The World According to Michael

See Kasha Cooks with the film Smoking Laws Sept 9th

2008-08-21T13:42:00.000-07:00

The latest Kasha Cooks short will be playing before Matt Ehler's/Eggwork Picture's film: SMOKING LAWS at Albilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, NY.

Come check it out this outdoor screening at 7:30 PM!

http://www.eggwork.com/smokinglawsmovie/sl_abilene.htm

Outrate Online Short Film Festival

2008-08-21T13:38:00.000-07:00

Check out my latest short: Kasha's Kreamy Surprise as part of the Outrate Online Short Film Festival Competition!!!

http://outrate.net/sffscreeningroom3.html

Get PANDORA BOXX on LOGO's new TV show: RuPaul's Drag Race!

2008-05-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

Pandora Boxx is vying for a spot on LOGO's new TV show: RuPaul's Drag Race! She can't do it without your help! You need to log on and vote for her. It literally takes a minute and a few mouse clicks.

You don't even have to register!

Just click the link below and hit VOTE!

http://rupaulsdragrace. logoonline. com/people/pandora

You can vote once every 24 hours! EVERY vote counts! So help a "gal" get on a fabulous new TV show! You can make it happen!!

Does This Toilet Seat Make My Ass Look Big?

2008-03-13T06:45:00.000-07:00

I know people read, talk on the phone and spend quite a lot of time on the toilet (hell my father would spend a good two hours on there every morning and probably still does) but I can't imagine being there so long the actual toilet seat BECOMES a part of your body. Read on:

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.

Police say Pam Babcock apparently spent two years living in the bathroom of her boyfriend's mobile home.

"She is an adult; she made her own decision," said her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. "I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it."

The case drew nationwide attention after Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat in the two years she apparently was in the bathroom.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

McFarren, 36, said he can't be certain how long Pam Babcock stayed in the bathroom because "time just went by so quick I can't pinpoint how long." He said beatings she received in her childhood caused her phobia.

"It just kind of happened one day; she went in and had been in there a little while, the next time it was a little longer. Then she got it in her head she was going to stay -- like it was a safe place for her," McFarren said.

But McFarren said she moved around in the bathroom during that time, bathed and changed into the clothes he brought her. He brought food and water to her. They had conversations and had an otherwise normal relationship -- except it all happened in the bathroom.

McFarren said he finally called police February 27 after he became worried because Babcock was acting groggy -- like she didn't know what was going on, except she was awake.

What emergency responders found when they went into bathroom has left residents of this small western Kansas town buzzing, and law enforcement officials incredulous.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

She initially refused emergency medical services, but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.

Whipple said the county attorney will determine whether any charges should be filed against McFarren.

McFarren, who works at an antique store, said he has been taking care of Babcock for the 16 years they have lived together. He insisted that he tried to coax her out of the bathroom every day.

"And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,"' Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

She was reported in fair condition Wednesday at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.

Babcock has an infection in her legs that has damaged her nerves, and there is a possibility she may wind up in a wheelchair, McFarren said.

James Ellis, a neighbor, said he had known the woman since she was a child, but that he had not seen her for at least six years.

"I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," Ellis said.

Babcock had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up, he said.

"It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."

Oh Save Us From Daylight "Savings"

2008-03-07T10:22:00.000-08:00

I found this on Yahoo Tech! Love it! The last line is my favorite :)

It's official: Daylight Saving Time is a bust. Designed (and recently extended) as a measure to save energy in a period of inflated electricity prices, an in-depth University of California study has now shown that DST doesn't save anyone any money at all. In fact, it's costing consumers extra, to the tune of $3.19 in extra utility bills per year.

The study was made possible because of the peculiarities of the state of Indiana, which was only partially on DST until 2006. When the whole state finally went DST (to sync with the national business day), some comparisons vs. the prior method were made apparent. The study calculated that the shift costs Indiana residents an extra $8.6 million in electricity bills in total.

Why? Shouldn't they be, well, saving daylight -- and burning fewer light bulbs?

They are, said the study. But while lighting bills were reduced, air-conditioning units had to run more often, because people were home on hot afternoons when they'd otherwise be still at the office. Heaters had to be run on cool mornings, too, when people got up and it was still dark outside.

Professor Matthew Kotchen, who pioneered the study, noted, "I've never had a paper with such a clear and unambiguous finding as this."

This isn't the first time the energy-saving rationale of Daylight Saving Time has been attacked. The first was in 1976, three years after DST went into effect, when the National Bureau of Standards found that there was no significant energy savings after the switch. The recent expansion of DST to a few extra weeks was also revealed to have saved no energy during its run. And yet here we are...

