Courtesy of Lambykins, Vlog Has Arrived

O what can I say about Jason Lamberton?

We have different sets of beliefs but we are good friends, often joked about things in life. Thanks to a certain girl who coined "Lambykins" for Jon and Jason, it has been stuck with them for some years. Too bad some people out there are not flexible like Jason to deal with me. I'm pretty flexible as things go by but I stick with my ideological beliefs, same thing goes for Jason.

Jason told me that he has been working on this experiment that could change the face of Deaf Blogosphere, never mind the hearie ones, in the immediate future. Blog? No more blog -- enter the vlog -- the Video-log. Why? Because Jason has a point, not many Deaf people liked to read, they liked to watch one talk in American Sign Language. Hence, the video-log.

Jason, today, unveiled perhaps the world's first but certainly not the last vlog. Check this out.

What do I think of it? More power to him. I like to write. I do not think I'll look good on videos, anyway. It is difficult to explain my thoughts in ASL sometimes, sometimes it's difficult to explain things in English, too. But never say never -- I might experiment it when I visit Jason to give it a shot.

Meanwhile, enjoy his vlog. Way to go, Jason.

I must chuckle when Jason attempted to say vlog at first but said b--vlog. Bad habits die hard. What he said about that old arena, I agreed completely!

Cheers,

R-

Dead, Dead and Lucky To Be Alive!

Died Of Exhaustion! In Seoul, South Korea, the 28 years old guy died of exhaustion after playing 49 consecutive hours on the computer game, Starcraft.

Died of Cheerleading Stunt: In Medford, Massachusetts, the 14 years old gal died at the cheerleading practice. She did not break her neck or a leg, just landed chest down on her teammates' arms. Then somehow it got worsened. Dead.

It All Starts With A Dare: 18 years old Scott Harper in Westchester, New York, just outside of New York City, heard the chants in upper section 603: "Stay or jump! Stay or jump! Stay or jump!" Scott decided to jump off the upper section of Yankee Stadium and landed on the safety net which caused more than 50,000 fans to roar with laughter. Apparently, the game was boring, which Char's beloved Yankees lost 2-1 to Chicago White Sox, to a point where Scott Harper decided to enlighten up the mood. Even George Steinbrenner, the owner of Yankees, muttered, "“That was the only exciting thing that happened today,” referring to the stunt that Scott Harper did.

Confidential to That Freak: Thanks for the links, at least, few visits to bolster my blogsite.

Cheers,

R-

Somebody Get Him OFF My TV Set!

At first, I thought it was Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) promoting his book. Honest, I did. But it was not Rick Santorum, it was Kevin Trudeau. It is annoying to click on another channels only to find him talking after the other.

I checked the information and learned that he was banned from appearing on infomercials starting in September, 2004. But he is still around on these informercials.

Kevin and Rick do look alike at first glance. But over the time, you say, "Oh, crap!"

Kevin, get off the TV already.

R-

Few Tidbits and QueerAsFolk!

Another Proof Of Xian Extremists: It happened in the heartland of America -- in Westmont, Illinois. The Xian Extremists do not kill, they torture by harassing others if they do not comply their wishes. Check this out for the proof.

A Soldier Wants To Beat Up On Coward GW Bush! This is interesting stuff. The question is, will this guy be charged for treason against the country for making a threat like that? Probably.

Queer As Folk No More: Several of my straight friends enjoyed watching the soap opera of Queer As Folk where we get to watch Pittsburgh's own Brian Kinney fucking everyone else out of their brains meanwhile we get to love Brian's best friend, Michael Novotny for his laid-back and dreamy attitude. Then we get to wish that our mothers are like Michael's mother, Debbie Novotny. And who does not have a feminine faggot to hound the gang well as can be like Emmett Honeycutt? Of course, there is always this wallpaper guy that feels inferior when he goes to gay bars/clubs in Ted Schmidt.

This drama for Cable TV on Showtime is largely successful. In fact, Showtime said that the ratings showed that the most viewers are heterosexual women who drooled after few characters on QAF. Of course, the heterosexual men who liked heterosexual women had to watch it and ended up being hooked to the drama on that show.

In fact, nearly all of my straight friends already saw at least ONE episode of QAF. I knew of a heterosexual man who purchased *all* seasons of QAF and is enthusiastic about getting the final season.

