Watches-Very Expensive Watches

I was flipping through the 2010 Wristwatch Annual and found a wristwatch with a price of just over a million dollars.  It’s called a Cat’s Eye Haute Joaillerie and made by the Girard-Perregaux watch company.   There is something reassuring about a world in which a million dollar wristwatch exists. My current watch hangs from an aluminum carabiner and cost a bit less than a million dollars-about $15 as I recall-at Wal-Mart.  This does not mean that I don’t have plans for owning a very expensive wristwatch one of these days.   I have a great fondness for the look of Hublot,…

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Hamburgers

The best hamburger I ever had was in a Greek restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was a thick burger, a layer of black olives, and a layer of Feta cheese. Just a simple and yet perfect burger, I have recreated it myself from time to time. But most of the time, I just look for the easy fix. I like a Whopper now and them, but I stay away from McDonalds as much as I can. I like Whataburgers, Chapps, Carls Jr, Fuddruckers, Watson Burger, Sonic, Dairy Queen, Braum’s, and pretty much every hamburger I have ever eaten. I used…

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The Ricky Gervais Show

What would happen if you animated a podcast of three blokes sitting around BSing about this and that and and sex and monkeys? You might get something like the Ricky Gervais Show-which seems to feature Ricky Gervais making fun of one of is mates and laughing rather a lot. I like the show and find myself laughing out loud from time to time as well. There is a lot of harsh language and a lot of being mean to the fellow who seems to have an amazingly odd life and an even odder set of beliefs. The Ricky Gervais Show…

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Douglas Adams is Still Dead

But a little thing like that has never stopped a Publisher from making a bit more money from a writer. JRR Tolkien and L Ron Hubbard have written more books since they died than they did when they were alive. Sherlock Holmes shows up in new books all the time. Remaking movies and bringing back all but forgotten characters is a Hollywood way of life. So it was not completely shocking that there would be a new Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy book, I was a bit surprised that it was written by Eoin Colfer of Artemis Fowl fame. My…

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Tennis Girl Poster

As a photographer you always hope for a bit of immortality. Maybe you’d capture the Marines raising that flag or happen to be at Kent State-or maybe you’d make an ionic image of a girl wearing a white tennis dress rubbing her butt. Martin Elliott took his most famous shot in 1976. He died recently of cancer at the age of 63. Like most teens I had a mild to serious obsession with Posters. I had one of those Farrah Fawcett and the scrapie posters, and I always looked at The Tennis Girl poster, but didn’t buy it. At some…

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Letterman and Balloons

I still watch Letterman, even though Leno has return to his home in late night. I really liked this bit about Dave’s trip to the Balloon Store.

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Cherry Mash

I read a book one time where the author said that the best candy bar in the world was The Five Star Bar.  Not true, the Five Star Bar is nothing but a bit of candy removed from a heart shaped box and sent out into the world on it’s own.  Real candy bars exist only in their own little wrappers and compete for our attention at checkout stands and candy aisles. One such bar is the Cherry Mash-an old fashioned candy bar that looks like a random pile of chocolate.   Inside the chocolate coating is a bit of bright…

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Moutain Dew Throwback

I grew up drinking all kinds of sodas.  Frosty Root Beer, Topp Cola, Cragmont Soda, Delaware Punch, Dr Pepper, Orange Crush, and Mountain Dew.  I never liked the big name colas-Coke and Pepsi just didn’t do it for me. About ten years ago I found modern sodas that I pretty much fell in love with-Stewarts and Jones and Dr Pepper Made With Real Sugar.  I also found that I really hate Moxie and most of the odd flavors you find in Asian and Mexican markets. Ah, Real Sugar. So I am a bit of sucker for any of the Big…

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Cesar Chavez

Supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. His birthday has become César Chávez Day, a state holiday in eight States.  Many parks, cultural centers, libraries, schools, and streets have been named in his honor in cities across the United States. -Wikipedia While not exactly Gandhi or MLK he is the closest thing to a civil liberties icon that farm workers have.  He was against the immigration of illegal workers, as he felt they took jobs from Americans.  He was also against the use of pesticides. Since he didn’t die a good dramatic death Oliver Stone and…

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Siskel and Ebert and The Movies

Gene Siskel has been dead a long time and Roger Ebert looks like he has been dead for a long time and At The Movies has finally been canceled.  When I was a kid I loved all movies-Earth Vs The Flying Saucers was a favorite film featuring Ray Harryhausen’s stop motion UfOs destroying Washington Dc.  I didn’t know about Production Values, Big Name Stars, Special Effects (not even Ray Harryhausen), Sound Tracks, Directors, or well, anything at all.  I just knew that I felt really sorry for The Creature From the Black Lagoon and laughed when Abbot and Costello ended…

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