<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007</id><updated>2009-02-21T01:55:30.826-06:00</updated><title type='text'>cheap sunglasses</title><subtitle type='html'>the future's so bright i gotta wear shades</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>79</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-111421729795531027</id><published>2006-12-31T19:48:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-08-31T10:58:45.176-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/298/5036/640/cheapsunglasses_wayfarer1.jpg'&gt;&lt;img border='0' style='border:2px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/298/5036/320/cheapsunglasses_wayfarer1.jpg'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAYFARER 40 YEARS SPECIAL EDITION&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://www.hello.com/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif' alt='Posted by Hello' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-111421729795531027?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/111421729795531027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=111421729795531027&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/111421729795531027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/111421729795531027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/12/wayfarer-40-years-special-edition.html' title=''/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112032720211729145</id><published>2006-12-30T12:31:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T20:46:33.046-06:00</updated><title type='text'>about me...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andy%20owens2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andy%20owens2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;A dynamic figure, I am often seen scaling walls and leaping large buildings in a single bound. I have been known to hand roll cigars from Cuban whole leaf &lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;tobacco&lt;/span&gt; on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for French refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. When cornering, I lean so far over that I drag both left and right pegs. Occasionally, I tread &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt; for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike drum playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute &lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;Brownies&lt;/span&gt; in twenty minutes. I am an expert concerning &lt;em&gt;cheap sunglasses&lt;/em&gt;, a veteran in&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; love&lt;/span&gt;, and an outlaw in the &lt;span style="color:#ffcccc;"&gt;Virgin Islands&lt;/span&gt;. Using only a hoe and a large glass of &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;water&lt;/span&gt;, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;grass&lt;/span&gt; cello, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I write rock ballads for Aerosmith and ZZ Top. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured Arizona with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. My deft&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; fl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffff00;"&gt;or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;al&lt;/span&gt; arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. The laws of physics do not apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact orgasms. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only tin foil and a toaster oven. I breed prize winning thoroughbred race horses. I have thrown rocks at God but only hit a disciple. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;heart &lt;/span&gt;surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis. But I have not yet eaten quiche. I ride a &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Harley Davidson&lt;/span&gt;, the best motorcycle ever made. I ride too fast to worry about my cholesterol levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112032720211729145?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112032720211729145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112032720211729145&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112032720211729145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112032720211729145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/12/about-me_30.html' title='about me...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-111369101668702590</id><published>2006-12-29T17:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T11:28:53.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>founding fathers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/298/5036/640/cheapsunglasses_zz_top.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/298/5036/320/cheapsunglasses_zz_top.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FOUNDING FATHERS &lt;a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Hello" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-111369101668702590?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/111369101668702590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=111369101668702590&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/111369101668702590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/111369101668702590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/12/founding-fathers.html' title='founding fathers'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-111369094724536370</id><published>2006-12-28T16:35:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2005-08-26T22:51:52.296-05:00</updated><title type='text'>founding grandfather...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/298/5036/640/raycharles2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/298/5036/320/raycharles2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FOUNDING GRANDFATHER &lt;a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Hello" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-111369094724536370?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/111369094724536370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=111369094724536370&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/111369094724536370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/111369094724536370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/12/founding-grandfather.html' title='founding grandfather...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-114087227472872654</id><published>2006-02-25T06:56:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-03-01T14:33:04.523-06:00</updated><title type='text'>tee of the week...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_mom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/400/andyowens_mom.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-114087227472872654?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/114087227472872654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=114087227472872654&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/114087227472872654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/114087227472872654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/02/tee-of-week_25.html' title='tee of the week...