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Save Pushing Daisies! The official website of the campaign to save the ABC show, "Pushing Daisies"
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Pushing Daisies is one of my favorite shows to come along in twenty years. Brilliantly acted and written, it is also a visual feast unlike anything else ever seen on television.
Unfortunately, the knuckleheads over at ABC are not planning on bringing the show back after episode 13 of this year, which leaves just 6 more all-new episodes for us Daisy-philes to look forward to.
Currently, the producer has a comic book wrap-up planned and has been receiving offers to produce a Daisies movie. That in itself should be enough to tell ABC that there's a hardcore following for the show, but nope...
Anyway, go to this site and sign the petition to ABC (over 50,000 signatures so far), and find out the latest on what's happening with my (and your!) favorite show.
Updated Nov 27, 2008
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Army of Women - Breast Cancer Research
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Army of Women is one of thousands of sites devoted to eradicating breast cancer, but this one has a brilliant approach. Instead of gathering a group of women who already have breast cancer and testing various possible cures on them, Army of Women wants to perform cancer research on one million HEALTHY women.
All you have to do to help is a) be a healthy woman, and b) sign up for free. Every month, you will receive an email detailing research projects that need volunteers within a certain demographic. For example, some researchers want to examine women who are between 50-59 who have never had children; others might want women between 30-39 who had a child before the age of 18, and so on.
Currently, the Army of Women has roughly 250,000 women on their email list, but their goal is to reach a million. If you don't want to sign up, or can't because you aren't a member of the fairer sex, you can still drop $5 on a "Beyond the Cure" pendant and help the cause.
Spread the word. By gathering as many volunteers -- and as much information -- as possible, one day breast cancer will be a distant memory.
Updated Nov 27, 2008
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Emergen-C Health & Energy Water
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I recently started working a graveyard shift, 9pm to 7am, and decided that it would be the perfect opportunity to test-drive some Emergen-C Health & Energy Water. For comparison's sake, I'll contrast it with what I usually do, which is overdosing on coffee, sugar, and the occasional Red Bull.
First off, the four flavors (Dragon Fruit, Tangerine, Lemon-Lime, and Raspberry) are great. I'm not a Gatorade fan because of the watery taste, but Emergen-C definitely doesn't have that problem.
Tangerine, as I was recently telling people, tastes like pineapple juice that lost its soul in a poker game with the devil... and still, I really enjoyed the Tangerine flavor.
The Lemon-Lime drink was good, much better than the aforementioned Gatorade version.
The Raspberry drink was so good, I briefly considered running out and buying a case of the stuff... until....
Dragon Fruit. Holy crap. Okay, maybe I'm sheltered and don't try enough new things. I'd never even heard of Dragon Fruit before... but that drink is one of my new all-time favorites. If I had to try to describe the taste, it's almost like a pomegranite with less of an acrid kick to it.
This stuff is loaded with Vitamin C, B-6, and B-12. has seven mineral complexes and healthy doses of other essential vitamins. I didn't see a massive jump in my energy level (a la Red Bull), but I did notice that I was much more focused, more able to pay attention to the tasks at hand (which is never easy at 4 in the morning).
Put it this way: If I had had 4 cups of coffee, I would have had that zippy, go-go-go-go-GO feeling for a while, and then felt strung out and tired a couple of hours later. With Emergen-C Health & Energy Water, I was calm, alert, and focused. It's some seriously amazing stuff. My only complaint is that while it's carried in Safeway stores all across the country, it's not in my local store. Grrrrr. I have to get across town to a Walmart or CVS in order to pick some up... but hey, it's worth it.
This drink is great-tasting, keeps you energized and focused, and is great for you. When I compare that to my usual routine of coffee and Red Bull, which taste good, eventually lead to a crash in energy levels, and aren't exactly healthy (sugar + caffeine), and... well.. there's no comparison at all, now that I think about it.
Emergen-C simply kicks ass.
Go to www.emergenc.com and click on "FIND SOME" to see which stores near you carry the stuff, and then go out and buy about... oh... every bottle you can find, especially the Dragon Fruit flavor. Yum.
Updated Oct 10, 2008
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Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting
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Catchy, off-the-wall tunes were the name of the game in the 70s. And apparently, the 70s was a violent decade. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting.... them cats was fast as lightning.... o/~ o/~
Anyway, even if you didn't like the song, you now know the answer to a trivia question: Who the hell was the singer of that Kung Fu Fighting song?
