I was on RTV6 News today! Check the link out below!
http://www.theindychannel.com/video/18294623/
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Lofty Goals!
I'm going to try and take another vacation this coming summer! I want to take a quick getaway (3 days)to New York City for my birthday and see a Broadway muscial! I want to go see Guys and Dolls with Mario Lopez's nemesis (pictured), when it comes to the stage next year!
Here is to saving money and making the trip.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Sex on Fire
Watch out, Adam Levine and company. You are on the verge of being replaced. I have become a very big fan of a band called "Kings of Leon". They aren't new, just new to me, and I love them. Especially this song! Below is a live performance of the song. I love the actual video too though, just can embed it. Enjoy!
Last 6 Minutes
Below is a video of Butler's game on Thursday night. Good thing I wasn't there or I would have died in those last few seconds. Enjoy and Go Bulldogs!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Let's Catch Up!
It's been awhile since I last made an entry so here is what is up in the life of Anthony.
Holidays
I went home to Salem, Indiana to spend thanksgiving with the family. After threatening to live once, I stayed until the following day. Would love to spend more time if some of them would be more respectful to others.
Butler Basketball
The season has begun and I have attended every game, except one to date. So far, we are 5-0. Wednesday night was the a close one though, they beat Northwestern 57-53. I was on my feet for the last 3 minutes of the game and a nervous wreck. I think I was more tense then right before they announced Nicole Kidman's name for an Oscar. Ok, so maybe not that much.
The highlight of the night was that I had 3 other tickets in addition to mine that were not being used and I gave them to a father and his young daughter (around 13). They were very grateful and even more grateful when they found out they would be sitting in the second row. I wasn't about to give up my front row seat! :)
Leaves and Drinking
So I borrowed my neighbors leaf blower and mulcher last week. I don't know what I would have done without it as I have about 7 trees in my yard. I filled up 20 bags of mulched leaves and finished the yard and about 10 hours. I was exhausted. However, I broke the mulcher with only about 10 minutes to go. I did fix it, but I still felt bad and told them I would buy them a new one. They declined, but I insisted. To date, we haven't agreed on the issue. However, we did agree to drink together on Friday night. They are so nice! Very lucky to have them as neighbors. Anyways we drank about two bottles of wine and chatted for about 2 hours. I figured out that the one guy knows a few people from Salem (Oh No!) and the other guy works with insects (curious to find out more about that)! After drinking and chatting we went to a local gay bar and spent another hour and some beers. I really don't remember too much more, just hazy details.
I spent all day Saturday hungover, BIG TIME. I had planned to see Australia the next morning, but I just couldn't get out of bed. You know it has to be bad if I have to delay going to see a Nicole Kidman movie. I finally got up around 7pm and went to the 8pm showing. I loved the movie, but it could have been so much more moving. I didn't even cry and I fully expected too!
So there you go, in a rambled mess, with many spelling and grammar errors is my life in the past week.
Hope you had great holiday and hope to see you soon!
Love,
Anthony
Holidays
I went home to Salem, Indiana to spend thanksgiving with the family. After threatening to live once, I stayed until the following day. Would love to spend more time if some of them would be more respectful to others.
Butler Basketball
The season has begun and I have attended every game, except one to date. So far, we are 5-0. Wednesday night was the a close one though, they beat Northwestern 57-53. I was on my feet for the last 3 minutes of the game and a nervous wreck. I think I was more tense then right before they announced Nicole Kidman's name for an Oscar. Ok, so maybe not that much.
The highlight of the night was that I had 3 other tickets in addition to mine that were not being used and I gave them to a father and his young daughter (around 13). They were very grateful and even more grateful when they found out they would be sitting in the second row. I wasn't about to give up my front row seat! :)
Leaves and Drinking
So I borrowed my neighbors leaf blower and mulcher last week. I don't know what I would have done without it as I have about 7 trees in my yard. I filled up 20 bags of mulched leaves and finished the yard and about 10 hours. I was exhausted. However, I broke the mulcher with only about 10 minutes to go. I did fix it, but I still felt bad and told them I would buy them a new one. They declined, but I insisted. To date, we haven't agreed on the issue. However, we did agree to drink together on Friday night. They are so nice! Very lucky to have them as neighbors. Anyways we drank about two bottles of wine and chatted for about 2 hours. I figured out that the one guy knows a few people from Salem (Oh No!) and the other guy works with insects (curious to find out more about that)! After drinking and chatting we went to a local gay bar and spent another hour and some beers. I really don't remember too much more, just hazy details.
