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Singer Jon Bon Jovi Gives Back With His Restaurant
Jon Bon Jovi is opening a new “pay-what-you-can” restaurant, hoping to give low-income families an alternative to unhealthy fast food.
The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Kitchen opened on Wednesday in Red Bank, New Jersey, near the singer’s hometown of Sayreville. After two years of serving meals in various locations, the “community kitchen” has set up a permanent location in a 1,100 sq ft former garage. While customers are welcome to pay for their meals, those who are, er, living on a prayer may instead work as volunteers. “Picture the coolest brasserie in your hometown, that’s what this is,” Bon Jovi told New York magazine. “It’s the hottest-looking restaurant in this town.”
Indeed, this is hardly a soup kitchen. The bistro’s opening menu includes rainbow beet salad, pork chops with fig and apple chutney, and homemade carrot cake with lemon cream cheese frosting. Everything is “organic, healthy, good-for-you food”, Bon Jovi said, but don’t expect to find him behind the stove. “I’m an expert at washing dishes, but I can cook less than zero.”
“At a time when one in five households are living at or below the poverty level, and at a time when one out of six Americans is food insecure, this is a restaurant whose time has come,” Bon Jovi said. “This is a place based on and built on community – by and for the community.”
From the GuardianUK http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/20/jon-bon-jovi-restaurant
A great example for us all Jon! Keep up the good work!
Ex’s Wedding Dress Becomes a Boon
Divorces. Separations. Breakups. Ignominious endings. They happen to the best of us, and they’re often messy, confusing and searingly painful.
There’s no shortage of self-help books for people mired in the throes of a breakup — and yeah, sure, they’re helpful. But Kevin Cotter, the guy who gave the world the website MyExWifesWeddingDress.com, refined the formula, combining his raw emotion with comedy and joining the ranks of bloggers-turned-authors with his new book, “101 Uses for My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress,” out next week.
He turned ex’s wedding dress into book success Punching bag? Fishing net? New uses for an ex’s wedding dress.
“I think it turned out really good — even better than I had imagined it,” said Cotter, 38, of Tucson, Ariz. “I honestly still can’t believe any of this happened.”
If you have one hanging around in the closet..here you go! Lovely pic of him using the dress as winter hunting camo at the link.
What Would You Do?
Unsuspecting couples are sent into a movie theater with only a few seats left as it is crowded with bikers. What will they do?
From Julianna Michigan Show correspondant Eddie in London, England.
British Invasion – She Sounds Serious!
A Message from Her Majesty…brought to you as a public service from the New Julianna Michigan Show UK. *laughs*
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II:
In light of your immediate failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated sometime next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour,’ ‘favour,’ ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise.’Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’). (I love that one)
Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ”like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter ‘u” and the elimination of ‘-ize.’ ‘ (I love that one too)
3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.
5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.)
8.You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. New Zealand beer is also acceptable, as New Zealand is pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth – see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.
11. You will cease playing American football. There are only two kinds of proper football; one you call soccer, and rugby (dominated by the New Zealanders). Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America . Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the Australians (World dominators) first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.
14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!
(Seems it has been Updated since W was President) Enjoy!
Iron Maiden Makes Me Happy?
Video Mid Day Distraction- Heavy Metal Makes Kid Happy. Check out this video shared by our friends at the Political Carnival. This kid cries in the backseat of the car till his parents play Iron Maiden for him. Amazing!
Get Fired Up!
Together we will stand! Solidarity!
The New Arrest Me Elmo
The New Arrest Me Elmo
Now updated with reaction from some of the Netroots Radio Hosts. Justice: “Occupy Sesame Street!” Wink: “You know those puppet guys are libs”. Yuri: “lol” Which I suspects translates from the French Canadian as “Laughing Out Liberally”.
Michigan Girl both Kicker and Homecoming Queen
A high school girl in Michigan achieved the unprecedented feat of being crowned homecoming queen and kicking a game-winning field goal for her team all in one night. Brianna Amat, who jumped from soccer to become the kicker for Pinckney High School’s varsity football team, had a night to remember Friday as the newly minted monarch booted the game winner.
Amat said she was shocked when a note made its way into the team’s locker room at halftime asking her to come out onto the field to receive her crown. But the coronation was brief as Amat was forced to drop the tiara for a football helmet to attempt a career-long, 31-yard field goal late in the game’s third quarter.
After a miscue forced Pinckney to call a timeout — giving Amat more time to think about her pending kick — the steely senior booted the ball through the uprights to give her team the lead and eventual 9-7 win over seventh-ranked Grand Blanc. “My heart was beating super fast at [that] point, because I always freak out before kicks,” said Amat, adding she did not hear the roar of the crowd after converting the crucial kick. “I was told that they were all cheering, I couldn’t hear any of them,” she said. “I was zoned out because I was so focused on the game. I just really wanted to win.”
Brianna Amat earned her place in on the list of High School Girls playing football along side of Tami Maida who was a quarterback for the Philamath (Oregon) High School football team. Tami’s story became the basis for a 1983 CBS Movie of the Week titled, Quarterback Princess, starring Helen Hunt. Think it is unusual? Here is a list of more http://www.fortunecity.com/wembley/mueller/641/princesses/timeline.html
Way to go Brianna! {{High 5}}
Why Bother?
Why Bother from TheONECampaign. Spread the word!
For Occupy Wall Street!
Walk like an Egyptian! A song inspired by Egypt’s revolution.
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