One Day Till Prince

I totally forgot to mention the best part about Wednesday! In the yearly tradition that includes drinking excessively, eating grilled foods, and waiting for things to burst..... the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest occurs every 4th of July from Coney Island. This year, the legendary Kobayashi WAS TAKEN DOWN by American born Joey Chestnut who ate 66 Hot Dogs in 12 minutes. Yeah, that's with the bun. The 66 is a world record (formerly held by Kobayashi.... which is also the name of the lawyer guy who works with Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects in case you were wondering). God bless America indeed! Nothing makes you more proud to be American than watching the US flag waving from the guy who just brought the Hot Dog Eating Title back to the chubby country where it belongs.

My mom called me yesterday morning from DC where she is for the week. She got to shake hands with our next President - Barack Obama! I'm jealous.

Should be a low key weekend around here..... that's if you're a loser and don't have TICKETS TO SEE PRINCE like I do! You all had your chance to come with, but instead on Saturday night while you are playing backgammon and watching Lawrence Welk reruns, I'll be watching the entertainment styles of a Minnesota Legend! My favorite songs? In order:

1. Kiss - Quite possibly the greatest karaoke performance EVER (by me)
2. Raspberry Beret - the kind you find at a second hand store
3. Purple Rain - Great song for wedding receptions, if you aren't drunk by the time they play it (it happens more than you think)
4. P***y Control - was HUGE back in my Co-Op/Aquariass visiting days here in Rochester
5. Gett Off - memories of an unforgettable MTV performance once upon a time
6. Let's Go Crazy - DEARLY BELOVED - WE ARE GATHERED HERE....
7. 7 - good answer to know for trivia games at the bar. Great harmony in the intro
8. Batdance - Started the good songs from Batman movies tradition (U2 would follow)
9. 1999 - yeah, it was overplayed for the new millennium, but that was also 7.5 years ago!!!
10. Little Red Corvette - common song on the "misheard lyrics" list.... I had a dream about me entering a karaoke contest with this song once - any dream analyzers out there?
    

In other news.... I despise Charter Communications with a passion. I was on the phone with the automated voice for 20 minutes - the one that says "try this.... then try this.... then try this..." before finally connecting me to a human. The human looks up and says "oh, there's an outage in your area".... thanks for wasting my time before when that was the problem all along! And you can't get mad at the minimum-wage girl on the phone since she has no ability to help other than what the computer tells her. Another example of THE MAN holding me down.

X-Box 360s are not being recalled, but Microsoft is acknowledging issues and they are now honoring a 3 year extended warranty..... what are the issues with the 360 you ask? They're not admitting anything but it is going to cost them an estimated $1.1 BILLION!!

Have a great weekend - whatever you have planned in your non-Prince worlds!

Haiku of the Day -
Chowing down hot dogs
Over 5 per min....
I could hold my own!

Entertainment of the Day - New Velvet Revolver CD is pretty cool, but it'll have to wait till after Prince this weekend;) Wonder if they are touring this fall again??

Weblink of the Day - Idiot Test #4!! Just follow the instructions.