::: Burn Sesh :::

Floating Fish.....

2009-05-21T10:40:00.003-04:00

Some very sad news this morning.....when I went to feed Wilbur his morning breakfast of 2 fish pellets, I discovered him floating, never a good sign for a fish. Wilbur was my Goldfish who survived 2 whole years of living in his happy little bowl! He even made numerous trips back and forth in a bucket between Ohio & North Carolina. These trips always traumatized him for a day or two but he always made full recoveries.

I acquired Wilbur when I began begging my parents for my own puppy a couple years ago. My Dad and I made an agreement. First, I had to get a plant and keep it alive for a year. Then I had to get a fish (Wilbur) and keep it alive for a year. After doing these two things successfully I was allowed to finally get my puppy Huck! (It's stupid how much I love that dog.)

Wilbur was the happiest little Goldfish. It's incredible he lived for 2 years!

Rest In Peace Wilbur - I'll Miss You!

P.S. - My plant is still alive and well soaking up the sun on the back porch!

I'd Go on Tour with Them FO'SHO!

2009-05-18T11:44:00.007-04:00

The Killers Concert ROCKED ABSOLUTE FACE!!!!!

Cat & I Killin' It

Definitely one of the best shows I have been to!

Here is the set-list from the show.......

Human
This is Your Life
Somebody Told Me
For Reasons Unknown
I Can't Stay
Joy Ride
Bling (Confessions of a King)
Shadowplay (cover)
Smile Like You Mean It
Spaceman
Losing Touch
A Dustland Fairytale
Sam's Town (acoustic)
Read My Mind
Mr. Brightside
All TheseThings That I've Done

Encore

Bones
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
When You Were Young

Proof of Blog - Luke Johnson

2009-05-15T15:57:00.002-04:00

I just want to bring attention to my side bar "Lindsey's Posse." I use this list to share fellow bloggers I think are worth following & reading.

One specific blogger is Luke Johnson, writer of "Proof of Blog." I attended Elon University with Luke and our paths have crossed and will hopefully continue to cross due mostly to a band we both share a great love for, Anonymous (See Lindsey's Posse again).

Luke's latest entry 'Church & Mate' really struck some personal chords with me. I have a lot of respect for the honesty found not only in this entry but throughout all of his writings.

Everybody check him out, it is definitely worth your time! Luke is also a world renowned poet, so if poetry is your forte this guy will be right up your alley!

I Sold My Soul to Twitter

2009-04-28T11:00:00.006-04:00

I'm totally addicted to Twitter!!! I think I like it so much because it provides such instant gratification. Not to mention all of the Celebrities I can totally stalk or "follow" via Twitter.

I'm still having issues using the proper form of Twitter when speaking though....Did I just Twitter or Tweet? Are you a Twitterer or a Tweeter? Does this make me a Twit....?

My Twitter name is LindsLooLoo....so find me and follow me!!!!

Fabulous Celebrity Friday Night!

2009-03-10T14:55:00.008-04:00

I had a very exciting, celebrity filled Friday night! The Arnold Classic held annually in Columbus was this past weekend and to kick it off, the FABULOUS David Brown put on a VIP reception/fundraiser for Schwarzenegger's philanthropy; After-School All-Stars. I also got to catch a few glimpses of Maria Shriver coming and going through the lobby. I really wanted a picture with her; people were asking for pictures and autographs, but I totally choked....so unlike me!

Also in attendance was actor Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother, and his girlfriend Lindsay Price from Lipstick Jungle. For any Celebrity stalkers out there I can confirm they are officially a couple. She called him "babe," multiple times, to which he dutifully responded!

Lindsay was super, super, sweet and SO gorgeous! I think I freaked her out....she was so pretty I literally could not stop staring at her...haha! She told me she still doesn't know what the future is for NBC's Lipstick Jungle. But she did tell me she's playing a witch in a new pilot for ABC called Eastwick.

Catching Up.

2009-02-25T15:25:00.030-05:00

I've missed blogging, so I'm gonna try and start doing it again on a consistent basis. To get everyone (haha... I use "everyone," as if I have lots of loyal readers) caught up, I thought I'd share a few pictures of what I've been doing over the past couple of months.

