Just Because: May 2010

OH MY! Nike's Golden Boy smooth as silk with the man who will take center stage on June 11th. The Fever is spreading.

SUPERBOWL 2014 NYC/NJ

I'm so pumped right now. Mr. Altidore you will have to step up. I'm ready.

The Internet is full of amazing things I can't even begin to explain. WOW!!

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1805457

I randomly started humming this song and I was reminded how great this song is. What a beautiful voice.

This is another amazing post. I want to move to Costa Rica (Happiness)

This tournament could not come any sooner. I am itching for pool play to begin. In the meantime the SWOOSH has done is again with the dope film.

This is so great. It is cracking me up to no end in my office. West Indians rejoice!

http://www.vashtie.com/blog/2010/05/17/funny-russell-peters-on-jamaicans-trinidadians-and-guyanese/

FAIL SAUCE:

"I'm bleeding out of my ball$, dude"

http://www.adicup.com/fixtures/new-york/

http://www.nitrolicious.com/blog/2010/05/19/adicup-2010-us-pack-with-arkitip-undefeated/

For the event this Saturday, Brother Jimmy’s BBQ will cater to the masses while DJ Neil Armstrong will keep the crowd going with as fresh a set as ever for what promises to be the largest audience to date.

adiCupDate/Time: May 22, 2010 1pm-8pmLocation: Pier 40, Westside Highway @ W. Houston Street

I ALWAYS HAVE FUN AT THIS EVENT. FREE FOOD, BEER, SODA, WATER, AND SOCCER. What more could you ask for?

I love this:

Would I want Spike as my coach? Maybe not but I would sure love to wear that sweet kit.

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/NEWS/100519799

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — About 180 county employees in suburban Atlanta are being asked to return thousands of dollars the county says they were overpaid 16 years ago.
Gwinnett County’s chief financial officer, Aaron Bovos, calls it a project to “clean up receivables and to eliminate outstanding obligations.”

The county is seeking to collect more than $39,000 from employees who received bonuses in their paychecks in 1994. Authorities blamed the over payments on a payroll anomaly when the county adjusted employees’ payroll cycles.
Employees can apply the money to vacation leave or make a cash payment.

"This really made me laugh. Are theses people buggin? I wonder if all the workers will band together and say "hell no" I would not be paying this back. And it was 16 years ago. "

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=5199267

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Can Lamar Odom's 19 points and 19 rebounds in the Los Angeles Lakers' 128-107 win in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals be attributed to something as trivial as his uniform number, lucky No. 7?

Phoenix's Amare Stoudemire seems to think so.

Stoudemire

Odom
"I'm not giving him no hype right now; he had a lucky game in Game 1," Stoudemire said after Suns practice Tuesday at Staples Center. "We just got to make sure we box him out. I think I focused so much on [Pau] Gasol and [Andrew] Bynum to where he snuck in there and got 19 boards, so now we just got to make sure there's three guys out there that can rebound well [when] adding Odom. So, we got to do a better job on them."

Odom barely batted an eyelash when told about Stoudemire's claim after the Lakers finished practice.

"So be it," Odom said. "Hopefully I can have another lucky one."

Odom hit his first three shot attempts and finished 9-for-15 in the game. When he entered the contest midway through the first quarter the Lakers were down by five, and after his seven points and four rebounds to finish the quarter, L.A. led by nine heading into the second.

"I just go out there and play whatever the matchup is," Odom said. "I just try to be as efficient as possible in a run-and-gun game. Do all the small things, catch the ball near the basket, put it in."

Lakers coach Phil Jackson said that Odom created his own good fortune by being aggressive on the floor.

"You make your own luck we say, that's what sports people like to say," Jackson said. "I think he was just aggressive when he came in and tried to feel out where he could help us in the game. He hit a couple open shots and then everything started opening up for him -- drives, offensive rebounds and his whole game kind of came forward.

"That's a lot of times the way basketball is. A guy starts playing well and just things fall in his hands. It certainly did for him last night and we hope it continues that way."

Stoudemire's comments made Lakers captain Derek Fisher recall recently watching Larry King interview Mick Jagger.

