All right, to make up for the Christmas Cats, here's RUN-DMC's "Christmas Time in Hollis, Queens"

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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Spring Training: America's Past Time is just getting started

Football is over, basketball has a month left before March Madness, but America's past-time is just getting started.

Here is the video of Contestants #2 & #3 from the Miss September Contest Posted on You-Tube

Which was better quality? You Tube or the Imbedded version?

It's A Very Surreal Moment When You Are Just Chillin' And All Of The Sudden A Bikini Contest Begins

I swear it was the wildest thing, we're just chillin' in the back-bar at Lights (On East Bay) meeting B-Rad's new "interest" when all of the sudden they cleared the dance-floor for a Miss September contest and around the corner came some babes in bikinis. So, I said, WTF? I'll throw it on my phone and Brick's new "interest" wanted me to cheer for No. 3-which I was all about supporting. So here you go!

(Btw, I am trying out this new Blogger video here, instead of posting to You-Tube.)

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Miss September Contest: Take 2

And here is where things got interesting...The DJ asked everyone off the dance floor (1-tyme-Fugee style) and here comes all three of the contestants for one more pass in their bikinis before the judges made their decisions. They walked off stage and the DJ played "Rump-Shaker" and we still didn't really know what was going on (i.e. who it was for, who sponsored it, etc) with this contest.

Miss September Contest in Charleston: Take 1

This is how it all began...

Friday Funnies: Lilly vs. Louis C.K.'s Dumb Dog

I shot this last month when we we're building Izzy's playhouse and since I didn't have any music to it, I thought about not posting it. But one of the Bushido's favorite comedians (Louis C.K.) has his own dog drinking from the fountain, so I decided to add it. Lilly drinks it much better, so Louis C.K. can suck a bag of "dugans".

Louis C.K.'s dog

Wednesday's WTF? Musings at the Charleston International Airport (CHAS)

Blackie got back from his trip to Boston last Wednesday and I went to pick him up, but unfortunately his bags didn't make it. Evidently, when you fly US Airways from Boston's Logan Airport, you are suggested to tip the counter guy (on top of their hourly wage). Not that tipping is a requirement, but it is strongly suggested, as Blackie found out, along with all of the other non-tippers from his flight. Not only did his luggage not arrive, but US Airways told him that it wasn't tagged at Logan International. Personally, I have never done it. I've tipped the baggage guy outside, but never the person working the counter. For the record, Craig said there wasn't a sign or a tip jar and no one else in line was tipping.

Message is full
I digress; Blackie and I went to our softball game since the next connecting flight out of Charlotte would not arrive for another 2 hours. After the game, Blackie called US Airways' baggage claims, but no one picked up the call. The voice messaging system picked up and asked for a name, phone-number and flight number, but the message center was full-"Please try your call again at a later time.

Carpe Luggage
I drove Blackie back to the airport to get his luggage. I pulled up to the baggage claim doors, dropped off Craig and waited in the car. One of the airport security guards gave me the "God's flashlight" beam in the eyes. (Thanks buddy). And then cracked on the window with the butt of his mag-light. (Evidently, his knuckles couldn't knock.)

We had a nice conversation (see below), but WTF is with the luggage being lost in the first place? Craig had a 2-hour lay-over in Charlotte and they couldn't get the luggage to his plane in 2-hours? Why don't airlines use the same system that UPS or FED-EX uses? WTF does your luggage get lost if you don't tip? And WTF can't you park in front of the baggage claim at 11:30 at night when no one else is around, if you are waiting in your car? I know, 9-11 changed everything, but personally, I enjoy the laissez-faire approach that Savannah International Airport has: if you are waiting in the car and not blocking traffic you are fine.
(Full disclosure: Blackie's luggage was delivered the next evening. And airlines wonder why people don't fly.)

