Mood:  lyrical

NOT  'The Price is Right'!

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So, what is..........Cobell?

Yes but whats the answer and how much is the prize?:)

http://www.indiantrust.com/

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Posted by mach1231 at 12:45 PM PDT

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Mood:  bright

It is a widely dispersed myth and well adhered to conceit among poets,wordsmiths and writers and other creative ilk that nothing rhymes with: "orange".

Allow me to disspell.

I posit that it is in fact that : 'coriander'; rhymes perfectly well with orange ...

Silver Shadow Cologne by Davidoff, Silver shadow by davidoff was introduced in 2005 for a mature, charismatic scent for men. Silver shadow opens with orange, coriander and cedar the blends into saffron and patchouli that ends with amber and oakmoss. (Of course you will have to buy it and wear it for your self for your olfactory sesnes to confirm. Ask for a sample.)

But as does 'light salmon'. You just wont find this is any creative writing instruction manual, kitchen cookbook or Debbie Travis home renovation show or book. Or even paint swatches!

Only at Machs Cafe. -lol

Yes we are feeling pretty exclusive but unfortunately theres no mood for that from the drop down menu !

In my humble opinion anyway,  phalange rhymes with the fruit of the same name color. Only if spoke with a French accent though...but what the hey, it works.:)

Posted by mach1231 at 12:46 AM PDT

Updated: Thursday, 28 May 2009 12:50 PM PDT

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Mood:  a-ok

Warner has made a $33 million bid for the bankrupt Midway Games in an asset purchase agreement that would include Mortal Kombat and Midway's Chicago and Seattle studios.

A greater percentage of Americans play videogames than go out to the movies, according to a new report from chart compiler and research firm NPD Group.

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Theres also a new study out that argues social media has reached its tipping point, with 83% of the online population now using it in some form - and more than half do so on a regular basis.

Social Media Generates Hype; Fails to Deliver Marketing Punch

Posted by mach1231 at 11:28 AM PDT

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Mood:  loud

Oblige. Click the pic..

...where is here?

Posted by mach1231 at 11:50 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, 25 May 2009 12:12 AM PDT

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Mood:  smelly

The National Newspaper Awards were recently handed out in Montreal.

Feature Photography: Winner - Ian Martens, Lethbridge Herald, for a shot of a full moon providing a backdrop for a wedding photograph being taken by another photographer.

All winners here:

http://www.nna-ccj.ca/wordpress_dev/wordpress/?lang=en

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In writing/reporting for the 'Politics' category, Steve Rennie of The Canadian Press was declared a winner, for stories about the listeriosis crisis. 

Steve Rennie has worked as a war correspondent and provided intensive coverage of the hot spot known as Afghanistan.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:37 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, 28 May 2009 12:56 PM PDT

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Mood:  accident prone

The best idea?

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/638407

Or not?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286127874941075.html

Posted by mach1231 at 4:07 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 24 May 2009 4:11 PM PDT

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Mood:  rushed

http://www.davidbrodybooks.com/

http://theroyalreviews.blogspot.com/2008/12/historical-fiction-reading-challenge.html

Posted by mach1231 at 3:58 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, 25 May 2009 12:24 AM PDT

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Mood:  accident prone

I recently came across an article in a newspaper that sung the praises of the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the character of one Sherlock Holmes.

She wrote that, in this day and age of CSI's on tv from Miami to New York and Vegas and so much neon lit forensic work (imagine getting DNA samples processed the same day, right?) the writer suggested how refreshing it was to remember a sleuth without all of that hi-tech and relied on reason and deduction instead. (Oh here it is!:)But whats this?)

Despite this recently reviewed work of fiction, and new video games, and soon to be released movies, it has been publicized and at least strongly suggested recently in the news that Jack aka the Ripper was actually a media tabloid sensation creation and further, that the murders were done by lone individual men in the form or copy cat repeaters. Whether or not this has been advanced beyond plausible theory I couldnt tell you.

We can only hope that amidst all this mish mash and confluences of portended information, real hard working and dedicated individuals can use the real information to set the headlines straight and solve the cases for everyone involved.

Project Blackhawk was named after Chicago's NHL hockey team and was an investigation that focused on four suspected crime bosses who were selling Ecstasy and cocaine.

The investigation led to the arrest of a gun dealer responsible for bringing illegal hand guns in to Canada.

I thought it interesting that he was from Franklin Park, Illinois and that the Lane Bryant shootings (5 women in store shot dead, no suspects, no motives,no arrests,unsolved)..and the mall shootings were in Tinley Park, Illinois.  Not far from each other. But I have found that so far the warmest lead in the case has to do with a splinter church group of all things.

