The Greatest Shartists of All Time
Once in awhile an artist comes along that stands out from all others in their generation, bringing smiles to children and uniting generations with their signature sounds. Here now I’d like to salute some of what I consider to be the best Shart-ists of all time, It might be a bit biased but as is in life sometimes we see things only the way we want to see them.
1) Shart-Kira 
Shart-Kira burst onto the scene in the early 90′s and never stopped churning out the hits. She broke new ground and many boundaries with her message the beautiful women could not only sing but they could also shart, a message that previously was ignored by main stream media. The picture above is a press photo from her 2009 gold album “Shart Wolf”. Notice she is sitting on a toliet yet her pants are on, this was surely a message to show her departure from previous Shart-pop albums and into new musical territory.
—————————————————-2)Frank Shart-Natra 
No list of the best is complete with out ole brown eye himself, Frank Shart-natra, Frank’s biggest album came with his 1958 classic “Come Shart with Me” this of course was the follow up to his breakthrough album ” Songs for Sharty Lovers” and was the predesesor for his album “Frank Shart-natra, Sharts for Only the Lonely” which won a Grammy for best album cover at the very first grammy awards.
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2-Shart ( pictured here holding up 3 fingers- a reference to how he liked to Shart 3 times on stage per concert) was a true talent who was taken way before his time. His debut album ” Shart-pacalypse” went gold and unlike many artists he has continued to release albums even after his untimely death in 1996, a victim of a drive by shooting .It is believed that at 11:15 the shots that ended his life occurred and his bowels dis-engaged thus giving him is final shart performance.
50 AND ME
My number one complaint in life is how often people compare my life to that of rapper Curtis “50 Cent” I don’t know his last name.
So once and for all I wanted everyone to know how different me and 50 truly are, below are a few factoids that show the subtle but very relevant difference between us and the lives we live. Also as a bonus I’ve included some photos of the two of us as part of my new “50 and Me” photo series that will be on display in some super cool art galleries in New York and London this Fall.
1) If you have a baby by me you most certainly won’t become a millionaire

2) I don’t run New York

3) I’m more into making love than just having sex

4) I did not make 100 million when Coca-Cola bought Vitamin Water …. though I am currently lobbying for the return of Ecto cooler.

Rockstars that look like Actor Stars
The Following are some of my casting suggestions and movie titles if they ever happen to make bio-pics on the following famous bands.
1) I’m a Pepper you’re a Pepper : The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story.
Will Ferell as chili peppers drummer Chad Smith. Good Ferrel put his nuts on those drums in Step Brothers!

2) Petty in Pink : The Tom Petty Movie
John Heder as Tom Petty. , Can I also suggest Uncle Rico and Kip in character as members of the Heartbreakers.
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3) Same as it ever Was : The Talking Heads
Christian Bale as David Byrne, you loved him in The Fighter, now see him wearing an oversized suit,
Bonus tag line : This movie event only happens once in a lifetime!

4) Jim Carey as Jimmy Eat World front man Jim Adkins in:
Goodbye Sky Harbor, based on the long running off Broadway play “Jim on Jim” :

Celebs I look like
Throughout my life many people have said that I have a similar look to some pretty famous faces. I thought it would be fun to run down the list of the most common.

Adam Sandler: I’ve been getting this one since I was 9 , I always took it as a compliment because he’s funny. I loved SNL and his early movies though I could have done without him making ” You don’t mess with the Zohan” and “Grown Up’s”) but overall The Sandman is ok in my book and I always figured it could be worse, someone could have told me I looked like ChrisKatan
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Jason Biggs, This one started around 1999 when the first American Pie Movie came out. At first I was a bit reluctant to embrace looking like a guy who had sex with a pie in a movie but then he really changed all that when he made the hit movie” Eight Below, I mean who wouldn’t want to look like one of the “Eight Below” cast!!!???????
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(McLovin) , I usually only get this one at bars when people are drunk. I remember on one particular occasion, It was my last day as an intern at MTV and the whole staff went out to the bar , one dude asked me to get into one of there group pictures because and I quote ” that guy looks like McSloven, lets get him in this photo” he went on to ask me as followed : ” Hey Mcsloven get in this photo!”. Well I didn’t take that much offense because though I worked on the same floor as that guy for 5 months he was mearly only an executive assistant and he probably still is( Shout out to all yall drunk Executive Assistant at MTV)

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4) The Maid from the Brady Bunch: No one has ever said I look like the maid from the Brady Bunch but I always felt like I could pull it off if I put on an apron and a wig. Quite frankly I’m surprised I’m the only one who has ever picked up on it.
5) This one isn’t really a celebrity or even a human , and I don’t feel that I look like it at all but I couldn’t resist including it, I mean look how cute it is.

