Oh how I miss the 80's...I'm listening to We Are The World (God I hate Bruce "I'm constipated" Springsteen, but I digress) ... that was a really cool time in my life, save for a few things I wish would not have happened, but I guess it molded me into a part of the person I am today...

This just really takes me back to when I lived in Chicago. I was 12, soon to be 13, and this was the 1st time I heard We Are The World.

It was when all girls (and some guys) just wanted to have fun.

We all did the Truffle Shuffle with Chunk and the rest of the Goonies.

Prince was IT, man and I knew every song and every move he made...It was me and Denise and Wendy and we performed for our parents and the neighbor kids...my God, what dorks we were!

My step mother has pictures of me dressed up as Boy George. :::shudders:::

Michael Jackson ruled the world and Cyndi Lauper actually gave a shit about her fans. I still enjoy her music but I will never go to a concert again - unless it's free!

Stand By Me was the movie of the year ( In my book anyway.)

My step brothers and I always went out to a wooded area and built a raft out of sticks and fallen tree limbs and sailed across the pond, in a land we dubbed "Fantasia," from The Neverending Story. I remember and will never forget the hundreds of water spiders that came up out of the water and onto the raft - that was the day we discovered it really is possible to walk on water, only we ran our asses off!

We constantly referred to each other as Skeksis and Gelflings and ran around outside looking for the crystal shard... I applaud anyone who reads this and can tell me what movie this is from (without having to look it up.)

This was also the 1st time I had actually witnessed the first snow fall. My brothers and I were looking out the window and it started to snow. I thought somebody was on the roof tossing styrofoam or something down. That would turn out to be a very cold and miserable winter for me.

I went back there 13 years ago while on vacation to D.C., decided to stop by and visit my brothers (who still lived in IL at the time), take a look around at our old stomping grounds...how sad that none of it was there anymore. It's all apartments and shopping centers now. Fantasia lives only in our memories. We must never forget.

What's your fondest childhood memory?

Stupid driver on board.

Okay so I'm on my way to pick Katie up from work and of course, my luck being what it is, I get stuck behind a little blue car with three people in it and a sign on the back window that reads, "LEARNING FIVE SPEED, PLEASE BE PATIENT."

EXCUSE THE FUCK OUTTA ME???

If you are driving down a busy street at five o'clock in the afternoon, you're ass ALREADY NEEDS TO KNOW how to drive a five speed! Why don't you take your car on the freeway during rush hour traffic while you're at it! Go to a deserted parking lot and drive til your foot falls off and your knuckles cramp up, but stay the fuck out of MY way until AFTER you learn how to drive, STUPID BITCH!

I'm evil and God forgive me for my actions, but I honked that bitch right off the road! She turned into a Carl's Jr. parking lot. LMAO.

My turn!

Ya'll have inspired me to write my own story. Here you can read a little teaser...you'll have to wait to read the finished product. Check back in a day or two, I should have it finished by then. Thanks.

*Updated 19 July.

Story is finished. Let me know what you think.

Misheard song lyrics

Okay now I know we've all heard 'em, so here are some that we can think of...please add your own, too!

Correct: Bring me a higher love (steve winwood)
Wrong: Bring the entire loaf (I don't hear it, but "SOME" people do...) ;-)

Correct: Revved up like a deuce another runner in the night (manfred mann's earth band)
Wrong: Wrapped up like a douche and run her over in the night

Correct: I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one's hailing a taxi cab (alanis morissette)
Wrong: I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one's handing out maxi pads (thank you to Katie)

Correct: If you like pina coladas? (Rupert Holmes)
Wrong: If you like bean enchiladas

Correct: Don't cry for me Argentina (Madonna)
Wrong: Don't cry for me Marge and Tina

Correct: Light up the fire play some Nat King Cole (Amy Grant)
Wrong: Light up the fireplace with Nat King Cole

Correct: Whenever I call you friend (Kenny Loggins/Steve Nicks)
Wrong: Whenever I call you Fred

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

Okay so here is a list of names of neighbors that we and some of our friends have come up with over the years...please add to the list. It will be updated as needed.

