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SHAPPY'S ONLINE DIARY:
Monday, September 26, 2005 Wednesday I watched Star Wars on DVD with an amazing sound system then me and snoo went to TGIF'S for Jack Daniels Ribs and Cinnabon Cheesecake! Corporate food rocks!! Then we watched the greatest show on TV-America's Next Top Model! Don't get it twisted!It was so inspiring, I wrote a poem about it and won the slam with it on Thursday at Urbana. After we had lots of ukele bands after. Friday we had a lame beer give-away and then 3RD Party got the ball rolling in the fun direction. Made good tips for the first time this month. Saturday we went strolling around Washington Square and had Harry's Burritos for lunch then went browsing at Housing Works (which is my fave used bookstore ever because all profits go to AIDS research so I got no problem spending more than I should there) I got a really cool book of life in the seventies suburbs. Amanda & Joel came over and we had sushi and checked out An Evening With Mike White. Mike White wrote for Dawson's Creek and Freaks & Geeks and wrote School of Rock. It was very funny and interesting and we learned a lot of how crazy things are in the business of show! Mostly it was a relaxing weekend. Oh yeah, I also got Cristin a cell phone! I blew her mind! Now I'm off to make tacos! posted by Shappy at 5:45 PM
Friday, September 23, 2005
Maybe you don't believe in the National Enquirer or US or People or whatever newspaper you read but this is out there and I for believe there is some truth to it..
BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS
By JENNIFER LUCE and DON GENTILE
Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.
Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.
Family sources have told how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he learned of the hurricane disaster.
His worried wife yelled at him: "Stop, George."
Following the shocking incident, disclosed here for the first time, Laura privately warned her husband against "falling off the wagon" and vowed to travel with him more often so that she can keep an eye on Dubya, the sources add.
"When the levees broke in New Orleans, it apparently made him reach for a shot," said one insider. "He poured himself a Texas-sized shot of straight whiskey and tossed it back. The First Lady was shocked and shouted: "Stop George!"
"Laura gave him an ultimatum before, 'It's Jim Beam or me.' She doesn't want to replay that nightmare — especially now when it's such tough going for her husband."
Bush is under the worst pressure of his two terms in office and his popularity is near an all-time low. The handling of the Katrina crisis and troop losses in Iraq have fueled public discontent and pushed Bush back to drink.
A Washington source said: "The sad fact is that he has been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have only just caught him — but the word is his drinking has been going on for a while in the capital. He's been in a pressure cooker for months.
"The war in Iraq, the loss of American lives, has deeply affected him. He takes every soldier's life personally. It has left him emotionally drained.
The result is he's taking drinks here and there, likely in private, to cope. "And now with the worst domestic crisis in his administration over Katrina, you pray his drinking doesn't go out of control."
Another source said: "I'm only surprised to hear that he hadn't taken a shot sooner. Before Katrina, he was at his wit's end. I've known him for years. He's been a good ol' Texas boy forever. George had a drinking problem for years that most professionals would say needed therapy. He doesn't believe in it [therapy], he never got it. He drank his way through his youth, through college and well into his thirties. Everyone's drinking around him."
Another source said: "A family member told me they fear George is 'falling apart.' The First Lady has been assigned the job of gatekeeper." Bush's history of drinking dates back to his youth. Speaking of his time as a young man in the National Guard, he has said: "One thing I remember, and I'm most proud of, is my drinking and partying. Those were the days my friends. Those were the good old days!"
Age 26 in 1972, he reportedly rounded off a night's boozing with his 16-year-old brother Marvin by challenging his father to a fight.
On November 1, 2000, on the eve of his first presidential election, Bush acknowledged that in 1976 he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol near his parents' home in Maine. Age 30 at the time, Bush pleaded guilty and paid a $150 fine. His driving privileges were temporarily suspended in Maine.
"I'm not proud of that," he said. "I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night. I learned my lesson." In another interview around that time, he said: "Well, I don't think I had an addiction. You know it's hard for me to say. I've had friends who were, you know, very addicted... and they required hitting bottom (to start) going to AA. I don't think that was my case."
During his 2000 presidential campaign, there were also persistent questions about past cocaine use. Eventually Bush denied using cocaine after 1992, then quickly extended the cocaine-free period back to 1974, when he was 28.
Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist and author of Bush On The Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President, told The National Enquirer: "I do think that Bush is drinking again. Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the President, have a hard time when stress gets to be great.
"I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch. It's very frightening."
Published on: 09/21/2005
posted by Shappy at 5:25 AM
Monday, September 19, 2005
So much to report, True Believers!
First of all THE BOWERY BARTENDER'S BIG BOOK OF POETRY has arrived! It is in it's first printing and soon I'll have it available for sale here on uncleshappy.com. It looks great and it's got an ISBN which assures my immortality! Guess who's in the Library of Congress? Me, baby!!!
Did an audition reel for a part in a very cool movie and that's all I'm gonna say about that because I'm not gonna jinx it, but, I'll tell you this much-I'm a funny M.F.!!
Me and Cristin got to see Morgan Taylor and Rachel Loshak play at the living room after dining with Kevin and Katie.
