St. Patrick's Day Race

I have never had St. Patrick's Day off before ever. Or even the weekend that it's celebrated on. I'm not a big holiday celebrator but I love to watch people drink and make fools of themselves. This year I have St. Patty's Day off and I will be doing a .102k race on St. Patrick's Day. That's right. It is from one end of the parking lot to the other. By participating you get a t-shirt, commemorative mug filled with green beer and an official racing number. I will be doing this with Lulu and The Slore. (I work with The Slore. He is interesting to say the least.)We are considering making this a really race because of the length of the race. We will be designing our own team t-shirts and complete with bedazzling. I will keep you updated on race plans and will make sure to post plenty of pictures. If you would like to check out more information on the event you can do so here.

Bitch Please!

Deion Sanders is in the middle of divorcing his wife Pilar. 

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It's been bordering on ugly but it has officially crossed that line now in such an ironic fashion. See Pilar is suing Deion and his daughter Deiondra (creative much?) for supposedly calling Pilar a "gold digging hoe." So to prove she isn't a "gold digging hoe" she is suing Deion and Deiondra for $200 million. (He actually only has a net worth of $40 million.) Yep, that will do that. Try to clear yourself has a gold digger by suing the husband you are divorcing (and will get 50% of everything barring a prenup) for $200 million. Not really helping yourself out there, are you buddy?

Check out more on how Pilar doesn't think she's a gold digger here.

Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday so that means lent as officially begun. This year I will be giving up red meat, chocolate, no meat on Fridays (including fish) and biking 100 miles. I think this will be a good one. 

Scarred for Life

When I was growing up one of my favorite movies was the new version of The Little Rascals. It's awesome. I loved this movie. The kids are dealing with grown up issues in child settings.  For example; Darla is hurt that her boyfriend Alfalfa won't introduce her to his friends or claim her in public. Hello, this happens to women all the time. If you don't believe me watch a rom com. Any rom com. Since I liked the movie so much I recorded it on the DVR when it was playing on Starz for my niece. Of course she loves it. The kid's got good taste. Now moving on to the point of this post; Alfalfa is the main character and he is played by Bug Hall. Check out the picture of him from his Rascal days. 

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Now fast forward to this past Friday night when I can't sleep. So I'm watching one of the American Pie franchise straight to DVD movies on MTV. As I'm watching the lead character, who looks oddly familiar, keeps getting himself in to all kinds of sexually orientated hi jinx. So finally I have to know figure how where I recognize this guy's face from so IMDB the movie. It's none other than Bug Hall. He's all grown up now and playing a high school kid desperate to lose his virginity and is doing weird things in the process to do so. Here he is all grown up (he's actually pretty cute) and with his costar, Beth Behrs, in the American Pie flick. (Yes, that is Caroline from 2 Broke Girls.)

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In the back of my mind I always new the kids from The Little Rascals would grow up but I thought like any good child star they'd fade into obscurity and blow their money on drugs and alcohol. I didn't expect to see my dearest Alfalfa throwing up on women, hooking up with grandmas, or any of the other various uncomfortable acts he did. Here he is in the movie throwing up/getting ready to throw up on a girl he is hooking up with.

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Like I said my niece loves this movie and watches it quite a bit whenever she's over. Now every time that she does I see Alfalfa in a different light. Especially during his date with Darla and the whole sandwich thing. If you have seen the American Pie movie you know what I'm talking about. I just can't watch with the same care free innocence I did in my childhood. 

Bitches Please!

Tonight was the Grammy Awards so that means some artists turned out in ridiculous outfits to garner extra attention. As if they could actually steal any real attention away from the much deserved Adele Show. Adele sounded great, looked fabulous, and won in all 6 categories she was nominated. Bitches Please! But two women still tried. The first was Fergie. She's wearing Jean Paul Gaultier.

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Just because the dress is Jean Paul Gaultier doesn't mean you should wear it. I mean was she starving for attention that bad that she had to where her underwear in public? She just looks ridiculous. There's no way she looked at herself before she left the house and thought, "Girl, I look good today." I guarantee she looked at herself and thought "Yep, this should put my name in the papers because I'm needing some media attention right now."

