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)

Under Thinking Gay Marriage

I came upon this report recently about how the U.S. Census Bureau is making an effort to include same-sex couples in next year’s national population count—but legally married gay couples won’t really show up until the year 2020.

It’s a pretty dry report, but if you’re interested in reading it, click here.

When it comes to gay marriage, maybe I’m under thinking it instead of over thinking it. To me, if two guys or two girls want to marry one another, so what? These people should have been included in census reports years ago.

With all the horrible stuff going on in the world, I simply don’t care about this issue. As far as I’m concerned same-sex turtles can even marry.

I sort of went on a rant about this in September of 2008 in the Living Out Loud column in CityBeat. If you want to read it—sure, here’s another place to click to.

(Photo from WordPress)

Maybe it’s Time to Take the Sugar out of Halloween

Halloween is this Saturday night! Have you bought your candy for those trick-or-treaters yet?

If you haven’t, maybe you should consider giving them something besides candy. You know, all that sugar isn’t good for them—especially their teeth.

If you’re looking for Halloween candy alternatives, I’m here to help. Click here to find out what else you could be passing out.

As for me, I won’t be passing out candy. I’ve decided to pass out unread copies of Metromix. I’ll consider this my way of recycling.

(Photo from WordPress)

Clicking for Stacey Solomon

As promised, here’s your weekly update on Stacey Solomon and the X Factor.

We’ll try to keep it short and sweet this week.

To find out why we’re doing this, click here.

If you’re interested in finding out who got voted off this weekend’s show, you can find out my clicking here. The “bottom two” is a bit of a shocker.

Want to get to know Stacey better? Click here for a pretty good article.

I know: a lot of clicking for a Monday morning. We’ll try to do better next week.

(Photo from X Factor)

That Was the Week That Was—In Blogs

So, do you watch The Weather Channel? Nope, I never have. Whenever I want to know what it’s like outside, I go to The Cincinnati Nation and their weather link to find out. I don’t live for the weather—just dress accordingly.

But The Weather Channel has been around for a long time now. Some people are totally hooked on weather and for these folks; it’s just going to get better.

According to Screenrant, The Weather Channel will very soon start showing movies that are “weather related” which, of course, makes perfect sense because most movies, if not all, have some kind of weather happening in them.

Will the person enthusiastic about the weather pay attention to what’s happening in the movie and get engrossed in the dialogue or will they be more curious to see how windy it is on the movie set? And do we even care about these people? To be continued.

Speaking of weather, windbag Ann Coulter has yet another new book out. She went on Joy Behar’s cable show and said all presidential assassinations have been committed by “Left wing loons.” To read more about this “Right wing loon,” go to Crooks and Liars.

Are you outraged that our President isn’t a big fan of Fox News and kind of ignores the people there? Do you care? Wonkette is telling us that President Obama isn’t losing any sleep over this. Maybe he’s more concerned about the weather than those idiots on Fox.

What the hell is C.A. MacConnell doing up at five in the morning? Is she worried about Fox and Bill O’Reilly? Is she watching The Weather Channel?

Finally, The Huffington Post is telling us Charlize Theron was paid $140,000 to make out with a female stranger which has got me to thinking.

I too am willing to make out with a female stranger for $140,000. In fact, I’ll do it for much less.

Offer me ten bucks and your address. I’ll show up at your place totally not giving a rats ass what the weather is like outside.

(Graphic found on Google)

Elvis is Alive and Well and Performing at Arnold’s

For those in the know, Elvis faked his death in 1977 and moved here to Cincinnati. Actually the “King” and I live on the same street here in Westwood.

Over the past couple months; Elvis has been performing at Arnold’s on E. 8^th Street downtown, usually on Thursday nights.

I caught some of his show last night—brought a camera with me and taped some of the show. Yes, I’m going to share.

Here’s Elvis doing one of my favorites, “Burning Love.”

Total confession: I’ve been off my meds for weeks and I’m drinking a lot. I don’t want to believe this actually took place at Rivefront Coliseum in 1976. For me, the “King” will live forever.

(Photo of Elvis found in my wallet. He gave it to me last week)

A Boob and Her Boobs

How come nothing like this ever happens in Cincinnati?

Remember Carrie Prejean, that former Miss California who doesn’t care for gay people? Well apparently, she doesn’t care for her boobs either. It seems that the Miss California Pageant gave Carrie $5,200 to have them fixed—whatever that means.

As we all know, it didn’t work out for Carrie being Miss California (she came across a bit “fake” don’t you think?) and now the pageant wants their boob money back. Click here to read more about it.

Suggestion to Carrie: Have those implants removed but first, have a friend take a photo of you and your fake boobs. After your implants have been removed, have that same friend take another photo of you and your real boobs.

You’re nude in both photos, of course. You’ll have “before then after” pictures of your boobs!

Take those photos, turn them into a poster and sell those posters on E-Bay!

You’re make a lot of money—more than enough to pay back those pageant people—and you can pocket the rest, or perhaps have another boob job done.

You’re welcome, Carrie. I’m just trying to look out for you.

(Photo from WordPress)

It’s Not Getting Any Better for Newspapers

Over the past couple months; you haven’t heard that much about newspapers failing, so are things getting better for the print media?

Probably not. The New York Times has announced they intend to cut their newsroom leaving 100 people without jobs.

To read more on the story, click here.

(Photo from WordPress)