Friday Funnies: Owen Wilson is Drill Bit Taylor

Finally, it looks as though Owen Wilson is off the pity-party and back to doing what he does best-Comedy. From the guys (Seth Rogen and Kristofor Brown) who made "Superbad" and "Knocked Up" comes the story of three "nerds" who hire a homeless "vet" named Drill Bit Taylor to be their personal body guard in the movie Drill Bit Taylor (link to official site).

With witty dialog such as Drillbit: "What do you teach?" Teacher: "English" Drillbit: "My native tongue" and Drillbit's dialog to the skills of martial arts "Now in addition to the Chinese Kung Fu we've got a little Mexican Judo, as in 'Judon't know who you messin' with, homz" hopefully we will be back to the laugh a minute comedy that we all know Wilson to play so well. The movie came out last week. Give me a shout in the comments section if you have seen it.

Link to IMDB site

Celebrating Charleston Fashion Week with George Michael's "Freedom '90"

Indeed, we will get into the spirit of Charleston's Fashion Week with a little music and a handful of the world's hottest models courtesy of our old friend George Michael and his "Freedom '90" video. By old friend George Michael, let's just say we don't go to the bathroom together like a bunch of chicks, but still the old wanker knew how to stock a video full of form and pulchritude with the likes of Naomi Campbell in the body suit at the end of the video and dancing in cowboy boots and lingerie in the beginning of the video, Linda Evangelista as the short-haired blond hottie singing under the sweater, Christy Turlington is the floor crawling brunette with the big brown eyes, Tatjana Patitz is the blond (German) model smoking and Cindy Crawford steaming things up in a bathtub and straddling the chair with her long legs spread harking back to a flash-dance for those who remember. For the ladies, that's Scott Benoit and Todo Segalla as the male models in the video. Enjoy this six minutes and thirty seconds of art and pleasure.

Don't remember the freedom back in the '90's
For you young kids out there that's a dual-cassette-tape deck below the "new" CD player that que's the music and the big music player is a juke-box that explodes at the end of the video, which symbolizes George Michael's new start at music leaving his pop-roots with Whaam! in the past. Naomi Campbell's dancing in the beginning of the video in lingerie and cowboy boots should still be en vogue, if not, we've gone severely off track as a society at large. If you notice, Naomi is dancing with a thick cord attached to her headphones, way before the thin-ear-buds' wires, headphones used to have thick cords and a copper plug to attach to your sound system.

The flying piece of paper flying into the room was something we did as kids called, "making paper airplanes" (unlike regular crashing airplanes, a paper airplane does not make juke-boxes or guitars explode during impact). The metal thing glowing in the corner of the room was a space-heater used to heat rooms. Also, the metal thing whistling at the end of the video was a tea-kettle (used to heat water) on a radiator (a metal device that released heat before central-heating and air). Finally, the dude doing crunches by hanging upside down was the cool thing to do back in the 90's-that is if you had a threshold, a metal bar and ankle straps to clip in with to your metal/chin-up bar. (See Michael Keaton in the Batman movie).
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The Mast General Store in Valle Crucis, N.C.

The Mast General Store: Quality Merchandise, Fair Prices and Friendly Service
Long before the advent of malls, Super-Wal-Marts and other box stores, folks went to a general store for nothing specific. The Mast General Store is a step back in time complete with the old P.O. Boxes and calendars from the 1950's decorating the walls or perhaps just a reminder of the necessities of a simpler life, because they only sell stuff you would "need" if you lived or were vacationing in the mountains! Or as they say at the store, "If you can't buy it here, you don't need it." As you walk around the original store the creaking floor boards remind you of just how enjoyable a shopping experience can be without the loud-speaker announcements or other various comments beginning with "attention shoppers" blasting into your ears. (Photo of the Mast General Store's Pot-bellied stove courtesy of JET)

Take a short trip down the road to the Mast General Store annex and you go to Mel's Mecca-complete with numerous candy barrels chocked full of a vast assortment of the catalyst for tooth-decay. Honestly, as soon as I walked in I realized this Mel would be like a kid in a candy-wait, scratch that its time to breath new life into that old adage, Mel would be like a Mel in a candy store!

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Charleston Fashion Week Kicks off on Tuesday!

This week the 2nd annual Charleston Fashion Week kicks off featuring 30 local boutiques and designers. Go to the official site by clicking here for more information. (I received this photo from an anonymous source on my birthday as a well wish, but thought to add it here)

Happy Birthday Reese!

