The Colbert Report: Colbert for President
October 17, 2007
Appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert announced he was considering a run for president in the 2008 presidential election. However, Colbert went on to say that the official announcement would be made, if made, on a more prestigious show.
Fifteen minutes later, on The Colbert Report, Colbert made the official announcement that he will indeed be running for president in the 2008 presidential election.
“I shall seek the office of the president of the United States,” announced Colbert. He will run as both a Democrat and Republican. Colbert also intends on confining his campaign to South Carolina.
Possible running mates? Huckabee, Putin or Colbert-Colbert. Colbert believes the third choice, Colbert-Colbert, to be the strongest ticket. How far will Colbert be able to go in his presidential run? Colbert has, in the past, been able to mobilize Colbert Nation into various campaigns unrelated to politics. This should be interesting, and definitely entertaining.
Pinkberry: swirly goodness frozen yogurt
October 16, 2007
Pinkberry. Heard of it?
If you live in, or have visited Southern California or New York, perhaps you have visited the frozen yogurt dessert shop that has gained an almost cult-like following.
It has been reported (although I am not certain how serious to take this one) that Pinkberry groupies refer to the frozen yogurt dessert as Crackberry.
At the Pinkberry website there is a Groupies Corner where the Pinkberry devoted can sign up as an official Pinkberry groupie.
If you have not been to a Pinkberry store, it looks like the upscale frozen dessert chain Pinkberry may be coming to a town near you.
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Led Zeppelin: download music concert reunion
October 16, 2007
Late to the digital download music party, one of the first heavy metal rock bands Led Zeppelin will finally begin selling its music online. Beginning November 13, the complete catalog of Led Zeppelin albums will be available for download as well as ring tones and full song downloads from Verizon Wireless.
Led Zeppelin will get together for a reunion performance on November 26 in London at The O2 as a tribute to the late founder of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun and to aid the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund. Ertegun signed Led Zeppelin in 1968 shortly after the band was formed by members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Led Zeppelin disbanded after the death of Bonham in 1980.
Featured supporting acts at The 02 tribute concert will be Foreigner, Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, and Paolo Nutini.
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TV Land: Classic TV, music and movies for boomers
October 11, 2007
Emmy award winning for Outstanding Achievement in Enhanced Television TV Land has relaunched its TV Land network website to create the ultimate online entertainment destination for boomers.
TV Land President Larry W. Jones offers this explanation for the decision behind the redesign and focus of TV Land’s website, “TVLand.com is evolving beyond classic TV into an entertainment destination targeting a generation. The revitalized TVLand.com site will give viewers seeking fun-filled entertainment targeted to their age group an experience that goes above and beyond classic TV and into music, games, movies and original TV Land Productions.”
What can a boomer expect to find in the way of classic television shows at TV Land.com?
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PostSecret: A Lifetime of Secrets
October 11, 2007
There are secrets — and then there are secrets. All secrets are intensely private by nature. However, the paradoxical universality of secrets is that secrets secretly want to be spoken, want to be known, if only there were a safe way to reveal the secret. How to reveal a secret and keep it secret. Enter PostSecret.
PostSecret began three years ago as an art experiment. Intrigued by other people’s secrets, Frank Warren began publishing the blog PostSecret where a postcard with a secret revealed is sent in anonymously and then published online. Most of the postcards sent in are a collage of images and words. The award-winning PostSecret blog has evolved into four published books in collections of anonymously and decoratively created postcard secrets.
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Sweet Potato Pie: Good for you pie recipe
October 10, 2007
Sunshine on a Summer day: A given.
Sunshine on a late Fall day: A gift given.
I won’t be hanging around indoors today. But before I go, let’s talk sweet potatoes and Sweet Potato Pie.
Did you know that it takes 23 cups of broccoli to equal the same amount of beta carotene found in one cup of sweet potatoes? Sweet.
Here is information about the health benefits of sweet potatoes, as well as a delicious sweet potato pie recipe.
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Ed Begley: Living with Ed new season
October 10, 2007
HGTV’s green living reality television show Living with Ed, chronicling the walk the talk eco-friendly lifestyle of Ed Begley and his wife Rachelle, is back for a new season of great television.
This season, Begley visits with friends Jay Leno, Jackson Browne, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Daryl Hannah, Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek, Sharon Lawrence and Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal.
As an environmentalist, Ed rates being a pedestrian on foot as his first choice in transportation; uses the city bus; drives an electric car; and lives in a modest solar-powered house in an unpretentious neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Rachael Ray: So You Think You Can Cook
October 10, 2007
Food Network’s 30 Minute Meals cooking show host and daytime syndicated talk show host Rachael Ray is looking for the next celebrity chef — and it could be you.
Ray has launched the contest So You Think You Can Cook for an amateur cook who believes they have that something extra and has a personal dream of becoming the next celebrity chef.
During a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Ray explained, “We just want to give a person — a real person, not a chef or somebody specially trained to do this for a living — a shot at showing everybody their personality and how much fun you can have with food.”
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Xbox 360 facts
October 10, 2007
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was released at the end of 2005. The Xbox 360 was the first of the new consoles, its competitors being the Nintendo Wii and Sony’s Playstation 3. This top selling console has the ability to display its graphics in HD. The controllers used for the Xbox 360 are totally wireless. Microsoft offers a service called Xbox Live, with Xbox Live you can play games with other people from around the world as well as download new content for games.
Another great thing about the Xbox 360 is that you can buy an HD-DVD player for it and turn it into a really affordable HD-DVD player. If you go and look at stand alone HD-DVD players in stores they can cost you $300 but all it will do is play DVDs, the Xbox 360 will do that and play video games.
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Nintendo Wii facts
October 10, 2007
Nintendo’s latest game console is the Wii. The Wii was released in the winter of 2006 and was a huge success. The way you play the Wii is amazing. All the action in the game is controlled through the motion of your remote, or wiimote. You play the Wii by pointing your wiimote at the screen and interacting with the game.
The Wii comes with the game Wii Sports and it gives you a good idea of what the possibilities are for the Wii’s controls. Wii Sports is a collection of games that you can play. My favorites are baseball, bowling, and tennis. In all the games you have to mimic the movements of the real sports like swinging the bat or bowling the ball.
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