Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn

(born July 2, 1982, as Lisa Olivia Munn) is an American actress, model and television personality.

She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. However, since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn personally and professionally. Also since 2006, Munn has been one of the faces of the cable network g4, hosting a number of shows for the network, the most prominent being Attack of the show, with co-host Kevin pereira.

There is a storage room filled with boxes of Playboys. And it’s been very hard to get through all of them and write a personal note to each of you. BUT I have new metallic markers that don’t smear, someone to hand me the magazines, and commercial breaks to sign them in. My goal Sign all Plaboys by next Tuesday Goal Set

Hot damn, now that is one fine looking babe. If you don’t know who Olivia Munn is, she’s the co-host of G4TV’s Attack of the Show and one of the only reasons why I watch the channel. She’s also one of the hottest women on the planet (especially in a bikini as you can clearly see) and has made our top celebrity babes year-end list for two years in a row Yeah, she’s that freaking hot! Check out Olivia’s blogfor more of her drool-inducing pictures and shenanigans. Special thanks to Skeets for the heads up

Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma. She is of Chinese descent on her mother’s side and of Caucasian descent on her father’s. When Munn was two, her mother re-married to a man in the Air Force. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised in the shinjuku district of ,  where the military assigned her stepfather. During this time, she had appeared in a number of local theater productions, and later became a model within the Japanese fashion industry. She also attended the University of Oklahoma,majoring in journalism and minoring in Japanese and dramatic arts..

Dracula’s Hidden Secrets

The Bible was the first global bestseller, so it’s fitting that Bram Stoker’s unholy Dracula would become the second. The 19th century novel held particular appeal in its time because of its roots in real life. Vampirism was more than a myth in Europe and there really was a true-life, bloodthirsty Dracula in Transylvania during the 15th century. With Halloween upon us, I set my sights on Romania to learn more about the lore and legend that is Vlad Dracula.

All Aboard the Undead Express

First stop on the Undead Express is the Bran Castle (as seen in the photo above), the palace commonly referred to as Dracula’s Castle, located on the border of Transylvania and Wallachia. No one knows if Stoker knew about this castle (he probably didn’t), but local legend says it was his inspiration for the Count’s fictional home. Interestingly, the actual Vlad Dracula never owned the one-time royal residence, though he did stay there for a short time. Nevertheless, the spooky palace — originally built as a wooden castle by the Teutonic Knights — certainly fits the bill as the structure with the most similarities to the residence Stoker describes in the book.

Will the Real Count Dracula Please Stand Up

In the end, there are any number of gothic palaces and chateaus that Stoker could have had in mind when he described the literary castle, but as far as places Dracula actually stayed, Bran probably fits the bill best. Still, the larger question remains, “Who is Vlad Dracula?”

Vlad III is the second child of Vlad Dracul, who received his name after joining the Order of the Dragon. The son was thus called Dracula, meaning “Son of the Dragon.” Ironically, the Latin word means something entirely different in Romanian: devil. It’s not surprising, then, that is how many outsiders came to view the future Prince of Wallachia.

The years that followed were even more chaotic. In 1447, the Hungarian-backed boyars killed Dracul and then blinded his eldest son with a hot iron before burying him alive. The Ottomans didn’t want the territory falling into Hungarian hands, so they sent Vlad Dracula to take control. That rule was short-lived, forcing Dracula to flee and eventually land in Hungary. Though the Hungarians were ultimately responsible for driving him out, they soon realized the young prince disliked the Ottomans as well, and with Constantinople ready to fall and the Ottoman Empire set to expand, it made sense to let Dracula reconquer Wallachia. After taking over the region, the prince killed many of the boyars and nobles and surprisingly filled several government offices with regular people, including free peasants.

The Legend Lives On

Dracula remains such an engaging character because he’s taken on such different images in our minds. Many people, mostly the Turks and wealthy Germans he tormented, see him as a monster that nailed hats to heads, burned people alive and impaled by the tens of thousands, often leaving the corpses to hang for months. Dracula turned the rich into peasants, making them rebuild the Poienari Castle and working many of them to death. There’s even talk at the time that he tortured small animals and, naturally, ate his enemies’ flesh and drank their blood.

Long Live the Vampire

You know what’s funny? It’s said that Stoker found the name “Dracula” in a book of Romanian rulers, and while he knew some of the man’s reputation, he may not have realized exactly how similar the two Counts actually were.

