ROCK OF LOVE FINALE


Well, Brett made his decision and selected the girl who he wants to Rock his world and I think he screwed up. The final 2 gals are Heather




and Jess

Even though I think that Heather was the best gal for him hands down, Brett chose Jess. That decision was pretty much inevitable because Jess is younger a somewhat cuter. Brett was concerned that Heather was a stripper & because his heart had been broken by a stripper before, every stripper is untrustworthy. The thing is is that I really think that being a rock star's wife is one of Heather's dreams and that would mean that she would do anything & everything to make that happen and keep it. She is ferocious and would have fought tooth and nail for Brett. There was something a little phony about her dedication to Brett, that part of it was a dedication to being a rock star's wife, but that phoniness would fuel her drive to stay with Brett.

There was also a phoniness about Jess but I couldn't put my finger on it. I don't think she really cared that much about Brett. I would bet that they will not be together in a year. After the honeymoon's over and he's back on the road it'll be less than 6 months before she leaves him.

A sign of the Apocalypse? The End Times?

I've never been very spiritual or religious, but something about this little comic spoke to me.

reporter attack by llama

Alpaca attack

HAPPY NATIONAL ALPACA FARM DAY!

I hope all of you are as excited as I am about National Alpaca Farm Day, a day that the Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association marketing committee has designed with a comprehensive plan to increase awareness of alpacas. Alpacas are not only cute but there are many benefits to alpaca ownership:

• Alpaca breeding is an alternative lifestyle with strong incomes
• Alpaca ownership creates a wide array of tax benefits
• Alpaca farming is a fulfilling lifestyle
• Alpaca ownership can include 2 alpacas to thousands!
• Alpacas provide a diversification in your financial portfolio
• Alpacas create a commodity that is both rare and in demand worldwide
• Alpacas are considered the “Aristocrat” of all farm animals
• Alpacas produce a luxury product that is in high demand. Textiles produced from fleece are known in fashion centers of New York, Paris, Milan and Tokyo
• Alpacas live a relatively long and trouble-free reproductive lifespan

Long Run Alpaca Farm is only 30 miles from Joe, Carrie can go to up to Georgetown to visit Hummers Homestead Alpacas, My Lady's Manor Maryland Alpaca Farm will welcome Kristen and Bern, Team Rocker can check out Park View Alpacas...everyone can go to this website and find out where the nearest farm is.

Wednesday we went & hung out with Adale's dad. He's recovering from an accident at work - a rock fell onto his leg & he'll be off of work for maybe a month. Nothing broke but it's all black, blue, and orange. We helped Spike with the computer (we're his tech support) and then went off to Wing Night at the Jefferson Hotel. They have big, whole wings, not little wing dings. The pictures aren't pretty but boy oh boy they're tasty.

Basket War

I haven't had much to say about what we've been up to because we've pretty much been doing the same thing for the past several weeks. Adale & I have been working at home, watching the cats run around. We did go to Games n'at twice last week, which was pretty fun. There's a sit down car racing game that we've been slightly obsessed with, as well as a stand-up first person zombie shooter game that we've been having fun with. Adale had a meeting last week at The Franktuary, a hot dog shop in the basement of a church (it used to be called Hot Dogma but there was an already existing place with the same name that made them come up with a new name) & I went along. Not to the meeting, but to the hot dog shop. I had the Texan, a chili cheese dog, but next time I'm going to try the Buffalo (blue cheese + buffalo wing sauce).

I didn't let y'all Mr. Droolface's recent health problems. As some of you may know he's gotten really skinny. When he had pancreatitis a few years ago he lost a ton of weight, but even after his pancreas stabilized he's been getting skinnier. He was about 13 pounds before the pancreatitis and is 7 pounds today. After his yearly blood test a few weeks ago the vet said he has an overactive thyroid, which is the reason for his weight loss. If it kept going without treatment he probably would die within the year. The two treatments are daily pills or a $1500 radioactive zap. There were a few days where I thought I was going to just let him pass away w/o treatment - the radioactive treatment seemed too much to spend on a cat when $1500 could make a big difference in a person's life, and the daily pills didn't seem like it was possible with our lives (traveling and whatnot). After talking to the vet I found out the pills would totally reverse his problems so we're giving it a try. The pills are really small so I can squish them into a kitty treat and he'll eat it w/o knowing. It's only been a few weeks and the vet should we'll begin to see changes after a month or so. The long and short of it is that Droolsy was on death row for a few days but got yet another reprieve.

The Editorial staff of Business n'at would like to recommend a new website:
My Roommate is a Dick

They don't have too many posts yet but I believe they have a strong future ahead of them.

Dear Roommate,

Are you kidding me? Are you serious? Do you really need two electric toothbrushes? And wtf is Carb Intercept anyway? We "share" a bathroom. Put your crap in a drawer.

Box Fight: Mimi vs. Mr. Peaches

String + Box + kitties = Fun!

Roadtrip to Atlanta!!

MEET MR. PEACHES!

Yes, the new kitten's name is Mr. Peaches. It took awhile but we both think it really fits the little guy. He's too sweet to be called Mr. Nibbles, so we butched up Adale's Mom's suggestion of Peaches by adding the "Mr."

"Don't Tase Me, Bro!" (UF Student Tasered Remix)

Mimi and the new kitten

It only looks like Mimi is trying to smother the kitten.

BREAKING NEWS: Mimi & the new kitten are friends!

PITTSBURGH (GZ) -- Adale caught Mimi & the new kitten sleeping very close to each other on our bed. As I was getting my phone ready to take a picture Mimi started to get up. I gave her a pet and she laid back down RIGHT UP AGAINST THE KITTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mimi then cleaned the kitten for several seconds.

