 Is it just me or are they not at the grocery shelves anymore?
If an actual Barbie Doll does age, she'd be around 50 years old by now. And this is how she'd really look. 
 Wheeeeeeee!  I've enjoyed the books as a teenager. And now they're making a movie of it with Robert Downey, Jr. and Guy Ritchie! - Downey will star as the titular sleuth in Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES movie. The Warner Bros. project is, obviously, the latest version of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective. This probably won't come as a surprise, but Ritchie's version will incorporate plenty of fisticuffs among the deductive reasoning (plus plenty of characters with descriptive names, no doubt). Should be interesting to see who they land for Watson and Moriarty. | JoBlo
Downey is also touted to play Hugh Hefner (of Playboy) but the project has been stalled. He's clearly keeping his career right on track. Very, very good for him.
 From RegrettheError- The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow (ONN) site has a standard practice of using the word “homosexual”* instead of “gay” when it comes to, well, gay people. They even set up a filter to automatically make the change.
As has been noted by sites such as Boing Boing and PageOneQ, among others, this practice didn’t serve ONN well when a sprinter named Tyson Gay made news at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. He suddenly became Tyson Homosexual when the site’s filter got a hold of an AP story.
 Yan kasi.
 ...according to BWE.
The resemblance is uncanny.
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was inaugurated to office last May. He's the third Russian President. He is also... "a devoted fan of hard rock, listing Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin as his favorite bands. He is a collector of their original vinyl records and has previously said that he has collected all of the recordings of Deep Purple" | WikiCool.
With this, a Louis Vuitton design inspired trash bag.  But that's not the funny part. Some people actually believe it's the latest in the Vuitton line. 
 Am seriously too old for this, but it's frakking addicting!!!! Am talking about the doll / doll maker from this site. I was trying to do her ^. That's Charlotte Charles aka Chuck of Pushing Daisies. I ended up with this, is it pretty close?
 I can truly say now, deciding to join Blogburst is most rewarding. In a previous entry, I mentioned a USA Today pick up of one of my blog posts, thanks to their services. Reading through my stats this morning, I noticed a link up from Reuters and followed it... and surprise, surprise ---- they picked up one of my entries too! I am loving Blogburst! I am loving it more when they approved my blog. Anyway, over the last two days, I mistakenly started a project on my TV Blog. Why I did it instead of holding the project off knowing I have other things to do --- I don't even know the answer to that one. It's just I read about an entry from Crissy about Blogger's newest features and gave mine a try. It didn't work because the theme I had on was so tweaked, some of the needed codes were lost. Blogger suggests I should revert back to basic themes. And quickly, something started spilling in my head. Like, what else wouldn't work because I've a super modified theme? How am I going to enjoy the features of the platform? I decided to learn how to switch a basic theme, keep the original codes, but have something customized. A day after that, I began asking myself what got into me. I should have just pushed those ideas and stored them in that part of my brain where I don't use enough. I should have not listened to the voices in my head. Why did I let those ideas out? It was hard for me because I don't have the background for it. And it took me a while longer to decide on a color and a look because, really, I did NOT know what I want. But in a way, it was also good because I now understand the bowels of my theme better. And so, here it is....   It was originally this theme to the right and I changed it. All by myself. I also did the banner...through Photoshop. I finally understand part of how that program works! Wheee! I'm giving myself a great big pat on the back and I'm telling me ----
"You're the awesomest ever!"
The hubby always thought ZB looks a lot like Ray Romano and true enough, he's also there.
 Been a while since I redeemed something from Amazon so I decided to use our gift certificates by placing a preorder of Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray].
I only use standard shipping everytime. I didn't have to worry about hefty taxes from the post office since ours only charge about P50-P70 for it (and I luuurve our post office for that!).
So, upon checkout... I was expecting the shipping rate for this preorder to fall between $8-$10 because that's what it usually is.
To my surprise, it's already $17.95!
When did this happen? I checked our history and the last time I redeemed was mid-April of 2008. At that time, shipping was only for $8.98.
Price of gas is up, so everything follows?
I told my husband about it and he knowingly replied, "Siyempre, hindi naman tubig ang nagpapalipad sa eroplano".
Oo nga naman.
