I read in Star that Mario Lopez was jealous of another man in his musicals large biceps and so the other guys is forced to wear long sleeves while Mario's arms are the only ones bared. HOW REDIC!!
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05/22/2008 20:08 #44423
For Jho05/18/2008 10:36 #44382
Steel Crazy by Bohemian HostessSo last night I went to the grand opening of Steel Crazy Cafe by Bohemian Hostess on the corner of Elmwood and Allen. It was a crepe cafe before but I guess it was a flop cuz the people who did the steel artwork really didn't know how to run a restaurant. So they looked for someone separate to run the restaurant and new chef and owner of the cafe part is none other than local celebrity Shayna from this season's Hell's Kitchen. The space is really cool cuz there are tables all throughout the store so like you eat in the store kinda, in a like off the wall kinda way. Like all the artwork is for sale but it is a restaurant. At the opening they had all kinds of tasty appetizers, particularly this like asparagus wrapped in steak that was seriously prolly one of the 5 best things I have ever eaten. She said it was really easy to make but seriuosly it was so FREAKIN GOOD!!! The lady with the tray actually purposefully started to avoid me I tihnk cuz I had taken way more than my fair share.
Anywho, for right now until AllenTown Art Festival the restaurant is open i believe like 11-5 and has brunch on Sunday's. After the craziness that will be Allentown they want to expand to have dinner a couple nights a week. If the food at the opening is any indication, it is gonna be really good.
They have sandwiches, paninis, salads, crepes and other stuff. They have like two vegan I believe even but I am not sure on that but like I think that is what I heard. Anywho, it is a short walk from Roswell and many other places so I recommend you stop by. Plus you get to see a hell's kitchen pseudo-celebrity. She seems really nice and I really hope it succeds.
In regards to full disclosure Shayna, is (e:libertad)'s friend but seriously I wouldn't have wrote about it if I didn't tihnk it would be good. We all know how i felt about the home tour and that was my brother.
Anywho, for right now until AllenTown Art Festival the restaurant is open i believe like 11-5 and has brunch on Sunday's. After the craziness that will be Allentown they want to expand to have dinner a couple nights a week. If the food at the opening is any indication, it is gonna be really good.
They have sandwiches, paninis, salads, crepes and other stuff. They have like two vegan I believe even but I am not sure on that but like I think that is what I heard. Anywho, it is a short walk from Roswell and many other places so I recommend you stop by. Plus you get to see a hell's kitchen pseudo-celebrity. She seems really nice and I really hope it succeds.
In regards to full disclosure Shayna, is (e:libertad)'s friend but seriously I wouldn't have wrote about it if I didn't tihnk it would be good. We all know how i felt about the home tour and that was my brother.
tinypliny - 05/18/08 21:49
Hmmm.. thanks for the heads-up. I needd to head this way soon.
Hmmm.. thanks for the heads-up. I needd to head this way soon.
05/08/2008 21:42 #44278
Hakuna Mata-ta-taI love the Lion King. Me and my friend Brian used to watch it everyday after school on video. For some reason tonight I had a huge urge to listen to the soundtrack and dance and sing my heart out to my old tape soundtrack playing on ou rlike 40 year old tape player! The quality is not great but the songs are still amazing!!!!!!!! It is a great movie with a great soudntrack. I totally remember every word stioll. It just has such a range of music that is so fun to like just rock out to. I had a really spiritied edition of washing the dishes to the tune of Just can't wait to be King.
tinypliny - 05/10/08 02:33
They are reading your journal at CVS stores. I went to CVS today and they were playing your favourite lion king songs full volume! :)
They are reading your journal at CVS stores. I went to CVS today and they were playing your favourite lion king songs full volume! :)
lauren - 05/09/08 10:37
I too loved and still love the Lion King...and part of it might have had something to do with my fanatical obsession with JTT ... but seriously, the just don't make em' like the used to... Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid!! ahhhcheewayyah!