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-114010789150051776</id><published>2006-02-16T10:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-08-31T10:45:57.796-05:00</updated><title type='text'>brokedick mountain...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blogcowboyeee.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 206px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 293px" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blogcowboyeee.jpg" width="250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;A rugged cowboy from Brokeback Mountain Wyoming  goes into the doctor's office and has some tests run.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The doctor comes back and says, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"I am not going to beat around the bush, you have AIDS."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The cowboy tugs at his Stetson and sets his jaw and says, "Doc,what can I do?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The doctor says, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"I want you to go home and eat: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;5 pounds of hot sausage,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;a head of cabbage,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;20 un-peeled carrots drenched in hot sauce,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;10 Jalapeno peppers, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;40 walnuts and 40 peanuts,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;1/2 box of Grapenuts cereal,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;and top it off with a gallon of prune juice."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The cowboy squares his rugged shoulders and asks, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"Will that cure me Doc?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"No" replies the doctor,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"But it &lt;em&gt;WILL &lt;/em&gt;leave you with a better understanding of what your asshole is really for."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-114010789150051776?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/114010789150051776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=114010789150051776&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/114010789150051776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/114010789150051776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/02/brokedick-mountain.html' title='brokedick mountain...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113966259997903574</id><published>2006-02-11T06:53:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-22T20:44:42.630-06:00</updated><title type='text'>tee of the week...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_balls.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/400/andyowens_balls.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113966259997903574?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113966259997903574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113966259997903574&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113966259997903574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113966259997903574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/02/tee-of-week_11.html' title='tee of the week...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113953268502229498</id><published>2006-02-09T18:33:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T06:49:54.590-05:00</updated><title type='text'>McDonald's New Adult Happy Meal to Include Blow Job (participating locations only)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/happymeallarge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/happymeallarge.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Fast food giant McDonald's continues to fine tune the new adult marketed Go-Active! Happy Meal, adding bottled water, a better tasting salad and slightly more adult-themed prizes.&lt;br /&gt;"We are currently testing several new features of the adult Happy Meal as well as a slightly edgier version of Ronald McDonald," said McDonald's publicity chief Judy Tennison. "We have also replaced the current exercise pamphlet and stepometer with a coupon for half hour session at a participating Asian massage parlor." (California and Las Vegas only).&lt;br /&gt;McDonald's corporate office was most excited about the introduction of the new spokesman, who they are optimistic adults will have a much easier time identifying with, rather than the current version of Ronald McDonald, still popular with kids around the world.&lt;br /&gt;"Right now we're calling him Oswald McDonald -- Ozzy for short," Tennison said. "In our focus &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/happymeallarge3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/happymeallarge3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;group studies, many of the18-to-34 year-olds found him much more appealing in a sexy and dangerous way. We think he may be end up being a sort of cross between [Limp Bizkit frontman] Fred Durst and Freddy Krueger of the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' films."&lt;br /&gt;Beginning in August, Oswald McDonald will be featured in a string of commercials consisting of a mini-dating show, where the new spokesman will be searching for a lucky bride among the most fervent McDonald's customers.&lt;br /&gt;Many critics of McDonald's question the new marketing strategy, saying that the healthier, more adult-oriented Happy Meal came a little too late and only after a recent documentary focused on the unhealthy, high fat content of traditional McDonald's offerings — something the corporate office still denies.&lt;br /&gt;"The important thing is we've listened to what our older customers want, and it's clear what they want is healthier food and the ability to receive oral gratification for under five bucks. Now they can."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bobfromaccounting.com/cgi-bin/birdcast.cgi"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113953268502229498?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113953268502229498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113953268502229498&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113953268502229498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113953268502229498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/02/mcdonalds-new-adult-happy-meal-to.html' title='McDonald&apos;s New Adult Happy Meal to Include Blow Job (participating locations only)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113897543939463083</id><published>2006-02-03T08:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-11T06:58:31.423-06:00</updated><title type='text'>tee of the week...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blog_lastnight.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/400/andyowens_blog_lastnight.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113897543939463083?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113897543939463083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113897543939463083&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113897543939463083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113897543939463083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/02/tee-of-week.html' title='tee of the week...