A Room With A View ...

Okay, so Phrankie Bondo started this. He did a video of the view out his kitchen window and said he wanted everyone else to do it too.

So, Sweet Lu did hers and then Micky T did his. And here's mine. Only, I don't have a kitchen window. But, you know how much I like to play along and get along. So here is the view out my bedroom window, the front window and just for the hell of it, a special view ...



That's all I've got for today folks. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and Santa was good to you!

Tomorrow we crown a Fantasy Football Champion!

Naughty and Nice and a Christmas Vlog ...

Brought to us by the always nice Tink of Pickled Beef. This is the last WWC of the year and the words are Naughty and Nice.

Santa Clause is nice ...


(Even if he does look like he's taking a leak behind that trash can in this pic.)

Fudge is always nice to have around Christmas time ...


And a big pot of beans and ham is also nice on a cold winter's night ...


And I got a lots of really nice Christmas cards ...



A couple of naughty places to hang out at ...






The WWC will be back in January after the holidays. And a big thank you to Tink for hosting this every week. You do a great job babe!


And now a little Christmas Vlog for ya ...



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody!

And Happy Hanukkah too!

And Happy Kwanzaa!

And Happy Festivus!

And Happy anything else anyone celebrates!

Christmas Layers ...

My very good friend Tink has created a little Christmas meme and since it was Tink, I decided to play along. Of course this means that Tink is now the Queen of Memes, so be sure to tag her with all of your memes people! ;-)

1. What was the best present you've ever received? When I was in 3rd grade (I think) I got a really sweet bicycle. I think it was my first real cool bicycle too. Freedom baby! Of course there have been others through the years, but that was probably my first best present ever.

2. What was the worst? I don't think I've ever gotten a really shitty Christmas present or one that I just hated. I have, from time to time gotten some PJs that everyone knew I wouldn't wear, but that's okay. haha

3. What is something you really want this year for yourself? I really would love a new laptop, but that's not exactly reasonable. Otherwise I don't really want anything.

4. What is something you really want this year for someone else? Nothing that is affordable. haha

5. What's your favorite Christmas memory? Probably back when we were kids and we would have Christmas over at dad's house. Then over at Nana Creta's and then the three of us, my sister, mother and I, would have Christmas at home on Christmas Day. And on Christmas Eve mom would always read "The Littlest Angel" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" to us and then we would sing Christmas Carols.


And since I'm on a meme roll here, I thought I would do this one too. Just for the hell of it.

Layer One:
- Name: Jay
- Birth date: March 7
- Birthplace: Yellville, Arkansas
- Current Location: Arkansas
- Eye color: Hazel green
- Hair Color: Rapidly graying light brown.
- Height: 6' … not 5'11" and 3/4 dammit! Exactly six feet!
- Righty or Lefty: Pretty moderate most of the time … oh, that's not what you meant. Right handed.
- Zodiac sign: Pisces.

Layer Two:
- Your Heritage: On my mother's side: Irish, English and some German. On my dad's side: Irish and Indians & Outlaws.
-The shoes you wore today: New Balance.
- Your weakness: Strippers.
- Your fears: Dying alone.
- Your perfect pizza: All meat.
- Goal you'd like to achieve: There are so many places I would love to travel to.

Layer Three:
- Your most overused phrase on AIM: Probably LOL
- Your first waking thoughts: Oh crap my back hurts and I really have to pee.
- Your best physical feature: My HUGE … er … uh … My eyes, I guess.
- Your most missed memory: Being happy and thinking the future was bright.

Layer Four:
- Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
- McDonalds or Burger King: McDonald's … and it's not even close.
- Single or group dates: Single
- Adidas or Nike: All Day I Dream About Sex
-Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Yuck.
- Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate, but vanilla shakes are good. And so is vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup poured over it.
- Cappuccino or coffee: Yuck.

Layer Five:
- Smoke: Never.
- Cuss: Way more than I should.
- Sing: Only to punish people.
- Take a shower everyday: Unless I'm sick and/or just plan on lying around all day.
- Do you think you've been in love: I think I have once or twice.
- Want to go to college: University of Arkansas alum.
- Liked high school: High school sucked great big hairy, nasty donkey balls.
- Want to get married: Who's asking?
- Believe in yourself: On occasion.
- Get motion sickness: No.
- Think you're attractive: Not particularly.
- Think you're a health freak: No, but I wish I was.
- Get along with your parents: Mom yes, dad died 11 years ago.
- Like thunderstorms: I love them. Hell, I go outside and get video of them.
- Play an instrument: Nope.