- Greg
The Mix Volume 1
What happens when you mix a budding indie rock band with an old sitcom that features a Sasquach from the 1980’s?
I think you get two great new TV shows that should immediately get picked up by a network such as NBC to fix there faltering ratings and fill some mid season 10pm timeslots.
The Band : Florence and the Machine ……………………………… The Show: Harry and the Hendersons


Show 1: Florence and the Hendersons

Synopsis: An odd couple type show where Florence, the Henderson’s artsy niece from Greenwich village NYC is forced to move back in with her uncle after falling on tough times . Hilarity insues when Florence’s very liberal ways collide with the conservitive tendencies of The Henderson family unit and their back woods way of life.
Opening theme song : The Dog Days are Over by who else but Florence and the Machine .
Doesn’t that sound like a delightful romp through the classic plot premise of worlds colliding with a modern twist? Let me answer for you “ Yes Greg it fucking absolutely does and I want to watch that show right now!!!!!, But what are you going to do with the remainder of the band name and Harry? “
Don’t you worry random 1 of possibly 10 people who might actually be reading this post because I got that on lockdown, so just scroll down you silly goose.
Show 2: Harry and the Machine

Synopsis: Harry and the Machine is quite simply at it’s core your basic every day sitcom that deals with the complexity and raw emotion you would expect from a show about a Bigfoot with a time machine, it’s Sliders meets Sasquach meets Back to the Future meets Jack Link’s beef jerky. I was already able to sign the time machine from Bill and Ted’s Excellent adventure to a 4 season contract with an obligation to appear in at-least 8 episodes in season 5 if he chooses not to return to the show once his contract is up.
For the sake of saving money for whatever network is smart enough to pick up this show we can use a TV theme song that already exists and has proven to be a hit with American youth culture, yes I’m talking about the theme song to“ Night Court”
Sounds like a hit! I mean even if it’s not a hit, it couldn’t possibly be worse then the 2006 sitcom flop Twenty Good Years that starred John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor and aired on NBC opposite 30 Rock during it’s first season.
Urban Outfitters
An open letter to Urban Outfitters:
Dear Urb Outz,
Recently my Mom asked me to give her some names of clothes stores I shop at for Christmas gift ideas. Feeling too old for the college standby’s of Pac -Sun and American Eagle, I decided to go with some stores that had a slightly more mature feel such as H&M and Urban Outfitters, I threw in Macy’s for good measure because recently I had the pleasure of finding a nice winter sweater there at quite an affordable price.
All was well until a few days later when my mom sent me an e-mail asking me to check out the Urban Outfitters website, she said they had such a big selection of shirts that a few narrowed down ideas would help her out.
Page after page of the Urban Outfitters website was filled with dudes who had these faces and hair cuts that made them look like what I can only describe to you as what you would expect a real live Turd Bugler to look like.
Seriously Urban Outfitters did you find these guys by putting up a Craig’s List ad for men who look constipated when photographed?
Needless to say I crossed Urban Outfitters off my list of places to shop for winter clothing.
I couldn’t imagine any situation where wearing one of your articles of clothing would be suitable to wear unless the situation was “Do your best to look like a Douche Magoosh” but even that situation would be highly unlikely because I just made up the term “Douche Magoosh” and I would never ask anyone to stand around and look that way unless I was punishing them for not shopping at Macy’s.
So Congratulations Urban Outfitters; every male model on your website looks like they need a good punch in the face
Better luck with your spring line
-Greg Russo
P.S: Why can’t you be more like Macy’s?

This Week’s ”Saturday Night Live” already better then last week’s and its not even Saturday yet
The promos for this Saturday’s episode of SNL have hit the web and by the looks of them this episode is sure to be better then last week’s season low that was hosted by Robert De Niro and featured “Diddy Dirty Money” in train wreck performances.
Unlike last week’s episode that can only be described as a “Bomb-erang” episode (got off to a bad start, maintained it’s terribleness mid episode and then came back to you with a horrible ending) this week’s is hosted by Paul Rudd and has Paul McCartney as the musical guest.
Adding to the hype of an episode with two great Paul’s is the fact that it’s almost the holiday episode and soon the cast and crew will have a few weeks . Last year Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) and Mike Tyson made cameos on the holiday closer so don’t be surprised if you see a few famous faces this year as well.
Movies Re-imagined with Diarrhea
It’s a simple game, you replace one word in the title of a movie with another word and then suddenly you and your friends are hysterically laughing over said movies new meaning. Now without further adue we proudly replace the word “Diary” with the word Diarrhea” in movie titles.
1) Diarrhea of a mad black woman:

This classic from Tyler Perry centers around a mad black woman named Madea and her quest to solve her chronic Diarrhea, but Madea gets more then what she bargained for when in a feable attempt to solve her problem she sews her butt cheeks shut and hyjinks insue .
2) Bridget Jones’ Diarrhea:
Bridget Jone played by Renee Zellweger plays a slighty overweight british woman who has trouble sealing the deal with her dream man due to her chronic diarrhea but when a pseudo rebel without a cause type comes to town Bridget will have to chose between the man she loved and her diarrhe loving new man.
3) The Diarrhea of Anne Frank:
This touching and sphincter burning tale takes place between 1940 and 1941 when a 11 year old jewish girl named Anne keeps a detailed record of her bowel moments just a year before the Nazi’s come to occupy Amsterdam.
Wonders of My World
Sometimes I just have time to think thoughts. These are some of them
1) Does Little Kiss get as much ass as regular size kiss? or do they only get a small portion of ass as to be consistant with the size of their kiss’ness?
2) Can Astronauts get boners in space? Does no gravity mean no erection?
3) Are Amish people allowed to do the Electric Slide? On the one hand it’s just a dance, but on the other it’s Electric! ( boogey woogey woogey)
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go take a long train ride and think my thoughts instead of doing other useful activities like looking for a job.
The Wonder Years Movie
hese days everything is getting made into movies whether it be an old TV show like “The A-Team” or a childhood toy like “Stretch Armstrong”. Now I can just assume both of these movies are going to be terrible so I decided it was time to just go ahead and start projecting future re-make projects and who the cast will be in hopes that I will steer big time Hollywood executives in the right direction for the future.
The following is my predictions for a what a future “Wonder Years” Movie Re-make would look like

