Keep your eyes open

One of my oldest friends called me today with what is probably the worst news you could hear. Her brother has been missing since July, and the police have almost no leads.
The cops in Edmonton mentioned he was planning to move to Kelowna to open a martial arts school, but that was a plan - notthing concrete. His mom had just died, and he had turned to drugs, but his friends said he was trying to get into rehab. So there's an outside chance he's on the street or in a clinic somewhere. That's the best we can hope for.
So local people, keep your eyes open. Alberta people keep your eyes open.

And Kim, keep your head up.

Info and pics about Jesse are here.

One: Not necessarily the loneliest number....

I've been hit by bouts of irony lately. Over the head. Several times.
While I used to be Relationship Guy getting into all sorts of trouble with my single friends, nowadays I'm hard-pressed to think of any of my friends who aren't in a relationship or married. I'd like to attribute it to age, but some of the couples are like 10 years younger than me.
And all of them are trying to set me up.
It feels like being single is viewed as some horrible affliction or social disease these days. It's the opposite of how it used to be.
Everyone has turned into my parents. (And they, by the way, have abandoned all form of subtlety, and now saw things like "You realize you're the last of the Adamses, right? If you don't have kids, there won't be any left. And all that your forefathers worked for will be lost.")
And, invariably, they all suggest someone outside of the age of 15 or 40. By that, I mean nothing in between. No 30-somethings. They're all either in high school, or some friend's mom.
I had an acquaintance, who shall remain nameless, basically offer me his (step) daughter. She's 15. 15! What kind of a creepy vibe do I give off?
And by buddy's girlfriend, LEAH, had to mention just how much her mom thinks I'm "sooo hot." Now there's a double-date I'd like to go on.
So this is a public plea, people. Have some sense. Think about what you're saying before you open your mouth.
And just because the majority of women in Kelowna are about as smart as Miss Teen South Carolina, that don't mean I'm desperate.

(*that's a great video, by the way. If you watch closely enough, you can spot the precise moment the hamster on the wheel in her head steps out for a smoke break)

Jake Handey

It's amazing how much work you can get done around the house when all your toys are busted.
Boat: busted.
Bike: Busted
XBox: Not busted, but we have elderly houseguests downstairs.

I've been incredibly productive and handy the last few weeks. The fence is in, along with a hand-built cedar arbor and gate (*pats self on shoulder), and I'm busy salvaging my front yard from the weeds and brown patches of grass that have been eaten away by the neighbor's dogshit.
All this time is due to Stephie crashing my boat into the rocks, and me having a gravel encounter with my bike. Luckily, I have a new prop, and eBay is a magical place when it comes to bike parts. I'm doing all the repair work, too.

The big change: I shaved my head. Tommorrow, the bic is coming out, and the bald pate will be shined to a glossy, eye-searing finish. My moms is dealing with her lack of hair with her typical sense of humour, though I can tell it's something that bothers her a lot. Having a bald son will help, methinks. Though it did give me shivers, as I had visions of what I'll be like in the future. The comments have ranged from "Wow, that looks great! Keep it!" To "Man. I never knew your head was so small."
And my personal favourite: "I think I'm scared of you now."


BEFORE: Nappy rooted


AFTER: Call me Jordan

I also got my new Little Brother, aka Mini me. This kid is more ADD than me, so we get along great. I was forced to lay a beating down on him in 2007 Fight Night Live and 2007 NBA Live, just like I will be handing to Miceail, the Great Red Hope, once I get my box hooked up to the net.

Speaking of El Rouge Grande, he jetted off to Denmark a couple days ago to join his new basketball team. You can follow his exploits here and lobby for him to hook me up with his new, cute, Californian roomies. Hey, I was a pro baller too, you know. But I never had roomies like that while I was in England. So dudes have all the luck.

My sis finished shooting her last movie, which wrapped up with an LA shoot with Sam Jackson. The text I got was "Just a day in the life of Anya - working with Sam Jackson and denzel just came to hang out on set." Bitch.
More pics of bikinis and boats are getting sent to her, best believe that!

