"Hand Turkeys" written by Mike on estrip.org

11/04/11 11:58 - ID#55439

Hand Turkeys

So I'm in charge of making the bulletin board at work each month and usually I love doing it but we've been so busy at work and stuff that I haven't had time to do it and it is already November 4th! So yesterday I decided, I know , I will make everyone in my department make hand turkeys and that will fill up the majority of the board. I brought in tons of glitter glue and crayons and markers and everyone made a hand turkey. I think it was a much needed morale booster and everyone enjoyed doing it! And plus that will fill up a lot of my bulletin board. I think my calling mihgt have been kindergarden art teacher because it was really fun!

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10/28/11 08:10 - ID#55395

Costume Crisis

I have an idea for my costume and it is not put together at all. Luckily it doesn't involve much but I work til 5. ugh. I can't find what i've been looking for though I've been working so much I haven't had much time to look but hopefully it alll comes together . I'm sure i'll be a ducktapped , stapled in, mess like always!

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10/25/11 12:25 - ID#55374

Old Videos

So I started watching some old videos on my camcorder from prolly around 2002-2008 maybe , not sure of exact times but some are pretty great. A lot are just stupid me , (e:jill), (e:mk) and others being ridiculous and also a lot from estrip parties and when me and (e:jill) and (e:lilho) did estrip interviews to drum up traffic in the early estrip days. WE used to be pretty hardcore about getting new members. Theres a a lot of video of (e:matt)'s 24th or 25th bday I can't remember now.

Wathcing these videos made me realize how crazy yet awesome and fun me and my friends used to be. Like we never drank and we just were ridiculous. THere is one where we all dressed up, Yosepha and Jen like dolled up gals named Pralene and Cream , (e:mk) as a vietnam vet that wore sunglasses from the Nanny and kept PTSDing screaming "watch out cece", I wore a ladies thong over my jeans and a blond wig and was named Skeets and jill was my pimp/lover bambam. And we went out walking around Elmwood dressed like this and acting out our characters. We were so weird but I loved every minute of it. Now all the craziness usually ensues because of drinking but then we were just plain crazy fun.

me and (e:mk) are going to get together on WEdnesday night and watch the videos and eat delicious snacks like heated salsa. Hopefully (e:jill) can make it too...

one day maybe I'll put some of these vids on here, especially from estrip parties and what not.

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10/22/11 10:33 - ID#55349

Kokomo Trollies

So after my last post I was trying to find Kokomo on Youtube and this is actually one of the first results that came up: Are you F'in kidding me, Trolls and Kokomo , this is my dream come true!!!!

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10/22/11 10:32 - ID#55348

Love Someone Tonight

Instead of driving home from work on like the 290 or 190 to thruway to 33 or scajaquada or whatever highwayish way I used to go , I've instead been just driving straight down main street from Williamsville to home. I swear it only takes a few minutes more and is a much more pleasant drive. Mind you I wouldn't do it at like 5 but when I get out at 9 or 11 and there is little traffic it just is a pleasant drive I really enjoy for some reason. I usually listed to Delilah where people call in and she plays sappy love songs. I love it, always have and it is a nice end to my day. I am so glad I started driving home this way instead, for some reason I swear it makes work seem better. AND to top it all off last night they played Kokomo by the Beach Boys which is like my all time favorite song ever! Ever! EVER!! I MEAN EVER! NEVER TO BE TOPPED BY ANY OTHER SONG! When I was young if it would come on when we were driving home I would make my parents keep driving around the block until the song was over (and they would , was I a brat? unsure).

Anywho, this post was really supposed to be about Delilah letting me down a little. She has always done commercials for products and she suppossedly uses and loves them all but this latest one seemed extra scammy. It is for some pill that cures eczema, asthma and everything else. Not a prescription but like an otc vitamin of some sort. And she talks about how this pill is a gift from god and helped out her daughter so much. I feel like that is really playing on her core listeners and they trust her so much and will be like "a pill from god, well gosh darn it I need that!". I just didn't like it Delilah...... but i still love your show and will listen forev!

