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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Better Leave a Tip

> A bar in eastern China allows its customers to beat up the staff. > The Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in Nanjing lets customers smash glasses and even hit specially trained workers reports China Daily. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1944174.html?menu=news.quirkies]. Kinda

Swayze Steps Up

I've always liked Swayze, even when he was dancing and worked with Whoopi Goldberg (who grates on me like nails on a chalkboard) in Ghost: > Patrick Swayze became the latest actor to defend Mel Gibson, saying on Monday his friend was not anti-Semitic and that too

Never Bankruptcy Land

Well, this story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060807/music_nm/jackson_dc;_ylt=AkDXpz6VKGlOrFaWAAmxglJxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-] interests me, for reasons I'll explain below: > Pop star Michael Jackson has stumbled across a conspiracy by former attorneys, associates and advisers to force him into financial ruin, his

iSex

> Teens whose iPods are full of music with raunchy, sexual lyrics start having sex sooner than those who prefer other songs, a study found [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060807/ap_on_re_us/sex_lyrics_teens;_ylt=AtRAPoTeEtPrHppDDirtEKKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE-] . It has nothing to do with the

Catholic Radio

I'll be on Dominic Lettieri's radio show this Wednesday, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (EDT), talking about blogging. If you're in the Philadelphia/Delaware area, you can catch it on WTMR 800 AM, and anyone can listen on Catholic

Message in a Bottle

Ya gotta love the Internet. The amount of creativity it has uncorked amazes and amuses me. Check out, for instance, this site: > Oceangram is the internet version of sending a message in a bottle, you write the message, seal it in a bottle, and send it off into the

Snoop Dogg Teaches the Meaning of Respect

MTV has caused an uproar with a cartoon that shows Snoop Dogg [http://www.snoopdogg.com/default.aspx] leading two women around on a leash. ( NY Post Link [http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/mtv_snoop_poop_nationalnews_philip_recchia_____and_susannah_cahalan.htm] ). Excerpt: > "Seinfeld"'

Pictures

Trip to Milwaukee: Daughter Abbie (11) and me at last Saturday's wedding. Don't freak out. She didn't drink too many. The seven and me in Cleveland. The faces have been shadowed out to protect our identity. Cleveland has a venerable mob history.

Kind Words

I've never met Terry Nelson at Abbey-Roads, but I can tell you this: he has a keen and sophisticated nose for talent: > Everything Eric writes has a lighter take, it's a witty and intelligent blog. Very good stuff [http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2006/

Something for Sunday Morning

> If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven. St. John Vianney