Now with extra charges, less leg room, flight attendants taking rides on emergency slides and all those delays, you need every tip you can get to make your trip enjoyable.
Austin has racked up some frequent flier miles over the past few years, so who better to give some tips to having the best trip you can without Rescue Remedy drops over ice and special earplugs.
(Courtesy of a young Austy's guest appearance on She Spies)
Present your ticket to the flight attendant with a smile.
And for some their inhaler. They might feel sorry for you. Probably not.
Quickly get to your seat before they charge a fee for holding up the plane.
As much as you love your backpack/carry-on/purse/laptop, they can't have their own seat, unless they have their own ticket. And no savesies. You payed for the randomly selected seat they've shoved you in, it's extra if you want a choice.
Now for the pre-flight check list.
You could go with this but I would go with the emergency air mask in case there's a loss of cabin pressure. You only get two puffs with this, that bag has at least 6.
You never really know when you are allowed to take your seat belt off, it gets confusing, so keep you hands on the buckle so you can buckle and unbuckle continuously. And everyone around you loves that clicking sound, especially after the 43rd time in less that 2 minutes.
Up in the Air:
If you got a sleeper next to you try to get the flight attendant's attention.
Make sure to point out they're a drooler, it might not help get you a new seat, but at least a couple of napkins. And that's a win.
To make it an adventure, play reading roulette, and read the first thing you pull out of the seat back pocket. Ooooo duckies.
You can try to get a drink or bag of pretzels, but don't recommend saying the tequila worm you swallowed the previous night needs to be fed. It doesn't work.
Smile. It might get you a date, which sometimes is easier to get than that full can of Coke, or complimentary pretzels.
After you land:
Keep your eye on the disembarking passengers if the row a head of you is asleep kick the back of the chair so they get up. Those 14 seconds you might lose waiting could make the difference between getting out of the plane, and getting out of the plane 14 seconds faster.
And last tip. Watch your head, if you're over 5 feet tall or you have a hat size over a kid's medium you're going to smack your head at least once during your flight. You might look into wearing a protective helmet, like I have.
Now go. Go, Fly like the wind.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Frequent Flier
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Deadline Hollywood talking about the Golden Globes best picture for a Comedy/Musical:
Fox’s new dramedy Love And Other Drugs from director Ed Zwick (in a winning change of form) definitely has the goods for a run at this category -- that is, if Fox chooses to enter it in comedy/musical and not drama.
Deadline Hollywood
Interesting that Ted had that picture to go along with the sighting/story, but People.com chose to never use it. Instead, they chose an older picture of Jake, a cleanshaven one.
I don’t know if PEOPLE magazine was aware of the "Jake's New Beard" photo they posted yesterday, but I noticed they chose one of the classic “dude duds” Jake was known to rebelliously don during the Reeke years. Let’s see. Who do we know who loves button down cotton shirts with colorful plaid designs? Perhaps the likely suspect might be a certain BFF who also likes to surf the waves and wear protective helmets. A strapping, tall Texan who enjoys looking casual and outdoorsey and is a bit quirky in his fashion sense.
Never mind how large that shirt fits Jake’s fine form—the man whose pre-2008 style was normally about monochromatic tones and earthy muted shades. In fact, the colorful plaid attire that Jake is wearing in that PEOPLE mag photo is obviously made for someone not only much taller, but with far longer arms than he.
Revealing Shirt
Which reminds me, Spesh, where's BabyTile singular these days???
M&M sounds like SK only with a litlle better grammer
I really like these pictures of Austin. I've not seen them before. LOVE the glasses.
Awww look, Jack's lonely. Hey Jack, what's up?!! Not enough in your Inbox at work? You better watch it, buddy. Your IT Dept is probably watching you.
better grammer
Oh, the irony...
Well, no biggie from Ted (or rather, I should say from Soapy) regarding Sophin. It's Soapy putting on her martyr sandwich board.
What's the key to a successful relationship in Hollywood?
A.T. fave couple Austin Nichols and Sophia Bush seem to go with the motto: A couple that hikes together, stays together. But Bush told us it's simply because they stay out of the gossip rags.
"I'm not interested in pursing that life, at all," she 'fessed recently. "We're not hunting for that sort of attention."
TWITTER: Follow @theawfultruth and @jtyboone
"It's just not where my focus is," Sophia told us and, hell, we believe the gal.
"I spend my days working and raising money for the gulf and the environment and volunteering for Global Green. I'm not dancing on a table on a Friday night, every Friday night at a crazy nightclub."
True. We've seen S. and A. down in the gulf with Global Green CEO Matt Peterson, but it seems like they make quite the conscious effort to not be caught at any trendy spots together.
