BJ Woods

Okay, so Rosie O’Donnell is done
Then why the *$$&# is the show still on ?? Did I tell you that I once had a dream about that show? I did. But rather than go into it here, I’ve filed it over here, with my other stories about celebrity dreams. Yes, I have dreams about celebrities. Is that an oddity? I think so. I’d rather have them then nightmares, if I could choose, but if that is strange then so be it.

Speaking of gay people…
A recent bill, which was proposed to provide death benefits to the beneficiaries of 10 specific victims (all officers or firefighters, some whom had saved lives) of the 9/11 WTC attacks, was not passed by House Republicans yesterday. The article says that the bill was rejected partly because of the potential cost of each benefit ($250,000) and partly because the politicians snubbed the victims. Why? Because their beneficiaries were not “spouses, parents, or children” of the officers, but in fact ‘domestic partners’. So fucking what? Let them have their money. I consider myself pretty ‘middle of the road’ most of the time, when it comes to partisan stance, but COME ON. Sometimes the uber-conservative just kill me with their ways of thinking.

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Back to the 80’s

The 80’s are back, and in a big way. In music, in fashion, in movies and other stuff. Take a look around you. You can’t miss it. I posted some great 80’s links for your pleasure (but mostly mine, heh heh):

Test your knowledge on the ‘Me’ decade
Take “The 80’s Are Back Pack” quiz and see for yourself how good you are. Fun stuff, if you remember all of that. I remember parts of it.

80’s Fashion
Have you noticed? Take a close look at some of the TV, movie, and music stars next time you flip through an issue of People or watch a talk show.
J-lo for instance, is supposedly ’stunning’ in this gown at her ‘Enough’ movie premier. If that’s ’stunning’ you should see me in my raggedy old bathrobe at 8am! Eddie Griffin wore an old-school style jogging suit to his Conan O’Bryan appearance yesterday. It made me wanna bust out my old Run DMC tape and play ‘My Adidas’ and ‘Peter Piper’. Either that or go roller-skating while someone plays ‘Saturday’ by De La Soul on a boom box.

Did you also notice the 80’s-inspired songs that are on the radio nowadays?
Indeed. Look at the video for the new song by ‘No Doubt’…the song sounds so eighties, and what the hell are they wearing?
Here’s a directory page full of 80’s song links and lyrics that will surely take you back to those oh-so-happy days of greed and goodness, Cabbage Patch Dolls and Rubix Cubes, A Flock Of Seagulls and Hall & Oates good time, all rolled into one decade. Watching ‘The Wedding Singer’ kinda brought me back too, only that was just a smidgen of things from the 80’s that I loved.

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Entertainment Bits
Here’s where I yammer about some recent happenings in the media. Why do I feel like I have to explain myself? Ugh. I’m a dork. Deal.

Look What I Can Do!
Unlike alot of people, I didn’t pay much attention to magician David Blaine’s recent ‘trick’, he called Vertigo. Whatever. Big deal. So you can stand still for 35 hours. Cool. My dad worked as a baker for 35 years, standing like that (well, moving a little) for 10 hours a day. Give the boy his Guinness World Record and tell him to shut it. Anyway, this is what I did watch last night, since I don’t watch The West Wing and don’t have cable, for much else:

Bada-Bing
That’s about how quickly the fight went down last night at Celebrity Boxing II, on FOX TV. Joanie Laurer, formerly known as China (Chyna? Cheina? whatever..) got her ass handed to her by Joey Buttafuoco, however an unfair battle it may have been. He basically avoided tossing too many body shots or punches and concentrated on throwing her around like a domestic assault victim. When it was over the host asked Joey and China how they felt the fight went, and Joey says some bullshit about being in the pen and being innocent (I guess it’s like shell-shock, once you’ve been in a war, you talk about nothing else). Joanie says that she thought it was an unfair fight, but let her and Joey get in ‘her ring’ and play by ‘her rules’ and then see how things go! Um…isn’t she retired from pro wrestling? John Wayne Bobbit was originally Buttafuoco’s opponent in this match but I guess he was in the hospital for something.
Olga Korbut versus Darva Conger: Darva kicked Olga’s ass, as I had expected, being she outweighs and outreaches Olga by a bit, it was a very agressive match. Basically the audience has Darva in their sights, and booed and hissed and cussed the whole time she was being introduced and whatnot (I don’t like her either, she’s a stupid bitch), but then the crowd loved her once she proved herself a worthy competitor.
Ron Palillo, 48 (aka Arnold Horshak from 70’s TV fame “Welcome Back Kotter”) versus Dustin Diamond, 25 (aka Screech from Saved By The Bell): What the hell was the show’s producers thinking? Horshak is lighter than Diamond by over 30 lbs., and quite a bit older. Therefore, Diamond kicked his patooty to the other hemisphere.
The African basketball player, Manute Bol kicked William “Refrigerator” Perry’s ass, but I didn’t see that fight ’cause I was in the other room.

