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1  Top Five World's Worst Jobs: 

#5  Cobra charmer.

#4  Roadkill collector.

#3  Crime-Scene Cleaner

#2  Ape Urine Collector

#1  Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders

Source: Mostly classesandcareers.net but really, a little out of order, and two aren't REALLY up there: Cobra charmer and Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders. I added those two and moved them into position.

2  In my view, those two clearly were accidentally left off the list. The REAL top five worst jobs according to that website are these:

#5  Pest Control Worker (Ape Urine Collector IS number six, and IS an actual job.)

Website observation:  "Pest control workers use their knowledge of pests' biology and habits along with an arsenal of pest-management techniques--applying chemicals, setting traps, operating equipment, and even modifying structures--to alleviate pest problems. In short, pest control workers have to think like pests and go where pests go--usually to places that are dark, damp, and dirty. Plus, they get [to] deal with chemicals."

#4  Crime Scene Cleaner

Website observation:  "If not the dirtiest, this is definitely the most mentally disturbing job. Crime-scene cleaners wear hasmat suits, respirators, and chemical-spill boots; still, they must have strong stomachs as they brave blood, decomposition, and the loose remains of human bodies once the police have left the scene."

#3  Portable Toilet Cleaner

Website observation:  "You had to know this one was coming. First of all, I have serious reservations about using portable toilets, much less cleaning one. Portable toilet cleaners pick up leftover toilet paper, spray on a de-greasing solution, hose the entire unit down with scalding water, scrub, squeegee, dry, and then finish it off with a deodorizing spray. And yet, even after all of this, I would rather take my chances in the woods..."

#2  Manure Insector

Website observation:  "Animal manure is an important natural fertilizer, but first it has to be checked for contaminants like E.coli and salmonella. That's where manure inspectors come in: not only do they get to search for bacteria that causes bloody diarhea if ingested, they also get to wade through animal waste. Quite a 1-2 punch."

#1  Roadkill Collector

Website observation:  "Pretty self-explanatory. Roadkill collectors not only have the job of peeling remains of dead creatures in various states of decay off the road, they also get to do  it while braving oncoming traffic."

3  Here's the link to that site if you wish to see more:

http://www.classesandcareers.net/education-careers/2007/07/03/top-10-worst-jobs/

4  If any good has come of the Oakland Raiders it's that the rest of the nation is becoming sympathetic with the guys on the team, with their amazingly faithful fans, and the entire Raider Nation. You'd think as a 49er fan that I'd be gloating right about now, but AS a 49er fan since birth, I completely understand how you stay with your team, with its history, and all of that.

5  I partially went through that with the Giants, and with the entire Bonds/Balco stuff. As a diehard fan, that was a tough pill to swallow, and I felt lots of anger and betrayal by the entire organization.

6  This baseball season brought the game back into my life. It became my favorite worst season ever. I love the new team; I love the youth movement in baseball, and like anyone who even watched one game, I LOVE watching Tim Lincecum, who almost single-handedly turned a losing season truly into a Cinderella season.

7  To the Raiders' fans out there: you hold your heads up. It's a team with an amazingly awesome history, and nobody will ever take that away. Al Davis always was a sleaze, and the team seems to be at its worst hour. But I also watched how they played the past two weeks, and there's definitely some heart and old-school Raider soul out there.

8  I saw Lamonica and Otto and Stabler and all those guys. Theyr'e a huge part of my memories, and that kind of thing won't ever go away.

9  So hang in there. I've thought the Giants were done twice in my life, and it really was like having someone's heart ripped out. Your team left and came back, and hopefully this will blow over, maybe sooner than you think.

10  Moving on:  It's tough not commenting on the bailout, and all that goes with THAT one. One thing you might consider before voting is this: which candidate is more likely to get a REAL investigation going on this?

11  What else?

12  I've never seen a Presidential race in which the Vice-Presidential candidates are almost more important than the Presidential candidates.

13  I'll back off politics, at least for today.

14  That one always causes a lot of heat, and I've been reading Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, one of the greatest books ever written. One great piece of advice given in that book is this: You can't win an argument.

15  How simple.

16  You can THINK you're right.

17  And you just might BE. Facts and figures MIGHT prove that everything you have to say is amazingly right on the money. You could have absolute proof that the moon is made of green cheese, for example. And even if you somehow got into a space capsule that travels at the speed of light, landed on the moon, stepped on its cheesy surface, and brought back sixteen tons of green cheese, which was everywhere you looked, you would never win an argument with someone who didn't believe you.

18  You can't win an argument. 

19  It's so refreshing in a way.

20  Wonderful book. On those rare days when I hit the gym these days, I read that while working out on the elliptical, a fun sweat for a guy who usually kicks it in this corner habitat where I'm usually chilling.

21  Anyway it's good ol' Wednesday already. I LOVE Wednesday's because for all intents and purposes I get off work at 11:55 in the morning. I could pop on KNBR and spend most of the afternoon chilling in The Cathedral, enjoying some Starbuck's and poring over students' papers.

22  So I'm gonna go in, get out, and take care of a goodly amount of business.

23   Wake me up when September ends.

24   Peace.

~H~

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Carrie Ann Inaba as Fook Yu in Goldmember

The Daily News

"The last thing a man wants to say is the last thing he says."

--Paul Newman

1  Like wow, like the like stock market is like, sehhhhho baad.

2  Like you know whet?

3  We like, have to do SEMTHING, like, really baaad.

4  Like you know whet AMEHZEZZ meh?

5  Like this like girl yesterday?

6  She was like on like the pheone at Sevmart?

7  And like she was like right in frunna me?

8  And like she had her like cell like creddled on her shouldar?

9  And like she had like a bebbe-eh?

10 But like I started to like eavesdrop? And it was like, I DENNNOW!

11 And Now the News: I had no idea what she was talking about. None. And I was trying to eavesdrop and listen, but it sounded exactly the same as what I just recorded here. I could have reported the live stuff all morning and afternoon, but I thought I'd just give you a sampler.

12  I always find amusing stuff at the supermarket.

13  I think that's why I go there so much. I get off work and aimlessly drive with the thought in mind, "What should I get for dinner? Hmmmmmm. I want something light, but that will also take the hunger-crazed bear out of me." So yesterday I walked into the supermarket with radar alert. The goofy gal with the cell attached to her shoulder was walking through the fruit and vegegtables, oblivious of not only me, but of anyone else in the store except for herself.

14  I first noticed it while I was walking up and down the aisles, as is my own aimless wont.

15  This gal had a baby in her basket for gawdsakes, a sipper bottle in her right hand and the phone cradled between her shoulder and her left ear. She was like this the entire time I shopped.

16  Nearly anytime I go to the supermarket, I find that there's always one customer who is going to irritate me in every aisle. I don't know how it happens, but it seems to happen every time.  It's like some sort of daily ritual. I mean like the same person in every aisle. Or I'll go two aisles over and the guy'll come around the corner.

17  Sometimes I'll say to myself, "There's the guy!"  And I'll look over to some guy in a wife-beater whose cart is blocking the entire meat aisle.

18  Or "Oh, here's the gal!" and it'll be some Kathy Lee soccer mom looking for anything that makes her look pro-green.

19  I wanna moider her. I wanna feed her to the gahdammm whales, or piranjas, or whatever she's trying to save. Mind you, I usually skip breakfast and lunch, so I'm generally pretty fierce by the time I stop into the supermarket on my way home.

20  But this gal yesterday was like, I mean like, like...

21  Dude.

22  There's a reason I have a job.

23  The great part of the story is that after she left, and I was the next in line. I stood astonished at what had just occurred.

24  Never mind Wall Street, or Lane Kiffin, or the Cy Young award, or Carrie Ann Inaba.

25  I absolutely saw the American drone, the essence of the clueless, of the exhausted, and of the apathetic. Like, it was SEHHHHO like right in fronna meh.

26  She kept yammering on the phone, pampering the baby, and talking without even acknowledging the cashier, as though the gal didn't even exist.

27  I naturally eavesdropped to see what was so important.

28  Honestly. She talked classic valley, repeating the word "like" about a hundred million times.

29  I wasn't TRYING to eavesdrop mind you, it was impossible not to so I simply gave in to my ears.

30  Did you ever have a kid in your class give a speech and after about twelve seconds you start counting how many times they say the word "um"?

31  Same thing. I thought of those days when you would find a mutual friend and hand-signal the number of times, usually just to pass the time.

32  I thought of doing that with the cashier, but held back.

33  Anyway, she finished up, paid, and disappeared out the front doors.

34  I remained in my afternoon stupor, which hits each day at around 4 and remains until around 6. I really feel people should put me in a straightjacket that time of day. Having always directed plays or worked with after-school activities, I have no idea what to do in the afternoons. So I now shop, go home, hit the gym if I'm not too exhausted, and then sleep for about an hour.

35  If the store takes up too much time, I go into a stupor and goof on things. Call it Zen, or some sort of OBE, but as I wander through a store I go under.

36  When complete stupidity lands in front of me, I often take mental notes.

37  That gal happened from the moment I went into the store, causing me to goof on how almost every time I shop, I choose a person who is sure to annoy me throughout the store.

38  To be honest, it was great to see her disappear out the doors.

39  I finished up my purchases and started thinking of the fastest way to cook so that I could squeeze a nap in. I had spent the afternoon up to my ears in grading papers, which is about as fun as a trip to an evil dentist.

40  I thanked the cashier as well as the bag goon and wandered out to the parking lot, wheeling a basket with two bags in it out to the TOOOOOONDRA.

41  I have this other thing that always happens. No matter WHERE I park, or even at WHAT hour, I will always manage to have someone getting into their car or exiting their car right next to where I park.

42  It's uncanny. I will always glance around and see all the parked cars that have NOBODY going in or out of them, but the TOOOOOONDRA always has someone in the process of pulling in or out right next to it.

43  One Saturday morning during the summer I hit the school WAY early because I wanted to grab a couple of folding tables for a party. SIX IN THE MORNING mind you. NOBODY was in the parking lot. I didn't really ask or want to see anyone, just wanted to get in and out.

44  The second I parked, another car pulled RIGHT next to me.

45  Uncanny.

46  So yesterday I wheeled my cart with the two bags out to the parking lot.

47  Guess who blocked my way to my car door?

48  She was STILL yammering on the phone, like, I DENNNOW!

49  She had just strapped the kid into the back seat, had her cart blocking my door and continued yammering, like it was sehooo like annoying and I was like, whateverrrrrrrr.

50  I moved to the passenger side and unloaded my stuff on the seat, giving her plenty of time to finish up.

51  I walked BACK to the driver's side and opened my door about two inches and somehow managed to slip in. She never budged.

52  I backed out, carefully aiming for her right toe, but missed by a sliver.

53  Ennyweh I like thought I'd like just shere that with you?

54  So like, have a good deh? Like I wanna tell you seh much more, but like this is like the longest DN in like, histreh? So like I like prolly shid geho?

55  Eh K, like peace?

~H~

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    The Daily News

1  So...Paul Newman walks  into a bar...

2  How does one even begin to talk of someone of Newman's stature?

3  He was my favorite actor of all time, if one is to have a favorite actor of all time.

4  Certain people are simply larger than life.

5  Cool Hand Luke.

4  If you are a Newman fan, it's beyond words.

5  The measure of someone like Newman is to place him next to anybody who is famous and see who has more cool.

6  It gets unbearable really quickly.

7  The venerable Newman won three Oscars, yet only one for his acting in a film called The Color of Money.

8  But get any film of his, and you'll love it. Grab a copy of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, for instance, and plan on doing nothing for the rest of the  night.

9  You name one film and you'll get arguments for nine others from people who know his body of work.

10  To me, the mark of a GREAT actor is a lifetime of great films, contributions to the world at large, and humility. Newman had all of that, as well as a lifetime of cool.

11  AND a saucy salad dressing.

12  Paul Newman. A crowning member of the Hole-in-the Wall Gang.

13  Who ARE those guys?

14  Moving on:  I  finally got a new desktop the other day. Haven't had one in about two years. I forgot how absurd it can be to get a new computer set up.

15  For one thing, while I'm a HUGE fan of anything wireless, I also know the pitfalls involved. Having run large-scale events for the past billion years, I know that wireless things kick ass UNTIL you REALLY need them to work.

16  I've had them break down at enormous school rallies, dances, events, football games, and nearly any other time you need them to come through.

