Juxtaposed Video Friday

Being a Sports Super Star AND a 'Mawdole' must make for some strange days indeed.

Seeing your last name stenciled onto the back of 46% of shirts worn in Europe must be a bit of an odd experience as well. You can choose to watch one or the other or both of these videos. The fashion photo shoot is very strange.

Inside Every Woman

The first chapter of this book, which features 5 Promises is available for free at InsideEveryWoman.com. It is in the form of a realistic flip book. Expect to see more and more sites using this flash element in the coming months. this one even has a sound effect that very convincingly sounds like a crisp paper page being turned...neat.

But that's just style. I would rather talk about content. I like Vickie's promises, they are hopeful, but they are mostly rooted in reality. She has a multi million dollar business, so she must be doing something right.

Click here if you are interested in hearing the author talk about her promises.

If you are interested in getting Inside Every Woman bookmarks to put inside Inside Every Woman, you can make a request at Vickie@

Gimme

Gimme is a slang term used in golf.

PGAprofessional.com describes the gimme as follows:

derived from the words "give me," as in "concede the next stroke to me as holed") a putt that is short enough in length to be certain to be holed with the next stroke

Traditionally, if you opponent thinks a ball is still too far away from the hole for a gimme, he or she may say "There's some chicken left on that bone."

This can be confusing if you are in the habit of playing golf and eating chicken at the same time.

Shop for Music and Movies with RapidSearch

Amazon is a great site, but it is almost too huge to browse. RapidSearch pulls a selection of entertainment product entries from Amazon and puts them into logical and convenient categories.

Here are the items that I want most from the music, movie, and video game categories...

Icky Thump is pretty whack.



This looks like a very visually rich movie about comic books.

And lastly, I would really like to buy Bratz Rock Angels because Bratz rock!!!

It was so quick and easy to find all my favorite stuff on RapidSearch.

Something Cute

I had made a post on another blog entitled Toys or Us. I thought I was being so witty.

Anyway, I googled the term and one of the high ranking results was a musical photo album from some French people who are cute and funny. It is at Toys-or-us.net. See how long it takes you to recognize the song :)

D I V O R C E is Less Common Today

Divorce rates are dropping in America. Divorces peaked in 1979. They have been gradually decreasing from a high of .53% ever since 1981. I was thinking of embedding the Tammy Wynnette classic D I V O R C E .

I decided to go with something more current and less awful. This is Regina Spektor, and this song is sad.

Golden Rule Travel

I was talking about making some changes yesterday. I think that rather than make some contrived theme, I am just going to try to focus on positive things. If you have visited my site before you are probably surprised by the lack of bright colors today. It's not meant to be negative. I was reading about the movement to make browsers and search engines as black as possible to save energy. I thought that was a positive move that I could make to help reduce my footprint a bit.

The great thing that I want to talk about in this post is a travel agency that specializes in meeting the needs of missionaries. Besides working to get special missionary fares for its clients, Golden Rule Travel also makes a point of being available 24/7 over the phone. They have an honest Christian staff, many of whom were once missionaries themselves.

I am building another positive site that feature all different types of marriage proposal videos. One particular video that really touched me was a young missionary in Malawi proposing to another missionary whom he had met while they were serving God in Nicaragua. They shared this joyful moment with the people of the Malawi village and in turn they were treated to an astounded display of joyful singing and dancing.

I am glad to here that there is a travel service that meets the special needs of missionaries and does their utmost to provide safe comfortable trips to places that are not generally safe and comfortable.

Seriously Considering a Change

I think I might start over with this blog. Not that I will delete anything that I have already said. I have just begun to lose interest in Britney Spears.

I also think that what would be best for Britney Spears is some kind of period without getting any positive feedback for her attention seeking. I honestly think that she has a destructive addiction to celebrity. I don't want to be part of the problem.

Snowmobiles are Awesome

I grew up in an area of North America where some guys kept a snowmobile in the back of their truck for about 5 months of the year. You couldn't always depend on there being a good layer of snow around the community, but on the weekends you could drive to areas with higher elevations and find all the snow you could ever want.

