Cyber Sunday > Cyber Monday

I've never ordered a Pay-Per-View (non-accidentally) before in my life. The Divas before 2007 were fine as fuck. I had a chance to meet Candace Michelle two years ago, but I had to cover some Disney event in Hollywood at the same time and to pick up my little brother from summer camp at UCLA. Shit happens.

Driving that Holiday Road Again

Yes, I saw Christina Aguilera last week in Hollywood getting her star in the Walk of Fame and yes, I randomly got pulled into a VIP section at the Saddle Ranch at Universal Citywalk to party and take photos of a dude who's celebrating his graduation from a Barber College.

Those two were probably the most interesting things that happened to me last week. I was gonna write about all that in detail this past Saturday using the Double space outline, but it didn't look great. So I erased everything that I spent 70 minutes typing and manually separating the lines, along with the photos I was gonna add. But honestly, I don't really like to post photos that much on here, except for only just out-of-the-blue one liners that I made up dealing with that particular day's current events.

Anyway, I finally checked out the Los Angeles Auto Show this past week. There were some positives and some negatives. The positive parts were the females showcasing the new cars being displayed. They looked attractive, as well as some of the whips. One of my favorite cars that were on the showroom was the Nissan Ellure concept sports car and seeing the Lexus LF-A in person for the first time. The also had this custom made fine tuned two door Toyota Camry that was inspired by NASCAR. Another car that they had on display that I liked is the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, which is the FASTEST domestic American sports cars in the world. The engine, which you can see through the small glass on the hood only on the ZR1, is the LS9 Supercharged V8 that goes to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds. That's FUCKIN' QUICK FOR AN AMERICAN CAR!

This is where in the negative comes in. You can sit inside majority of the cars the had at the event, but not cars like the ZR1, along with the Audi R8 and the Nissan GTR. I wanted to sit inside the ZO6 Corvettes instead, but there were too many fuckin' people wanting to take turns. That was the same for the 3.8 Liter Hyundai Genesis Coupe V6 and the 2011 Nissan Maxima, two of my other favorite imports. I mostly sat inside some Infiniti models, the new Acura ZDX crossover SUV, and pretended like I was driving manual on a Honda Civic two-door coupe. They also let people test drive some cars from Fords model line. They had all of the cars they produced, including a 2011 Mustang that was customized with aftermarket rims and other parts.

The test drive part should've fallen on the positive category, but again, too many damn people wanted to drive the Mustang as opposed to the other cars, including the new Ford Taurus SHO, which stands for Super High Output. I only drove two cars, the F-150 and the Taurus SHO. The F-150 felt like driving my mom's Ford Explorer, except that this truck is a bit larger, and it had a lot of options that should've been a comeback of the discontinued Lincoln Mark LT pickup, which was also made by Ford. The Taurus SHO was a very awesome car. The black girl who was instructing the test drive with me inside the sedan made it more awesome, and made the ride more comfortable by driving over 300 horses on the Streets of LA around the Staples Center and the Convention Center. That car is very underestimated, even though Ford discontinued it back in 2006 and brought it back last year as part of the Detroit company's rebuilding process.

When we got back to the Convention Center, the line for the Ford Taurus SHO was LONGER than the line for the Ford Mustang, and I can see why from the test drive I just did.

I didn't stay too long for the entire convention cause I wanted to get back to the Valley before the traffic got ridiculous on the freeways and all the roads. Unfortunately, I spoke WAY too soon. The freeways were getting packed and all the streets and roads were on a gridlock. No surprise here, cause that means the unofficial start of this holiday season which will last until January 2nd, since New Years Day counts as it. Theses photos I took below was when I was on Foothill Blvd coming from my place in Sylmar heading to my pop's house in Granada Hills for Thanksgiving. Later on that night, I went to Nicole's place for a little pre-Thanksgiving housewarming party.

