Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Comics

I usually don't do book reviews or the such but this deserves to be blogged about. I absolutely love the Laurell K. Hamilton series Anita Blake Vampire Hunter so when the comic was announced I was excited to see how the book was going to turn into a visual comic.

The art is amazing and the characters look great in the comic. I have the first 2 issues of the comic and can't wait for the next on slated to be released in December and then the 4th issue will be released in January. If you are a fan of Laurell K. Hamilton or even of Anita Blake or even if you are looking for a good comic read with vampires, ware animals or the like then check out the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Comic Series.

Strange

Now I'm not the biggest Chinese food fan in the world--except for the occassional Kung Pao and Chinese donuts-- but this funny sign captured my attention one day while I was surfing the web and I thought it would be a funny addition to the blog.

I love finding funny signs and sharing them with others. Just ask Freekboi at Freekboi's Blog in my links and he'll tell you....I'm always sending him funny pics for his blog. Here's hoping you at least smiled a little.

New Seven Wonders of the World

In an article posted on Yahoo News it has been revealed that there will be a NEW Seven Wonders of the World voted on by everyone that choses to vote at www.new7wonders.com
Voting is open to everyone. Just go to the website and vote for the NEW Seven Wonders of the World.

The only remaining member of the original seven wonders of the world is the Great Pyramid of Giza and as a result Swiss author and filmmaker Bernard Weber began a campaign in 2000 to name a new set of seven wonders of the world. July 7, 2007 is the projected date according to the article that the new seven wonders will be named.

Here is the list of the choices in the vote for the New Seven Wonders of the World:

Taj Mahal
Acropolis
The Great Wall
Pyramid of Cheop (Khufu)
Chichen Itza
Easter Island
Neuschwanstein Castle
Alhambra,Generalife and Albayzin
Hagia Sophia
Kiyomizudera
Machu Picchu
The Kremlin
Statue of Liberty
Eiffel Tower
Petra
Corcovado
The Colosseum in Rome
Stonehenge
Angkor Wat
Sydney Opera House
Timbuktu

Turkeys Making A Break For It

A dozen or so wild turkeys in Ramsey, New Jersey were making a break for it on the day before Thanksgiving this year.

The turkeys were spoted at the New Jersey Transit standing on a platform apparently waiting for the next out of town train to help them escape the fait of a turkey dinner the next day. LOL

The turkeys were captured on the surveillance cameras of the New Jersey Transit. According to the Ramsey police dispatcher the police department had received three calls regarding the turkeys. The turkeys are also being blamed for cause trouble with the morning rush hour trafic trouble in the area. More on this story can be found on Yahoo at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_fe_st/turkeys_train

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there and I hope everyone has a great day with familiy and friends.

Good luck to those who are heading out to the "Black Friday" (day after thanksgiving sales). I'll be there at 5 am at Wal-Mart to get a few things for Christmas. Hope everyone is well.

American Cancer Society's Relay For Life

Hello out there! I just wanted to place a post here for my Relay For Life Team's Blog that I recently created to help keep my team members as well as other updated on the progress of our Relay For Life Team, our fundraisers, and all the great work that is done by the American Cancer Society. Here's the link http://generationhoperelayteam.blogspot.com/ I hope everyone will drop by and see the page.

Every one has a special reason for doing the Relay For Life and my team and I are no different. Some of us have lost more than one speical person in our lives from cancer and I belive that through the American Cancer Society's research there will one day be a cure for this disease. Personal reason are a great reason to join the Relay For Life but they are not a requirement. So do it out of the sheer feeling of helpfullness. Knowing that the money you raise throughout the year goes into research, and even to help a victim of cancer or their familys is a great feeling no matter who you are.

3 Arrested for Smuggling Siberian Tigers

According to Yahoo.com News, Montenegrin police have seized two Siberian tigers and arrested three people for trying to smuggle the endangered animals. The tigers, a male and a female, were found in a van at Petrovici village, near the town of Niksic on a road that connects Montenegro and Bosnia, in a regular police check on the vehicle, police told Dan newspaper Wednesday.