"They were asking Mick Jagger about why he felt like the Rolling Stones have been so great for so long," Fisher said. "Obviously, he talked about talent, working hard, blah, blah, blah. But he said there is some luck involved in being good. When you're great for a long time, you have to be lucky sometimes. So if he wants to call Lamar lucky last night, I'll take 19 and 19 as luck any day of the week."

"Ahh Amare I respect you but you are a little out of line with this one. You had three rebounds. You might want to step it up son! I LOVE LA! WE LOVE IT!"

This is embarrasing and hilarious at the same time. "PLEASE STAY LEBRON"

"And don't forget the Knicks and Nets are terrible"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/unfair_fowl_heights_chicken_food_9zZlrDLGwKry96RszCisaK?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME =

This is that BULLSHIT. Where can we buy food anymore? I might start raising my own chickens. We do have a terrace that would hold a small coop.

Boston did get healthy at the right time and the fact that the other teammates just stood around with their head up their asses! Can you imagine you as a basketball player being recruited by Jay Z to come play for him? I would be into it.

I love talented people but especially when I find out random facts about people I am even more impressed. Did you know that Frank Oz was the voice of Miss Piggy?

Via Wikipedia:

His characters have included Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam the Eagle on The Muppet Show, and Grover, Cookie Monster and Bert on Sesame Street.

Oz is also well known as the performer of Jedi Master Yoda from George Lucas' Star Wars series. Oz performed the voice and puppet for Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace, and provided the voice of the computer-generated imagery (CGI) Yoda in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. The conversion to CGI was met with some criticism among fans but Oz himself said that was "exactly what [Lucas] should have done."[6] Oz had a great deal of creative input on the character and was himself responsible for creating the character's trademark speech style, placing predicate before subject. George Lucas was so impressed by Oz's performance as Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back that he tried to get him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

I only knew his work as a director on "Little Shop of Horrors" and "What about Bob" but damn talk about versatility.

FRANK OZ....This is for you. Cheers!

I say Chicago bound.

http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/05/everyone_knows_about_the_ticket_policy_at_katzs_but_what_happens_if_you_actually_lose_it.php

The first rule of dining at Katz's Delicatessen is, of course: don't lose the little carnival ticket that they give you upon entry. An employee tells you to hold onto to it when you enter, there's a giant sign enforcing the rule above the deli counter, and there's even a line of "I Found My Ticket at Katz's" merch nailed to a walls to drive the point home. But, what happens if — somehow — you lose the ticket, and then try and settle up without it? A reader found out the hard way. From the inbox:

A few weeks ago, went to Katz's with my girlfriend who'd never been. We sit down, then move tables to a less dirty one, my girlfriend leaves her ticket at the old table, it gets cleared. We eat, the check comes, they ask for our tickets. I had mine, she didn't have hers. The waiter says that we have to find it, as there's a $50 fine if we can't. We say, it was cleared at the old table, they ask who cleared it (even asking us to identify the busboy), we said we didn't know, they told us to go up to the register, maybe they have it there, they didn't. At the register, they tried to make us pay the $50 on top of the $45 for our meal, and kept trying, to the point where they brought over the security guard who tried to muscle us into paying it even more.

The saga continues.>>>
We just walked out after dropping money for our meal. Nightmare — terrible last impression for your customers.
Basically, the $50 lost ticket thing is a big scam to swindle money out of tourists. They write the price of your check on *one* of your party's ticket, so there's no reason why everyone has to present their ticket, and no reason why a lost ticket fee should be $50, which is more than any one person can spend there on a meal, and on top of the cost of their actual meal. Also: they write a proper check that they just don't give you. Waste of paper!

Surprisingly, NO ONE has complained about this on Yelp or anywhere else I could find. They love this policy, to the point where they even have t-shirts that say "I found my ticket at Katz's."

So, we put this to you readers: Was the Katz's patron right in assuming that the policy is an unnecessary scam? Or is it just a way to keep order among the high-volume madness of the Deli? Anyone with a "lost ticket" experience at Katz's, please tell your tale in the comments.

"Well that's why they say don't lose your ticket. Is it that difficult to hold onto a ticket? Would you "lose" your coat check ticket at a bar or club? I doubt it. C'MON SON!! I bet they will be back."

I agree with this commercial 100%. I wish people in my neighborhood and at my job specifically would watch this. Sweatpants are not to be worn outside of the home unless walking to the gym or to participate in some sporting activity. That is it period. Thank You.