I too loved and still love the Lion King...and part of it might have had something to do with my fanatical obsession with JTT ... but seriously, the just don't make em' like the used to... Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid!! ahhhcheewayyah!
lilho - 05/08/08 22:58
i used to feel the same way about the aladdin soundtrack, and those were some good times with that tape!
i used to feel the same way about the aladdin soundtrack, and those were some good times with that tape!
05/08/2008 20:11 #44276
Forgetting Sarah MarshallAnyone want a Forgetting Sarah Marshall movie poster? I got it free at the preview and took it cuz i take anything that is free but don't really want it and don't want to juts throw it out so if noone wants it i'll keep it but does anyone wnat it?
tinypliny - 05/10/08 02:35
Who is Sarah Marshall? Why would you not want to forget her? (Admit it, you want to remember her forever, right? That is why you are giving her poster away!!)
Who is Sarah Marshall? Why would you not want to forget her? (Admit it, you want to remember her forever, right? That is why you are giving her poster away!!)
05/04/2008 15:37 #44231
From Main Place Mall to Bingo and BackSo yesterday was a day of new thing for me and (e:jill). First we went to check out Allentown Athletix. It was smaller than i had imagined but definetly had everything I would need and the guy said there isn't usually a wait. I actually prolly prefer that it is smaller. A little weird that there is a jacuzzi in the men's locker room but I digress. I guess what it comes down to is is $300 worht it. Will i only work out like 5 times like i did with the BAC and then really 300 is not a good deal. Like it is a good deal if i am gonna use it, but am i? when do we need to agree by? The guy asked if (e:jill) was my g/f and I said not not right now, as if she ever was or will be it was werid but i just said it and then thought it was weirder to add like um well no never she won't be.
Anywho, after that shenanigans we went to Quaker Bonnet Eatery for the first time and I had a veggie sandwich which was relaly good. I relaly wanted soup but the kinds did not sound to my liking. The veggie sandwich was super tasty, i always love cukes on things. They are just so good! Everyone else there was definetley in th 70+ crowd which was odd but fun and adorable. So from there we saw an ad for the White Elephant Sale at trinity church...
....we went , it wasn't all it was cracked up to be but maybe cuz it was already like the end of the second day. I mean they kinda had a lot of stuff but nothing I was really interetsed in though they had like fancy Prada shoes and Manolos for like 90 dollars, like they were used but still.So after perusing the good for a while we are in the car deicding what to do and i deicde we should go to the main place mall....
...i have always had a strange fondness for the Main Place Mall, maybe cuz I have a fondness for any mall and it just seems so sad there, so after much protesting on Jill's part we pull into the amply empty main place mall parking ramp. We go in and it is even more empty thatn last summer when I would meet MK there for lunch when she worked downtown and way more emptier than back farther from when I kinda remember it. ALl it had was a Dollar store, where by the way I GOT AN AWESOME ELEPHANT CLOCK, for ONE DOLLAR! DO you believe the deals in there, it was insane. And then it has this really odd sort of Odds and Ends type store that has a lot of playboy clocks and blankets, greeting cards that are dusty and circa 1970, like used looking paper back books and some housewares , totally random and i love it, so i got some stickers and some cards.
Oh there was also a footlocker but that's about it for that mall. ALl in all a good time I would say....so what do you do after a hard day of rummage sales and main place mall...
...YOU GO TO BINGO! I have been wanting to go to Bingo and the odd's and ends type store had bingo dabbers which reminded me how much i wanted to go so we deicded to go to Cardinal O'Hara bingo at 8pm.
