My wife wants a hybrid electric vehicle. she wants a prius like my dad’s. I want one too but mostly because they are pretty cool. However, with gas about a gazillion dollars a gallon we would do well to have two of them though right now our Hondas get good milage and we have them both paid off. I would guess that the payment on two hybrids would be more than what we would save in gas.
Did you notice that gas prices are dropping? Almost 40 cents in the last month where I live. It’s bullshit though. We are supposed to feel grateful to pay 3.60/gallon just because it used to be $4. It was about .90/gallon ten years ago and inflation being 3% it should only be about 1.50/gallon now. Damn opec, damn hummers, damn greedy oil company assholes! If we all drove hybrid electric vehicle then gas prices would plummet which would mean people would start buying hummers again, blah blah blah. What we need is an electric hummer.
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First Bernie Mac and now Isaac Hayes. It’s been a sad week for the entertainment industry. Isaac Hayes was the man. In Shaft Isaac Hayes wrote the soundtrack. Watch Yo Mouth. I’m talkin bout shaft here. I can dig it. Shaft was an awesome movie. Richard Roundtree nailed the role and Isaac Hayes’s song lent the perfect atmosphere to the movie.
More recently than Shaft Isaac Hayes was known for being chef on South Park. Chef was probably the most memorable character in the whole show besides Cartman. It’s too bad about the way he left though but while on the show he gave and he gave to the pop culture lexicon. Love Gravy!
Isaac Hayes’ funeral will take place in the city where Hayes first became a well known name, Memphis, Tennessee. On Monday morning and afternoon, Hayes will be laid to rest. Memorial services will officially be held in Cordova, Tennessee, from 11 AM to 2 PM. It will take place at Hope Presbyterian Church at 8500 Walnut Grove.
As Isaac Hayes’ funeral is being set up, the Hayes family has set up areas where fans and well wishers can pay their respects. The Hayes family has asked that donations be sent to the Stax Music Academy in Memphis, in lue of flowers. Hayes had been a tireless supporter of the Stax Music Academy and Stax Records in life.
With the funeral in place and donations set up, one last mystery in the Isaac Hayes death saga is the cause of death. Hayes was found unconscious at his home lying next to his treadmill, and died an hour after being taken to the hospital. Now, although an autopsy is not yet complete, doctors are ready to say that Hayes died of a stroke.
The news has not been made official yet by a medical examiner or by the Memphis health department. However, Hayes’ family physician, Dr. David Kraus, was reported to have filed paperwork that lists Hayes’ death as being caused by a stroke. All that Hayes’ relatives had to say on the subject was that Hayes was under a doctor’s care before his death.
The only thing I knew about Michael Phelps before tonight was that he is a swimmer. There is that At&T commercial with the girl who is just a little too into Michael Phelps and the problem with the number of bars in the little Podunk town she just moved to. Anyway, now I get the bit about how much he likes Chinese Food.
I just saw him win the gold in the 400 meter individual medly (that’s swimming for those of you who know less about swimming than I do which is not much). It was cool to watch the medal ceremony. Then the sound system screwed up the beginning and the end of the national anthem, but no one seemed to mind much.
I guess USA, USA, USA!
My wife was a swimmer when she was younger. She thinks it’s funny that now men opt to wear leggings or even a full body suit rather than the more traditional speedo. I guess this is easier than shaving your entire body every other day. But she says it makes it hard to tell the men from the women when all you see on tv is them from the shoulders up. It is actually, and i’ve mixed it up once or twice and didnt’ realize till later that I was watching men instead of women or vice versa.
So, go Michael Phelps, gold medal for the Us of A. Here’s to a bunch more where that one came from.
It’s that time again, time for the summer Olympics. Yee haw. I haven’t actually been excited about them since i was 13 years old. It was an exciting time, i didn’t have a mortgage, I was about to start the eighth grade, and I was pumped. I spent two weeks glued to the tv that summer watching the Barcelona Games. At the time I was dreaming about being an olympic decathalete. I’m not sure what gave me the idea that this was something I wanted to pursue, I’m certainly no where near that now. The closest I ever got was the eighth grade track team and lets just say it did not give me encouragement to pursue that dream. I almost went out for the cross country team in the fall but though better of it after almost getting heat stroke running the 1600 meter at a track meet.
Nowadays I am not that excited about the olympics, either winter or summer. It no longer holds the same appeal to me. When I was 13, there was the decathalon dream but there was also the 16 year old gymnasts. At 30, they don’t have quite the same appeal. I have a mortgage, a wife, and a kid, 16 year old over achievers are not my thing (16 year olds in general are not my thing, just to clarify).
The olympics this year are in Beijing China, which is about 12 hours ahead of eastern time. So I guess they must have had the olympics opening ceremony live several hours ago. Or maybe good morning america or whatever, I think its actually NBC, is showingg it not live. I’m not interested enough to check. I don’t get why the IOC has the olympics in countries with the appaling human rights record as china. Of course, they have them in the states every decade or so and we are not exactly walking on water these days.
Olympic mortgage seems to be a popular name for mortgage companies. I guess because this is because of the hopes and dreams that they olympics represent. Or at least what they represented before the US lobbied to allow professional athletes to compete and then it mostly became about the US racking up the gold medals. I guess to many people it still is a dream. You spend your whole life workingng towards the goal off getting to the olympics and then when you get there, it must be magical. So my countrie’s politics aside, for the individual, they still represent hope.