Reminds me of information from the United States in regards to the hunt to capture a serial killer in L.A. Authorities were searching for a van, which was found but unoccupied and idling in front of a church. They believe he had run into the church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper

And heres another one also well hidden under the auspices of the church, quoted/described by an LA TIMEs blog writer as an "religious pleasant fellow".

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In any case, back to the Lane Bryant shootings..

...someone called " the former lead singer from the group Chicago"...sang at a fundraiser for a scholarship in one of the victims names in the Lane Bryant shootings.

That would be Peter Cetera then? The article doesnt say.

So! By now if you have decided you have had enough of all this and want to tune out, you may have missed your chance to watch this its all about the season finale of the CBS drama "Criminal Minds", which aired a few days ago now.

 It's a two hour season finale that won't be resolved until the fall season and even the cast is calling this episode "bizarre."

In the finale episode, the BAU tracks a serial killer who chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit as his victims and takes them across the border to a Canadian pig farm.

Bizarre? Truly. Well known to have actually occured resulting in  the longest most expensive and macarbe murder investigations on Canadian soil. But do the viewers that far east know that?

Thanks for visiting.

In case you might be wondering why I made this entry, its not so elementary at all. While researching the story of the gun dealer (id wondered if in fact there were a ferry service in Chicago!) I became enraveled with searching for the meaning behind the reason for the two Hamburgs. One being in Illinois and one being in Missouri, they are about between 50-100 miles aprt but are seperated by a state border.  (note: the one in MO not to be confused with New Hamburg in southeast Missouri.)Cheerio!.

Posted by mach1231 at 1:46 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 24 May 2009 11:55 PM PDT

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Mood:  cheeky

Inbetween your waiting time at the supermarket checkout aisle ...

and the bus ride home or the freeway exit or the blip on the digital tv dial on your way to the nature channel, you may have noticed or seen or heard or caught some bare semblance of some girl named Olivia Wilde.

If youre anythin'g like me, you may have even skipped the heavy sigh of exasperation inbetween measuring the competing spans for your attention span of headlines regarding the invasion of the Swat valley in Pakistan and Sri Lankas death knell to its civil insurgency guerilla war.

Apparently when MAXIM magazine says JUMP, all of us hot blooded males are supposed to race to our browsers, Google image search and start tapping ourselves sill-i-lly, ogling and getting pie eyed.

Well, it took awhile for me to come around but now that I see what all the fuss is about, I see theres no fuss to be made at all.

In fact, I have never seen anyone look so plain as an ordinary  Jane and everyday dame.

Mind you, while all these votes are calculated online, we presume to think they are males. But even as Ms Wilde literally catapulted from #97 position on the the list last year (this article here saying she made it to #3 had it WRONG, wrong, wrong WRONG!), its in her current role as Dr. Hadley in the Fox medical drama House in that which she plays a bi-sexual doctor suffering from a neurological disorder that causes her to engage in casual sex.

So me thinks, tongue rested on inside of cheek, that maybe somehow the girls are voting too. But me thinks too maybe the guys are voting for the character she portrays (like every horny guys wet dream, like a nekkid girl jumping out of a birthyday cake) and not the "real Ms Wilde", whomever she may be.

Interestingly enough, the real Ms Wilde is actually the daughter of Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, well-known international journalists, who have produced documentaries and segments for 60 Minutes. (She changed her last name to Wilde, after playing Gwendolen in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in high school.)

She is also betrothed to Prince Tao Ruspoli, whose family owns Rome’s Palazzo Ruspoli and a castle in Vignanello, Italy.

Check out her glib quote on the regality of this overseas marriage according to Source:  PEOPLE magazine.

But her parents recently produced a film I urge all of Machs Cafe visitors to see and check out called

http://www.americancasinothemovie.com/

Its all about the mortage scandal in the U.S., I called it a scandal because anytime people are calling for Congressional inquiries and judicial investigations and so forth , (yet to be had so far but who knows?)...its usually not too far fetching to call it a scandal once that little faint aroma reaches past the mere irritation point to become a full blown stench that galvanizes people to act, boldly.

 Judging my Ms and Mr. Cockburns resume, acting shy,reticent and demure doesnt seem to be how they got to be where they are now.

Vote here. And yes indeed Ms Wilde whomever and wherever you are, you are certainly are very beautiful. (Not that my opinion matters of course:)

Posted by mach1231 at 11:01 AM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 24 May 2009 11:36 PM PDT

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Mood:  flirty

"Decades before they had the right to vote and a foothold in the workplace, women were forging professional associations in the art world."

Posted by mach1231 at 2:37 AM PDT

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