The Real World DC is officially shooting...
... maybe.
GET OUT OF THE WAY! Don't you know who I am?
Hmmmm... I wonder which cliched RW character she will be?
Outside DuPont Circle, just up the street from my office... I hope MTV didn't make her walk all the way to S Street, from here!
Lights on... is any one home?
(all pictures courtesy of http://antirealworlddc.blogspot.com/)
To find out what happens, when people stop being polite...
Friday, July 3, 2009Ooooooh spooooooky.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Interesting shot from my phone. The wife and I were heading into DC to check out the Portrait Museum and the Art Gallery when on the opposite platform this train arrived. No passengers. No lights. NO CONDUCTER WOOOOOooooooOOOOOO... Not really he was in there, but the crazy thing was he left the way he came in.
Picture pages. Picture pages. Time to get your crayons and your penciiiiiiiiils!
Friday, February 6, 2009Hey gang! It has been a while... anywho, we have officially settled into our Washington, DC digs. We look forward to many visitors... wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Any who, wanted to share some pictures of our adventures to date... ENJOY!
Lyssee in front of one of the now retired Dumbo rideythingermajig from the, again, now retired Dumbo ride at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World... consequently the happiest place on earth... so, I hear... MOVING ON!
It snowed in Washington! FUN FUN! I know (groans from the Erie-ites). Our dogs LOVED it! By the way, Jack (the pug) is new. Teddy (the bischon) is not new, but his blue inflattable coller is... it keeps him safe, in case the Potomac rises and DC falls into the Atlantic. Safety first, Teddy. SAFETY FIRST!
Finally, I turned 30. Wooo... hooo... ah, sad. NOT REALLY! I feel amazing! Anywho, surprise birthday trip ala my beautiful wife, family and friends to ERIE, PA! It was awesome and I appreciate everyone who was able to make it! Wicked cold (expected) and wicked snow (expected), but The Beast (my FJ Cruiser) performed beautifully! Good times ALL AROUND!... and we're BAAACK!
Sunday, December 21, 2008The ladies are back from commercial break. Please enjoy the thrilling conclusion!
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OMG! We were pretty bored!
My favorite cooking show starring Ashley Cook and the ravishing Alyssa White!
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It has begun!
Friday, December 19, 2008
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(SIDEWAYS) Lunch Quartet
Monday, December 15, 2008Christmas in DC! This was taken in the lobby of my building. The quartet is camped out at the bottom of the tree. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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To good to pass up...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008Rove predicts Obama landslide
(CNN) – John McCain and his aides are still banking on a come-from-behind victory Tuesday, but the GOP's most famous political strategist has already called the race for Barack Obama.
Karl Rove, the man widely credited with engineering President Bush's two successful White House bids, is predicting the Illinois senator will take the White House in an Electoral College landslide, winning 338 votes to John McCain's 200. That would be the largest Electoral College victory since 1996, when Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole in a 379-159 rout.
In an Electoral Map posted on Rove's Web site, the Republican mastermind predicts Obama victories in several key battlegrounds, including virtually all of the states where polls suggest he currently enjoys a slim advantage. In fact, Rove believes Missouri is the only crucial battleground state McCain will carry, while Obama scores victories in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Iowa. Rove also thinks Obama will win traditionally-Republican Virginia.
"Indeed" of the Day
Why is it that Republicans... 
insist that Obama... 
is not qualified, to be the next President of the United States, due to his recent publicity and celebrity stardom, when two of their shining gems...
hail from Hollywood?
Bubb Rubb is my homeboy!
Friday, August 22, 2008
I do not think that was a complete stop, Mr. Rubb. WHOO WHOO!
... and just like...dun duh dun... the movies...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Hi, my name is Jimmy White, and I like Star Trek movies.
HI JIMMY.
As if it were not bad enough participating in the high school marching band (IT WAS COOL, I SWEAR!) and playing soccer in a state where everyone bleeds the foozball, the unfortunate trifecta of nerdiness comes with my adulation for anything Star Trek.
However, let's get one thing straight. I do not wear ears. I do not speak Klingon. I DO think Ricardo Montalban (KAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNN!) is by far the baddest villain on screen (Yes, Junior, even worse than Darth Vader.). Thus, I am very excited to see J.J. Abrams retelling of the story of Captain James Tiberius (Yes, I know his middle name without having to Google it.) Kirk and his multi-cultural rabble of interstellar explorers.