"Not to knock it, I go out with my friends every once in a while, sure, but we go to dive bars where nobody knows us."
Certainly nothing wrong with that, it works pretty well for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Still, we will give Bush and Nichols props. They've definitely lasted longer than we initially gave them credit for. Maybe that BFF vibe we get whenever the two are around each other is another secret to success, right, S.?
LOL, Ted.
Couple of comments acknowledging Austin as Grey Goose. Interesting that Ted didn't get any quotes from Austin.
No one could hardly eek out a syllable from Jake re:Reeke until she had already booted him out to the curb and now Ted doesn't send a phone call out to Austin for a quote instead he talks to Soapy, who is only too happy to blabber and toot her own horn.
Well, no biggie from Ted (or rather, I should say from Soapy) regarding Sophin. It's Soapy putting on her martyr sandwich board.
What's the key to a successful relationship in Hollywood?
A.T. fave couple Austin Nichols and Sophia Bush seem to go with the motto: A couple that hikes together, stays together. But Bush told us it's simply because they stay out of the gossip rags.
"I'm not interested in pursing that life, at all," she 'fessed recently. "We're not hunting for that sort of attention."
TWITTER: Follow @theawfultruth and @jtyboone
"It's just not where my focus is," Sophia told us and, hell, we believe the gal.
"I spend my days working and raising money for the gulf and the environment and volunteering for Global Green. I'm not dancing on a table on a Friday night, every Friday night at a crazy nightclub."
True. We've seen S. and A. down in the gulf with Global Green CEO Matt Peterson, but it seems like they make quite the conscious effort to not be caught at any trendy spots together.
"Not to knock it, I go out with my friends every once in a while, sure, but we go to dive bars where nobody knows us."
Certainly nothing wrong with that, it works pretty well for Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Still, we will give Bush and Nichols props. They've definitely lasted longer than we initially gave them credit for. Maybe that BFF vibe we get whenever the two are around each other is another secret to success, right, S.?
M&M sounds like SK only with a litlle better grammer
Let me think. The poster can't spell "little" or "grammar" yet we are supposed to be attentive to their caustic point of view. Don't think so.
At least, try to learn to spell some words, even if they are nonsensical and pointless. We already know you have an amazing inability to process information of any kind. But you could try to use a dictionary, before you share your ignorance with everyone?
LOL, Ted.
Couple of comments acknowledging Austin as Grey Goose. Interesting that Ted didn't get any quotes from Austin.
No one could hardly eek out a syllable from Jake re:Reeke until she had already booted him out to the curb and now Ted doesn't send a phone call out to Austin for a quote instead he talks to Soapy, who is only too happy to blabber and toot her own horn.
Note the "I, I, I". I do this, I'm not, I spend, I'm not, I go out...
The two instances where she says "we" don't necessarily refer to her & Austin. She could be talking about her & her friends.
These 2 are laying so low, they're invisible. There is no joy in mudville and hasn't been for several weeks.
Time to amp it up, Sophin! Your fans are looking for you.
How is it that there are pictures of Austin I have never seen before? He looks cute in glasses.
The blurb from Ted was disappointing. I view it as being another excuse to show Austin and Jake on the same page for yet another day, a continued subtle but effective effort to keep their names linked. Ted does not have to use a sledge hammer every day. And I will be happy if he shows them together every day for ever after.
It is odd about Jakes beard and to me shows his conflicted nature about fame and its cost. On the one hand he has his nose done to be more handsome, leading mannish. Then he turns around and spends the Reeke years and now the beard period looking as unsexy as possible. Hiding his good looks. The subconscious wills out despite our best efforts.
I forgot to add, musical comedy? In all the brief mentions of LAOD screenings not one word has been said about any singing.
Oh I see. Never mind. I just read the Deadline HW write up and see it is just a combined category for musicals and/or comedies.
"I spend my days working and raising money for the gulf and the environment and volunteering for Global Green. I'm not dancing on a table on a Friday night, every Friday night at a crazy nightclub."
What about Soapy's "little voices?" and the way she was constantly pushing her relaysh with Austin the first few months of her inane twittering? Or, that embarrassing "No Show" Breakthrough Award in August, and her lack of support at Austin's Surfrider event. Oh, I get it. Soapy's trying to come up with a plausible excuse of why there are no sightings of Sophin anywhere. Well, we all know how camera shy the poor woman is. Probably breaks out in hives anytime she sees a red carpet. LOL! I love the way Ted inserted Twitter links right after her statement, "We're not hunting for that sort of attention." Now, that's true mockery, at its best.