It was supposed to end after four seasons, but the show was so successful that they extended it for one more year as well as including Rosie O'Donnell to perform in the show.

Last Sunday marked the finale show of QAF on Showtime. Some said it was so-so finale. I'll wait for my heterosexual friend to get the finale season of QAF on DVD and start watching. Know why?

It seemed to me that QAF seems to have bad captions when it is on Showtime Channel, often comes up with jumbled words that I could not decipher. Maybe the Al-Qaeda folks has better way to decode the messages? I have no innovation to be patient with these jumbled captions at all. That's why I rather to wait for the complete sets of QAF DVD seasons.

What do I think of the show? In general, nothing that they did surprise me. What you saw on it, I already go through that. Some as a participant, some as a spectator. 'Nuff said. But they got great actors in Hal Sparks, Peter Paige, Robert Gant and Sharon Gless.

Hal Sparks played as Michael Novotny who is romantic hopeless and was swept by hot, charming man in Ben Bruckner played by Robert Gant. In real life, Hal Sparks is straight single man who could do such a steamy gay sex that I had to mind-control my cock to go down. Later, Hal said that his former girlfriend told him that it'd be hot to see him doing things with guys on television. Hal went ahead. The result is that the QAF has more female straight viewers than any groups!

Debbie Novotny, portrayed by Sharon Gless, is everybody's dream to have that kind of mother. A mother who can love, support and defend you for who you are, not what you are. And be proud of it. In fact, Deb reminded me of Ricky Dockter's mother. I was blunt with him that I was envious of him after seeing his mother on the stage, boasted about his son scoring not one but two ... needless to say, Ricky was all beet red.

Emmett Honeycutt, portrayed by Peter Paige, is the kind of guy that I enjoyed associating with. Why do you think I hang out with Manny, Merritt, Toby, Mikey, Erik to name few? Because they can snap at their will and everything that straight men fought to preserve simply disintegrated.

However, Peter and I once bumped into each other right outside of DC's 30 Degree/Cobalt during the Capital Pride about five years ago. What happened was that I was on AOL Pager arguing with Mikey and Toby, trying to find where they were at that time. Apparently, Paige was talking to someone from behind as he was getting off the stairway as I was trying to reach the stairs to enter the premise, it was a fateful collison. I was jolted by that -- Peter Paige started to say, "I'm sorry!" in voice. My eyes widened and I smiled, I gestured that I'm Deaf. Peter started to sign some words, "ME SORRY, ME NAME PETER."

Really cool to know that Peter Paige can sign some words!

I smiled, "EMMETT ON QAF?"

Peter smiled its famous one for me and nodded -- it was interesting to note that he lacked the gap in his teeth like it was showed on the QAF series. I told him that I do not watch it all the time but I enjoyed his works. Needless to say, my friends rushed outside to meet Peter Paige and took a picture -- I'm sure Toby has the copy of that somewhere else.

Perhaps the most enjoyable segment of all is Emmett's affair with the hunk who played a professional football team. Man, these fuck sessions are hot. You can see the picture of Emmett wearing red tank-top shirt with this hunk. This hunk is to die for.

Perhaps it was fate that I get to visit Toronto for the first time recently where the QAF for the last 5 years has been filmed. Yes, Toronto acted as Pittsburgh on QAF for the last 5 years, especially on Church Street. It was amusing when I walked around Church Street and Yonge Street, I smiled and recalled seeing this, that and there.

It was a good run and bravo to Showtime for doing the bold thing to show the QAF as is without restraint! Of course, some gays will complain that the series is nothing but stereotypical. But who gives a fuck? It is called "entertainment", for the love of God.

Cheers,

R-

What A World -- Woe Unto Idiots!

Johnny Knoxville Is My Type: I must admit that Johnny Knoxville turned me on. I thought it was interesting that the OUT Magazine voted him to be the Coolest Straight Guy of the Year. There is an interesting tidbit that I read in this week's New York HX Magazine tonight about Johnny Knoxville's attitude approach with gay men. It makes me want him so bad.