I spent all day Saturday hungover, BIG TIME. I had planned to see Australia the next morning, but I just couldn't get out of bed. You know it has to be bad if I have to delay going to see a Nicole Kidman movie. I finally got up around 7pm and went to the 8pm showing. I loved the movie, but it could have been so much more moving. I didn't even cry and I fully expected too!
So there you go, in a rambled mess, with many spelling and grammar errors is my life in the past week.
Hope you had great holiday and hope to see you soon!
Love,
Anthony
Monday, November 17, 2008
Dude is a Lady!
So it has come to my attention, that in the actual Beyonce Video the darker skinned back-up dancer is actually a dude! He is Beyonce's choreographer and joined her on the video.
Makes the whole SNL skit a little funnier but also quite weird at the same time.
Makes the whole SNL skit a little funnier but also quite weird at the same time.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
WTF? SNL!
Last night was the first episode of "Saturday Night Live" following the 2008 Presidential Election. It was very likely that the show would suck big time.For the most part it did!
I was really only watching because Beyonce was the musical guest. In fact, I planned on going to sleep following her first performance and then would watch the second in the morning on my DVR'd copy. However, for some strange reason I stayed up to watch Weekend Update. Then I stayed awake for one more skit and thank goodness I did! I witnessed an actual funny skit that had nothing to do with the Election.
It involved Paul Rudd, Andy Samburg, Bobby Monayhan (the new dude), Justin Timberlake, and BEYONCE. It was a funny take on the video to Beyonce's new song "Single Ladies". I watched my DVR'd copy like 5 times today and then I deleted it thinking if I was in the mood I could catch it online.
I thought HULU.com or NBC.com would actually show the video clip, but no so luck (at least right now). Seriously, what the hell? The best I can do for you is to put the clip of Beyonce's actual video on here and then instead of the backup dancers, picture the boys minus Paul Rudd as the back up dancers (outfits and all).
Enjoy and if you find the skit somewhere online please let me know!
UPDATE: You can find the video at this link. But who knows how long that will last!
I was really only watching because Beyonce was the musical guest. In fact, I planned on going to sleep following her first performance and then would watch the second in the morning on my DVR'd copy. However, for some strange reason I stayed up to watch Weekend Update. Then I stayed awake for one more skit and thank goodness I did! I witnessed an actual funny skit that had nothing to do with the Election.
It involved Paul Rudd, Andy Samburg, Bobby Monayhan (the new dude), Justin Timberlake, and BEYONCE. It was a funny take on the video to Beyonce's new song "Single Ladies". I watched my DVR'd copy like 5 times today and then I deleted it thinking if I was in the mood I could catch it online.
I thought HULU.com or NBC.com would actually show the video clip, but no so luck (at least right now). Seriously, what the hell? The best I can do for you is to put the clip of Beyonce's actual video on here and then instead of the backup dancers, picture the boys minus Paul Rudd as the back up dancers (outfits and all).
Enjoy and if you find the skit somewhere online please let me know!
UPDATE: You can find the video at this link. But who knows how long that will last!
Monday, November 10, 2008
She Hates Me!
So yesterday was supposed to be the day of all days in 2008 for me. I was suppose to go see Celine Dion. It didnt happen!
She rescheduled the concert for December 21st, because she is sick!
Life sucks, but I waited 1 year, whats another month and two weeks!
She rescheduled the concert for December 21st, because she is sick!
Life sucks, but I waited 1 year, whats another month and two weeks!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Change We Can Believe In!
On Tuesday, I was able to be part of History. I proudly cast a vote for Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. I cast that vote, not just because I believe in him and what he can do for America, but for what he represents: An America that can Grow!
After casting my vote I went to 17th Street and Broadway in Indianapolis to visit a remarkable site that honors my greatest hero, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
On, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Kennedy broke the news of King's death to a large gathering of African Americans in Indianapolis, Indiana that evening. The gathering, which was actually a planned as campaign rally in his bid to get the 1968 Democratic nomination for President took a dramatic turn. Just after he arrived by plane at Indianapolis, Kennedy was told of King's death. He was advised by police and the Mayor of Indianapolis (Indiana Senator, Richard Lugar)at that time against making the campaign stop which was in a part of the city considered to be a dangerous ghetto. However, Kennedy insisted on going.
