Sleepless Nights

As many of you know.... MamaSlinger and I are now the proud parents of 3 children...3, 1 and 1 month old. yeah we are nuts. Anyway, you would think the baby would be keeping me up all night, but NO, it's the 1 yr old. The last week he has been sleeping horribly! Waking up every hour until about 11pm, then wide awake anywhere in between 4 and 5am.
It usually takes me about 40 minutes to get him back to sleep, try rocking him, walk around with him...anyway...by this time, It is time for me to get in the shower and get ready for work. MamaSlinger is still sleeping (on maternity leave) so I figure I have time to shower, and get ready. 5 minutes later I get out of the shower....Brett is awake, AGAIN, and is crying because he wants me, not mommy. (he is a HUGE daddy's boy, yet all he says is "mama, mama" while he points at me)
This has probably attributed to the fact that I have had bronchitis for over a week now, since my body as not had a good night's sleep and is having a hard time recovering. but I am doing better every day.

Ah, the joys of children! Liek I tell MamaSlinger...."we better get used to this, because we have about 3 more years left of sleepless nights" (and that is being optimistic!)

John Mark Karr - Idiot - Part 2

Ok, so this tool is on his way to jail in california for some child porn charges or something, but in an interview he said that Johnny Depp would be the perfect actor to portray him in a movie based on his life. And the movie "would make billions of dollars."

"I already know the actor I want to play my part...Johnny Depp...He reminds me so much of me. And he looks like me. And he would play the part perfectly. very similar to my personality except for the fact that Willy Wonka did not know how to treat children, he had no knowledge of how to be around children. But the other thing is that I've seen him in films over and over. And he was in a very good film called The Secret Window and he played this writer. It's his look, it's his age, it's the fact that he's an attractive man and he fits my part perfectly."

Yeah, Karr obviously knows how to act around children....please.

**** UPDATE ****
Ok, I posted this before I read the update below my McGone.

John Mark Karr

You know, this guy is a total nut case, IMO. The only reason why I can think he would admit to this is to get on television and become popular. But the even weirder thing is how his family is supporting him....

"Though Karr confessed before TV cameras and authorities to the child beauty queen's killing, DNA tests failed to link him to the crime.
Wexford and Nate Karr had always insisted that he was innocent and that he was not in Boulder, Colo., at the time of the slaying.
Nate Karr said the family felt vindicated now that his half brother's innocence was proven.
"It's an innocent person tried and convicted in the media," he said. "

OK - explain to me how he was exploited by the media, when HE WAS THE ONE WHO DECIDED TO CONFESS TO THE MURDER! I honestly do not see how the media tried and convicted a person who willingly admitted to doing the crime, even though there is no direct link to him and JonBenet. Just another crazy trying to get his 15 minutes fo fame.
OR he was in trouble for something worse in Thailand and he thought, "I will admit to that so I will be extradited to the US, and dont have to do time in Thailand, where they will surely cut off my johnson!"

**************UPDATED BELOW BY McGONE**************

Slinger, Slinger, Slinger...

Let me drop some science here.

First of all, John Mark Karr and the media exploited each other. This screwloose was so absorbed by the JonBenet case that he convinced himself what he was feeling was love for this little girl (whom, in her pageant life and tabloid death was exploited more than anyone). John Mark Karr wanted to be publicly connected to JonBenet... the media wanted a top story for the next week's newscasts. If it bleeds, it leads.

Second, the family has to say something, and it's easier to blame the media than remind people that you share DNA with a sexually-confused kiddie diddler.

Finally, John Mark Karr specifically went to Thailand to get his johnson cut off. He went there for gender reassignment, but he wanted to do it at K-Mart prices.

There's no doubt Karr is a Kreep, but man, I called it from the word go. I said there's no way he did it. But aside from his priors, he is guilty... of giving family members false hope, wasting everyone's time and money with that wacky fine dining experience he had on the flight back to the states, and for freaking my shit out when he said he wanted Johnny Depp to play him in the movie.

Is it just me?

Or is anyone else sick of hearing about Jill Carroll and what her abductors said/did to her in Iraq? Sorry, not to be a jerk, but how many times can she tell the same information? I feel bad for her, but she lived, and was not even hurt. I mean, is the media trying to use her to make the rest of the U.S. grow a bigger hatred toward the insurgents or what? I really don't understand why the media is playing this out so much.

My wife, Tom Cruise, US Marines and bad drivers

I have to be one of the luckiest guys on the planet!

