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Monday, March 22, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
As Saving Abel says "I'm so addicted to..."
SO excited! Last Thursday was the premiere of the new season of "Sober House". I love love love this show. If you're unfamiliar, it's basically a half-way house, with the cast appearing in the past seasons of Sex Rehab and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. It's not the most uplifting show, though it has it's moments, but really dives deep into the lives of addicts.
Addiction is a problem that haunts many people throughout the world in a variety of different forms. Although it can be a tragic thing, there are so many illnesses to choose from that it's become almost typical to have or know someone who has a problem, whether it's alcoholism, sex, drugs, or OCD. Here are 10 less popular, and most wierd, addictions known to man.
1) Music: yes, really.
A Swedish man actually receives disability for his addiction to heavy metal. He's allowed to blast his head banging tunes while working as a dish washer, and even allowed to take time off from work to attend metal shows. There aren't many resources available for those suffereing from this "problem", so anyone looking for a Music Addicts Anonymous will be sorely disappointed.
2-4) Body Modifications: piercings/tattoos/plastic surgery
*Piercings: I've got plenty myself, but the list of piercing options is long and absurd. And some feel the need to do it all.
*Tattoos: Same idea as piercings..as long as there's a surface, there's a way to get tattooed. Some can get pretty wierd and perturbing, like eyeball and tongue tattoos.
*Plastic surgery: 2 words..Heidi Montag.
5) Reading: yes, people still do read, believe it or not.
Due to the Internet, the amount of reading in American society has declined. But there are some who find themselves physically unable to stop reading constantly. Some attribute this odd behavior to the desire shared among most, but acted upon by few: an escape from reality. The biggest problem with this is lack of sleep.
6) Dirt Eating (Geophagy) and Cravings for Non-Food Items (Pica)
Yes, dirt eating is what it sounds like..the act of consuming dirt or muddy substances. Non-food items that can cause problems include coins, buttons, cotton, etc. Death comes easy when sharp or metal items are eaten. Yes, people do this.
7) Animal Hoarding: The Horror
Like that show "Hoarders", but with animals. If you've seen the show, you KNOW how much of a problem this is.
8) Chewing Ice: A crippling habit?
Not as much of a joke as it sounds, it really is a legitimate addiction. Some have claimed that ice-chewing has become so prominent in their lives that it's hindered their ability to maintain jobs or personal relationships. Also may indicate a larger problem, like a lack of iron in the bloodstream.
9) Compulsive Lying
Usually a symptom of some other mental illness. 3 types of lying addicts: pathological, compulsive, and chronic, all of which imply the use of lying in order to obtain some desirable object that may be unrealistic without the aid of a made-up story.
10) Food: Bring me 8 cheeseburgers because I've grown into the couch
Disgusting, but real. Feelings is dissatisfaction and negativity toward life that is displaced with an unhealthy and crippling indulgence is usually where this stems from. Food addicts often binge eat and cannot control their urges.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Strange Athlete Superstitions
Professional athletes, by definition, while I love them, are not normal. They spend their entire young lives in a fishbowl, alternately worshipped and torn down by an ever-braying chorus of onlookers. It should come as no surprise, then, that many jocks develop unusual coping mechanisms, quite often involving superstitions. Check out my five Hall of Famers who use a little juju for good luck.
1) Mike Bibby--Atlanta Hawks
There are many appropriate places for pro athletes to engage in banal, if necessary, acts of personal hygiene. At home, for instance, or in the privacy of one's luxury vehicle, But this guy chooses to trim his nails when he's on the bench. What started as a nervous tick that manifested itself in fingernail clipping has warped into a must-do-it compulsion while he waits for his turn on the court.
2) Wade Boggs
Every jock has a go-to pre-game meal. During his long and successful baseball career, however, Boggs stuck to his dining ritual more strictly than anyone else: he ate chicken, chicken, and nothing but chicken.
3) Caron Butler--Washington Wizards/Dallas Mavericks
Pro teams will generally tolerate any supersition until-and unless-it affects the player's well-being. And so it was that Butler's career-long ritual of downing a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew before and during every game eventually met its tragic end..yes, that much sugar and caffeine leads to bloating. When he switched from the Wizards to the Mavs, he took up gnawing on plastic straws instead.
4) Tom Chorske and Bruce Gardiner--Ottawa Senators
Buried in a deep scoring slump, Gardiner asked Chorske to help him break out of it. Chorske instructed him to "flush" his hockey stick "down" the toilet in advance of every game; only then, Chorske reasoned, would the stick respect its owner. It worked! His luck turned and he went on a scoring streak.