The three suspects, two of them from Serbia and a Montenegrin national, face charges of trafficking a protected species, which the daily added were each worth around 380,000 dollars.

Siberian tigers, the largest of all tiger subspecies, were hunted nearly to extinction by the mid-20th century. Fewer than 400 of the animals remain in the wild.

As a person who enjoys the Tigers and loves to see them this angers and saddens me to the point of wondering what the world is coming to. A species that is so endanger of extention is still being drove farther and farther into the total elimination of that animal.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween to all the ghosts and goblins out there in cyber world and in the real world as well. So what is everyone going to be for Halloween????? I've chose a Pirate costume because of my love for Pirates of the Caribbean movies. LOL

Which Family Guy Are You?

You are StewieStewie Griffin is a 1-year-old baby with a single goal: Total world domination. He has the voice and manner of an evil Rex Harrison, but he's only recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of his escape from his mother's "cursed ovarian Bastille," in which he was incarcerated for nine gruelling months. Stewie has vowed to defeat his mother's matriarchal tyranny and topple the "gynocracy" she rules.

This test is found at http://quizilla.com/cgi-bin/result/result.pl

Like Father Like Daughter

In an article on Yahoo.com News daughter of Steve Irwin, Bindi will be staring in her own TV Show.

Like father, like daughter. Bindi Irwin, the 8-year-old daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, will star in a wildlife series to air on the Discovery Kids network early next year. The show's working title: "Bindi, The Jungle Girl."

The show, now in the early stages of production, was originally "going to be a father-daughter thing," starring the nature-loving duo, Discovery publicist Annie Howell told the Associated Press on Monday. "Steve and Bindi were very enthusiastic about doing the show together."
Irwin will appear with Bindi in scenes filmed before his death, his manager, John Stainton, said in an interview on People magazine's Web site.

"Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never ever afraid of an animal," Bindi said in an interview Monday on ABC's "Australian Story."

"I just get excited and some that are dangerous I just think, `Oooh! What's going to happen?' and things like that."

Fried Coke?

Ok, Here's one for my husband. After a weekend at a local festivle where he tried a deep friend twinkie and a deep fried Snikers Bar I'm sure he would love to try this one if it ever was made around here. Maybe next year. LOL

Deep Fried Coke!!!!!!
The gooey Coke-battered nuggets topped with cola syrup won the "most creative" title at the Texas state fair in Dallas last month. Since then, the deep-fried phenomenon has spread to North Carolina and Arizona.

"We've been getting calls from everywhere since we introduced it," Elizabeth Martin, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina fair, told the Dallas Morning News. "Everyone wants to know where they can get it."

Fried treats are as big of a draw at state fairs as the rides and prize-winning farm animals. Twinkies, cookies and even pickles are stuck with a stick, dipped in batter and then seared in the deep fryer.

Fried Coke's inventor, concessionaire Abel Gonzales Jr., is a creative fryer whose experiments have proven popular. Last year he sold 20,000 fried peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwiches, the Morning News reported. Fried Coke looks to be an even bigger hit: he sold 16,000 cups of the sticky balls in the first two weeks of the fair, which runs through Oct. 22.
Gonzales has also had more success with changing his recipe than Coca Cola did. He reworked the recipe to make the dough less cakey and more spongy so it would soak up more of the cola syrup. Credit to Yahoo.com News

Are Diamonds a Wedding Cake's Best Friend?

An extravagant $20 million (10.7 million pounds) diamond-studded wedding cake, created by Mimi So Jewellers and cake designer Nahid La Patisserie Artistique, is the star attraction of the Luxury Brands Bridal Show and will be unveiled on exclusive Rodeo Drive.

"Where else would you debut a $20 million wedding cake but on Rodeo Drive?" said show organiser Ilona Sherman.

The cake is protected by a team of uniformed security guards at all times, she said. And there's no way it will ever be eaten.

"I think diamonds are too hard on the stomach," Sherman said. Credit to Yahoo.com News

Weddings are getting more expensive every year but this really takes the cake....no pun intended.