My girl Bri came to visit from Calgary this week. It was fun seeing her, even if she is ghetto fabulous.



We got to talking about tattoos, and the possibility of me getting another one, and she showed me her newest one. It's in memory of her brother, who passed away from cancer earlier this year.


That's it for now...

Other than that, I'm dead, apparently. Weird. He's Canadian. Shares my name. And he even kind of looks like me.

Rhames says Cdn actor who died at his home may have suffered aneurysm: report

TORONTO (CP) — A Canadian who was found dead earlier this month outside the home of actor Ving Rhames may have suffered an aneurysm, the star says.
“There was such a lack of blood at the scene,” Rhames told People magazine. “They think possibly an aneurysm in the brain.”
Jacob Adams, 40, was found dead at Rhames’s Los Angeles home on Aug. 3 — his chest, arms and legs covered in dog bites.
He was hired by the “Mission: Impossible” co-star to care for his four dogs — three hulking mastiffs and an English bulldog — after the two became friends on a Toronto movie set.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office says it will be weeks before they receive toxicology results that may show what happened in the hours before Adams’s body was discovered by police.
A memorial service was held for Adams — who was also an actor and screenwriter — over the weekend in Mississauga, Ont.
Rhames told People he wanted to “set the record straight” about the death, adding that Adams was more like “a member of the family” than “a caretaker.”
Rhames noted that Adams didn’t have any bites on his face or neck, but had “scratches to the middle of his torso as if the dogs were trying to pull him over.”
Police have suggested the dogs may have sensed Adams was in trouble and tried to pull him toward the house.
Rhames told People that his friend’s death is “surrealistic.”

Tintin haters are errywhere:

Borders bookstores yank 'Tintin in the Congo’ after racism complaints

LONDON (AP) — Borders is removing “Tintin in the Congo” from the children’s section of its British stores, after a customer complained the comic is racist, the company said Thursday.
David Enright, a London-based human-rights lawyer, was shopping at Borders with his family when he came upon the book, first published in 1931, and opened it to find what he characterized as racist abuse.
“The material suggests to (children) that Africans are subhuman, that they are imbeciles, that they’re half-savage,” Enright said in a telephone interview.

“My black wife, who actually comes from Africa originally, is sitting there with my boys and I’m about to hand this book to them....What message am I sending to them? That my wife is a monkey, that they are monkeys?”
The book is the second in a series of 23 tracing the adventures of Tintin, an intrepid reporter, and his dog, Snowy. The series has sold 220 million copies worldwide and been translated in 77 languages.
But “Tintin in the Congo” has been widely criticized as racist by fans and critics alike.
In it, Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi depicts the white hero’s adventures in the Congo against the backdrop of an idiotic, chimpanzee-like native population that eventually comes to worship Tintin — and his dog — as gods.
Remi later said he was embarrassed by the book and some editions have had the more objectionable content removed. When an unexpurgated edition was brought out in Britain in 2005, it came wrapped with a warning and was written with a forward explaining the work’s colonial context.
Borders agreed to move the book to its adult graphic novels section but said in a statement it would continue to sell it.
The foundation which protects the rights of Hergé leaped to his defence on Thursday after the criticism.
The Hergé Foundation said the book should be read in the context of the period when it was published.
"The context is outdated ... what's left are the jokes,'" Marcel Wilmet, a spokesman for the Hergé Foundation, said in reply to a recommendation from Britain's Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) that the book be removed from bookshops.
The Hergé Foundation said the book is meant to be about fun and jokes and does not glorify the widely accepted notions about imperialism, race and ethnicity which were prevalent in Western society during the early 20th century when the book was written.
"During those times great hunters were admired as tennis players are today," Wilmet said.

And the Youtube video of the day... from another Jake. I still can't believe his SHOES popped off!



Remarkably, this reminded me of my bike school...