Widespread Panic in Denver, Colorado
New Years Eve 2009

Everyone on New Years Eve waiting on Panic!

Alex & I being Hippie. I know we just scream Hippie!

I love this picture because all 4 of us are consuming water. Be careful that altitude will get ya!

Wernecke Family Vacation
Key West, Florida

Me & my Boys, Jordan & Jeremy

Wernecke Family in Key West

Pub Crawl, Charted by the Captain!

Hilton Head, South Carolina

I've become a frequent visitor of the beaches of Hilton Head Island, only for the beaches though. (Right!) Matt and I have seen a Rolling Stones cover band and on Valentines Day we saw Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead cover band. Both Rocked!

My first visit to Hilton Head

Matthew & I

It's coming....

2008-12-17T16:31:00.000-05:00

I NEED to blog. I promise it's coming soon.......

Courtesy of Ryan McGreevy

2008-09-02T16:37:00.005-04:00

I just received a picture taken by Ryan McGreevy of a church in Gahanna. It's SO ridiculous I couldn't not share it on here......

Booze+Abstinence Education+Bristol Palin = KNOCKED UP

2008-09-02T14:22:00.011-04:00

Ok, so I did get these off of Perez Hilton, which means most people have probably seen them....but please let me introduce you to.... Party Girl / Mommy To Be - Bristol Palin!

Sarah Palin believes in only teaching abstinence education in the schools. Kids shouldn't be taught that condoms OR birth control are options when it comes to sex. It would send the wrong message to children if they knew how to protect themselves against unwanted babies or STDs! Because let's be honest, the youth of today (especially Sarah Palin's kids) don't need to be educated about safe sex methods, none of them are having sex, right!?!?

Since Sarah Palin only wants to talk about abstinence and the fact that her kids are NOT having sex, maybe she was too busy to have the underage drinking talk with 17 year-old Bristol as well. Someone should have told Bristol....

BOOZE+ABSTINENCE EDUCATION+PENIS = KNOCKED UP!

.....right after this picture Mommy & Daddy Dearest went out back and had 'abstinence educated' sex & now their about to embark on the joys of parenthood at 17 years-old.

Behind Every Good Man is a FABULOUS WOMAN!

2008-09-02T10:32:00.019-04:00

I'll be voting for Barrack Obama in November but as we all know behind every good man is a FABULOUS WOMAN! And what makes a woman more fabulous then the clothes she is wearing! Michelle cut the faultless figure of the quintessential president’s wife at the Democratic National Convention last week with every outfit change! Here are my favorites......

I love that this is not a pantsuit! The color is amazing against her complexion and her black patent leather pumps and the big brooch with minimal jewelry scream Jackie O.

When was the last time you saw a lady of politics in a print? Or a neckline with some flair?

Love It! Love It! Love It!

(My Favorite)

Give yourself a round of applause Michelle,

you & your outfits are FABULOUS!

I Am Speechless......

2008-08-13T11:24:00.005-04:00

It's my American right to comment about this photo, not even China could censor it, but I am literally at a loss for words.....

I Got Lubed.....

2008-07-22T12:17:00.009-04:00

....yup, literally, lubed!

As I was leaving for work today promptly at 9:10.....I'm generally at least 10-15 minutes late for work everyday, I got a little surprise in my cup holder!

I'm a freak about my car, it's always clean, never dirty. There is never random shit in it, never any empty cups or anything in my cup holders so you can imagine my confusion when I discovered a foreign object sitting in my cup holder.

I had no idea as to what the bright turquoise bottle could be when I picked it up to examine it's contents. (I should have known when the bottle almost flew out of my hands it was so slippery!) It was a bottle of ID Glide, personal lubricant. No joke, there was a big, half-used bottle of luuuube right there in my clean little cup holder.

Seeing as it was first thing in the morning and I don't do ULOs (Unidentified Lubey Objects) that early in the morning, I placed the lube back in my violated cup holder and continued on my trip to work as if the lube didn't exist, and that's where the lube still lays.