The next Bitch Please! goes to Nicki Minaj. 

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Nicki Minaj wore a traditional habit that a Catholic nun wears daily and brought a man dressed as the pope as her date. Whenever celebrities wear outfits of a religious nature it is clearly a cry for the media to notice them and to start a little bit of controversy. It's just ridiculous. This "look at me, look at me" outfit is worse than Fergie leaving the house in her underwear and an orange lace tablecloth. The nun look has been done. Madonna's done it. Lady Gaga has done it. Lindsay Lohan has done it. Megan Fox has done it. Kate Moss has done it. Whoopi Goldberg did it for two movies. That's just 6 other celebrities off the top of my head who have rocked the whole nun look thing. I'm sure I could find more if I did a little googling. By the way Sinead O'Conner already did the whole controversial pope thing when she ripped up Pope John Paul the II's picture on SNL. It's been played out already. Bitch Please! You are not an original. This whole attempted look has already been done and it's been done better. Much better. 

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Just saw Minaj did a whole exorcism thing for her Grammy performance. While I'll give her 0.0008 points of credit for sticking with a whole theme for the entire night. I'm going to say it one more time. This has been played out. If you are going to copy something that's already been done make it completely your own or do the original better. Nicki did neither. The whole celebrity using religious symbols for controversial performance value is a bit played out. Lady Gaga did it better in the Judas video and even took it to a more extreme level. Nobody can do it better than Madonna. Period. Burning crosses in the "Like a Prayer" video cannot be out done no matter how much Nicki may try. I'd recommend she get a new shtick because girl is not doing this one well.

Washington Makes 7!

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Washington state just made themselves the 7th state to allow gay marriage! Good things are happening in the Pacific Northwest! Read an article written by the Seattle Post here.

The more states that allow same-sex marriage gives me more opportunities to attend these weddings. I can only imagine how fabulous they'd be. 

California's Gay Marriage Ban

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Has been struck down. Prop 8 has been repealed because it violates the equal protection rights of the citizens of California. The judge ruling in the case found that the law had no legitimate reason to treat gay people differently than straight and lessens gay people's dignity. You go Judge Reinhardt. The New York Times wrote a great article about the ruling which you can check out fully here.


So this means that we will probably get an appeal again and will possibly get a show down in front of the Supreme Court. Bringing the equal rights of gay marriage to biggest legal stage in all the land. I'm ready to see what some of the best law minds have to say on the subject of equal marriage rights for all. 

The Gisele Faux Pas

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Mrs. Tom Brady has been all over the news lately for the comments she made following the Patriots loss to the Giants in the Super Bowl. If you haven't heard about it then it's safe to assume you've been napping under a rock for the last couple of days because this has garnered as much press as the Super Bowl itself. But in the case you've been locked in an underground bunker Gisele broke an unspoken rule for athlete's spouses, never throw your husband's teammates under the bus and especially not in front of hundreds of cameras and people. Gisele was heckled by some Giants fans and she chose to sound off about how Tom can't throw the ball and then run down the field and catch the ball also. (If he was a true super star he could, just saying. ) Then she went on to comment on how many passes the Patriots dropped (Which was a lot but Tom didn't play the best game of his life, hello first play safety.) These lovely comments were captured on video in front of the press waiting for the players to exit the locker rooms. 


 While I get Gisele's frustration about her husband's loss and being provoked by fans but there really is no excuse for her outburst. She's been a celebrity for far too long to get riled up by a few hecklers. Also, I'd be surprised if she didn't get a run down from Tom when they become serious about proper football wifey etiquette especially since he's one of the biggest stars in the league. I guarantee you that one of the first things he told her was to not talk negatively about his teammates. It's a poor reflection on her, him and the entire Patriot organization. Tom is already one of those guys that you love because you are a Patriots fan or you hate him because he's Tom Brady the football start turned into uber celebrity. It will also cause more problems for her among the other wives. The rumor is that she is already not very popular with the other ladies so way to help yourself out there. It's going to cause major problems for him with his teammates. They are going to be angry a wife called them out about a few bad plays that were done on the grandest of football stages. They know what they did wrong, they feel bad about it already and they certainly don't need to be dragged through the media mud by someone who shouldn't even be expressing her opinion about it in the first place.