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113852828913568652</id><published>2006-01-29T03:46:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-03T11:41:08.923-06:00</updated><title type='text'>I Enjoy The Occasional Tranq Dart...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/I-Do-Enjoy-C[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/I-Do-Enjoy-C%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;I'm a regular lowland gorilla like anybody else. And sometimes, at the end of a particularly frantic and rampaging day, I need a little something to take the edge off.&lt;br /&gt;I'm not proud of it, but then, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, either. After a whole day of screeching territorial calls and rebounding off the walls of my artificial-ecosystem enclosure, I get pretty tense. And from time to time, yes, I do like to have a zookeeper pump me full of tranquilizers from an air-compression rifle dart.&lt;br /&gt;The first time I took a hit, I fell hard. I clutched at the stinging sensation in my upper shoulder and roared with all my might. Must've put the fear of God into those poor schoolchildren, not to mention the rescue workers who were retrieving the one that "accidentally" fell into my pen (which is bull, by the way—that kid wanted to climb in). I felt disoriented and confused for a second, so I lashed out. I nearly pulled one of the zookeeper's arms out of the socket, and likely would have if my strength hadn't started to ebb.&lt;br /&gt;But then I realized everything was okay. A warm, pleasant feeling of calm settled over me. It was a feeling I hadn't felt since the last time I was free, in the jungle eating twigs in the shade under a leafy rain-forest canopy, or maybe even earlier, when I was an infant suckling on my mother's sweet hairy bosom.&lt;br /&gt;"This is great!" I thought. "I can feel the tension leaving my shoulders." And I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a feeling I've occasionally sought out again.&lt;br /&gt;It's not a big deal. It's not as if I'm pumped up with wild-animal-management sedatives all day long. It's just those crazy days when you can't stop screaming and thumping your chest, and you need a little something to help you relax. Who among us hasn't bitten a handler's ear off? When you're bellowing at top volume and ripping your tire swing in half, a nice tranq dart can be just what the doctor ordered.&lt;br /&gt;One thing is for sure: I don't have a tranquilizer dart "problem." I don't need to explain the kind of pressures a silverback living in captivity faces on a daily basis. First of all, consider my limited territorial-roaming capacity! That alone is enough to drive an ape to darts.&lt;br /&gt;Or take swinging from the same old bars day in and day out. I don't think there's a single thing up there I haven't swung on at least a thousand times. It beats me how the monkeys can keep doing it without going mad with boredom.&lt;br /&gt;Plus, there's the whole question of maintaining your place in the social hierarchy. Everybody on your ass all the time, trying to outroar you, or pound his chest more than you do, or make the smell of his urine dominate your areas of the habitat. It's a damned zoo.&lt;br /&gt;It's hard to rise to a position of responsibility like mine, but keeping it is where the real work comes in. Every gorilla in captivity wants to be the alpha male, so I'm constantly on the offensive. I deserve to cut loose and let off a little steam with the occasional male-power display and subsequent dart.&lt;br /&gt;And it's not like there's a lot of young females to go around, either. They keep the best-looking one in a special lab learning sign language. Most of the females seem infertile, anyway, and many are morose and uninvolved in the day-to-day competitive screeching of the group. So I get a little wound up now and then. Who wouldn't?&lt;br /&gt;Take the day they left me in a temporary holding cage while they cleaned the display habitat. First off, it's a 10-by-8-foot space, so I'm rebounding off the walls like a racquetball inside of 20 minutes. Then, they put the cage right next to a holding pen with another alpha-male silverback in it. Hello? After eight hours of that, I was ready to relax with a little shot in the arm. Sometimes celery and bananas aren't enough, you know? Does that make me a dart addict? I don't think so. But if you disagree, then go ahead and judge me. Be careful, though, because I could pound the living shit out of you once this dart wears off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113852828913568652?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113852828913568652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113852828913568652&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113852828913568652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113852828913568652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/01/i-enjoy-occasional-tranq-dart.html' title='I Enjoy The Occasional Tranq Dart...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113780907608109792</id><published>2006-01-20T19:58:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T20:04:36.106-06:00</updated><title type='text'>see previous post (racist cocksucker)...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/Superdomechocolate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/Superdomechocolate.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/nagin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/nagin.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113780907608109792?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113780907608109792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113780907608109792&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113780907608109792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113780907608109792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/01/see-previous-post-racist-cocksucker.html' title='see previous post (racist cocksucker)...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113570378012035383</id><published>2005-12-27T08:44:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T07:18:07.220-06:00</updated><title type='text'>song list (spanky's)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_guitar2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 269px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" height="240" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_guitar2.jpg" width="278" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;brett,&lt;br /&gt;the following is a partial list brandon and i can do acoustically...we can add to it and change it up each week...it should give you an idea of what to expect... some have harp intro's and some have the bass line plus rhythm as well as backup vocals...