5) John Henderson--Jacksonville Jaguars
Defensive linemen deliver and absorb tons of hits per game, Henderson figured that one more couldn't hurt. First to fire him up, and then to sustain the luck it brought, he has the assistant trainer, Joe Sheehan, slap him in the face before every game.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
I smell a Billionaire!
Yep, that can be YOU! Wouldn't that be nice..and just remember who gave you that idea!
In this day and age, with our wonderful economical situation, not a day goes by when I don't talk to someone that has lost their job. So while jobs may come and go, the internet is here to STAY! And there are SO many people that have grown to be BILLIONAIRES by playing around on the web. Ok, so "playing" on the web probably consists of facebooking (that damn Farmville game has GOT do go) or Bejeweled (my personal poison), and it's not that easy, but coming up with something creative can put some serious buck in your bank. Take a look at some of these e-billionaires and what they did to make my favorite shade of green $$
1) Larry Page and Sergey Brin--Co-founded Google. Worth $17.5 billion
2) Jeff Bezos--Founded Amazon in a Seattle Garage. Worth $12.3 billion
3) Pierre Omidyan--Launched ebay in 1995. Worth $5.2 billion
4) Hiroshi Mikitani--Runs Japan's leading online shopping mall. Worth $4.8 billion
5) Charles Schwab--Brought online investing to the masses. Worth $4.7 billion
6) Mark Zuckerberg--Founded Facebook in 2004. He's only 25!! Worth $4.0 billion
7) Robin Li--Co-founded China's most popular search site Baidu. Worth $3.5 billion
8) Shi Yuzhu--Founder of Giant Interactive, one of China's most successful online game companies. Worth $1.6 billion
9) Yoshikazu Tanaka--Founded the 2nd most popular social networking site in Japan, Gree. Worth $1.4 billion
10) Stephen Case--Former Pizza Hut store manager co-founded AOL. Worth $1.1 billion
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
WTF Awards
With the Academy Awards this weekend, this prestigious awards ceremony honors excellence and achievement in film over the past year. But there's always those films that leave you in a state of "What the f**k?!". Thus the WTF Awards.
Most Inexplicable Hit: Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Just weeks after electing the first-ever African-American president, the American people proved they still had far to go in the flight against the forces of ignorance and small-mindedness when they made this thing a hit.
Most Unexpected Flop: Jennifer's Body
Despite boasting a formidable-and presumably profitable-combination of sex, violence, and timely controversy, Megan Fox's high school horror flick crashed and burned in the theaters, failing to crack even the low end of box-office analysts' predictions.
Most Distracting CGI Appendage: Dr. Manhattan's Penis--Watchmen
The fact that Zack Snyder determined to faithfully adapt Alan Moore's seminal comic was certainly commendable, but some things are simply better left on the page. It's difficult enough to grasp Dr. Manhattan's quantum ramblings without his big blue member flopping around, disrupting our concentration like a blast of phallic tachyons.
Most Misleading Movie Title: Funny People
Sure, Bitter, Self-Pitying, Occasionally Amusing but Usually Just Depressing People isn't as appealing on a marquee, but at least it's accurate.
Most Uncomfortable Sex Scene: Observe and Report
Seth Rogen's tubby Travis Bickle obliterates the line between consensual sex and date rape when he romances Anna Faris's drooling, doped up, barely conscious mall employee.
Most Unexpected-and Hopefully Short-Lived-Comeback: Vin Diesel
After the unexpected success of Fast & Furious briefly revived Diesel's comatose career, the gravel-voiced diva wasted little time wearing out his welcome, blowing off press events and spewing all sorts of delusional crazytalk about Chronicles of Riddick sequels.
Most Enterprising Use of a Cell Phone: Law Abiding Citizen
While other movies strive to diminish the cell phone's narrative impact, concocting convenient reasons for characters' handsets to lose reception or run out of juice at crucial moments, this film turned it into a potent plot device. GREAT movie by the way.
WTF Performer of the Year: Nicolas Cage
Two words: Bad. Lieutenant. Have you seen it? Don't.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
So you like to travel?
So I'm freaking out. I just booked my trip to Cozumel yesterday, and canNOT wait! My boyfriend's birthday is in May and I wanted to knock his socks off with a birthday he'll never forget, so what better than a trip to Mexico! I can't wait to get back (it's been nearly 5 years!) and he's never been, so we're equally excited for a week in paradise!
Well, if you want to travel, but based on time/money/etc. can't get away, here's a few movies that'll take you somewhere...not exactly to a tropical destination, but rather back in time..enjoy!