Here's what I think the Brady camp should have done to help smooth things over. Have Gisele  apologize and say that she knows that it's a team sport and you win and lose as a team and she was just frustrated. Then blame her outburst on her feisty personality. That would help ease some of the negative backlash. Also, privately Tom needs to check his lady. She may run him at home which kudos to her for but when it comes to football and the Patriots, home girl needs to bite her tongue on the subject. 

The Super Bowl Champions are...

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The winner of the Vince Lombardi trophy goes to the New York Giants! It was a great game and was exciting right down to the very last second. However; that means my prediction was wrong. My analysis of the statistical data based on hotness, names and hair was completely correct but it doesn't mean the Patriots were the better team. At least, not tonight.

There were a lot of great plays tonight like Manningham's catch on the sideline and the Giants punter dropping the ball with in the ten several times. Also, Belichick letting the Giants score with less than a minute a left was a brilliant decision because it actually gave his team a chance at the end zone and a victory. 

There were also some not great things like the Patriots very first play of the game resulting in a safety. Seriously awful. I know Gronkowski was only about 50% tonight because of the ankle sprain but that makes me question whether or not he should have been out there at all. He clearly wasn't effective since I can only recall one catch he made. I will say that he is always a welcome sight though. 

If you want to read a great article talking about the highs and the lows of the game Greg Garber has written a great one for ESPN and feel free to check it out here.

Super Bowl XLVI Prediction

After spending much time pouring over statistical data and reading expert opinions I have reached a conclusion on who will win this year's Super Bowl and the winner will be the.....

New England Patriots!

The data I used to reach this conclusion was hotness, coolest hair (facial and head) and who had the funnest last names to say. In the next three paragraphs I will explain how I decided to pick the Patriots over the Giants. 


Let's work our way backwards on the data collected and start with funnest last names to say. The NY Giants ran away with this one with some awesome last names. The Patriots had some good ones also but fell short because they had more tongue twisters then funny ones.  
Giants:
1. Prince Amukamara
2. Henry Hynoski
3. Mathias Kiwanuka
4. Spencer Paysinger 
5. Bear Pascoe
6. Osi Umenyiora.  
Patriots
1. Stephen Gostkowski
2. Rob Gronkowski
3. James Ihedigbo
4. Niko Koutouvides
5. Zoltan Mesko
*I am refusing to acknowledge Chad Ochocinco in this catergory because I find the fact that he changed his last name from Johnson to his jersey number utterly narcissistic and ridiculous. 
** Also, Ochocinco is eight five not eighty five like his actual number.The man has enough money to buy himself Rosetta Stone and learn his jersey number was actually ochenta y cinco in Spanish. 


The next category of data was coolest hair. This ranged from facial hair to hair on the head and the Patriots ran away with this category with fu manchued lineman and some rocking old school Kid 'n Play flat tops. Check out the awesomeness below. 


This is # 70 Logan Mankins and his awesome mustache during a press conference. 

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He scores double points for also sometimes looking like this:

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Next fabulous facial fuzz belongs to #62 Ryan Wendell with his so bad it's good mustache. 

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He gets extra credit also for rocking this look here..

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Now on to the hairstyles. First up is #10 Tiquan Underwood with his 1980s Kid 'n Play hi-top fade.

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Although, I'm not really sure how that fits into a helmet. At least not comfortably. 

However; Tiquan does lose points for this look...

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Seriously, fugly. Why he'd ever walk out in public like this I don't. I'm amazed. But as my friend, Jana, always said "If you can wear it with confidence, you can wear it."

But I'm quick to forgive when he does this to show his superior team commitment...

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#11 Julian Edelman has the best stereotypical long and disheveled bad boy hair. 

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*I must note that he has since cut his luscious locks but since this the official picture the Patriots used, that's how I'm basing my judgment. 

#59 Gary Guyton won points for the Pats by having the best use of string. He has red and blue string wrapped around one dread on each side of his face. Check it out...

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The colored string reminds me of something a third grader would do on a vacation to an island destination. These images below further proves my point that Guyton has the hair style of a 8-9 year old girl.

