Cuppabits January 25th
by WaltYesterday, Houston set a record 13 straight days of rain,
breaking the previous record set in 1973 of 11 straight days of rain....
My mukluks need a good drying out...
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Whenever one of Cuppacafe's commenters gets their name in the paper, I feel duty bound to feature that here --
Her MySpace page indicates that she likes children, but doesn't want any for herself. She is constantly playful, and her predominant pastimes include sleeping and eating a lot — especially pig ears. Her favorite music includes Snoop Dogg and the Bloodhound Gang.
Miss Geisha really isn't that strange, for a dog.
Local pooches have own MySpace sites
Mayde Creek grad's dogs develop network of 'friends'
Read the whole thing to find out #2's secret identity.
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Keeping with Houston for a couple more items, the Houston Rodeo is coming up soon, and if you've never been, it's quite a... uh, interesting experience. The Houston Rodeo takes place over a couple of weeks, and aside from the rodeo and the livestock show, there's entertainment to be had. Elvis once appeared as a performer there.
Normally, there's a different performer for every night of the week. Mainly country and Hispanic country artists, there's always that night where the "pop" artists show up. And this year, the entertainment act that's hardest to come by, the tickets being (legally) scalped for the most amount of money?
The Rarest Ticket In Texas
The Cheetah Girls and Hannah Montana. [Sample auction at Ebay]
[More in this link: KTRK-TV.com]
One half of one luxury box sold for $13,000. It's insane.
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Last from Houston, the Luckiest Woman In Texas
She is 69 years old and was in her house when it blew up. Seriously, it blew up.
Here's a few pics from the Houston Chronicle [link, opens a new window] but there's part of a brick chimney left and everything else is flattened.
All four walls blown down.
"She is doing really good. She has a little burn on her left hand and arm and a burn on her left foot. She has a spot on her nose and her hair is singed, but she was able to disagree with the doctor about the treatment, that's a good sign," he said.
[Chron.com]
Yes, prolly a natural gas explosion, but geez...
The explosion left pieces of the house all over the place, with some rather large sections of the house left on the roofs of nearby houses, but the strangest thing was that one nearby house had its windows smashed by the explosion, but all the glass from the windowdirectly across from the exploded house landed on the ground OUTSIDE the window frame. CSI that.
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Check this Joker's passport photo -- [link]
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THE TAXMAN COMETH -- A LITTLE LATER THIS YEAR
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Hillary Clinton first paid right wing bloggers to run her ads, and then had them pull her ad after the left wing bloggers that didn't get any Hillary money objected.
Result: Hillary is paying right wing bloggers NOT to run her ads [link, via Wonkette]
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Cancelling the Year of the Pig
SHANGHAI -- Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestlé SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. "Happy new pig year," the ads said.
This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestlé's ad -- and all images and spoken references to the animal in commercials, including those tied to the Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday.
The intent: to avoid offending Muslims, who consider pigs unclean.
- Wall Street Journal [subscription only]
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If Venezuela is going to seize American assets like car factories owned by GM and Ford, couldn't someone blow them to smithereens first?
There's a 69 year old woman who has some experience with that...
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How important is AMERICAN IDOL?
A guy who lost last year's AI is currently at the top of the American music charts
Daughtry wins by losing... I love it.
It's a money phenomenon.
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Meanwhile, while even the losers from AMERICAN IDOL are sucking down the money from the music sales,
The soundtrack from DREAMGIRLS is just sucking --
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The two above items can be explained this way: Daughtry sold 65,000 albums in the previous week, and that's the source of the first of the two items. When Daughtry's album was first released, it debuted with sales of over 300,000 for that week, but it was #2 to an album released at the same time by Jay-Z. It's taken this long for Daughtry to have his constant level of sales top the charts when all the other albums started selling less.
The very next week, DREAMGIRLS' soundtrack debuted, but only sold sold 65,000 albums, and Daughtry's slipped to #3 with 50,000 in sales.
Daughtry's sales hit the 1,000,000 mark back in December, all the time never making #1 on the list.
Sorry for the confusion.
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NOTE TO SELF: Don't include confusing items when you're trying to make a point
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The owner of Facebook, a MySpace-like website previously closed to the public site for college students, turned down over $1BILLION dollars for the site.
Folks, this is more than large newspaper conglomerates are going for.
Two years from now, Facebook will NOT be worth more than $1 Billion dollars.
Web 2.0 is a bubble and the pin is so very very close...
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The deal news out of Sundance is simple: Nobody wanted to buy a movie where Dakota Fanning gets raped, but everyone wanted to see a movie about a vagina with teeth...
Ya know, I'm not going to make a comment here.
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And finally, go check out a short story of APPLE LOVE, by Carly Phillips over at Plot Monkeys
Carly suffered through 11 months of aggravation with her MacBook Pro, only to have the hard drive die while she was on sabbatical with her Plot Monkey buddies.
It was the third time the thing had to be repaired and it seems the third time was the charm.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Oh, no! Now I have been outed to the whole cuppacafe world! LOL
So much of that article is incorrect and I think it's poorly written. It just ends. There is no conclusion. And since when is Snickers' name Princess?? ha. Oh well.
I can't believe it was really 13 days of rain! I knew it had been a lot, but damn! I was suprised last night when I was walking the dogs and it wasn't raining, but more to come soon, eh?
January 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
The Strawberry Festival in Plant City Florida has a lot of entertainment too. I just can't imagine paying thousands of dollars to see some tween stars lip-sync.