My wife is home on maternity leave, and yesterday she had all three kids by herself (the nanny was sick) and she got a lot of stuff done! Let me back up for those of you asking about the nanny...really it is a full time baby sitter, and yes she is still coming while Amy is home. I figured it would be the best for her and Amy to get used to three children being around, as not to overwhelm either one.
That being said...yesterday I came home and the lawn had been mowed! AWESOME! Not that I hate doing it, but over the past 4 days I have not been feeling well, and the grass was getting LONG. She cut the grass (and bagged it even!) and had the downstairs cleaned up, AND dinner was cooking when I got home! I could get used to this!

TOM CRUISE gets dumped!
By Paramount that is. As reported on IMDB.com and heard on every radio show this morning:
"Tom Cruise has been unceremoniously dumped by his Paramount studio partners for his sofa-jumping antics on TV. Revered Paramount boss Sumner Redstone has ended his company's 14-year relationship with Cruise/Wagner Productions because he no longer wants to be associated with the movie star. Redstone tells newspaper The Wall Street Journal he believes Cruise's bizarre antics on TV shows like Oprah and Today had a negative effect on the box office take of Paramount's 2005 summer blockbuster War Of The Worlds. He snipes, "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal... His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."

Tom obviously has enough money that this will not really hurt him. Of course his last few movies have not made the kind of $$$ they would have, if he had not been jumping on couches, or verbally abusing Matt "you're glib" Lauer in front of millions.

Our Fearless leader OK's Marine call-up
President Bush has OK'ed the initial call-up of 2,500 Marines from the Marine Individual Ready Reserve because there are not enough volunteers returning for duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. Marines in the Individual Ready Reserve have fulfilled their four-year, active duty requirement, but are on call for another four years. Marines in their second or third years of on-call service will be tapped, because those in their first years just finished active duty and those in their fourth years have almost completed their military obligations.
About 59,000 Marines are in the Individual Ready Reserve, according to Marine officials.

*** Wait, you mean people are NOT volunteering to go fight in a civil war in Iraq and/or Afghanistan? I am SHOCKED!
All joking aside, that sucks for those Marines who now have to go back into 'the suck'. (yeah I watched "Jarhead" the other day, so I know ALL the Marine lingo.

Bad drivers
Ok, this is just me complaining...but on my way to work today I saw a few things that made me shake my head.
1. This woman was weaving in and out of cars like she was trying to set a speed record to get the top pole position. We then come up to the stoplight, and she is basically in-between the two lanes, trying to inch her way up as soon as the car in front of her turns. Seriously, this woman was practically pushing people out of the way. And to add to it, her car was burning oil, so all that nice smelling black smoke was coming right back at me.
2. Why are some people so afraid to drive on the middle median coming up to a turn lane? Now, I don't mean a grass or concrete median, I mean that median that is basically a third lane inside of yellow lines. This guy in front of me WOULD NOT cross that yellow line, so as the line of cars waiting to turn got longer, he was still sitting in the lane of traffic, while everyone else was over the yellow line. So this ONE guy, had traffic backed up in the left lane because he was afraid to cross that line.

Sorry, that is my rant for the day, so far. I may have more by the time I leave work today.

MORE THINGS THAT BUG ME.....

1. When I stumble onto a blog/website and there is music playing that you can't stop. ESPECIALLY when it is a sappy song from Bryan Adams or John Mayer!

2. How fast chewing gum loses its flavor. I got a pack of ORBIT Citrusmint today, it is good...for only about 1 minute.

3. When people in my office have there cell phone ring on HIGHEST level, and are not at their desk whilst it RINGS and RINGS and RINGS!

Let the madness begin!

Well, for all the sports geeks out there in the videogame generation, today is like Christmas. MADDEN07 came out today, and have to say, from what I have seen, it looks AMAZING! Of course I am sure the XBOX 360 has the clearest version, but the graphics rock!

I am sure this game is going to make millions for EASPORTS, as it should. All of the MADDEN releases have been excellent, so it is no surprise that this one looks so damn good.

OTHER NEWS:
The staff here at BMI is aware that the postings have been slim lately. This is due to a few things:
1. We have real jobs on the side that sometimes take up time during the day
2. One of us just welcomed a new baby into the world, and believe it or not, this takes priority
3. Not much has really been news-worthy

So having said that.... I am going to try and post things here a few times a week, which has been the norm usually. So if nothing new is up in a few days, relax, some useless news will soon fill your brain, I promise you!

New Music Tuesday

NEW MUSIC:
Ok, so the first entry on the list is not new today, but it is new to me. And I have been listening the shit out of it ever since I downloaded it last week.

WOLFMOTHER - Damn this album is incredible. That's really all I can say.