Snowmobiling on frozen lakes was another option. I would advise everyone to avoid this practice unless you can be absolutely sure that the ice is thick enough. Snowmobiles are pretty heavy. I know of some people who stopped out on a lake for a moment with a sled that had an auxiliary trailer filled with beer. The beer trailer broke through and they had to disconnect it from the snowmobile or the snowmobile would have been sunk.

For most snowmobile enthusiasts, there is more time spent wishing and planning than there is time spent driving. A snowmobile forum is time well spent in the off season. Watching exciting snowmobile action on SledTV is another way to spend those pesky snowless days.

Snowmobiling has to be one of the most exciting winter activities. It is about a million times more fun than building a snowman.

Britney Spears' Fictitious Movie Role...

I apologize to the pap for a stunt that was done 4 months ago regarding an umbrella. I was preparing my character for a role in a movie where the husband never plays his part so they switch places accidentally. I take all my roles very seriously and got a little carried away. Unfortunately I didn't get the part.

Strange, telling missives tend to show up on the 'coming soon' page that is BritneySpears.com quite sporadically. I am not sure why the webmaster doesn't take them down after one news cycle and replace it with something less crazy. If anybody has any information on the part that Britney was trying for, I would love to hear from them.

I suspect that the apology by way of an excuse is mostly fabricated.

Here is a video of Britney Spears ina role that she took very seriously. It's a French dub. For some reason, the characters don't sound gay to me.

Train Horns: Let Them Know You Are Coming

Still on the subject of celebrities driving through the paparazzi clot, I think every celebrity should invest in a train horn for their car. Not only would it more effectively convey the point that you want a path cleared, it would also make for a more interesting video clip for the internet. Most stars like to pretend that they want to be left alone by the paparazzi, but they really want to maintain their celebrity. Having a really loud and authoritative horn would make life easier.

You can hear the sound these horns make at TrainHorn.org but your PC speakers won't do it justice. The real thing really moves people.

Here's a funny aside. I am using a computer in my kids' room. They are both asleep. I am going to play the train horn sound to see how they react. There are no trains where I live, so they are not desensitized to the sound at all...

One kid said "Quit it!" the other just laid there. They are so lazy this summer.

Paparazzi Makeover

The popularity of paparazzi video clips with sound has one drawback for the paparazzi. The audio usually features one or more of the cameramen saying moronic banal things to the celebrities. I have never seen a website where any of these guys take credit for the stuff they say.

I think the value and quality of these clips would be greatly improved if all the paparazzi chipped in and paid a professional voice actor and writer to do the shout out.

While they are at it, I think it would be a nice gesture of goodwill if they paid to have a professional valet parking attendant to park and unpark celebrity's cars for them.

The Old Britney Spears

Looking at this vibrant young woman makes me sad. I asked a friend how she could be like this then and, well, you know...

My friend surmised that what you see in this video is entirely superficial. Britney had no inner core and when the pressure increased, she simply imploded. That is sad, and probably quite accurate.

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The Holidays really do start rolling by fast once the summer ends. I think I may have freaked my wife out by actually buying a Christmas present in August.

Halloween is a night that I look forward to every year. I am going to give you a great idea for a costume. Go to the CouponChief page for Linens-n-Things and buy a nice set of sheets for yourself at 50% off. Then cut two holes in the middle of your old sheet. Can you see where I am going with this?





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Britney Just Doesn't Get It

Britney has earned some more scrutiny of her parenting ability. There is a report that she asked a dentist to perform a whitening procedure on her toddler. Whitening is a cosmetic procedure that is generally for adults who make an informed decision. The story adds that Britney was not adhering to current dental care advice for children. Juice in a bottle at night is bad.

I guess the worst way to interpret this story is that Britney was asking to have a professional kind of sweep the results of her poor childcare under the proverbial rug. That is not good.