Lifestyles of the Almost Famous

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New Year's Resolutions...

So, it is a brand new year, 2009. and for people across the country that means one thing: creating a blog to track the progress of their new year's resolutions, creating a blog as a new year's resolution, or announcing their new year's resolutions on their already created blog.

I'll take the last offer, because let's face it, I already have a blog (a great one at that) and I am such a dilligent, determined blogger that I have nothing to resolve to fix. 

So I have thought of a new year's resolution so out there, so innovative that you will wish you had my life.

win money.

not make money, WIN money.

so my first attempt is a $10,000 dollar competition on Karmaloop.  feel free to help.  I win money if the most people vote for my design.

Think of it like the way that Obama (remember him?) did all this grassroots stuff and made people feel like he really heard them and would help them in order to get them to vote for him.  If it helps, you can pretend you're voting so much that I am going to be indebted to you and hand you over 5 Gs.  Who knows?  I'm still waiting to be appointed Secretary of Pop Culture.  Dreams come true.

So help me help you.  Go to this site and let them have it.

and enjoy your january.  and if I don't see you, go ahead and enjoy your february too.  and hell, good luck in march and beyond.

Oh, and if you need any help with your resolutions.  Let me know.  I'll see what I can do.

and remember:

"Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right."
Oprah Winfrey

Merry Christmas.

How Dare You?

“I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. I have to be in a way more grimey environment to turn any rap music on” - Kanye West

I tried, I really did, but let's be honest, Kanye's new album is going to be terrible.  And I say that having tried to listen to every one of his leaked songs (and there have been a lot of them).  So I hope he has fun listening to it alone in his apartment while sitting on modern furniture, looking at his pop art, and crying.

Thank Joe Biden.

From the Guardian:

"Fall Out Boy's never-short-of-a-word singer Pete Wentz placed his vote for the Democrats in Beverly Hills. He told the same news agency that his parents would not have met had it not been for Joe Biden, since his parents met on an early Biden campaign trail. Which means the Democrats are responsible for Fall Out Boy - change that perhaps not everyone can believe in."

Thank God. Akon's Staying Here.

After the release of Akon's newest song, "Right Now," with the insightful lyrics, "I wanna make love right now now now etc." I know we were all nervous wrecks waiting to see how the election results would turn out.  After all, Akon said he was going to LEAVE THE COUNTRY and trade in his American Citizenship if McCain won (unfortunately felony charges kept him from voting). 

Well thank God we have at least four more years of this:

But Really.

The country has spoken.  Loud and clear.  Get ready for a whole lot more of this:

 

He might be almost done with this:

But there is probably tons more where this came from:

Getting over Wayne

ROBOT ATTENDING A PARTY: SHOES.

I Can't Get On His System Because His System is the Solar.

I need another day to think about all of this.  My funny juice is all out of wack and I still haven't really slept since the concert.

Let's see what happens tonight in new jersey.

What Happened to Lil' Wayne at Monster Jam 2008?

 

An unprecedented amount of you are arriving at my blog in search of some explanation of why weezy was a no show.

it was disappointing but I'm sure that you can all agree that Jay-Z really stepped up to the challenge even as the crowd screamed someone else's name (I'm sure that has not happened to him in over a decade).  I will add to this post later today, but for now, feel free to tell any stories of monster jam 08 here. I know I heard a lot of you tweens say lil' wayne lost a fan last night.

It is being officially reported that Lil' Wayne was having trouble getting through security so he left.  This isn't the first time this has happened.  BOSTON MAKE SOME NOISE!

Everyone Thinks They are Obama's Best Friend

I guess it isn't just me after all!

...and the NY Times is willing to report on every new staff member Barack befriends.

Lucky for us.

"Give me the jacket"..."Say please Mr. Future President"

Last spring, when Barack was still trying to beat Hillary (seems like ages ago) the New York Times published an adorable little front page article about Reggie Love, barack's body man/personal assistant/best friend.

Here are some very special exerpts:

“There’s no doubt that Reggie is cooler than I am,” Mr. Obama said, laughing, in a phone interview. “I am living vicariously through Reggie.”

Mr. Love, who played football and basketball at Duke, usually starts the day with Mr. Obama with a dawn workout in the hotel gym. They end the day more than 15 hours later, often unwinding before bed by watching ESPN’s “SportsCenter” or that night’s big game. (Mr. Obama sometimes flosses his teeth to ESPN while lying down.) ...

Compared with the even-tempered and self-controlled Mr. Obama, Mr. Love is raffish, always joking with the Secret Service, offering closed-fist high-fives to members of the news media and making frequent appearances in the daily pool reports. At a V.F.W. hall in Indiana, he helped out when the senator did not want a second Budweiser, taking it off Mr. Obama’s hands.

So it seems that REGGIE is responsible for the terrorist fist jab.  he also introduced Obama to some new hip-hop, so I guess he would be categorized as an all around BAD INFLUENCE.  But I digress.

"Listen, Axelrod, back up offa me"

This morning, The New York Times is again reporting on a special relationship created on the campaign trail.  This time, Barack's new best friend is David Axelrod.  According to the article, Barack calls David every night before bed.  David has a special ringtone just for Obama "Signed Sealed Delivered, I'm Yours".  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Anyway, apparently these two also enjoy some fun times including this one:

"As Mr. Obama was practicing his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, at the very hour that a Denver stadium was filling up with supporters, a knock sounded on the door of his hotel suite. He was at an emotional high point of the address, the moment he declared, “Enough!” But he was near the door, so he answered it.

“Room service! Someone ordered a Caesar salad?” Mr. Obama said, turning to his chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau, and Mr. Axelrod. “Did one of you guys order a Caesar salad?”

Mr. Axelrod gingerly raised his hand. Mr. Obama took the silver tray over and placed it in front of him.

“Here you go, Ax,” Mr. Obama said. “Sorry to interrupt your lunch with my convention speech.”

With that, the senator burst out laughing."

But something tells me that Barack likes Reggie a LITTLE more than David.  At the end of the article on Axelrod is this AWKWARD moment.

"Told that “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” rings on Mr. Axelrod’s phone, a song that also plays at each campaign rally, Mr. Obama smiled. “Really?” he said. “I didn’t know that.”

When Mr. Axelrod calls him, the senator’s phone is set on vibrate."

AWKWARD!  I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean.  And I want to let the Obama campaign know that I am available for befriendment.  I am a college student who volunteers and stuff!  Let's have a just-for-publicity friendship.