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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Created in Six Days...On the Seventh Day, I Rested

. . . yeah, right!
July 11, a Monday morning
Sgt. Pepper movie 1978 (Peter Frampton, Bee Gees) part 1 to part 7
"So may I introduce to you the act you've known for all these years..." To avoid the Intro skip to 5:34. Such a gay [cheerful] movie, even if it did bomb in the US, Frampton was traumatized by it, the Beatles hated it...I danced in the aisle watching this!
After Fixin' a Hole, It's Getting Better because Here Comes The Sun.
Then I Want You corruption of the innocents.
From Good Morning to when She Climbed In The Bathroom Window.
A Mean Old Man and She's Leaving Home, my my.
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds / Dianne Steinberg was sexy, singing about herself. Elton did better. Steve Martin and Alice Cooper are proven to be crazy here. Almost Frankenfurter style. Almost.
part 8 to 9
Strawberry Fields Forever I can imagine being sung by Olivia Newton-John. The circus comes to town. And for the benefit of Mister Kyte there will be a show tonight.
part 10
Earth, Wind, and Fire puts the hip R&B twist! and begs the question "will you still love me when I'm 64."
part 11 to Ending
Steven Tyler [in 1978 I thought his name was Aerosmith], with those big lips doing things to that microphone, scared the hell out of me. He still does!
Now this is the way to end a corny movie! "Get on back! Get back to where you once belong! Whooooo!"
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Another campy movie. But as great singer and group. Long Live Freddie Mercury!
[what? he's dead?!?]
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Larissa Lam OK I admit it. I fall for a pretty face. It's just a coincidence that she's asian.
Only Won Thanks to Angela Lee Tram I am hooked on this Asian-American rapper.
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Moses complained to God about a headache. He answered "Take two tablets and call me in the morning."
A stockholder complained about a headache to Steve Jobs. He said "Take two tablets and call me in the morning."
A republican complained to Obama of a headache. He said "Sorry we don't have a working healthcare plan."
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. . . Later that evening
Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun - Hummed this last week [see the photos]. I knew a Bill, Billy, or Mac, or Buddy; plain ugly to me. And I did peel off the labels off bottles of bud. Dedicated to those I knew at Nana' Julia, Alameda. And Andrea who I worked with.
Everyday Is A Winding Road - This video is like one of those commercials where people react to one another, inter-connected.
Picture It - Since I am in the mood, I am dedicating this to all the Southern gals on FB. You know who you are. Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow
Everybody wants to come to Hollywood.
Carson Queer Eye / Fab 5 looked excited; Timberlake, uncomfortable. In the media, no one seemed to notice that Madonna kissed Christina, too.
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Grease - this '70s movie about the '50s is a classic to me. Paul is like Danny / Travolta getting ready for his day. 
Summer Nights - I never kiss and tell. So don't ask.
Greased Lightning - I never took autoshop in high school, but I don't think any singer-dancers graduated from there. I could be wrong.
Beauty School - popular course for girls out of high school back then. I need a PhD to figure out a make-up kit nowadays. [shut up...not mine!]
Sabadooo! Mooncrater, Tanay, 1980. Roller-skating on cement. starring Olivia Newton-John
Magic is anything that happens that cannot be explained, and does not necessarily require faith. And never happens to anyone alone.
And finally...a medley"Olivia" Olivia Newton-John TV Special 1978 Guests: ABBA, Andy Gibb
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July 10
The Flash - This was a great TV series while it lasted. Watched the whole thing in two seconds.
Finished watching the pilot episode. Amanda Pays is HOT! She also plays alongside Matt Frewer/Edison Carter's Max Headroom.  /  ep02 Watching the Detectives  /  ep11 The Trickster  /    ep14 Fast Forward  /  ep17 vs. Captain Cold  /  ep18 Twin Streaks
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Witchblade ep1
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How can I see the morning after when
a) I wake up at noon, b) in space there is no day & night,
c) the ship has capsized [Posideon Adventure theme]
Barbie Girl  I saw her in L.A. last weekend. You'll never see the original dolls video becasuse of the lawsuit. Thrown out of court and both parties ordered to "chill" by the judge.  Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
There's no such thing as an 'old' soul. Another 'La la' song!
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I Hate games where you have to continue to develop your character or base of operations [farm, castle, city, empire, worlds]. Just use an agreed upon set of guidelines and rules of combat. Then pit them against each other. Simple.
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Great news! Largest fire in AZ history 100% contained. How are you holding up Emily Gunn?   Sunday at 1:52am
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Google+ is in limited Field Trial
I tried signing up for G++ and all I got was a message. Not a good sign...
Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people.
ITP says- Rodney, if you leave your Gmail address here someone here will gladly invite you. I got that message too, until someone invited me. Once you're in you see a nice-looking, smooth-running interface. It's kind of cool! And easy to use.
Guys may subscribe to the idea of circles...one for each girlfriend.
Thanks ITP, just like getting a job at Kaiser, ya gotta know someone on the inside :-)
- re comment by SMD
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Claire reminds me in her post Love is all we need (all together now / everybody)...'e loves you yah yah yah!
-see Mick Jagger at 2:37