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The Giants are severely lacking in awesome and outlandish hairstyles and definitely have no one with fun facial hair. Here is the best I could scrounge up. 

#5 Steve Weatherford. 

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He looks like a real life Jimmy Neutron with his ice cream cone curl. Doubt me? Check out this picture below of Jimmy Neutron and try to tell me differently.

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Go ahead and try. I'll wait........

The next one is #57 Jacquian Williams...

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I really just put it in because I hate it. I hate how it looks like he had a line cut in to make a part and he looks ridiculous. Not as bad as Tiquan's old man, tiger cut (really nothing is) but it's still dumb. Keep it level because your head now resembles stairs. 

The last one is #69 Justin Trattou...

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I honestly just included him because his hair here kind of resembles Nick Nolte's in that infamous mug shot photo. 

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See what I mean? The crazy unkempt locks they are both sporting here. Which leads me to a tiny rant. Gentleman, if you are going to have long hair then take care of it. Keep it nice and keep it clean. Nothing is more unattractive than a man with long greasy, stringy, crazy, unkempt hair. Well except for maybe this...

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The final deciding factor is hotness. Each side has some serious lookers but the Patriots take this one for me. It's kind of obvious that the Pats would take this one since they have Tom Brady on their team. However; I did give the Giants a fair shake on this one but they just couldn't compete with the hotness going on in New England. Let's check out the Giants best looking players first. 


The first cutie is #13 Ramses Barden.

 

 

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Next is superstar #80 Victor Cruz.

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Lastly is cutie #39 Tyler Sash.

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Now it's time to look at the cutest team in the Super Bowl this year.

First and foremost there is Tom Brady aka the prettiest man in the league. Check him it out in full glory below.

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And again here...

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The next New England cutie is Rob Gronkowski.

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Good looks (and athleticism) must run in the Gronkowski bloodline because check out Rob with his brothers below. 

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Now look at Wes Welker.

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And again...

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Next is baby faced Nate Solder.

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Up next is heavily tattooed hottie Aaron Hernandez.

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Check out his unfinished back piece...

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Julian Edelman also returns for this category.

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It took a lot of tiring hours of research and analysis to come to this conclusion but it had to be done. I won't actually be cheering for either team playing this year since I don't actually care who wins but I won't be surprised at all if the New England Patriots win since they are the hottest team playing in Super Bowl XLVI.

SAG Awards

The SAG Awards were this past Sunday so that means all of Hollywood was out in full force. I can't tell you who won a single award because really who cares. However; I can tell you that some people were wonderfully dressed while others were dressed to look like bacon. Let us take a look at those who look lovely first.


Emma Stone in Alexander McQueen

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She looked fabulous. Definitely my favorite of the night. I thought the length was perfect and I'm loving that clutch.


Next up is Viola Davis in Marchesa

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I love the swatch of bead work that popped with her skin tone. The hair and jewels are working together for pure perfection.

Also, Dianna Agron in Carolina Herrera

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The color looks good on her and I even like the purple shoes with the bold pink of the dress. Braids were prominent on the carpet but I like her spin on it the best. (I'm actually rocking a front side french braid today.)

Lastly, is Lea Michele in Versace

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I like this look on her. I think gray is definitely a great color for her. I think it's a much safer choice than the look she rocked at the Golden Globes(although I did love it.) I think this dress was more well received also because Lea just looked more comfortable. She wasn't posing as hard. Normally, she's got a slight bend at the waist with her shoulders forward, butt out, and leg cocked. By the end of the carpet her legs have to got to be shaking. No way she can step and repeat that way all night with out feeling it.

Now for the best part of the any awards show; the fash-ho's. Warning: Some of these looks are truly fugly.

First up is Busy Phillips in great-grandmother's Little House on the Prairie Dress.

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The next one is Amber Riley. I feel like the outfit had potential but it just ended up looking like she stole the Glee Girls' dress for regionals and decided to wear it here.

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Now my absolutely, positively worst dressed of the night was E!'s own Red Carpet and Fashion Police host, Giuliana Rancic, in a dress with a bacon pattern. Take a look at her dress and try to tell me it doesn't resemble bacon......

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...................Go ahead and try. I'll wait...................................