Letterman...

Dave had another classic joke last night. He was talking about how beautiful the weather was in NY yesterday. "The weather was so nice today in NY, that Britney Spears baby was driving around in a convertable".

Made for TV internal dialogue...

It cracked him up when he heard white women refer to one another as girlfriend, in the same way that Oprah would refer to one of her friends. He had overheard the term while walking past the reception desk. It was free breakfast friday,and several of the employees crowded around the breakfast buffet table. Discussing their plans for the weekend, and spreading the latest office gossip. He has always thought that they should have free breakfast on Monday. Everyone was already in a pretty good mood onFriday, but who was excited about coming back to work on Monday morning? He could certainly use a little encouragement when Monday morning rolled around. But maybe it wasn't so much a motivationaltactic and more of a reward for surving another work week.

Yo Quero...

I dont have much to say, so I thought I would just post a funny joke David Letterman said last night. And it goes a little something like this..."

"President Bush is down in Mexico this week, contunuing his war on terror by searching for tacos of mass destruction".

Made me laugh.

New Banner

As much as I enjoyed the last banner with my foot, I wanted to try something a little different. So went from my foot, to my fists. Im not thrilled with the text, but it will have to do for now. I'll try to tweak it a little and update it once I get it the way I like it.

Because you're mine...

Im not really a big fan of the band Live, but I heard this on XM the other day and the song rocks. It's a cover version of "Walk the Line" by Johnny Cash. When the song first started, it sounded familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it, until about a minute it. Check it out, I think it's a pretty great version of a classic...

Walk the Line

On an unrelated topic, I updated my Pbase site a little. Check out the new pics in

House and Fun in the Snow sections. Some have been posted on the blog before, others haven't.

Screw Google...

Forget Google, use Squilky for all your searching needs (not really). Just playing around with Photoshop.

Cool Pic

I like these pictures, so I thought I would share them with ya'll... All taken with the Sigma 15mm fisheye.

Got some spare cash?

If anyone has some spare cash laying around; I don't know, lets say about $60 or so, I would really like one or both of these new games for the XBOX 360. The first is Ghost Recon. The game looks like a lot of fun. You get to shoot people and blow crap up, need I say more?

The second is a wicked looking WWII fighter plane game that just looks unreal. Check out some of the videos on IGN. Even the stills looks amazing. The clouds, the charred metal, the smoke. Unreal!

IGN Vids

I highly recommend the raiding the base clip.

You can send the money to me via paypal (squilky@gmail.com) or I accept personal checks or good ol US currency.

Random Stuff...

Why do people care so much about celebrity couples? It kills me when I go to the supermarket and see all those dumb magazine covers with headlines line “Britney’s got a bump!” “Branjelina wedding rumors!” “Nick and Jessica back together?”. “J-Lo splits from Marc Anthony”. It ridiculous. Why do people want to know every time a celebrity takes a dump? Why do photographers insist on following Justin Timberlake around when he’s at a gas station? It's got to stop. STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Speaking of ridiculous, Rachel and I laughed the other day when we saw Seasons 1-3 of Newlyweds starring Nick and Jessica on DVD.

It was sad to the US team get eliminated in the World Baseball Classic. It didn’t really come as a surprise because of lot of the players on the US team are rusty after having the whole summer off. A lot of players from other teams have been playing in Caribbean leagues, so they were basically in mid season form. What was really sad to me is that the US could only score 1 run against Mexico.

I couldn’t find a good picture of him, but check out Adam Morisson from the mens basketball team at Gonzaga. He has a really cool, old school mustache. It’s very similar to the kind of mustaches people had in the crazy 70’s.

Richard Kline…Still Alive!!!




















Have a great weekend…

The real spider man?

Human beings shouldn't be able to do this...

Big Jumper

Movies I'm Psyched About...

I feel stupid for getting excited about this movie, but how can I not. It's Rocky Balboa. I just just know that once I hear the Rocky theme playing, the tiny hairs on the back of my neck will stand up. I'll feel like Im watching the original rocky for the first time, when I was a kid. Except now, I don't piss myself (as often) and I don't cry for my mommy (as often).

The second picture is from the movie Nacho Libre starring Jack Black. These types of rolls, not King Kong are what Jack Black is all about. He is not some suave, leading man. He's a chubby, goofy son of a bitch, and that why I find him so funny. There was that point where Hollywood tried to slim him down and make him look more like what people in Hollywood should look like. Im glad to see Jack going back to his goofy self. Jack was hot for a while, but then he cooled off. I hope Nacho Libre returns him to the spotlight again.

Jack is also supposed to return to the big screen in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny. Wow it's been a long time since I heard new Tenacious D. See KG on the big screen is gonna be sweet!!!

Pretty Good...

Everyone in the media keeps talking about how Lindsay Lohan is doing drugs and binge drinking. For someone who allegedly does all those bad things to her body, she still looks pretty good. Sure she doesnt look as wholesome as she did when she was in Mean Girls, but she doesnt look like someone who is all coked up either...

Funked'

You ever get in one of those funks? Well that's where I am at right now. It's probably just the end of winter funk. Where I feel like I've been cooped up and indoors way too much. But it's supposed to be in the 70's here the next few days, so hopefully the warmer weather will brighten my spirits a bit. I really don't have anything to be down about. I guess I am just a little bored. I had a lot of fun when we went skiing and tubing, but since we got back, I have just felt like a robot. I wake up, drive to work, work, drive home, eat, watch tv, go to sleep and repeat. I am really looking forward to the warm weather. Getting back out into the yard, sitting out on the back deck, working in the garage.

