Tomorrow We Eat SanGwiches

The greatest movie of all time, I don't give a rat's ass what AFI says.  If you didn't know that Rosebud was the name of the guy's sled you missed the whole point of the movie.

I am not here to talk about the movie though.  My sister and I were asked to be Godparents to my Cousin Rita and her husband Mike's third child Nicholas.  Pictures to follow as soon as I get them.  I have come to a decision that I can no longer rely on my webmaster Tom to walk me through this and if I want to learn this I will have to teach myself.

In ye olde times being asked to be Godfather to a child meant that if something happened to the parents of said child (God forbid) the Godparents would be obliged to take the child and raise it as their own in a fine catholic manner. So many young parents, like my own when I was born would choose their parents to be the Godparents of their first born.  Now the church is happy if the Godparents are catholic, Roman Catholic is a big plus.  The role of Godfather has become more ceremonial than anything, I mean how am I going to teach a child how to be a good christian when he lives three and a half hours north of me.  I am just going to have to give him gifts like the Buddy Christ and hope that his parents don't curse in front of him...alot.

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"I learnt about big green ogres and that fart jokes make me laugh".  Lovell Quiroz a fifth grade teacher in Peekskill NY decided to show his students a bootleg copy of the movie Shrek the Third (now playing at a theatre near you, check your movie listings for theatres and showtimes) DURING CLASS! I hope it was a good copy at least, not one of those bootlegs where the audience's heads flash in front of the screen and you get a running commentary complete with laughter from patrons in the theatre cause that always pisses me off. 

First of all children, buying bootleg DVD's is wrong, umkay. (had to put that in there in case my sister is reading this) Second why Shrek the Third? Can't Lovell come up with something better to show the kids a movie where they can actually learn something like "Teen Wolf". Shit, I will never forget the lessons taught to me by that movie.   "Never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese. "  These words were spoken by the immortal basketball coach Bobby Finstock.  These pearls of wisdom will actually help you in life.

Lovell Quiroz, congratulations, you are "Asshole of the Week".

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All walk into a bar. You think it is a start of a  joke right, well it isn't.  If you threw in an Italian Catholic who believes in a woman's right to choose, you may have the Presidential ballot once November 2008 comes along.

Yesterday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, who was never really a republican anyway, he just ran on the republican party platform so that New Yorkers wouldn't think he was some independent kook, removed himself from the republican party and decided to be an independent again.

Speculation is abound that the reason he did this was to make a run for president, whether it is true or not, I think as an independent he could garner enough support to get himself on the November ticket.  God knows he has the money to finance 10 presidential campaigns if he wanted to. Question is, is this crop of presidential candidates so weak politically, that anybody with about 5 billion dollars in the bank can come in and basically buy the U.S. Presidency.  I say yes.

I wanna give you middle america's worst case scenario; either Obama or Hilary win the Democratic nod and pick the other to be their running mate.  Rudy Guiliani wins the Republican primaries and Mayor Mike throws half a billion dollars (thats $500,000,000 for those of you keeping score at home) and runs on the independent ticket.  What will conservative white protestant middle america do? Write in vote for George Bush, third term?  Shit I wouldn't even know who to vote for. Cause they all suck.

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Jill Coccaro aka Phoenix Feeley is a New York city based artist who was just settled her case with NYC and awarded $29,000 for being wrongly arrested by the New York City Police two years ago.  Funny thing is she was arrested for going topless through the east village. 

I am all for equal rights for women, if men can run around the streets topless so should women, but I do believe that we should have some sort of policing of this activity.  There should be simple rules that allows both men and women to go topless. Allow me to give some simple rules:

Women, and you know who you are,if you are going to go out and flaunt your rack and least make sure its something that people want to see.  i.e. full sized B's at a minimum,  and if your breasts are so big that if they weren't harnessed you could skip rope with them...KEEP YOUR BLOUSES ON!  

On the other hand, if a guy has moobs he is automatically disqualified from taking his shirt off as well, in fact, moobers make sure that said shirt is also loose fitting.  Also nipples should be no bigger than quarter sized, Half dollar nips are reserved for women.  Here is a picture of disturbingly large nipples, look at it and tell me you aren't a little freaked out.

Listen if we all follow these few simple rules, society as a whole would be much better off.

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Being lucky enough to have family in the movie biz allows me to see some movies before they are released to the general public.  Today I got a chance to see Transformers the new movie directed by Michael Bay and starring "the biggest movie star on the planet" TM Shia Lebeouf. 

