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I got tickets to the annual Kristi Yamaguchi & Friends Ice Show to be broadcast on November 8th on NBC and wound up at a Jonas Brothers Concert. Seems that along with all her ice skating friends, Kristi is also friends with the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and Jordan Pruitt.

The event was really cool, given my seats, there is a great chance that I will be on TV at some time during the event unless I drove the production staff nuts by always having my camera up to my face when the skaters were in front of me or worse, upsetting the continuity by giving Alicia my jacket after intermission since she was cold.

Got some great pics, they are in the 2008 Best of Section of the site (Link) and the ear doctor says that I should get most of my hearing back by Christmas thanks to 18-Thousand screaming 12 year olds going crazy for Nick Jonas and his Brothers! Side note: Ok I have to admit they were actually pretty good.

My highlight in a day of meeting stars was the pic with Kristi Yamaguchi’s father (right) and Uncle (left). The “friends” were actually her skater friends from over the years which included some of the best ice skaters of recent years including Jamie Sale & David Pelletier Olympic Couples Gold Medalists, Nancy Kerrigan and her 3 kids, Viktor Petrenko, Jozef Sabovcik and his 2 sons and Jenni Meno & Todd San 3 time US Pairs Champs, again all the skaters had their children who skated in the show including Kristi’s daugher Keara who was adorable.

Alicia participated in the Phoenix leg of the Susan G. Komen race for the cure for breast cancer awareness yesterday (October 12th). It was an amazing event, attended by over 40,000 people including me and Lilly who I can say is more of a “chick magnet” than Hagan.

The coolest people to come up and say “what a cute dog” were Ali Vincent and her mother Betty-Sue from the Biggest Loser Season 5. Betty-Sue comes up and starts to pet Lilly and says wow what a cute Pom, I respond thank you and suddenly notice the pink Biggest Loser shirt then realize it was her (both live in Mesa).

They were here along with the brown team (Curtis & Mallory) of which who all posed for a pic with Alicia.

From 12News/AzCentral.com- Miguel & Lilly

http://www.azcentral.com/commphotos/azcentral/8285/25/169

Just added about 200 new pics in the Best of 2008 Album, enjoy. (LINK)

Some random pics for my “grown up Myspace”.

Last week my cousin Marie sent me a box of pics that I had not seen in well over 10 years, I’ve now begun the process of scanning for archiving. I wanted to post a few of them since it’s the week of the anniversary of my dads passing.

March 13th, 1998 I lost my mom, September 20th, 1998 I lost dad, I just wanted to take a minute in this post to thank them for everything they gave me.

With hard drive prices at rediculous levels, this one was a no brainer, I’ve been seeing how easy it’s supposed to be to upgrade Tivo boxes to larger hard drives for more recording time and thanks to a copy of MFSLive (See Here) it was literally a dozen screws, a cable hookup to a free SATA port on my PC and a little bit of time, 1 hour later from start to finish, I took my Tivo HD from a few hours of HD capacity to over 120 hours! This is the result after replacing the stock hard drive with a new “Green” 750Gig drive from Western Digital.

So the amazing animatronics show ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ played in Phoenix this week, and I tried to get tickets to take Hagan but the best seats available for the last show of the run on Sunday no less, were 70 bucks each, in the last row and Hagan had to pay full price!

So opting to save $140 bucks + Ticketmaster fee’s and parking downtown, we decided to play Walking with Dinosaurs, the home version, thanks in part to Lily, on loan for this limited engagement by Alicia, I think it was money well SAVED!

I was out in the garden and thought I was watching a hummingbird in the bushes in front of my home that was allowing me to get oddly close to it. In reality the hummingbird will not allow you to get within several yards of them, this creature was letting me get only a few inches from it with my camera lens. I was able to snap 2 really clean pics of this little guy and was very perplexed with it’s origin.

After a quick Google for Hummingbird, the auto-suggest in Google brought me to the Hummingbird Moth, the exact moth I captured in these images is actually “Hyles lineata” commonly known as the White Lined Sphinx Moth (See Here) which truly resembles a tiny hummingbird (at a short distance) but when up close will not only allow you to get within inches but will also charge you as if getting you to stay away from it’s plant source. I had hoped that I had discovered a new species in my garden but I guess that I just found something really cool.

As a reference, the flower this guy was taking a drink from is my Red Bird of Paradise and each flower is about the size of a quarter.

Reuters: LOS ANGELES - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.

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When I was 8 years old (1972) my family went to Europe to visit my Godmother and tour Paris, England and Spain, on the plane there was a comedy channel which I had dialed in to the ear buds for most of the flight. One of the routines that I vividly recall was George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words, just what an 8 year old needs to hear! Later in life I had a passion for comedy, I dabbled while on the radio working a couple of morning shows and being able to toss out a one-liner from time to time but I never pursued the career.

George Carlin along with Rodney Dangerfield and up until a few years ago Richard Jeni were some of my favorite comedians whom I actually paid money for a ticket to see live, in fact I saw Carlin just last year here in Phoenix.

What were the 7 Dirty Words you can’t say on Television, here they are, with examples.

1. Shit - The bird shit on the statue.
2. Piss - I have to piss like a race horse.
3. Fuck - Fuck you.
4. Cunt - She has a nasty cunt.
5. Cocksucker - Go to hell, you cocksucker.
6. Motherfucker - You are a motherfucker.
7. Tits - Hey, nice tits.

Later in life he added several “auxiliary” words, they were.

1. Fart - I farted.
2. Turd - Who dropped a turd in the urinal?
3. Twat - Shave that hairy twat.

I finally got around to purchasing MiguelLombana.com, .net and .info so in the coming weeks, time permitting and that I have very little of, I will be migrating this site to that name. If you come here to check pics or vids, no worries, you won’t notice a thing, just a new way to access the site.

New action pics of Hagan on her quad were shot this weekend, they are in the 2008 Pics section along with a few other new pics.

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We had our first dance recital last weekend, although my future ballerina lacks some discipline (she’s 4 damnit), she has massive potential! Enjoy.

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Video 1- Belle’s Dance - Beauty & The Beast

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Video 2- Hanna Montana “Pumpin’ Up The Party Now”