A Good Day and The Bloggerhood Is Awesome ...

So it was a pretty good birthday.  Things didn't get too wild, but it was a good day.  And, I was completely overwhelmed by all the love from everyone in the bloggerhood and on Facebook, Myspace Blog Talk Radio and Twitter.

Seriously, who here has singed onto Myspace in the last three months?  Who here even remembered that they had a Myspace acct?  I got a notice that I had a message on my Myspace so I singed in for the first time in months to see what it was.  Turns out I had 71 notices and 33 messages.  Oops.   Well, luckily none of them were important.  There were no cries for help or booty calls or anything good like that.

Anyway, were was I? Right.  I want to thank everyone for their happy birthday wishes here and everywhere else.  You guys are a pretty awesome group of people that I've come across here.  I can't believe what a sad, empty life I had before blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Blog Talk Radio.


You guys all rock!

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Also, you might recall that I said I was going to make an attempt to get some celebrities on Twitter to wish me happy birthday.  And, I said I would let you know how it turned out.  Well, I did just that but with only limited success.  I tried to get the attention of a handful of celebs that I thought might be the most likely to respond.  Here's how it worked out...

The Fail List:

Alyssa Milano:  Okay, so I realize that Alyssa  has like 800 billion followers, so finding my little birthday request in the middle of all the freaks and weirdoes is probably difficult.  So, I'm not really gonna hold this against her, but she is a Dodgers fan, so she already had one strike against her.  This is strike two. (I'm sure she will be very upset about this disturbing development.)

Lily Allen:  I'm giving Lily a pass because I find her very entertaining.  And she appears in naked or semi-naked in public often.  That's something I like in a girl.

Eliza Dusku: Eliza gets her first strike.  I know it seems unfair, but I've seen her wish others happy birthdays on twitter before, so it's not like she has a policy against it.  Also, it's not like she was busy getting ready for the Oscars or anything. Hey-Ohhhhhhhhh!*

Keri Hilson: I have to say I was most disappointed in not getting a shout-out from Hilson.  Keri is a pretty active twitterer and she interacts with her fans a lot.  Even though she gets lots and lots of tweets directed at her, I think she should have seen mine and wished me a happy birthday.  I initially gave Keri her first strike, but then remembered that she looks like this...


So, I rescinded that strike.

Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee:  Totally disappointed that these two regular people didn't take the time out of their hanging out with the Washington and Hollywood elite to wish me a happy birthday.  There is no excuse to be made for them.  Especially Mike Huckabee who used to be my Governor!  *shakes head in disgust*


Now the win list:

Ana Marie Cox:  AMC is a media celebrity.  She is a writer for GQ Magazine and a regular contributor to Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC. Or least I'm told she is.  I wouldn't know because I never watch Rachel's show.  Anyway, Ana is also a Twitter Star.  She has thousands and thousands of followers and is well known for her interacting with her fans.  So, I felt confident that I could get a response from her.  And I did!


But wait! There's more!  AMC is also well known for her awesome bed head pics that she shares with us on Twitter often.  So, when I asked her for a happy birthday shout out, I also asked for a bed head pic.  And? Oh yeah, I got one ...


Isn't she cute?

*Full disclosure, my good friend Doc got AMC to post a bed head pic last year.  So, I was hoping I could one up him by getting both the happy b-day wish AND the bed head pic.  When I did, I didn't hesitate to message Doc and let him know that he had been outdone. haha


Alessandra Torresani:  I had notice that Alessandra, who plays Zoe Graystone on "Caprica" does interact with her fans on Twitter, and it's pretty obvious that it's really her tweeting, so I thought there was at least a decent chance with her too.  And, again I was right...


How cool is that?  Gratuitous sexy shot of Miss Terresani...


I think that as of right now, Alessandra is officially the favorite actress of Cynica_Bastard.  She's very cute and very awesome.  And, since she wished me a happy birthday, she and I are totally BFFs now.  Right?  I thought so.

Miley Cyrus:  Okay, so I threw up a request for a happy birthday from Miley last night not expecting to hear anything.  But, Monday morning there it was!


Now, I know a lot of people keep claiming that that isn't really Miley.  Remember, she quit Twitter several months ago?  Well, I don't know.  I think I'm going to just go ahead and live in my own alternate reality world (kinda like the Tea Partiers) and believe that Miley Cyrus really does want to be my friend and really did wish me a happy birthday. Which means that Miley is now the favorite musician of Cynical_Bastard.