17  Long story, but it began years ago  with power mowers. They would work wonderfully every time EXCEPT the day before a party.

18  Or power drills. People would consistently wonder why I always used power drills that required plugs when Makitas are out there.

19  Because power drills will ALWAYS run out of batteries right when you need them to hit a deadline. And I don't wanna hear about having a spare battery, because it's happened so many times I can't even tell you.

20  Mind you, these things tend to work wonderfully almost ninety per cent of the time, but the day you REALLY need them to come through, they inevitably fade.

21  They just haven't perfected wireless anything yet, in my ancient eyes.

22  So I found myself using every plug in mankind to get the new computer up and running. I don't even know what it was that needed all those plugs, but with printers, speakers, and myriad other attachments, I had surge protectors plugged into surge protectors.

23  Part of the treat is that for whatever reason, certain things require plugs that are as big as a block of wood and that cover about thirteen or fourteen holes on the surge protectors.

24  And I would like publicly to begin a boycott of HP.

25  I know, I know.

26  I'm just kidding.

27  But their older printers (and by "old" I mean three years!) won't work with Windows Vista. Not even on their own computers. The might, but you have to read a series of twelve-thousand experiments to get that to happen.

28  Never mind if you're trying to hook up an HP to a Dell, heaven forbid.

29  I actually talked the guy in the store into throwing in a new printer as a part of the package, which worked for me because I had a feeling my beautiful HP printer from 2005 wouldn't hook up.

30  I succeeded in pushing the guy into giving me a printer for practically nothing, and when I got it home, it didn't include a black ink cartridge.

31  With all due respect, what kinda boushit is that? HP. I'm tellin' ya. Had a color cartridge, but no black cartridge. AND no ethernet cable.  Dude. How hard IS it to give that stuff to a customer? Honestly, I'd pay the extra thirty bucks so that I don't have to make a run back to the store to get that stuff.

32  Ah, I'm just grousing. Most of getting a new computer is really fun, but HP seemed to be the company that wanted to squeeze people who shell out a lot of money for their company, and as a crotchety old fellow, I expect better treatment than that.

33  So I'm on a personal boycott of their boushit.

34  It's pretty funny because I always figure that I work hard for my money, and I could spend it in a million different places, so why is your company being idiotic?

35  And don't even get me going on Dell.

36  My daughter Caitlin is having issues with THOSE idiots.

37  They sell their stuff piece by piece, so you THINK you're getting a good deal, and by the time you buy every little thing that goes with their stuff, you're having rice and beans for dinner.

38  And if you order stuff through their online stuff, it will delay around four years before they decide to get it to you.

39  But don't EVEN get me goin'.

40  Because right now I'm loving my new Dell computer and HP printer.

41  Haha, ever do that? You HATE these guys, and you go on a diatribe about how you'll NEVER buy their stuff again, and when you look up, your new stuff is somehow THEIR stuff.

42  How do they stay in  business? How  do idiotic shows like The Bachelor stay on teevee?

43  Fools like me. The OTHER Neuman.

44  Have a great Mondeeeeee everbody.

45  And Paul, enjoy that great Hole-in-the-Wall in the sky.

45  Peace.

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The Daily News

1  Okay, so yesterday I had this AMAZING DN all packaged and ready to roll.

2  I had a rare day where the DN had idiotic pix and goofiness all through it, I SWEAR to you!

3  For whatever reason, it decided to not allow you to see all it's guts and glory.

4  Was I upset?

5  You darned right I was.

6  I had a royal gafffffffaw follwed by intricate moments of humor that only Mark Twain would acknowledge.

7  But (hand to forehead!) Alas!

8  For whatever reason, Xanga, or Windows, or some damned idjit decided to make it absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to get that DN to you.

9  I may have saved it; I may not have.

10  But indeed, I BEGAN the thing YESTERDAY at lunch.

11  It was a fun DN, better than some of the piffle that I shot out there in the last few days.

12  See, the DN wants nothing more than to entertain, sort of like opera guys on PBS.

13  But sometimes it decides to take on a life of its own, and last night was a huge hit to DN fans.

14  Didn't matter.

15  Either Xanga, or Microsoft, or SOMEBODY decided that it wasn't gonna be published, not this go around, let me tellya.