By the way, Thanksgiving went well yesterday. Mostly family business obviously. Spent majority of the time watching movies on Netflix with my cousins. The thing I didn't like that the movies weren't available in High Definition, but the quality is still decent. It was fun though. Plus, I just found out that my pops got Toy Story 3 on DVD the day before. I wanted him to get the OG version on VHS back in 1996, but he only rented it. I remember playing it like 10 times on the weekend that he rented the home video cause I was VERY addicted to that film that time. I had all the toys from Burger King and this one kid at my school had a 1996 Toy Story calendar that had me in amazement. Unfortunately, my parents wouldn't buy it cause that shit was $14.95 plus tax, which is expensive for a calendar. I haven't seen the third one yet, but I'll give it a chance when I get the time since I saw the first two both in theaters on its original release dates in 1995 and 1999. Many people, including some dudes, told me they cried at the end, but to me, that's sounds bullshit.

By the way, fuck Black Friday. That shit is one of the core reasons why that many people don't know the true meaning of the holidays. Hell, there were fools camping outside Wal-Marts for 24 Hours celebrating Thanksgiving out in the damn cold before the store opens. And why the fuck is it opening at midnight? I remember going with my moms to Wal-Mart back in the day around my Junior High School years for black friday. We got there when they opened at 6 AM and escaped the store with EVERY ITEM that was on sale. The crowd wasn't that crazy when we got there. Now when you go there, its like camping out for a pair of limited Air Jordans in 2005 or a meet and greet to see the main cast of The Twilight Saga or some shit like that. Every year, there's at least 10 stores in Southern California that has a news story about some pregnant mother getting into a fight with another pregnant mother or a some old dude getting ran over by crowds and fight breaking out. Yet, the recession is still going on and I think they should have these type of prices everyday instead of the day after Thanksgiving. But again, those greedy white-collar corporate suit bastards want more money, which is what the holidays are now mostly about in certain people's minds. I really don't like talking about this every year, but its very obvious as you look around. If I lived in small town that I've never heard of before, then this whole holiday shopping (I don't like to say Christmas Shopping cause not everyone is Christian) frenzy would be completely foreign to me. Now I have to endure this holiday marketing crap until the first week of January.

One more thing before I forget. This may sound very juvenile, but MILEY IS NO LONGER UNDERAGED!!!! Is that why their parents were splitting up? Now all the single thirsty dudes of all ages will get to sleep very well. Hey, its a fact. I'll let these photos I didn't take make you decide.

The reason why Ice-T is NEVER bored in life

I got these from her Twitpic account. Too bad they're not real, but still.....

Thanksgiving Came a Weekend Early

The title LITERALLY speaks for itself this past weekend.

I spent majority of the past 3 days with my family, my friends and their families. It was great attending my pops' and my brother's church for the first time since.... I-really-do-not-know-when. It felt like a year, but I remember visiting the place sometime around this year, or was it because I keep seeing the Pastor and the members at my uncle's house for my cousin's wedding this past summer?

Anyway, my other cousin and the youth of his church were taking over the service for the day. I really wanted to stay and hear my cousin deliver his sermonette that he conducted, but I had to leave to drive to the A.V. to go return the Nikon Speedlight SB-600 flash unit to my uncle in Lancaster, cause he had a gig to go take photos at around that time. So after I dreaded the 14 freeway North and chilled at his place for a bit, I then took the beautiful-ass flawless Sierra Highway back to my pop's house in Granada Hills. When I got home, I read that one of the Aftergloam members was throwing a last minute potluck kickback at her place, and I just bought 2 Double Cheeseburgers and a Side Salad from McDonald's before I got home, which I haven't eaten yet. So then I took my untouched $3.61 plus tax lunch to Tianna Edmonson's place, who happens to be the excellent, talented drummer for the band Aftergloam.

Usually whenever I go to her place, which is not too far from where I'm staying at, there would always be a grip of twenty somethings that would fill up her pad, but when I got there around 4pm, there was about like 6 or 7 people that attended. I think I shut down the entire potluck with the McDonald's in my hand but I just gave one of my sandwiches to one of the dudes there that was starving. During that time I mingled, took photos, watched some decent amount of television at their living room such as a portion of the USC-Arizona Wildcats game, the movie Biker Boyz which I haven't seen since my trip from Nigeria on the airplane as an in-flight movie back in 2003, and I got a chance to check out Inside the NFL on Showtime, which I thought was a damn good show unlike NFL Live and alot of other pro football related highlight programs. Man, Phil Simms even cussed during the discussion about the situation with the Dallas Cowboys after the first five minutes at the start of the program. No wonder this shit used to be aired on HBO. Big shoutout to the De La Torre family for for getting to know y'all more, making me feel at home, and for the excellent, delicious Pupusas you guys served me.