As pre-school kids, my two cousins and I would only remember "She loves you, ya ya ya" and sing it over and over again!
I got a phone message! This is all I can think of...She Loves You
Barbara Shade This and "I wanna hold your hand" are the first Beatles song I heard. What a beginning, for this fan, and I've enjoyed them for can it be close to 50 years? Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Hello Goodbye Can someone please help me figure her out?!?
The Beatles were always silly. The Monkeys, Hannah-Barbara's, and even Scooby-Do copied their antics. Like the over-used 'open-close doors in the hallway' chase scenes.
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Currently watching...20 minutes into the future.
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About politicians: You always know when they're lying...
Their lips move. -Max Headroom  - 
Catherine Gloria Tripp, Katie Hoang and Lynne DeBortoli Rose like this.
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July 7
 - Technical difficulties have arisen from my laptop attempting to break the laws of physics, gravity being one of them.
 - I do not like digging up the past. Dead bodies, civilizations, and relationships should stay buried and cherished, not displayed for everyone's entertainment.
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July 6
Under Cover Angel - Alan O'Day - I woke up with this song in my head for some reason. Reminds me of dancing with no partner on the dance floor (she'll be back soon, always does).
Angie Baby - Helen  Reddy with animation and lyrics. Subconsciously, this is how I probably picked her name.

Please Don't Believe Me is a song by Alan O'Jay that I found in a series of writer related searches.
To harm a child is something even criminals cannot condone. I hope someone posts this song for at least 10 seconds, leaves a personal message, and invites at least their friends to do the same.

Physical - Helen Reddy helped launch Olivia Newton-John's career. 24-Hr Fitness will never paly this. It would just be too cruel!
S.O.S. - Abba - Did you get my message?
A song that ends where it began. Or does it even have an ending?
Heart Attack - Could happen when I overeat!
- Dedicated to You [...and you and you...]. I always look for G17 on a jukebox.
- This further debunks the myth that Santa red-and-white is the trademark of Cocoa~Cola.
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So what! Obama is a president of 'missed opportunities' for sure. He seems unfocused, even wishy-washy, on what is important...cannot prioritize. He has pretty much alienated the other party, socio-economic relations with other nations, and the general public. We have been presented with bad and worse choices in all elections. We are being steered in this 'wrong' direction for decades now.
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Laarni- The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent  ...to which I respond 'Beneath that exotic dress, without all that makeup, behind that foreign accent and sweet smile lies a gentleman.' ~heard at a bar.
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Funny Random Photo postsI won't be speeding again officer. I will learn more at traffic school.
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StumbleUpon- YouTube already has something like this. The only problem I have with this is, what if I have 3 or more 'personalities' on the WEB. I don't want them integrated for anyone to see. What if my main persona is the least active?
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The Bicentennial Quarter- I told my kids this coin [I held in my hand] is older than they are! They were not the slightest impressed. Not even when I said this represents my fourth year of high school and my moving to the Philippines. That's where I celebrated it by the way.
- 25 cents used to buy me a comic book!   Everything Comics  /  Free Comic Books  /  Action Comics #1
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Standardized testing is not the answer to anything. I passed in the 95 %-ile in the SAT and got my name in Who's Who which my parents paid $50 to get. Whoopie! I cut a classes and still passed the 'terms and finals. 98% Nat'l College Entrance Exam would have allowed me to enter ANY school there, if not for my average grades. I am so smart, I read the whole Calculus textbook BEFORE the mid-term, of a 2-semester course. Nathan StormProblem is Rodney - Learning came so easy to us. I literally can't understand how learning what is taught in elementary school and middle school can be 'hard.' ... I'm beginning to think the way they did it in Swedish Schools of our day was better. By the time they got to high school students had been sorted into College track, Professional Track, Manual Labor track. Why test and train a future carpenter the same as a Chemist?

