tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55090932009-10-13T21:14:14.669-04:00Skinny Legs and AllDo I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grassthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.comBlogger640125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-78673089623645837032008-03-13T16:51:00.001-04:002008-03-13T16:52:32.361-04:00I love watching perky, stupid "reporters" do stupid shit.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-63378703378691933732008-03-13T15:57:00.000-04:002008-03-13T15:58:00.587-04:00WELCOME TO THE NEW DAILY "WE = FCUCKED" POSTDollar's clout sinks worldwideBy ALAN CLENDENNING, AP Business Writer 50 minutes agoSAO PAULO, Brazil - Antique store owners in lower Manhattan, ticket vendors at India's Taj Mahal and Brazilian business executives heading to China all have one thing in common these days: They don't want U.S. dollars.ADVERTISEMENTHit by a free fall with no end in sightthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-81908331493307308512008-03-12T18:36:00.000-04:002008-03-12T18:37:13.605-04:00SUCK ON IT SHORTY. Short people are most prone to jealousy, say scientistsWed Mar 12, 2:24 PM ETPARIS (AFP) - Short people should pray for a return to the Seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says.Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and University of Valencia in Spain asked 549 Dutch thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74238303651701424432008-03-12T12:32:00.002-04:002008-11-13T01:53:35.181-05:00"Spitz Calls It Quits Over Costly Bumped Bits"Goodbye Client number 9...but I am sure it won't be long.I am positive that in the next 6 months we'll see you with:Oprah, Larry King, Dr. Phil, On Dancing With the Stars, The Surreal Life and in a Mug Shot.-----This is for Bookfraud and all you other aspiring writers. From The Onionthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-74163822381879470592008-03-11T08:38:00.005-04:002008-11-13T01:53:35.287-05:00START SPREADIN' THE NEWS, I'M LEAVIN (THE GOV'S MANSION) TODAY...Wow. Its almost incomprehensible that he could have been this stupid. And that poor wife, dragged up there after I am sure she was being told she "had to show solidarity with her man"So, the headlines are just okay, can you come up with your own?GawkersSpitza's Otha Shiksas!Scarlet HarlotTricks For SpitzEscorted From Office?Guv's thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-18885125539819917152008-02-28T09:36:00.004-05:002008-02-28T09:38:36.660-05:00Art imitating life imitating art, again. A fascinating look at how THE WEST WING virtually predicted the current run for the White House.Charismatic, handsome minority vs. entrenched party big vs. a Republican whose credentials are questioned by his own party.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-36039678024089659632008-02-26T17:45:00.002-05:002008-02-26T17:51:09.369-05:00Quite simply. One of the funniest 10 minutes ever.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-45700817622785960072008-02-20T09:39:00.001-05:002008-02-20T09:41:14.533-05:00I SAID I WANTED BUNDT CAKE --- NOT BUTT CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human faecesDaily Mail UK ^Posted on 02/19/2008 Shop-owners sold chocolate cake sprinkled with human faecesTwo shop-owners were today fined for selling chocolate cake - which had been sprinkled with human faeces.A horrified customer ate the foul-smelling gateaux but noticed that it didn't thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-42268831507374747092008-02-14T12:51:00.002-05:002008-02-14T12:56:27.582-05:00We're doomed. So many things to say after watching this.-Pregnant by 16...-No one should be allowed to touch a computer until age 21...-Fetal alcohol syndrome...-Inbreeding...thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-67684750480847787882008-02-11T16:17:00.000-05:002008-02-11T16:19:51.901-05:00My favorite episode of "Sexy Beijing"Poor Su Fei. Looking for love in Beijing and finding some interesting answers along the way. Su Fei you rock. I love this because so much of it reflects my experiences in Beijingthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-65842882388199961412008-02-10T09:47:00.001-05:002008-02-10T09:49:40.711-05:00The beautiful game. Taken to extremes. Street Soccer in South America.thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-29579257029739005402008-02-08T15:44:00.000-05:002008-02-08T15:47:30.854-05:00More news from the U.K.A bit poncy eh? Once proud England is soon to be populated by sexless, sharia loving TV watching droolers. Did I mention they are as fat as Americans now?Half of UK men would swap sex for 50 inch TVReuters | 02/08/08 LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey -- perhaps unsurprisinglythephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-85582662009519250492008-02-07T11:13:00.000-05:002008-02-07T11:16:12.420-05:00Happy Lunar New Year - It's the Year of the RatAccording to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2008 is a Year of the Rat (Earth), which begins on February 7, 2008 and ends on January 25, 2009. First in the cycle of 12 Animal signs, Rat Year begins the sequence and recurs every twelfth year. It is a time of renewal in so many ways. From New Year to Valentine's Day, to the arrival of spring, may all thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-49159888347592795582008-02-07T11:12:00.001-05:002008-02-07T11:13:10.522-05:00More craziness from the U.K."there's one law for everybody... I think that's a bit of a danger". -The Archbishop of CanterburySharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'BBC Posted on 02/07/2008 6:03:54Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable' The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the adoption of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is "unavoidable".Dr Williams told BBC Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-44230424595542267612008-02-05T18:04:00.000-05:002008-02-05T18:05:12.086-05:00Uh oh. The Brits are getting dumber too. Too many Big Macs and "The Sun",I guess. Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: pollSun Feb 3, 7:12 PM ETLONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.ADVERTISEMENTThe survey found that 47 thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-63652065511078227692008-01-29T17:36:00.000-05:002008-11-13T01:53:35.555-05:00Happy, happy joy, joy, happy, happy joy joy. Didn't they coin the term "mid-life crisis" about 40 years ago? They needed a decade long study for this? Middle-age is truly depressing, study findsBy Michael Kahn Tue Jan 29, 7:25 AM ETLONDON (Reuters) - Middle age is truly miserable, according to a study using data from 80 countries showing that depression is most common among men and women in thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-81422042948988327232008-01-25T09:50:00.000-05:002008-11-13T01:53:35.870-05:00Today the New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.Today I endorse and throw my lot in with Barak Obama. THe country really needs a change. It really needs to take a chance. It really needs the fresh faces and ideas Mr. Obama will bring to Washington.I also believe that having an African American man in the White House will do more to fulfill the idea that in this country "all men thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-11156218873992813382008-01-24T11:12:00.000-05:002008-01-24T11:14:35.632-05:00Dedicated to Bookfraud and all those who like me are passionate about reading.Area Eccentric Reads Entire BookThe Onion January 19, 2008 | Issue 44•03 GREENWOOD, IN—Sitting in a quiet downtown diner, local hospital administrator Philip Meyer looks as normal and well-adjusted as can be. Yet, there's more to this 27-year-old than first meets the eye: Meyer has recently finished reading a thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-92211516698551663602008-01-21T09:44:00.000-05:002008-01-21T09:54:08.236-05:00This is the story THE ONION ran the week of Bush taking office . My how prescient it was. Everything in this "satirical" piece has come to pass. War, recession, the environment, national debt, paranoia, jingoism. I post this every year. Read it closely, it has all come to pass.Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'January 17, 2001 | Issue 37•01WASHINGTON, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-66157981693717948972008-01-18T16:31:00.000-05:002008-01-18T16:35:18.462-05:00I am a huge sports fanatic. Football, baseball, hockey, basketball, golf. I am also one of the more passionate futbal, football (soccer) supporters you will ever encounter. My team is Arsenal, of London.In my never ending quest to show you why the rest of the world is slowly and surely coming to loathe not only the American government but Americans in general, I give you this from the London thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-62727466346296481302008-01-16T12:01:00.001-05:002008-01-16T12:06:42.726-05:00I'm not alone. I was always afraid of clowns as a child and I have never, at any point in my life fond them to be funny. I feel like I have closure on this issue now.Don't send in the clownsWed Jan 16, 8:32 AM ETLONDON (Reuters) - Bad news for Coco and Blinko -- children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-42573027095838693522008-01-15T17:49:00.000-05:002008-11-13T01:53:36.007-05:00But, but, but, I thought this only happens when you have "Universal, Free Health Care" in communist, cheese eating, third world shitholes, like Canada and Switzerland.ER wait times getting longer, study findsOvercrowding especially dangerous for heart attack patientsReuters - January 15, 2008 - WASHINGTON - Patients seeking urgent care in U.S. emergency rooms are waiting longer than in the 1990s,thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-75310181653083385592008-01-13T16:30:00.001-05:002008-11-13T01:53:36.285-05:00So, just where the heck has thephoenixnyc been for the last few months? Why hasn't he posted?I intend to answer that question over the next week. We will start with #1 - Playing with my now 19 month old nephew. Here we are on Halloween.I've also been busy running my company. Part of that is giving speeches and speaking at seminars regarding doing business in China. For example:I've also beenthephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-24356691501327493452008-01-11T15:37:00.000-05:002008-01-11T15:41:08.022-05:00And I thought the height of surprise and disappointment was realizing at age 18 I would never be a rock star.Separated-at-birth twins get marriedFri Jan 11, 12:15 PM ETLONDON (AFP) - Twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different sets of parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister, a peer has told the House of Lords.David Alton, an independent, thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5509093.post-72561130351851399082008-01-09T17:46:00.000-05:002008-01-09T17:50:41.656-05:00As if I didn't have enough to worry about. Now I have a new entry for my worry list that already includes:-Figuring out which is the "good cholesterol" and which is "Bad"-Running a bi-national company-My 40th birthday this coming May-Why, if 9/11 happened because "they" hate freedom, "they" didn't bomb Geneva or Montego Bay-BrittanyHere it is, I know I won't sleep tonight. Milky Way could hold thephoenixnychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07164230892526451260noreply@blogger.com0