Not that Knoxville has to wait for another Dukes movie to get a same-sex kiss - or more. “One night I was in a bar in downtown New York,” he recalls, “and this big guy, a real personal-space invader, comes up and puts his arm around me and goes, ‘I would love to fuck your ass so much - I’m your biggest fan.’ I was like, ‘Wow, thank you!’ And he makes his arm tighter around my neck. It’s like prison. At least fondle me a little before you go straight to fucking my ass! I think he wanted me to be his bottom bitch! Splendor in the ass!”

Indeed, I would.

Oil Prices Now Close to $65, Only $35 Left To Go: I suspect the Bush Administration has been allowing the oil prices to make a lot of gains close to $65 a barrel, perhaps just to make profits. Because the numbers of administrators including GW Bush invested/owned/ran the oil companies ... when they are done with the presidency, they are going to reap the harvest that they invested in these stocks. At this pace, it won't surprise me that we will reach $70 by December due to the "winter season", then $75 due to the "thunderstorms associated with spring season", then $80 due to hurricanes and terrorist attacks, then ... Ahh, fiddle while Rome burns.

I'll Never Abandon My Stupid Hearie! This is insane. How can a husband drive 210 miles and six hours later before realizing that his wife was left at the gas service station?! This husband should expect no sex for weeks.

Gimme an I! Gimme a D! Gimme an I! ...: Ever heard of telling the girls to write it down? No, they had to chant it out loud!

This Is Cool! I just saw this on television. I could not believe it. So I went ahead and googled it -- bingo, it is there. I actually saw the session where one person led the co-workers to sit in a circle. Then start to laugh which led the others to laugh. Laughter is contagious. It even gets to a point where the person who filmed the session had to flee the group because he could not breathe -- he was laughing so hard that he cried and started to breathe hard. The whole purpose of this is to break stress in workplace settings in which it brings happiness to one's daily life. Such a brilliant idea! I'll be sure to host one for BnB Inn some day!

Thousands Attended Gunter's Funeral: Thousands of people came to pay their final respects to Sue Gunter who died of Emphysema at 66. According to this article, it was positive and lightening somber with stories to tell about Gunter's love of life. It was certainly nice to read. She will be buried in Walnut Grove, Mississippi next to her parents. One interesting tidbit about this is that Gunter specifically requested that anyone donate money go to the Alzheimers Service. Alzheimers instead of Emphysema? Because her mother was a victim of Alzheimers.

Confidential to McWeenie: I'm not impressed that you mentioned your wife has 1/32nd American Native in her. Not even the United States Government would be impressed nor cared about that, m'dear. Let me guess, your wife said that her 1/32nd is from Cherokee, like many said.

Until then, cheers!

R-

And You Wonder Why California Tax Is High

From what I knew all along, California has one of the nation's highest tax in almost everything else. And yet, the state of California was financially in shambles.

The voters decided to get replace Gov. Davis with new Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger not a long time ago -- I really do not care about Califunny's problems, really.

What did Arnie accomplish so far? Not much, come to think of this.

You know, I saw the film recently -- one person said, "If you can't govern yourself, what makes you think you can govern the nation?"

I think this article just takes the cake.

R-

Even My Frat Brothers Thought I Was Odd

At Gallaudet, my fraternity's famous bratwursts which was barbarically devoured by many students. It was and still is the most popular thing to eat during Homecoming Day, CobraFest, Oktoberfest and among few events, especially during or after the drinking binge.

All of my fraternity brothers devoured when they can. Except me.

I gag at the smell of bratwurst. I simply cannot bring myself to munch one. I prefer hot dogs over the bratwursts. Even some fraternity brothers threatened me that during the retreats, they'll forcefeed me. They always fail at it. I just thought it was barf thing to eat.

Even my friends criticized me -- how can I join the fraternity and not eat its fraternity trademark? So fucking what. I like my friends, I did not join up for the bratwursts!

Yes, I cooked it. I prepped the preparations for others to munch. But you will never see me eat a bratwurst. Never-r-r-rrrr!

On the same note, this 99-pound woman, Sonya Thomas, munched 35 bratwursts in 10 minutes! And to top it all, there are famine in Africa, hunger on six continents, poverty problems all over the world and we have this organization?

Sonya Thomas, at 99-pound woman, held 24 titles in different categories including Asparagus -- one thing for sure, her urine stinks!

Cheers,

R-