So smooth so talented so Phil. The reason for this post is that I FINALLY saw The Hangover with the Lady M and it got me to thinking I need more Phil Collins in my life. I-tunes here I come:

You're Welcome:

ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE--My introduction to David Crosby (sad i know)

AGAINST ALL ODDS

TAKE ME HOME

IN THE AIR TONIGHT

TWO HEARTS

ONE MORE NIGHT

EASY LOVER

I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN

SUSSUDIO

This is my favorite track on the CD.

Where have I been that I missed this website? This is for you Alison and Nick Sorry Alison but looks like PA won the Walmart race and that's not a good thing. Just a reminder that I loved your wedding. YAY PA!

Drake - New Music - More Music Videos

DRAKE SINGS...NOT BAD....

(CNN) -- Danish cuisine reigns supreme, according to some of the planet's most prominent eaters.

S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list was released on Monday at a celebrity-chef-studded event in London, England, marking the ninth edition of the much buzzed-about (and hotly debated) catalogue of the international culinary landscape.

The No. 1 spot goes to Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark. The restaurant, helmed by chef René Redzepi, ranked No. 3 in 2009. The Guardian newspaper's restaurant critic Jay Rayner -- better known to U.S. food fans as a judge on "Top Chef Masters" -- agrees with the judges' decision.

Writes Rayner on The Guardian's food blog, "Is that the right result? Allowing for the fact that I think the rankings are far less interesting than the list itself, I would say, yes."

"Redzepi, the 32-year-old chef at Noma, pursues a regional, seasonal agenda that is right on the cutting edge: if it isn't available in the Nordic region, he won't cook with it," he continued.

TOP 5 RESTAURANTS IN WORLD
1) Noma (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2) El Bulli (Roses, Spain)
3) The Fat Duck (Bray, England)
4) El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain)
5) Mugaritz (Errenteria, Spain)
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Culinary Arts
Copenhagen
Food and Cooking
"The result is a very idiosyncratic style of food that speaks to concerns about the way a global food culture turns our eating experiences a uniform beige."

Noma's ascension to the top slot ends the reign of a culinary titan.

After four consecutive years ranked as the World's Best Restaurant, Spanish restaurant El Bulli takes a seat at No. 2. However, that won't make it any easier to snag a table. Only 8,000 reservations are accepted every year, out of a reported million requests.

The dethroning of Catalonia's culinary king, Ferran Adrià, comes after his announcement of plans to close the Mecca of molecular gastronomy for two years in December 2011.

In 2014, the restaurant will reopen as a nonprofit foundation -- "a think tank of gastronomic creativity" for 20 to 25 young chefs. Despite the second-place finish, Adrià was still awarded Restaurant Magazine's Chef of the Decade honor.

The illustrious list is compiled by The World's 50 Best Restaurants Academy -- an 806-member panel of the globe's most venerated chefs, food critics, restaurateurs and gourmands.

"The list creates tremendous debate -- and it's meant to," according to the World's 50 Best release.

Eight of the restaurants crowned this year -- Alinea in Chicago, Illinois; Daniel, Per Se, Le Bernardin, Momofuku Ssäm Bar, wd~50 and Eleven Madison Park in New York; and The French Laundry in Yountville, California -- are in the United States, this year's most honored country.

Of the remaining 42 top finishers, six are in France; Spain and Italy each have five. Here is the full list:

1) Noma (Copenhagen, Denmark)

2) El Bulli (Roses, Spain)

3) The Fat Duck (Bray, England)

4) El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain)

5) Mugaritz (Errenteria, Spain)

6) Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy)

7) Alinea (Chicago, Illinois)

8) Daniel (New York)

9) Arzak (San Sebastián, Spain)

10) Per Se (New York)

11) Le Chateaubriand (Paris, France)

12) La Colombe (Cape Town, South Africa)

13) Pierre Gagnaire (Paris, France)

14) L'Hotel de Ville - Philippe Rochat (Crissier, Switzerland)

15) Le Bernardin (New York)

16) L'Astrance (Paris, France)

17) Hof Van Cleve (Kruishoutem, Belgium)

18) D.O.M. (São Paolo, Brazil)

