I’m not a very political person. When someone around me starts speaking politics, I kinda zone out and start drooling on myself due to the extreme level of boredom (and lack of knowledge) on the subject. HOWEVER, recently my mother put together a petition on WhiteHouse.gov that I think most people could get behind. The focus of the petition is to outlaw represented lobbyists in our democratic system. Below has more details…
When our forefathers created the Bill of Rights, they gave us the right to have access to our elected representatives to promote changes within the government. I do not believe, however, that our forefathers anticipated the unbridled greed for money and power of our current representatives who ignore their constituents’ wanted and need to follow the money trail of big business, all the while lining their pockets.
Lobbying has gone from the ideal of the common man to have the right to speak to his representatives about personal and local concerns to a multimillion business that sways greedy politicians at the expense and suffering of ordinary citizens.
If you agree, please sign this petition in support of outlawing represented lobbyists in our democratic system.
If you feel the same way, click the link below and sign the petition. We need 25,000 signatures by December 1st, 2011. Hopefully we can put a stop to these greedy sons’a bitches.
On Oct 17th, 2011, My mom and I went to the World Cafe Live in Philadelphia to see Ralph Garman and Kevin Smith perform Hollywood Babble-On. It was AWESOME! I wrote up an email a week before the show in hopes to get a “Shout Out” and we did. My mom even got to get up on stage and score a hug from Kev Smith himself. She was over the moon. I pulled the section of our shout out below. Watch your volume as it contains profanity AND there are no volume controls on the player…also it’s almost 5 minutes long.
Also I saw Jennifer Schwalbach walk from the stage to a reserved seat in the back of the club before the show started. As we left, I walked past her table and saw a mountain of olives that I can only assume were from a ton of cocktails she had during the show. The entire experience was so awesome. Only thing that would have made it better would have been to grab a pic with Ralph and Kevin. But by the time they were done it was 10:30 and we had to drive back to York from Philly. Got home around 1:30 am and I was cached.
Awesome YouTuber jessiesnacks recorded and uploaded my request of Ralph and his creepy clown music. Check it out below…
You can listen to the rest of the episode here (which I highly recommend) and hear other their past and future episodes as well as other awesome podcasts at SModcast.com.
UPDATE: My Shout out that I sent to Ralph got animated by YouTuber VJSepp. Check it out below…
Boardwalk Empire has everything I enjoy about TV. Awesome stories, awesome characters, booze and buckets and buckets full of “Oh Shit” moments. Needless to say I’ve been waiting for the premiere of season 2.
The trailers they have been playing on HBO between their other shows and movies have all been intense. It would seem Nucky loses control over a lot of what’s going down in and out of Atlantic City and Jimmy is steppin’ up in a big way. Read more »
Earlier in September, I made a post turning my friend Shea into a meme. Well before Shea, I did this one of my friend Adam and finally getting around to posting it.
I’m amped. Me and my Ma are going to see Ralph Garman and Kevin Smith at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on October 17th. Gonna be awesome. After my mom getting the tickets, someone commented “COME ON NOW, MORE MARGARITAS” and I started laughing. This sent me on a quest to find the audio track of the Ralph Garman/Al Pacino, “More Margaritas” song they played during HBO #50. Well…I couldn’t find it. So I downloaded the episode and cut that section out (and looped it once to make it longer). It’s lousey quality, but the best I could do. I’ve seen people begging for the song, but haven’t seen anyone post it up yet. So here’s what I got…
The wife and I have been enjoying True Blood since it first started on HBO. In the middle of the first season, my wife started purchasing the books and comparing the two mediums (tee-hee! Mediums…season 4…get it?). That’s being said, below are on my thoughts on the season and the finale.
When the season start, my expectations were low as the first three seasons were very entertaining. Once I heard Witches were involved, I grew skeptical. The season started off in Fairy (or Fae) land for a whole 10 minutes, then Sookie finds her way back to the real world…a year later. In that time, Jason becomes a cop, Tara turns dyke and moves to New Orleans, Eric buys Sookie’s house and Bill becomes King of Louisiana. Sookie comes back in the midst of all that shit.
I am a fan of photoshop and also a fan of hilarity. So when I see a friend post a picture on Facebook, I attempt to turn it into an internet meme and submit it to TheChive.com. My latest one is of a friend named Shea Holtzman. I placed the first one on his facebook page which he and others enjoyed. Little did he know I made more…
