Brett Dennen

Brett Dennen was the special guest this week on Acoustic Cafe. I love his music. My friends and I saw him play recently at a sold out show in Nashville. He put on a really good show. His songs sounded just as good live as the album. Be sure to check out his website.

Your new American Idol is...

JORDIN SPARKS!!!!
I'm glad she won. I was voting for Melinda Dolittle the whole time. After Melinda was sent home, my votes went to Jordin Sparks. She's only 17! Wow. I think she has a bright career in front of her. Blake will too. Actually I think most of them will. Sanjaya will have a long career working at a beauty saloon as a stock boy. He's terrible!

Congratulations Jordin!!! You deserved it.

Harsh Punishment

This spring, six Penn State football players were arrested and charged for crimes stemming from an off-campus fight April 1 in which at least 15 Nittany Lions were present. The charged included a couple of star players, although what apparently bothered coach Joe Paterno the most was how many of his kids were willing to be involved.

And so Paterno, 80 now but no less tough, no less disciplined, hatched a plan to set things right within his program. He'll let the local legal and student judicial process play out, but regardless he decided that to keep people from thinking his team was trash, it'll spend the fall cleaning it up.

According to Paterno, the Penn State football team will clean Beaver Stadium after each home football game this fall. It'll gather garbage, sweep stairs and maybe even hose parts down.

It's a job that usually goes to members of club sports on campus – say, rugby or crew – which do it to raise money so they can compete. Paterno said the clubs still will get the $5,000 for the job, but his guys, fresh off playing 60 minutes of major college football the day before, will do all the work starting Sunday morning.

This is too harsh of a punishment for the whole team to have to clean the whole stadium after home games. Come on! Punish the players that were involved and that's it. Don't punish teammates that had nothing to do with the incident. I understand the "team" being "one" unit but this is way too harsh. I believe that this will cause animousity towards the players that were fighting. And now that this is all over the internet and sports columns, visiting fans will not place their trash in a garbage can. No no. They will gladly smear their nacho cheese and left over pizza crust all over everywhere. I would not want to clean that up.

Seven Years...

I got a new pair of Clark Wallabees recently after having the same pair for seven years. Seven years! That's a long time to have anything. Check out the photo above. The pair on the right looked just like the pair on the left when they were new! Wow! They were the best shoes. It was time though. The old pair was just hurting my feet just way too much. My new pair feels like Heaven. Will we have shoes in Heaven? Well, if we do they will be Wallabees.

Demetri Martin

I just found this comic today. I have been laughing my face off since about an hour ago. Check him out:





This one has a couple of cuss words. So just so you know. If you don't want to hear bad words don't watch this one.

24

Jack Bauer is my hero! I can't say enough about how much Jack Bauer is such a machine. He started out this season finishing a twenty month stay in a Chinese prison. If that wasn't hard enough, a couple of hours after he was freed, he got stabbed in the top of his shoulder with a knife. OUCH! The physical demands he endures is just crazy. When everyone else is wearing body armor, helmets, face masks, carrying machine guns and gradnade launchers...Jack Bauer is wearing a black form fitting tee and designer jeans and only carrying a semi-automatic hand gun. And yet he never gets shot. I love it. Jack Bauer is MacGyver, Chuck Norris, and Rambo all in one guy! He's the man.

JACK BAUER FOR PRESIDENT 2008!

Charlie Dodrill

This is my good friend Charlie Dodrill. Check him out. Buy his new cd!

Happy Early Thanksgiving

"Is that a dead turkey lying on the side walk in front of my building?"

That was the question that most asked themselves two mornings ago when they arrived to work around 9 a.m. Apparently, a wild turkey flew head first into the second story window of my building causing its demise. The whole building has been buzzing about it for three days. "It's like Christmas around here (minus the Christmas trees and holiday cheer)" explains Gabe Wicks, Vice President of Design and Multimedia Group.

I spoke with the second floor receptionist who took the photo (shown above) and this is what she had to say,

"It's a shame. It's just a real big shame."

Another eye witness recalls, "It was like he wanted to die, I mean, he just flew straight into the window. I kept yellin' TURKEY NO... WINDOW TURKEY...TURKEY!!! I guess he didn't know what I was talking about."

Friends of the turkey saw this as no surprise. "He has been acting real strange lately. He hasn't been the same since Sanjaya was kicked off of American Idol." says former colleague.

Medics were on the seen shortly after the first 911 call was made:
OFFICIAL 911 CALL TRANSCRIPT:
911 Dispatcher: "911. What is your emergency."
Eye Witness: "A TURKEY JUST FLEW INTO THE SECOND FLOOR WINDOW!!!"
911 Dispatcher: "A what?"
Eye Witness: "A TURKEY!"
911 Dispatcher: "Is this a prank?"
Eye Witness: NO!! WE NEED HELP AND FAST!
911 Dispatcher: O.K. ma'am calm down. Did you say a turkey flew into the window?
Eye Witness: YES!
911 Dispatcher: Is it breathing?
Eye Witness: I...I don't know. What should I do?
911 Dispatcher: O.k. ma'am here's what you do... Elevate his wings above his head and apply TCPR?
Eye Witness: TCPR?....What is that?
911 Dispatcher: Turkey Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Eye Witness: "Okay hold on..."

The call continued for 35 minutes while the eye witness breathed air into the turkey and pounded on its turkey chest. Once medics arrived to the scene the turkey had taken its last God given turkey breath.
Please join me in a moment of silence............
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Thank You.

Throughout the day, there have been several viguals held by many grieving Lakeview 2 employees. Many have shared gifts of sorrow including: candles, flowers, helium ballons, cards, and even money. These gifts will never bring the turkey back but the gift of giving these gifts is to us all very gifting.

In the words of Boys II Men:

"How do I say goodbye
To what we had?
The Good times
that made it last.
All we've been through...
If we get to see tomorrow
I hope it's worth all the wait.
It's so hard to say Goodbye."

Goodbye Turkey.
Heroes never die.

Ping Pong to Death

SPIDERMAN 3

Tonight's the night! I cannot wait to see Spiderman 3. There is talk that this will be the biggest movie off all time. Grossing more revenue than ET and Titanic combined.WOW! That's a lot of dough. I will hopefully record a podcast live from the movie theater. So be sure to check that out. Peace out.

Say Goodbye to Phil and Chris

Phil and Chris were sent home last night on American Idol. Jordin, Lakesha, Blake, and Melinda are still standing.

My American Idol brackets are all messed up now. I had Chris in the final four and Phil going to the championship versus Melinda. It was no surprise about Phil though. He just didn't have what the other Idols had. Chris has it but just not enough. Although I am somewhat still surprised to see Phil go. I had Melinda and Phil being the last two. Looking back at last year's surprise winner, Taylor Hicks, I thought this year might go the same way.

My prediction now is Melinda and Blake being the last two. I think Lakesha will go home next week, then Jordin the following week. At this point though, if you are still in the competition you have made it. No shame in getting voted off the show at this point. Melinda Dolittle is by far the best! She has to win!

I leave you with this: