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In my quest to find some cool podcasts (my most recent obsession) I realized I could listen to my favorite radio show from Chicago's ESPN 1000, "Mac, Jurco, and Harry" in podcast form. Awesome stuff. I'm in the second best city in America with radio from the best city. The shisty thing is that I could only listen to 15 minutes with a couple of the segments from the show. Who cares, something is better than nothing. I mean I have the live broadcast I could check out... I added a couple of new widgets to my blog. Podcasts, Nba scores, and I am gonna add a photo slideshow eventually. ROCK! Thank God for the weekend.

This is my future crime fighting name. My super powers haven't come in yet but when they do watch out. Awemazemo will be all over you. I have no reason to blog other than to say watch out. I plan on putting up the very first Babbling Scribe podcast this coming Monday... hell yeah.

Be Kind Rewind . There is no way this wont be the best movie of 2008. The premise is mind boggling great. Some video store employees remake all the movies in their shop after they erase all their tapes. Now at the start that sounds impossible but the way its portrayed in the trailer makes it believable. Holy Crap am I excited! The best part? Jack Black looks in the zone. Mr. Black has been in some over the top horrendous garbage recently. If we know one thing, it's that if you put the right actor with the right director magic can happen. Jack Black is one of those guys. Let's list his heaping pile of dung: Envy, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, King Kong, Orange County ... oh man just typing these names makes me want to cry. Now what do his master pieces have in common? School of Rock (directed by Richard Linklater), Shallow Hal (Farrelly brothers), High Fidelity (directed by Stephan Frears, okay so this guy hasn't doesn't anything worth mentioning but...). ALL O...

So these are a little old but I want to share. Here are we enjoying a bike ride through the Presidio and Cliffhouse. Fun little guy made of tin boxes and crazy stuff. I want one... but it was like 300 bucks Here we are on the water in the Sausalito bay area. I have no idea what is with this bench but dude.... it's funny Finally. Youtube kind of destroyed the quality of this flick but I do love that this store has a mountain of bobble heads. In High School I wanted to make a film where a universe of action figures accidentally stumbled upon a gateway into a universe of Bobble heads. It would have been great.

Before I fly into an craze about this topic let me get in this very important plug. Glass booth Who could possibly have decided their candidate at this point. Now that is the point of Glassbooth.org. You fill in a short quiz and they will show you how each candidate lines up issue by issue with your beliefs. It is amazing. At the beginning of the year I thought I liked Obama as a person and he was brillant in speeches but glassbooth show our comparison (79%) pretty good but Bill Richardson (85%) was right on with almost everything and he hasn't minced words once in the process. Obama is Clinton 2.0 to me after watching so much debate footage (the plus of working in news). Now I'm not gonna tell you who to vote for only, you should check out this site out and figure out if you actually know the candidates and how they line up with you or if you are just riding the popularity contest. Yes Hillary is a powerful women and Barrack is a strong, smart man but there is more to these c...

I just updated a ton of crap in my Facebook. Keep it fresh people. When I came to the favorite quotes part I laughed outloud. Running with Scissors wasn't that good a movie, but that turd line makes me laughing every freaking time I read it. I'm thinking of selling my car. I feel after biking to work everyday last week that is really only the mass transit obstacle. After midnight it simply isn't there to cross the bay. I'll be spending my Thanksgiving in the desert, Los Angeles. I don't think people realize that no one is supposed to live in LA. There is no fresh water there and crop growing is near impossible. If the entertainment industry falls apart LA may become a ghost town. After a discussion with Marieta about my Tivo subscriptions it's become painly obvious I actually on like five shows (PTI, Always Sunny, Chuck, The Office, and My Name is Earl). I may have to add a sixth show to my favorite shows. "How I met your Mother." Watch it, damn funny...