These developments, though anticipated, came about much earlier than expected. Video will be coming shortly.

dude, what? yeah, I'm totally listening...I was just resting my eyes



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The kitten loves to play with Adale's hair bands. It will grab it with it's teeth and pull with all its might to get it out of your hands.

Two nights ago we were in bed playing with the hair band & the kitten grabbed it out of Adale's hand, ran to the end of the bed with it in it's mouth, jumped off the bed and took off running into the living room.

A few minutes later it came back & jumped on the bed with the band still in its mouth.

This is Mimi's basket, where she spends a lot of time chilling out. The kitten, showing no respect, jumped up into it & fell asleep.


The kitten has figured out that he can climb up the screen door.

Found this old picture & thought y'all would appreciate it.


The Date: May, 1991.

The Setting: My friend's Ray & Mike's apartment in Pasadena, CA (Southern California).

The Scene: Drinking beers before heading out to the Butthole Surfers/Redd Kross/L7 show at the Palladium.

The graph below represents the hits Business n'at has had for 2007, broken down by month. You can clearly see the crazy effect my posts on Rock of Love had on site traffic. I still get lots of people stopping by due to outside links to those posts or google searches for Brandi M / Pamela.

Page Load - The number of times your page has been visited.

Unique Visitor - Based purely on a cookie, this is the total of the returning visitors and first time visitors - all your visitors.

Returning Visitors - Based purely on a cookie, if this person is returning to your website for another visit an hour or more later.

It's difficult for me describe in words why the new kitten is perfect, so I thought a pie chart would help. All percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number and, as always, you can click on the picture to see a larger version.

DATELINE: Kitty Heaven, PA

I've been neglecting Business n'at for a very good reason...we have a new kitten!!!!!! This dude who works with Adale's mom had a kitten to give away & we picked him up Friday. I'm going to put on my cold, analytical hat on and say, with all honesty, this is the most perfect kitten ever. He's so cute, he's the nicest kitten you could ever imagine, and he is all about lovin' & running around like crazy. He's been purring & making muffins non-stop since we picked him up.

This little guy is so good natured - he purred when we gave him a bath, he sleeps with us all night, he sleeps on my lap. I'm at a loss for words to describe how wonderful he is.

Mimi was not happy at all when the kitten showed up. She growled & was terribly upset for a few days. Now they're running around chasing each other & I think they'll be good for each other.

Droolsy hates the kitten and that will never change.

One problem we've been having is coming up with a name. I have wanted to have a cat named Mr. nibbles for several years but I'm not sure Adale is down with that. We had kicked around Julius Nibbles when we thought about getting a bright orange kitty like Buddy, but the new kitten is a pale orange and the name doesn't exactly fit. Y'all have any suggestions?

This is from the Bike Bike conference but I didn't shoot it.

*** I should also say that the pictures below are from the Bike Bike website.

FLASHBACK: Pittsburgh, PA

I think I neglected to relate our fun time at the Bike Bike conference party last month. There was a recycled bike conference in town and Saturday night of the weekend they had a spandex themed dance party. My parents were in town that day and we all went to dinner, and afterwards we dropped them off at their B & B Adale and I rolled out to the party.

The recycled bike kids are all "grassroots" (= dirty). The dance party was held at a place called Construction Junction, which is a big warehouse where they sell architectural salvage (all sorts of stuff cheap, not like the fancy salvage place in Ithaca).

The theme of the party was Spandex. Adale & I rolled up in our B-Cas (that's business casual to you laymen). I expected the spandex theme to be expressed in biker spandex. Boy I was wrong.



* note The Man lurking in the background, trying to start a conversation about the mortgage industry crisis.

The gal on our left in the background is Etta Cetera, a friend, activist, puppeteer, artist, and CEO of Iron City Sweeper (a housecleaning service).






The most awesome part of the night happened out of the blue like Moses parting the Red Sea. Everyone was crammed up together dancing to the dj and, all of a sudden, the crowd opened up & a group of spandex clad angels appeared. As a circle formed around them, music began and they started breaking it down - it was the Jazzercize - Troop Radical Pittsburgh!

Not that The Sun is the most reputable UK tabloid, but they have some juicy Britney dirt:

An MTV source told The Sun: “The scene in the dressing room before the show was one of absolute blind panic.

“She knew she hadn’t rehearsed enough and was going to mess up the whole show and possibly her career — then she saw her hairdo and it was the final straw.

“She went into a wild rage and started lashing out at everyone — including her stylist.”

Desperate lackeys at the glitzy Las Vegas Palms Casino resort fetched her doctor, who gave Brit the prescription drugs.

The source said: “Britney took enough to floor an elephant. They calmed her down — but were clearly too effective.”

Updated! Britney Spears VMA Truth

One of my sources within the intelligence community (a senior image surveillance analyst) has put together compelling evidence that Britney DID break one of her heels during her 2007 VMA performance. The best data begins to come in around 1:58. It's almost as good as the Zapruder Film.

Meanest and Funniest Prank Ever

JUSTIFY MY BIG, PENETRATING LOVE

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS

I know everybody is talking about Brittany, so y'all don't need to hear any more about her performance. (Honestly, I feel bad for her...I really wanted her to rock it. I can't believe her managers would let her go out on stage unprepared like that.)

I don't know if any of you caught it, but the thing that jumped out at me was how fucking HUGE Dr. Dre was!!! He's always been pudgy but showed up last night like the Incredible Hulk!!! I read on a bodybuilding.com forum that LL CoolJ has been training him & that makes sense...CoolJ or someone hooked him up with some hardcore juice.



Promo still from The Wash (2001)


Interview, 2005


2007 VMA