can we say comeback

so all of you can rest easy tonight. duran duran is back at it. they have a single making heavy rotations on mtv and the radio here. it's no rio but what can you do. i am stoked to see that true musicians are back on the scene to show all these 80's rip offs what's what. i mean they are freaking duran fucking duran. and it's cool because of the miracle of plastic surgery they have not aged. actually i think they may have cryogenically frozen. and how, this is awesome so break out the slap braclets and get ready for the real 80's comeback. they also exhumed ronald reagan and he is working on super crack so get ready for crime to come back too. when reached for comment reagan said, " white heaven is great, but i really felt like black people were making to many advancements, so i'm back to bring them back down to where they belong. did you guys hear that duran duran is back? hell yeah!" oh that ronald he's a dreamer.

television

so tv here is pretty much the same as it is everywhere...total crap. however they do one things that wouldn't really fly in conservative christian america. almost every show no matter what the content either has staple or rotating bikini clad dancers that do routines to the hit song du jour. the first time it really struck me as odd was on the sunday soccer show. there are so many games on sunday that don't pick one and show it they just ten dudes to sit around and talk about what's going on. it's like radio on the tv. whenever they go to commercial they haul out the softcore porn and the dancing starts. woowee. they are also on every game show. usually they have two who are always there and believe that vanna white doesn't have shiton these ladies. my personal favorite however is the italian answer to dateline or 20/20. there are two different ones on the two major channels. they are both hosted by that channels comedy duo. the first one has the equivalent of chevy chase and steve martin hosting a show now, you just wish it had happened 20 years ago because it isn't all the way there. it does however have the sexy dancers. the other one, the show i usually watch when i get done with work, is hosted by some younger comedians who are really funny. they're cohost is a young wife of a famous soccer player. so you'll have some slapstick then they throw it to sub hosts. who end up doing these fairly scathing political exposes. they've busted underground drug rings, and soccer payoffs. they also went to some red carpet event and begged all the stars to give them haircuts. when it really gets great is when the go back to the main host and the show turns into a mock benny hill. the hostess will do a dance routine which usually involves clothes going on temporary vacations. of course one of the sub host will run and snatch said clothing and the chase is on. silly music and a overzealous use of blue screen make these bits pretty ridiculous. they can be on the great wall and jump off and land in times square, which i'm pretty sure would hurt your feet and you could not continue to run. the hostage clothing is always returned and there is a severe scolding handed out. which in turn is followed by another celbratory dance routine. i guess all i can really say about this is someone needs to get katie couric in on this, maybe everyone would stop hating her.

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food

so i had a pretty killer meal last night. tomato rissotto with caviar. seared sea bass with olives and tomato veloute. i got adventurous at dessert and ordered a garlic pastry cream ravioli with basil and vanilla gelato. it was good, but it could of done without the garlic. that really has no place in sweet land and that's real.

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p.s. it is cold here and that is cool

9mm goes bang

so imagine that you are from the states and living abroad in europe. now imagine that some disillusioned teen in your home country goes to school and wets up some fools for no good reason. the next day you walk into work and first all of your coworkers berate you becasue of your countries gun laws. then they all start laughing at the fact that this kid couldn't handle his problems with fists so he had to shoot people like a pussy. what do you do? you laugh because it is kind of funny but then you realize that they are kind of laughing at you because this is an american phenomonon. so then you just keep quiet because you remember that you don't give a shit because people get shot by idiots everyday and that's just the way it is.

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p.s. when did straight up fist fights go out of style?

yeeha

so i've got two things to address. first, why hasn't the half pint made it into the states. it is absolutely brilliant. only have a 15 minute break have a half pint. just got done calling for dinosaurs after too many whiskeys and you need to wash the taste of burn and acid out of your mouth and not look like a bitch; have a half pint. bars here and all over europe have this amazing phenomon that i want to be able to have all the time. it is brilliant. secondly, i had the half german walk up to me and sing david hasselhof to me like it was the new shit and i was on the outside looking in. i told him to check into slap braclets and tight rolled pants too because those were big in the time that he is apparantly still living in. i guess it is true that europe in 20 years behind in pop culture which is wierd. wait till they discover the rubix cube they are going to shit themselves.

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response

for those who are interested yes americano coffee. there i said it.

aaaaggggghhhhhh

so look i love espresso. it's the legal crack of the free world. but i need a cup of fuckong coffee. you can't get it here. it is driving me insane. i like to sit and enjoy my coffee, not take a shot and feel like i got robbed. and as anything goes one won't do it anymore. it's like i started at nickel rocks and now it takes at least 20 dollars wort to get my rocks off. and how the hell do you sit and enjoy an espresso; you can't sip it because there are only two sips. i know this is a small problem in the grand scheme of things, but i want some goddamn coffee. i never thought i would say this but right now i wish i was in france.

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