The Gays
The Thunderstroms
The Bornagains
The Hypochristians
The Banner-days

I'm so upset. I want to post my poems on here, but I cannot find the box which contained all my poems plus a poem book that I had printed up back in '93. That box contains my life, man! And I don't remember any of them on my own, damnit. *sigh*

Well, here's two for now...I may have posted them on an old blog...but here they are again... (And don't steal them, either!) :-)

ALONE

Can anyone hear me screaming?
Does anyone notice the tears?
Feel the wind rush by as I'm running,
running from all my fears?

Does anyone see me falling?
Does anyone notice I'm gone?
How can you see me behind this mask
where I've been hiding for so long?

I look around and I'm lost,
All this chaos is driving me mad,
There's nobody here that I recognize,
Gone is everything I once had.

Blindfolded looking for truth,
Walking backwards into the night,
Smashing mirrors of my true self,
Afraid to look into the light.

Alone with no one to talk to,
In the cold with no way to keep warm,
I feel my soul slowly fading away,
Is there anything worth fighting for anymore?

Tell me you see me, tell me you care
Touch me and heal me, I don't want to be there.

Tell me you love me, tell me you see
Don't leave me alone, I want to continue to be.

Please don't leave me-

Alone

copyright 2004 mikal mullaly


YOUR LIFE


So she asked if I’m happy with my life,
and I know where I am and I like it...
it’s not too often you get a clear view of your mind
when the world is aligned and your eyes see her beauty...

Now follow me down
to the well of disbelieving
and look inside your own life, it’s deceiving...
bring up the pale but leave the web you’ve been weaving
‘cause it’s your life now and like a book you keep reading...
to discover yourself you’re hell bent on never leaving
but you know it’s not real, it’s not water,
you’re bleeding...

And so I tell her I know where I’m going to be,
and I know who I am and I’ll get there...
and I won’t come undone when my fears overtake me
she sees the world in my eyes and to them she is my beauty...

Now follow me down
to the well of disbelieving,
and look inside your own life, you’re only dreaming...
of a world you’ve made caught in the web you’ve been weaving
but it’s your life now, you’re the book they’ve been reading
to discover the lie about the truth you’re deceiving,
and you know it’s not real, it’s not right
you're still bleeding...

you’re only dreaming of the truth,
but it’s a lie,
you're still bleeding
______________________
You’re Life
copyright 2004 mikal mullaly

Fornissage

noun: The act of erotic massage (e.g. candlelight, soft music, incense, lotion or oil) followed by an intense session of fornication.

HEY MIKEY, HE LIKES IT!

Yeah, RIGHT!

So yeah, that shit lasted a day...or not even a day...I picked up my wife from work and we were out at dinner time so we ate at McDonald's...however, I ONLY eat the fish sandwiches when I go there and we share the fries.

Anyway, Atkins Schmatkins...I'm only cutting bread out of my diet but I'm not gonna make myself sick by not eating carbs...mind you, I'm not gonna eat like I'm accustomed to...I'll eat 3 reasonable meals a day instead of snacking day and night.

Wow, tuna casserole sure sounds good right now.

On my way to being a loser...

So today I started the Atkins diet. I am totally cutting bread and pasta out of my diet and walking on the treadmill for 60 minutes each day. That is totally doable and people have been losing a lot of weight by doing this ( I've witnessed with my own eyes friends who have dropped 40 lbs in less than 6 months.) If I lose at least 40 lbs by the end of the year...that'll put me right about where I need to be.

Wow, tuna casserole sure sounds good right now...