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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Lava Lamp 70's Edition
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Lava lamps. I could watch these things for hours, and I'm sober! I can't imagine how many hours upon hours upon millions of hours were wasted in the 70s just staring at these lamps, watching them do their thing.
(Note: I can actually sit around for hours staring at a blue TV screen, so I guess I shouldn't be throwing stones. It's not that there's something extraordinarily comforting about the blue screen... it's just that I'm really, really lazy and I haven't been able to find my remote for a few days. I guess I'm glad I wasn't performing some national security-sensitive function in the 70s... I would have had one of these lamps in my office and been the Worst. Employee. Ever.)
But seriously, these things are cool. Always have been, always will be.
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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16" Gold Disco Mirror Ball
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I'm not sure if this is going to make any sense, but it does in my head.
But anyway...
I've always looked back at the disco era with a twinge of embarrassment. I mean, leisure suits and terrible dancing aside, nothing is as gaudy as a shining silver ball being the centerpiece of a dance floor.
But a GOLD ball? Oh, my. It just seems classy. Laugh all you want, but somehow I still equate gold to being elegant and silver to being... well... chintzy. This gold disco mirror ball would look perfectly fine in any modern establishment, but it would -- at the same time -- remind us of how far we've come.
Yes. I'm a dork.... and yes, the site sells normal silver balls, as well as a host of other disco-related items. Go look at a silver ball next to a golden ball, and tell me you don't gravitate towards the golden one!
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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All in the Family - The Complete First Season
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Forget "The Simpsons," "Roseanne," "Married With Children," and the like... if you're a fan of laughing at dysfunction, "All In The Family" is the show for you. And not just regular, vanilla dysfunction: Groundbreaking dysfunction. Racist, homophobic, misogynistic dysfunction. Dysfunction so sick and twisted that all you could do was laugh at it.
Essentially, "All In The Family" redefined what you could and couldn't do on television, ushering in a new era of fantastic television shows ("Sanford & Son," "The Jeffersons," "Mork & Mindy") that weren't afraid to take on controversial subjects.
Even now, some of the things from "All In The Family" are considered too hot-button for most shows... and yet, 37 years ago, one show was willing to go there. "All In The Family" is one of my favorite things from the 1970s, and a show that (to me, at least) will never get old.
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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Dr. Martens - VINTAGE 1490
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Punk music is one of my favorite things about the 70s, and any self-styled punker out there was wearing Doc Martens. The company was vilified for closing their UK-based production factories and moving them to cheaper, third-world nations a few years ago, but apparently they've regained their senses and started producing Docs in the UK again.
These boots look great... and all of a sudden, I'm nostalgic for ripped acid-washed jeans and black jean jackets and thick silver chains. What, you thought I was going to recommend a leisure suit just because this is included in a list of 1970s stuff?
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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Patton (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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By the time I was 8 years old, I could do the entire opening speech from "Patton." I still quote the movie at random, sometimes inappropriate times. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure there is anything funnier than a kid sitting in church and then suddenly standing up and yelling, "Jesus, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!"
Of course, then my father's belt "went through me like crap through a goose," but oh, wasn't it worth it...
This collector's edition has restored the movie to nearly modern-day quality, and has a bunch of features and bonuses. It's sitting on my shelf, begging me to watch it right now...
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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Led Zeppelin: Stairway To Heaven
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For the longest time, Led Zeppelin had a stranglehold on "Stairway to Heaven." In order to get your hands on the single, you had to buy the entire album... and more than a few friends of mine (who didn't like Zeppelin's other music -- the morons) weren't willing to plunk down $30 for one song.
Luckily for them, you can now get the song as a single... although I'm not sure why anyone would want to miss out on the entire "Led Zeppelin IV" album. Either way -- whether you get just the song or the album -- you're guaranteeing yourself a copy of a song that is pretty much universally acclaimed as one of the top three songs of all time.
(Personally, I'll take Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as #1, The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For the Devil" as #2, and then "Stairway.")
But.. since those other songs were released in the 90s and 60s, respectively, that makes "Stairway" the best song of the 70s in my opinion, and deserving of $0.89 any day of the week. If your body makes wild flailing motions when listening to "Play That Funky Music," you probably at least play a little air guitar -- or even sing along -- to "Stairway."
Updated Sep 23, 2008
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