The next day I was supposed to cover a wedding on that Sunday, which I happened to found out at the last second when I turned my phone on after I woke up. I tried calling my uncle back, but he didn't pick up. I could've made at least $200 that day. Instead, I did some laundry, helped my pops around the house by doing yard maintenance, and just kept it low key for a while. For some reason, I didn't feel like watching some NFL games that day, but I followed up some of the games online during the score updates.

Later on that day, I drove to Chatsworth to go pick up my friend Natasha to go hiking at Stoney Point next to Topanga Canyon Boulevard and the Santa Susana Pass intersection. I always drive by that place over the years and I never got a chance to check it out. It was a very great spot, especially for doing photoshoots. Took a good amount of photos there, mostly landscape pictures of Porter Ranch, and we just talked and had good discussions as we were hiking. Natasha and I went to the same high school and I started talking to her back in 2005, but only for a short while. I ran into her again this past summer when I started going to Nicole's house, since they're both young mothers and good close friends. Small ass world, isn't it. She's a very cool person to be around with. Hell, she even introduced me to the film American Psycho on Friday, which I heard of but never saw. For some reason, I always think of Kourtney Kardashian's son's father Scott Disick instead of the Patrick Bateman character the film. They look and dress TOTALLY alike.

After I dropped Natasha off at her place, I then drove to one of my friend's crib Burbank to watch the Los Angeles Lakers go against the Phoenix Suns, which was a disappointing loss thanks to Hedo Turkoglu crazy ass 3 pointers, which was almost a record that night, more like a Ray-Allen-in-the-2010-NBA-Finals type performance. Thanks to the Galvez family for inviting me over and thanks to Ginger for the slice of Pumpkin Pie, which was my first time trying it.

I'll just end this post here. Seriously, I really can't ask for more. I'm pretty much already full and stuffed with all the blessings I counted this weekend, as well as this past year so far. To me, there's really no need for Turkeys (not Hedo Turkoglu's country by the way). I rather give them to those unfortunate people who really need it more than I do. That's the type of person I am, especially during the upcoming holidays.

30 Truths for Mature Humans

I didn't write or made up all this. I jacked this from a sneaker website and I find this interesting.

1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than the moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just ignore what comes after Blu-ray? I don’t have time restart my collection all over again.
13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my 10-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. “Do not machine-wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this – ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring, but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn’t answer – drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone else of any importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer if they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. Every now and then, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize that I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
20. I would rather try to carry 10 overloaded plastic bags of groceries in each hand rather than make more than one trip to and from my car.
21. How many times is it appropriate to say “what?” before you just nod your head and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?
22. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in the front.
23. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Socks get dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty and you can wear them forever.
24. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber and dumber every year?
25. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you’re going to die after leaning too far back in your chair.
26. As a driver, I hate pedestrians. As a pedestrian, I hate drivers. But no matter the mode of transportation, I always hate bicyclists.
27. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
28. Why is it that no one is able to use the proper form of the homonym “their,” “they’re” and “there??”
29. “’Nother” has never, and will never, be a word.
30. Even under ideal conditions, people have trouble locating car keys, finding their cell phone, remembering to zip up but I’d bet my life savings that anyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, barely cohesive - first time, every time.

Jerry Jones' Remission

This is what the owner of the Dallas Cowboys does to remedify himself from his team's 1-7 record and the firing of Wade Phillips.

Looks like he's finally celebrating his Super Bowl XXX victory at Lavo in Sin City... 14 years later. Hell, he's wearing the ring to prove it. Whatever happens in Vegas, winds up on the internet.

Jelena Jensen will be your instant guilty pleasure

Too fucking gorgeous without the clothes. Her > the entire Victoria's Secret catalog.

Or both.

Pick Your Poison

I'm not surprised the just-released Windows Phone isn't on there, cause it obvious on how they're viewed.