In related news, it was also revealed that Daylight Saving Time actually creates no additional daylight.http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/83073

Dumbledore is gay!

2007-10-22T15:07:00.000-07:00

I love JK Rowling a little bit more after her revelation at Carnegie Hall that Dumbledore was in fact gay! Kudos to her for not even thinking about saying it and just doing it! She's not only an amazing writer but now is a great advocate for gay rights. It is amazing to have a character in a wildly successful series of books be gay. Also he is a fantastic character! One who was admired and revered by most of the characters in the book. Yay gay! Who cares if she didn't write about it in the books. It wasn't relevant at all. Plus making his homosexuality a non-relative point says that being gay IS a non-relative point. It's just a fact and shouldn't matter at all. Yet another reason for the Christian right to hate the Harry Potter books, not only does it promote witchcraft now it promotes homos! Fuck them! Hooray for JK Rowling!

Read about Dumbledore's Gayness!

I guess this explains why he liked wearing dresses! Ha ha!

farewell Bernice, farewell!

2007-09-22T14:26:00.000-07:00

Alice Ghostley the amazing character actor died on Friday. Who can forget her playing the touched neighbor Bernice on "Designing Women" and as Esmerelda on "Bewitched."

She was hysterical! I'll never forget her singing, "Black man, blaaack man!" ON "Designing Women"

Classic!

Gimme, gimme less, gimme less Ms. Shitney Spears.

2007-09-13T17:13:00.000-07:00

Ok so everyone has blogged about it and more but I feel I need to at least talk about poor old '(You Drive Me) Crazy' Shitney Spears. Now to say Britney was bad is an understatement. I felt like I was at a nightclub were a Bachelorette Party had decided to come in and they made the bride-to-be strip down to her underwear and get up and "perform" with the strippers. Oh wait, I forgot to say the bride got a terrible weave before she went out AND took some Valium and drank at least three bottles of champagne.

YIKES!

As far as why would Shitney be allowed to perform? Well from a producer stand point it was win-win. If she was terrific everyone would talk about her "comeback" (even though saying "comeback" is ridiculous since she didn't go anywhere. It just seems like if you haven't done anything for the last six months you can get a "comeback") and say she was amazing and blah, blah. blah. If she was terrible, everyone would STILL be talking about her and everyone would be talking about it. Ta-dah! Press for MTV either way.

I've never liked the comparisons of Shitney to my girl Madge. Albeit there are some similarities but for good or worse (more often times worse) Madonna usually sings live and if she doesn't it's hard to tell. Shitney didn't even attempt to open her mouth for most of her performance. Again it was like someone dared her to get on stage and then she did...

Anyways, so yeah to me Shitney is more like Paula Abdul. Both known more for the looks and dancing abilities. Both have limited if no vocal abilities. They are both crazy, though we didn't learn that until later. They both had huge hits, made lots of money, were admired and imitated by little girls and... (drum roll) BOTH had HUGE bombs on the MTV Video Music Awards.

Does anyone remember Paula's Vibeology performance? YIKES! Oh and of course the be and end all to a career: a change in management. Nothing is faster, except Lindsay Lohan to a bag of coke, then changing your management team that helped make you a star. Hello? Tom Cruise jumping up and down on a couch? When they don't have the proper people reining them in, we get to see what they are really like. And no one really wants that. We say we do but we don't. We never needed to realize that Shitney is probably one generation away or maybe just a cousin from poor white trash. She did much better when we never heard her speak.

By the look of that stripper-wanna-be number she doesn't even have a career at that. Well, strike that, some podunk town will hire her to work the 2-4-1 Pabst Blue Ribbon night.

Glowing by Solar

2007-07-31T14:18:00.001-07:00

I read this article and it made my almost cry. It's just an extremely touching story that makes you thankful for everything that we have in this country. And also should make us feel a little shame at the life in excess so many of us lead.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/26/india.solar/index.html

poor poor Lindsay Blow-hand.

2007-07-24T12:24:00.001-07:00

Well looks like our poor little Lindsay Blow-hand has been arrested... again. Atta girl! Thank you for making the bad girl image acceptable to young girls everywhere. Yes you miss Blow-Hand and Miss Shitney Shears and Paris "Hoo-ha" Hilton have really showed young impressionable girls to be skanky, dirty, drunk hos, all while wearing Prada. Brava. Bravo. Bravissimo! Lindsay getting arrested almost tickled me as much as Paris' article in People magazine titled: My Time Behind Bars. What?!?!?!? Good Christ People! I mean I'm sure she has so many words of wisdom to all us peasants about her excruciating 23 days behind bars. Gasp! Is anyone else over it? I mean I still like to hear about it because it makes me giggled... oh wait I guess that's why people want to hear about it. Never mind. Well, here's wishing Blow-hand a speedy trial and hope that the blowjobs that have kept her in show business can keep her out of jail.