 Maybe I'm overreacting. My son tells me I'm partly overreacting but I think as a parent this is normal. My 10 year old arrived home Friday afternoon, so bothered by the fact that two or three of his classmates have been picking on him. And that these boys were keeping count of how many times they would be able to draw a reaction from my son. Admittedly, he's quite short-tempered, emotional and pikon. He's very aware of it. And yes, I've had to sign him up guidance sessions last school year so that he'd learn to deal with this. He gladly obliged to the sessions, too, since, in my son's words --- he "doesn't wanna grow up grumpy." I see big improvements at home. But as most parents know, kids sometimes act differently in school and in a different environment. Anyway, what miffs me about the.... recent bullying(?) is that this is sanctioned at school. I mean, it's a social experiment, sort of a project one of their teachers thought up in HELE (Home Economics & Livelihood Education). It's supposed to make the kids aware of "personal growth" and "sensitivity", which should've been fine with me. I'm on board anything like that if it's good for my son's well-being. Only, this isn't Big freakin' Brother.  From what my son has told me --- everytime one of them gets another classmate angry or inis, they would get a point. If they themselves got angry, they would lose a point. So, the bullies saw that as a window and have been collecting points by endlessly pestering my son for two days...still under the premise that this was a "social experiment". Crap. Why only him? Because he has a reputation for being pikon, like I said. In a small class of 20, word gets around... And you know how that is --- as kids we love to pick on the one who's pikon. Those bullies, who've been the very same kids pestering my son since they were five, would gladly announce to the teacher and the whole class how many points they have collected. It bothers me that the teacher doesn't even wonder how come the boys are raking up too many points. My son got home quite dejected because he says he couldn't take it anymore. And for someone with his level of emotions, I know it took a loooot for him to hold back when they were provoking him. (Well, obviously he failed to some extent, because he's down to one point).  So, I pulled up my word pad and wrote the teacher a letter last Friday, which my son will be delivering on Monday. I asked for a meeting, but just the same wrote what I wanted to say...which I think seems safer. God knows what I could possibly blurt out had I called. I let my son read the letter and he told me I should be a lawyer. Bwaha. It probably sounded strong. And he also told me there were a few phrases that were OA but overall, it sounded fine to him so I'm not editing anything out. With a day passing and rereading the letter I have for the teacher...I'm wondering if maybe I am just being a real drama queen. I question my parenting skills even. The whole point of the social experiment was to teach the kids some level of maturity. And I concede, my son isn't emotionally mature as the rest of the sixth graders. He isn't capable of being patient, it's a work in progress. But isn't bullying and provoking also immature? I'm still on fire. I'm still on battle mode everytime I'm reminded of it. I'm really still so upset, Monday seems a long wait. That's my son in the photos by the way, showing his range of emotions. Photo was taken two years ago.
It actually was just simple. Anyone can have their entry up on a major news site. I tried submitting my blog to BlogBurst for their approval. I had to wait for their notice (usually a day or two) and when my blog feeds have been approved and entered into their system, news agencies like Reuters and in my case, USA Today, are free to pick up my content and put it on theirs. What that means to me is --- I'm going to get free traffic with it. If you're trying to gain an audience or building up viewership because you've got to monetize your blog, then BlogBurst helps. I thought of submitting my blog to them, not really knowing if they'd approve it, when another blogger friend of mine got linked up by Reuters for her entries about mental health. She's kinda crazy. LOL. Although, I did not expect picking up contents from my site by BlogBurst would be this quick. I just had their badge up on my TV blog for less than a week. I do think that they picked up my content because when I posted that, it was "fresh scoop". None of the other news wires carried it yet, except the original source I've identified. Timing is really everything when you're building up your blog. The same thing happened to my site when GMA picked up my blog during the Desperate Housewives brouhaha. What happened there was, I was the first one to put up a video of the "controversial scene" and then other blogs linked to me. Minutes later, the press eventually picked up on it. It was my blog and the videos there that were credited for the news. It was my blog that was shown on GMA News for three days straight. Of course, several videos of it, some even better edited, were up on Youtube hours and days after the news broke out. But I had the first one up. Unfortunately/fortunately... fame is a two-edged sword. That one drove tons of traffic to me, which raised my $ a few percent. But it also drove people to comment like crazy, that I had to moderate on my hobby blog. I was waiting for the issue to die down so people would stop coming! Now, I'm gonna sit back, track my stats and see if this new link-up is going to do wonders.
Matt Damon, voted Sexiest Man in 2007 by People Magazine has gone from this:   To this: 
Although, he's not being sloppy. He's doing what Tom Hanks did for Castaway (okay, except the opposite since Tom Hanks lost a lot of weight).
Or he's doing what Renee Zellwegger did for Bridget Jones' Diary.
Matt Damon is filming The Informant and his role calls for it. The Informant is directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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 From the TAG Blog:- DreamWorks' Lakeside Building is getting enlarged, and the administrative staff is gone from the upper floors. But down on the lower levels, artists are working. A story crew has started early work in Kung Fu Panda, the Sequel, even while animators are hand-drawing new material for the DVD of Kung Fu Panda, the original.
The DVD is looking good, too: - For the first time in a while I laid eyes on a digital ink-and-paint crew hard at work on traditional animation in one of Lakeside's big rooms. The color set-ups for KFP glowing off their lcd screens knocked my garters off. They're damn pretty.
