"Vacation's Over."

This is my 20th post in the month of November...Twenty! I don't think it's an all time low, but it's a dip in my usual production. I needed the break though. It allowed me to work on other stuff. Tomorrow I'll get back to the usual grind and update ya'll on what's been happening, what I have been holding back and leaving out...THERE IS SO MUCH TO SAY!!! Be on the lookout for some new blogs by moi (under different nicknames...) and other suprises in store!

The Screenwriter's Dig will announce the next set of finalist of their contest soon, if "Call Numbers" makes it, I will definately post the news!

Peace!

"The Fam."

Eagles win, McNabb's out for the season, and the Cowboys are trying to steal T.O. from us...god, the next five weeks are going to be hell!

Anyways, here's the family photos we took back at the end of time as we all know it...



There we are, Psycho-Sis, Me, Baby-Girl, and MOM.





Here's MOM's so called "Obituary Picture". God, could she BE any creepier?

Natually there were complaints after they came out...

"My hair is messed up!", "I was in a arkward position, leaning back with my knees up!", "Her little fat belly's showing!"..."At Least you don't have a double chin showin!...I should of put my hand up like I did on my second picture!", Blah, blah, blah...meanwhile, I never smiled any better! My teeth are out (Bucky) and my lower row is crooked as hell, but I come off with a Shaq-sized Kool-Aid Smile! I think it was because I was thinking of a certain someone...

ANYhoo...I gotta another announcement...I'm soon to be starting another BLOG! I'm going to try to take intresting pictures of the city! And also participate in the "26 Things" Photo Scavenger Hunt! I'll let ya know when it's up, till then...

PEACE!

"Half-Nekkid Thursday, An Afterthought."

When this craze started, I had no idea it would catch on to this big like phenomenon that it is today. And as I visit other blogs, I feel that I'm using this social experiment as an excuse to post pin-ups of porn stars with no sense of artistic integrity (Not that there's anything wrong with it!). So, I got the thinking, what if I step it up a notch, how about recreate some famous nude poses of pop culture history!

First thing that came to mind, ALBUM COVERS...for example...



Seal, on his second "SEAL" Album, that could be an intresting pose...

Or, Paula Cole...



I don't think I could find a swing to do this, thou....

Then, I thought of magazine covers from the past like these...








Whadda think? I'm just crazy enough to try, although I'll be taking the picture myself so it'll be very tricky to do...

And as far as album covers, there's one more that'll be REAL over-the-top to try and do...



For the patrotic dude in me...

So, if anybody else is crazy enough to turn this thing on it's ear, join in!

I believe in giving the people what they want!

"Rebuilding, slowly but surely"

Went to a kinko's today and scanned some pics, it had been a while doing photo scanning and the machine was a bit old, but I think they came out okay. I'm posting them tomorrow depending on if the Eagles win against the Packers. And I'm warning everybody right now....ANYone post any comment saying how pretty my sister is, I will make it my mission in life to find out where you live and make your life a living hell. I know she's pretty, okay, it's old news! You don't need a crystal ball to predict the obvious. She's just a ghetto princess who takes gypsy cabs all over the city because she's too good for the bus or train, she rather pester her mother for 275 leather coat and wear it all year round rather than buy a spring coat and a winter coat, she rather wear 150.00 timberland boots in the summer than some sandals, she rather spend her money clubblin' and drinking and let the phone get cut off, she rather dress her daughter up in hip-hop thug gear like 85 dollar boots that'll be too small in 6 months, overalls and denim jackets so all the strangers come up and say "What a cute little boy..."! Yes, this pretty momma rather beg HER mother for money when her share of the rent is only 115.00 a freaking month! A simple person can live a LIFETIME with the conditions she's confined to, but NO, she has to do things the hard way! And how does she get by?, with her brains?, by hard work and preserverence?, NO!...she gets by because she's pretty. The world bends to her will, she just steps outside of her building, and money falls out of the sky, okay?

SO, ya'll still with me, 'ere?...Don't reinforce something I've come to know over the last 26 years, 'kay?

Till then,

Hold ya breath...

"Ya can't keep a good dog down!"

"SPIKE!...You're Back!"
(calmly) "Do you have anything to eat?"
"Huh?"
"I'm really Starving."



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Welcome back, bub.


"There's no time to waste, the world needs a leader, NOW!"
"Once again, we're ready, but if this doens't work Optimus Prime will never live again...I DID IT, I DID IT, Optimus Prime LIVES!"
"It's true, our leader is back."
"Yes, Sky Lynx, and this time no force in the universe is going to stop me."