Three great things saved my Sunday Night

The Lakers playing like true Champions by winning their 7th straight game since the start of the NBA season, the unexpected rain tonight and listening to this 80's group streaming from the internet

Bow Wow Wow is so damn flawless. One of the best music groups of all time ever. For those born after 1991, this was the group that sang the one hit wonder "I Want Candy". By the way, Annabella Lynn, the naked girl in that photo, is the lead singer of the group and she was a minor when this photo was taken. Not even they would allow a Disney Channel star to go that route nowadays.

Only in the Valley...

This was in regards to last weeks massive fire at a building in Chatsworth. Click on the picture to read it better.

By the way, major shout out to Darger De Milo and Aftergloam for putting on a excellent show at the Tribal Cafe last Friday. They did very well as always. Oh and shoutout to my friends Lucy Hakverdian and Pretty Bhamidi for letting me help them sell their product line of bowties at Granada Hills Charter High School's 50th anniversary event yesterday.

The result of Tom Anderson's Absence

The fuck happened with MySpace? I just went on for the hell of it since I haven't been on it for a long time (except Myspace Music which used to be Imeem for listening to streaming music), and then I see their new layout which looks completely foreign to me. I know that Twitter is gonna do the same shit in the coming months, but DAMN, it looks like the new Myspace layout is now geared towards anyone under 12 years of age.

I remember the very first time I heard about MySpace was back in August 2005. My friend Stephen called me and told me to check it out. At first, I though it was some urban youth site or a knockoff of Classmates.com (I had an account back in 2003 for Frost Middle School. I was the only one there) but then a week later he showed it to me and I was like "Everyone is putting out their dirty laundry in public". I also remember when certain profiles would always crashed any computer that I would be at, cause those profiles would be flooded with high memory photos, excessive HTML codes and those streaming Music Video codes which was pre-Youtube.

That site didn't get crazy until the middle of my senior year of High School between February and June, or after it got bought out by News Corp., which heavily promoted the site. I though the site was very weak and a waste of time, but I gave in on January 2008 when this one girl I met at Pierce College made me get one cause that was the only means of communication she had (no cell phone cause she doesn't like to use her minutes). Prior to that, I was only using Facebook, my original profile before it got removed from Facebook's headquarters for hitting on girls (I'm a guy). Now I don't even talk to that girl anymore since she started spitting out her conservative thoughts which I didn't tend to like, and she got me into that shit.

Fast forward to the present now. Those who were one of the original pioneers of having a Myspace Profile five years ago have either retired from social networking, or their raising a family during a challenging recession and working just about everyday at the same time to make end meets. Everyone else jumped ship to Facebook after that rich bastard Mark Zuckerburg made the site accessible to Kids, their parents, and anybody else without a university e-mail address that's also not labeled a full time college student. Social networking has completely changed the way people communicate. Its used to be completely underground but alot of companies and rich investors have thrown so much money into it that those site are now well known and recognized. Hell, almost every site you go to regardless of the nature whether its shopping or news journalism or the Adult sites (again, I'm a guy), they'll sometimes have you log in using your Facebook account or whatever account or it'll let you "like" any article that's on that page.

That shows how serious it has gotten. I always see something about Facebook every other day on CNN or the Huffington Post, whereas back in 2007 when I first got the account, the media didn't give a shit about it unless there was some underage girl who used an alias as being a 22 year old Ivy League student and gets murdered for meeting some mental freak on there. But the bottom line is that no one uses Myspace anymore. Everyone thinks that the site should be shut down by now, but that won't be the case as long as Rupert Murdoch and the white collars at News Corp still own the rights to that site, which is one of the main reasons why Myspace founder Tom Anderson left.

Speaking of communication, there's this new trend that I just noticed yesterday about this new "thing" called KIK. Alot of people have been talking about it this past week. They say that is a like a free version of RIM's BlackBerry Messenger, which I've never used and seen before in my life and I'm proud to say that. Plus I don't own a Blackberry smartphone (too expensive and I can't get work here in this broke-ass state), and if I did, then I'd talk more about this KIK application. I hope that shit doesn't send the "Telephone Call" out of existence just like Kodak did with Kodachrome and the way Sony did by retiring the production of the Walkman, which both got me very upset. I'd rather hear a female's nice sexy voice instead of reading her one word response from answering a question that I took up texting for 5 minutes to send to her.

I'm the best photographer you'll EVER meet

If you don't believe that statement, then hire my black-ass for your next event that I can cover.

Just saying.