WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27 2004 THE BOSTON RED SOX WIN THE WORLD SERIES 11:40 EST

AT LAST!
Pigs can fly, hell is frozen, the slipper finally fits,and Impossible Dreams really can come true.

First let me explain the Legend of the Curse

In 1918 the Red Sox won their 5th World Series, the most by any club at that time. One of the stars of the Boston championship franchise was a young pitcher by the name of George Herman Ruth, aka The Babe or The Bambino.

In 1920, however, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee needed money to finance his girlfriend's play, so he sold Babe Ruth's contract to Colonel Jacob reportage New York Yankees for $100,000 (plus a loan collateral by Fenway Park).

Since then, the Yankees, who had never won a World Championship before acquiring Ruth, have gone on to win 26. Meanwhile, the Boston Red Sox have appeared in only four World Series since 1918, losing each one in game seven. Many consider Boston's performance after the departure of Babe Ruth to be attributable to "The Curse of the Bambino."

Well today it happened! My home team...Arguably the greatest baseball team in America and the great american sport of baseball have brought the world series champoinship to the greatest city -- BOSTON!

and they have done it by making history by being the only team to rebound being 0-3 in the playoff to SWEEP in the world series

The last time the RED SOX won a world series:
* Penicilin did not exsist
* Woodrow Wilson was President
* The United States Congress establihed Time Zones
* There was no TV
* There was no NFL
* There was no NBA
* The Boston Globe cost .02
* and Women could not vote

THANK YOU
BOSTON
RED SOX !!!!!

THE EVIL POWER OF DICK

America...Although I am far from being the first to realize that we have evil villains in the oval office. I think I may be the first one to realize what DICK's evil power actually is. And I am terrified to report that it is craftier than the Riddler, more evil than Hannibal Lecter and more lethal then than Darth Vader's Death Grip.

America, it came to me last night as I settled in on a cool Hollywood evening to patrioticaly watch the VEEP debate. As John Edwards came out of the gate with his very pointed,

"Mr. Vice President, you are still not being straight with the American people. I mean, the reality you and George Bush continue to tell people, first, that things are going well in Iraq -- the American people don't need us to explain this to them, they see it on their television every single day."

WAY TO GO EDWARDS! I just knew I was in for an entertaining debate. So I placed a bag of buttery theater style pop corn in my microwave and set the microwave timer to four minutes and raced back to my comfy couch and my cozy down comforter to watch the fireworks.

That's when it happened!

As DICK began to talk and I felt this strange sensation wash over me. First the yawn, then my eyelids became heavy and the down comforter began to feel very heavy. And this was immediate people...because the buzzer on my microwave woke me up from lala land very dazed and confused. How could this have happened in less than five minutes??? {This begs the disclosure that I am a television fanatic. It's definitely in the top five of my 'drug of choice' list -- bottom line the TV nor a 'good' DICK never put me to sleep...but this was not a good DICK this was a very evil DICK...ahem...I digress}

I rose off of the couch and went into the kitchen to retrieve my buttery treat and then sat down. I remember thinking, "Go 'head gurl" as I felt a sense of pride seeing a sistah gurl, Gwen Ifill of PBS, moderating the debate. {I also remember wishing SOMEBODY had told her that that blue suit was NOT WORKING...ahem again I digress} Ifill was giving DICK an opportunity to address Edwards' statement on BUSH misleading the American People. DICK again opened his hole and spewed forth,

"The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there's a connection
between Iraq and 9/11"
(WHICH IS A LIE AMERICA The senator did not have his facts wrong as the link has been stressed time and time again for clarity pls visit http://www.factcheck.org/ but I digress)

THAT IS WHEN IT HAPPENED AGAIN...my eyes became very drowsy and I found myself struggling to stay awake. Everytime DICK opened up his hole and spewed forth I found myself losing the battle to stay awake and by the time DICK was blabbing about his plans for Osama Bin Laden...and mind you this was only question 3...I was asleep. WHAT AN INCREDIBLE POWER.

Who hasn't thought of how incredible it would be to have supernatural powers. Most people feel it would be cool to be able to fly, be invisible and up until now my supernatural power of choice was telepathy -- but just think about it. What if everytime you opened your mouth and began to speak you put people to sleep (obviously BUSH is not immune to DICK's powers as DICK seems to get everything he wants from that BUSH). Can you imagine if villains such as the religous right, the KKK or Osama himself were able to harness this evil power?!?!

Anyway I awoke this morning and rushed to cnn's quick poll and was relieved to see that according to cnn John Edwards has proven himself to be 50% of a super heroe team that not only resist DICK's evil power and stay awake but defeat him in the one time VEEP debate (http://edition.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/13680.exclude.html)

THANK GOODNESS FOR THE SUPER HEROE TEAM OF KERRY & EDWARDS!!!!!

THE TROUT

When I was 11 years old my I valiantly volunteered to be the one to make chocolate chip cookies for my 8th grade bake sale. That’s just the type of sweet thing that I am.

I was going to make these cookies from scratch and I was going to make them all by myself. My baby brother was busy placing his ‘collector item’ X-Men comic books in these plastic sleeves and cataloging them and my mother had just started working so I had the kitchen to myself and I was in the zone.

I followed the directions to the ‘T’ and ended up with a bowl of perfection. A delicious bowl of cookie dough with Toll House semi-sweet chocolate and peanut butter morsels mixed throughout. YES I had a couple of spoonfuls with an ice cold glass of milk before I started traying up dollops of cookie batter. I was so proud. Being the Virgox5 that I am I figured it was most efficient to tray up all of the cookie dough first and then put as many trays in the oven at one time to minimize the boring part of the cookie making process – the baking. I think that is why I don’t cook. The baking and/or cooking part really bores me. Why do you think they have those sayings; “a watched pot never boils” and “a watched toaster never pops” and “watched kernels never pop”. Those are sayings right? I am not the only child that was shooed from a kitchen many a time because after the slicing, dicing, chopping, cubing, filleting, stirring, blending, mixing, folding, and all of the wonderful creative stuff that one gets to do to experience the colors, smells and textures of food comes the baking, boiling, frying, rising which to me is synonymous with waiting waiting and waiting. Anyway I digest, my mother had 5 cookie sheets and I had greased the trays and put the delicious dollops of cookie batter on all five and I still had like ¾ bowl full of cookie batter. I also realized that five cookie trays would not all fit into the oven at the same time. So I had the brilliant idea of placing the GREASED cookie sheets in the place where I knew the oven was the hottest so the cookies would cook faster and the boring part of this cookie baking process would be over faster. Well…for anyone else that doesn’t know – in the broiler…the flames are LOOSE and when you combine that with a GREASED cookie sheet the result is a fire that water won’t put out. I, of course, learned this the hard way.

That was my first cooking experience…and I so proud to tell you about my last. Today I was at the Hollywood Farmers Market and I picked up .55 lbs of a trout fillet. After a call to my mother I made a scrumptious broiled trout with green bean dinner. It was sooooooooo good.


The Trout


Salt, African Seasonings, Garlic Powder, Black Powder, Soul Seasoning, etc...


mmmmmmm