The Top 9 Travel movies:
9) Idiocracy
Mike Judge's little-known follow-up to Office Space follows a military underachiever and a prostitute that have been accidentally frozen for hundreds of years. Through a voiceover that explains how only stupid people have kept breeding, Luke Wilson and Maya Randolph emerge in the future to find themselves the smartest humans on the planet.
8) Timecrimes
A 2007 Spanish film (you didn't think I could go without a a Mexico reference) and sleeper hit when it was released in the U.S. in 2008, Timecrimes is an engaging sci-fi thriller about a man who travels one hour back in time.
7) Groundhog Day
Filmed in Woodstock, IL!! One of dozens of genius Bill Murray comedies, Groundhog Day is about a misanthropic weatherman stuck in small-town Pennsylvania covering the Groundhog Day celebration. He is stuck there in the worst way, in that he wakes up in the same day everyday, trapped in what at first becomes fun and gradually turns into his hell.
6) Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly's film about a tortured young man and threats from a frightening psychotic bunny (yes, a bunny) jumping around in time with the threat of the end of the world and his life.
5) 12 Monkeys
A twisted story and one of Bruce Willis's best, about a man sent back in time from a future in which a deadly virus has forced humans to live underground.
4) It's a Wonderful Life
Yeah, it has to do with Christmas, but it's classic. It's about a man who is about to commit suicide when his guardian angel appears and shows him what life would be like if he were never born.
3) Planet of the Apes
A group of space travelers on a planet where apes have evolved to be the master species, not humans. The costumes are weak, at best, but the action, story, and absurdity still hold up over time.
2) The Terminator
A cyborg from the future is sent into the past to murder the future mother of the resistance leader. The resistance has managed to send back some protection in the human Kyle Reese as they try to fight off the unstoppable killing machine.
DUN DUN DUN.....
1) Back to the Future
DUH! Yes, obvious. But you can't go wrong with Marty McFly, Doc Brown, the Delorian time machine, the school dance.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Beer Day!!
So yesterday, March 1st, was Beer Day. Yes, I realize I'm a day late, but c'mon..if we're talking about beer..is it really that important that I hit it on the head (notice beer reference there? I'm so creative..I know.) So anyway, we all know The Beer Song made popular on 95 WIIL ROCK by Psychostick, and I think they are right on.."Beer is Good". But when we think beer, we usually think Miller, Coors, Bud, and maybe a Corona or Heineken thrown in the mix. Well I came across 15 very interesting (to say the least) sounding flavors of beer that juuuuust might change my mind....but as far as the whole "I am drunk, drunk is ME!"..it'll probably do you well either way.
Here we go:
1) Mamma Mia Pizza beer
You'll have a beer with your pizza, but why not combine them together? Features flavors including oregano, basil, tomato, and garlic.
2) Steak beer (for dogs)
What a lucky pooch your pup can be! Dutch Kwispelbier, or "tail-wagging beer" is non-alcoholic and tastes like beef.
3) Bowser Beer (also for dogs)
Who knew there was such a big market for dog beer? According to bowserbeer.com, Bowswer Beer is made from human-grade USDA beef or chicken and lovingly brewed with malt barley (for healthy coats)
4) Wells Banana Bread beer
Brewed with bananas and fermented juices of sorghum. YUM!
5) Bilk (beer with milk)
Not just a little milk either, it's 30% milk. It'd described as tasting pretty much like normal beer, but with a slight dairy smell. Whatever that means.
6) Exit 1 Oyster stout
Brewed with oysters. No kidding.
7) Chocolate Donut beer
It's like Homer Simpson's dream come true--chocolate donuts and beer. Doh! From Shenandoah Brewing Company
8) Coffee beer
And then there's my dream come true--beer and coffee! From Dark Star Brewery
9) Tomato beer
I met a guy once that poured tomato juice into his Miller Lite. Now no mixing is necessary!
10) Chili beer
Want something spicy to go with your wings? How about some chili beer? Most "common" chili beers are made with chipotles.
11) Creme Brulee beer
You make traditonal creme brulee by burning the sugar at the top of the dessert. The burnt sugar taste is what makes this beer stand out, although I'd definitely keep the blow torch away from the lip of the bottle. From Southern Tier Brewing Company
12) LaDragonne (warm beer)
Yep. It's made to be served warm. Contains honey and spices and is intended to be heated in a mug like mulled wine.
13) Wasabi beer
Quite possibly the perfect compliment to sushi--here's a beer with even more of a kick then the chili beer! Green with wasabi.
14) Watermelon beer
No seeds, I hope. From 21st Amendment Brewery
15) Champagne beer
Guaranteed to impress your friends--or that special date. Or you could just get the real thing. Though dudes, this is the more "manly" choice. Krait Prestige
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