HATE BEGETS HATE
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sad news out of my home state of Pennsylvania. This type of discrimination and hate runs rampant in her homes.
I wish people would think twice before they put their hate of fellow human beings on display for their children to see... these boys learned this hate from somewhere!
One touching yet horrible consequence of this brutality, is, the fact, that Luis Ramirez was beaten so horribly that the medallion of Jesus Christ Ramirez was wearing was embedded into his chest leaving a "clotted, bruised impression of Jesus Christ on the skin of his chest."
No amount of politics justifies the killing of another human being. DESPICABLE.
The Jimmy White Gambit
It may come as a surprise to most that I enjoy a good super hero movie now and then. As I stated before, my preference is for one blue tight clad red cape wearing alien from Krypton. However, there is another...
NO NOT WOLVERINE... Wolverine is a chump compared to Gambit (stay tuned for Halloween pics of my own take on Gambit).
My fan boy excitement for this film comes merely from a rewarded patience that I have maintained since THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND... THE YEAR TWOOOOO THOUSAND (shout out: Conan O'Brien)! For those unaware, Gambit (real name Remy LeBeau) is a Cajun mutant heralding from the great city of New Orleans, LA. He has the power to commute kinetic energy into potential energy with explosive consequences. He has two weapons of choice: a deck of cards and a bow staff. He is one of the most popular mutants of the X-Men, but has been absent from all 3 films (X-Men 2000, X2 2003, X3 2006)!!!!
Until now... He will personally be manifest in this movie by the actor Taylor Kitsch a.k.a Tim Riggins from the ailing TV series "Friday Night Lights."
Now that we are all on the same page, Taylor's performance as Gambit can be seen in this footage from Comic-Con 2008 (just look for the playing cards!).
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (shout out: Monty Python):
- IS THAT GRAVE ROLLING I HEAR?
There is a cemetery, (Founder's Park) in uptown Charlotte, where the bodies of Charlotte's founders rest (tombstones and all). It is quite a beautiful green space, but it has gone from a plot of hallowed ground to a dog park. There is just something disconcerting about walking a dog in a cemetery, letting said dog piddle on another person's grave marker, and then allowing, again, said dog poo 6 feet above where those who have come before us rest. I am still of the habit of walking around the area where a body lay while in a cemetery, thus it just blows my mind that these uptown residents would allow their canines to defecate all over their founder's graves. These are the same people trying to put the kibosh on a Coyote Ugly and a Hooters. I'm sure the founders are proud! - GOOD INTENTIONS
How do you know when to stop and help someone on the road? Does it depend on how many people are there? gender? mechanical issue? age? How many of the poor can you serve in one day? Should you carry around bottled water for drifters? Money for pan handlers? Food for the hungry? Conversation for the lonely?
The need is overwhelming! I figured it last night that if I stopped and helped every person I saw who needed my charity between my office and my home, I would not make it home until the latter part of the evening. It is personally difficult for me to help one and then walk by the next ten. I need help fighting this fight and the City of Charlotte (boushy uptown residents supplied with the infinite wisdom of selfish people) has already taken themselves out of the running. Charlotte has taken it upon themselves to begin citing homeless people who are lining up for food distribution on the city's fringes. Kudos Charlotte! DESPICABLE!
Any who, God, I pray for the wisdom to help the most needy among my community that cross my path. Help me, my friends, and my family to serve those who are referred to as "the least of these" with the courage, resources and intentions fueled by your Gospel. In Your Name, I pray. Amen.
The latest campaign Jab.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008Check out my cameo towards the end.
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Wow...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
B.H. Obama
This is a picture I would like to see circling around in forwarded emails... truly inspiring! The chills I feel looking at this picture are a true testament to the pure emotion captured by this AP photographer. I would caption this picture: "The Healing of America (and the World)."
Other American Presidents (insert biased assumption #1) have drawn crowds in Berlin...
J.F. Kennedy
G.W. BushR.W. Reagan
Any who... an update on a previous post regarding the "MySpace Tween Killer." Her lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss... "The new defense motions argue the indictment violates constitutional due process, fails to state an offense as required by federal rules of criminal procedure and alleges no crime, but is instead vague." I have a great idea, how about this women withdraw her "not guilty" plea and accept responsibility for what she did, thus a "guilty" plea would be appropriate.
DESPICABLE.
"That's it! You're outta here!"