OF course like always we run in late, thye were shutting down the stand wher eyou get the boards but he let us get them and then said to get the speiccals from the people walking around. THERE WAS NO SEATS< this place was packed, like the gym and the cafeteria were packed...and they say bingo isn't popular anymore! No way jos4e! It is the rage and a half. So then we sit with this hardcore player with the bingo bag and 100 dabbers and i was afraid he would hate us cuz sometimes bingo people are easily perturbed and don't like to be bothered but he was supr nice and talked to us and helped us since we had no idea what we were doing or what boards to use. Oh yeah and we didn't have dabbers when we got there b/c we didn't buy them at the aforementioned store and so i had to run to the otehr room where they were selling them and the worker like ran ahead to get them and was like "make way this man has to get dabbers' cuz the first game had already started. Needless to say we never won or even got close, i bet we would have won that first game had we gotten there on time to play it.....
so what do you do after bingo...
BOONDOGGLE!!!! We went to (e:jill)'s apt where jim was having a poker party and we busted out the 100000 pounds of boondoggle jlil bought last year whne she thought she was really going to get into boondoggle again and we started boondoggling our little hearts out. I stuck with the standard square for my first boondoggle in years but jill had high hopes of the infamous chinese staircase. Fortunaley jim's cousin Kristen remembered how to do it and after a little fight with the cat who attacked the boondoggle she was well on her way to a faboulous chinese staircase. Jill also thought she was doing a chinese staircase but i look over and was like um yours looks nothing like hers......it was a little off so jill's style is calling the handicap ramp , i think it will be all the keychain rage...you just wait!
Anywho, after that shenanigans we went to Quaker Bonnet Eatery for the first time and I had a veggie sandwich which was relaly good. I relaly wanted soup but the kinds did not sound to my liking. The veggie sandwich was super tasty, i always love cukes on things. They are just so good! Everyone else there was definetley in th 70+ crowd which was odd but fun and adorable. So from there we saw an ad for the White Elephant Sale at trinity church...
....we went , it wasn't all it was cracked up to be but maybe cuz it was already like the end of the second day. I mean they kinda had a lot of stuff but nothing I was really interetsed in though they had like fancy Prada shoes and Manolos for like 90 dollars, like they were used but still.So after perusing the good for a while we are in the car deicding what to do and i deicde we should go to the main place mall....
...i have always had a strange fondness for the Main Place Mall, maybe cuz I have a fondness for any mall and it just seems so sad there, so after much protesting on Jill's part we pull into the amply empty main place mall parking ramp. We go in and it is even more empty thatn last summer when I would meet MK there for lunch when she worked downtown and way more emptier than back farther from when I kinda remember it. ALl it had was a Dollar store, where by the way I GOT AN AWESOME ELEPHANT CLOCK, for ONE DOLLAR! DO you believe the deals in there, it was insane. And then it has this really odd sort of Odds and Ends type store that has a lot of playboy clocks and blankets, greeting cards that are dusty and circa 1970, like used looking paper back books and some housewares , totally random and i love it, so i got some stickers and some cards.
Oh there was also a footlocker but that's about it for that mall. ALl in all a good time I would say....so what do you do after a hard day of rummage sales and main place mall...
...YOU GO TO BINGO! I have been wanting to go to Bingo and the odd's and ends type store had bingo dabbers which reminded me how much i wanted to go so we deicded to go to Cardinal O'Hara bingo at 8pm.
OF course like always we run in late, thye were shutting down the stand wher eyou get the boards but he let us get them and then said to get the speiccals from the people walking around. THERE WAS NO SEATS< this place was packed, like the gym and the cafeteria were packed...and they say bingo isn't popular anymore! No way jos4e! It is the rage and a half. So then we sit with this hardcore player with the bingo bag and 100 dabbers and i was afraid he would hate us cuz sometimes bingo people are easily perturbed and don't like to be bothered but he was supr nice and talked to us and helped us since we had no idea what we were doing or what boards to use. Oh yeah and we didn't have dabbers when we got there b/c we didn't buy them at the aforementioned store and so i had to run to the otehr room where they were selling them and the worker like ran ahead to get them and was like "make way this man has to get dabbers' cuz the first game had already started. Needless to say we never won or even got close, i bet we would have won that first game had we gotten there on time to play it.....
so what do you do after bingo...