Now that I have had some time to process this I'm wondering.....

...why the fuck is there a bottle of lube in my cup holder!?!?!?!?!

Updates & Pictures of Crime Scene to Follow.......

Print Media is on the Way Out....

2008-07-08T23:44:00.002-04:00

.......good thing I'm a journalism major! 48.7% of the 102,120 jobs eliminated in the newspaper industry since 1990 were lost in the last 3 years.

July 8, 2008:
-The Chicago Tribune announced Tuesday that they
are going to be cutting 80 of 578 newsroom jobs.

July 2, 2008
-The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales.

June 28, 2008
-The Baltimore Sun Media Group, which publishes The Sun and community newspapers, will eliminate 100 jobs by early August.

The fired journalists can join all the other recently laid off newspaper casualties in the unemployment line, if they can afford the gas to drive there!

SOOOO... O-V-E-R Tiger!

2008-06-16T17:46:00.004-04:00

Is anyone else sick of watching Tiger Woods win? He's a great golfer, one of the best at the game, he is the person to beat, I'll give it to him. (For all of you who believe he is the best golfer ever....YOU'RE WRONG! As of right now Columbus native, Jack Nicklaus is still the best golfer of all time.)

Why is T.W. even playing the U.S. Open? I've watched all week as he swings the club and grimaces showing the world how much pain he is in. Pain he refuses to talk about in interviews even though it's displayed all over his face. We watched Tiger agonize through 91 holes at the 108th U.S. Open and guess what, it's all the media talked about! Tiger's knee this and Tiger's knee that.....you would hardly know there are other extremley talented golfers playing at these major tournaments!

If you're in that much pain, here's a mind blowing solution, TAKE SOME TIME OFF! Take the summer off, hell, take the entire tour off. It's not as if he needs the money, and if he doesn't play in a couple tournaments who knows, maybe someone else will win.......gasp!

Here's Rocco Mediate, a 45 year-old who had to survive a sudden death playoff simply to qualify for the U.S. Open and he has to lose in sudden death to Tiger after outplaying him through almost all of the 90 previous played holes. If I was Rocco I'd be eating a Tiger sandwhich right now....I mean come on, give the old guy a shot!

And the Lifetime Achievement Goes To.....

2008-06-16T09:53:00.010-04:00

.....ME!!!!!

I know there are a lot of people who had their doubts but.....
.........I DID IT!!!!!!

Just shy of a decade, I have finally completed all 132 credits and have earned my degree in Journalism from Elon University. It only took me 6 years, but whose counting.

Here is some proof that it's for real this time....

Jumping for Joy.....Literally!

6 years later....

The apple does not fall far from the tree...My Dad took 7 years!

My New Job!

2008-06-12T14:25:00.027-04:00

.....I don't have health insurance yet, but I have a job, finally!

I am officially a waitress at
King Avenue 5.

Much to the delight of my parents I filled out my W-2 forms, had my 2 days of training and am now serving good food and cold drinks for YOUR tips!

So come on in and tip me, lunch or dinner any day of the week.
I'll gladly take your $.

...and I'm Back!

2008-06-12T14:13:00.005-04:00

I know all 2 of my readers have been wondering where the hell I've been and have anxiously been awaiting my return and guess what....I'M BACK!!!

After a very long hiatus ::: Burn Sesh ::: is now officially back and coming to you straight from the great city of Columbus, O-H-I-O!

Now that I am an official college graduate of Elon University and have joined the other thousands of unemployed, I will have lots of time to blog and keep you updated on the very wonderful, exciting life of Lindsey.

Stay tuned!

Happy Valentines Day!

2008-02-14T15:40:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone has a fabulous Valentines Day!

Make sure to tell at least 1 person you love them today!

YES, WE CAN!

2008-02-11T21:51:00.001-05:00

Will.I.Am. from the Black Eyed Peas was inspired to put together this song "Yes, We Can." from a speech given by Barrack Obama in New Hampshire.