No Laughing Matter
Is ABC news bored? Have nothing else to offer? They must be. Evident as in this recent article, praising and picking on clowns good and bad, respectively. One thing it mentions is coulrophobia. The fear of clowns. Are there THAT MANY PEOPLE with this affliction? Who knew? I mean, come ON, I get scared of normal things like dark alleys, extreme heights, etc. Do any of you really know of anyone who suffers from this? I can’t help but giggle. I mean, I don’t think clowns are all that funny. Funny-looking, maybe. I don’t laugh at them as much as I pity them. Go ahead. Call me a meanie.

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Okay Now I’m Bored
All you’s sweet lil’ preteen Britney Spears fans go to beddy-bye before you read any further. Might give you nightmares. Don’t want that.

I was hanging out over at Kung Foo for a bit and now I’m just about ready to go to bed. But not before I post another link, which I happened to find at KF. Yeah I STOLE THE LINK FROM THEM, BEYATCH! So sue me. Anyhoo, here’s America’s Sweetheart tokin’ it up in Marlboro Country. Ain’t that sweet and precious? What a good Baptist girl hypocrite.

nighty-night.

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Just throwing in a couple of cool links and then I’m off the rest of the holiday weekend. Have a good one!

Oh jeez, I missed No Pants Day again! I’m sure my fiancee would be all for that kind of day…er–scratch that. He’d like a No Pants Year, starring me. I’m not so sure I’d be all that comfortable. Of course you can wear No Pants Day boxers if you’re really modest, like me.

Digital Sushi is marvelous! If you like sushi, that is…you should at least TRY IT. Start with something simple, like California roll, if you’re squeamish about sashimi (raw fish). California roll is made out of pieces of cucumber, carrot, or avacado and tuna, crab or imitation crabmeat and sometimes cream cheese. Then it’s all wrapped up in white rice and nori (seaweed wrap). I like to take a bit of wasabi and mix it with shoyu (soy sauce) and dip the roll into it. It’s way too yummy to describe. You can get variations of California roll at many Chinese or Japanese buffet-style restaurants. In West St. Paul, Grand Buffet has some, but I prefer the stuff made and bought at the Byerly’s deli. Anyway, Digital Sushi has a complete ‘dictionary’ (with pictures!) that lists all types of sushi and sushi ingredients, to get familiar with. Even if you don’t like any of the food, there’s lots of other cool stuff like photos of trips to Japan, cool desktop stuff like icons, cursors and wallpaper. So go!

Riding In Cars…With Boys
Okay, so we have one car. He is the driver. So I spend alot of time in the passenger seat of the car. Sometimes more time is spent in the damn car, waiting for him to get smokes, gas, etc. All the while, I sit and wait. I’ve noticed that gas stations do not really play any decent music. It’s usually Backstreet Boys crap or old, rejected soft rock. Anyway, the other day I all but threw my hands up in rejoice and spewed forth shouts of ‘hallelujah!’ because as I’m sitting in the car waiting yet again, they played Steely Dan! No way, were we at a gas station? I had to look around to make sure. Yep, we are. I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn’t dreaming. Nope. I thought that was pretty damn cool. I thought it outloud when he came back to the car. He supressed a chuckle. A ‘OMYGOD, you’re weird’ chuckle.

Okay, so you think I’m a dork, and you’re sure that Steely Dan is still crappy stuff to play at a gas station, or anywhere, for that matter. But to me it was fantastic.

Since we’re on the subject of music…
This is a cool website that lists songs that have been played on TV commercials. If you’re into that sort of thing. I just happened upon it while cruising Google (I’m always cruising Google!). I was looking for an answer to the latest debacle over at my guestbook, about a Ralph Lauren fragrance ad. Yes, folks, the highlight of my day so far is arguing with people at my own guestbook about tv commercials. How pathetic is that?

