an example of why you'd want to tag people in a Note. Well played, Zuckerberg.
  
• If you can't trust Chris Brown, who can you trust? Next thing you'll tell me is that Kobe Bryant isn't as nice as he seems.
  
• Lost has me completely lost.
  
• I've pretty much given up on Heroes, but I hear rumors that it's actually watchable again... true?
  
• For some reason I'm actually excited about the G.I. Joe movie. Yo Joe!
  
• I do not feel the same way about the Watchmen movie though.
  
• Watchamals are too cool. Too cool!
  
• Did you know that guitars can dehydrate and start to collapse and crack? I learned this the hard way. Proper humidity is key, guitar owners of the world.
  
• If I was in Hawaii and a magical talking sea turtle swam up to me and told me a bad joke that really wasn't that funny, I'd still pretend to laugh. Just FYI.
  
• Yes, I'm blogging again after a 3 month hiatus. Why? Well, I never really meant to stop. The real world just got the better of me. So I'm back, people. I'm sure none of you really care. But I care. So there. Nyeah.
  

Chris Brown. And Black. And Blue.

As you've probably heard by now, singer Chris Brown has been accused of assaulting his girlfriend and fellow superstar, Rihanna this past weekend. Pretty big allegations that could land Brown in the slammer for 9 solid years.

The thing I wonder the most is this... was Ne-Yo licking his chops when he heard the news? Not that he wasn't sad for Rihanna, because domestic violence is a terrible, terrible thing. But in a small way, don't you think a little part of him was jumping for joy because he knows he gets to move up a rung on the R&B/Soul ladder?

I always felt like his fame got derailed by the emergence of Brown. They're basically the same dude in terms of type of song and general danciness (probably not a word, but I'm sticking with it). But poor Ne-Yo got brushed aside once Chris Brown hit puberty. Well, not so fast, music fans. There's a new sheriff in town. One that doesn't beat his gal pals (at least not that we know of).

Best PR of the Year

The best PR move of 2009 so far was pulled off by none other than... the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation? Yes indeed, by sponsoring the "Best Job in the World" contest, Australia's most lovable province has bought more attention than any advertising money could have ever provided.

For those of you who didn't see the contest, the job consists of living on an island in Australia for 6 months in a million dollar home, swimming in the Great Barrier Reef, soaking in the Australian sun, and blogging about it from time to time. That's it.

The site generated tens of millions of views, enough to bring the server crashing down for much of the first couple weeks after the announcement. The promotion also led to tons of radio and TV interviews from stations all around the world. Not bad for the cost of letting one freeloader lounge around on the beach for 6 months.

Tourism in general has declined in Australia, so they needed a way to bring people to the island in an innovative way, given limited advertising dollars. Well, kudos, my friends... you did it! Now, if there was only a way I could land this job myself...

It's Just Miley, Being Miley

From TMZ.com

Yet more people putting pee pee in your coke. Miley Cyrus (she's dead center in the pic, the 16 year-old girl who's sitting on her 20 year-old boyfriend's lap... but that's another issue altogether) is showing us how cool being racist is. OMG! Racism... *hugs*!

That one kid next to Miley has really got the look down, by the way. I mean the slant eyes on that kid are dead on. What's that? He is actually asian? Not just looking slant eyed for the sheer mockery of it? Oh. Right. Do you think he even knows what's going on around him in this photo? Actually do any of these kids? They all look pretty blitzed, and again, Miley is only 16 years old, so that's a pretty early age to get oh so wasted.

Eh, whatever. Billy Ray probably doesn't care, as long as the checks keep coming in from his little cash cow. Moo.