"Picking up the Pieces"

I get home at a little before 11pm, and I get back to work.

My PC's on the verge of going the way of the Phoniex, burning in the eternal flame only to be ressurected in the ashes. I gathered as many files as I could on a Data DVD, like a vitural "Noah's Ark", collecting data to be saved for the next life. Then, the time came, and there was rebirth!

But where rebirth begins, so does restoration. First things, first...I had to reinstall my DVD Burner program, DVD X COPY, that required the key generator, and I foolishly did't save anywhere. I knew where I could get it, but the site was riddled with viruses and pop-ups, there was one thing I needed to get...SP 2!

For those playing the home game, SP2 is the latest update to Windows XP. Upgrades normally are downloading on the low, but some strange reason EMachines disrupts major upgrades from microsoft. SO, I had to find a download of the update myself (In the spirit of indiana jones). That took forever to find, but I did it. Then I found the Key Generator and re-installed DVD X COPY and tested by copying "The Longest Yard". It was 3am now, and I had a lot of more programs ahead of me...

* RIO MP3 Transfer Program
* BitComet
* XP Office (Hmmm...maybe I should get the new Office 2006...)
* DIVX Player
* dBPower Audio file converter
* NERO 6 Buring Programs

I decided to go back with IE (Internet Explorer) rather than Netscape, I gotta set up the email accounts on outlook express...

It's going to be awhile till I get back to 100%. Imma try and get the family pic scanned today

Till then.

"Thanks-Freakin-Giving"

Thanksgiving yesterday was freakin' insane. Psycho-Sis still doesn't know how to be a nice hostess, there were too many uninvited, unexpected guest (aka hoodlum neighbors, locals, and so-called well wishers visiting the social butterfly my sister is...), the routine suprise visit by my step-brother and "Daddy", and of course, it wouldn't be thanksgiving if we didn't watch home videos of Psycho-sis's Baby Shower...I swear.

Mom went there to the bronx at 9am to help with the cooking, I didn't show till 5pm. Thanksgiving was also MOM's birthday and Psycho-Sis brought a gaudy, tacky, HEAVY, white 8ft tall Slim Dimmer Lamp which MOM already had an identical BLACK one that was falling apart...

In my rush I forgot to bring my gift to show off, a Limited Edition Box Set of the movie "Ray" on DVD. Plus another book by that Televangelist she's going ga-ga for as of late, Joel Osteen. Luckly, Psycho-Sis didn't bother me for her gift, yet...her brithday is tuesday, but she'll be partying for the next 56 hours or so.

While the chaos was going around, I found myself a nice cool seat in the corner, in front of the opened window (Her house was hot as HELL!!!!). Anytime someone came in that didn't belong, I just looked away at the TV with a VERY pissed off look.

My Step-Brother, TEE (nickname) came over and showed some pictures on his sidekick. He's definately following his father/my "daddy"'s footsteps already having TWO babies damn near a month from each other...what can you do?, I'd like to think the two women trapped his ass, but it does take two to tango... TEE sorta looks up to me, becuase I'm the oldest of "daddy's" kids, I was the first (supposedly), the straight arrow, the one that can never do wrong (What bullshit, I'm so sick of it...)

"Daddy" came around to me later on and we made our pleasant formalities. "Still don't eat any meat?" he asks, I'd shake my head, the usual "Laurel and Hardy" banter. Then he hits me up with the "When YOU having kids?" line as if he didn't have ENOUGH grandchildren between Psycho-Sis and TEE! "Yeah, but there're all girls!, we need a boy to carry on the name!" he exclaims...Yeah, that's rich...that would be some f*cking irony, though...the only child to have a grandson to carry the family name...which name wasn't really his to carry in the first place. Oh yeah, the guy upstairs with just WAITING to line that up into a reality. I don't want to get into the semantics if ya'll cant put two and two together so let's move on to the end of the night.

MOM being gullible as she is agrees to take my niece home with us to give Psycho-Sis a "Break-from-all-hard-cooking-work-she-apparently-did". One of her hoodlum friends that's been coming back and forward arrives with a 72 dollar bottle for Hennessy, one of those big-ass JUGS! (To go along with the countless other empty bottles she keeps above her cupboard like trophies) For her the party is just starting. I couldn't get home fast enough, despite carrying that HEAVY, tacky lamp, and countless leftovers!

When we got home I went back to work on restoring my PC, more details on that on my next entry....

"To the brother in arms who has fallen..."

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a lone voice suddenly cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced."

I don't know if our goverment agents got to you for your Bush-Bashing, but whatever caused you to walk away, you will be missed.