19) Oud Sluis (Sluis, Netherlands)

20) Le Calandre (Rubano, Italy)

21) Steirereck (Vienna, Austria)

22) Vendôme (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany)

23) Chef Dominique (Helsinki, Finland)

24) Les Créations de Narisawa (Tokyo, Japan)

25) Mathias Dahlgren (Stockholm, Sweden)

26) Momofuku Ssäm Bar (New York)

27) Quay Restaurant (Sydney, Australia)

28) Iggy's (Singapore)

29) L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon (Paris, France)

30) Schloss Schauenstein (Fürstenau, Switzerland)

31) Le Quartier Français (Franschhoek, South Africa)

32) The French Laundry (Yountville, California)

33) Martin Berasategui (Lasarte-oria, Spain)

34) Aqua (Bath, England)

35) Combal Zero (Rivoli, Italy)

36) Dal Pescatore (Mantova, Italy)

37) De Librije (Zwolle, Netherlands)

38) Tetsuya's (Sydney, Australia)

39) Jaan Par Andre (Singapore)

40) Il Canto (Siena, Italy)

41) Alain Ducasse Au Plaza Athénée (Paris, France)

42) Oaxen Krog (Oaxen, Sweden)

43) St. John (London, England)

44) La Maison Troisgros (Roanne, France)

45) wd~50 (New York)

46) Biko (Mexico City, Mexico)

47) Die Schwarzwaldstube (Baiersbronn, Germany)

48) Nihonryori RyuGin (Tokyo, Japan)

49) Hibiscus (London, England)

50) Eleven Madison Park (New York)

By the end of 2010 I will visit @ least two of these eateries.

Gotta love this: Hip Hop and the Journal? YES!

The Jazz are down 3-0 to my Lakers but I think KOBE needs to buy all the copies of that LA Times magazine so things like this won't happen again. I had a good laugh with this one:

At the 2:40 minute mark I have to agree about the Ron Artest's hair. Basketball wives talk after the 3:49 mark...so true.....one Basketball Wife in the show. "C'mon Arizona get the fuckouttaherewithallthatbullshit"

And after the 6:35 mark please make sure there is no food in your mouth because this one is a doozy.

I think sales of the England's have gone up 100%

E. coli forces lettuce recall; 19 ill in 3 states
By MARY CLARE JALONICK (AP) – 5 hours ago

WASHINGTON — A food company is recalling lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people, three of them with life-threatening symptoms.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that 12 people had been hospitalized and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was looking at 10 other cases probably linked to the outbreak.

Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said it was recalling romaine lettuce sold under the Freshway and Imperial Sysco brands because of a possible link to the E. coli outbreak.

College students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ohio State in Columbus and Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y., are among those affected, according to local health departments in those states.

The FDA is focusing its investigation on lettuce grown in Arizona as a possible source for the outbreak, according to two people who have been briefed by the agency. Donna Rosenbaum, director of the food safety advocacy group Safe Tables Our Priority and one of those briefed, said the agency held a phone call with public health advocates Thursday.

Rosenbaum and other public health advocates have long been pushing for stronger food safety laws. The House passed a bill last year that would give the agency much more authority to police food production, but the Senate has not acted on it.

The New York state Public Health Laboratory in Albany discovered the contamination in a bag of Freshway Foods shredded romaine lettuce on Wednesday after local authorities had been investigating the outbreak for several weeks. The bag of lettuce came from a processing facility that was also linked to the illnesses, the FDA said. The agency would not disclose the name of that facility or its location but said an investigation was under way.

E. coli infection can cause mild diarrhea or more severe complications, including kidney damage. The three patients with life-threatening symptoms were diagnosed with hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can cause bleeding in the brain or kidneys.

It was not immediately clear why students on college campuses were sickened. Freshway Foods said the lettuce was sold to wholesalers, food service outlets, in-store salad bars and delis.

Susan Cerniglia, spokeswoman for the public health department in Washtenaw County, where the University of Michigan is located, said it doesn't appear that students who were sickened ate the contaminated food on campus. It is believed they may have been sickened at local restaurants, she said. Most of those sickened lived in Ann Arbor and not on campus.

The Erie County, N.Y., health department issued an alert late last month that linked at least one diagnosis of E. coli to a student who ate at a Daemen College dining facility. The alert said twelve students had been sickened after eating at the school and three students were hospitalized.

