One Year Later

It has been a year since Toms' Hideaway burst on the scene and it has been both fun and frustrating. My first post announced that I had 3 broken ribs, my first comment was from Germany and since then I've heard from people around the world. I continue to work on content and hope to make Toms' an interesting and hopefully funny place to stop by while clicking through the blogosphere:

Apparently I made Blog of The Day on 5/11/2007 over at

Cool, thanks to all the BlogMad Members that have stopped by, remember don't just sit there!! Comment so I can come visit your blogs.

Other Awesome things that share my Blogs Birthday!!!

1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.

1949 - Siam changes its name to Thailand.

2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully converted pig waste into crude oil.....eeeewwwww!!

Births:

1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer

1904 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan painter

1911 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian

1933 - Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader

1946 - Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor

WWE Are you Ready to Rumble...NOT!!

Your Wrestler Name Is...

Captain Grover the Giant

What's Your Wrestler Name?

Now that is a really bad name, I think if they announced Captain Grover The Giant it would be on Sesame Street before you would ever hear me introduced to the WWE ring.

Ladies and Gentlemen!!

We have a triple smackdown scheduled tonight with the MAN OF STONE, The Rock with the MAN NO ONE WANTS TO MEET The Undertaker!!!! and they will be battling CAPTAIN GROVER THE GIANT !!

I can see The Rock and The Undertaker running out the back right now.....

Now I don't want to give the impression I like Pro Wrestling. Lets get this straight...It's stupid, fake and altogether ridiculous. The reason I have it on my mind is that I saw an ad for a Pay Per View Wrestling event coming up...I just want to say you would have to be a moron to pay for a show like that. Hello...It's Fake!!!

The opinion expressed above is mine if you agree or disagree or just want to share you Wrestler Name with me just comment below:

Favorite Me and I'll Favorite You..click on my Technorati Favorite Button and leave me a comment below with your Technorati Link.....I'll be writing about some of my favorite Technorati Pages this week.

Possible Side-Effects

I don't like commercials, well I like funny ones..I Like "The Slowskies " and most beer commercials but the Vagisil commercial where the mother, the daughter and the grandmother all have found Vagisil to be this amazing product!! It leaves me thinking....What a good "clean" family,but hey maybe it's not vagisil they need but better hygiene ...I don't know. For my mothers' sake I'll move on to the other kinds of commercials that I find are wasting my mind away.

Drug commercials, they all seem so UpBeat. Now you can take a sleep medicine and "Catch Up" on your sleep, an Anti Depressant to bring your "Mood Up", something for your ADD so you can "Straighten Up" your miserable disorganized life . After you have done all those things a man can go out there and find a girlfriend and use some male enhancement drug to "Get Up." and while they certainly don't advertise steroid use..they will help you Buff Up.

The underlying problem with all these drugs is that if taken together you will probably "Throw Up" or worse. I think there is way too many of these quick fix meds going around. The only funny thing about the commercials are the possible side effects they announce at the end and the one they all seem to list is.....

Diarrhea !!....who wants that during a good nights sleep??

Well I "gotta go gotta go gotta go gotta go right now"...sure wish I had some Percocets for my ankle(-:

Back to the Polls

Back in April I asked people what they were watching and based on the results and comments LOST, was the big winner with 32% of votes, HOUSE garnered 23% of the votes and 24 took 18%. The other shows, Criminal Minds, Jericho CSI(any) and The Riches all took single digit percentages.

This month I'll include the top 3 shows from last month and 3 others that weren't on the last poll...You will only be able to vote once from your computer.



Your thoughts and comments are always welcome and strongly encouraged. In fact not commenting on this blog could be bad for your health. That's not a threat, just a warning

When You Were Young

YOUNG vs OLD

"When you were Young" a line from one of the many songs from The Killers show Sunday is still ringing in my head...I'll get to the reason in a moment..Let me say by the grace of Alcohol and Ibuprofen The Killers show was very well done. While I honestly don't know the name of the opening act, they were all from Japan and sang Beatles covers..I really enjoyed them...Now... the real news

Prior to the show we had a large family gathering...29 people....and we ate and drank and enjoyed each others company..I went outside after eating and saw the under 2o somethings playing catch with the football...Now I can do that, said my stupid inner voice...I'm only 40 something..

I grabbed another 40 something and we challenged the under 21 somethings to a game of 2 hand touch..Now the 20 somethings started with the ball but we stopped them and while I felt good about that, the warning signs should have been apparent..They were not breathing heavy and my teammate said he ate too much and felt like he might puke...But we kept at it and while I did throw an interception maybe two plays later and watched the young one score...We did manage to tie it up.

It was then that my left foot decided not to play anymore. I mean this has happened to me before while painting my hand will cramp and say "I'd rather be holding a beer!" This time it was my foot saying "Hello we're going to a concert tonight, I'm leaving"

Fortunately for me when my hand cramps up I just use the other on to paint with. Unfortunately, when my Left Foot decides to quit, bad things happen...See picture below

Needless too say while The Killers were good, My foot is killing me and then there's the line to that song playing in my head!1

"when you were young......blah blah blah blah blah"

Killers Tonight

Going to see The Killers tonight, I'll have a review later in the week.



And here's a pic that someone sent me and well...It made me laugh in a dark a twisted kinda of way!

Yankees Suck

Yes we lead the Yankees by six games in the standings, but I wouldn't rush out and get any tattoos yet. Dice K only has one win so far and the Sox tend to deflate after the All-Star break. While this is NOT a sports blog, I had Post this picture of my good friend Mitch as he would have hit me with a bat...yeah that's what he said.

Fashion Sense

I go by a corner which must be a regular hangout for a group of kids. maybe 15-17 years old. There are a couple Black , a couple Hispanic and always 2 or 3 White kids. At least 2 or 3 times a week I find myself stopping to let one or two of them cross the street.

They have never waved a thank you, never smiled, and never hurry They just saunter across the street with the waist of their pants halfway down there ass, the crotch around their knees. And an oversized t-shirt which looks almost like a petticoat hanging down under their hooded sweatshirts , hoods up over their heads. These must be the boys of that hood.

I just don't understand the concept of wanting to have my pants only half on. So instead of condemning the style I went home and tried it out. Granted my pants are not as baggy as theirs, but I gave it a try, inside the house.

I let out the belt and slipped the pants down so the crotch was closer to my knees and the waist was now half way down my ass and then the phone rang. I went to pick it up and my pants fell down around my ankles. I did the shackle walk over to the phone and it was Alan Thicke calling about some time share he's selling..I hung up on the recorded message and went back to my fashion experiment.

I got my pants back where they were and concentrated on walking without losing them around my ankles again. I found that if I swung my hips and walked a bit slower I could actually keep them on. And that's when I understood the kids never smiling, waving or really anything but walking slowly. They were concentrating on keeping their pants on!! They didn't have time to smile never mind wave. Hell with the amount of concentration it takes to keep the pants on, I'll bet those kids didn't even see my car.

It was about then that I ended my experiment because I believe I have established that this is not some sort of fashion sense, but fashion nonsense.