Firestarter5, you were one of the good ones. The void you leave behind can never be filled. I salute you...brother.

Wherever this crazy world takes you in this journey we call life, may you one day find peace.

Vaya con Dios

Godspeed

Amen

"A moment of Silence for the Great Masher, It's last Mash was it's Greatest!" Louie Duck from "Ducktales"

"Computer, Activate Self Destruct Sequence..."

In the words of LOBO, "My computer is so FRAGGED!" I dunno what the hell happened! I turned it off for the night then the next day, I lost my internet connection, windows can't detect my Ethernet card, Device Manager draws up a complete blank slate! I am TOO pissed! I have no other alternative but reformat the hard drive and start fresh again! I'm backing up all my important shit in Data DVD's that are taking forever to burn, this whole process is going to take at least 48 hours. Not to mention all the shit I can't save, email messages, webpage history, etc, etc...I'm trying to burn my favorites, bookmarks and webpages, along with all my documents (TV scripts, resumes, Blog notes, etc, etc...). It's a good thing, I just hooked up this back-up PC, I've been trying to find a website that'll help we, but when it comes to this type of stuff man, I have little patience.

In other news, MOM got the pictures from target, they came out good, for the first time in like 10 years, we have a family picture to mail to everyone. I'll try to get a big copy and scan it at Kinko's and put it on the blog. Did some shopping for Mom and sis's birthday today after work, found me a couple of things, too. Work is cool, but is already thinning out a bit. It was a small project afterall, however there is talk that the UN project is pushing up and I my be going back to that. UN building or Warehouse in Queens is still a mystery. I just hope I can keep working thru the holidays....

Some New York Bloggers are having a x-mas party soon, I've become quite fond of one of the organizers despite getting the cold shoulder on IM Chats. She's quite...obtuse to use a fancy word, but I find myself drawn to her. That's another story all together...

Although I've enjoyed this time away from daily entries, I somehow look forward to returning to my regular schedule in December. It's hard to squeeze what's been going on in just one or two weekly updates.

*SIGHS*

I hope I get my computer fixed somehow by tomorrow, my "Half Nekkid Thursday" pic for this week was going to be a shocker....

Till next time, keep praying for me...

"...Activate Self Destruct Sequence, Authorization Janeway-mark-two-delta" (How many times did that chick try the blow the damn ship when things got hopeless?)

"Exclusive!!! "Call Numbers" in the running @ The Screenwriter Dig!!!!"

Yeaa, yeah, the EAGLES lost, tell me something new...BUT PEEP THIS!!!

A couple of months ago, I submitted my script for the PILOT of my TV show, "Call Numbers" in a contest at The Screenwriter Dig. And last week, the first set of finalist were announced and I'M ONE OF THEM!

The PILOT for "Call Numbers" is in consideration at this year's Screenwriter's Dig for Teleplay Submissions!!!

Check here for details...

Finalist will be announced next month!!!.....WHEEEEE!!!!

Check out the "Call Numbers" Blog for my dream cast and details about the characters they would play....

Man, I'd even be happy with third place...as long as I get noticed...wish me luck, ya'll...and CHECK OUT THE DAMN BLOG!!!

"Half Nekkid Thursday:Mary Carey, I'd vote for Her!"



Known by her failed run for Governor in Cali, this Adult Movie star has even met the president! She's also a correspondent on the Playboy TV version of "Punk'd" called "Totally Busted".

"Breakdown."

Eagles lost again, damn. The new job's okay, but the supervisor's this Grade-A type asshole, and not in the mood to deal with shit now. MOM's getting fed up with her job and is talking about quitting. Riding the trains again down to wall street is stressing me. If I catch the 7:30 Train, I get there early, the 7:40-7:45am Train, it's a gaddamn footrace down the narrow cut streets to get there on time at 8:30am...I'm SO not used to this! I'm having sleeping problems again, someone help me here...

If I can stay up throughout the night till 5am wide awake without going to the bathroom once, then fall in sub-concious stuppors during the day and function...why the hell do I still get up 3-5 times a night to pee when I go to bed at a decient hour?!?!? What the hell is wrong with me? I'm an insominac that can't get enough sleep, a freaking contridiction! When I sleep, I get up at night, When I stay up all night I'm tired all day. I know it can't be the bed, I've been sleeping on it for five years with no problems.

*sighs*

Maybe I'm just getting old...

Soon I'm gonna start getting dependent on pills, uppers, or vitamins, or somethin'

God give me strengh.

"Pinciotti Scores, Hell freezes over, a monkey writes Shakespere!..."