16  Which is WAY too bad, because I had a definite knee-slapper ready to launch.

17  But for whatever reason, the mouse started bouncing and slitting about in all sorts of ways and before I knew it, I was battling this boushit into the night.

18  I had WRITTEN the thing at noon, and was simply in the process of editing, when I got home and was clobbered by the usual exhaustion.

19  I came home, fell asleep, and awoke at around 6 p.m. to take WHAT I HAD WRITTEN at NOOOON!!!! and began all over again. I assumed that the text would hold its own, and that I could goof and get some idiotic pics for y'all, but the mouse and the Internet said "NO!"

20  I SWEAR to you that I had some fun stuff, but once I began editing, the computer went sixteen ways to Sunday.

21  I musta spent two hours trying to right it, but it had a mind of its own, with the cursor staying WAY away from whatever fun stuff I had lined up.

22 And so as a guy trying to give y'all a giggle, I was suddenly faced with resistance, idiocy, and cursors that believe heavenly in behaving as though they have the jits.

23  I felt powerless untill I read me audience.

24  Thank GAWD for the readers of the DN!

25   If not for your intelligence and ability to chuckle along with me, I'd have been screwed.

26  I SWEAR to you that I had an entirely different  (and WAY less tedious!) DN that was really all about vanity and stuff.

27  Won't matter. What matters is that y'all got this, and realized that life simply sallies forth.

28  So somehow I seized control, but what I worked on for three hours just dissipated.

29  I'm still standin'.

30  So are you.

31  Be fierce. I must move to other things right now, As for YOU, I could say only this:

32  Remain fierce. Kick ass in everything you do today, and KNOW who's focused and on it.

33  And then deliver them a left hook.

34  Just bust their chops.

35   It's Thursday. I'll look around for the other DN, but it pretty much disintegrated into a quick mist.

36  So it goes.

37  Rock on.

38  Peace.

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            The Daily News

1  Hey, remember when I told you a few days ago that I had ants again? Well they all disappeared with the exception of a few lonesome mavericks who have lingered around like cowpokes in an old saloon.

2  I haven't minded really, because one or two might climb the telephone line to my desk and then run wild for a while, as though they made it to the top of Half Dome.

3  One little fellow became so amused by it all that he would stand up on four legs and wiggle in his arms in triumphant zaniness.

4  All has been pretty pleasant really, until the day before yesterday...

5  I found myself sitting down at my desk when I looked to my left.

7  There were around eight or nine ants crawling every which way. I tried blowing them off the desk, or scooting them, but they would wind up crawling up my arm, which I would shake, and soon I found myself snapping things off my cheek, whether they were there or not.

8  I don't really want to kill them for goodness sakes, but after school the other day I stopped by my friendly neighborhood Safeway and got myself some Raid Ant Baits.

9  The marketing is killer. The word Raid is in bright yellow and has a lightning bolt coming down from the "i", zapping this ant with an electrical jolt that would light up Manhattan.

10  On the back of the package, it has a little trail leading to this ant stadium whose dome is an enormous daisy.

11  It has a few ants rooting around, walking towards it.

12  Underneath are two neat numerical items:  1  ANTS CRAWL IN TO EAT, followed by a red arrow leading the way to certain doom, and 2  CRAWL AWAY TO DIE, another trail with an arrow, and purportedly the same three ants walking away, but not for long.

13  They're amazing too because the stadia have utterly no smell. I thought about writing "Hotel California" on one, just because those ants could check out, but they could never leave.

14  Well, they could leave, and they could check out so I guess it doesn't work.

15  They just can't go too far.

16  Anyway, yesterday I had very little ant traffic, naturally, since I had four of these stadia.

17  That's Latin, I think. Something. I already used the term and said nothing, but it's important for you to know that I do know my Latin.

18  I wound up putting one stadium on my desk, right next to the phoneline. I waited around, but no ants arrived.

19  Then right before lunch, some little lunatic appeared and began running in every direction on my desk. I removed the ant bait from the telephone location and moved it right next to that trusting little fellow, just to see how he would react. For the record, the traps supposedly have food in them, but it gets them later on, like a good mystery.