We have been cat-sitting for Susan and now for Cristin's sister! I just got back from a kitty love-fest with Michigan! Funny how we dog people end up cat-sitting so much but it's awesome cuz it does save us $ on AC and cabs and stuff.
Went to another Big Apple comic-con and got some cheap DVD's of Star Wars fan films and the last Godzilla movie. Mostly I found some nice old 12 cent Gold Key comics and some DC comic digests on the cheap. I also got a Master Shake action cup/figure.
Cristin actually expressed interest in going to the next one! Hope she's ready to be one of the 6 girls you see at these things!
The new Urbana season is up and running and we've had great crowds and lively slams! It's particularly nice to see more funny poets reppin' it so far. Keeps everybody on their toes! Buddy Wakefield was our first feature and Christian Drake was last week and this week the meshugana Davyd Fygler!! Come feel the magyk!
Lots of stuff on the horizon as well! Next month snoo has a film fest and a trip to LA and it's our FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! Kooky!
posted by Shappy at 6:18 PM
Friday, September 16, 2005
My opinion is by no means bias because I am blood related to these little tykes, but I think these pictures prove without a doubt that my niece and neph are the coolest kids in all of Ohio. Doubt me? I'd like to see you prove otherwise! 
Princess Taylor of Toydonia! 
The Lukenator!
posted by Shappy at 11:54 AM
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Forwarded to me:
Why didn't George W. think of this? Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us!
The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor.
An interesting thought might be to boycott their GAS.
Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting MORE money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies who don't import their oil from The Saudis.
Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money
to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my Friends.
I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and Which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.
MIDDLE EAST IMPORTERS:
Shell............................. 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco.......... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION!
Note: The price of oil is now over $50/barrel- - -increasing the take to about $30 Billion!!!!!
Here are some large companies who
Do Not import Middle Eastern oil:
Citgo.........................0 barrel Sunoco...................0 barrels
Conoco......................0 barrels Sinclair....................0 barrels
BP/Phillips.................0 barrels Hess........................0 barrels
ARC0......................0 barrels
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers.
It's really simple to do.
Now, don't wimp out at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I'm sending this note to about thirty people.
If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it ... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people.
How long would all that take?
If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day, all 300 MILLION PEOPLE could conceivably be contacted within the next EIGHT DAYS!
Let's Try It !
NO
LET'S DO IT ! ! !
posted by Shappy at 5:50 AM
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
In The News- the first is fresh from the AP the second is Cristin's sister who had a letter published in the NY Times today!
At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had "absolutely no credentials."
She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael Brown.
"He said 'Why would I do that?'" Pelosi said.
"'I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?'"
"Oblivious, in denial, dangerous," she added.
Copyright 2005 The New York Times, September 7, 2005 Wednesday
Section A; Column 4; Editorial Desk; Pg. 24
To the Editor:
Re ''Bush Makes Return Visit; 2 Levees Secured'' (front page, Sept. 6):
Is it possible that the Homeland Security Department had no prepared response to a terrorist bombing of the levee system in New Orleans?
Why aren't we talking about the success or failure of an ''Operation Noah's Ark'' -- a planned, huge rescue and evacuation operation in response to a levee bombing and flooding?
In a pre-Katrina New Orleans, if a levee bombing had taken place in the middle of a weekday (with no warning), would the federal response have been the same? Either a yes or no answer is chilling.
Caitlin Aptowicz
New York, Sept. 6, 2005
posted by Shappy at 10:45 PM
Monday, September 05, 2005 So Cristin and I went to a wedding in the middle of New Jersey. It was an all day affair. Up at 6AM back home at 9PM and asleep by 10:30PM! I had met Vanessa and Matt 2 years ago when Cristin & I performed in LA and we hung out at The Dresden (the bar from Swingers with the wacky singing couple)It was pretty swell and we got a ride from our new pals Marni & Matt. We were pretty lucky that we all hit it off considering we had to spend the entire wedding together! I probally shouldn't eaten my weight in pigs-in-blankets cuz when Cristin requested "Rock With You" I was a tad too queasy to boogie down proper. We did cut a rug eventually. The BPC was closed over the weekend for re-flooring which I'll get to see tomorrow. I also have a big audition tomorrow so wish me luck! Man, we did a lot of walking around the neighborhood this weekend and we also watched some movies I got from the Astoria library-West Side Story, All The President's Men (I watched-Cristin snoozed) and Breakfast At Tiffany's (which I'd never seen and I'm still confused) We also hung out with Ed & Jeannie and played a card game called SET which was very addictive. Still reeling about how all of this Katrina mess is going to affect the country and the economy. Still, it's refreshing to see even conservatives question the war in Iraq when our own country is eroding away. posted by Shappy at 7:05 PM
Friday, September 02, 2005
Dear Victims of Katrina,
I'm sorry our government has failed you. I can only hope that things will get better. I'm just beside myself with anger and confusion. Just know that regular folks are doing everything they can to help you. Please, hold on! It's mind-boggling how poorly it's all being handled. AAAARGH! I have more to say but I can't write it all down here. It's really overwheming. Let's help our fellow Americans, GEORGE! DO SOMETHING! YOU FUCKING LAME DUCK PUPPET POLITICIAN!!! HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING???
posted by Shappy at 6:28 AM
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