I truly believe in the power of voting and making yourself heard. Too many of us take for granted our right to speak. Our right to believe, no matter what it's in. There is something happening in America. It's not a "black thing," or a "woman thing," it's an American thing. This election is about change.

I honestly believe in this message and the changes it represents. Yes, we can unite as Americans, not Democrats vs. Republicans. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can put someone in office who stands for positive change. Yes, we can!

This video is a compelling reminder of what's at stake in the upcoming 2008 election. Whatever you believe, whoever you support, be apart of the change that's occurring, VOTE!

Super Tuesday 2008

2008-02-05T22:45:00.000-05:00

VOTE!

Go Democrats!

24 states are scheduled to hold either caucuses or primary elections for the Democratic and Republican tickets today. As of right now it looks like McCain is a definite for the Republican ticket, but Clinton & Obama are still tied for the Democratic nomination....exciting!!!

McCain winning the Republican ticket is my biggest concern. He has Democratic "tendencies" which makes him an even bigger threat to beating the Democratic party. My father is the biggest Republican EVER, and I mean EVER! After hearing that Rush Limbaugh does not support McCain (the likely Republican nominee as of now)...my father has decided he doesn't support McCain either! He can't bring himself to support a Presidential nominee who is known for having Democratic "tendencies." So as a law abiding, upstanding, American citizen, this November is going to be the first time my father doesn't vote Republican in a Presidential Election. Voting, as he was quick to point out, is a birth right awarded to American citizens and he will not be exercising his right to vote for John McCain, the Republican with Democratic "tendencies."

I honestly believe though that after 8 awful years of suffering through the Bush administration that this country will not put another Republican into office! I would feel all right about Clinton or Obama being our next President, just as long as it's a Democrat.

After watching the Democratic Debates, Hillary made me believe she would be capable of being our first woman President of the United States!

This is for my Dad......GO HILLARY!!!!

The Golden Globe Goes To....

2008-01-24T09:50:00.001-05:00

......oh, wait. CANCELLED!

I know alllll about the writers strike. I've been reading about it for months now. I am on the side of the writer's, I support the writers and producers, they should get what they are asking for yadda-yadda-yadda. I know a lot of talented writers and producers who are not working right now, and it's a damn shame. Doesn't anyone realize that we, the viewers, are sick of seeing re-runs?!? I tolerated Colbert, Stewart, Letterman and Conan going off the air for over 2 months. I need my nightly Top 10 list from Lettermen, Stewart's Moment of Zen, everything about Colbert and Conan's opening monologue (if I can stay up that late). My nightly must-haves, those are the 4 men who tuck me into bed at night.

My breaking point was the cancellation of the Golden Globes. I love award season. There is nothing I look forward to more then the red carpet dresses, the winners and losers, the acceptance speeches (even the ones that go waaaaaaay to long!). Golden Globes, SAG Awards, People's Choice, Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, even the MTV Awards. I love every single one of them!

I continue to read that the Oscars (hosted by Jon Stewart) will still air as scheduled. But I'm also reading claims from actors such as Sean Penn who won't cross the picket lines to attend the Oscars. And you knoooooow celebrities are just like lemmons. If one jumps off a cliff they all jump off the cliff. If one won't cross the picket lines, they all won't cross the pickets lines. Which will ultimately mean another award show doomed not to air!

I have been absolutely assured the Grammy award show will still go on with or without a resolution to the writers strike....pray for red carpets & designer dresses!

O - H - I - Ooooooohhh SHIT!

2008-01-13T02:51:00.001-05:00

Just about sums it up!

I just don't even know what to say about this. So disappointing, so frustrating, my Buckeyes were a big let down AGAIN in the National Championship this year against LSU. After last year I was sure Ohio State was, if nothing else mentally prepared for the Tigers. Obviously the only thing that was mental, was my belief that we were going to win!

I give Ohio State credit for consistently being very good -- but until Jim Tressel proves him and his team can step up to the highest level of competition and actually stay on the field with an SEC opponent, I can't handle. Nobody wants to see it a third time either.

The End of an Era...