SNAKES ON A PLANE - SOUNDTRACK
Yeah, Do not think I will be picking this up anytime soon. But I bet it sells a TON of copies thanks to the buzz on the internet.



TV:
PRISON BREAK returns on Monday, August 21st! Can't wait to see what happens now.

And ABC announced the new "stars" for Dancing with the Stars! I don't think you can really consider Joe (Joey) Lawrence a "star".

T-Shirt seen in NYC

The boys

Our boys
Originally uploaded by Slinger5.

As most of the 4-6 readers of BMI know, there are 2 little Slingers now running around (actually 3 now, but she can't walk yet). And let me tell you, they are a handful. Brett now gets mad at Ryan and will smack him in the head. And then Ryan will push him down. Fun Fun.
But then they chase each other and Ryan will tackle Brett like he is a tackling dummy, to which Brett just laughs.
Then there are the times when they are in the bathtub and I hear Ryan yell "Brett! Don't do that!" only to walk in and find Brett trying to grab Ryan's pee-pee. Brett just laughs. It is funny now because he has realized he has one too, so when he is naked, he sits there and plays with it and laughs. Oh Amy is in for a treat!

Anyway, here they are acting like little angels for 5 seconds.

Birthday Blues

Blue road
Originally uploaded by Slingah.

Well well...today our beloved McGone is 34 yrs old. And well on his way to 40, as he told me this morning. So in celebration of that, I have posted this photo I took and altered, to show age. The road in the photo represents life, and the tree on the left represents the age 40.
So you see Shawn, as you said, the road is getting shorter!

Sorry, I know I always give you shit for getting old when I am only 9 months younger than you.

When you turned 30, I joked about how the movie XXX opened on your birthday. I believe the wording was:
"Isn't it weird how XXX - which is 30 in roman numerals, opens on the day that you turn 30?

And when you turned 33, I believe I was going to buy you a case of Rolling Rock, because of the number 33 on the bottles.

All in good fun and done out of love buddy!
-Slinger


*********USELESS INFO ALERT*********

Since the theme of this site is useless information (we got tons!) here are my celebrity birthday buddies:



Scully, The Hulk, A Mummy, and a Crack Head. Happy birthday to all.

-McGone

Isabel

Isabel
Originally uploaded by Slingah.

Here is a MUCH better picture of Isabel, sans the eye goo that the OB nurse put on her after the delivery. The boys just want to touch and kiss her, and she sleeps good so far, which I am sure is going to stay that way forever!

Just wanted to share a better photo of her!

Sucks to be this guy...

This is an actual billboard in downtown Chicago (or was one, not sure if it is still up) at the corner LaSalle and Ontario. Talk about getting even, this is great.
Have to give props to the soon-to-be ex wife, pretty clever on her part!

McGone's Latest Celebrity Crush

This past Saturday I found myself approximately 10 feet away from Kristen Bell, purely due to good timing as she was getting out her car just as I stopped dead in my tracks and went into a hot girl coma.

For those not familiar with the lovely Ms. Bell, she plays the main character on VERONICA MARS (an excellent show that only about 28 of us watch nationwide) and is the star of PULSE, opening this Friday. She also co-starred with Val Kilmer and William H. Macy in a movie I'm pretty sure only I saw - David Mamet's SPARTAN. If you like 24 do yourself a favor and rent SPARTAN... it rawks. That means you, Slinger.

Anyway, those 10 feet between my unworthy self and the radiant Kristen would most definitely violate the restraining order this girl should have against me. Because... damn. She's about 7 different shades of gorgeous.

And tiny. Seriously...the last two pictures above are life size.

Saturday was a strange day all together. Other celebrity sitings include:

Janet and Terri from THREE'S COMPANY (Janet looks the same, Terry looks rode hard, put away wet)
The Hulk himself, Lou Ferrigno
Richard Kiel (Jaws from the Bond movies and Mr. Larson from HAPPY GILMORE) He's approximately the size of Mount Rushmore, btw.
Dirk Benedict (Face from the A-Team)
and I brushed shoulders with Ray Park (the only good thing in STAR WARS: EPISODE 1)

I finally had to leave when I saw the too-hot-for-words Mandy Amano (who is famous for being in a Pepsi commercial for all of 4 seconds) because I kind of felt like I was cheating on Kristen Bell.

And I would never do that.

Izzy

Monday, July 31, my daughter came into the world. Isabel Jo Eslinger weighed 7 lbs 12 ozs, and was 19 3/4 inches long. She looks just like Ryan did when he was born. Everyone is doing good and Isabel just wanted to say HELLO to the world wide web!