Riddle Me This, Jishman

Thus, we need more DotW’s:

1.) Why is KISS the pitchmen for Dr. Pepper? Especially on their 125th anniversary, is there a reason why we need to be subjected to this?! I hope the Doctor himself is turning over in his grave.

2.) Milli Vanilli frontman thinks the duo were the scapegoats for the fraud they perpetrated. I’m sorry, were they NOT REALLY lip syncing?

“It’s not about being authentic anymore, it’s about entertaining,” says the man whose Grammy for best new artist was revoked 20 years ago — the only take-back in Recording Academy history.

No, it’s still about the music, actually, which YOU WEREN’T EVEN SINGING!

Vocal enhancements in the studio are a different matter, he says. “In pop, R&B and hip-hop, just about everyone uses some sort of processing. This has almost become part of the sound today … and people expect it.” Twenty years later, “what we were crucified for you see everywhere,” Morvan says. “Society and life and everything changes.”

Again, you weren’t being enhanced, YOU WEREN’T SINGING IT!

“Yeah, hi, Legster, Fab needs something to stand-on. Oh, even YOU don’t have something, okay great, thanks!”

As many of you know, we like to cook here at the RMTJ offices. We especially enjoy when people try our recipes. This is not one of those times. No, this is a time when someone took the time to send us in their recipe for Awesome Chicken. I’ll be honest, I could eat chicken 8 days a week, and one pot meals are more enjoyable during winter months for some reason.

Thus, for all of our loyal readers, here is Liz and Zach’s Awesome Chicken

Ingredients:
2 boneless chicken breasts
1 12oz can of chopped tomatoes (unsalted)
1/2 cup (or so, make sure you taste) fresh basil
minced or pressed garlic (i use that stuff in the tube)
1 tablespoon capers, drained (if you like them, if no, use onions)
1/4 of the box mushrooms (chopped baby bells)
1 small roasted pepper (pre-roast in a pan or right on cooktop, just scrap off black stuff after…or use the ones from a can.)
olive oil (just a little)
1 TSP oregano
1 TSP red pepper flakes
kosher salt
ground black pepper
blend cheese (Italian mix - Parmesan, mozzarella, etc.) - Use enough to cover the food in the pyrex
1/4 of a box of orzo (don’t need much, if you don’t have orzo, rice or pasta would work too)

1.) Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
2.) Combine tomatoes, garlic, capers, basil, oregano, red pepper flakes, salt/pepper to taste, a little olive oil (i used the spicy stuff i had to add more heat) in a mixing bowl. (add more basil, capers, and spices to taste. i like it a little spicy hence the flakes.)
3.) Put chicken in pyrex dish with mushrooms and peppers (for more flavor pre-marinate chicken with garlic and white wine type sauce) .
4.) Cover chicken and veggies with sauce, sprinkle a little cheese on top
5.) Bake for about 40 mins, giving the sauce time to bubble and cheese to be golden brown color
6.) With 10 mins to go, make the orzo.

We might need to try this soon.

Dear Riddle Me This, Jishman Readers and NFL football fans everywhere,

I have been asked by many people over the past few weeks, “when are you putting out your first NFL Mock draft?” I am not. I won’t mock draft the NFL draft this year. And I won’t watch the NFL draft this year and I am asking all of you to join me in a grassroots movement throughout the Blogosphere; I am asking all of you to join me in boycotting the 2010 NFL Draft!

Why?!

Simple. As an avid NFL fan, I was not happy last summer when the NFL announced the dumbest idea to date! Roger Goodell “notified teams Thursday that the draft will be spread over three days in 2010, running Thursday, April 22, through Saturday, April 24.”

The NFL has no idea what draft day means to true NFL fans! It is an all day, non-game day, tailgate party! We see friends, we renew rivalries and we BBQ, laugh, have a few cold ones and enjoy the day watching every single selection of the first and second rounds. But the new NFL Draft Schedule will alter those NFL Draft day celebrations because Goodell and company are pitting the potential for advertising dollars in prime time against the NFL Fans. Money over loyalty.

But we can stop it! And it is as simple as turning off the television. Do Not Watch the NFL Draft in 2010!

If the ratings tank, advertising dollars will be lost and the NFL will be forced to revisit their idea!

I am asking for your support. One person will not make a difference, I need your help as well as the suport of your friends and family. We have three months to mobilize an effort to do one thing; turn off the NFL Draft in 2010!

Send this message to everyone you know who loves the NFL and NFL draft day:

“Boycott the 2010 NFL Draft!”

That’s right, folks. Today is national Popcorn Day. So, tell us your favorite kind. Mine is Kettle Corn. Don’t get me wrong, regular, unflavored kind has its place. I like butter flavored too. For my money, Kettle Corn gets it done.

Thank you, Stew, for introducing me to it years ago.

Happy National Hat Day! This guy is one of our loyal readers. You can tell by his face: (more…)

Here’s what this says to me: “We have too many users and KNOW when we get the iPhone, we’ll have even more…thus, we need to see if we float a dumbass idea, how many influencers bitch enough to see if we lose people to get back to a sustainable number”. What do you think?