Upon his arrival the crowd was in an upbeat mood, anticipating the excitement of a Kennedy appearance. However, he was about to change their lives for ever. He climbed onto the platform, broke the news of King's death.
Here is what he said:
Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because...
I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love - a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. Thank you very much
So after my vote, I went to the site of this speech and took pictures of the statue that now sites on that site.
I can't help but think about what these two amazing individuals were not able to witness on Tuesday. It is amazing that we have been able to come so far in this great country. I have never felt prouder to be an American than I am at this time.
While the actions this nation took on Tuesday night are great, we cannot become blind to others. While we have elected an African American to the highest office, there are plenty of others who are still being discriminated against. We are human beings and we need to treat everyone with the same dignity and respect we would want to be treated with. I have started to think it is possible for me to live in a country where I can be proud of who I am and share who I am.
So here is to four wonderful years and hopefully more to come,
Love,
Anthony
P.S.
Senator Kennedy was campaigning in Indiana in 1968, the last year, until this year that Indiana ever voted for a Democrat.
Secondly, this last shot is something I found truly amazing. Just less than 20 steps away from the statue was a polling place. I wish they could have seen it!
After casting my vote I went to 17th Street and Broadway in Indianapolis to visit a remarkable site that honors my greatest hero, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
On, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Kennedy broke the news of King's death to a large gathering of African Americans in Indianapolis, Indiana that evening. The gathering, which was actually a planned as campaign rally in his bid to get the 1968 Democratic nomination for President took a dramatic turn. Just after he arrived by plane at Indianapolis, Kennedy was told of King's death. He was advised by police and the Mayor of Indianapolis (Indiana Senator, Richard Lugar)at that time against making the campaign stop which was in a part of the city considered to be a dangerous ghetto. However, Kennedy insisted on going.
Upon his arrival the crowd was in an upbeat mood, anticipating the excitement of a Kennedy appearance. However, he was about to change their lives for ever. He climbed onto the platform, broke the news of King's death.
Here is what he said:
Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because...
I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love - a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. Thank you very much
So after my vote, I went to the site of this speech and took pictures of the statue that now sites on that site.
I can't help but think about what these two amazing individuals were not able to witness on Tuesday. It is amazing that we have been able to come so far in this great country. I have never felt prouder to be an American than I am at this time.
While the actions this nation took on Tuesday night are great, we cannot become blind to others. While we have elected an African American to the highest office, there are plenty of others who are still being discriminated against. We are human beings and we need to treat everyone with the same dignity and respect we would want to be treated with. I have started to think it is possible for me to live in a country where I can be proud of who I am and share who I am.
So here is to four wonderful years and hopefully more to come,
Love,
Anthony
P.S.
Senator Kennedy was campaigning in Indiana in 1968, the last year, until this year that Indiana ever voted for a Democrat.
Secondly, this last shot is something I found truly amazing. Just less than 20 steps away from the statue was a polling place. I wish they could have seen it!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Touch Screens and Be Cool
Here are two funny clips I saw from David Alan Grier's new show Chocolate News on Comedy Central. Enjoy!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Down Memory Lane
I was trying to find a YouTube clip today of a segment that happened on Cambell Brown: No Bias, No Bull(shit) (Jenn, I saw that on the Daily Show), but I could find it. However, what I did find was some good clips of good ole' Kyra Phillips. She has been full of comedy for me.
Let's go down memory lane and watch a few clips. This first one is, when AWESOME. She forgets to turn off her mic when she heads to the bathroom, while they are showing President Bush in a press conference. Funny? Yes! Big Deal? Not Really. Wait, that is until she starts badmouthing her sister-in-law on live television. That's right, she is in the bathroom on her cell phone. Enjoy!
Sure, that was awesome, but is there anything better than calling some the c-word on live TV? Hell No! Let's enjoy another clip!
Ok, and one final one, not as big of deal, but still funny! I love John Roberts reaction! Dirty Perv!
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God Bless, Kyra Phillips and her screw ups!