Kevin Montgomery of the Erie health department said Thursday that one case of E. coli was confirmed at Daemen College and another was suspected. All of the students have now recovered, he said.

The most common strain of E. coli found in U.S. patients is E. coli O157. The CDC said the strain linked to the lettuce, E. coli 0145, is more difficult to identify and may go unreported.

Freshway Foods said in a statement Thursday that the FDA informed the company about the positive test in New York on Wednesday afternoon. The statement said "an extensive FDA investigation" of Freshway Foods' facility in Sidney has not uncovered any contamination at the plant.

The recalled lettuce has a "best if used by" date of May 12 or earlier. The recall also affects "grab and go" salads sold at Kroger, Giant Eagle, Ingles Markets and Marsh grocery stores.

The lettuce was sold in Alabama, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

1ST of all I'd like to sat Victoria Secret's lawyers need to be watching. I hope they have a copyright on any "SECRET" names referring to lingerie. This video cracks me up with the creepy boss looking down that woman's shirt. Enjoy the HILARITY of the CAMI SECRET.

I am excited for this one: Even meg ROOTS for RAIDER NATION.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5165049

Boo, I'm buying an XBOX ASAP.

This guy definitely needs help. The numerous outbursts have to stop. Get well soon Uncle Milty.

SEATTLE -- Milton Bradley, baseball's self-described bad guy, has asked his Seattle Mariners for help in dealing with what manager Don Wakamatsu says is "emotional stress" from personal issues.

Wakamatsu and general manager Jack Zduriencik said Wednesday that their fiery slugger is out indefinitely until he receives an outside assessment and a plan to address his issues.

It's come to a head," Zduriencik said.

A day earlier, Bradley became angry for striking out twice and Wakamatsu removed him from a close game in the sixth inning because the manager thought he wasn't fit to play anymore. Bradley left the stadium soon after. Several Mariners players described his mindset Tuesday night as "not good."

A source told 710 ESPN Radio Seattle Bradley yelled at the umpire from the bench before being told by Wakamatsu to cool it. Wakamatsu said that he would handle the umpire himself. Bradley responded that someone had to say something and that if Wakamatsu wouldn't, then he would.

According to the source, a few minutes later Bradley walked back over to the skipper and said, "I'm packing my stuff. I'm out of here." Then he left.

Bradley sent ESPN's Colleen Dominguez a message saying, "Any reports that I said I'm packing up and leaving are 100 percent fabricated."

Bradley added, "I'm with an organization of people that I trust have my best interest in mind and have never passed judgment. I'm a human being first to them."

Wednesday morning, Bradley called Wakamatsu to ask for a face-to-face meeting with him and Zduriencik. The 32-year-old then arrived at Safeco Field and told the leaders of his eighth team in 10 seasons, "I need your help."

It was a startling admission from a player who publicly blamed Chicago's fans and media for running him out of that city following his failed season with the Cubs in 2009.

"The fact he has stood up and asked for us to help him, I think, is an extremely important step for him as a young man," Zduriencik said.

Bradley is batting .214 with two home runs and 12 RBIs in 21 games.

Wakamatsu called him in last month after he flipped off a fan during a game in Texas in the midst of a 1-for-21 start. Also last month, the slumping slugger admitted to Wakamatsu he feels enormous pressure to produce in Seattle.

His final strikeout Tuesday came looking at a pitch down the middle with the bases loaded in what became Seattle's fourth consecutive loss.

He told the Mariners' leaders, and then his teammates in a clubhouse meeting later, that his issues have put him in a position where he can't compete the way he expects, and that "it's been a long time coming."

Zduriencik said he spoke to Bradley's agent and "they are happy and are on board with this."

Ryan Langerhans, called up from Triple A on Tuesday, was in Wednesday's lineup for Bradley in left field against Tampa Bay. The Mariners are exploring roster options to possibly deactivate Bradley for a short time.

"He's going through some things in his life right now that are very personal and very emotional," Zduriencik said. "We firmly believe that we manage people first. Certainly we are about winning baseball games ... but most important is the employees that work with us. We will join together and help him receive the assistance that he needs."

Two hours earlier, Bradley revealed yet another emotional side.

