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I want to wish all of my blog readers and Twitter followers a Merry Christmas!

To thank everyone for contributing to what I do, I’m giving away 3 gift cards.

A $25 gift card to Restaurant.com. Be sure to check Restaurant.com and make sure there are restaurants in your area that are participating. (Restaurant.com lets you buy gift cards for less. For example, for $10 Restaurant.com money, you could get a $20 gift card to a local restaurant.)

A $10 gift card to everyone’s favorite, StarBucks Coffee.

And last but not least, a $5 gift card to Crazy Dog T-Shirts.

To win, all you have to do is press the retweet button at the top of this post. If your tweets are protected, I would suggest re tweeting and posting a comment in the comment section below because your retweets will not appear in the ‘retweet comments.’ Feel free to include in your tweet what gift card you want. If you don’t care, don’t specify one.

Winners will be chosen randomly using a number generator and then DMed.

Don’t have Twitter or don’t feel like tweeting? Just post in the comments below. Re-Tweets are greatly appreciated though!

Thanks and Merry Christmas!

-Austin Prime

*Winners will be chosen on Christmas Eve – Thursday, December 24th.

Edit: Sometimes your tweets will not show up immediatly in the re-tweet comment section. If they do not appear in 1 hour please contact me via twitter or the contact form.

Also, please note that I will do my best to keep track of everyone manually as I see tweets come through. Most of them will be logged on here automatically.

One of my friends from school posted this on my Facebook wall today. She said that he reminded her of me! I can see why… haha. I thought this was pretty neat. Enjoy my pick of the day! If you ever have any video suggestions, let me know!

The Muppets have done it again! Their latest is what I call an ‘epic performance.’ I believe that this is something all of my readers can generally agree on (as opposed to one of my recent blog posts about another performance.) The Muppets have released their version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and I must say, I like it better than Queen’s original! The production quality is great as usual and even better… it’s available in 1080p HD on YouTube! That’s serious HD for the free interwebz. What did you think of the video? Funny? Lame? Post in the comments, I want some good feedback on this video.

*Sesame Street recently celebrated their 40th anniversary! See what Google did to celebrate. Click here.

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Paula Deen was recently attending and helping out at a Hosea Feed The Hungry event when someone threw a ham and it hit her right in the face! Didn’t your parents teach you not to throw your food?!

She joked it off by tweeting about it on her verified Twitter account. She said that she’d

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Last night the American Music Awards (AMAs) were on ABC. American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert performed his new single For Your Entertainment to end the show. ABC had been working up the performance all night as “Outrageous” and “The performance everybody will be talking about tomorrow.” They were right about that!

As an Adam Lambert fan, I was absolutely shocked at what I saw. Adam is a great singer and has amazing control over his range, but his performance was incredibly inappropriate… and it was on ABC of all channels! The question left is who is to be blamed? Adam for his performance or ABC for airing it?

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All things considered, ABC did a great job producing the live tv version of the show. Contrary to that though, they did a live streaming red carpet pre-show on Ustream. Not only was the quality horrible, but the hosts down right sucked. They never knew if they were on air or if another host was on. They also tended to use the SAME questions for every celebrity they interviewed. Not to mention all of the technical glitches. We were able to hear the live producer audio stream and much more. Pretty embarrassing for ABC.

*Be sure to post what you thought of Adam Lambert’s performance in the comments.

Lady Gaga has set a trend. In this new video of Beyonce’s song Video Phone feat. Lady Gaga, Beyonce is wearing some pretty crazy outfits! Not so much for Lady Gaga… backwards? I think so! I guess some other celebrities are starting to dig the strange outfits. I’ve posted the video below. Watch it and let me know what you think about it on Twitter or in the comments.

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This video officially made my day! Be sure to read the description under the video that sets the scene! So awesome.