20  As a scientific speciman, he was perfect. At first he ran frantically from one area to the other, but I would herd him with a pencil. But when he neared the stadium, he suddenly fell to his back and kicked his legs up, righted himself, and sat up on four legs, sniffing like a bloodhound.

21  I thought about filming him so I dould get a huge contract from Raid, with residuals and all the rest, but decided against it.

22  The guy started sniffing the ground, and was completely like a dog on a walk. He sniffed, rooted, stood up, and finally made his way to the stadium.

23  He looked around like a kid trying to sneak into a baseball game, and when nobody was looking, darted through the gates and safely inside.

25  A part of me felt terrible, like I was some Nazi conducting experiments on insects.

26  People came in just then, and although I tried to be polite, I must confess that my eye was clearly focused on that stadium.

27  Would the little fellow come out or not?

28  After a tortuous wait, he emerged from the south end zone and scurried across the desk as though he was ready to party.

29  A large part of me was clenching my fist and screaming, "YEAH! YOU GO D0000D!"

30  I didn't leave too much time for celebrating, however, because I had to teach a class.

31  By the end of the day, I felt I was simply going through the motions, so it didn't much matter to me. I REALLY wanted to get back to the desk to see how the little guy was doing.

32  Well, the bell rang, the class departed, and I instantly returned to my desk to await the status of that poor little guy.

33  I looked around the area of the stadium and saw nothing.

34  I figured that the stuff was lousy and that he had escaped, like David Blaine.

35  I then looked in the other direction.

36  There was this crumbled little ball lying still.

37  I took my pencil and moved it around, not really sure as to what it was.

38  It may have been an eyelash, or perhaps a grain of loose dirt.

39  Another part of me thought nothing, that it was indeed a grain of loose dirt.

40  That's where it stands as of today.

41  They're probably going to bombard the building this weekend, but a part of me felt, well bad.

42  Ants is a challenge that needs force.

43  One ant is the story that in some way had meaning.

44  Somewhere, the entire episode became one of life's little lessons.

45  I got it, but I'm not so sure I liked it.

46  Well today's another day, and perhaps, another of life's endless incidental teachings.

47  You wonder why it continues to amaze me.

48  Live life, love life.

49  Peace.

~H~

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 The Daily News

1  Yay, Monday!

2   Whew.

3   Is there anything better than after a coupla days of freedom and fun we get to jump right back into all the joys of the work week?

4  Or for those in school, getting right back to it?

5  Lovin' it.

6  If ya have a great Monday, you can really get through the rest of it with a minimum of trouble.

7  It's funny though, because I've often noticed that when Sunday afternoon rolls around, I start holding back, and begin worrying about all the things I need to take care of.

8  This lasts 'til around 9 p.m. when I finally realize I've spent half my Sunday worrying about Monday.

9  That kind of thing just needs to stop, so I think we needa jump into our Mondays with full enjoyment, knowing that for the most part, most people don't wanna be there, making it a good day to simply fly low.

10  I had a bunch more written here, but it was a review of last night's hahhhrrid Emmy show and I just thought, "Nah."

11  I then looked over all that had been written and decided to concentrate on coaxing everyone into smiling and laughing today.

12  If you happened to have the misfortune of watching the Emmy's, it was wretched.

13  When Josh Groban is the highlight and is asked to do a terrible medley of television theme songs, it could make for a really bad week.

14  I must say, for about ten seconds he broke into The Fishin' Hole, the theme song to the Andy Griffith Show. I did a couple of days in a row about all that, so just as I was about to flush the show, he sang that. 

15  It really choked me up, as you can well imagine.

16  Nah, not really.

17  So I thought today should be about enjoying the first day of the work week, hoping that it starts with a nice cuppa, moves swiftly and without stress, and that it ends with a smile.

18  Nothing more.

19  Bring it today, and make about five others smile or laugh today.

20  Then fly low, and get back to where you once belonged.

21  Peace.

~H~

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  The Daily News

1  TGIF folks, ya made it!!!

2  Whoo-HOOOOOO!!!!

3  I'm watching Los Lonely Boys on PBS.

4  Pretty fun documenatary.

5  Henry Garza, Ringo Garza, Jo-Jo, and patriarch Enrique "Ringo" Garza y Pablo Valenzuela. Those names are too good to be true.