&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a href="file://C:/Documents"&gt;tree top flyer&lt;/a&gt;" is our hook, we open and close with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tree top flyer (buffet/stills)&lt;br /&gt;before you accuse me (clapton)&lt;br /&gt;great day to be alive (tritt)&lt;br /&gt;jack and diane (mellencamp)&lt;br /&gt;closing time (semi sonic)&lt;br /&gt;damage done (young)&lt;br /&gt;seven bridges road (eagles)&lt;br /&gt;vincent (mcclain)&lt;br /&gt;the joker (miller)&lt;br /&gt;pride and joy (vaughn)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;man of constant sorrow (soggy mountain boys)&lt;br /&gt;cats in the cradle (chapin)&lt;br /&gt;signs (five man electric band/tesla)&lt;br /&gt;son of a son of a sailor (buffet)&lt;br /&gt;god will (lovett)&lt;br /&gt;big hat no cattle (newman)&lt;br /&gt;it's been awhile (stained)&lt;br /&gt;american pie (mcclain)&lt;br /&gt;od'd in denver (williams jr)&lt;br /&gt;pencil thin moustache (buffet)&lt;br /&gt;time (hootie and the blowfish)&lt;br /&gt;prayer to st. peter (mccain)&lt;br /&gt;new orleans ladies (leroux)&lt;br /&gt;daniel (john)&lt;br /&gt;simple man (lynyrd skynyrd)&lt;br /&gt;jaded lover (walker)&lt;br /&gt;tennessee flat top box (cash)&lt;br /&gt;like a rock (seger)&lt;br /&gt;happy trails (rogers/van halen)&lt;br /&gt;pink houses (mellencamp)&lt;br /&gt;sunday morning coming down (kristofferson)&lt;br /&gt;if i had a boat (lovett)&lt;br /&gt;she talks to angels (black crowes)&lt;br /&gt;louisiana 1927 (newman)&lt;br /&gt;if i were a carpenter (cash)&lt;br /&gt;dust in the wind (kansas)&lt;br /&gt;sing me back home (haggard)&lt;br /&gt;time of your life (greenday)&lt;br /&gt;the ballad of curtis lowe (lynyrd skynyrd)&lt;br /&gt;hot rod lincoln (travers)&lt;br /&gt;picture (rock)&lt;br /&gt;ice cream man (van halen)&lt;br /&gt;just can't see him from the road (ledoux)&lt;br /&gt;the weight (the band)&lt;br /&gt;if she didn't say fuck so much (attaway)&lt;br /&gt;blue eyes cryin' in the rain (nelson)&lt;br /&gt;sweet melissa (allman) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;the ride (coe)&lt;br /&gt;desperado (eagles)&lt;br /&gt;freebird (lynyrd skynyrd)&lt;br /&gt;chevy van (kershaw)&lt;br /&gt;night moves (seger)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;guitar town (earle)&lt;br /&gt;southern cross (csn)&lt;br /&gt;bayou boys (raven)&lt;br /&gt;amy (pure prairie league)&lt;br /&gt;you can leave your hat on (cocker)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113570378012035383?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113570378012035383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113570378012035383&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113570378012035383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113570378012035383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/12/song-list-spankys.html' title='song list (spanky&apos;s)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113543835535840462</id><published>2005-12-24T09:04:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T18:54:50.923-06:00</updated><title type='text'>racist cocksucker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens-blueman1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 291px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" height="231" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens-blueman1.jpg" width="300" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;if every time i open a newspaper or view the evening news there is another blue man or midget carjacking some european american for some crack cocaine or complaining that me as a self professed european american, blue eyed devil, cracker, honky, is the reason they feel oppressed and angry; if that pisses me off and makes we want to shout "shut the fuck up before i kick your blue ass" am i being racist? is the fact that my opinion of blue men and midgets are based on their behavior and shitty attitude and not the fact that they are a different color or rise to the height of my nut sack?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;fuck &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;blue men&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blogsopt.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 174px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blogsopt.jpg" width="512" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fuck midgets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;i have always wanted to spank the ass of some big breasted, big ass, blue chick...it's not because she's blue that i want to........(more later)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;i don't have time to completely cover this strange analogy of racism so i will wrap it up with this:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;some black people (i apologize; african americans) don't irritate this cracker (again i must apologize; european american) because of their skin color but because of their &lt;a href="http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=2228"&gt;behavior&lt;/a&gt;. when the news becomes filled with the &lt;a href="http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2006/01/see-previous-post-racist-cocksucker.html"&gt;bullshit, fucked up antics &lt;/a&gt;of blue people or midgets then i will have a negative view of that group too&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;i am not a racist,,,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;i'm simply an observer of current events...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113543835535840462?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113543835535840462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113543835535840462&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113543835535840462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113543835535840462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/12/racist-cocksucker.html' title='racist cocksucker'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113369396604133643</id><published>2005-12-04T04:38:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T08:50:35.683-06:00</updated><title type='text'>ADHDTV (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Television)...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blog_add.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blog_add.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-1 Monday to require electronics manufacturers to make all television sets ADHD-compatible within two years.&lt;br /&gt;To adhere to the guidelines, every program, with the exception of  "The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show", will have to be sped up to meet the new standard frame rate of 120 frames per second.&lt;br /&gt;FCC Chairman Kevin Martin characterized the move as "a natural, forward-thinking response to the changing needs of the average American viewer."&lt;br /&gt;"In the media-saturated climate of the modern age, few have the time and energy to sit still for an entire episode of King Of Queens," Martin said. "Although the FCC will leave it up to the television networks to make the necessary programming changes, we are recommending, in accordance with the ADHDTV standard, that all shows be no more than six minutes in length, and that they contain jarring and unpredictable camera cuts to shiny props and detailed background sets."&lt;br /&gt;"We're also advising that intra-episode recaps occur every 45 seconds," he added.&lt;br /&gt;The ruling represents a growing shift toward ADHDTV, a television format designed to meet the needs of an increasingly inattentive and hyperactive audience. The tuner includes a built-in device that automatically changes channels after three minutes of uninterrupted single-station viewing, as well as a picture-in-picture-in-picture-in-picture option.