Let's go down memory lane and watch a few clips. This first one is, when AWESOME. She forgets to turn off her mic when she heads to the bathroom, while they are showing President Bush in a press conference. Funny? Yes! Big Deal? Not Really. Wait, that is until she starts badmouthing her sister-in-law on live television. That's right, she is in the bathroom on her cell phone. Enjoy!
Sure, that was awesome, but is there anything better than calling some the c-word on live TV? Hell No! Let's enjoy another clip!
Ok, and one final one, not as big of deal, but still funny! I love John Roberts reaction! Dirty Perv!
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God Bless, Kyra Phillips and her screw ups!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Countdown is on.....
....no not for the election. Don't get me wrong, that is a big deal. But, I there are now 11 days left until I see Celine Dion! Oh sweet Jesus, my dreams are coming true!
Because you love me,
Anthony XOXO!
No More Palin!
While, I will be working on Halloween night, I hope none of you run into a Sarah Palin costume while out and about. Thought this invitation was very cute. Enjoy!Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Who knew I loved all the Ponces!
On my work today I heard an ad for a local radio station's Christmas concert. The ad stated that a band named "Straight No Chaser" would be appearing at that concert. Chances are you have never heard of them, but I have. In fact, I hired them. Hired them, you ask? Yes, when I lived in Washington County (Salem) and organized the Miss Washington County Teen Pageant, we hired them to be our entertainment. They were a group of about 12 college guys from Indiana University who sang acapella. They were AWESOME and I LOVED them!So, you can only guess that when I heard a band of that name was coming to Indianapolis I got a little curious. I did my internet research and found out that they have reunited and are coming out with a Christmas cd later this fall. Hence, the Christmas concert apperance.
Doing a little further research, I found out that groups founder is a gentleman named Don Ponce (pictured above). I got a little more curious after learning this. So I did a little more research, and con
firmed that Mr. Ponce is the brother of my favorite news reporter (Anthony Ponce, pictured to the right) who left Indianapolis for Chicago about 2 years ago. Both Brothers are reporters at different stations in the Chicago Market.
firmed that Mr. Ponce is the brother of my favorite news reporter (Anthony Ponce, pictured to the right) who left Indianapolis for Chicago about 2 years ago. Both Brothers are reporters at different stations in the Chicago Market. Who would have known that I would have such an obsession with the Ponce Brothers. I sure didnt, and truthfully I find it kind of creepy!
However, I am not going to stop watching video clips of Anthony's reports online; and I'm more likely to go to the Christmas concert now! Maybe Anthony will be there! :)
Spellcheck that crap!
Yes, the name of this blog has changed! A dear friend of mine pointed out that I spelled "obsessions" wrong! When I went to change it earlier today, I found out that obsessionsofmine.blogspot.com was already taken. His obessions are with such things as Star Trek and Lord of the Rings. Clearly that's not me!
Make sure to bookmark my new address!
Make sure to bookmark my new address!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Do you hate Beyonce?
Most of my friends do! However, there are some songs that I think have a great message, and then it gets even better once a video accompanies a song. This is my example.
This is also the reason I am not in a relationship! Love Sucks!
This is also the reason I am not in a relationship! Love Sucks!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Getting on my treadmill!
Anderson Cooper is gracing the cover of Best Life magazine this month. Maybe he can inspire me to live a better life. Doubt it!
No, but in all honesty, I either have a serious life threatening disease or I'm doing something good. I was able to by my first pair of pants that were size large. I even had to buy a new winter pea coat cause the one I had made me look like I was swimming in it. Spending all this money in this time of the economy sucks though. However, I think my new style has me looking "Fabulous". I just need to keep working on it.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Let's see what happens...
So I thought I would try to join the world of blogging now. I don't know possessed me to do this. There wont be anything to deep on here, and quite frankly it's just for those friends of mine who give a shit. Basically if I find a video clip, photo, or news story I find interesting I will put it on here. So let's start it with some news that almost made me pee my pants yesterday. Amy Sedaris will not only start developing her own television series, but staring in an upcoming episode of "The Closer" with Kyra Sedgwick :) when it returns in January. I sure hope I'm not disappointed like I was when Jennifer Coolidge had a guest starring role.
Just to make us all smile, let's gone down memory lane and watch a clip of Amy on Martha Stewart's talk show. I love both of these bitches!
Just to make us all smile, let's gone down memory lane and watch a clip of Amy on Martha Stewart's talk show. I love both of these bitches!
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