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Wild news headlines: a Roundup

I have saved a few crazy headlines over the past two months and I never blogged about them. Time to make up for lost posts in one conglomerate post! (sweet I always wanted to use that word randomly)

The Found Footage Festival – Odd clips from random videos found at thrift stores and garage sales throughout the U.S. So damn stupid it’s funny.

eBay: Huge Life Size X Wing XWING Star Wars Luke Skywalker – Nope, not kidding. Nerds around the world went crazy that they could have owned one of these and been the envy of all other nerds around the world.

DrunkSex: Church sign sparks debate – A sign in front of a Baptist Church, reads “The Koran needs to be flushed” …wow someone has some balls there.

New York Daily News – Home – Victim’s E-journal led to slay suspect– True story! and scary to think that I might be blogging to save not my life, but other people from getting axed by some psycho. Yuck.

The ONE Campaign

I received this letter from ONE today. Apparently, sometimes working together to make a difference does work. If you have not yet taken a moment to look at ONE, please take a look today…or this weekend. You don’t have to donate money and you don’t have to sign anything; just look at the ONE website.

Dear Friend:

This week has been an important one, and we have promising news to report back to you.

On Tuesday afternoon, President Bush announced progress towards an agreement with the UK on 100% debt cancellation for the world’s poorest countries — AND promised to do more for Africa.

The President went so far as to say:
“And so when I say we’re going to do more, I think you can take that to the bank.”

And now today, the U.S. and UK are poised to announce a bold debt cancellation proposal that will erase over $56 billion in debt– and quite literally save millions of lives, once the rest of the world’s wealthy nations agree.

Thank you for adding your name to our letter to President Bush, urging him to do more for those with less. President Bush acted this week because Americans like you are deeply about fighting AIDS and extreme poverty. More than 160,000 people have signed the letter, and the White House is responding.

Please take a minute to ask three friends and family members to sign on to the ONE.

Even now, crucial meetings and negotiations continue. Today, seven of the G8 finance ministers meet in London to finish a debt cancellation agreement and discuss what could be a historic plan to make poverty history at the July 6 G8 Summit. On the able is committing to more and better international assistance, debt cancellation and trade reform. Even only a few years ago, it would have been almost impossible to influence these meetings.

Today, we can learn about the issues at stake and use every opportunity to make our voices heard as ONE. On Tuesday night, Brad Pitt appeared on ABC’s Primetime Live, speaking with America about the emergency in Ethiopia and all of Africa, reminding us that for the cost of only ONE CD, we could send a child to school for ONE year.

Whether it is a TV program seen by millions, keeping watch as finance ministers huddle around a table, or a conversation you have with ONE friend or neighbor– together as ONE, we can win the fight against global AIDS and poverty.

Thank you,
The ONE Team

P.S.Click here to learn more
about the important issues to be discussed at the G8.

2005 MTV Movie Awards

This weekend I got a chance to fly to LA to see and participate in the MTV Movie awards. How the hell did I pull that off? I have cool friends that get lucky and get casted as seat fillers! I was a seat filler. A What? A seat filler! (echo anyone?)

My friend scored tickets to be at the awards as seat fillers…basically when someone arrives late, leaves for a drink, heads to the bathroom, leaves early, etc they want someone in their seat so the place always looks full. Well lucky luck LUCKY us; we were put into the “main group” of seat fillers and we were used to rotate throughout the “celebrity pit”. Before the show started we were seated 2nd row, corner with the Foo Fighters, P. Ditty’s old butler and Quentin Tarantino!

We arrived in LA at our hotel around 3am LA time; woke up by 8am and we were off to see the sights. Back at the hotel by noon to get ready, and at the theater by 3pm…waiting in the hot LA sun for two and a half hours with a few hundred people. We were filed in and some people were picked from the group to sit together in a temporary spot…mostly older, excessively trendy people; we were picked! These people were the “key” seat fillers and the first ones to head into the “celebrity pit”. With in 5 minutes I was bumped from my seat and my friend stayed.

If you watch the awards on Thursday you might see my friend because she sat 2nd row with the Foo fighters the whole show! I got bumped around a few times and had some awesome seats for the performances. If you see me, I will be shocked, but it’s possible…

I’ll make my life simple…

Stars I was inches from:
– Anthony Michael Hall
– Seann William Scott
– Johnny Knoxville
– Foo Fighters
– P. Ditty’s old butler

Stars I was 5-10 feet from:
– Jon Header (Napoleon Dynamite)
– Aaron Ruell (Kip)
– Efren Ramirez (Pedro Sanchez)
– Eminem
– Lindsay Lohan
– Andy Dick
– Jessica Simpson
– Nick Lachey
– Michael Chiklis
– Eva Mendes
– Quentin Tarantino
– Dax from MTV’s Punk’d

Stars I was 20 feet from:
– Hillary Duff
– Samuel L. Jackson

Stars I saw:
– Tom Cruise
– Katie Holmes
– Paul Gleason (I)
– Molly Ringwald
– Ally Sheedy
– Jessica Biel
– Jessica Alba
– Nicole Kidman
– and a ton others…

I got the call on Thursday morning around 10 am and made up my mind before 11am that I was going…within a few hours plane tickets, hotel and rental car were set up. I was in LA for less then 48 hours and I had a great time. My camera battery went dead as we made it into Beverly Hills, but I got a few pictures. I saw Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, Hollywood hills, Blvd, Roxbury Street, Marina Del Ray, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica beach…it was packed full of adventure. At the awards you could not have a camara nor cell phone so there was nothing I could do. I did see people taking pictures and I saw security harass a friend of a celebrity until he knew he was really with a celebrity…so I would have been beat up! Hopefully I can visit the West Coast again and spend a little more time out there. Random pictures are at my Flickr site.

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
– Miriam Beard

I am so there!

I have to brag…because my 15 seconds of fame could happen this weekend. I just got the call and the reservations have been made. Last minute I am flying to LA. Why? MTV Movie awards.

I just scored tickets to the MTV Movie awards. My friend and I will be seat fillers, either in seats for the whole show or rotating out with stars that leave (to take a pee…hello), could be in the pit for the music shows, or I might be on the red carpet.

So look for me if you have no life and watch the show from start to finish. You might see me hooking up with Jack Black or getting slapped by Christina Aguilera; either way it will be my 15 seconds of fame.

No cameras, so no awesome pics…but you know me…I’ll think of something!

The ONE Campaign

Maybe you support it, maybe you don’t.
Maybe you have heard of it,maybe you haven’t.
Maybe you saw the commercials;
…maybe you still want [need] to visit the website.

I know I’m not the the only one that has asked why the largest and most vocal charities don’t get together to try and fight the war on AIDS, the war on poverty or the fight for life. Why they don’t help spread the administration costs…why they don’t show that people and organizations with different leaders can work together for a common goal. No matter what your religious and spiritual beliefs: there is no one human saviour. As a group, humans can help save other humans.

Whether The ONE Campaign is another pop phenomenon or a catalyst to make people remember what it means to be humane…what will it hurt to support it? They aren’t looking for money, just your voice. Help support the The ONE Campaign…I do.

What is The ONE Campaign?

ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty.

The ONE Campaign: “WE BELIEVE that in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves, now is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty. WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget. WE COMMIT ourselves – one person, one voice, one vote at a time – to make a better, safer world for all.”

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