&lt;br /&gt;According to Sony, the leading manufacturer of the ADHD-compatible sets, the new technology will allow viewers to play up to three simultaneous video games while watching television.&lt;br /&gt;Two Lansing, MI children watch an ADHDTV promo for the entire prime-time network lineup.&lt;br /&gt;"Many of our ADHDTVs will come with a motorized base," Sony spokesperson Richard O'Dell said. "In the event that the viewer turns his attention away from the television, it will begin to rotate and emit sirens and piercing shrieks."&lt;br /&gt;The mandate to conform to the new format has already been met with some resistance, particularly from movie channels like HBO, live programs such as ABC's Monday Night Football, and the History Channel, whose ambitious five-part, 10-hour historical documentary about World War II, slated for completion in late 2007, will have to be shortened to a six-minute montage of the war set to a medley of Ashlee Simpson hits.&lt;br /&gt;Some networks, however, are embracing the change.&lt;br /&gt;"A majority of our shows are only watchable for a few minutes at a time anyway," said Fox president Peter Liguori, whose recently unveiled fall 2007 TV schedule includes over 850 new series. "We're going to roll out an exciting lineup of major sporting-event highlights, late-night yell shows, and a brand-new season of The O.C. that will feature 37 new characters and—well, I don't want to give too much away, but let's just say it will have a lot more guys jumping up and down, saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look over here!'"&lt;br /&gt;On standard 4:3 televisions, ADHDTV programs will be shown in letterbox format, with the top and bottom of the screen alternately filled with bright, flittering butterflies, undulating rainbow-colored patterns, and singing hamsters in top hats.Skeptics say the switch to ADHDTV will likely be delayed in favor of other projects or even completely forgotten by next week. However, the FDA is fast-tracking approval of the new drug Entertainalin, developed in anticipation of the modified programming. In clinical trials, the drug has been effective in helping viewers concentrate not only on the new TV format, but also on their immediate surroundings, the couch fabric, a dog passing by the window, and pieces of lint floating in the air&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113369396604133643?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113369396604133643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113369396604133643&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113369396604133643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113369396604133643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/12/adhdtv-attention-deficit-hyperactive.html' title='ADHDTV (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Television)...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113180869584707647</id><published>2005-11-25T06:34:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2005-12-04T06:31:11.943-06:00</updated><title type='text'>oxymoron 101 ("romantic" with someone who has a tongue like a lama?)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;oxymoron ( P ) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="linksrc" title="Click for guide to symbols." onclick="ahdpop();return false;" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pronunciation Key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; (ok-si-mÃ´rn)n. pl. oxÂ·yÂ·moÂ·ra&lt;br /&gt;A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence or romantic Gene Simmons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blogt_gene.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="320" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blogt_gene.jpg" width="237" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;A woman who claims to be a former girlfriend of KISS rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with a defamation lawsuit in which she says he made her sound like a sex-addicted &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;nymphomaniac (&lt;em&gt;cool....actually he made her make sounds like the monkey cage at the zoo)&lt;/em&gt; during a VH1 television show, a judge has ruled.&lt;br /&gt;State Supreme Court Justice Rosalyn Richter&lt;em&gt;(she is angry because gene didn't check her temperature with his baseball glove size tongue...a male judge would have told the "god of thunder" to continue to "rock out with his cock out" and thrown the suit and stinky crotch georgeann out of his court)&lt;/em&gt; denied Simmons' motion to dismiss two of three claims by &lt;a href="http://cain69.free.fr/clubs/bdsm/pix/steph.spank.jpg"&gt;Georgeann Walsh Ward&lt;/a&gt;, 53, who says in court papers made public yesterday that Simmons slandered&lt;em&gt;(actually gene orally slandered her way before yesterday)&lt;/em&gt; her during a "rockumentary" about KISS. Ward said in her lawsuit, filed in January, that photos of her appeared 11 times during the report on KISS, which was shown on the network several times in July and August. In it, Simmons claimed to have had sexual encounters with 4,600 women&lt;em&gt;(kiss "ruled the world" for 5 years, not 30&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;at that rate the author who penned such beautiful ballads as: "love gun", "dance all over your face", "love in chains", "tough love", "spit", "put the x in sex", "down on your knees", "love is a slap in the face", "dirty livin", "i love it loud", "anyway you slice it", "lick it up", and "bang bang bang you" porked some nympho chick every 34,000 seconds. at that rate gene didn't have time to bend georgeann over some backstage red velvet couch and give her some "romance". is it really romantic if all you can see from the man's perspective is her shoulder blades and the crack of her ass? is it really romantic for a woman if all she sees and hears is the headboard slaming against her forehead?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The documentary, When KISS Ruled The World, chronicled the band's 30-year career, its impact on rock music and the quartet's wild antics&lt;em&gt;(i'm known for my wild antics too but,,,i have never made a plaster of paris mold of my cock and gave them for presents...i guess it's just another romantic example of a unique valentine gift from the bang bang bang you new york bass player)&lt;/em&gt;. The other band members were guitarist/singer Paul Stanley, drummer Peter Criss, and guitarist Ace Frehley.&lt;br /&gt;Simmons says during the show, "There wasn't a girl that was off limits &lt;em&gt;(cool)&lt;/em&gt;, and I enjoyed every one of them" &lt;em&gt;(very cool)&lt;/em&gt;, Ward's court papers say.&lt;br /&gt;At another point Simmons says, "I was a 24-hour whore. All I ever thought about was sex." This, court papers say, was shown and followed by a photo of Ward with Simmons.&lt;br /&gt;Ward's papers say that because a photo of her with Simmons -- though her name is never mentioned -- was shown during remarks about his sexual adventures, she was in effect portrayed as "wild" and "unchaste." &lt;em&gt;(uh,,,yea. i guess the pics of her and gene were taken as they left catholic mass.