Another interesting link between the book and real life has to do with vampirism. In centuries past, when a hunter killed an animal, they saw the rudimentary connection between loss of life and loss of blood. Many thought blood must be a life force and some thought they could capture that force by drinking it. The most famous “vampire” of all was the 16th century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory who murdered hundreds of young girls to drink and bathe in their blood believing it might keep her young. By the late 17th century, vampirism was supposedly an epidemic in parts of Europe.

Playboy’s New Cover Model

“Blonde-haired” and “buxom” are two words that usually define playboy magazines cover models. But in the November issue, the featured lady could be better described as “blue-haired” and “illustrated.”

According to a story on CNN.com the latest model to grace Playboy’s cover and pictorial spread will be none other than Marge Simpson. The surprising choice in cover model comes as “The Simpsons” celebrates its 20th anniversary. (To check out the magazine cover.

Playboy editors hope the blue-haired beauty will commemorate the popular TV show and also boost the magazine’s popularity. Like many magazines, the past year brought a 31 percent decrease in the number of Playboy’s ad pages. With luck, the Marge Simpson issue will bring bigger circulation numbers and reel in younger readers.

Surprisingly, the Playboy issue isn’t Ms. Simpson’s magazine cover debut. In 2004,Maxim magazine featured the lovable cartoon character on the front of its issue.

Jessa Lynn

Really? Okay, so I’ve been told I need to fill this section out. You know what I hate most about the “tell us about yourself” section of just about anything?? Its not exactly like there’s a f*cking outline.

Well, here’s my best shot.

I’m a 24 year old, female, Executive Of Brokerage and Client Developement for a local logistics firm here in the Twin Cities… I think if you went looking for one, you’d come back with…. well, me. But feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Pretty sure I’m not though; as that’s the high point of my life.

Other than that, I’m actually rather strange… or moreso I think I am. Then again, I think far too much. So what’s the opinion actually worth?

According to my other half, if you will, I’m a sushi eating, granola crunching, raging femenist, hippy…. but I’m pretty sure I was probably 10 the last time I “crunched” on granola, and that I adore the male species far too much to be any sort of “raging” femenist.

Underneath all of my walls, which I do have many; I honestly think I have a really big heart. I take everything personally, everything effects me on one level or another. Perhaps that’s why I can hold a grudge like a motherf*cker. Analyze that Dr. Frued….

I read too much. I think I like other worlds better than my own. So reading helps me to coagulate the two. I LOVE Lord Byron. If I were born circa 1840, I’m pretty sure we’d be… involved.

I love music. I hate music. Or figuretively speaking, I hate what the year 2000 DID to music. I hate that someone like “Fergie” can be a household name, but you could walk down the street asking who Saul Williams is, and everyone would look at you funny.

I love to cook. I discovered this talent a few years back. I think it has something to do with the fact that I like to eat. I’m the kind of person who’d fly to Osaka, just for the sushi. I’d also learn to speak Japanese… if the task requited it.

I have amazing friends; and I know that everyone says that, but I really do. Just ask them.

Other than that, I’m pretty sure I’m just your everyday lemming….. haha… lemming; I wish life were that simple.

 

 

2012

2012 is an upcoming disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film has an ensemble cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson. The film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver. The film’s release date is expected to be November 13, 2009 worldwide.

Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced father who occasionally works as a limousine driver and a writer, while his ex-wife (Amanda Peet) and children live together with her new boyfriend. In Guatemala there is word that hundreds of people have committed suicide believing the 2012 Hypothesis is true and in reaction to this, the IHC (Institute for Human Continuity) is formed, a secret organization that realizes the world is going to end and starts construction of massive space arks beneath the Himalayan mountains in preparation for the end of the world. The governments of the world give the IHC the task to save the human race when doomsday happens.

When they discover that a global cataclysm caused by the Earth crust displacement will occur faster than expected, they must race to these ships in order to save the human race before all is lost. Los Angeles is completely destroyed when the tectonic plates collapse and fall into the rising seas, Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, massive earthquakes occur in South America and The Vatican crumbles into oblivion. As worldwide floodings get worse, the US government declares the end of the world. A group of survivors, including Jackson Curtis and his family fight their way to China before they can board the great arks and save themselves from the gigantic tidal waves sweeping across the Earth.

The film explores the idea of a global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar’s current cycle on or around December 21, 2012