2007-12-06T14:12:00.000-05:00

Lighthouse Closes after Snyder's Arrest

Chad's Mugshot

It makes me sad to write about this. Lighthouse was a HUGE part of my college career. I have so many wonderful memories from nights spent in that window-less bar. I made more friends, partied hard, wiped-out on the nasty bar floor, wrote on the bathroom walls, shameless drunken make-outs with a few, stumbled home with a few, had more fun then can be imagined and genuinley loved SO many people connected with Lighthouse.

Some of my favorite nights spent at Lighthouse...

Carol & I with Chad at the Lighthouse Formal

Christen & I on my 21st Birthday at Midnight....
....of course we had to go to Lighthouse
& write on the bathroom walls!

Freshmen year....a veeeery old picture, one of the first!

Jb & I highlighting the male/female body parts
with Budweiser stickers

Nemo Night at Lighthouse, one of the most hilarious nights ever!
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiishy-Face!

Everybody at Audrey's last show

One of my favorite pics of a post-Lighthouse night....
....Carol running over the boy's trash cans & then yelling about it!!! HAHA!

#1 Ohio State Buckeyes

2007-12-01T23:58:00.000-05:00

Can't nobody hold us down....

#1 Ohio State Buckeyes vs. #2 Louisiana Tigers

January 7, 2008
5:00 p.m.
BCS National Championship

College football has been anything but predictable this season. Complete chaos has ensued as we watched five #1 teams and five #2 teams get beat, continuously changing the BCS standings. In the first rankings, released in October, Ohio State was #1 and LSU was #4. Both teams were strong title contenders before being knocked off by unranked teams. Now these two teams are back in it, playing for the title game because of other upsets. Making LSU the first two-loss team to make it to the BCS national championship.

In essence, chaos brought us full circle, back to where we started.

Time Will Tell...

2007-11-30T10:39:00.000-05:00

You know the rabbit from Alice & Wonderland,
the one that runs around singing:
"I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! I'm late!

I'm that rabbit, without the watch.

I have been thinking about getting a nice watch. Then I plan on wearing it. I have never been a wearer of the watch, so adding a time-telling device to my wrist could really have the ability to destabilize my world and create a whole lot of chaos!

My Favorite.

I am habitually late .

My Mom says, I was born 2 weeks late
and have been late ever since.

It's true, everything I do, everywhere I go, I'm late, always late. It's not a positive quality but I don't really look at it as a fault, because it's just the way I am, I'm late. I don't do it on purpose, I even try sometimes, but it's usually inevitable.

Many people have tried to change my late habits. Some have put forth good attempts, all have been unsuccessful....

Mr. "Big Dog" Conley my mass media teacher in high school gave me more detentions then anyone, ever. I always had him first period and rarely was in my assigned seat before the 8:05 bell. After 3 tardies you received a lunch detention. You can imagine how many of those I racked up. I even tried to use his famous quote,
"It's nice to be nice all the time," against him. I figured after an excess of detentions he would take pity on me and let a few tardies slide. He never had any sympathy and he never let any slide. He wrote those detentions every week, dooming me to the socially uncool cafeteria lunch.

Then there was Mr. Griffin, junior year. My tardiness did not agree with his perfectionism. I think he truly believed he could change my habitual lateness. He never did. Every morning he would stand in the doorway shaking his head, waiting for me to run down the hall. He felt too bad to give me detentions, instead I received, "Miss Wernecke we can do better then this," guilt-trip lectures about living up to my full potential. Which surprisingly sometimes worked! I was the most on-time and un-late I have ever been in my life that 9 weeks.

Goodbye National Championship....

2007-11-11T09:21:00.000-05:00

Ohio State 21, Illinois 28

I love THE Ohio State Football team more then anything. It's my life, my religion, it is the oxygen that I breathe in and out of my lungs. So it shouldn't be surprising how devastating yesterday's loss was against Illinois. I haven't suffered like that since January 8, 2007.

Boeckman, played hard, but those 3 interceptions were the final nails in the coffin for Ohio State. You just can't throw 3 interception passes and no touchdown passes and expect to win football games. Of course it's not all Boeckman's fault. The offense only had three plays in the 4th quarter, pretty much crushing all my hopes of a Buckeye comeback!