Joined by fellow speakers Wakamatsu, Ichiro Suzuki, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Sweeney, Bradley stood before students and teachers at Lakeridge Elementary school in south Seattle and openly discussed what motivates him.

The man who in March told The Associated Press he was baseball's Kanye West interrupted himself at one point because he was getting overcome with emotions during an impassioned five-minute talk to students on the Mariners' annual education day.

"I grew up in Long Beach, Calif., me and my mother," Bradley said softly through a microphone while in front of a stage in the school's lunchroom. "She worked in a grocery store, checking out groceries every day, 40 hours a week. Every day she'd come home, get the mail. She'd get in the same chair with the bills. She'd put in one pile the bills she could pay. In another pile she'd put the ones she couldn't pay. Bill collectors would call. I saw her fall asleep in that chair.

"I saw that every day. That was my motivation," to reach the major leagues.

Then, Bradley -- who recently complained that no one ever asks him where he's from, what he's about -- shrugged. With a previously buzzing student body nearly silent and teachers watching intently, Bradley said through glistening eyes: "I'm kind of getting a little emotional right now, because this is my heart."

Then he waved his hand over the kids.

"The whole world's ahead of you," Bradley said. "Someone in here might change the world. Motivation is what's most important."

As Bradley sat down, Sweeney hugged him. The five-time All-Star then gave Bradley's back a comforting pat. The slugger smiled.

After the school event, Sweeney said the Mariners are going to help Bradley.

"The way we're going to do that is just, to love on him," Sweeney said. "His track record shows he's had some ups and downs. But we can embrace him and get him to click the way he did in Texas [in 2008, Bradley's All-Star season].

"He's a beautiful man, with a beautiful heart."

http://news.yahoo.com/video/sacramentocbs13-15751210/students-sent-home-over-american-flag-shirts-19585803

All of a sudden you want to wear your American Flag gear? I think some of these kids are upset because they are part Mexican. All this "Un-American" talk is getting on my nerves. Two of these rinky dinks are 1/2 Mexican. HMMM someone a little mad at their mommy or daddy?

I'm making a trip to Barbados. This is taking the already elitist sport of POLO to another level. I guess a segway does cost less than a horse.

KAROKE IN YOUR OFFICE/CUBICAL/HOME

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/george-rekers-anti-gay-ac_n_565142.html

"George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist who co-founded the conservative Family Research Council, was caught returning from a 10-day trip to Europe with a male escort he found on Rentboy.com, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Not to worry, Rekers told the Miami New Times, which broke the story: He claims he learned his 20-year-old companion was a prostitute only midway through their trip, they had no intimate contact, and he hired the young man only because recent surgery means "I can't lift luggage."
This seems highly dubious, not least because the New Times reporters spotted the retired professor pushing his baggage cart through Miami International Airport. It would be extremely difficult to stumble upon the Rentboy.com homepage, which features young well-muscled men rubbing each other's crotches on grainy video loops, and not figure out what the site means by "rent boy."
The site's pages aren't indexed by Google, either, so we'll need to take the New Times' word for it that the profile page for Rekers' escort advertised his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock." The young man denied that he and Rekers had sex, but he did confirm that they met via his Rentboy profile.
With the scandal flaring in the wake of the New Times expose, Rekers published a statement on his personal website that decries the story's "misleading innuendo." He confuses libel with slander, but he doesn't deny any specific element of the story, only repeating his claim that he needed help carrying luggage and averring that family and friends will back that claim.
Rekers, who is also a professor emeritus of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina and a Baptist minister, recently testifed against gay adoption in Florida, where he resides. Raw Story flagged a particularly jarring article in which he claims that children adopted by gay couples are more likely to commit suicide.
The retired professor has remained far less high-profile than his Family Research Council co-founder James Dobson, but he is an extremely prolific author of books like Who Am I? Lord and Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality. He has also advised members of Congress, the White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the New Times story, which is worth reading in its entirety."

You didn't know he was a PROSTI? I'm no gexpert(gay expert yes you can use that) but I have heard of the term "RENT BOY" and I'm sure rentboy.com is fairly obvious. Anyway, doesn't it seem like the more homophobic these folks are the more these stories of them hiding their gayness comes out.