But this Atkins thing is not bad at all...I eat fish, steak, hamburgers, veggies, and now that we have a grill food tastes even better! And you don't have to totally quit eating carbs...you're allowed 21 grams/day. (you'd be surprised just how many grams of carbs are in the foods you eat - check out the nutritional value.) There's this particular type of bread we like to eat...each piece has 23 grams of carbs. Well NO MORE!

And to show you and myself how serious about this I am...I will post my weight each day and what I have eaten...

Day 1:
Weight: 205

Breakfast:
2 large eggs, scrambled, with shredded cheese.

Lunch:
4 slices mozzarella cheese
3 animal crackers
1/2 cup cottage cheese

Dinner:
Hamburger patty (93% fat free, grilled)with 1 slice pepper-jack cheese
1/2 cup mixed veggies
1 cup bean & ham soup

Total carbs: 21 grams

Why I don't blog...

Recently I was asked why I don't blog that often. Well, because I'm just a boring person, that's why. I really have nothing to say on a daily basis.

Let's see...today we met some friends at McDonald's. We came home and I barbequed steak and chicken. And let me just say that since we have acquired this grill, it has opened up a whole new realm of possibilities in the food world. Great, just what my fat ass needs. Umm, we just got out of the shower and now I'm blogging...after this I think we're gonna go play a game or something, then we'll go to bed.

Wow, bet you can't wait to tune in to read tomorrow's blog.

G'night.

Yaaay, we get to see Amy Grant for the 3rd time in 2 years! Next month we are taking my mom to see Amy in concert for my mom's 50th. She has been listening to Amy's music since I was about 10 years old...that's 23 years! *Damn, I feel old*

Well I asked my mom if she would like that for her birthday and she exclaimed "YES, I WOULD LOVE THAT!" ;-) So we're taking her to see Amy and getting her some jewelry...let's see my siblings (which i originally typed 'siglings' - which is pretty much how I feel about them anyway, but I digress...) beat that!

I'm such a good son.

'Driving while gay...'

Really, Tony...you couldn't come up with a better name than DANILO? And what the hell were you doing in Italy??



Strange but True



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Man’s licence revoked... for driving while gay

08.06.05

CATANIA - A Sicilian court has condemned road authorities for suspending the driving licence of a man after finding out he was gay. The court said being gay was merely "a personality disturbance" and not a psychiatric illness, and had no bearing on a person’s ability to drive.
The 23-year-old man, who was identified only as Danilo G, got into trouble with road authorities in the city of Catania after they discovered he had been exempted from military service because he was gay.
The authorities suspended his driving licence ahead of further evaluation of his "suitability" to take the wheel.
The man’s lawyer, Giuseppe Lipera, denounced the move as "utterly scandalous and offensive" and has demanded 500,000 ($890,472) in damages. "Danilo is deeply perturbed by what has happened. He has lost his hair and is suffering shock," Lipera was quoted as saying.
In a written ruling released yesterday, the Sicilian court said: "It is clear that sexual preferences do not in any way influence a person’s ability to drive motor cars safely." The judges added that homosexuality "cannot be considered a true and proper psychiatric illness, being a mere personality disturbance".
Homosexuality is legal in Italy, but openly anti-gay comments in public from politicians and officials rarely cause a stir.

- REUTERS

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

I FUCKING HATE SPIDERS!!!

So at 12:30 this morning I was 1/2 awake, 1/2 asleep and then I feel something crawl across my leg. I jump out of bed and turn on the lamp. Katie was like, "WTF?" I'm tossing pillows and blankets everywhere, NOT getting back into bed until I have found what it was that was on me! I see it, then it scurries under her body pillow, so I toss that aside and then I see it again... A GOD DAMNED SUN SPIDER!!! Katie jumps up, grabs a shoe (I am ridiculously arachnaphobic) and kills it for me...then I have to get back into bed and lay there, feeling like there are spiders crawling on me...I think I finally went to sleep again around 1:45...uugghh.