Friday, July 11, 2008A "Jim White Adventure" is an occurrence that happens to this author when he is either off gallivanting around the globe or rocking it out solo in Charlotte... regardless, these "Adventures" seem to only happen to me when no one else is around (sort of like Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones).
Any who, I had quite the "Jim White Adventure" yesterday. Aside from recanting my "Adventure" to my lovely wife. Alyssa, I recently recanted the tale to my brother in the law (unlike a brother-in-law) Richard Zmijewski. What follows is the transcript of our conversation... enjoy!
10:04 AM me: hola?
10:08 AM Richard: Coma estas?
me: estoy bien! e tu?
Richard: Muy bien, gracias!
10:09 AM me: i scooped your ass
Richard: how so
oh with Trina
congratulations, now all 2 of your readers were better informed
BURNED
me: lol
Richard: lol
sorry
that was mean
me: zoom zoom zooooooooooooom
10:10 AM Richard: question for you:
10:11 AM If you were a hot dog
would you eat yourself?
I know I would
10:12 AM me: id cover my self with relish and brown mustard... id chow down!
how about this sh%#
10:13 AM im going to blog about it later but ill give you the 411
Richard: sweet
me: my plane from minneapolis to charlotte was delayed last night
because some a$$#@!& would not get off his cell phone
we get on the plane
he is on a call
10:14 AM the flight attendant (fa) asks him to end his call
he ignores her
Richard: wow
me: this guy is sitting in an exit row behind me
window seat
she asks again
nothing
she tells him to hang up
he pretends to
10:15 AM another fa comes by and he is texting
the new fa tells him he has to stop and power off his phone
he pretends to
the first fa comes back around and sees him texting and she says, "thats it youre out of here!"
Richard: Tell me you intervened and f&@%!^* kicked him in the balls
10:16 AM me: this is all happening as we are rolling to the runway
ERRRRRRRRR... pilot hits the brakes and takes us back to the gate
Richard: wow
me: they present him with a "violation pamphlet" to which he says "im not
f&@%!^* reading that"
10:17 AM we park at the gate and the second fa asks him to get his things and come to the front of the plane
two cop cars roll up, they cuff him, and peace out
Richard: I hope this ends with: an air marshall tazered him to the ground and he burst into flames.
me: federal charges B$&TCH
Richard: NICE
me: no air marshal on the plane
10:18 AM or atleast he did not make himself known
Richard: so they kicked him off?
me: all in all i get into charlotte and hour late
yup
Richard: wow
me: kicked his a$$ off
Richard: douche bag mcdouchery
Did everyone clap
me: seriously
pretty much
10:19 AM we almost had an uprising
Richard: I would have clapped with a big "f%$# you farewell"
me: what was even better was i asked if i could have his window exit row seat and they said sure
Moral of this aerial "Jim White Adventure" is if you don't hang up you get locked up!
Hooray! Something NEWS worthy.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008WOW WOW WOW... that's right, 3 WOWs!
For one, I found something to write about.
For twosies, I do not want to be a TV anchor/reporter when I grow up. Honestly, I thought cops and teachers had it rough considering their pay, in relation to their profession, but this story out of Erie, PA (born and raised... on the playgrounds where I spent most of my days...) is the "beez-neez."
Get this...
"(Jennifer) Taylor said her annual salary at WSEE started at about $24,000, and she was making roughly $26,000 a year when she left in May. She declined to reveal her Toledo salary."It was hard to leave (Erie), but I felt like I learned all I could there," said Taylor, who has family in northeastern Ohio. "It was always my intention to move on."But it's also hard when you come into a job and you know that a manager in fast-food is making more than you are and you have a college degree."
Turns out...
"A 2007 Radio-Television News Directors Association and Ball State University survey shows that the median pay for television reporters in a market the size of Erie's is $24,000 a year. For anchors, median yearly pay is $45,900.By contrast, median pay for an assistant manager at a U.S. fast-food restaurant -- the job former WSEE reporter Taylor referred to -- is $25,775, according to PayScale.com, an Internet site that collects data on employee compensation nationwide."
If you subtract the money it cost for the degree to become a broadcast journalist and then compare that to the upward mobility of the average committed-to-the-fast-food-industry employee, I would gather that the "Hamburglar" is more likely to come out on top of this "Dollar Menu."
Just when you thought the people you see on TV were livin' it up Diddy style... AAAAAANNNHHHHHHH... the correct answer is they are just like you and me, except someone does their hair and makeup... ooooh, and the craft services... mmmmmm, catering...
SEACREST OUT!
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