Mood:  a-ok

Max's Picks for Wednesday September 30th 2009

30/09/09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZxZ06PSCJQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QifgPL--pG8

Funny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3xiIW8YAo

note to whomever whoever in case anyone cares: I actually like Alaska and Sarah Palin quite a bit, I like others familiar with that the north can do for your brain-lol i.e. causeyoutololwhen the rest of the worldwonderswhatsfunny...I actually have a cherished letter

from the charming and affable Ms  Palin in my email in box, as I am positive thousands have. Isnt she great, folks?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/sarah-palins-top-ten-tips_n_304044.html

What The Happiest And Most Successful Women Do Differently

Posted by mach1231 at 1:40 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, 5 October 2009 10:42 AM PDT

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Mood:  not sure

Actor Sir Roger Moore demanded officials throughout the world to end sexual abuse of children, by persecuting all paedophiles all over the world, even across their own state borders., ..

The actor (81) held a speech in Germany on Tuesday, regarding UNICEF`s new report.

Posted by mach1231 at 12:41 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, 5 June 2009 1:27 AM PDT

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Mood:  sharp

Just some cool books I thought I'd post...

What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards for looking the other way?

Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places

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Canadian short story writer chronicles the intense eleven months she spent at the Pearson School of Culinary Arts, examining friendships and rivalries at the school, her experiences as the mother of a special-needs child, and her own complicated relationship with food.

Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School

 

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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

"... unfolds like a cross between a full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon and suspense-ridden Agatha Christie novel." -Ellen Wilson

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 "Machs Cafe is.... better than a pop-up ad..a saloon with soul...a literary cornucopia of obscure and somewhat ecelcetic parabolic information..." - Petersens On-Line Publishing Blog Review :)

 

 

Posted by mach1231 at 7:18 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, 27 April 2009 7:35 PM PDT

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Mood:  lazy

Its my opinion that since the world has shrunk thanks to the Net, and worlds have been reality-tv-ized....

...the future trend of television is more community based and (this type of...) TV programming will become more and more the stuff of bits and bytes surrrounding our new net world.

After all "channel surfing" predates the Internet era and carries it over and I am no futurist but I think the pendulum will start to someday swing the other way, with instead of broadcasting rev's shrinking thanks to the net...some creative genuiuses are going to come up with a way to steal all that revenue and precious attention back.

TV will start have to cadging visitors back off-line and back to their shows.  A mere 1/2 hour compressed info talk show will have a dozen links to visit ("In case youre interested":))...but who has time for all that stuff?

But posting this link

here

sort of as a sticky memo note

to remind my self, as spring more surely arrives

to keep my self busy

..to watch out for desperate undertakings,fools errands, wild goose chases and to generally be on guard against frittering away my time

Go here instead to do dat jah?

Posted by mach1231 at 11:54 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, 20 April 2009 10:14 AM PDT

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Mood:  a-ok

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... someone was giving a motor bike away recently on Craigs so I replied to the ad (if you must know I was looking for someone giving away a coffee-maker)

and dude emails me back saying, due to the overwhelming replies I have decided to have a Dutch auction

but he CC'ed it to everyone who replied to the ad so we could all SEE who had replied to his ad...it was funny to see some of the "like-mided" people all hoping to get a free good motorbike

It was hilarious. (pretty funnee)

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I also thought this was funny, too

Don't ask me why. 

"...street people, bottle pickers, urban foragers, nosey neighbours and mischievous children, not to mention dogs and assorted wildlife,"

See story to find out why. I guess because he thought of everybody didnt he?

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Btw, does this look like a good book to read to you? Something you might throw in your junk pile?

Thanks for visiting Machs Cafe........today!

Posted by mach1231 at 7:16 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, 17 April 2009 12:28 AM PDT

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BIG NEWS 

This blog started out while I have been away from home .

I touched the sweet green green grass of home 'just yesterday' in nearly ALMOST 4 years.

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I was flabbergasted at this. My own realization that I have continuously blogged this blog for almost 4 years: away from home. Is amazing and scary.

Because even when youre away from from home, you still grow, in fact maybe you grow the most away from home. You always have to come home though

But some guys over there and from around the Net act like they haven't grown anywhere.

That may be sad as a fact by itself, but not a tear from my eye.

My God, and they think/say Im the one who needs some type of help? 

Confused already?

Pitiful Flag who mourns for you now.....(?). Although he can claim its all my own undoing still I ask you this: 

Can you believe this guy?

Someone should tell him, like a friend, how it makes him look.

He is seriously, SERIOUSLY,...s-e-r-i-o-u-sly ...TOUCHED.(He's from Edmonton and an ex,-ex-EX-Canadian meaning he has professed a HATE-ON for Canada i.e. the US is way better wa-a-y better w-a-a-a-a-y better yada yada blah blah blah)

RYP

Be proud of your self or something but you really, really REALLY! dont need to do it at anyone elses expense. Did nt any of your friends tell you that? Yet? Already?

Sheesh.  

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Posted by mach1231 at 10:56 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, 17 April 2009 12:30 AM PDT

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Mood:  chatty

Oops

Pardon me in hindsight

I never usually say I am "being" school when I mean to say "begin" school...

Theres usually only Arabic that posses such long and short differences between oral and written language.

That and Latin, maybe. Some aspects of the divisional constructs of the German language, seperate dialects, are indistinguishable to its native speakers. Fascinating stuff this langauge business.

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Posted by mach1231 at 2:22 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

 Wik has full page an entry for this building here (Mach is playing tour guide)...lol.......it is where many a fashionista and film maker got his or her start...Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera,Leon Max,Joel Schumacher are just a few of the known alumni.

 The building takes up an entire city square block.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:46 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 14 September 2008 12:39 AM PDT

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Mood:  silly

 "for me?"-lol ('Guys and Dolls', Guys and Dolls)

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The first guy I have heard say that 'like what it was'... is what it was.

The last actor to be a part of a studio contract actor system. Yet, he bridged the gap, broke the mold and survived.

  Don Johnson has just wrapped his first studio movie in a dozen years, and hopes to focus more on features than TV.

He owns a Vietnamese restaurant called  Ana Mandara..

Auditioned for the part of Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice while he was in Miami working on a low-budget film about Vietnam called 'Cease Fire' (1985 )

In 1985 during the height of Miami Vice, he had made a trip to Germany to personally order a 959 Porsche from the factory in Stuttgart.

He is a devotee of the culture of Vietnam and he owns a small island off the south coast. He honeymooned there with his wife, Kelley, in May 1999.

 The creators of "Miami Vice" (1984) were originally against casting him. (Tubbs almost never made it either) Before "Vice," he had starred in four failed TV pilots.

He and Tom Cruise were the premier faces of the Ray Ban brand of sunglasses during the 1980s. 

Bookmarked in the "video store" aisle by Yours Truly

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

One film that really earns DJ respect as an actor in charge of his craft is Word of Honor. Based on the book.

Posted by mach1231 at 7:51 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, 4 September 2008 10:33 AM PDT

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