Rodney Rivera True, but supposedly that was what kept us seperate from the communists at the time [or so the propaganda goes]. We were free to make our own bad choices, regardless of what our SAT told us. My pre-work aptitude test said I should be one wh...o works alone, a ranger or plant worker [Homer]. Hard-head that I was, I studied pre-dental and slipped into Optometry when that didn't work out. I end up a salesperson [eyewear] for 25 years after that. 'Lost' potential. All because of a standardized system.
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Finally uploaded from Andi...                   click to enlarge thumbnails
July 2 & 3 at L.A.

What I like about Filipino food is that it is Filipino. Not originating from New York, San Francisco, El Paso, or some World Fair.

I do like to read books. Triplanetary - a pre-Green Lantern Corp of sorts. Part of the Gutenberg collection.

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I actually did not know anything about the Anthony case.    [not posted on FB]
What I know now after the not guilty verdict is that the American justice system works. Just not as our emotions say it should. First degree murder requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. From what I understand there are two key components missing. How she was killed and motive. Neglect, strange attitude, and lying is neither motive or directly connected to the act of murder. Someone else may be at fault. Even IF she was not killed, the events leading to her death are known by the mother. That much is evident in her demeanor.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Independence Day and A Few Weeks Before

Go Spirit of 76ers!!!
Elton John performs Philadelphia Freedom for the first time, just in time for the upcoming BiCentennial. Even though he is a Brit who will later be knighted! A favorite song from my favorite singer back then.
Slow Dance With A Stranger - Danger Radio, heard at the Glendale Galleria mall...head bobbin' music.
In For The Kill - La Roux, great Universal City Walkin' music. Makes me forget that my feet hurt!

Everyone have a great and safe Fourth of July! And remember the Fourth Amendment.


Universal Studios Vacation 2011

Angie (Driver), Paul, Terrilyn, Myrna, and Andrew. All of us in the 4Runner.
Arrived to a still closed Santa Monica pier for a morning walk and stretch at about 7, after a six hour ride. Ate breakfast, shopped for a few necessities, and killed time before our afternoon check-in at Days Inn, Glendale. Only 7 miles and 15 minutes from our final destination. Very nice rooms.
We had shopped at Westfield Century City around noon and Glendale Galleria in the late afternoon.
Myrna was met by an old classmate friend and her daughter.

At Universal City Walk we first ate breakfast at Bubba Gumps. Shrimper's Heaven was a favorite. Mine being After the Storm Bucket of Boat Trash.
The lines were looooong, but worththe wait! We did the House of Horrors, Terminator 2: 3D, The Simpsons Ride, and Jurassic Park. We did not do the Tour, WaterWorld, the Experience, or King Kong 3D.
Dinner is at Karl Strauss highly recommended by Angie. Terrilyn again had a great pasta!
Home by 4 am, 4th of July Monday.
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Before the EVacu-ation...‎20 hours from now we will be taking the USS 4Runner out to the universe [-al studios]. Gotta collect more 'on the road hits'...suggestions? This was a favorite kareoke hit nearly 25 years ago!
I can't use this song since this vehicle is going solo. I could put up a banner at the back saying "follow the Rubber Duckie, ten-four" Classic movie cross between Cannonball Run and Dukes of Hazzard (the original Good ol Boys).

