Confessions of my Love Affair with Bo Bice - with some pics

It is true. I am in love with Bo Bice. He is no longer just my American Idol, he has also become the Idol of my Looooove. Below is my fantasized relationship with Bo to this point in pictures. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.











Bo, somewhat nervous, when he first started flirting with me.






















After a couple of months of casual dating, Bo professed his undying love to me. It's wonderful that a camera man was on hand!



















Although our feelings for each other were mutual, Bo was a little awkward at first with expressing his affection in public. Notice the body language.














It didn't take long though for Bo to become more comfortable with PDA.







He is just wonderful! (And should you want to see the real version of these pics, go to the official Idol pics site).


UPDATE: For a useful (not just fanciful) Idol blog go here. From that blog there is a great running index with pics and you can download Bo Bice mp3s from American Idol 4.

Amazing Race 7 - Episodes VII & VIII

I'm combining the last two episodes since they were really one loooooong leg. As always, India was craziness with noise pollution and chlostrophobia from crowds coming through even on the TV. The teams went here, the teams went there, and in an AMAZING moment, Joyce had her head shaved to stay in the race. Wow. Not many women with hair as long as hers would do that. Actually, I think she has a wonderful shaped head and she looks just as beautiful. Click here. It seams, just from the few moments we saw her bald, that her personality was more visible without the hair, and you can tell she's got a great personality. So, maybe I'll go shave my head and see what happens....(oh wait, I did that seven years ago....not quite bald, but so very close. I actually loved the short cut, but I've dated a lot more since it's been longer, so longish it shall stay for a while. Maybe my personality isn't as beautiful. Or maybe white girls don't look as good bald. Kind of a little pasty). Sadly, Lynn and Alex lost due to a bad cab driver who took them to the wrong place. I will definately miss them.

Till next week... (and Uchena and Joyce had better win after that hair cut sacrifice).

Pollock in Chocolate - Pics

On Friday evening, April 15th 2005, members of the Madison University Ward took 1 gallon of dark chocolate fondue, and 1 gallon of milk chocolate fondue, and went about creating "Action Art" styled after the work of Jackson Pollock. Posted here is a pictorial record of this event.

Waiting for the Pope

At this very moment I am watching a Fox News web cam while listening to KCRW World News as both focus their attention on a Balcony in the Vatican. White smoke has came out of the chimney, then the bells rang on the chapel, and now we wait, it's NOW.

the iPod: A Window to the Inner Person and a Possible Business Venture

I'm amused today by this story about President Bush's iPod playlist that recently got released. Sounds like some people are trying to analyze George W's character from his playlist, while others recognize that maybe it's not that big of a deal.

I see a potential for a new scheme however. We have large numbers of people making money with single's websites, or relationship gurus with their $10.95 compatablity tests, or even astrologers and related supposed future readers whose major prey are likely the relationship needy. I would like to propose a new service known as the iPod Match-Maker. Maybe I'll call my business "Two Peas and Their Pods." Basically, if you are interested in someone, you upload your playlist to a website, and the willing party of interest uploads their playlist as well, and then a computer program compares and contrasts the playlists and spits out a percentage compatability. I'd charge $5.99 a pop, cheaper than a meal at Denny's. For $49.99 I'd create a compatability reader for on the go iPod users. Something like the iCopulate, but it just connects the iPods, annalyzes the data, and generates a compatability factor displayed on the device. This would be great for evenings out on the town. Pack your lipstick, your Tic Tacs, your iPod and your Two-Peas-and-Their-Pods-Portable, and you're already ahead of the game.

Note the timestamp on this entry people. It was my idea first!

I'm an addict

I recently invested money in my first venture into the stock market. I opened a Roth IRA and invested in an index fund. I know you aren't meant to follow index funds every day like people follow their individual stocks, but I have an obsessive personality. So, I am now hooked. I check Yahoo's market report 2 to 3 times a day, and every evening I check in to see how much my index fund went up or down. I am an addict.

Oh, and I'm also obsessively following the Michael Jackson case. It's sort of like 'horrified fascination,' (coined by an old roomate of mine who I chatted with last night). Jackson is obviously messed, and nothing should come as a surprise, but it seems like I just can't look away.

Lucky I never tried drugs.

Amazing Race 7 - Episode VI

Rob and Amber, first again. This time they just worked well together, nothing mean and cold to get ahead. Sadly, my favourites, the brothers, are out. There was no air travel or waiting for tourist sites to open on this episode, so basically they were trying to play catch up from last place all episode. The started from behind and got a bit lost, so there really wasn't a chance they would catch up. I LOVED when the gay couple thought they were coming in last so one of them started layering tons of clothing on incase they were 'non-eliminated' but penelized. The thought to do such a thing had crossed my mind when Meredith and Gretchin first had their stuff taken from them. The brothers however, decided to use some reverse TV show psychology when they were coming in last. They stripped down to their boxers and sunglasses and warm fuzzy hats and stepped on the finish mat. They figured just because it was so funny looking the producers would want to make this a non-elimination round. Brilliant. I love them. But it didn't work. The POW and the Beauty Queen's relationship is fragmenting, not surprising, they didn't seem to have much of a relationship from the start.

Oh I love this show.

It's time for another verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire"

The first CD I ever owned was Billy Joel's "Storm Front" (that and "The Little Mermaid" soundtrack). I loved it. I have probably listened to it several hundred times. The song We Didn't Start the Fire is on there. Here are the lyrics:

We Didn’t Start The Fire
Storm Front Released: 1989

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

I think it might be time for another verse. I don't know if Joel has ever added another verse in live performances (he didn't the two times I've seen him), but I want him to now. It's time. Maybe if he ever will he will wait till two decades go by, which means I have to wait another 4 more years. What would I add in this verse? Hmmmm, off the top of my head I would say the Gulf War, Monica Lewinsky, September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraqi Freedom, Tsunami and again, and now the next Pope. I know a lot of people have added their own verses on the net, but I want to see what Billy would come up with.... So to Billy Joel, please write another verse! I'd buy it.