What makes this even worse is we got our asses kicked at home in our stadium.

We've got Michigan week starting today. I'm looking forward to our boys heading up to Ann Arbor (the biggest whore known to man) and beating up on the worst team around. I mean who gets whooped by Appalachian State...now that is something to be embarrassed about! Even after yesterday's devastating loss, I know my Buckeyes will get it together for the final and most important game of the season. It's probably going to take me until Saturday to heal all my wounds left by Illinois anyways.

God Bless America....

2007-10-26T13:04:00.000-04:00

Stephen Colbert for President '08

......only in this Great Nation, could this happen!

A new poll shows that if the U.S. presidential election were to be
held today, and the candidates were Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton and Stephen Colbert, Stephen would get 13% of the votes.

If he keeps gaining over 10% a week, Colbert should be
leading the field before November is out!!!

Congratulations Christen!

2007-10-26T12:08:00.000-04:00

Congratulations to a very good friend and my college room-mate,
Christen Elizabeth Snead on her engagement to Proctor Trivette!

Proctor, you're a lucky man!

I love you Christen! I'm so happy for you and wish you
and Proctor a lifetime of happiness!

Rain, Rain, Go Away.....

2007-10-26T11:19:00.000-04:00

Marc Jacobs

Kate Spade

Tory Burch

....at least until I buy a pair of these fabulous rainboots!

This Makes Me Laugh...

2007-10-21T18:30:00.001-04:00

I am a HUGE fan of The Hills. It is one of my favorite guilty pleasures and I secretly aspire to be BFF's with LC, Lo, Audrina and even Justin-Bobby. Like most of you regular viewers I despise $pencer and pity Heidi (and not just because her engagement ring from $-man is FAKE!)

I came across this video of Heidi "performing," her "first single" in a club and actually experienced temporary blindness, my ears oozed a purple film and I got the hiccups....so proceed with caution!

The only enjoyable part of Heidi's "performance" is at the very beginning when $pence-Money is trying to be all Rico Suave with his dance moves while his "fiance" hits the high-notes. Really he looks like a retarded monkey flailing his arms!

Someone needs to tell Heidi:

1.) Heidi you are neither Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston, and you never will be!

2.) You are not in a Baptist church, singing hymns in tongues, so stop with the over-exaggerated arm spasms

3.) You sound like you're trapped inside a helium balloon

4.) She is sooo lucky her tape-recorder didn't pull an Ashlee Simpson on SNL

5.) When the crowd BOO's after your performance, that isn't a slang form of love, they don't like you or $-Man

6.) Just because you're on TV does not mean you can sing

7.) If $pencer is as good in bed as he is on the dance floor, you're dumber then we thought

8.) I really didn't think anything could get worse then Britney's "come-back" performance at the VMA's, but Heidi you have successfully proved us wrong!

Champagne with Stephen Colbert...

2007-10-09T16:12:00.000-04:00

There is an awesome 5 page article in the current November issue of Vanity Fair (the one with Nicole Kidman on the cover) about Stephen Colbert, titled The Man in the Irony Mask.

When I started reading the first paragraph I realized I was there and have personal photographs of the events the VF writer was describing. That day, when we learned the show had received 4 Emmy nominations, Stephen (sent an intern to the liquor store) then toasted glasses of champagne with the entire staff including myself to the shows success....As an intern though, I was too busy actually pouring the glasses of champagne to notice there was a Vanity Fair reporter there.

We now know Stephen went home Emmy-less this year and did indeed lose one of his Emmy's to Tony Bennett... just like he joked about that day during the toast before rehearsal!

I have included the excerpt from the Vanity Fair article between the two pictures.