I can't stop LMAO. Some of those responses to Ted's post on Sophia and Austin are hilarious:
court Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 9:48 AM
i agree with #2 the two of them are adorable together! austin is so not gay, he took the show to be with sophia.and after that idiot CMM did that to her she deserves somebody good and real she is always trying to make a difference! and i love one tree hill this season
Soapy probably should be a bit more careful the next time she tries to identify what she deems to be unacceptable merrymaking. She just dissed Jake with that "dancing on tables on a Friday night."
Just over at Ted's reading the latest, and he's got a post about having a guy pose nude for PETA this year. What a great idea - Jake would be great because he's got his own beautiful fur already. :)
You're kidding me, M&M. Was that Canadian incident on a Friday night?
Oh my dog.
It was a Saturday night, but still her derogatory statement was really too close for comfort. Remarkably, insensitive and certainly reckless.
Wait, why are we believing that Montreal incident again?
It was a Saturday night, but still her derogatory statement was really too close for comfort. Remarkably, insensitive and certainly reckless.
"Dancing on tables" is a common phrase meant to indicate a wild night, etc. To try and link that with the drunkenstepfather b.s. is unbelievable and says more about you than her. I know you hate this woman, but come on.
^^ITA
No one's believing the Canadian two step event. Just making a point that Sophia should have thought twice before she opened her big fat mouth.
GET A GRIP said...
No one's believing the Canadian two step event. Just making a point that Sophia should have thought twice before she opened her big fat mouth.
It's not a matter of believing or not believing the incident - the point is M&M and you obviously believe that Sophia purposely used the words "dancing on tables" - A COMMONLY USED PHRASE - as some kind of slam toward Jake and no one with an ounce of freaking common sense would ever make that connection. You need to get a grip on the mind you've obviously lost if you really believe that. She has no reason to make any kind of jab toward Jake - don't you guys get that? She's not in a freaking competition with him - that's all in your delusional minds.
No one said she purposely did anything nor was motivation spoken of AT ALL. You are the one who is being ultra sensitive and defensive. Her outburst was completely insensitive given Jake's run in with that drunkenstepfather idiot. If we're familiar with that story then she was too. Think before you insert foot in mouth.
la di da di da.....
Cute pictures of Austin, never seen them before either. Great find Special.
Sophia sure uses "I" more than you would expect for someone who has been with her bf what, four years? Caught off guard and or forgot to get into character? Reflectd the current bearding status--i.e. not really doing much of it anymore? Only concerned with herself?
Austin did a guest appearance as "law student" who wants to help out this environmental activivist who is being transported by the feds on a plane, in on of the early episodes of She Spies. It came out in 2002, so it was shot probably after Wimbledon was over.
I had a lot of fun making the screencaps, and I have tons, so look for more in the future.
The screencaps are very good. :)
Hey, GETAGRIP, when, in your opinion, does the statute of limitations run or mourning period end for the use of the phrase "dancing on the tabletops"? 6 months? A year? Never?
As for Ms. Bush, many OTH fans and others will say that she is no wall flower. She has been out a lot and there are pictures of her being in "good spirits" of the jolly drink persuasion. And hey there is nothing wrong with going out and having fun. It's trying to sell some other story about who you are is where's the rub.
Sorry, but "dancing on tabletops" is not a common phrase that trips off most tongues. Even if it were, then it is all the more insensitive that she would reuse a phrase she darn well knows closely describes the allegation of Jake's behavior at the Garde Manger when he was accused of shoving that girl. That was not a small thing. The incident was plastered everywhere. It could have been a major scandal. Jake even sued the guy over it. My point of view still stands.
The incident was all over twitter and some internet blogs and never reached the mainstream despite the pushing of Drunkenstepfather and some so called online "Jake fans".
So no it wasn't posted everywhere. Major scandal my ass.
I remember correctly DS kept the post up despite the threat
Nobody gave a shit, if I remember the only major blog that picked it up was Ted and that was because DS tweeted Eonline and so called "Jake fans" e-mailed Ted.
I remember laughing when DS tweeted Perez, TMZ, Ellen and Oprah allerting them and nothing, LOL!!
Not even Lainey picked it up and she is in Canada.
Get a grip, you obviously don't get out much.
So nobody gave a shit about the phony Grande story (sorry "Jake Fans") and I'm sure Sophia doesn't give a rats ass either.
Story from The Daily Beast:
According to Gallup polling data exclusive to The Daily Beast, white women are deserting the Democratic Party in droves. Linda Hirshman on where the disaffected voters are heading. Downcast Democrats have generated a boomlet of optimism in the last few days. Last week's Gallup results put the Dems an amazing one point ahead on who voters would prefer generically for Congress--the second such showing in the last three weeks, indicating they're not dead yet. The New York Times ran an article about how the Democrats have a fundraising edge in some tight races. And on Thursday, the Democrats released a bunch of internal polls which purport to show that they can defend their control of Congress. This despite the steady drumbeat of polls showing that their 2008 miracle voters--the young and the nonwhite--are so not interested in picking the Congress as they were in picking the president
Whatever, Jack. Whatstinkin' ever.