However, it's really hard to tune out random conversations when you're eating alone on your dinner break. So when you work news, your "lunch break" is actually after the 6 o'clock show ends. I normally bring my "lunch" with me but I was busy up until I left for work. So I walked down the street to a taqueria. I don't know why I went back, my initial trip was not that good and I passed up an enticing pizza by the slice place. Well being as its a taqueria it was pretty much a whole in the wall and close to all the seats were taken because let's face it; tacos are the shit. The only place I can sit is behind a group of 4 kids, who I assume are 19/20 years old based on the convo. So after it is established that one of them is a lesbian whose mother doesn't approve and this girl is going to dominate the conversation. Now considering I don't have anyone to talk to I'm pretty much at the will of the room (no music, no newspaper to read, and ...

It is a slow news night. I am sitting here with my browser (Firefox, yee-ah) taking up 2/3s the screen, and just waiting for someone to put in a request for B roll. Saturdays can be the best and worst night of my news life. Sometimes I get to cool stuff, sometimes I sit around surfing the net. I know that is kind of lame and maybe shows I lack career driving motivation, but you don't know whats going on here man. (actually I just left for 15 minutes to find tape but you wouldn't know because I don't have a running timeline). Anyways, in my vast amount of time available I have studying some things. Star Trek. Now I used to be a hardcore Star Trek geek as a kid. I wore a next gen uniform to the Star Trek: Generations premiere. And saddly, I even wore it once to baseball practice. I knew it was a mistake as soon as I stepped out of my mom's van... yikes! Well I've been reading quite a bit about the next Star Trek movie and I gotta say I am not even close to amped. I h...

Good God, I cannot wait to see this . Holy holy holy cow.

It's official, I'm a bike commuter. Bought my bike last week and I'm going for it. No longer will I be polluting the bay area while driving solo across the bridge into the city. I'm going green baby. Sure I'll need to drive occasionally (weekends and days when I miss the ferry but I'm doing it.) So how does it work? Well I pack all my work clothes in a backpack, strap it onto my bike's luggage rack and take off for one of the Oakland Bart stops. I'm across the bay in under 30 minutes door to door. Feels good. I mean I have to deal with a few hills in the city and work up a sweat but that's cool. I can take it. If anything, I need it. I am not in great shape right now and I keep making up excuses for not running. Well no more. I am kind of loving this biking thing. Plus I am making my lunch (and dinner if I'm working Hertz/KPIX back to back), so I can really control the garbage I put in my mouth. Trust me, this is my second day and I'm wakin...

Word is surfacing that the oil spill in the bay this morning is much bigger than initially stated. At 6pm we reported it was around 140 gallons of oil. That's like a 20 car pile up. Well guess again folks. A reporter here at KPIX found out its more like tens of thousands (over 50k estimated) of crude swimming in the bay. OVER 50K! That's ridiculous so of course everyone starting searching for a frame of reference to attach this too. the 11pm producer had me search for info on the biggest spill in the past decade and other spills of note. So I found a few articles around the net ( a , b , c ,) abut a spill in 96 and than ran downstairs to the archive to mill through the binders for Video to use for the story. I really felt like I was contributing. I found the 96 info that was put in the script and I dug up the old archive footage. Pretty sweet. I mean the oil spill is a disaster but finding all the goods, awesome. I'm feeling good... damn good!

Woman: Remember those prayers I gave you for your Grandmother? Man (sarcastic tone): Yeah! They worked! She got into Heaven. This happened an hour ago at a rather important part of my night and I could barely keep it together. Maybe it's not that funny to you but that's the best part of having a blog no one reads I can fill with crap.

This past weekend I watched no football. But it was for a good cause. Marieta and I went to Sausalito, bought something I will blog about once it arrives (that's hard to do), and wedding registry investigated. Okay so none of those are good causes in the Societal sense but it probably meant a lot to Marieta because she would like to have my full undivided attention. Sure I stole a peak at the scores on my phone here and there but I didn't sit down in front of the tube. Now during the investigation we made it up to Walnut Creek (the east bay hideout for upper middle class white people) and stopped by Shane co and looked at wedding bands. I figure its a cool idea because that is where I got Marieta's engagement ring. I really like them and they have a perfect band for me. I found a ring that looks like it could be the source of super powers... now don't think that it's some sort of weird gaudy ring, it's Tungsten (the hardest metal created by man, now that is sex...