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richter let stand&lt;em&gt;(see the previous comment about temperature and baseball gloves)&lt;/em&gt; Ward's two claims that she was depicted as unchaste or promiscuous during the documentary, even though Ward admitted she was in a "romantic" &lt;em&gt;(see headboard, shoulder blades and asscrack)&lt;/em&gt; relationship with Simmons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113180869584707647?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113180869584707647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113180869584707647&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113180869584707647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113180869584707647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/11/oxymoron-101-romantic-with-someone-who.html' title='oxymoron 101 (&quot;romantic&quot; with someone who has a tongue like a lama?)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113170052651540539</id><published>2005-11-11T05:13:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2005-11-11T03:30:29.440-06:00</updated><title type='text'>word to self...(dr. suess)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/cheapsunglasses_wayfarer.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/200/cheapsunglasses_wayfarer.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;"you have brains in your head.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; you have feet in your shoes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; you can steer yourself any direction you choose. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; you're on your own.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; and you know what you know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; and YOU are the one who'll decide where to go."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113170052651540539?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113170052651540539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113170052651540539&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113170052651540539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113170052651540539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/11/word-to-selfdr-suess.html' title='word to self...(dr. suess)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-113023208202091542</id><published>2005-10-24T06:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-10T12:35:54.736-06:00</updated><title type='text'>treetop flyer...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blog_treetopflyer1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="228" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blog_treetopflyer.jpg" width="356" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#ffcc00;"&gt;I could be a rambler from the Seven Dials&lt;br /&gt;I don't pay taxes 'cause I never file&lt;br /&gt;I don't do bid'ness that don't make me smile&lt;br /&gt;I love my helicopter cause she's got style&lt;br /&gt;I'm a treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;Treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;I fly any cargo that you can pay to run&lt;br /&gt;The bush league pilots, they just can't get the job done&lt;br /&gt;You've got to fly down the canyon, keep your back to the sun&lt;br /&gt;There's no such thing as an easy run&lt;br /&gt;I'm a treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;Treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;I fly low, I'm in high demand&lt;br /&gt;Go 15 feet over the Rio Grande&lt;br /&gt;I blow the mesquite right up off the sand&lt;br /&gt;I'm seldon seen, 'specially when I land&lt;br /&gt;I'm a treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;Born survivor&lt;br /&gt;Now people been askin' me where'd you learn to fly that way&lt;br /&gt;Was over in Vietnam, chasin' the NVA&lt;br /&gt;The government taught me, and they taught me right&lt;br /&gt;Stay down below the treeline and you'll be alright&lt;br /&gt;I'm a treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;Born survivor&lt;br /&gt;So I'm comin' home, I'm runnin' low and fast&lt;br /&gt;Promised my woman this is gonna be my last&lt;br /&gt;I get the ship down, I tie her fast&lt;br /&gt;And then some old boy wakes up, and he says&lt;br /&gt;"Hey son, wanna make some fast cash?"&lt;br /&gt;I'm a treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;Well there's things I am&lt;br /&gt;And there's things I am not&lt;br /&gt;Yes I'm a smuggler and I could get shot&lt;br /&gt;I ain't gonna die, I ain't going to get caught&lt;br /&gt;You see I'm a flying fool, and this helicopter is, woo, hot&lt;br /&gt;I'm a treetop flyer&lt;br /&gt;Born survivor&lt;br /&gt;Workin' alone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-113023208202091542?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/113023208202091542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=113023208202091542&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113023208202091542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/113023208202091542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/10/treetop-flyer.html' title='treetop flyer...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112997309233772158</id><published>2005-10-22T05:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-22T04:27:56.633-05:00</updated><title type='text'>charity blue dog...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blog_georgebluedog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blog_georgebluedog.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#33ccff;"&gt;We Will Rise Again&lt;br /&gt;George Rodrigue presents a silkscreen benefiting the victims of Hurricane KatrinaThose of us from South Louisiana grew up with the aftermaths of hurricanes Audrey, Betsy, Camille...and now Katrina. As with times before, "we will rise again." Tears and rising water threaten to drown us. But don't be deceived. The land may be under water, but the spirit of New Orleans and the culture of Louisiana hold their heads high.We Will Rise Again shows the American flag covered with water. The blue dog is partly submerged, and its eyes, normally yellow, are red with a broken heart. Like a ship's S.O.S., the red cross on the dog's chest calls out for help.Katrina hit me personally at Ground Zero. My immediate thought was for the safety of people I know, followed by the shock of seeing helicopters and boats alongside familiar street signs, as rescuers assisted people from rooftops and attics. For the second time in this young 21st century I sat at my easel weighted by personal sorrow and my desire to help, this time also reflecting on the devastation of my city and the suffering of my neighbors.New Orleans has been home to my gallery and studio for sixteen years; it is where the Blue Dog was born. My wife is a third generation New Orleanian, and the Big Easy remains the 'big city' to my Cajun hometown of New Iberia. Wendy and I join thousands of New Orleans residents in our pledge to go HOME, to re-build our city, and to pay tribute to those who lost their lives with a commitment to care for our citizens, embrace our culture, and make the good times roll ... again.&lt;br /&gt;George RodrigueSeptember 2005&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.georgerodrigue.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#33ccff;"&gt;www.georgerodrigue.