Also, I was going to ask Adrianne Curry for a shout out, but she tweeted that her phone had been stolen.  So, it seemed a little selfish of me at the time.  Instead I just tried to be supportive and console her while eagerly awaiting the release of the nude pics of her that are undoubtedly on that phone.


So, I guess the attempts at birthday wishes from celebs on Twitter can be classified as a success.  I think the fact that it was a Sunday and the Academy Awards were going on probably made it a little more difficult that it already was to get their attention.  So, maybe I'll try again next year and get better results.

This and That for Monday ...

Before we get started today my friend Ne’s father passed away on Sunday morning. If you take a few minutes out of your day to send some prayers and well wishes to her I’m sure she would greatly appreaciate them. You can vaster her blog
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So, as many of you know Schmoopalicious has taken over for Matt-Man on his blog a couple of days a week. Matt-Man tried to claim this was because he is “busy” doing some other stuff. Needless to say, I was a bit skeptical about this claim. Then, I saw this headline right here …


Yeah, just as a thought. “Busy” dealing with legal problems tied to his stalking of Tyra Banks.

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A lot of cities and towns across the country canceled or postponed their Cinco de Mayo Celebrations because of the Bacon Flu Swine Flu (and NO, I will NOT use H1N1 Virus in place of “Swine Flu” just because the pork producers threw a hissy fit over the use of the word “swine”). I guess this does make sense. I mean, since the Swine Flu might have originated in Mexico, we probably shouldn’t celebrate a Mexican holiday or anything.

You know, with the exception of Joe Biden going “Joe Biden” on the Today Show the other day, most local, state and fed gov’t actions have been pretty good in this Swine Flu thingy. The media? Not so much. If there is any huge panic going on over the Swine Flu then it’s mostly due to the media literally screaming about the thing non-stop.

And, I think I’m most surprised and impressed with response of the Mexican government. For what is primarily a third world country, they were very open about the outbreak, notified the CDC and sent samples to a lab in Canada pretty quickly. If you remember a few years ago during the big SARS outbreak, while the world was trying to figure out what was going on, China was standing there with their hands in their pockets, staring at the sky and whistling.

I don’t think that there’s any real doubt that someday when the “Big One” really does hit, it’s going to come out of that part of the world. And while it spreads like wildfire, those governments are going to be more concerned with covering it up and pretending it isn’t happening than actually trying to stop it.

Not to be an alarmist about it or anything. ;-)

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I know I’ve mentioned before that I don’t follow many celebrities on Twitter, but I do follow some of the bigger media celebrities. Like Jake Tapper, Joe Scarborough and a few others. I’m really amazed at what thin-skinned crybabies they are too. Seriously people, quit being such whiny-butts. If you can dish it out, you need to be able to take it.

Except for CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller! Mark rocks! You know why? Cause Mark responded to me on Twitter ….

Here was my Tweet..


And his reply..


How cool is that? He was Tweeting that the Barack and Michelle Obama were had gone out to dinner at a restaurant in Georgetown and that the press pool was across the street. So I was asking him why they followed them to dinner and basically do the people have a right to know that they went to dinner and what they ate and shit.

So he explained that they have to go in case something happens. Which I guess is true, but still. Anyway a couple of them were kinda whining about having to be out there on Friday night and I thought that was silly. You work all your career to reach this point, one of the coolest, most prestigious, best paying and cushiest gigs in journalism and then bitch about the hours? A tad unseemly, if you ask me.

But Mark wasn’t one of the crybabies though.

And then he let us know that the Obama’s were perusing the dessert menu, so I tweeted this …


And he responded again …


So clearly Mark Knoller is officially the coolest media/journalist type on Twitter not named Ana Marie Cox …


Yeah, she kinda rocks. But, she’s never replied to me on Twitter. And if she ever happens upon this blog and reads it for like three minutes she probably never will. I’m just sayin’. But that’s okay. I mean, not really, but you know.


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And then my Saturday ended with me getting this hand written message from someone over Ustream ….


Can you believe that?? I mean, seriously guys, do you think I would EVER do something to deserve that?

Yeah. You’re right. I probably did deserve it. ;-)

(Actually she was only joking around.)