New Look for Screech!

Well changes are coming for The Washington Nationals in 2009 in more ways than one. If news of trades for good or bad, or firings of coaches and resignations of general managers and whatnot was not enough for you then here is something else for you. The Nationals Mascot Screech, has a new look. The news media is calling it
a grown up look, I call it molting or something.


Here is SCREECH in The early days:


On Final Saturday Night Game at RFK Loss to Phillidelphia 22 September 2007.


The next day at the Official digging up of Home Plate Ceremony after the Final Game at RFK Win on Sunday Afternoon 23 September 2007.


And now here is the New very Toned down Screech:



I'm not sure that I like it. I think the "00" jersey number is a nice touch for a Mascot, but I liked the "05" he had to indicate the year of his Hatching. Well like many other changes it will take some getting used to.

Nice Face, Shame About the Anorexia

A few days to a week ago, I spotted this Ralph Lauren ad while on Facebook. My first reaction was dang how much skinnier and bonier can those two get? Get Anorexia much?


Why am I reminded of those cartoons where the character gets flattened and they look normal until you see the side view and they are a very paper thin line?

That is so not healthy. I can see using a healthy skinny model for your ads but skin & bones? No. Its a real shame because the one on the left would be pretty cute if she had some meat on her bones!

Give then girls some Pizza and some Girl Scout Cookies Stat.

First Words of 2009!

It's a brand new Year so lets get going with it and hit the ground running. I usually send out an email near the New Year that gives my Year In Review. I am not sending out that email this year. I end up adding it to my website anyway so that is what I will do from now on. I think I will make monthly updates to it and just post the updated version as I go on the website. Of course I need to make sure I can still update my old site. It seems they might have changed the way files get uploaded to the site so I'll have to play with things to see if I can still make changes if not I'm SOL.

Me being Goofy (Circa 1993)

I will not make any New Year's Resolution, because I don't make those. Why make an outrageous promise that you might not be able to keep. Also who checks at the end of the year to see if you kept your resolution. Who remembers the resolution they made? EXACTLY!

Last Words of 2008!

OK so here we are at the very tail end of the year 2008. Two-Thousand and Eight Years since the last transition of how man keeps track of his own made concept Time. Well really something like 2053 years the calendar has been used (See Julian lendar). If your Jewish it's still 5769 So Party On! You've got plenty of the year left! This past year has been pretty good to me for the most part. I'll have some of the boring details on my website Nesredna's Knook on my Year In Review page(s) there. I should have it updated in a few days or so.

RANDOM PICTURE:

So Happy New Year all 4 or 5 (if that many) of you who read this silly Blog. I've been in shows with some of you, I've laughed with some of you, I may have cried with one or two of you, and one of you I might have... well never mind that I'll just edit this bit later. LOL!

Womanizer Baby?

BRITNEY SPEARS
WOMANIZER!

OK so the latest Bright-knees Speared hit is called Womanizer. It is a pretty catchy tune, but I have noticed that it is a little contradictory or maybe ironic. Especially when she sings "Womanizer OH, You're a Womanizer Baby". Then again what do you expect from a Pop-Tart who is trying to make a comeback and become Madonna Jr. Did I just type that out loud in a blog? Silly me.

Have you seen the video for this song?

It starts off with Britney making breakfast (scantily clad in lingerie) for her "Womanizer Baby" and switches between that and her buck naked in a sauna. I would love to know how to make those square eggs she makes.

It then breezes through some scenarios of Britney in various roles in the day of the life of her Womanizing Man, her "Womanizer Baby". She goes from a sexually harassed co-worker to a redhot suductress waitress, to sexy pantsless chauffeur back to the quiet stay at home wiffie. Man how does she drive like that?


I'm not sure which character I like best the waitress or the co-worker? I'm leaning toward the co-worker because of her smooth moves. Then again it could just be the glasses and tight skirt.

New Threads

In 2009 my two local MLB Teams: The Washington Nationals and The Baltimore Orioles will be wearing new uniforms.


For the Orioles they are only changing their road jerseys back to the old "Baltimore" script like they had back in the 60s-70s. To be honest I hadn't noticed since I rarely see any O's games. I really hate it when they wear the hats with the "O's" I prefer the ones that have either the character Oriole's "face" or the ones with the full body oriole.