It's Omega XL , here's the link

And lets end this with a little kokomo,...ok wait I was gonna post a video but am gonna make it a whole new entry

lilho writes at 03:50:56 10/23/11 - Comment #65750: i would like to say i have always loved/hated delilah. my mom and i used to bond over making fun of her. and about the kokomo... i always wanted to go to the places in the song, and they played it on the party bus in aruba and it was the best thing ever.

metalpeter writes at 04:40:13 10/22/11 - Comment #65719: I for fun looked around a bit and on Netflix you can get it but not instantly watch it... Now You tube you can watch it for a 3.99 fee so for now I watched something else but I will see it at some point...

tinypliny writes at 02:18:29 10/22/11 - Comment #65713: that documentary made me want to ditch all fiction movies in the future. Life is so interesting just as it is. Why not explore it further instead of inventing fiction?

tinypliny writes at 01:54:35 10/22/11 - Comment #65708: I checked out so many books in my first few months here. So maybe that was why I was at the library all the time. I agree it could be hard when you don't have a reason to frequent the library as often. The validation is easy to forget. They should have a one step instead of a two step process. If they made it more complicated it certainly won't count as the least red-tape library. I am comparing it to the Rochester/California/NYC systems, which seems more complicated - enough so that I was discouraged from getting memberships for the time I stayed in those places (and had proof of residence from my brother).

tinypliny writes at 01:49:39 10/22/11 - Comment #65707: yikes. well, I don't even remember having validated now... Maybe they changed the process? It was one of the first memberships I got when I came here. I think I just gave them a copy of my ID and my lease, they gave me a temporary number and at the end of the temporary period (21 days, I think), I returned to the library to verify something and they handed me the keytag. I have never had any validations or even checks or anything since.

heidi writes at 01:35:31 10/22/11 - Comment #65703: Buffalo Public Library is the "least red-tape library"? I feel like I've been through so many ID validations and check-ins that I should get more than a keychain tag. I think my borrowing privileges have been revoked because I failed to make the last check-in/validation date. :-p

tinypliny writes at 11:52:02 10/22/11 - Comment #65700: Wow, this article and interview is really well done about the SÃ£o Paolo no-ads campaign! :::link:::

metalpeter writes at 11:50:14 10/22/11 - Comment #65699: We shall see right now I'm off to get some cupcakes and see what flyers are posted at Zillycakes.... (hoping there is a zombie walk this weekend or next like last year)...

tinypliny writes at 11:46:48 10/22/11 - Comment #65697: The crane branch is waaay nearer but their copy is out right now.

tinypliny writes at 11:46:10 10/22/11 - Comment #65696: They only ask you to show a valid ID, a current bill/lease and you are all set. BPL is seriously the least red-tape library I have experienced.

metalpeter writes at 11:42:10 10/22/11 - Comment #65694: I'm going up on elmwood soon not I don't even have a valid card I have and old temp... One but that was pre shut down......

tinypliny writes at 11:39:55 10/22/11 - Comment #65693: Getting it from the library seems like a faster way. You could take a walk to central right now and walk out with it.

Btw, the pics of SÃ£o Paulo without ads are here :::link:::
Guess I don't need to do a post. :)

metalpeter writes at 11:37:27 10/22/11 - Comment #65692: So That means it is on Video so may try and see if it is on netflix first and then go from there... I really want to see it...

tinypliny writes at 11:34:51 10/22/11 - Comment #65691: And some very interesting things, did you know, for instance that SÃ£o Paulo has a complete ban in place on outdoor advertising? it was so weird. I need to do a picture post. I am not sure what I prefer. Color and crazy ads or blank uniform walls.

tinypliny writes at 11:22:03 10/22/11 - Comment #65687: My favourite scenes are when he spots this weird brand of shampoo called "Mane & Hair" and when they agree to be in the film (he just puts them in there because they return his call, and not because they pay sponsorship). He later shows his promised promotion clip where he, his son and a shetland pony are using Mane & Hair in the bathtub. And then there are all these crazy interviews, one with Quentin Tarantino where the director just finishes telling him that ads are only obvious when it is jarring and completely incongruous. We pan back and we see a bottle of Ban deodorant sitting on the table in front of them for no obvious reason. It was so hysterical and caustic. Loved it.