BOONDOGGLE!!!! We went to (e:jill)'s apt where jim was having a poker party and we busted out the 100000 pounds of boondoggle jlil bought last year whne she thought she was really going to get into boondoggle again and we started boondoggling our little hearts out. I stuck with the standard square for my first boondoggle in years but jill had high hopes of the infamous chinese staircase. Fortunaley jim's cousin Kristen remembered how to do it and after a little fight with the cat who attacked the boondoggle she was well on her way to a faboulous chinese staircase. Jill also thought she was doing a chinese staircase but i look over and was like um yours looks nothing like hers......it was a little off so jill's style is calling the handicap ramp , i think it will be all the keychain rage...you just wait!
tinypliny - 05/06/08 19:03
Um Yeah. That's sorta the plan. I am supposed to be your creepy *and unhinged* STALKER, remember?!
(**cue even more ominous music here***)
Um Yeah. That's sorta the plan. I am supposed to be your creepy *and unhinged* STALKER, remember?!
(**cue even more ominous music here***)
mike - 05/06/08 18:32
wowser tinypliny. That coment is more like ten more posts. Yeah boondoggle is like tis plastic thread you braid into keychains and stuff. to (e:jason) he used itin like do you and your g/f play raquetball and then he was like oh is she your g/f? jill's hot , he prolly wanted her. and to you (e:amanda), yes it was os ridiculous that you would not call bingo haha!!!
wowser tinypliny. That coment is more like ten more posts. Yeah boondoggle is like tis plastic thread you braid into keychains and stuff. to (e:jason) he used itin like do you and your g/f play raquetball and then he was like oh is she your g/f? jill's hot , he prolly wanted her. and to you (e:amanda), yes it was os ridiculous that you would not call bingo haha!!!
amanda - 05/05/08 16:15
Do you remember when we went to bingo with katrina and her family and i won the big jackpot but was too scared to yell bingo so you threw your hangs in the air with my board yelling bingo. haha okay that post just reminded me of that.
Do you remember when we went to bingo with katrina and her family and i won the big jackpot but was too scared to yell bingo so you threw your hangs in the air with my board yelling bingo. haha okay that post just reminded me of that.
joshua - 05/05/08 14:08
Thanks (e:paul) - I was going to ask what that was.
(e:mike) - you should have held out and lied about (e:jill) being your GF. Maybe you could have gotten a discount! Or maybe he wanted (e:jill) and was being a flat out prick about it. I'm not sure what kind of question that is to be asking anyway... seems weird.
Quaker Bonnet Eatery - where the clientèle are old enough to remember how to make the furniture they sit on.
Thanks (e:paul) - I was going to ask what that was.
(e:mike) - you should have held out and lied about (e:jill) being your GF. Maybe you could have gotten a discount! Or maybe he wanted (e:jill) and was being a flat out prick about it. I'm not sure what kind of question that is to be asking anyway... seems weird.
Quaker Bonnet Eatery - where the clientèle are old enough to remember how to make the furniture they sit on.
paul - 05/04/08 21:11
We used the term boondoggle in boy scouts
boon·dog·gle (bndôgl, -dgl) Informal
n.
1. An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity.
2.
a. A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts.
b. A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy.
[Coined by Robert H. Link (died 1957), American scoutmaster.] :::link:::
We used the term boondoggle in boy scouts
boon·dog·gle (bndôgl, -dgl) Informal
n.
1. An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity.
2.
a. A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts.
b. A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy.
[Coined by Robert H. Link (died 1957), American scoutmaster.] :::link:::
tinypliny - 05/04/08 20:10
Wow. You wouldn't think the day was a mere 24 hours after reading your journal.