Layer Six: In the past month….
- Drank alcohol: Yes
- Smoked: No
- Done drugs: Only over the counter sinus meds.
- Made out: Who's offering?
- Gone on a date: Nope.
- Gone to the mall: Yes, but it's not much of a mall. Here's my Mall Video.
- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: No, I haven't had Oreo's in quite some time. Mostly because I CAN just sit there and eat the whole box.
- Eaten sushi: No, not since my sister tried to kill me with Sushi back in the day.
- Been on stage: No, but I've been on internet radio.
- Been dumped: Nope.
- Gone skating: No and I would probably brake lots of bones it I did go.
- Made homemade cookies: No but cookies sound yummy right now.
- Gone skinny dipping: It's been a bit cold for that around here.
- Dyed your hair: No, but I'm seriously considering getting rid of the gray though.
- Stolen anything: Nope

Layer Seven: Have you EVER….
- Played a game that required removal of clothing: Yes I have, actually.
- Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: That's what college is all about
- Been caught "doing something": Something illegal? No. Something else? Yes.
- Been called a tease: Yes, actually.
- Gotten beat up: No, although I probably deserved it sometimes.
- Shoplifted: Yes.
- Changed who you were to fit in: Back in the day I tried to, but I still didn't fit in, so I stopped doing that.

Layer Eight:
- Age you hope to be married: I'm 40, so I'll go with 42. *shrugs shoulders*
- Names of children: "Prove it!" and "Bullshit!"
- Describe your dream wedding: It would be in Las Vegas, with Elvis presiding, Frank Sinatra as the best man, Marilyn Monroe as the maid of honor and Sammy Davis Jr. singing. That's total class. Otherwise just a quick trip to the Justice of the Peace on a Friday afternoon.
- How do you want to die: Right after saying "Wonder what this button does?"
- Where do you want to go to college: I already have, aren't you paying attention?
-What do you want to be when you grow up: When I was a kid I wanted to be a lawyer or a sports writer. Now, I don't know.
- What country would you most like to visit: England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa, Israel, Thailand, Japan, Brazil and the list goes on and on and on. Oh and Canada. ;-)

Layer Nine:
- Number of drugs taken illegally: Only a couple of pain pills that were prescribed to someone else. Other than that, ZERO.
- Number of people I could trust with my life: Probably three.
- Number of CD's that I own: Bunches
- Number of piercings: Zip
- Number of tattoos: None, but I'm open to the idea of getting one.
- Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: A few times, but never in the police blotter.
- Number of scars on my body: A few. Couple on my arm from when I broke it in jr. high. One on my left thigh, a couple others here and there. And then there are my deep, emotional scars.
- Number of things in my past I regret: That's actually a pretty long list.



And since this is a kind of Christmasy type post, I'll leave you with a short video of my Christmas tree (totally copying off of Matt-Man here) while you are serenaded by one of the greatest entertainers of all time, and a really cool dude, Mr. Dean Martin …

A Library Vlog ...

The clerk at the library was obviously checking to make sure I wasn't stealing any books. So I decided to vlog about it.



Direct link to my videos HERE.

And if you don't know who Knight is, go over to her blog and say hello. She rocks.

Weird Dream Vlogging ...

Look at me! Vlogging again!

I’m seriously considering doing a vlog every single day for a week sometime in the near future. I’ll think about it. Vlogging is actually easier than writing a blog. All I have to do is start the camera and then babble along for about 3.5 minutes and then do some simple editing and upload it. Easy.

Anyway, here’s another vlog. Back to car vlogging. Just like back in the early days of my vlogging career. This one is about one of my weird-ass dreams that I have all the time.




Anyone want to analyze that one?

We've Got to Let Love Rule ..

So it’s time again to make a toast to a couple of love birds! Real Live Lesbian’s girlfriend proposed to her last week. And I think you know what that means. Yup, another vlog toast!



You can read all about how the proposal went down RIGHT HERE.