I can only imagine what it was like sitting in Poloroid’s board room when they made the decision to offer Lady Gaga the position of Creative Director:

CEO: “We need to do something new. Something innovative!”

All: “Yeah!”

CEO: “We’ve been at this for 100 years and all we’ve gotten is 100 years older! Especially Old Man Sutter in the corner!”

All: “Yeah!”

CEO: “Any suggestions on who it should be?”

All: “No!”

CEO’s daughter playing with crayons: “Daddy, daddy, I just got this new Lady Gaga cd!”

All: “I second the nomination!” “Lady Google, she’d be great!” “Now we’ll be connecting to a younger crowd!”

CEO: “Gaga, not Google!”

All: “WAAAAAAAHHH!!!! WE WANT GOOGLE!”

CEO: “This is why we haven’t made a good product since the instamatic!”

Really, I think my favorite line from the article was:

“The Haus of Gaga has been developing prototypes in the vein of fashion/technology/photography innovation.”

I’m sorry, what?! The. Haus. of. Gaga?!! Are you going to be saying “Gaga. Out.” whenever you leave a meeting now?

A while ago, I posted a link to PJ’s video of a song of off his new album (click here to see it). Last Summer, I wrote a review of his latest album Always & Everywhere (click here to read it) and in my honest opinion, you should own both of his albums. For more information on PJ Pacifico, his website is here (click).

Last Summer, PJ was selected to open a music festival in Connecticut (The Gathering of the Vibes) and on a rainy day in July, his band took the stage and kicked off a weekend festival with some great music! The videos are coming up in a second because I have some other news to report…

This just in for my friends in the Boston area:

Saturday April 3, 2010 – PJ Pacifico (solo) is playing at the All Asia Bar at 7pm. I will be there and I hope to see many of you there with me as well!!

Now… enough of me… here is PJ with his full band, kicking off the Gathering Of The Vibes in CT this past July!

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I thought this was a joke video because it had Dawn Wells (you know, Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island) in it BUT this trick is cool.

Check out the video:

This one is quite humorous! Also, from my parents:

A lady walks into Tiffany’s during the holiday season. She looks around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it. As she bends over to look more closely, she unexpectedly lets one squeak out.

Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone noticed her little ‘whoops’ and prays that a sales person wasn’t anywhere near. As she turns around, her worst nightmare materializes in the form of a salesman standing right behind her - and he’s good looking as well.

Cool as a cucumber, he displays all of the qualities one would expect of a professional in a store like Tiffany’s. He politely greets the lady with, ‘Good day, Madam. How may we help you today?’

Blushing and uncomfortable, but still hoping that the salesman somehow missed her little ‘incident’, she asks, ‘Sir, what is the price of this lovely bracelet?’

He answers, “Madam, if you farted just looking at it - you’re going to sh–t when I tell you the price.”

Have a great day!

My parents sent this to me just in time for the Holidays:

Three men die in a car accident Christmas Eve. They all find themselves at the pearly gates waiting to enter Heaven. On entering they must present something relating or associated with Christmas.

The first man searches his pocket, and finds some Mistletoe, so he is allowed in.

The second man presents a candy-cane, so he is also allowed in.

The third man pulls out a pair of stockings.

Confused at this last gesture, St. Peter asks, “How do these represent Christmas?”

“They’re Carol’s!”

Yes… a groaner!

A friend sent me this email joke entitled “Why Italians Can’t be Paramedics!” Funny stuff!

Vinnie and Sal are out in the woods hunting when suddenly Sal grabs his chest and falls to the ground.
He doesn’t seem to be breathing; his eyes are rolled back in his head.

Vinnie whips out his cell phone and calls 911.
He gasps to the operator, ”I think Sal is dead! What should I do?”

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, ”Just take it easy and follow my instructions.
First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”

There is a moment of silence.

And then a shot is heard.

Vinnie’s voice comes back on the line,

”Okay… now what?”

Have a great day!

Live Science Dot Com came out with their list of the happiest places in the United States to live (including District of Columbia). So I looked through the list and found a very disturbing trend for most of my friends; they/we all live in the most unhappy states in the Union. Being from MA, I understood why we were in the bottom ten and as I look at the other bluest of the blue states, they made the bottom of the list as well….. hmmmmmm!

Here are the bottom ten:

42. Rhode Island
43. Massachusetts
44. Ohio
45. Illinois
46. California
47. Indiana
48. Michigan
49. New Jersey
50. Connecticut
51. New York

But that isn’t it…..

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ESPN today had a story that the Big Ten Conference is looking to expand to 12 schools. This would allow them to split into 2 divisions for football and stage a Big Ten championship game (maybe in Chicago, Minneapolis, or Indianapolis). If the Big Ten were to expand, who would they add? Before we tackle that questions, let’s list the schools currently in the conference:

Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Purdue
Indiana
Northwestern
Illinois

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