I don't know. Gym memberships don't ever work for me because I positively know that I am not going to work out more than twice. Lower than your decent five times. And I know what you mean by the follow-up comment thingy. You say something and then you wonder whether you should add this qualification to what you said but then the person whom you said it to is someone unrelated and random, so an explanatory comment might not be warranted. So you are all like um, whatever, why the hell did I say the first thing.
COOL that you checked out the Quaker Bonnet Eatery! I was just wondering about it on Friday and (e:zobar) commented on my journal that he used to go there all the time. Now I know where my next sandwich is coming from!! :) Hey, did you happen to ask if they sell their bread? What bread did you have your veggie sandwich on? Yeah, the average age there seems to dodder over the 70s. Maybe its the word Quaker Bonnet. Maybe the young and the hip are subconsciously saying, "I wouldn't be caught dead in a quaker bonnet."?
What is a white elephant sale? Do they have an elephant standing there with a banner proclaiming the sale at the venue? They do that at home. So you hire an elephant for an hour or so, make it walk all over the neighbourhood while you or some crony of yours sits atop it and blows a horn. A huge cloth advertisement (or paper if you can't afford all the cloth and painting. But maybe if you could afford the elephant, you could afford the painted cloth as well...) is strung over its sides. So people come out to see the elephant. Contrary to popular belief, elephants don't walk the streets in Delhi. Wait. May be the belief was cows walk the streets. Well, they certainly do. Stray ones. Not elephants, however. Stray elephants are not cool. Getting back to the point, the elephants are a good adverstisement for your yard sale or whatever and then if the targeted neighbourhood is too small and you misapproximated the time to cover it, you have some extra elephant time and you can make it stand in your yard sale or whatever. Its an added bonus. Wow. If they were selling 90$ shoes, they could have afforded a jet that could have advertised the sale by spewing a cloud of white smoke in the sky saying "SALE HERE!!"or something!
Main Place Mall apparently has this exclusive pizza place called Gino and Joe's (or something close). I always want to check it our because it seems they have out-of-this-planet tasty pizzas. But every time I get there, its closed! They close at 5:00 sharp. No exceptions. I think thats harsh for a pizza place. I mean, come one! You are selling pizzas! Not some crazy complicated french cuisine! OOOOOOOhhh, you can add the elephant clock to the Jumikeipliny worshiping sect! That way all those elephant devotees could be timed and charged for their worship hours. Hehehe. On a related not, last year, I met some lady on the bus who told me that the dollar store in main place mall was the best dollar store in the entire city. They do have the best sales. I think its a kind of marketing logic. Its in a deserted mall, so they have got to offer something extra to be able to attract the paying customers. This particular lady lived in Tonawanda and told me that she traveled all the way to downtown to check out this dollar store's deals every Friday.
What is Bingo?? Do people below 70 play it?? I always thought it had geriatric written all over the word. But apparently not, from your description of the high stress levels at one single game. But it would be unwise to label 0ver-70ers as fragile. Some of them can take a lot of stress and fight - more than the below-30ers of today.
And yeah, what the HELL is a boondoggle?? I got these from wikipedia:
oondoggle or boon doggle may refer to:
* Boondoggle (project), slang term for a scheme that wastes time and money
* Scoubidou, a knotting and plaiting craft known in the U.S. as "boondoggle"
o Gimp, a type of thread used in making boondoggles and lanyards
* Woggle, a scout's scarf fixing known alternatively as a "boon doggle"
But from your description, it sounds like a bunch of lego bricks. I am puzzled.
And its not nice to puzzle a stalker *cue sinister organ music here*
Wow. You wouldn't think the day was a mere 24 hours after reading your journal.
I don't know. Gym memberships don't ever work for me because I positively know that I am not going to work out more than twice. Lower than your decent five times. And I know what you mean by the follow-up comment thingy. You say something and then you wonder whether you should add this qualification to what you said but then the person whom you said it to is someone unrelated and random, so an explanatory comment might not be warranted. So you are all like um, whatever, why the hell did I say the first thing.