The Colbert Report staff toasting to 4 Emmy nominations

The Man in the Irony Mask -- Vanity Fair

Stephen Colbert, holding a glass of champagne in one hand and a fluorescent-pink smiley-face cookie in the other, stood behind his desk, which functions as the nerve center of The Colbert Report, the faux newscast on which he plays a blindly egomaniacal, Bill O'Reilly–esque talk-show host also named Stephen Colbert. The majority of the show's 86 staffers—the writers and producers and stagehands and bookers and interns and assistants who ensure that the show makes it on the air every Monday through Thursday night at 11:30—sat in front of Colbert in the bleachers that would soon be filled with 110 foot-stomping, hand-clapping, screaming members of Colbert Nation.

This year he's up against Tony Bennett in that same category. Colbert took a sip of champagne before raising his glass. "And the winner is … Tony Bennett!" The show's staff, all of whom seem to truly both like and admire Colbert, let out a combination giggle-groan. "Who's going to give it to me over Tony Bennett? Nobody. Are you kidding? It's Tony Bennett." By this point, Colbert had taken a seat behind his desk in preparation for a quick rehearsal of that night's show. After he got comfortable, he brought his champagne up to his nose. "Yummmm … that smells like Tony Bennett's aged sack." More groans. "Come on! That wouldn't be so bad, if your aged sack smelled like champagne." (Don't be surprised if Bennett ends up as a guest on the show: after countless gibes, Manilow came on the Report and agreed to share his Emmy, which he admitted he "stole" from Colbert. Then the two men sang a duet of "I Write the Songs.")

Champagne!
(and the stage director Mike in the background)

I'm in a New York state of mind...

2007-10-04T15:04:00.000-04:00

"...that's the thing about good friends & a really great Manhattan..."

I miss city life desperately. I really never thought I would admit this but I would give anything to ride on a dirty, crowded subway car surrounded by hookers, bums, crack-heads or any other of New York's finest. There is no other place in the world like New York City and there are so many things I miss about it. I can't wait to get back!

Things I miss about NYC....

Harlem

Saturday morning chipotle on 110th with Veronica on one of the "great" days, when the CCNY driver totally wanted us and drove us all the way to the 1 train on Broadway

calling CCNY shuttle and giving them shit

Senor Lopez

Lion's Head

picking out the white smarties to be used as "pretend pills" for Stephen's broken wrist

little Chinese men who ride their bikes 50 blocks to deliver delicious sushi

fruit stands

celebrity interaction

www.hopstop.com (saved my life)

getting the celebrity gossip magazines before the rest of the world on Wed. instead of Thur.

125th Street

Monday morning NYTimes (impossible) crosswords at Colbert Report, that only Tollef or cheating could solve

$10 sunglasses on every corner

the fashion

dirty jersey construction workers who make crude sexual comments without fail, everytime you walk by

bars staying open until 4 am

Interns with Stephen Colbert & his infamous broken wrist
The Colbert Report studio
Summer 2007 - New York City

Lions & Buffalo & Crocodiles....OH MY!

2007-10-04T00:47:00.001-04:00

This video is out of this world!

I looove watching this kind of stuff and the first time I saw this video I watched it over and over in utter amazement. Amused easily I might be, but if there are lions, buffalo and crocodiles all trying to eat each other...you have my full attention. Watch closely for the croc part (Jane) he pops up for an attempted kill pretty quickly.

I have to give a shout out to all the cool characters I interned with at The Colbert Report. I first found this video with them on a Monday morning, during crossword puzzle time, in the "bull-pen."

Practice Post....

2007-10-01T11:51:00.000-04:00

Love You Jordo!

This first "practice post" is dedicated to my little brother Jordan, who thinks I am a total loser for becoming a "blogger," but who will probably become my #1 Reader!

This picture was taken of us in August 2006 in Rome, Italy. Jordan and I stumbled across a FREE, Billy Joel & Bryan Adams concert in front of the Colosseum, which was unbelievable! We were in downtown Rome, the stage was set-up so the Colosseum acted as a back-drop, there were thousands of people, it was humid and had to be at least 95 degrees!

Both sang full concerts of all their hits, my personal favorites, "Summer of 69" by Adams and "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Joel (even more appropriate since we were actually in Italy).

It was an unforgettable "Wernecke Vacation" all around but this night in Rome was for sure a favorite.