1. If you can slip two fingers between your neck and the buttoned collar of a new dress shirt, the shirt will fit comfortably after laundering.
2. The shirt placket, the belt buckle, and the trouser fly should all line up.
3. Speaking of belt buckles, the point of your tie should never fall below it.
4. Rent no clothing.
5. Ninety-dollar shoes last half as long as $180 shoes, but $360 shoes will last you your whole life.
6. Three-hundred-sixty-dollar shoes will not last your whole life if you break their backs by refusing to use a shoehorn.
7. Three-hundred-sixty-dollar shoes without a shine can look like $90 shoes.
8. Women notice shoes. Read the rest of this entry »

or, Ten Titans of Taste-Free Terrors

10.) Alison Arngrim: Little Nellie of the prairie, looks like a 1940’s fashion editor for the Farmers Almanac.

9.) Lindsay Lohan: Lindsay the fashion frenzy strikes again! Lohan takes fashion to a new low -

8.) Jessica Simpson: Forget the Cowboys. In prom queen screams, can it get any worse? She’s a global fashion curse!

7.) Avril Lavigne: Gothic make-up courtesy the mad spatula-Fashions provided by…The house of Dracula!

6.) Eva Green: Stuck in neon nightmares not fit for the sane. Fashion this loud could give Bond a migraine! A profusion of confusion from toes to nose!

5.) Kelly Clarkson: Her heavenly voice soars above the rest…but those belly-baring bombs are hellish at best! She may be the queen of “Pro-Active” - but that wardrobe looks downright radioactive!

4.) Fergie: Another style-free “Fergie” in fashion’s hall of shame? Yes, when it comes to couture chaos, guess it’s all in a name!

3.) Mary Kate Olsen: YIKES! In layers of cut-rate kitsch, Mary Kate’s look is hard to explain…she resembles a tattered toothpick-trapped in a hurricane!

2.) Amy Winehouse: Exploding beehives above…tacky polka-dots below…she’s part 50’s car-hop horror.

1.) Victoria Beckham: Forget the fashion spice - wearing a skirt would suffice! In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty posh can really wreck-em.

Crystal Island: OK, we know, it is another Foster project. But this one is more equal than others for Crystal Island will be the largest building in the world when completed. Crystal Island’s vital statistics are, well, huge. The volcano-shaped superstructure will be 1,500 foot tall with 26,909,776 foot squared of floor space, that’s enough room to house 30,000 people. As you would expect from a Foster + Partners project, the self-contained city within a city has energy conservation and eco-friendly energy management at the very heart of the design. Crystal Island will generate low carbon energy from solar arrays and wind turbines located on the building with vast atriums to regulate the internal air temperature during the extremes of the Russian summer and winter. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Lack of Sleep. Duh, right? Well how come we don’t get enough sleep? It needs to be a priority and you need to muster up the proper motivation to make it happen. Now, not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep, but some do. How do you figure out how much you need? Experiment. Some good advice from Steve Pavlina is to wake at the same time each day, but go to sleep when you’re tired. Measure how much you need by how you feel the next day. Are you dragging with droopy eyelids all day? Then that’s not enough. If you feel mostly alert, then you’ve hit on the right amount for you.

2. Sugar. Avoid it. If you must eat sweets try to combine it with fiber which slows the absorption of sugar into the bloodstream. Most fruits naturally have both the sweetness and the fiber. The next time you have a candy bar or can of soda, watch for the subsequent energy dip that occurs within 30-60 minutes. Be prepared to nap because that’s what you will feel like doing.
Read the rest of this entry »

Al Pacino
Okay, we love Al Pacino. He’s lost a lot of the restrained brilliance of the young Micheal Corleone, but even in the midst of some of the most overblown screen rants Hollywood has ever seen, Al is just so damn watchable that we don’t care. As long as we’re not watching Revolution (1985) that is. In perhaps the worst casting since Sean Connery as a Russian sub commander in The Hunt For Red October, Pacino plays Scottish-American fur trader Tom Dobb. With his son and stunningly bad accent, he stumbles through the American revolutionary war in the most jaw-dropping array of coincidences, plot contrivances, and bad editing of the decade. That this film cost nearly $30 million to make and took in less than $400,000 domestic is a testament to a bygone era when moviegoers actually cared about what they were spending their money on. Sadly, you won’t find any excerpts from this film on the Net as proof, but if you’re diligent, I’m sure you can find a copy in the dollar bin at your local convenience store. Read the rest of this entry »

BEST PICTURE

“No Country for Old Men”

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day Lewis in “There Will be Blood”

BEST ACTRESS

Julie Christie in “Away from Her” Read the rest of this entry »

Democrats

2004 - John Kerry* (38.4%) Howard Dean (26.4%) Wesley K Clark (12.4%) John Edwards (12.0%) Joseph Lieberman (8.6%) Dennis Kucinich (1.4%) Al Sharpton (0.2%)

2000 - Al Gore* (50.4%) Bill Bradley (46.3%)

1996 - Bill Clinton* (unopposed)

1992 - Paul E. Tsongas 33.2% Bill Clinton* (24.8%) Bob Kerrey (11.1%) Tom Harkin (10.2%) Jerry Brown ( 8.0%)

1988 - Michael Dukakis* ( 36.4%) Dick Gephardt (20.3%) Paul Simon (17.4%) Jesse Jackson (8.0%) Al Gore (6.9%)
Bruce Babbitt (4.7%) Gary Hart (4.0%) Read the rest of this entry »

1 - Adopt - Adopting someone is one of the greatest things you can do. You’ll change your life and someone else’s. Adopt a baby, a child, or a teen. By being adopted they’ll always know that there is truly kind people in the world and they’ll pay it back to society.

2 - Just Be Nice - This is something EVERYONE can do, you don’t need any money or any talent. Hold the door for someone, smile, or say hello. You will change someone’s whole day, week, month, year, or maybe even life. Then they’ll be nicer to others, which will just continue the cycle and you won’t even realize that YOU changed THOUSANDS of lives.

3 - Donate - Donate blood, food, time, money, or whatever you can. Donate online, help entrepreneurs in developing countries on Kiva, lend to people on Prosper, or just play the simple game on FreeRice.

Read the rest of this entry »