Actually the real stars of this movie are the Autobots and the Decepticons, I remember coming home from grammar school and couldn't wait to see the Transformers T.V. show, I would watch it eating my bowl of Ring-o-Noodle soup and a ham sandwich. I always had lunch when I came home cause I detested the cafeteria food, I still do till this day, there was something about being fed food cooked by old ladies in hairnets that really bothers me.  Cafeteria food is a test of one's culinary palette, I mean if you could eat compartmentalized canned food, you can eat anything.  The salisbury steak tasted like meat chopped off of a diseased cow's ass mixed with dehydrated onion and doo doo butter for gravy.  

Transformers was a great movie, the special effects are like nothing I have ever seen and Megan Fox is ridiculously hot.  Go see it.  I will now go and throw up.  Thanks.

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"Everything goes black"  And that is how The Sopranos ended last night.  Remember when Bobby and Tony were on the boat back in the first episode of this season.  Bobby asked Tony that same question and that was his answer.  My first reaction was like everybody else's.  Did my cable just go out?  FUCK?!   I thought I paid the bill last week WTF!  Then the credits rolled in silence and I was left wondering what happened to Tony Soprano, the most iconic character in television history.  Well here is what happens:  He has to live his live in constant fear of being shot by who knows what and he can't even enjoy a dinner with his family.  He is probably going to be indicted because Carlo Gervasi is chirping to the feds about him. I know what the next question is, Who is Carlo?  Well thank Al Gore for Wikipedia because it is already updated with all of his info.

Before you go on and say the ending sucked and I didn't get it, watch the last 4 minutes again.  To tell you the truth other than Phil getting shot in the head and the car rolling over said head (great death scene IMO)  Phil went out and we know he isn't coming back.  Those are the only scenes worth watching in the whole episode.  When Meadow is parking her car, David Chase the creator of The Sopranos keeps the whole stereotype going about Jersey Girls not being able to parallel park and I for one am offended. Jersey Girls can parallel park as long as they can do the "Jersey Bump" Sorry I got sidetracked, Didn't you think that Meadow was going to be shot or when she got out of the car she was going to get run over by an Escalade or an IROC in an I.R.O.C. But she didn't and you had a little sense of relief.  Same thing when Tony is in the restaurant with his family eating onion rings and with everyone that came in you were thinking, "Hey maybe this person will shoot Tony"  But it didn't happen. But it is that sense of foreboding, that oh shit something bad is going to happen right now is what made The Sopranos such a great show.  You can smell and taste the drama coming out of your television screen and that last scene kept me wanting more. which is why we will get a movie out of this.

Bring on "The Sopranos" movie, I will be there watching it opening night.

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My friends Karl Bischoff and Laural Zdeb are movie-makers and this past Sunday, they premiered a number of short films that they have been working on.  My favorite was Wunderfrau, which is a take-off on Wonder Woman.  They are posted on the web and you can see the first two of eight webisodes here.  Thee rest of them are in the process of being shot and should be done before the end of the year.  Jamie is in it (she is the middle amazonian) in her acting debut.  I am so proud and only wish her bigger and better things in her future.  Her next part I hear is as a the third person from the left in a police lineup.

Quick Public Service Announcement, you never have to pay for a 411 call again.  Our friends at Google, introduced 1-800-Goog-411, thats 1-800-466-4411, its voice interactive, nationwide and free!

You can thank me later.

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I started this blog basically to keep track of the thoughts that go on in my head.  It was supposed to be a blog about food, cooking, meals I've eaten etc. Well if you have read my blog, I've mentioned al sharpton and Venezuelan (president) Hugo Chavez more than I talk about food.  Don't get me wrong food is a very important part of my life, being Portuguese you tend to revolve your life around it, in fact right now I am thinking about what I am going to cook for dinner tonight and it is 7:30 IN THE MORNING!

There are so many blogs about food and as soon as my webmaster Tommy gets back from his honeymoon/survivalist adventure, I will give you a list of good food sites that I visit along with some other tidbits. 

What I'm getting at is this blog has taken on a life of its own and I really like doing it,  it is kinda of like writing a diary (never wrote in one but my sister did,  I knew where she kept the key and everything) but everyone has the key to this diary you don't have to keep the key taped to the back of your Duran Duran poster, (my sister is going to kill me)

Every week or so I check the web traffic to my site and I am averaging about 60-70 hits a day, I didn't think I even knew 60-70 people that well, on really good days I get over a hundred.  I originally started out writing this blog for only a few people and that was so that they didn't have to listen to me on the phone during the day. This blog really helps me get things out of my head so that I can move onto other things and I don't get in a rut, personally, professionally and emotionally.

I encourage everyone who has trouble letting shit go or feels like they are in a rut to write the things down that bother them and get it out of their heads because when you see it on paper or little computer screen it becomes real.  You can look at with your own eyes kinda like when Luke Skywalker removed Darth Vader's mask at the end of "Return of the Jedi" at he saw his father and his father saw him. It brings an end to things and then you can move on with your life.  

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