Good Flintstone, do you not ever get tired of hearing yourself crab, gripe, curse, badmouth and hate? Man, I sure would. No wonder you come here so often - don't even want to be alone with yourself.
That is all you do. Gripe. Complain. Bitch. Curse. Ridicule. Gripe. Crab. You can't stand anyone on this site and then you go on WFT2 and gripe about us over there, call us all kinds of names and accuse us of doing the very things that none of us do but that you do yourself. You're the one who is writing Ted. And I bet you're the one who very well put up that video on YouTube. Why do I think that? Because you could not wait to start bragging about it both on here and T2. None of us would've ever known it was even on YouTube but like a criminal who has to leave a calling card because he's so proud of his crime, you came running over here immediately, hollering "lookit me, lookit me!! Lookit what I did!"
Then you accuse us of shoving BT down everyone's throats and yet when we don't even talk about BT, you come over here and bring BT up!! You thrive on BT talk, therefore I conclude you actually secretly love the idea. Nothing will convince me differently at this point.
LOL - Austin's latest tweet.
@ bday party. Went to toilet. They started singing happy bday without me. I sang, alone, sitting on the commode. 3 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
LOL.
Errrrr...perhaps maybe just a tad bit too much information, though, Mr. Nichols.
You know, Little Dog's mama, she will not take a bm anywhere public. Not at work, not at a store, not anywhere except at home. She will hold it and cause herself extreme pain but she will not go in a public toilet. We had a big discussion about this - have had one several times as she is one of those people who likes to re-discuss the same things again & again, lol.
And she will ask you point blank if you have ever....you know....done that at your work restroom. Because she just has to know. And if you have, then she'll ask you "How can you do that?!"
LOLLLL!!!
Commode.
LOL - who uses that word?! Sounds like chamber pot.
Good Flintstone, do you not ever get tired of hearing yourself crab, gripe, curse, badmouth and hate? Man, I sure would.
From your mouth to, er, your ears. Do YOU ever get tired of hearing yourself crab, badmouth and hate...on Sophia?
Pot, meet kettle.
Sure I do. LOL. I can be quite unpleasant to be around when I'm crabby.
If you like Sophia so much, why don't you go to one of her websites? She has a 1000 of them.
Under any other circumstances, if we worked together, we'd probably get along great. You're around here so much, Jack, that I'd like to like you, gee whiz. You're probably very IT oriented and I could probably learn alot from you. I'm very Excel formula-challenged. LOLLL! And I have no idea what a macro is.
Okay, I have to get back to my writing. Good night!
Get a grip, you obviously don't get out much. So nobody gave a shit about the phony Grande story (sorry "Jake Fans") and I'm sure Sophia doesn't give a rats ass either.
I love the way you come around here and pretty much say the same thing day after day, ad nauseum. Apparently, for someone who asserts that no one cares, you evidently must, or you wouldn't be stalking or cyberbullying on this site.
And, I take it you're a personal friend of Sophia's? Yeah, just like I thought. Just a blowhard who likes to rant and rage over everyone's comments to make it seem like you are in the know. Which, of course, you're not. You are not only out of the loop, but loopy as well.
Boy, Austin must be so sick of that rain. Wilmington has constantly been in the news on the Weather Channel. They've had a ton of rain in the past couple of days with more on the horizon, coming up from the Atlantic. Whew, and winds at 45 mph. That's crazy.
Well, I liken Jake to Rocky right now. His people have 30 or so days to play Burgess Meredith and get him into promo shape.
And he's got that New York City Film interview event this weekend, actually. Maybe he'll come running up the steps of, hmmm...the Met doesn't have steps does it, Destiny? What has steps? Maybe a big library. lol, I don't know NYC very well. Well, ol' Jakey can come running up the steps from the bowels of the subway in his grey sweatpants, hands over his head, in fighting promo shape.
SANS TUMBLEWEED BEARD!!!
Hey, this is cool!
Jim Cantore is live in Wilmington NC this morning!!
No one said she purposely did anything nor was motivation spoken of AT ALL
Do you know how to read?:
Methodical Muser said...
... She just dissed Jake with that "dancing on tables on a Friday night."
September 29, 2010 1:53 PM
btw, I don't "love" Sophia, I don't know much about her, but you guys go way too far with your irrational hate of her.
I'm beginning to think this entire blog is a hoax. That someone is pulling a Joaquin Phoenix because it's hard to believe anyone could seriously come up with some of this stuff.
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