Ice Cream Has Gone To The Dogs

In a news report on Yahoo.com reportedly Good Humor Ice Cream Company and Pedigree Dog Food Company are joining together to create a frozen ice cream sandwich treat for man and woman's best friend.

There is already an ice cream out in most Wal-Mart and Meyers called Frosty Paws. At last glance these were in original and Peanut Butter flavored. My Poodle loves them and that is saying something because she can be quite the picky eater when she wants to be.

The companies plan to sell packages of 24 frozen treats for $3.99. It will be interesting to see if pet store chains such as PetSmart and Petco begin carrying these treats as well as local grocery stores. I for one hope they do because my puppy loves ice cream.

What will they think of next I wonder.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin killed

Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, police said. He was 44.


Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state when the accident occurred, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on its Web site.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Irwin was diving near Low Isles Reef near the resort town of Port Douglas, about 1,260 miles north of the state capital of Brisbane.

---check Yahoo for the rest of the article--

What A Tip

Two weeks ago in HUTCHINSON, Kansas a bartender at Applebee's got a $100 tip from one of her regular customers. This week the same bartender at the same Applebees got a $10,000 tip from the same man — for a $26 meal!!!! The man, whom company officials have declined to name, comes in several times a month and eats at the end of the bar. He has always tipped well, she said, usually leaving $15 on a $30 tab.

"He usually signs his ticket and flips it upside down," said Kienow, 35, who has worked at the restaurant for eight years. "But this time, he had it right-side up and said `I want you to know this is not a joke.'"

This would be a shocker to anyone!

Anita Blake Comic Update

It appears that dabel brothers production has pushed back the release of the new Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Comic Book, Guilty Pleasures up into October.

By all accounts the delay of the release is expected to be worth the wait and with dabel brothers expected to make a press release sometime soon hopefully all of us Anita Blake fans will discover the reason for the repeated delays of the comic.

Regardless of the reasoning you can bet that I will be ordering the comic when it is finally released. My order has been placed with my local comic store since July which was the original release date for the comic.

Pirates of the Caribbean Sets Records

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has set two records this, it's opening weekend. Pirates has earnd 132 million dolllars in its opening weekend. The previous record for opening weekend was 114.8 million set by "Spiderman" in May 2002.

Pirates was also the first moive to ever make more than 100 million dollars in two days. Pirates set the highest single-day gross in box office history with 55.5 million in earnings.

According to yahoo.com
"Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" had previously held the record for the highest single-day earnings with 50 million dollars set in May 2005."

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man' Chest is now in theaters and I'm sure many of you were like me and trucked to the movie theater yesterday in order to catch Pirate Fever and get your fix of Jack Sparrow and his wacky actions.

I laughed until I was nearly in tears at parts of the movie and although this movie is somewhat different than the first movie they are both completely amazing. Definate hints of Pirates 3 are evident toward the end of the movie. No I am not going to spoil the ending of the movie for those who have not been to see the movie and those who do not wish to know the ending until they can view it for themselves.

Here's hoping everyone enjoys Jack Sparrow and his band of misfits and pirates.

Who's Your Inner Pirate? Find Out Here!

Despite a rainy, dreary day here I have found an intersting test on the internet. This test determines your Inner Pirate. My inner pirate as you can see was Captain Jack Sparrow!!!! The test can be found here

http://quizilla.com/users/Ravalilli/quizzes/Who

Have fun with it and enjoy the results.

The perfect way to kill five minutes on a rainy day when you are trying to avoid the looming house work that has piled up around you. LOL Here is what the description of my inner pirate is.

Your inner pirate is Captain Jack Sparrow! Go you! He really likes the song 'A Pirate's Life for Me', and is possibly the best pirate of all time!

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest comes out Friday in theaters and I will be there to experience all the trouble that Captain Jack will find himself and his companions Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan wrapped up in. Hope everyone has a great day and hope your inner pirate keeps themself busy and doesn't result to plundering your thoughts.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July to everyone and I hope you have a wonderful day and I hope the fireworks are beautiful.

Here's the 4th of July Unicorn wishing everyone the best 4th of July possible.