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In other news …

Don’t feel so bad, Cubs fans …


There’s always next year.


Besides, anyone can have a bad century.

Congrats ....

Okay, so I kind of screwed up the vlog this week, but I didn't want to wait and redo it.

So, here's what happened. I did this vlog and then at the end of the vlog there was a little congratulatory salute to Matt-Man and Schmoop and since Tink and Hoop are getting married very soon I gave them a shout-out too.

But, the vlog was 11:30 long. So, I was going to tell everyone to just fast-forward through to the last 3 mins if you wanted to. Well, then I found out that YouTube rejected the video because it was too long. Since when?

Anyway, it probably saved you guys anyway, cause nobody wants to sit through a full 11 min video. So, I went in and snipped the first 8 mins of the video. That's why it looks like I'm just moving on to the next part of the video. Cause I was. And that's why there is no "Hola Bitches!" also.

But, I don't care how shitty it looks. I wanted to post it today, so here it is. My congrats to Matt-Man and Schmoop with Tink and Hoop thrown in there too.





If you would like to see Matt-Man's proposal to Schmoop you can go RIGHT HERE.

Or, if you would just like to visit Matt-Man you can go HERE.

Or, if you would like to visit Schmoop you can go HERE.

And, of course if you want to visit Tink you can go HERE.

One More Drive Around Town ...

Okay, so once again I had a request. Somebody that I went to high school with happened upon my driving around town videos and has requested that I include a shot of his old house. So, being the wonderful and accommodating kind of guy I am, I said I would.

Of course, this was several weeks ago and he's probably forgotten all about it by now. That's because I take forever to get to things sometimes. But, at least I finally did it, right?

So, here's another little driving around video ...



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In other news, this is a small town. I think I have pretty much covered everything here. So, unless I take a little road trip this is probably it for the driving around videos. I guess I'll just have to go back to doing regular old vlogs from time to time.

Another Trip Down Memory Lane

So here’s the deal. About a month ago I got a message from somebody on YouTube. She said that she lived here in Redneckville for many, many years and has now been living in Germany for the last eight years, and she just wanted to let me know how much she enjoyed the driving around town videos. Seems she’s a bit homesick.

After the last video we exchanged messages about a couple of our high school teachers and then she asked if I could go past a few places for her and get those on video. And, given the great all-around guy that I am, I said I would.

So, here is this weeks installment of A Trip Down Memory Lane in which I was able to incorporate the places she asked to see also.

BTW, the video is 10 minutes long. Sorry it’s so long. And the sound isn't that great this time either. Sorry about that also.





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How Bout a Vlog?

First a quick Fantasy Football update.

Here are the people who still need to email me at: blogfootball_69@yahoo.com if they want to play fantasy football...

Matt-Man
Bond
NE
Al

If I don’t hear from you guys by Wednesday somebody else gets your spot.


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Okay, now for this weeks vlog....

A couple of weeks ago my friend Fortune Cookies from No More Empty Fortune Cookies sent me an email telling me about this book called “The Fourth Turning” and asked if I would like to read it. So, I said yes and she sent it to me. But, she didn’t just send the book, she sent some other goodies too.

So, I decided to do a vlog about it ...



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Okay, for those of you who don’t have video, or audio or whatever I will recap the last part. When she sent me the book I told her that I would send it back when I was done with it if she wanted. But, she said not to. Instead, she said I should send it on to another blogger who would like to read it and then they could send it on to someone else and on and on.

I thought that was a brilliant idea. So when I finish reading it, I will post about it and then everyone who thinks they would like to read it can let me know and I’ll hold a drawing (live on video so there isn’t any funny business going on) and send the book on to the person who wins the drawing. Okay?

A Little Drive Down Memory Lane ...

Okay kids, it’s time for another drive around town. This time I’m taking a little trip down memory lane. We’re going to drive through the neighborhood I grew up in. And everybody is going to get to see the house I grew up in from fourth grade on up. I can feel the excitement!

Sorry that it’s a bit long though. It’s almost eight minutes and I know that’s too long. So, if you don’t watch the whole thing, then that means you don’t love me I totally understand. I just kept deciding to show you one more thing. LOL

Anyway, here is my trip down memory lane....



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