Our conversation
Officer: The sign says, no leaving vehicles unattended.
JET: Yes Sir, I saw that. That's why I am waiting here in the car.
Officer: Well, it also says no parking.
JET: I am sorry, my friend just stepped inside to get his luggage and he should be right out. It's been quite a frustrating experience, I'd like to wait for him if you don't mind.
Officer: I do mind. You are disobeying the sign and breaking the law by parking here.
JET: Oh My, what do you suggest I do to not break the law? Should I just circle the wagons in the loop around the airport?
Officer: Yeah, circle the wagons. If you don't, you don't want to know what would the consequences would be.
JET's inner-voice: Actually, I would like to know. Hmm, I wonder if this guy can spell consequences. I think you are an idiot and I just made you say, circle the wagons. I don't see you running off the lady in the Range Rover behind me. I must admit, you just made my night-thanks buddy.
JET: (In my best a** kissing, Citadel respecting the authoriti (sic) of signs and rent a cops) Yes Sir, thank you Sir.
Officer: Get it moving.
JET's inner-voice: Hmmm, I think I should film a video to keep my sanity. Should I sing that "Signs" song or "Rawhide" to keep w/ the "circling the wagons" theme?

Sanity kept alive by "Rawhide"

Redeemer In Action

Brick, Craig and I play in Charleston's church softball league (Redeemer Lutheran) with a few other close pals. I know that I am Catholic, but I dig the comradeship on the team, so I play for the church with the red-doors. We finally got back on the winning track this week-winning our game tonight! It's been tough because we've lost 7 games by one-run.

To celebrate, here is a short video that I took of the team batting around. I edited the video and added Mofro's "War" for the montage. Enjoy!

Mega Movers Move The Spirit of South Carolina

Here is the video from Thursday night’s Mega-Movers episode, where they moved the ship, The Spirit of South Carolina. The sound was a bit off from the recording, so I took the liberty of editing the sound with a local favorite from the Bushido’s collegiate years: SKWZBXX “The Healing” from their Secret 68 album.

G.I. Joe Public Service Announcements and why Terrorists are gay

I am sure all of you remember the Public Service Announcements on G. I. Joe, but here is an interesting (and funny) clip that LR#8 sent me. Indeed folks this is why our generation didn't need bicycle helmets and elbow pads, we had guys like Duke and Flint to teach us the right way to do things.



And if you learn anything from the “Joe” cartoons and the actions of Evil, it is that Global Terrorists are all GAY and Love Clay Aiken. It's true. The one logical thing that the Jihad-tits are missing is that in the Koran (Quran) is says the martyr gets "72-virgins in Heaven as their prize",, but it doesn't say what gender these virgins are. Hence, the deduction (read: leap of logic) is that terrorists are homosexuals and there is 72-swinging queens of Ali-Sirloins waiting on them in Heaven. Which to me, is not much of a Heaven, but then again, I am not gay, nor am I a terrorist.

(Parody Video)

Fireworks Gun-Powder

I have to admit, I always feel a little too close for comfort when I get hit in the face with gun-powder pellets. Then again, this is only the 2nd time it has happened to me: the first time was on the 4th of July w/ Pit-Stop and Lars Phillipps when the parking garage we were on top of was only 2 blocks away from the action. Indeed my shirt was peppered that night, but I have never been hit with wrapper-see photo courtesy of J. Trabert.

Video 1:


Video 2:

Spoleto Fireworks w/ Izzy commenting in the foreground

Spoleto Finale Fireworks-Airplane

I saw a passenger airplane flying to the right of the fireworks and I couldn't imaging how cool it would have been to be looking out your window (perhaps even down) at fireworks.

Here's the video:

Spoleto Finale Fireworks

For those of you who missed the Spoleto Finale at Middleton Plantation this year, here is a video of the fireworks, mixed with a little “Dead” for your viewing pleasure.

I thought the symphony’s performance was a little short (timed just under an hour) and without the normal pizzazz of the music demonstrated in past Spoleto-Finales. Could this be the conductor’s fault? You bet. Not to beat a guy for his style, but in the past, conductors have interacted with the crowd-telling us non-nose-thumbing Plebes background on the piece that was just played. We still had a nice spread and a great time. Btw, I don’t know if you have ever seen her in person, but Channel 2’s Carolyn Murray is a rock! Enjoy the flick.