Well ladies and gentleman, the impossible has finally happened...We got ourselves a Family Portait. And it wasn't easy!...not by a long shot! You'd think getting Me, Psycho-Sis, my Niece and MOM together in one room would be an accomplishment that could of been enjoyed, but no! Miss-Thang didn't like her pose and bitched about it all the way home...it never ends. When it comes out, it'll be fine, there can't BE a bad picture taken of my sister, she's beautiful beyond content (Why else don't you think I haven't posted a pic of her on this blog, yet?!?!?), she's just ugly on the inside in a way no one will ever see but family. When it comes out, I'll scan it and post it up so you'll be the judge. Three poses were taken, The four of us, one with Psycho-sis and My Niece, and Mom took one by herself (For the obituary, anyway I guess....) We got a nice package that cost a little over a C-Note, all's well that ends well.

So that's it, the worst of it is behind us...till Thanksgiving. MOM doesn't want to cook, so we're going out the Psycho-sis's house in the bronx where SHE'LL do the hosting duties. We tried this 2 years ago, it was a disaster, this year will be no different...

I'm so glad that shit is done and over with, I told them, the next family picture will be in six years when my niece turns 13. Hopefully we'll all be living in different states by then.

"Pray for Us"

Well, we gonna try again tomorrow to do the family picture at Target. By hell or high water...no excuses about hair, clothes, or anything!

"And what if Psycho-Sis acts up again?" I asked MOM (Knowing damn well she might...)

"Then I'm going By Myself!" she barked back at me..."I'll take the picture you'll use for my obituary!"

"WHAT?!?!...why are you thinking of THAT!?!?!?....That's a horrible thing to say!"

"Boy, we all gotta go SOME time, I don't want YOU to mess things up."

As she turns away, a chill goes down my spine...It's like all she thinks about is death and dying...that's not the way to live!

"Hubba, Hubba, Bubba..." Half Nekkid Thursday!



Whoo...

Meanwhile on the homefront...

Finally went up to Westchester monday and caught up with some ol' "friends"/former co-workers at Community Choice. Wednesday I started my newest scanning assignment back in the wall street area...getting used to trying to sleep at night again, etc, etc...the early evening darkness is awakeing the nightcrawler in me...I may start roaming the streets again, those cold, and lonely streets...

Still working on the "Call Numbers" Blog, the new "Word"-Add On Blogger program makes things a lot easier!

Hope ya'll ain't missing the semi-daily positings too much...I promise to be back 100% next month, PEACE!

"I'm a Rambling Man..."

No roger, no rerun, no rent!....No, T.O., no touchdowns, no win.

*sigh*, damn Eagles, I just can't take it anymore...

They need to CUT his ass from the team, he's got his ring, let 'em fade in obscurity like fuckin' Keyshawn Johnson...

The whole city's gonna turn on McNabb after this, then it'll be another 10 years before a black quarterback gets noticed. Well, worst case scenario we get a bad record, get a good draft pick then draft some "Bright-Eyed, bushy-haired, cornpone chucking', 3rd-generation Eli Manning wannabe Country Boy" who'll break every passing record known to man and then finally take them to the superbowl.

Imma ramble on now since it's 5am and I'm barely coherent now...

I'm so glad that video post worked! Bigups to kimmyk for the help out...

Thanksgiving is coming up, or as I call it "Turkey Day" because I really had nothing to be thankfull for since the car accident...

S'funny that I call it "Turkey Day" too, considering I don't eat any meat...

'nother thing about "Turkey Day" is both MOM and Psycho-Sis have Birthdays around that time...mom's the 24th, Sis's is the 29th (Damn November Sagittariuses! Never could get along with them....December ones are great, thou!)

Simpson's Halloween episode was funny, this year...too bad it was all late because of baseball.

I'm totally hooked on the "Loonatics"...I thought it'd be a bad incarnation of classic looney toons, but they kick mad ass, man!....I've completly forgotten Ninja Turtles! I think I like them because they remind me of X-Men and the Power Rangers...

I miss "Chappelle's Show".

I wish I could drink so I wouldn't be up all damn night and sleepy during the day...

I'm going back to work Wednesday, but I'm scared it only going to be for a few weeks then I gotta go back to Jersey...

I SO don't wanna go back to Jersey to work...

I wanna move to philly.

I wanna pay no more than 625.00 for rent for the rest of life...

I should play the mega-millions this tuesday...

It's up to 225 Million...

If I even won that much money, I'd donate half to the New York Public Library so all the branches would be open 6 days a week again.