Luckily, one of my escapes has been reading. I just started reading Choke by Chuck P, and Im listening to a book on tape called Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly that was recommended to me by Eugene. Lately there hasn't been any new music that really excites me, the movies we've watched on DVD have been pretty ordinary, and the only show I really get excited over is Lost. But Lost airs one episode and then makes you wait 3 weeks for another one. Im also looking forward to Prison Break coming back on Fox.

I watched the debut of that new show on FX called Black & WHite. It takes two families, one white and one black, and switches them around so they can walk a mile in one another's shoes. First of all the makeup they used is ridiculous. The black dad looks like he just stepped out the Beastie Boys video for Sabotage. His hair and mustache look so fake. The son in the black family looks like a weird cross between Michael Jackson and Speed Racer. The black wife's makeup is so bad, it's pretty much indescribable.

As far as the white family pretending to be black, the only person who looks somewhat realistic is the dad. But he looks sort of black even without the makeup on. I think he's a dark skinned Italian guy. The daughter in the white family almost pulls it off. But her bone structure and facial features just don't look right. She looks like when they took Barbie and darkened her skin and tried to pass her off as the African American Barbie.

I probably won't watch the show anymore, but judging by the 1st show, no one really has a clue. The white dad, just couldn't wait to say the N word. He must have said it half a dozen times on the hour long show last night. Plus he expected other black guys to walk up to him and call him brutha and nigga whenever he was out and about. At one point on the show, he asked the real black guy how he should stand and walk. Well he ended up doing this exaggerated walk that made him look like a real jackass. He looked like a flamboyantly gay George Jefferson with an arthritic hip. What's funny to me is that all the people on the show are pretty attractive as the real them, but once they put on that bogus makeup, they all look like so strange.

The real black guy went to a golf pro shop and was amazed that the guy in the pro shop helped him put on the shoes he was trying on. He said that never happened to him as a black man. Well I can't remember the last time someone helped me put on a pair of shoes either. Im sure if I went to a country club like he was at, that's pretty common practice because the poor shmuck working at the pro shop is looking for a tip. But when I go to Foot Locker, I don't expect the college student making minimum wage to take off my old shoes, and help me slip into my new ones. In fact if they did try to help me, I would probably yell at them to have some pride.

Basically the show is ridiculous. It makes white people look bad, it makes black people look bad. If the show points out anything, its that black and white culture is very different. At one point in the snow, the white teenage girl was sent to a poetry class. She liked poetry, but what they did in this group was called "Slam" Poetry. I had never even heard of slam poetry. An obviously neither had the little white girl, because she was talking about blooming flowers and butterflies while everyone else was talking about drugs and guns and being done wrong by society. So overall I would have to say the show sucks. I think everyone should watch at least one episode to see how ridiculous it is.

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I'm a Polar Cub

So I just read about how Dave has now joined the polar bear club of Coney Island. SO this means that Niel, Mike V and Dave have all taken the cold plunge. Well you guys aren't the only ones who are hardcore. Just because I'm an indoorsman doesn't mean I don't do some crazy hardcore stuff. For instance...

Just this morning I got up and was brushing my teeth, getting ready for work. I ran some water over my toothbrush, and as I was brushing my teeth, some of the cold water dribbled down past my chin and onto my chest. Wow was that water cold. It was a full 3-4 seconds before I could grab a towel and dry myself off. It was the worst 4 seconds of my life. It was at that point where I passed out. Next thing I know, I was curled in the fetal position on the bathroom floor and Rachel was trying to wake me. Luckily I was only out for a few seconds. She was awakened by the thud as I hit the floor. I checked webmd, and if she hadn't found me so quickly, I could have suffered hypnothermia of the nipple. Oh sure you can laugh, but last year over 400 people worldwide died from overchilling of their jumblies. All 400 of them happened to live north of the arctic circle, but still.

Tonight, when I go home I'm gonna eat a bowl of ice cream really fast. Sure I could get a wicked brain freeze, but Im a bad boy, and Im willing to take my chances. There may or may not be photos of this at a later date.

You're not hardcore...UNLESS YOU LIVE HARDCORE!!!

Celebrity Fit Club

I can't tell if I love or hate Celebrity Fit Club. Rachel watches it from time to time, so I'll catch bits and pieces of it. The part of me that hates it is that they humilate people and make them do things that make them look ridiculous. The part I like is that it probably motivates a lot of people. Now more about the humiliation factor.

Last night they had the "celebrities" performing in an olympics of sorts. They had them doing pushups, crunches, a 1/2 mile run, a sprint over hurdles and my personal favorite the long jump. Bruce Vilanch was my absolute favorite at the long jump. This week he jumped a whopping 4 inches. A 3 inch improvment from an earlier show. Come on!!! I mean, I think an 80 year old woman could jump more than 4 inches. Seriously, take a ruler and look at how small 4 inches is. A Sharpie is 4 inches long, that computer mouse on your desk is 4 inches long.

Then on the other side of the spectrum was Gunnar Nelson. Yes, that Gunnar Nelson. He has no right to be on this show. The guy weighed in at like 155 pounds. He's competing with the rest of the people who are much more overweight. So he looks like Bruce Jenner in the decathalon of 1976. It was like watching a cheetah race a pack of three toed sloths. Young Mc did 15 pushups, oh but Gunnar beat him by doing 30. Young Mc and Gunnar both did 100 crunches, but Gunnar did them faster. Gunnar wasn't holding back at all. He was trying his damndest. Gunnar completed the 1/2 mile run in like 4 minutes. His closet competition was Vanessa from the Cosby Show. I'm waiting for Gunnar to enter the special olympics so he can feel really great about himself.