Friday
Rock and roll still lives in 2063. Guy in the back NEVER tells the driver to "lower that [music] down a little." Just not done, Will.
Classic played on the maiden voyage of the warp driven vessel, previously posted. Actually the lyrics are quite naughty!


Strange happenings in the second or third episode of a then new show. If humor of a sexual bend is not for you, do not read the rest of the limerick below.
There was a young lady from Venus,
whose body was shaped like a penis.


A fellow named Hunt
was shaped like a cunt,
so it all worked out fine, just between us.
...(from The War Against the Chtorr by David Gerrold
copyright 1984)

An alternative limerick made by a fan…
About the mysterious Borg Queen confronted Picard in First Contact…
There once was a lady from Venus
Who's body was shaped like a penis
When First Contact was made
The crew were dismayed
When she told them her species and genus


On an answering machine...
"There once was a man from Nantucket,

who was old, but not yet kicked the bucket,
don't be a creep,
at the sound of the beep,
...leave a message or you can just f'-- "
BEEP …or…
"-orget about anyone calling you back!"


In a more recent Star Trek Next Generation movie. Picard and Worf chase and distract an errant Data. Picard/Stewart is definitely British! Worf learns there is more than just Klingon opera. Kareoke still exists in the 2380s.


Data clips...scanning for life-forms...about to crash...singing Blue Skies...tries humor and more


I know nothing about
- urban espionage, but I like Burn Notice;
- inter-office politics and spying, but like Covert Affairs;
- con games, so I follow White Collar;
- how it really works in a corporate law office so I watch Suits;
- how to be a social person, so I watch the USA Network



Zynga Now going public! Want to play a real game? Buy stocks and see if your money grows or not.


Happy Independence Day weekend, fiscal new year, and hot weather! Sales tax drops 1%, on-line purchases are now taxed, and there will be no potholes fixed, police or firemen to answer 911, parks and pools to go to. Have a nice day!


I worked for the US Government. I am paid in Federal Reserve scripts.
I also support our government. At least 1/3rd of my wages do.


June 30
‎'In the Beginning, the End was foretold. At the End, we still did not believe it!' - Scattered Remnants of Humankind 3rd ed.


It has been foreseen that predictions are false.

‎'For every angle there is a point* unless you are so obtuse**' * so get to it! ** that you are the customer - Geometry For Salespersons 2011 ed
Barbara commented- What acute quote.

Proff that we are intelligent life...we have opposable thumbs for texting. And those that don't...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, with not a store in sight! Today's generation grew up in malls. I was found on the doorstep of 5 and Dimes, and left to fend for myself at Swans.

‎'The writing is on the wall'
This Wall is made for writing, profound to grafitti. Also for pissing, banging, and leaning on. But NOT for wailing! There's wtf[dot]com for that.

‎'Repent! For the End is coming soon!'
- Idiot, the End came and went. Y'all got left behind!

What is the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know, and I don't care.
Don't let friendships end this way.

What would never be developed if we were still a colony to the Crown. Anything to add?

The history of cinema as WE know it started about 60 years ago with classics like Ten Commandments, any from Roger and Hammerstein, Gone With The Wind, and such. Like people, it has grown. Now surroundsound, 3D, and CGI are popular. We don't even need real actors now! Do you know I fell in love with the one in Final Fantasy...and she's not real!


posted to Isabel Taronga Gasolasco
Hello to the most beautiful classmate I have ever had! Thank you for becoming my friend again :-)

June 29
Heard at a speed-dating session...
What's your name?
- What would you like to call me?
Where are you from?
- You can't go there! [British for sure]
...How old are you?
- Old enough...
Why are you here? [sounding annoyed now]
- To meet pee-pullll
[Exasperated] Are you even human?!?
- Whut do you have against reptiles?