Indeed, you all know we here at the Bushido (JET primarily) has a mad crush on his fellow bi-centennial baby, Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon born 32 years ago in New Orleans. How many times has Charlie Bravo lamented as I sat watching some (chick) flick starring Reese? Too many to count. And the mad crush continues.




That being said, she is currently dating Jake G (aka: the catcher-cowboy from "Broke Back Mountain"). My only concern of course is her ability to watch her kids when playing in the ocean-sure, she looks great here in the bikini photo, but that still didn't distract me from looking at what her kids head is doing. (Photos courtesy of People.com)













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Wednesday's WTF? WTF is President Bush's Pardoy Funny?

President Bush entertaining at his final Gridiron Dinner (consisting of cabinet members and members of the press) with a parody of Johnny Cash's "Green, Green, Grass of Home". Instead of "down the lane I walked with my sweet Mary, pair of golden lips like cherries" you get "Down the lane I look and here comes Scooter (Libby) finally free of the prosecutor." WTF is this even funny?

Here is the same video with commentary from Keith Olbermann as well as subtitles for those who missed Bush's words.

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Who's the Big Winner at Buffalo Wildwings?

That's right me! Oh crap, Charlie's angry girlfriend is flashing across the tv screens, time to get scarce. It was my first time at the Buffalo Wildwings in North Chuck by the outlet mall, but I had a good time. Heads up though folks, North Chuck hasn't implemented the smoking ban, so expect that old familiar smoky smell in your clothes when you inspect the pile by your (or someone else's) bed the next day.

Should New York Spitzer or Swallow?

I received numerous e-mails and messages regarding a possible post on New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer yesterday and I have to admit, I was a bit shocked to see my man Spitzer was caught with his pants down. Seriously, the guy is a white knight, a choir boy, someone who looked out for the little guy and did a lot to clean up the mess on Wall Street (i.e. former NYSE director Dick Grasso’s compensation, the inflation of stock prices by investment banks, investors being taken advantage of with late trading policies and mutual funds, etc).

Full disclosure: the Bushido donated money to Spitzer’s 2006 campaign for Governor and is still on his mailing list. Personally, I could care less about the Governor’s “private matters” as long as he is doing well by the people of New York. I have always been one to except a person’s flaws in their private life as long as they are apt and capable in their duties to the office they hold. Go down the list: JFK, FDR and Bill Clinton were arguably all excellent presidents and they all had flawed personal lives. People of New York, it is time to stand by your man (a record 70% of you voted for him in his gubernatorial election), swallow your pride and quit pushing for Spitzer to step down, just stay tuned for when the “juice” gets added to the story and realize that there’s just some things most men don’t want to do to the woman who kisses their children at night. And quite frankly, from a professional stand-point, one would have expected a little more discretion from a prostitute who charges $1,000 an hour.

Client # 9
The Old Gray Lady reported that Spitzer was caught on a federal wire tap six times setting up a meeting with his $1,000 an hour madam named “Kristen”, a petite brunette (5 feet 5 inches, and 105 pounds), on February 12th and 13that the Mayflower Hotel (Room 871) in DC (photo credits: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) In addition, The NY Times reported that Spitzer paid $4,300 for services rendered and an advance for their next encounter to Kristen and the recently brought down multi-million dollar, prosecution ring named the “Emperor’s Club”. To read the full complaint in PDF, click here

When your own words come back to haunt you
Sadly, it seems that we here at the Bushido have to remind the public of the same advice Governor Spitzer (then attorney general) had for criminals in an ABC News interview, "Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need."

Now I know that they will go nuts on Spitzer in the NY Times, Wa-Po (link to Dana Milbank’s article, “Client 9's Sinking Ship”) and the WSJ (link to CNBC article giving a round up of the latest smack downs in the Editorials) but let’s be serious and look at the facts: 1) the hooker is still alive and 2) there’s no young boy involved, hence there’s no violation of the Cardinal Rule of Politics. Basically, it’s just like our friend John Glenn (the astronaut) used to say, “If you set a trap with ‘Tang, you’ll catch me every time”.

Getting Cash Ready For The Weekend!

As a single-dad, I know that when my boy, Cash, needs to go on a trip he needs all of the comforts of home, what I like to call a doggie-diaper bag. Inside this milk-crate I packed a check-cord, leash, dog food in zip-lock baggies, treats, 2-training dummies, Hedgie, Lobster, pig-ears, and some shampoo (just in case). I think we are ready for our weekend in the mountains!

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