 Note to Maxxx on Skycable --- It's pronounced Stephen "Colberrrrr" in "The Colberrrrr Reporrrr". No, seriously. That's how he calls his show and that's how his name is uttered. Your female voice-over, the one doing the promos? She says "Col-BERT". It's not entirely her mistake though. The first time I heard of him, I instantly thought the same, too. Stephen Colbert. As in Cole-Bert, it's simple phoenetics. No one would think it should sound French. And technically it IS Cole-bert. But the man prefers to drop the T. So, he's Stephen Colberrr. And well, it really shouldn't be big deal except --- it's being promoted on Skycable's Maxxx channel a lot. And the lady voice-over says it more than three times: Stephen Coal-bert in The Coal-bert Report. Stephen Coal-bert in The Coal-bert Report. Stephen Coal-bert in The Coal-bert Report.
It's Beverly Hills Ninety-Two-Ten all over again. Remember this? In the late 80's/early 90's ABS CBN was airing this show and the voice promo for 90210 pronounced it as "ninety-two-ten".
To this day, that's how I call it. I see the numbers and immediately my mind reads it: "ninety-two-ten"; when actually, as everyone knows by now --- it's Nine-Oh-Two-One-Oh.
Promos do a lot for recall. At least get it right.
 Due November 11, 2008 (just right about the time holiday shopping spree kicks in...clever, clever marketing!) the complete season of The Sopranos DVD will be HUMONGOUS. The set will weigh 10 pounds and will contain 28 DVDs with 86 episodes (six seasons), along with three cd soundtracks and two bonus discs, containing: - 16 "lost" scenes;
- an interview of creator David Chase by Alec Baldwin;
- "Suppers with The Sopranos"
- roundtable discussions with writers and stars and Sopranos spoofs from The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and Mad TV;
- panel discussion from the Paley Center for Media among "Whacked Sopranos" actors
The set will cost $399.99. That's without shipping yet.  ---> And this is me freaking out about how much this one is! I'm still waiting for the release of what the set will look like, but here's part of what's going to be in the bonus discs --- some behind the scenes stories from the cast themselves. - Dominic Chianese, who played Uncle Junior, says he keeps Junior's oversized black glasses next to his home computer, by a photo of his mother. But during filming, he could never see clearly out of them, and crewmembers nicknamed him "Mr. Magoo" and "Mummyhead."
- Aww. I miss Uncle Junior. - An early classic episode shows Tony killing a man while visiting colleges with Meadow. Then-HBO chief Chris Albrecht complained to Chase: "You can't show Tony killing someone in the fourth episode," the producer recalls. "I said, 'Unless this guy kills somebody, he's not a Mob boss worth talking about.' " The compromise was to make the murder victim less sympathetic, to show why he deserved to die.
- This episode, College, remains one of my favorite Sopranos episode, the other being Pine Barrens. I'm itching to have another round of Sopranos marathon soon. News source
 I'm so sick of how materialistic we've become. I mean, as a society.
We have something for every little thing. There is a market for everything! We can buy almost anything. Even "air" is up for bid on e-bay.
Our dogs and pups are wearing clothes, shoes and accessories. Yeah, well alright...some of those are cute, to some degree.
This one (pictured), however, is certainly not.
It's HIGH HEELS FOR BABIES 0-6 MONTHS!!!
HIGH HEELS.
FOR BABIES.
WHO CAN'T EVEN WALK!
In one episode of Friends, Rachel's sister, Amy, aspired to be a "baby stylist", someone who'd tell babies what goes well with what outfit.... and that was supposed to be a joke.
Someone took that joke seriously and did set up a business with a similar idea in mind.
Outrageous.
Spent the better part of the morning trying to design my multiply's theme; which means I wasn't able to do any work at all. Which means I'm so behind my deadlines. Which means I'd be cramming later. Or not. I might just go back to sleep. It's so draining, this activity. How hard is it to design a multiply template?! I wasted the morning looking at those customized ones but didn't find one I really liked. Those that I liked didn't fit; some lines became crooked somewhere and the images didn't show. And so, as I was already getting frustrated, I ended up doing the theme myself. I know, I know...a 12 year old could do better with what I have and do it in less time. But I'm proud of what I've accomplished. I don't know why I went with a cookie theme. I think it was hunger pangs kicking in the whole time I was looking at other templates. I think looking at so many colors made me hungry.  But anyway, from this idea, I finally figured out what I'm gonna do with my multiply... In the footsteps of my favorite sites like PopCandy, PopWatch, PopBuzz and PopSugar --- here's PopCookie. (Also, in honor of David Cook[ie]!) And this will be all about pop culture.
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For FALL FASHION 2008.
