Lisa, Right Now...

Spring Cleaning....with a smile.

Nice Catch

Florida authorities say a commercial fisherman reeled in a live missile in the Gulf of Mexico and kept it on his boat for 10 days.

The sheriff's office in Pinellas County say the boat's captain, Rodney Soloman, hooked the air-to-air guided missile 50 miles off the Panhandle town of Panama City. The Air Force and Navy use Gulf waters off the Panhandle for weapons training.

Soloman had the missile aboard his boat for 10 days before returning Monday to port in Madeira Beach, near St. Petersburg.

A bomb squad was called in from MacDill Air Force Base and dismantled the missile in an empty parking lot.

The bomb squad said the missile was very corroded from floating in saltwater for a long time. They said it was live and in a very unstable state.

The Saga Continues...

"The Hills" starlet Heidi Pratt was abused to the point where she was "convulsively throwing up" and developed a gastric ulcer on the set of the NBC reality show, "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here," TMZ.com reported.

Pratt claimed she was confined to a dark room for over 24 hours and fed only water, rice, and beans after she and husband, Spencer Pratt, decided to leave the show, the Web site reported Sunday.

One cast member reportedly told TMZ that the two were treated like detainees at "Guantanamo Bay."

Heidi Pratt was transported to a hospital — where she was diagnosed with a gastric ulcer — after being held overnight in the dark room, according to TMZ. Her husband plans to sue NBC over the show, the Web site also reported.

ITV Studios, which produces the show, denies the report is true.

Jake, The......

SNAKE!

This "little" sucker was quite a surprise for us when we came out of the garage yesterday.

Don't worry, it crawled up in the neighbor's bush to get some sun. No snakes were harmed during the filming of this post.

Don't be messin' with Monessen, brutha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monessen,_Pennsylvania

(Hahaha - the picture in the link is a PERFECT representation...)

Rock On

Lisa and I were on our way to Kennywood (see below) on Saturday, when I grew tired of the slow paced acoustic jams that they play on 'Coffee House' (Sirius channel 30...).

I turned to Lisa and said, "Put on something that rocks". After all, we were heading to an amusement park, not a funeral.

A few clicks of the dial we hit this beaut:

Now that ROCKS!

Saturday Was Fun...

http://www.kennywood.com/

What did you do?

The Tony's!

Who Killed Bill?

American actor David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand, hotel, according to his personal manager, Chuck Binder.

Binder said Thursday that the death is being investigated but could provide no other details.

Carradine's death was "shocking and sad. He was full of life, always wanting to work ... a great person," Binder said, according to People magazine.

Carradine, who became famous in the 1970s when he starred as traveling Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the television series "Kung Fu," was 72.

Modern audiences may best know him as "Bill" in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films. He earned a 2005 Golden Globe nomination for his role in the second movie in the two-part saga.

It's Summer - Break Out The Watermelon!

The Shark

A New York toddler still in diapers has a growing reputation as a pool shark with a mean bank shot, even though he has to stand on a chair to reach the table.

Two-year-old Keith O'Dell Jr. from upstate New York has pool shooting videos posted on YouTube, has his own Web site (http://www.poolprodigy.com) and is the youngest member of the American Pool Association.

The son of pool-playing parents, the toddler recently traveled to Las Vegas to put on a demonstration for the APA, the governing body of amateur pool.

O'Dell started playing pool on a child-size table, but has since moved up to a regulation table.

His parents say his learning hasn't been limited to billiard games. Pool is also teaching him colors and how to count.