MOST ROMANTIC

Goes to Raekwon from Wu Tang Clan, who explains what Valentines Day means to him:

"It's a special day. It's a day to understand the person who means the most to you." So how to celebrate?

"I'm the type of dude who may be in a helicopter over the city having sex."

ELECTION ADVICE, v.14

As you all know, I am here to help. The election season can be confusing with all sorts of information you have to keep track of, so much so that it can be difficult to decide which candidate you want to support. In this volume of Election Advice I would like to direct you to this website which provides a host of impartial data on Senator Barack Obama that will help you better understand what he stands for & why he wants your vote. As always, the information provided in Election Advice is merely for your education and should not be viewed as an endorsement.

HOTEL REVIEW: Best Western Eastern Shore Inn Exmore, VA

Two Stars (out of Five)

Overall this was a pretty low-rent place. Sure I had cable tv and the internets, but the pillows were flat & the sheets were old. Sometimes the cleaning people didn't empty out, let alone wash my little coffee pot. The people who worked there were very nice & helpful, and since the hotel was only 20 percent full they took care of me as much as they could. I think I can best express myself through a haiku...

Buffet serves despair
lukewarm, stale,the sheets are rough
only go if must

Lil' J, you had me at motherfucking myspace

DATELINE: EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA

Sign at the Maryland / Virginia border

Top 4 best store of all time?

Fierce Hair-dos available 24/7

DATELINE: Eastern Shore of VA

Hey all, I'm about to leave the hotel this morning & will be posting again later tonight. For those of you who expressed concern the super-duper hives outbreak in the photos below was reversed by last Sunday morning thanks to various injections and pills.

HIVES!

This is what I was plagued with last Saturday. Looks bad, huh?

DATELINE: Eastern Shore, Virginia

I'm back in VA and rolling through my second week of interviews. The weekend in Pittsburgh was nice except for the extreme hives attack on Saturday. Adale and I went out to some junk stores and my face started to itch & the bumps began to show up. It wasn't long before I looked pretty fucked up but I had planned on going to the doctor later in the day I didn't worry about it. It finally was too much and we went to the doctor where I realized that the hives were out of control.

Saturday was a little chilly so while we were running around I was bundled up, but when I got into the examining room I took my jacket & sweater off & saw that the bumps were all over my face & the parts of my neck & shoulder exposed by my t-shirt. I took my shirt off and Jesus Christ if I wasn't covered completely in red welts...I took my pants off and I was covered head to toe. I got a little hyped up while talking to the doctor because I was a little worried that these things wouldn't go away before I left the next day for a week of travel, or if they did go away they would show up Monday or Tuesday.

The doctor gave me three shots and a mess of new pills. Thank god the bumps were gone by Sunday morning. I'll have to ask Adale to send some of the pictures she took with her phone

I don't what caused them. They're doing allergy tests on my blood to find out but I am a tiny bit worried that it'll be something I don't want to quit eating, like tomatoes (no pizza!) or wheat (no Wheat Thins!) . The hives started my second week in Maryland (I think) and the weekend before that second week I had some octopus, so maybe it's seafood. An allergy to seafood wouldn't be the worst thing, not like an allergy to pizza or beer or donuts.

A few bumps came back tonight on my face but not too bad. Hopefully thees new steroids & anti-histamines will take care of them.

Until tomorrow bitches.

I'm rolling out to work & will post something this evening. Until then, stay icy.

DATELINE: Chincoteague Island, VA

Abandoned Roller Rink

I'm rolling out tomorrow, back to my baby. The good news is that I finally got an upgrade to First Class!!!! I'll be enjoying free cocktails all the way to Charlotte (where I switch planes and back to coach). Have a Fun Friday and I'll talk to y'all over the weekend.

Yacht Rock Episode 1: What a Fool Believes

DATELINE: Chincoteague Island, VA

Off season tourist town. There were a number of interesting things in this little beach town but I only had time to take a few pictures. I'm away from my crappy hotel room until late tonight so feel free to search the internets.

won't be posting again until tonight (Tuesday) - super busy.

DATELINE: Exmore, VA

First day on site & won't be posting until this evening. Live long and prosper.

RE: Your Brains



When I first heard this song I got the same feeling I had when I first heard The Muffs and The Old 97's.

BH 90210 / Saved By The Bell GOSSIP DISCUSSION

The most difficult part, for me, of trying to come up with a definitive solution to this blind item is that I really enjoy imagining all of the possible actors in the various roles in the story. I definitely hear what Joe is saying about Ian - he is sweaty and I'm not altogether convinced that the party frat guy character of Steve is a pure creation of his acting skills. And he did marry that Playboy centerfold.

But I have to go with my deep understanding of both shows and suggest Brian Austin Green was the male 90210 actor snorting all the coke & macking with the SBTB hottie. At first I thought he would have been too young - he played a freshman in the first season and looked the part - and agreed with Allison that it must have been Jason Priestly, but then I checked Wikipedia and Brian was 16/17 when that first season was being filmed. I knew he dated Tiffani-Amber Thiessen of SBTB and 90210 fame but because I thought he was so young when BH started I didn't think they were the coked-up couple getting down UNTIL I read this passage on Tiffani-Amber Thiessen's Wiki page:

During her Saved By The Bell and Beverly Hills, 90210 career she dated actor Brian Austin Green for about 7 years. They used to live together.

Thus, Tiffani has to be the SBTB hottie in the story. She was still on SBTB at the time and was also dating Brain at the time. And I agree with the Blind Item that she's hot.

When I thought Jason Priestly was the 90210 guy, my guess for the 90210 gal hoovering up the coke without as much as a thank you was Shannon Dougherty. She was young, was and has seemed very selfish, and often displays exactly the diva-type behavior described in the story. It also makes sense that she was hanging out with Jason - she was pretty much the female lead of the show & Jason's tv brother. However, since I know don't think Jason was involved the field is opened up. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Jennie Garth (AKA Kelly Taylor) - she was the "glamorous" teen girl on the show and was always much thinner than Shannon (from a big coke habit?).

I do have to add that if you ever, ever get the chance to see Morris Day and the Time, do it. I saw them in Milwaukee a few years ago (got in free & went backstage to hang with Morris & Jerome thanks to Juan Carlos' love of BBQ & his lovable and gregarious nature) and they were incredible. I remember thinking, and still believe, that if I could be anyone I might choose Morris Day. He's the coolest, smoothest, most fly cat ever created on god's green earth. I am 100 percent serious that if I could pull off wearing the amazing outfits he wears I would in a heartbeat.

I really don't like having Hives. I've got 'em on my arms, hands, legs, chest, shoulder, butt and they are so goddamn itchy. I also look like hell, like I've got Ebola or some other horrible and contagious disease. I'm getting a shot tomorrow that should take of them.

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (Mitt)