English in Swidnik

Aug 31

If you had to vote for somebody Today which candidate would you choose?
Barack Obama

John McCain

Kermit the Frog

Peter Griffin

Homer Simpson

Go ahead and vote for your favorite by leaving a comment.  Thanks.
Photos provided by jurvetson, 4President, Jeff B, Sknot08, andy14darock

Aug 31

Based on statistics, the search for online videos has been reigning the search engine top lists for a long period of time now. In fact, according to Mikes-Marketing-Tools.com, the keyword that’s most searched is the word “redtube,” referring to RedTube.com, a famous porn counterpart of Youtube.
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Aug 31

We mean that as a compliment, really. It’s true that we have a soft spot for Robot Chicken as a result of co-creator and sometime director Matthew Seinreich once borrowing my phone on a noisy curb at Comic-Con. As a thank you, he offered me a not-yet-released DVD of Sealab 2021 he’d just been given. I couldn’t fathom “charging” someone for borrowing a cell phone and went through what I’m afraid turned into an eyelash-batting pageant of self-denial. What I could not have seen from my back row seats in the Adult Swim panel we’d just left, however, was that this was the same DVD Seth Green had just put down his shirt on stage. Susannah’s still mad at me over that one.
ANYWAY. Even if you haven’t been demure around Matthew Seinriech or declined Seth Green’s chest sweat, you can love Robot Chicken’s sick and wrong melange of pop culture [...]

Aug 31

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As a soccer referee for the past 5+ years, I have been involved in many discussions with coaches and players. I’ll tell you about some of the interesting ones.
I have a bad habit of talking back to the fans when they complain about me. It’s not a good practice, but it is very funny sometimes. An older gentleman, maybe in his 50’s was yelling about a call, and I replied, “If you don’t be quiet, you’re going to leave, and you will have to call your granddaughter to see how the game turned out.” It was a girls game, and I later found out that his daughter was playing, not his granddaughter.
During another contest, I was listening to constant complaining. I hadn’t checked to see who it was, but I told them how it was going to be anyway. I said, “close your mouth and watch the game.” I then [...]

Aug 31

Mariyah Moten and Barbara Pinto- New York Film Academy
Miss Pakistan Tourism 2006

New York Film Academy

Mariyah Moten graduates from the New York Film Academy, in Los Angeles.  The New York Film Academy is the proud acting school and film school for the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants Winners. Some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers and film stars have chosen to send their sons and daughters to the Film School & Acting School of the New York Film Academy, including Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon, and Kevin Kline to name a few.  During her stay in LA, Mariyah worked on various different film project:  Alvin and the Chimpmunks, The Mini’s featuring Dennis Rodman, and many different music videos and commercials.   Mariyah has also featured on the cover of swim suit calendars and has traveled around the world participating in beauty pageants. 
Pageant History

Miss Pakistan World - Top 5
Miss Tourism Queen International [...]

Aug 31

For those of you with macs, download The Hills screensaver now!
Will it invest your computer with inane chatter about fashion and parties? Will it show images of Lauren Conrad looking hot, but distantly angry?
Nope! Just zenful “beautifully rendered rolling green hills covered in perfectly-manicured grass.”
Download it here.

Aug 31

I read a very small article this past weekend, burried in the back of the paper that Michigan DNR are stumped as to why 19 deer have turned up dead alongside the Clinton River.
Hmmm, do you think I need to stop drinking the water?  I can not beleive this is a small story.  Normal diseases that deer can die of have been ruled out.  It looks like something bacterial.  Um, hello?  What is in my water?

Coincidentally, it was reported in the same week that two local schools have high levels of copper and lead, and the kids returning to school Tuesday can’t drink the water, and it hasn’t been decided yet that they can even wash their hands with it.

I wonder if we are being poisoned?  You know, come to think of it, a lot of my health troubles started or began once I moved here 4 1/2 years ago.

This [...]

Aug 31

Marie Digby - Umbrella (Acoustic): This must be the best cover ever made for Rihanna’s Umbrella. You’ve got to hear this! Love the lyrics (except the ella, ella, eh eh eh part hahahaha) too. When the sun shines, we’ll shine together, told you I’ll be here forever, said I’ll always be a friend, took an oath, I’ma stick it out till the end.
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I was on the tram on Saturday morning on my way to Japanese class, and this 40-something man plooped himself on the seat opposite mine. He was holding/reading a book on “Disaster Movies”, and on his other hand was a plastic bag full of DVDs. So I thought to myself, this must be a director or a director student who might one day make a movie like The Day After Tomorrow or Armageddon.
Just as I was accumulating much respect for this guy, my eyes glanced past the cover [...]

Aug 31

Often times I get upset and annoyed by something and feel liking telling the world about it.  After a few moments, I start to think of how the matter is actually small and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.  Then I feel silly about even wanting to write about it.  But hell!  Why shouldn’t I tell the world?  Everyone else does.  And I think that my opinions are among the best out there.  So here this one is.  I want you all to know just how dumb music in movies is.
Unless it is a film based upon music and the music actually occurs in a scene such as in High Fidelity, then it shouldn’t be used.  There is nothing more corny about a almost good movie than having some sythesized mood theme.  It just kills the mood for me.  There are exceptions to this, such as with Star Wars, [...]

Aug 31

     Maroon 5 kicked ass Friday night at DTE, here in Detroit. They blew me away as I expected. They played all their hits, even some other surprises, and 2 people managed to get up on stage, which was exciting.
     That dude, Adam Levine, can frickin’ sing! WOW!!
     As for Counting Crows, I have 2 comments.
     First, how can they perform live and NOT play ‘Round Here’?!?!?
     Second, what’s the deal with lead singer, Adam Duritz’s hair? I am saying it right here right now…it’s FAKE!!!

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