I did look them up online today and found out they are NOT poisonous - they have no venoum glands. And that you should NOT kill them as they eat mites and ticks and other insects in your home. YEAH, WHATEVER! If you're a spider and you're in my bed and on ME no less, your ass is gonna be smashed, BITCH!

Copy and paste and add to my comments section...

1. Who are you?

2. Are we friends?

3. When and how did we meet?

4. Do you have a crush on me?

5. Would you kiss me?

6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.

7. Describe me in one word:

8. What was your first impression?

9. Do you still think that way about me now?

10. What reminds you of me?

11. If you could give me anything what would it be?

12. How well do you know me?

13. When's the last time you saw me?

14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?

15. Are you going to put this on your blog and see what I say about you?

Steam man...

homemade videos (amy grant, 'hey heeeey')...

staying home from work and watching porn...

hanging out of the car window, "and isn't it ironic?"...

Southern Comfort...

Aftershock...

drunken nights on the internet...

SUGAR HIGH!...

Casey, Mandy...

Twister (the movie)...

The Exorcist...(I wasn't allowed to go home that night)

Sonic...

Cross Country...

MCI...

Spherion...(for a number of reasons)

being dragged to softball games...

chasing amy...

clerks...

The Sky Is Falling

" A piece of up there just landed down here...the sky is falling!" Remember that episode of The Golden Girls?"

July 16...MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Music just doesn't get any better than this

Artist: Geto Boys
Song: Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta

Verse 1

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangsta-ass nigga plays his cards right
A real gangsta-ass nigga never runs his fuckin mouth
Cuz real gangsta-ass niggas don't start fights
And niggas always gotta high cap
Showin' all his boys how he shot em
But real gangsta-ass niggas don't flex nuts
Cuz real gangsta-ass niggas know they got em
And everythings cool in the mind of a gangsta
Cuz gangsta-ass niggas think deep
Up three-sixty-five a year 24/7
Cuz real gangsta ass niggas don't sleep

And all I gotta say to you
Wannabe, gonnabe, cocksuckin', pussy-eatin' prankstas
Cuz when the fry dies down what the fuck you gonna do
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

Verse 2

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Feedin' the poor and hepin out wit they bills
Although I was born in Jamaica
Now I'm in the US makin' deals
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
I mean one that you don't really know
Ridin' around town in a drop-top Benz
Hittin' switches in my black six-fo'
Now gangsta-ass niggas come in all shapes and colors
Some got killed in the past
But this gangtsa here is a smart one
Started living for the lord and I'll last

Now all I gotta say to you
Wannabe, gonnabe, pussy-eatin' cocksuckin' prankstas
When the shit jumps off what the fuck you gonna do
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

Verse 3

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
A real gangta-ass nigga knows the play
Real gangsta-ass niggas get the flyest of the bitches
Ask that gangsta-ass nigga Little Jake
Now bitches look at gangsta-ass niggas like a stop sign
And play the role of Little Miss Sweet
But catch the bitch all alone get the digit take her out
and then dump-hittin' the ass with the meat
Cuz gangsta-ass niggas be the gang playas
And everythings quiet in the clique
A gangsta-ass nigga pulls the trigger
And his partners in the posse ain't tellin' off shit
Real gangsta-ass niggas don't talk much
All ya hear is the black from the gun blast
And real gangsta-ass niggas don't run for shit
Cuz real gangsta-ass niggas can't run fast
Now when you in the free world talkin' shit do the shit
Hit the pen and let the mothafuckas shank ya
But niggas like myself kick back and peep game
Cuz damn it feels good to be a gangsta

Verse 4

And now, a word from the President!
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Gettin voted into the White House
Everything lookin good to the people of the world
But the Mafia family is my boss
So every now and then I owe a favor gettin' down
like lettin' a big drug shipment through
And send 'em to the poor community
So we can bust you know who
So voters of the world keep supportin' me
And I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me
Or I'll send a million troops to die at war
To all you Republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
Cuz now I got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta

Your Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Yankee

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?