Scooby Scooby Doo where are you.....

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I used to love that show SO much!

Oh, and check out Glamorous...I'm doing a couple posts today -- a new character (who should really get the ball rolling!) and a new scene that (I think) is pretty good.

Not much to report, the weekend was highly uneventful (although I will go over Saturday night when I get some of the pictures). I did write a new scene in Glamorous, which I think is a pretty good one. Lots of girl talk that's kind of entertaining.

An Old-Fashioned Leprechaun Hunt

Before I forget another day, there's been a new scene up in Glamorous for a few days now and I keep forgetting to mention it. And I will be writing another one tonight after I finish my Comm. homework.

Moving on...today is Monday, so it's time for a memory. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I'll tell my leprechaun story.

It was first grade, St. Patty's Day. For some reason I think it was a Tuesday, although I'm sure I don't remember it that well. We were sitting in a half circle around our teacher and she was reading us some kind of story when suddenly the classroom's computer -- which was not actually near any of us and since I was sitting in the back I can tell you for sure, nobody touched it -- turned on.

She stopped reading. "Who turned on the computer?"

"Nobody," we all said in that second grade unison kind of voice. You know the one I mean. You know you did it too.

The teacher looked around skeptically. "Well, how else would the computer turn on?"

One girl, she was blonde but I couldn't tell you her name, and she was in an obnoxiously green shirt, responded, "Maybe it was a leprechaun!"

Our teacher pursed her lips in what I now recognize as a "I can't believe someone actually said that and meant it" facial expression. "I bet you're right," she said, in the same tone of voice you use with kittens and three year olds when you tell them how cute they are. She went back to reading.

One of my friends whispered to me that he thought she'd put it on a timer so that it would start up and she could get us to think it was a leprechaun.

It was not too long later when the classroom door opened itself. This time it was obvious, even to the teacher, that none of the kids had opened it, because we were all cutting (or in my case trying to cut)* out shamrocks. "It's the wind," she told us.

My friend whispered to me that he thought she'd told someone to come by and open the door and scare us into thinking it was leprechauns.
"She said it was the wind," I whispered back, "How did you make yours?"

Those were the only two leprechaun events that happened that day, although people kept talking about it and waiting for the next one to happen. At recess a number of the kids spent the whole time looking for the leprechaun. Nobody found it. I'll admit, I was a little disappointed. :-P

*As it turned out, this was my introduction to left-handed scissors, which I to this day cannot use even though I am ambidextrous. That is a story for another Monday though.

Revamping Random Wednesdays!

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This is the very first Cyanide & Happiness -- a comic strip that honestly, it does not get weirder or more random than that. I've decided that I will be posting random (but funny) Cyanide & Happiness strips here on Wednesdays...because they're easy to find every week. :-P

Oh, and I wrote a new post over at Glamorous! Check it out, I think it's actually fairly good.

I was wondering though: are any of you any good at making banners? I know last time I asked it was because I wanted one for Best Gay Blogs, but this time it's because Tony G wants to put a banner of my blog on his site (sort of as a thanks for the post about him, I guess...he was soo touched, which made me feel really good. :D). So, it'd be awesome if someone with the talent could e-mail me or comment and I could give them a picture to turn into my banner.

Here You Go...

Before I start, I just want to let you know that I wrote more of Glamorous last night. Go check it out!

Anyways, Adam mentioned last week that he prefers real people to the stars I usually post about. Now, because I am shallow and almost all of my friends are super attractive it wouldn't be hard for me to do a pretty person of the week from them....so, this week, I am obliging Adam and posting about my friend, the model Tony Gibble.


You've seen him before if you've been reading for longer than two weeks. Where? Mardi Gras. (And you know anyone who can still look that good in horizontal black stripes is niiice. Because, seriously, not even I can pull off horizontal black stripes, sleeveless or no.)

I'm gonna start off explaining how I was fortunate enough to meet this guy. It's one of those "fate" things, I swear it. See, I'm in H&M buying underwear for work and he's in line ahead of me. There's another guy (who I don't know who he was but whatever :P) playing with this adorable kid nearby. Tony and I were both watching so I said "He's adorable" and thus, Tony and I struck up a fairly typical in-line-at-the-store conversation about Tony's son (who is adorable, if you didn't pick up on that. :P) And from the couple of times we've discussed his son, it sounds to me like Tony is one dad who knows what he's doing without being the embarrassing uncool father. We should all be so lucky, right? I know that's not the kind of father I got stuck with. :P

Anyways, I ran across him via a friend on Myspace and was like "Crazy, it's a small world after all!" and then a few weeks later we ran into each other at the club where I was working. That was a truly awful night but Tony really helped me survive it and kept me smiling. He's a total sweetheart, with a sense of humor to boot.

Obviously he's self confident (you have to be do the kind of photos he does, everything from high fashion to artistic nudes!). And is it hard to see why? He has an amazing body and the CUTEST smile! And, as you'll see in the next picture, he looks really good in multiple different styles of hair!

He is great at getting emotion through his pictures too. Like in the one above and to the left there's this innocent-ness that, trust me, he's faking (:P), but it's pretty clearly there.

In short, aside from being drop-dead sexy, Tony's a great friend, a good father, and an all around great person. And, yes, Adam, he's real.

So, I'll just finish this up with a couple more of his hotttt photos:
Awww, look at him glow!! :)
His modeling career really is going quite well, and I hope he continues to become more and more successful. Imagine him on the cover of GQ or something! That'd be up there on the list of most exciting things ever.

As for any photographers that may be stumbling upon this post...I'm sure he'd love to work with you! You should visit his site (click on his name at the top of this post or click the link of the sidebar!)
Not that I'm like shamelessly advertising for my friends here but your portfolio is not complete without Tony in it. :P

Just so you know...

There's a new character and a new scene over at my Glamorous little story blog.

Don't worry, in the coming week I promise that we'll stumble upon our very first actual plot line over there!! :) Definitely keep checking back, because things will get good....and if I keep practicing, they might start being well-written too! :-P

Monday Monday Monday....

I love this picture not only because of the strength it represents in that tree, but because it reminds me of when I was a kid and things were so much simpler.

There was no car to deal with, no homework, no Westboro Baptist Church protest near my school...but there was one complicated thing: I could not understand how this tree survived. It was in the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island. This tree, an ancient tree it was massive, was fallen over. Many of its roots (probably a little less than half) weren't even in the ground anymore -- but it still sprouted leaves in the spring, was a beautiful green all summer, and then dropped it's leaves into the pond it hung over in the fall. It was fascinating.

And, for those of you who were interested in my writing, I had an idea...and now I have created a blog for said idea. Go check it out...right now I am just creating characters for the stories, but you can go check out their Glamorous life.