Via http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/05/old_homesteads_10_millionth_customer_to_receive_lifetime_of_steak.php

Congratulations, you've just won a cholesterol problem!

"This week in publicity stunts: Old Homestead Steakhouse which opened in the Meatpacking District back in 1868, is offering its 10 millionth customer free steak every week for him/her and a guest for life. It's somewhat arbitrary given they have to guesstimate the number, but the owners say they've "spent months" running the numbers (uh huh) to figure out the big 10 mil is coming in two weeks. Regardless, someone's about to win an incredibly valuable prize, especially at the current price of $48 a steak. Here's betting some tourist, old timer, or occasional meat eater will end up with the win."

I can just smell the lawsuits now. I am sure the contract that you sign will be 20 pages long filled with all of this legal jargon that basically says "it's not our fault"

It's not polite to laugh in church at others but I guess it's a good place to ask for forgiveness at the same time.

GOD BLESS THIS MAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOfMP8cOZQ&feature=related

How did I miss this! Carolina players bring more to the table than just their ball skills. That boy can sang! And yes Nick B BALL is back in Milwaukee! There hasn't been this much excitement in Milwaukee since.....

I don't even drink and I think this is amazing. I think MEG needs to think about this for the next dinner extravaganza. OOPS, what am I thinking? She is way too sophisticated for this.

VIA URBAN DADDY

You've popped the cork. Cracked the can. Sipped the flask.

Now it's time to pierce the box...

You know what we're talking about. You met the box years ago. You were younger then, gleaming with a clear-eyed innocence. A time when afternoons were endless, love meant sharing a packet of Fun Dip, and hard drinking meant taking a small plastic straw and stabbing it through the heart of a box of Mott's apple juice.

And now, finally, behold: Juice Box Cocktails, available tomorrow at the Anchor's new Thursday night DJ parties.

It is exactly as it sounds. Various juice boxes from your youth have been injected with the one ingredient you somehow always knew was missing: booze.

And as with anything that's worthwhile, don't look for a menu. You have to order these box cocktails by name. We're here to help.

Juice Box: Apple Juice (aka An Apple a Day)
Ingredients: Starts with a box of Mott's apple juice. Then the injection, via plastic syringe, of bourbon, sour apple mash and cranberry juice. The first sip may cause an intense flashback to grade school. Let it pass. Keep drinking.

Juice Box: OJ (aka Cigarette and a Hall Pass)
Ingredients: Orange juice injected with tequila and just a drop of blood-like grenadine. And yes, it's served with a single Parliament Light.

Juice Box: Lemonade (aka The Hall Monitor)
Ingredients: A boxy take on the lemon drop martini, with vodka and elderflower liqueur injected into an unsuspecting box of Minute Maid lemonade. The sweet taste is trumped only by the convenience and portability of the juice box. Forgo the temptation to order one for the road.

Juice Box Cocktails
available at The Anchor
310 Spring St
New York, NY 10013
212-463-7406

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2010/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=Sarver-100504

The "Los Suns" jerseys the Phoenix Suns wear annually for the NBA's "Noche Latina" program just went from marketing gimmick to political statement.
And a playoff series with a narrative already worthy of The History Channel just added a subplot that would make for a rowdy segment on Fox News Channel.
In announcing the Suns would wear their Spanish jerseys for Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs -- which falls on the Mexican holiday known as Cinco de Mayo -- Suns owner Robert Sarver went out of his way to knock Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law known as Senate Bill 1070.
Good for Sarver. The only time we're used to seeing pro sports team owners take a public stance on a political legislation is when there's a stadium funding bill on the ballot. But something has gotten into Sarver. In the Suns' 111-102 victory over the Spurs in Game 1 on Monday night he was on his feet, exhorting the crowd to make more noise. Now he's jumping into this divisive issue.
The bill was signed into law last month by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. It makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to be in Arizona without proper documents and allows police officers to request proof of status if there is a "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally.

Good for the Suns Owner to stand up for the rights of the people who helped build a majority of this country. Both of my parents were both in a foreign country and this Arizona bill just disgusts me to the core. Arizona has always had its issues with political change. Remember they were the controversial state to not recognize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday until nine years after the law was passed. (John McCain ummmmmm) So Arizona get it together. PLEASE!! GO SOLES!