The Nats will have a more noticeable change or two. The left arm patch will be the interlocking DC logo instead of the commemorative stadium patch they have had. The "Washington" on the Road jersey's will be in script instead of the block letters it had been. An alternate jersey will be a blue top with the "DC" logo on the front.

Do those models come with the uniforms?
I think they should, and Lastings Milledge thinks they should too.

Here is the initial story on the Nats official site:
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081106&content_id=3668093&vkey=news_was&fext=.jsp&c_id=was

And a good take on the new uniforms on the Blog NATS320
http://nats320.blogspot.com/2008/11/2009-new-uniform-unveiling-espn-zone.html

And an update:http://nats320.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-on-new-uniforms.html

The Baltimore Sun on the O's New Uniforms:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.os5023jan23,1,7145811.story?coll=bal-baseball-storyutil

Dancing With The Candidates?

Take this lovely Dancing With The Stars photo of Pop-Singer Mario (Who? What is his full name? Is that it?) and Karina Smirnoff. Again Who?

I don't watch the show so I didn't see any of their moves on the dance floor/ stage/ TV studio. I first saw a parody of this photo Monday Night on a blog or a chat board, and I of course got some emails that had it as an attachment. It is a nice photoshop parody and here it is.


Wow uncanny, so why is Barack Obama dancing with Tina Fey? OK I know it's Sarah Palin. At any rate it is a very good photoshop job. Congrats to whoever did it. By the way I had a Dickens of a time trying to Google the parody. Maybe I was checking with the wrong words or maybe it has been deleted from some places. I don't know, but I ended up using a copy from an email attachment. Speaking of Dancing with the Stars, I still don't watch it. Even when they had:


Marie Osmond, or Lisa Rinna, I was tempted to watch it then. I was also tempted to watch it some other time but I forget who the stars were that I wanted to see .

Personally I'd rather dance with Lisa if I could dance (I'd have to get by Harry Hamlin on that score, the lucky dog) than Karina even though she has slightly nicer looking legs. Yeah I know, Paula Abdul says she can teach anybody how to dance. Hey maybe I should take her up on that. Teach me to dance Paula!

Facebook Fun or Princess Bride Classic Stuff

I found a humorous picture on Facebook.com.


Ah a famous quote immortalized in it's literal sense. For those of you who have been under a rock for about 20-25 years or don't get to the cinema much. The quote "Hello my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!" is from the movie The Princess Bride uttered by the character of the same name Inigo Montoya portrayed by Mandy Patinkin who starred in the TV shows Dead Like Me and Criminal Minds.



Hmm must be a popular idea. OH Well. Hey I like this red version.

Fusion Man or Ace Mccloud?

Wow! Did you hear about the Swiss guy who is the first man to fly across the English Channel using a homemade single engine jet-powered wing? His name is Yves Rossy AKA: Fusion Man.



A cool site that gives more info can be found at http://www.jet-man.com/prod/index_en.html. More sites can be found by google searching Fusion Man some of them have videos of some of his flights. When I first heard about the historical flight I thought Cool then I saw a brief video clip and a photo and it reminded me of a Cartoon Show from the 1980s called The Centurions.



The seires launched a line of toys from Kenner and a comic book series by DC. I'm not sure which came first the toys or the cartoon. The Centurions was set in the soon to happen future. It was about a government type force that had a trio of super service men, one who was in charge of land operations, one sea operations and one air operations. Each had a super power battle suit that was very hi-tech. Ace McCloud was the Air man. I don't recall watching the series but I did sell the toys as I was working retail from the mid 1980s (around the time this franchise started) to the early '90s. I was pretty familiar with them and many other lines of toys/cartoon series that [Ninja Turtles] were very [He-Man] popular at the time.



While trying to find some info and pics of Fusion Man I cam across this website http://www.geekologie.com/2008/04/post_11.php which had a similar type contraption, called the Gryphon Glider. The GG looks cooler and looks like it's military connected. Maybe it's not but with it being stelth, it sure looks sweet.



I gotta get me one of those.

Cote de Pablo AKA: Agent Ziva David on NCIS

Man OH Man. it is hard to get Cote de Pablo off of my mind.


That didn't help.



That didn't either. Man what a gorgeous smile she has. That is as far as I will go on that for now. OH Well I guess I'll have a babeworm in my head the rest of the night.