The movie "Rent" is coming out, which reminds me of my Ex 'cause she always wanted to go see the broadway play.

We came close to goin' one time, but she chickened out and instead I took her to the village to get her tongue pierced.

I was thinking ahead when she got it done, thinking about how it would feel if she went down on me...

She never did, plus...for three weeks after the procedure we couldn't french kiss and she couldn't eat anything but ice cream...

I am SO going to hate when that movie comes out...

I think the "Boondocks" cartoon on Adult Swim is going to be incredibly funny or completely offensive and cancelled after 3 episodes.

Which is a shame too, because I really like the comic strip.

I think they should make a cartoon from the comic strip Foxtrot, it's the funniest thing since calvin and hobbes.

I think Allanis Morrisette's cover of Seal's "Crazy" doesn't do him justice...

Of all his songs, I still don't know why that one is the one he's famous for.

I think R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" has run it's course and needs to stop before it becomes the 21st Century "Jigglin' Baby" (Hip Hop's longest running gag song...)

Madonna's new video is crazy, but she has a HELL of a fine ass...

That's it I'm going to bed now....

Test:My Niece in the Park


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I've been trying to get video on here after seeing it on other blogs. This is my niece out in a park awhile back. I shot it with my digital camera so there's no audio. Excuse the shaky "Blair Witch" type camerawork it was my first time. I did 8 AVI clips and put 'em all on a 10 minute DVD-RW Disc.

Similar to Hello!, Jusspress.com allows you upload video files using a small uploader program.

"Baby Girl" loves the new software I brought for her. I got her a Lil' Bill CDrom and one with Disney characters. I also got one that teaches her to count money and tell time, but she had some problems with it and gave up on it. She's been having problems with money, and it fustrates her easily. I plan to go over with the program again next week.

As I predicted, my sister messed up the plans and the family picture is now being taken next week. (Just another delay...)

"Gaddamnit T.O.!"



Owens got suspended for some bullshit comments he made on an radio interview. Now I don't wanna sound ghetto using the N-word but I gotta say it...Why is it Ni@@as always keeping a brother down! How the HELL is he gonna say the Eagles would be 7-0 if Bret Farve was the quarterback! Have you SEEN how the hell HE'S playing lately?!?!? I swear if this ain't some "ANY GIVEN SUNDAY" shit! Instead of the Running Back giving the QB grief, it's the damn Reciever! This is so not good, man...DAMN!

"Backup's on the Way..."

Okay, found an alternate storage site in imageshack.us repairs are in progress....

A couple of personal notes:In yet another attempt to relive my youth, I've discovered a nugget of a find in ZIP file full of VERY old PC games I used to play in High School! The original "Test Drive", "Leisure Suit Larry", "Prince of Persia", "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?", and "Zany Golf"!..."ZANY GOLF!!!", talk about childhood memories! ALSO, the fam are going to try to get our family portrait taken tomorrow...I'd appricate if anyone would put us in their prayers because we haven't had a full family pic since our niece has been born! AND speaking of the little princess, I finally got around to getting our old backup PC a sound card upgrade so she can use it to play educational cd-rom games. This old P2 was given to my mother at work and she was using it to learn EXCEL, but when we tried to play some Learn-2-Read CDrom, we couldn't hear anything. Now, that it's fixed I'm going to try to get Baby Girl into some advanced learning!

"Technical Difficulties"

The pics are not loading for some damn reason...damn imageweb.info website is acting up! Bear with me while find an new way to store pics...without making any damn account registration!

"HNT:Carmen Hayes"



Now, she may not know how to spell (TEAZ), but lord knows she knew what she'd be doin' for the rest of her life!

Couple of personal notes:I'm enjoying the pressures of not blogging everyday, I went to the Gwen Stefani concert, it was great! Black Eyed Peas were off the chain! They had James Brown and Justin Timberlake drop in and perform! The girls in the crowd WENT NUTZ! when Timberlake came on the stage! I thought I was gonna go deaf from the screaming. Gwen was cool, too but she was a little too emotional and in your face (she kept saying things like "I F*CKIN' LOVE YOU GUYS, NEW YORK!!!!" and "C'MON ALL YOU B*TCHES!!!"...I was like I didn't pay 80 freaking dollars to be cursed at!), and finally...I got the call from seacacus to start work down in the wall street area again starting next wednesday. I think it's only for a few weeks, but we'll see, at least I'm working again.

ALSO! I'm updating the casting choices of my TV Show Blog and plan to release the PILOT in another BLOG soon...check it out by clicking the link on the side...

See ya next week!