tinypliny writes at 11:15:50 10/22/11 - Comment #65686: Here's the call number: PN1995 .G665 2011V (I think you can find it in Central. I just saw that it's listed as being re-shelved (probably after I returned it))

tinypliny writes at 11:14:34 10/22/11 - Comment #65685: Neither. I checked it out from the Buffalo Public Library. Both the Crane and Central branches have one. Place a hold on it. It's very popular. My online is so pathetic that watching youtube videos is a patience-testing challenge. And I have got so much attention-deficit and guilt that I cannot watch more than 15 minutes in a setting. The movie took me a whole week to watch, and I only finished it because the DVD was due back and I didn't want to pay the fine.

But it was an excellent movie. Makes me want to watch all of his other works *and* recommendations. :::link:::

Quite strangely he reminds me a lot of (e:Matthew). His manner of speaking and accent are very much like (e:Matthew)!

metalpeter writes at 11:04:14 10/22/11 - Comment #65684: @(e:Tinypliny) I'm a fan of Morton Spurlock and wanted to see that... Did you go see it in person or online and if online what site?

tinypliny writes at 10:59:53 10/22/11 - Comment #65682: I watched this documentary called "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold". It was very interesting. All about product placement and how it operates behind the scenes.

tinypliny writes at 10:56:31 10/22/11 - Comment #65678: Several studies now point to the fact that taking extra micronutrients (vitamins and mineral) when you are not really deficient in any of them increases your chances of dying.

What did her daughter have?

metalpeter writes at 10:51:10 10/22/11 - Comment #65673: I don't listen to Shred and Regen (however you spell their names on the EDGE) that often they are good but just on at the wrong time and heard to listen also if you are online reading stuff like here or facebook or whatever.... The Point is I kinda feel the same way when they do ads... It implies that it is product they are into.... But see that isn't the case.... This is how Radio use to be it would be live then the person doing a show would do an ad same thing with TV that is how the Soap Operas got there name since the advertisers where soap... Some of the most famous sports events if you think Tennis where advertisers names at one point ...... But we here the name and it kinda sounds like a place then later we go oh that is a cig. company or what ever... The point is that is what the Advertisers work.... Here is this guy that we trust so we will trust the ad.... There is a new form of this on the internet called Gorilla marketing... Where a company pays a person to hype up there product through the web and there personal connections....

paul writes at 10:39:04 10/22/11 - Comment #65669: I definately prefer driving down streets to highways. Besides being more pleasant, there is much less chance of you dying in a horrific car crash at 30mph.

I wonder if that stuff will cure my geographic tongue.

And to answer you question, yes, you were a brat.

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10/09/11 03:38 - ID#55271

my favorite spot

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10/07/11 12:29 - ID#55253

Sad Movies

Not sure how I got on this kick but Youtube takes you in strange places and somehow I got from Keke to StepMom with a stop at Prayers for Bobby in between. I don't know why I like to watch things I know will make me cry and cry and cry but I can't stop. Prayers for Bobby is super sad and super good but to me Stepmom is the ultimate saddest movie of all time. I can never make it through it in one piece even though I have seen it a bazillion times.....

This scene is emotional enough and starts the tears rolling:

And then it's all over...sobbing,snotty mess

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10/06/11 11:04 - ID#55252

So good you could break a nail in it

For Paul:

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10/01/11 06:48 - ID#55226

Movies

Flittering about on youtube I started watching clips from some of my older favorite movies. I don't' know what exactly all these movies have in common but I feel like they have something in common that is not available in movies anymore. It was The First Wives Club, Sister Act, Object of My AFfection, and My Best Friend's Wedding. They aren't all like romantic comedies or anything though that is part of what I miss I think but really they are all different but somehow seem similar to me like in some category that is not available anymore and I miss it.

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10/01/11 05:30 - ID#55225

Long Weeks Ahead

So at work we are gaining thousands of new members because New York State is getting out of the prescription drug business for Medicaid recipients and insurance companies are taking it over. Anywho this will in theory create a lot more calls so we all can work as much overtime as we want which is nice but I picked up a lot of hours this week and am now not looking forward to it so much. I am working everyday (sunday thru saturday) for a total of like 6osomthing hours. Lets see if I make it!