“I have know my fiance Tracey Wade for over 14 years and wanted to propose to her in a very unique way. Tracey thought we were just going to the movies on a Sunday afternoon. Little did she know, I had rented the entire theater and filled it with 160 of our friends and family. I made it seem as though we were showing up a little late to the movie and went in to the theater after the lights had gone down and the movie trailers were already playing. This was done to keep her from recognizing anyone in the theater. What I had done was make an entire movie trailer that had actors portraying both Tracey and I at different times in our lives, both present day and in the future. After a few trailers played including one for Lord of the Rings the one I had made started. Tracey thought it was just another trailer for a movie soon to be released. Tracey was just perplexed as to how many different things had similarities to our relationship, she kept nudging me throughout the trailer. Tracey had no idea this was a marriage proposal until the last three seconds of the trailer.

Nine months earlier in September of 2006 I started by hiring a professional production team, securing two and a half million dollars (FOR FREE) worth of film equipment (THANK YOU PANAVISION, THEY DONATED THE EQUIPMENT FOR THE SHOOT), and writing a script that would show what would go through someone’s mind (Tracey’s) if they were about to die. It is said “moments before you die your life flashes right before your eyes”. JUST A NOTE: Ever since Tracey was a young girl, she has had a reoccurring dream that she was going to die in a plane crash. Actors were cast to portray both Tracey and I at different times in our lives (twenty years in the future as well as present day).

The explanations of the flashbacks are as follows:

HORSE JUMPING – Tracey has been an avid equestrian her entire life, both competing and teaching professionally. The location that we filmed, was the exact location Tracey won in, back in 2006.

DODGER STADIUM – Tracey and I have season tickets to the Dodgers. We both grew up in L.A. and are big baseball fans.

SKYDIVING – On Tracey’s fathers 70th birthday we both went skydiving for the first time. The plane in the trailer is the same plane we jumped out of in real life. The actress portraying Tracey even wore the same jumpsuit.

KITE FLYING – This was filmed in the exact location Tracey and I have flown a kite before.

FISHING – When Tracey and I fell in love; we were down in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. One of our greatest memories in Mexico was chartering a boat and going marlin fishing. In the movie trailer both actors were wearing the exact same clothes, both Tracey and I were wearing when we went fishing. As a side note this scene was actually shot on location down in Cabo San Lucas.

RUNNING ON THE BEACH – Tracey and I had one of our best days ever on this exact beach near San Diego.

SAILING – I own a sailboat. Both Tracey and I love sailing. The exterior shot was not my boat, but the closes up shots were actually filmed on my sailboat.

AIRIAL SHOT OF BEACH AND HOTEL – This was the actual place we stayed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It is our very favorite place. Tracey always thought I might one day ask her to marry her there.

PROPOSAL LOCATION – Same hotel as mentioned above. This one area at the hotel was our very favorite spot.

SHE SAID YES!!” – Glomer8888

Lady Gaga has done it again with her new music video, Bad Romance! I’ve never seen such strange outfits… and so many in one video! Gotta love her!

What do you think of Lady Gaga’s new music video for her new song, Bad Romance? Post in the comments.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner! The point of Thanksgiving of course is to give thanks for what you’ve been blessed with. So, I want to challenge all of my blog readers and twitter followers to tweeting one thing you are thankful for each day with the hash tag #Thankful. So you’re tweet could be something like: “I am #Thankful for ____” or “I am thankful for___. #Thankful.” Something like that. Hopefully doing this everyday will get the #Thankful hashtag trending and the hope is for people to be thankful for what they have. You can help get the idea about this out there by using the social networking links below (Digging, Re posting on Facebook etc.) and by using the Retweet button at the top of this post. Thanks so much and happy Thanksgiving!

The Sesame Street have been on air for 40 years next Tuesday (Nov. 10th 2009)*! To celebrate, Google is decorating their front page with different characters!

Also to help celebrate, The National Post released a “101 Muppets of Sesame Street” flash page. This page shows you all of the 101 Muppet characters with their names. You’ll be surprised on how many of them there are! Click here to see the names and faces of all the 101 Muppets of Sesame Street!

*Thanks @Fladoughboy for noticing my mistake.