Question of the Week

I’m feeling a bit blue this morning, upset about Lindsay Lohan.

Lindsay’s having some family issues especially with her father. Actually, I think the whole family is dysfunctional, but maybe that’s just me. Maybe they’re just misunderstood.

What’s making me blue is that Lindsay is saying “No one cares about me.” To read more on this sad tale, click here.

Maybe it’s time for us here in Cincinnati to take this lovely child under our wing and give her some encouragement.

Come to Cincinnati, Lindsay. I’ll take you to Skyline. Cincinnati chili always makes everything better.

Sorry—getting carried away. Here’s the question of the week. . . .

Tell me, Cincinnati, do you care about Lindsay Lohan?

(Photo of this beautiful, lost child from WordPress)

Nuns are Human Beings Too

You don’t see nuns walking down the sidewalk in downtown Cincinnati that often—at least I don’t—but when you do, you kind of notice.

Often times, they are holding the Bible which is fine as long as they don’t start preaching to me. You know how I am when it comes to organized religion.

Our camera crew caught up with Sister Tina over the weekend on 4^th Street downtown. What Sister Tina carries in her Bible is a bit shocking.

Here, take a look.

You know, I say live and let live. Nuns are human beings too and Sister Tina can put anything she likes in her holy book.

(Photo of Sister Tina from Woodpress)

Pot Questions

In Fairfield, federal drug agents got their hands on 1,000 pounds of marijuana which has a street value of 1.5 million dollars. Click here to read more about it.

Thinking about this, I have pot questions on my mind.

What would 1,000 pounds of marijuana look like?

What will happen to all this pot?

How many lives will be saved because of this drug bust?

Why does the Federal Government still consider marijuana evil?

All right. I’m done now. Time to go drinking.

(Photo from Google)

Why Can’t Election Day be a Holiday?

It’s Election Day. Not familiar with the issues here in Cincinnati or who to vote for? Click here to get a quick education.

When will you vote today? Will you do it before you go to work, after or during your lunch break?

For many, it’s a hassle to find the time to do it and I think, in part, that’s why some people don’t vote—or they’re using “I had to work” as an excuse.

I think we should make Election Day a national holiday. Companies should pay their employees for this day off and encourage them to go vote. Employees would have all day to get around to it. That work excuse would be gone.

You know, maybe we should put this on the ballot for next year.

(Photo from catalyst.us)

Stacey Solomon and I Share a Love for Really Bad Jokes

We always keep our promises here at this blog. Here’s your latest update on what happened on the X-Factor over the weekend and, again, we all need to get behind Stacey here in Ohio because she has visited us. She’s knows what we’re about. Isn’t that a little scary?

Apparently and to my delight, Stacey and I share a love for really bad jokes. For example, do you know where cows go for fun? I’ll let Stacey tell you.

Ha! So bad, it’s good!

Here’s one for you, Stacey. . .

This grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says “You know, I got a drink named after you.”

The grasshopper looks at the bartender and says, “You got a drink named Steve?”

Funny, right? Stacey, maybe you could tell this on X-Factor next weekend. Or maybe not.

Do you have any bad jokes to share with Stacey?

(Photo from Google)

Take a Ride on the Metro, Courtesy of U.S. Bank

This past Thursday, I was standing at the bus stop on E. 6^th Street downtown waiting on a Tank bus to take me over to Newport. I was approached by a guy wearing a U.S. Bank t-shirt. He wanted to give me some money.

Well, no, not really money but he was passing out free bus tokens for Cincinnati Metro. The token was glued inside a promotional card announcing “S.T.A.R.T.”—Savings Today and Rewards Tomorrow.

Right above the bus token, it says on the card “S.t.a.r.t. with a free ride on us.”

Pretty clever, don’t you think? Well sure it is, but not clever enough to get me to change banks.

Regardless, the guy passing out the tokens give me two of them, each worth regular bus fare which is $1.50—so he actually gave me three bucks.

I’ll consider this an act of kindness. After all, when was the last time you ever heard of a bank giving money away?

(Photo from Flickr.com)

That Was the Week That Was—In Blogs

Quick, tell me, what time is it? Did you remember to move your clocks back an hour?

For some reason I did this year. Usually for days I don’t really know what time it is, but I’m on it this year. Here, let me give myself a pat on the pat.

And while we’re talking about time, doesn’t it pass quickly? It’s already time to get ready for this year’s CEA awards. John Fox at The Daily Beat tells us that over 3,000 ballots have already been turned in. This year’s awards show will be held at the Madison Theater in Covington on November 22.

It’s been years since we’ve had a McDonald’s in downtown Cincinnati—now Iceland is preparing for no more Big Macs. Reuters fills us in.

Sadly, Halloween is over, but is it ever really too late for “The Pumpkin Dance?” Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish doesn’t think so.

And in religion news. . . The Huffington Post is telling us that the Catholics are upset with Larry David. He seems Larry was peeing on Jesus. Accidents do happen, but is it an accident that the Catholics treat nuns like second-class citizens? Maureen Dowd doesn’t think so.

And in closing, The Cincinnati Nation is telling us that newly released records from the White House reveal the first visitors to visit President Obama. Guess what? Local boy George Clooney was one of the first!

Oddly enough, local “actor” Roger Ach wasn’t on the list.

(Photo from Google)

The Greatest Pumpkin

Here’s an e-mail I got from my friend Marilyn a few days ago. Yes, I’m sharing.

No one was more astonished than I when I actually created this pumpkin yesterday. I found the pattern on the internet and knew I had to at least try doing this.

This is completely different than cutting through (which I’ve done since the early 90’s)… This requires wood carving tools and one just carves out half the skin & flesh of the pumpkin and leaves a thin layer intact.

Strangely enough, I had the required tools.

. . . and here’s the finished product.

Honestly, I have never seen a pumpkin like this in my life.

Here’s a suggestion, Marilyn. Next Halloween, market and sell your pumpkins. You’ll make a fortune.

Everybody, have a great and safe Halloween. We’ll be back on Sunday.

(Photo, of course, from Marilyn)

Question of the Week

I was in the Kroger on Ferguson Avenue a few days ago doing a little grocery shopping and guess what I saw? My first Christmas tree of the season! I got so excited!

No, not really.

Here’s the question of the week—hell we might have asked this last year too.

How’s it going to be for you this year? Will you be spending a lot of money on Christmas presents, or because of the continued bad economy, will you be scaling back?

(Photo found on Google)

Just Another Example Why Cincinnati City Council Sucks

Cincinnati Council Woman Leslie Ghiz tells Cincinnati Council Woman Laketa Cole that “You never shut up” and Laketa doesn’t like that and adjourns the meeting and Leslie has been saying mean things about Laketa on Twitter which, of course Laketa doesn’t like and so on and so on.

It’s like two kids fighting on the playground.

Read more about this childlike behavior here.

Yep, just another example why Cincinnati City Council sucks and why it’s so difficult to get anything done here.

Hey—don’t we have an election coming up? Maybe some changes are in order.

Oh, I’m sorry. How silly of me.

(Photo of Ghiz from CityBeat)