Does anyone else miss the Lindsay that helped make Mean Girls won of the best movies ever? Maybe it's pod people who have taken over her and made her into the Shit Show we see before is now. It's alright to party and have fun but gurl, keep those panties on and for Buddha's sake pay someone to drive you! Aren't you a millionaire?

25 Cent

2007-07-20T11:58:00.000-07:00

I think I saw 50Cent's cousin while I was in NYC. He should really help his family out, I mean he is the new spokeswoman for Vitamin Water. Every good thug needs his Vitamins!

Xanadu on Broadway! Seriously.

2007-07-20T11:44:00.000-07:00

Yes it's true! Xanadu that epic movie that almost effectively killed Olivia Newton-John's career and did signal the end of the movie musical (until Moulin Rouge & Chicago brilliantly revived them!). Call that movie bad, call it awful, call it what-you-will, I'll just say I love it. The music is the best thing from that movie but come on who doesn't want a bunch of muses coming to life from a wall mural dancing around to E.L.O. while lined with a neon glow?

I spent countless hours watching that movie as a kid. My sister and I would re-enact the whole movie and have fights on who got to be Olivia or the black girl with the nub on top of her head in that infamous "I'm Alive" music sequence. Well it was like a dream come true to hear that they were bringing Xanadu to life again... and on BROADWAY!

I saw the musical this past Tuesday in NYC and it was amazing. Brilliant! They managed to make a parody of the movie but still remain true to the story. I did not stop laughing the entire time! It was like my wildest dream come true! Only I wish I had the genius to write this (** side note: I have ALWAYS thought they could make an amazing musical out of this!). They only used about five lines from the actually movie, watch it and you'll know why! But they used all of the amazing songs written by John Farrar and Jeff Lynne. Plus they added a few other songs written by them that weren't in the movie like: Have You Never Been Mellow and Evil Woman!

The cast was divine. Kerry Butler was magnificent as Kira! She got it, just perfectly. Of course the scene stealer of the entire play was Jackie Hoffman. She made me laugh just standing there! Her partner in crime, Mary Testa, was equally as funny! The night we saw it Curtis Holbrook was playing the part of Sonny because the original Sonny broke his leg during rehearsal. He was adorable and did a great job! Everyone in the cast was superb. If you get a chance to see it, GO!

There were so many priceless lines but here's one:

Sonny: I want to build a roller disco!

Kira: How timeless!

BRILLIANT!!!!!!

Gay Bomb

2007-06-12T23:41:00.001-07:00

This is not to be confuddled with the Tom Jones hot "Sex Bomb," no sadly it's not as fun. Well, come to think of it, it is kinda fun. If you want to know more just google: gay bomb. Yes, that's right kids get to googling and you can come up with quite a few colorful articles on how our brilliant US Military was in talks to devise a kind of "gay bomb" which would make the enemy be so overcome with homosexuality that they scrumped each other faster than Whitney to a dime bag. The enemy would then be so incredible embarrassed and ashamed of there actions, it would cause chaos and the oh-so-fab US military could sweep in and set an different kind of bomb up their butt.

Oh what clever decrepit old men will think of when given millions upon millions of dollars to sit in a room eating smoked salmon and bagels. They also had briefly discussed a "bad breath" bomb so secret agents could easily be smelt. Unless of course it was Garlic Tuesday and we all know what we'd smell then. Speaking of smelling, they also have discussed since 1945 making a flatulent bomb. No not dropping a bunch of Taco Bell on a bunch of people but actually letting something rip that would cause everyone to get a major case of the toots. They nixed the idea because in some countries people actually like in shit. Like literally! Can you believe that some people actual have become accustomed to smelling feces? Gasp. I thought everyone walked around in air condition with fuzzy pink bunny slippers and a tiara. I mean that's what I'm wearing now while I write this and let out a few poofs from my gay tush.

blog blog blog

2007-02-18T09:44:00.000-08:00

I don't have anything to say but yet hear I am saying something. I'm sure I'll be more clever later after a few shots of Southern Comfort (or at least I will think I'm much more clever).