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• Single girls’ night in – 2001

YAY! They finally got them up! You know that little animated purple bumper-sticker-looking thing in the left hand column? Well, that’s my blogsticker! and now they’ve finally published them for all to see! Want one? Go here and check ‘em out…I’ve made white versions of each one for those who prefer.

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Well, in the last two weeks here in Minnesota, it has snowed, rained & hailed, and we’ve had record breaking high temps. Monday it got to 93 degrees! WTF?! It was unbearable. I can’t complain that much about Monday since I refuse to get my air conditioner from downstairs and install it, since I don’t think I’ll be here past June. Last night the thunderstorm woke most people in the Twin Cities metro, it was very loud and it seemed to go and then come back several times during the wee hours of the morning.

My lack of fun activities lately has gotten me down. Well, when SuperCross came to town, we planned to go and missed it. Then the last Monster Truck rally came and we really wanted to go and didn’t. Now the World of Wheels has come and gone. My fiancee is the BIGGEST procrastinator. I thought I was the worst. No. It’s him. We plan and plan and plan and discuss and….nothing.
I even get INTO the shower, get dressed, get ALL BUT READY to walk out the door, and he says I don’t feel like it….maybe next time around. This is getting to be really annoying. Especially when I tell friends and family “Oh, we can’t come, we’re going to some stupid car show that day.” I’ll admit I’m a big lazy fool too, but it’s mostly him, and aside from beating him upside the head, what I do to help alleviate this problem? Who knows. I’ll think about it later.

On the bright side, tomorrow James and I are going down south to my mom’s lake resort spot and help build her deck. It should be fun, provided the weather is nice. Today it’s nice and Springy. I don’t think it’s more than 70 out right now but it’s feelin’ pretty good. I’ve got all my windows open and I’m getting ready to do some hefty spring cleaning before my friend comes over. I’m teaching her a few software programs, just covering the basics. Does anyone know of a few good online tutorials I can refer her to for when she wants to do more stuff later? Drop me a comment!

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What’s with Christina Appelgate lately? Didn’t she used to be much better looking? I think now that she’s off TV and into being a movie star again, she’s on that popular Hollywood diet, called SMOKE & COKE. Ladies, when we can see your rib bones between your breasts, it’s NOT sexy. At least to my fiancee, who was thinking this outloud to me the other night. Haha

Jennifer and Brad pregnant? Good for them. Hope they lay off the SMOKE & COKE now. At least ’til the brat’s born.

And what happened to http://www.riotgrrl.com? Did they get shut down? I used to love reading that site and then I found out that a link I had to one of their articles was bad. On further investigation, I find it’s gone. They had my favorite morph pic game there, called “Feed The Supermodel”. There was a pic every week of some sorry-ass skinny chick who looked like she needed a sandwich, and STAT. You could feed her food to make it all better. Do you remember it?

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Fox TV Cancels ‘Ally McBeal’
I don’t know where I was when this hit the news, ’cause I missed it. Had I known, I’d have baked a cake and threw a party. You all know how much I loathe this show, this waste of an hour of someone’s precious time, so you know of course how elated I am to hear this. I was gravely saddened however, upon learning that this absurdity of a TV show had insidiously reached 100 episodes earlier this winter. This is horrific to me because everyone knows once a show has reached the 100 mark, it’s going to be syndicated. Thrown back at us over and over and over again like some sort of nasty broken record. So for me the news is bittersweet. Oh well. I suppose I could try and get over it.

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New Audio CD’s on the Market Will Not Play on CD-ROM Devices
In the near future, a large amount of new audio CD’s released by recording artists will not play properly in your computer’s CD-ROM player. Why? Because, a-la Napster, once again, it’s a battle of copyrights. Sony figures that people who will play a band’s audio CD in a CD-ROM player, are most likely to also be the ones ripping and trading the songs for free to others, and thus encouraging pirating the music without paying for it. With that in mind, they’ve gone and encoded the redbook audio to play well only in traditional home and car CD audio components, but terribly in computer CD and CD-ROM devices. I know because I saw this on the news. They took Celine Dion’s new CD (Couldn’t they have picked ANYONE ELSE?!), which was known to have used this new technology, and put it into a CD-ROM device to play. The resulting sounds were very skippy, and staticy at best, otherwise it sounded as though you had taken 2 hits of LSD, and were listening to whales singing in a bad gospel church choir.

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