Showing posts with label Angell. Show all posts
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A Birthday, A Sky & A New Game

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Friday, July 10, 2009 10 Of Your Sparks


Please take a moment and head over and wish my good friend ANGELL from "Angell'z Secretz" a wonderful BIRTHDAY!


Check out "Looking At The Sky Friday" participants by clicking on the banner above and heading over to Crazy Working Mom's site.

Going back to last October...Lake Meade from atop the Hoover Dam and a brilliant blue sky - OK, it is a sliver of the sky...but there is SKY!


It has really been a tiring week between work and the activities surrounding a certain day in September and well, just life...

I have made it to your blogs every day this week, so that is a good thing!

Have not really had a chance to do much photography, though we did take some pictures this weekend of Nancy and I for use in the upcoming weeks.


I thought this might be fun for a Friday...here is the deal...we have some quotes below and it is your assignment to figure out which quote belongs to one of the following people. Now, I will tell you that all of them may not be represented below...then again they all might be!

Go on...take the challenge..this post is here on top until Monday.

So without further ado...it is time to play:



Rules are simple. Each quote is numbered. In comments, put the letter of the person you think spoke the quote next to the number of the quote. We will come up with an appropriate prize for the winner and in case of a tie we will cut the prize in pieces numbering the winners! No, really, we will come up with something!


Our 'guest' speakers today are:
A) Joe Biden
B) Sarah Palin
C) Dick Cheney
D) Hillary Clinton
E) Barack Obama
F) George W. Bush



  1. "We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood."
  2. "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
  3. "In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart. "
  4. "As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. "
  5. "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking."
  6. "You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents."
  7. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan."
  8. "The fact is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers."
  9. "The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not."
  10. “Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver.”


I probably played this somewhere in the past, but it just came on while I was finishing the post, and HECK-A-DOODLE I just had to share it...

To find out who it is, well, you have to follow the H-A-D link...






With A Little Help From My Friends - The Angels Of Mercy

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Wednesday, January 02, 2008 22 Of Your Sparks



TIME TO DONATE SOME RICE TODAY!
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Build your vocabulary, feed the hungry...
12,255,121,230 grains donated at this point...



Our First Post of 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
MAY IT BRING YOU PROSPERITY, LOVE AND HEALTH...

We are home and had a great time with TurnBaby and the DH and their friends...We will tell you all about it tomorrow...but we had a fan-tab-u-lous time on her radio show Sunday...check the player on our left sidebar for some incredible fun...


Today, we share a video with you. This was made by our friend Angell'z sister-in-law's niece's dad...The niece, Ali began something wondeful in her hometown of Toronto...The video is 10 minutes long, but it shows what one person can start...Meet "The Angels Of Mercy"...



PLEASE go over to Angell'z blog and read her words...



As you are aware, we are firm believers in FreeRice.com and the wonderful work they are doing in under-developed countries...

BUT we can not forget those who live on our streets...those who go to bed every night freezing cold or with hunger pains who live in Toronto, and New York City and Montreal and San Francisco and Atlanta and Palm Beach and Salt Lake City and San Antonio and Lexington and Springfield and Memphis and Vancouver and Commack and every other city or town or village big and small...

They are not all adults either...there are children who live in cars with their parents, there are teens who have no where to go and end up being exploited by those who have no souls...

That old blanket you have that you no longer use, or maybe the dog lays on at night? Tomorrow when you leave for work, throw it in your car and if you see one of these poor souls, roll down you window and hand it to them....

As you leave your Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kream or Timmy's....order an extra coffee and muffin and donut and just look around as you leave...We bet you see someone who lives on the street without too much effort. Walk over and hand them that coffee and donut.

Making a sandwich to bring to the office...make a second one and hand it over to someone who had not eaten in days...

Make 2008 the year we all just try a little harder...because we can all "get by with a little help from our friends"...



Bless you all...




"With A Little Help From My Friends"
JOE COCKER
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
With A Little Help From My Friends
1969
A&M Records



Lastly, got a wav file of this in an email...
Check out this site for some amazing artistry

Sand Fantasy



DOUBLE MEME - Guitar Solos and Food

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, May 15, 2007 24 Of Your Sparks

I've been hit with TWO MEMEs...

First off:

Sweet Empress Bee tagged me with a meme created by Meloncutter.

Five songs with great lead guitar solo's.
Do you realize how difficult this was for me,
to pick just FIVE?????

Morgen also tagged me, but BEE touched me first...


Then TUG hit me with the Restaurant Meme

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IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED - Allman Brothers -
Duane and Dickey rip it up.
And now, in concert, Warren and Derek do the same)



PEACHES EN REGALIA - Frank Zappa at his finest.


CAN'T YOU SEE - Marshall Tucker Band
Toy Caldwell was one of the more underrated guitarists, may he rest in peace.


WATER SONG - Hot Tuna
Jorma Kaukonen - You have heard me rave about him before....'nuff said.


SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE - Cream
The opening riff of this song is infamous. The guitar solo, pure Eric Clapton.


Hey, and I did it without mentioning Jerry Garcia... how the hell did that happen???

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We get to tag people, so...here we go...

BECKEYE
COCO
BUD

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OK, now Tug's:

First the rules:
1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.
Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, United States)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Lulu (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Chris (Boyne City, Michigan, United States)
AB (Cave Creek, Arizona, United States)
Johnny Yen (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Bubs (Mt Prospect, Illinois, United States)
Mob (Midland, Texas United States)
Yas (Ahwatukee, Arizona USA)
Alicia(Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA)
Tug (Hell, Colorado, USA)
Bond (Memphis, TN, USA)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.
3. Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) and let them know they’ve been tagged.

Well, since I am new to Memphis this might be tough...

1) DOC WATSONS: Neighborhood bar, I go there on Friday evenings every few weeks. They make a great burger, fish and chips and other "bar-type" food, but especially their homemade chips. The potatoes are sliced real thin and fried up nice and crisp...that and a few beers..yum. And good local talent every Friday and Saturday playing great music.

2) GERMANTOWN COMMISSARY: A tiny little out of the way bar-b-que joint. Excellent ribs and chicken and sausage and pulled pork and baked beans and chocolate pie...yum-o

3) JOHNNY BRUSCO'S: As close to NY pizza as you will find in Memphis. It is a franchise with locations in TN, GA, KS, MS, and TX, but they do use real pizza ovens. Good chicken parm subs also.

4) THE BUTCHER SHOP: Only been here once, but the steaks were excellent and they actually had espresso... so they get extra points for that!

5) B.B. KINGS: OK, well the food might not be the absolute best, but anything tastes better when you have great live music being played while you eat. B.B.'s is at the head of Beale Street and has some of the best music on the block.

Guess it wasn't that tough...

We now have to tag five:

Anndi - Montreal, Canada (totally different from Toronto)
Angell - Toronto, Canada (totally different from Montreal)
TopChamp - Scotland
Lizza - Phillipines
Travis - N.W. (hey to me that is like a foreign country!)

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SARGE CHARLIE has honored us with a wonderful shout out HERE
And sent us the wonderful award slide show you see on the
left hand side of THE COUCH
THANK YOU SIR!

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CREDITS:

IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED
Allman Brothers Band
Composer: Dickey Betts

PEACHES EN REGALIA
Frank Zappa
Composer: Frank Zappa

CAN'T YOU SEE
Marshall Tucker Band
Composer: Toy Caldwell

WATER SONG
Hot Tuna
Composer: Jorma Kaukonen

SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE
Cream
Composers:
Peter Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton

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