SMBF v.3 :: The Derek Edition!

Sometimes, I want to write a blog post that is in the voice of Andy Rooney, or perhaps a bad stand-up comic, and I could do the whole “Don’t you hate it when…”, or “What’s the deal with…”, or even “Could someone puh-lease tell me why…”, and then you could throw in any number of possible endings. This has been one of my dreams. That and riding a zebra (and for those of you paying attention, this is the second reference tonite to a zebra on the blog) down Main Street…in fact, I have something worked out with the zoo, and shortly before I move on to the next world, I think my dream may become a reality. But, I’m gonna have to wait for quite a while on the zebra thing, but I think that I can really make a go of the Rooney/Comic thing.

Now, I’m sure that you’re sitting there in your respective nooks of blog wondering what it is that I’m about to do, you’re thinking that this is madness, you may even be wondering what kind of insanity it is that I am about to embark on! FEAR NOT! But seriously, what’s the deal with cats? Can anyone puh-leaze tell me what that purring is all about?

And can anyone tell me what the deal is with that cotton that they put on top of pill bottles? Seriously! I can’t fit my hands in their to pull it out, and I most certainly don’t have some sort of a child sitting around just waiting to help me out when I really need that aspirin!

You see, this could go on and on and on and on and on. Seriously, right now, I could go on and on and on and on and on. But, I fear that if I were to keep this up, that my faithful of the blog would suddenly find themselves being not so faithful, and turning instead to other blogs, which is understandable, as from time to time it would seem that the grass is greener at the other blogs, but after experimenting with them, you would probably find yourselves back at this blog, feeling unsure if we will take you back, but yet knowing that we will always welcome you back into the family.

And we wouldn’t want any of that to happen, so I think that even though I had the opportunity to fulfill my dream of having a post that had all of those things in it, sometimes the dream is more exciting than the actual attainment.

Well, and this brings us to the man of the hour, the one and only Derek! He stopped down to the FunCenter, and as the title suggests, fun was had in a centralized location! He rocked it up, the Ladies of James and the Men of Otis (that would be Ben) had an awesome time, and we would now like to give you what I like to call, some supersweetsamplesnaps of…Derek – Enjoy!


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SMBF v.2 :: The Karie Edition!

Moving on down the list, we now find ourselves at a place that I like to call the ‘Karie Zone’ – and I don’t do this because it is an actual place, but I call it this because it is the zone that a lovely new friend to the FunCenter, the one and only Karie (and again, I’m sure that their are others out there, whether they be relatives, doppelgängers ((whoa)), or just people that share the same name, but on this day, and the day that this may actually be may have been yesterday or two weeks ago, everything is so hazy…so hazy, but she…this Karie…the one with the Karie Zone, is all that matters) occupied, but, it really wasn’t even a particular zone, like, we didn’t have a part of the studio with tape on the floor ready for her when she came in, and Kinzo was standing guard to make sure that she didn’t step out of her zone, or else she would have had to have pulled out some of her sweet Kinzo Ka-Ra-Te moves that she is so fond of showing all of us, and that have inflicted pain upon our very own Ben on so many occasions, so, it is really more of a methaphorical place that she resided in during our time together, and we should close our minds and think in terms of square footage, we should really expand our minds and think outside of these limitations that society has placed upon our thoughts.

Umm…yeah. So, let’s put all of that aside and give some love in the general direction of our new friend, and now we personally, that is the o&j krüe, are sending out some good vibrations to Karie for taking the time to visit us, and for being so awesome!

So, without any further delay, I present, Karie – Enjoy!


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SMBF v.1 :: The Sam Edition!

Now, when you have a billion blog entries to put up, the first question can often times be, “Where do I even begin?” This question can often be the most difficult part of the process. In fact, it’s easy just to get stymied by this one facet of the blogging experience and become parlyzed with fear of your own potential, and just decide to watch old Ren & Stimpy episodes instead.

I, however, have cast aside these fears, and I have outgrown my need for such cartoons, and instead I have said, “Self…they shall begin with whatever I shall choose to begin with, because at this point, nobody really needs to know the when/why/how of everything, they just want to see some freakin’ pictures!!” I am very good at listening to self, so I just clicked, and who did I wind up with but the one and only, the ever-lovely, the talented and wonderful Sam!

It is not even relevant when it was that we were so lucky to work with her, although I do recall something about a sister, a couple of different shoots (pesky weather), and as usual, my memories usually almost always have a zebra wearing one of those rainbow wigs that people at football games wear…but this part, at least 90% of the time, is not actually a part of the real memory, but it is what professionals have called ‘projecting my imagination’ upon actual events. Either way, it rocked. Sam rocked. Just look at the pics…wait…wait…just take a little peak, you don’t gotta get all crazy and just leave my words behind.

Well, I think it’s now time to leave my words behind and instead focus (hey…I think that was a photographic pun…fancy that!) instead on the awseomosity that is Sam – Enjoy!


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SET MY BLOGGERS FREE! (SMBF)

Now, I’m sure there have been many of you that have been coming to the blog over the past few days (weeks), coming back time and time again looking for some new supersnaps, looking for all sorts of flava’s, but it seemed for a while that every time you would come in, there would be nothing new!!

I’m sure you were thinking, “Have o&j forgotten about me??”, or “Have o&j been abducted by the mutha ship??”, or possibly even, “Have o&j been sitting around reading their new issues of Star, eating PopTarts and braiding each others hair when they should be working hard??” I don’t blame you for thinking these things, especially for those of you that know how much I love to have my hair braided.

Worry Not, my fellow bloggers, we are back, we are here, we are there, we are everywhere, and tonight, we are about to experience something that I can only call “SET MY BLOGGERS FREE (SMBF Edition)” of the blog. So, strap thyselves in, and prepare ye minds to be blown.

GoodBye!

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