Take Advantage of the Recession

According to this article you can take advantage of the recession by stealing away with a hot car bargain. It's a Yahoo! News article which I always enjoy because they are usually funny despite their obvious seriousness. This particular article wants to help out the car buyer looking for a good deal in an obviously battered auto market. The first suggestion? The Audi A8 which normally goes for $122,000.00. According to the article you might be able to land this for, well, actually, the writer doesn't know but he (or she) suggests don't over haggle it (I guess start at $110,000.00 and get ready to haggle from there). Other suggestions from the article were for a Lincoln Town Car at $53,000.00 and a $46,000.00 Cadillac (I guess buying the top-end vehicle from near bankrupt companies is now the "in" thing to do). You could even get some leverage on the dealer of a Hummer H2 (starting price around $63,000.00) but, again, as the article urges don't get greedy. Sure your house might be worth less than half of what you paid for it and your taxes will be paying directly into the car industry for the next ten years but that is no reason to think that you should get an insane deal on something that is worth twenty percent less the moment you drive it off the lot. Of course, the article might be envisioning a near future where our houses are so worthless we might have to live in our cars. Sure, that is a highly pessimistic future but that considered I guess its a pretty good article after all.

I Might Have Over Used YouTube

I love America's Got Talent. It is by far my favorite show but it causes me to go absolutely crazy on YouTube. I waste a lot of time (and drink way too much) looking back on the many super-talented "what might have beens". Of course, this year, Kevin Skinner is the big thing. I like Kevin more than I liked Eli last year and--by God damnit!--I loved Eli last year! Kevin just was so amazing I actually googled "chicken catcher" more than five times over the two days after I watched him. Before that, I imagine I googled that like once, maybe twice, over the previous year. I know that sounds weird but my dad had an impromptu foster rooster living in his back yard last spring and I thought I could catch it but, well, I'm not nearly as fast, even with the Internet, as a local dog and so the problem took care of itself way before I could build my elaborate chicken catching trap. Anyway, back to my point. I was searching "If Tomorrow Never Comes" on YouTube and I found this guy and I thought he was just awesome. Take a hear here:





That is John Rainey and he is friggin' awesome! And he can sing Elvis even better. Is he better than Kevin Skinner, the guy that has a good chance (if he stops being so nervous) of winning America's Got Talent? I don't know. But he is good and he is what I found when I spent too much time browsing around YouTube.

Screech in News

I'll admit I watched more than my fair share of Saved by the Bell but I was nowhere close to being a fan. My sisters were fans and as I result I had to watch it or nothing else since my sisters had complete control of the TV. I cared very little for it at the time but I did like the pretty girls. But I still hated the show and it was mainly because of Screech's voice. It was the single most annoying sound my ears had ever heard. When he spoke I immediately thought of icepicks....icepicks bludgeoning out my ears. And the icepicks were the good thing because that was what I wanted in order to, as I said, bludgeon out my ears. Anyway, funny thing is that Screech, or Dustin Diamond (really? is that his name?) is back in the news and because of that I found this photo:

That is Screech now. And I thought his voice was freaky. Pixar could not better animate a live action character that is quite obviously an animated live action character than that. His cheeks are so rosy and tight they nearly pop off his face like little cherries and his chin is easily a full hand length from his bottom lip!! And his lips are scary because they only seem to be there too frame his freakishly large and shiny top teeth. No bottom teeth shown there at all. Whooga! Still, he maintains the Screech hair which leads me to believe he is still Screech although I still think he is some sort of clone sent down from aliens to take over the world. Now I shall sit in wait for Jaleel White to turn up in the news.