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112997309233772158?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.bluedogrelief.com/' title='charity blue dog...'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112997309233772158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112997309233772158&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112997309233772158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112997309233772158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/10/charity-blue-dog.html' title='charity blue dog...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112971545144927439</id><published>2005-10-19T04:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-19T04:50:51.463-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the revenge of overwhelming toil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/invictagrandlupah.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/invictagrandlupah.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_blog_glasses.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_blog_glasses.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;i guess if my desk had a vagina or my high back leather office chair felt like a leather mustang seat on a custom harley davidson fat boy i wouldn’t go on these online shopping sprees. buying ray ban’s online is easy. i have seen them in real life on someone’s face before. i have been somewhere and said to myself: “i gotta have a pair.” name, billing address, credit card number, then spank the “enter” key on keyboard and 3 days later a new pair of shades. the timepiece purchase was something different. the invicta watch company sends me their catalog each month hounding me to purchase the new invicta lupah grand. to show my non mustang seat, vagina-less office that i would not be its slave i went online, chose the grand lupah  and spanked the "enter" key again.  &lt;em&gt;more later,,,,,,,(really)….&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112971545144927439?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112971545144927439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112971545144927439&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112971545144927439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112971545144927439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/10/revenge-of-overwhelming-toil.html' title='the revenge of overwhelming toil'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112915153389229383</id><published>2005-10-12T13:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-15T06:20:52.970-05:00</updated><title type='text'>attitude (a family tradition novella)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/6351.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/6351.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/Copy%20of%20poppymotorcycle11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px" height="227" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/Copy%20of%20poppymotorcycle11.jpg" width="352" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;so she says:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“what’s with your freakin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;attitude”,,, ”you act just like your grandfathers”&lt;br /&gt;so he says:&lt;br /&gt;“fuckin groovy”,,,”thank you” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my lovely ex wife with the big ass (i&lt;em&gt; like big butts (really) and i cannot lie, you other brothers can’t deny, that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waste and a round thing in your face you get sprung, wanna pull up front cuz you notice that butt was stuffed deep in the jeans she's wearing, i'm hooked and i can't stop staring oh, baby i wanna get with ya, and take your picture, my homeboys tried to warn me, but with that butt you got me so horny...fat bottom girls you make the rockin' world go round...&lt;/em&gt;) and megaphone mouth used to bark that at me with the regularity of metamucil. it was her response to any reply of mine short of “yes master.” i assumed divorced meant no longer wed AND free from irritating remarks spewed from her 8000Db pie hole. i guess i should have read the small words after the big word alimony. my “attitude” comes supernaturally and directly via my biker grandfathers’ loud ass gene pool. thomas larkin was a hell raising irishman who rode a harley davidson for the good guys during the day. his favorite saying: “if you want sympathy you can find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” luther andrew was an ex navy sea bee that owned a successful garage in baton rouge that allowed freddie fender to hide his stolen motorcycles in the back of the shop. he worked only on days that ended in “y” and at night loaded up on his indian motorcycle with his steele pony amigos and tore off to new orleans to drink, chase women, and fight. my memories of spending the night at my grandmothers on the occasional weekend are tainted with my grandmother whispering in my ear: “get up baby, we have to get pop out of the big house in new orleans.” my attitude has mellowed considerably as the days have slowly passed since my drinking (&lt;em&gt;i should come clean about my previous cocaine mis-use but this is a public blog with 4,603 hits&lt;/em&gt;) and titty bar era. if you look at me today i still physically resemble that attitude. the facial hair is still there but neatly trimmed. the holes are still in my tongue, nipples, and ears. the entire back of my head remains permanently engraved in tribal style ink but salt and peppered short cropped hair covers the lions share of that body art. i still believe sex with a party girl sporting long red fingernails in the men’s room at hooters is a legitimate first date. i still believe that a man should open the door for a lady, and that a wife can tell her husband he needs to go to the gym but a husband should never tell his wife she needs to go to the gym. i still prescribe to the notion that “glamour shots” for a man means they didn’t catch you scratching your family jewels in the picture, and,,,,,,,,, (&lt;em&gt;my “quit fucking off” warning light has appeared (again) on my desk dashboard,,,i will finish this seemingly pointless non fiction novella when i remove my nose from the proverbial grindstone&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112915153389229383?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112915153389229383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112915153389229383&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112915153389229383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112915153389229383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/10/attitude-family-tradition-novella.html' title='attitude (a family tradition novella)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112855674965099149</id><published>2005-10-05T18:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-10T10:59:08.776-06:00</updated><title type='text'>word (to self)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/valk%20tire.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/valk%20tire.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#6666cc;"&gt;no man's final dying words are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#6666cc;"&gt;"i wish i would have spent more time at the office"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112855674965099149?