Rodney likes First Unitarian Church of San Jose.
As I said on June 15th, 1958 at 7:14pm under a bright galactic center "I'm outta here!"

Tea Party = Conservative for Reform
Democrat= Ways with No Means
Republican- No Way!
Catherine comments- Since those who call themselves "Conservative" are for banning choice in procreation, banning choice in marriage, banning choice in school curriculum, and spending government dollars spying on our own citizenry - why not call them pro-oppressives? - Your Resident Libertarian
Another GOP/Teabagger! Read more scary stories http://bachmann.house.gov/ and at Wikipedia.
Kmowledge is the acquisition of information. Wisdom is knowing how and when to use it.  Constance Pleasant, Ed Grzybek and Enrique Gaspar like this.
“Instant Upload” is interesting. This feature of Google+ relies on the use of an Android devices to take photos or shoot video, and the content will automatically be uploaded to Google+ in the background and stored in a private album (which you can share with one click later). more http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/
For those attending the 30 Day Water Challenge AND Free Slurpee Day @ 7-Eleven...good luck with that!
FaceBook is like my livingroom which I invited everyone into [why did I do that] and Photos is like leaving my albums on the coffee table [am I really so vain?]. Other than that, please respect my privacy and refrain from taking my photos, kitchen utensils, and towels.

see attached links...
http://www.allfacebook.com/infographic-the-journey-of-a-facebook-photo-2011-06 and http://www.pixable.com/blog/2011/02/14/facebook-photo-trends-infographic/
Alert: Tomorrow is sc  heduled to be postponed for another day. Stay tuned for updates.  Sharon Lejarzar, Claire Wagner and Steve Moyer like this.  Claire comments- Guys, I hate to tell you, it's always Today. In fact, it's really always Right Now. So git 'er done.
One reason I don't bowl. I don't have the balls for it.
If I had a penny for every dollar I ever earned, that would be about right taking inflation into account.
Watching the movie Clue. I'm the butler. Originally different theaters had different endings, not all of them.
How did you discover your favorite author?
The USS Enterprise was not the only starship in the United Federation of Planets!
[skip this if you find sexual innuendo inappropriate]
Sarcasm news is written better than 3rd grade articles in most front pages. Don't even get me started on TV News at 11! If The Onion http://www.theonion.com/ doesn't get a Pulitzer, then it is just another POS award like the Miss USA title!
I was born in east Berkeley! cannot fond the original vid by cheech if there was one. btw I can never go to Arizona, sorry Emily Gunn.
I have an LG Optimus V with Android v2.2 with only 3G service on Virgin Mobile. It's beter all-around than the Intercept with the slide-out keyboard. I am learning thins as I go along, and getting only free things for now at the Market. Buying can get addictive...Terrilyn buys at least 4 things a week for the iPod Touch I got her a couple of years ago. It's my account :-) Everyone except Angie is jealous that I can go on-line anywhere...GPS, Shazam, and all that. Terrilyn can only go on FB just the same as texting. Oh, to upload albums, not just one photo at a time, can be done with a usb which I did not know was detatchable from the power adapter!
Oh, I named it 'Andi' for Android. and an Andrea I worked with long ago. Although technically a female one is called a gynoid, but I don't like the idea of poking/stroking a 'gyne.''

Angie's New Phone (also an Android 2.2) with AT&T

Muchelle Le, still missing
June 19 At Great America still. With Myrna, Angie, Terrilyn, and Topanga. Top Gun is now Flight Deck because it's not Paramount (among others). -The whole movie in 3 minutes. Can someone explain to me the deck crew bowing down [0:29] as if they were praying to or for the departing flight?