COOL that you checked out the Quaker Bonnet Eatery! I was just wondering about it on Friday and (e:zobar) commented on my journal that he used to go there all the time. Now I know where my next sandwich is coming from!! :) Hey, did you happen to ask if they sell their bread? What bread did you have your veggie sandwich on? Yeah, the average age there seems to dodder over the 70s. Maybe its the word Quaker Bonnet. Maybe the young and the hip are subconsciously saying, "I wouldn't be caught dead in a quaker bonnet."?
What is a white elephant sale? Do they have an elephant standing there with a banner proclaiming the sale at the venue? They do that at home. So you hire an elephant for an hour or so, make it walk all over the neighbourhood while you or some crony of yours sits atop it and blows a horn. A huge cloth advertisement (or paper if you can't afford all the cloth and painting. But maybe if you could afford the elephant, you could afford the painted cloth as well...) is strung over its sides. So people come out to see the elephant. Contrary to popular belief, elephants don't walk the streets in Delhi. Wait. May be the belief was cows walk the streets. Well, they certainly do. Stray ones. Not elephants, however. Stray elephants are not cool. Getting back to the point, the elephants are a good adverstisement for your yard sale or whatever and then if the targeted neighbourhood is too small and you misapproximated the time to cover it, you have some extra elephant time and you can make it stand in your yard sale or whatever. Its an added bonus. Wow. If they were selling 90$ shoes, they could have afforded a jet that could have advertised the sale by spewing a cloud of white smoke in the sky saying "SALE HERE!!"or something!
Main Place Mall apparently has this exclusive pizza place called Gino and Joe's (or something close). I always want to check it our because it seems they have out-of-this-planet tasty pizzas. But every time I get there, its closed! They close at 5:00 sharp. No exceptions. I think thats harsh for a pizza place. I mean, come one! You are selling pizzas! Not some crazy complicated french cuisine! OOOOOOOhhh, you can add the elephant clock to the Jumikeipliny worshiping sect! That way all those elephant devotees could be timed and charged for their worship hours. Hehehe. On a related not, last year, I met some lady on the bus who told me that the dollar store in main place mall was the best dollar store in the entire city. They do have the best sales. I think its a kind of marketing logic. Its in a deserted mall, so they have got to offer something extra to be able to attract the paying customers. This particular lady lived in Tonawanda and told me that she traveled all the way to downtown to check out this dollar store's deals every Friday.
What is Bingo?? Do people below 70 play it?? I always thought it had geriatric written all over the word. But apparently not, from your description of the high stress levels at one single game. But it would be unwise to label 0ver-70ers as fragile. Some of them can take a lot of stress and fight - more than the below-30ers of today.
And yeah, what the HELL is a boondoggle?? I got these from wikipedia:
oondoggle or boon doggle may refer to:
* Boondoggle (project), slang term for a scheme that wastes time and money
* Scoubidou, a knotting and plaiting craft known in the U.S. as "boondoggle"
o Gimp, a type of thread used in making boondoggles and lanyards
* Woggle, a scout's scarf fixing known alternatively as a "boon doggle"
But from your description, it sounds like a bunch of lego bricks. I am puzzled.
And its not nice to puzzle a stalker *cue sinister organ music here*
libertad - 05/04/08 15:50
Might I add that I asked mike what boondoggling was and when he explained it I knew what he was talking about but never heard anyone call it that. It sounds very hick to me sort of like calling soda "pop". I don't remember what I called it when I was younger but it definitely was not boondoggling.
Might I add that I asked mike what boondoggling was and when he explained it I knew what he was talking about but never heard anyone call it that. It sounds very hick to me sort of like calling soda "pop". I don't remember what I called it when I was younger but it definitely was not boondoggling.
mario lopez really is everywhere.... its so true.
i saw him on ellen with a sleeveless shirt. and then i realized that all of this is true.
See Mario Lopez is EVERYWHERE. You can not avoid him. He stalks you where ever you go!!!