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112855674965099149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112855674965099149&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112855674965099149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112855674965099149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/10/word-to-self.html' title='word (to self)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112825731101419804</id><published>2005-10-02T07:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T04:40:00.123-05:00</updated><title type='text'>postcard (from my grandmother suffering with tourette's syndrome)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_cheapsunglasses_card.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_cheapsunglasses_card.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;my &lt;em&gt;SHIT BITCH &lt;/em&gt;sweet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;FUCK FUCK &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;andrew&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;CO CO COCKSUCKER PISS FUCK SSSSHIT &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;weather is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;MOMOMOTHERFUCKER &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;grand, wish &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;ASSHOLE DAAAAMN &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;you were &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;MONKEY SHIT BITCH &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112825731101419804?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112825731101419804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112825731101419804&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112825731101419804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112825731101419804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/10/postcard-from-my-grandmother-suffering.html' title='postcard (from my grandmother suffering with tourette&apos;s syndrome)'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112804345658191931</id><published>2005-09-29T20:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-09-30T15:33:32.576-05:00</updated><title type='text'>LOUISIANA SOLD BACK TO FRANCE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_cheapsunglasses_LA.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 314px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 296px" height="291" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/andyowens_cheapsunglasses_LA.jpg" width="301" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;BATON ROUGE, LA. - The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000. "This is a bold step forward for America," said Bush. "And America will be stronger and better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime Minister Jack Sharaq, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana in exchange for 25 million dollars cash."The state, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild. "Jack understands full well that this one's a 'fixer upper,'" said Bush. "He and the French people are quite prepared to pump out all that water, and make Louisiana a decent place to live again. And they've got a lot of work to do. But Jack's assured me, if it's not right, they're going to fix it."The move has been met with incredulity from the beleaguered residents of Louisiana."Shuba-pie!" said New Orleans resident Willis Babineaux. "Frafer-perly yum kom drabby sham!" However, President Bush's decision has been widely lauded by Republicans. "This is an unexpected but brilliant move by the President," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Instead of spending billions and billions, and billions of dollars rebuilding the state of Louisiana, we've just made 25 million dollars in pure profit.""This is indeed a smart move," commented Fox News analyst Brit Hume. "Not only have we stopped the flooding in our own budget, we've made money on the deal. Plus, when the god-awful French are done fixing it up, we can easily invade and take it back again."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112804345658191931?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112804345658191931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112804345658191931&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112804345658191931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112804345658191931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/09/louisiana-sold-back-to-france.html' title='LOUISIANA SOLD BACK TO FRANCE'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112752857606009753</id><published>2005-09-23T21:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T21:22:56.066-05:00</updated><title type='text'>twenty three september, 21:00 (so far so good)...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/lightbulb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/320/lightbulb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112752857606009753?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112752857606009753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112752857606009753&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112752857606009753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112752857606009753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/09/twenty-three-september-2100-so-far-so.html' title='twenty three september, 21:00 (so far so good)...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11947007.post-112744365941128457</id><published>2005-09-22T21:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-27T11:33:44.096-06:00</updated><title type='text'>dé·jà vu senorita rita...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/1600/andyowens_cheapsunglasses_rita.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7899/989/400/andyowens_cheapsunglasses_rita.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;dé·jà vu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ( P ) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="linksrc" title="Click for guide to symbols." onclick="ahdpop();return false;" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Pronunciation Key&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; (dzhä v) n. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;An impression of having seen or experienced something before...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11947007-112744365941128457?l=andyowens.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/feeds/112744365941128457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11947007&amp;postID=112744365941128457&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112744365941128457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11947007/posts/default/112744365941128457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andyowens.blogspot.com/2005/09/dj-vu-senorita-rita.html' title='dé·jà vu senorita rita...'/><author><name>cheapsunglasses</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17030964046040053310</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17280485150629849932'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>