6  I discovered those guys a few years ago on the radio. Every time I would really start to rock and enjoy the music, it would be Los Lonely Boys.

7  Quite a struggle. Quite a band. Quite a story.

8  Music was the fight, and music was the triumph.

9  Just amazing. You should definitely have a look if it pops up. Music, I'm tellin' ya.

10  So amazing.

11  Pachucos. Tough Guys. Style.

12  It's a great story.

13  Here they are live. The song is called Heaven. Some of you probably already knew this, but if not, then here they are, Los Lonely Boys. Give 'em a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u05oLW0Ax0E&feature=related

14  There are numerous other live performances, so enjoy these guys. I'm convinced you[ve heard them, and probably more often than you realize.

15  Just awesome stuff.

16  Moving on: Well Giants' fans, it has been the real deal with Tim-meh! Lincecum. I've enjoyed the entire season because of this kid that some have called The Freak, but really, the guy has been the spirit of the new Giants.

17  I usually like to give the team manager a break, but last night, with one run separating The Lincecum Train from the revered Cy Young Award, Giants' manager Bruce Bochy chose to allow Omar Visquel to bat in a crucial situation.

18  The guy is legendary, but clearly washed up as a hitter. He's an automatic out, and everybody and his brother knows this.

19  Yes, other blunders hurt as well, but the decision to give Visquel the nod in a crucial situation was clearly a managerial blunder of the highest degree. It took almost all hope away from this kid whom others call The Freak the honor he deserves, which is to be recognized as the best pitcher in baseball this year.

20  Ah, I just had to let off a little steam about that one. I have absolutely enjoyed everything about Lincecum all year, and really feel he deserves the award, which after last night probably won't happen.

21  So I guess it's all about next spring. I'll be all over baseball 'cuz both the Giants and the A's have shown some good things here late in the season.

22  Meanwhile, I'm enjoying Los Lonely Boys as I cruise into the weekend.

23                                          We're living our dream, dude.

                                                                               --Ringo Garza

24  A success story.

25  Lovin' it.

26  San Angelo, Texas boyz.

27  Listen to some music this weekend and root for young people.

28  You gotta have heart.

29  They do, down to their bones.

30  Roll over, Beethoven, and tell the Beatles the news.

31  Heaven. Here it is. Take these guys into the weekend. SO amazing. Carlos joins them in a classic jam in this video. Let the good times roll, and have a GREAT weekend everybody. Here are Los Lonely Boys with Carlos. Take it home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4COLJ5tBUr0&feature=related

32  Peace.

~H~

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Here's Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton doing Jingo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAf3gqdCrDs&NR=1

CHEERS!

The Daily News

 

1  So I wasn't kiddin' about Kat DeLuna's National Anthem the other night. It was like a bad pie. I went online yesterday and AOL actually had an article about how brutal it was. If it was literally a bad pie, I'd have been happy to have thrown it in her face.

2  Every now and again there's something unutterably horrific on the television.

3  Case in point: I didn't see the show, but I saw a commercial in which Richard Simmons, in his red wife-beater and striped shorts, hopped up on Letterman's couch as though to do some exercises. Letterman scolded him. "Hey, get off the furniture!"

 

4  De Luna actually THOUGHT she was good.  THAT'S the rough part. People in Dallas booed for Gawdsakes.

24  I had no idea what a biorhythm was, but at the time I bought it.

25  But even if I get plenty of sleep the night before, I just fade around 3, 3:30.

26  Biorhythms schmyorhythms. My fat ass gets tired and sleepy every single day.

27  I look out my window and watch the football team doing drills at that time, with the sun beating down on them and all. I can't even fathom doing that.

28  Anyway, I usually slip out at around 4 p.m. and head home, and somehow I manage to shake the exhaustion and hit the gym. It's 3:35 as I write this DN but all I want to do when I get home is to hit the couch.

29  Ant removal comes at such a cost.

30  Good-bye Ruby Tuesday.

31  You remain one day too many.

32  Anyway, life's good. Windex and lamb chops. I gotta make a grocery list.

33  Meanwhile, you have a good day.

34   Opa.

35   Peace.