Cast:
Mom:
January Jones is the obvious choice for the mom. She might not be coming back for the next season of Mad Men so she might be free and she has that look in her eyes like she will be able to embarrass her son in the middle of a department store by taking him shopping for new pants and saying” There is a little room in the crotch area.” Anybody remember that episode? I sure do! -
The Best Friend:
Dude looks like Paul Pfeiffer
which begs the question, was Paul Pfeiffer the original McLovin?—————–
The Brother:
Take one look at Will Arnett and say you can’t see him picking up Kevin Arnold from the mall and then speeding up a bit every time Fred Savage would try to get into the car. Do you guys remember that episode? No? Just me ? OK then lets move on—————————
The Dad:
Since this is a remake for 2010 we have to update the traditional family structure and make the dad a step dad, then we have to make him a cool step dad by making him black. So yeah Forest Whitaker Wins.————————————————————
The Sister:
Yea that’s right it’s Precious, plot twist! She plays the daughter from Forest Whitaker’s first marriage, and she’s also 500 pounds, yikes! I smell Another shot an an Oscar for this Precious————-
Winnie Cooper:
Kids these days have no time for things that are not in 3-D so Winnie Cooper will be played by this Avatar. Can’t wait to see the look on the parents’ faces when Kevin Arnold brings her home for dinner because you know the parents will have to have their reservations about their son dating an alien and stuff, but they will tolerate it because they love their kid and don’t want to seem racist.
Kevin Arnold:
Fred Savage will actually reprise the role of Kevin Arnold for the movie,let’s face it no one can play Kevin Arnold but Fred Savage, and he hasn’t aged a bit! This picture was actually taken one week ago and is in no way a press shot from the 1989 video game movie he did called “The Wizard”
So there you have it. You heard it here first. This will be the real cast of the real” Wonder Years” Movie that is never coming out ever. By the way when is that show finally going to be released on DVD? I mean come on if “Freaks and Geeks”could find a way to get all those soundtrack clearances for their DVD set then why can’t this show?
Peace I’m Out
- Greg
To Kill a Mocking Beard
Pre-requiste to this blog entry
1) Knowledge of what a beard is
2) Knowledge of the band ” The Who” and also their song ” Pinball Wizard”
3) Knowledge of what a Helen Keller is.
4) In depth knowledge of the book ” A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking”
Do you meet the Requirements? Yes? Good then you may begin reading.
Well after months of having a beard I decided to call it quits? What does that have to do with me blogging about movies? Absolutely nothing, so I will pretend to now loosely tie in movies with the different stages of my beards life and it’s untimely death to an electric razor (to get the big stuff) and then a regular razor .(to finish the job)
When my beard was born it was kind of like Helen Keller in the movie “The Miracle Worker”, it was deaf and blind and also if you scratched your fingers against it the beard would make noise, but the noises weren’t anything understandable just like Helen Keller’s noises.
- Side note: Did anyone ever realize that Helen Keller has the same story as the Pinball Wizard from the “ Who’s Tommy” , except she couldn’t play Pinball….. or could she?

(That deaf, dumb and blind Helen Keller sure plays a mean pinball after all!)
As my beard grew it was kind of like Dustin Hoffman in “ Rain Man“ which would make me Tom Cruise ,but not because I’m a Scientologist more because I was using my beard for my own gain

Now I knew I would be expecting to much if I thought my beard would make me money like Dustin Hoffman did for Tom Cruise so instead I used it for comedic value to film comedy sketches that involved people with beards . (Quick plug:SuperFutureTV.com) yeah I got me a comedy website, no big deal, although you can feel free to pretend it is if you ever see me in public!
Eventually I started to get tired of my beard, it was starting to bring me down the wrong path in life sort of like drugs put Leonardo Dicaprio down the wrong path in “The Basketball Diaries“ wasn’t that what the movie was about? ( More like the Basketball Diarrhea’s!), No really I’ve only seen like five minutes of it but it looked like a good movie . The point is the beard started to always get food in it and it was making me look sloppy and if I didn’t trim it like every other day it would get all straggly.What’s that you say you don’t believe me that my beard could look sloppy? then check out the before and after picture of me conveniently located below

In the end I knew it was time for me to leave my wreckless beard days behind me so I went into the bathroom at the start of May and looked at myself in the mirror and as I took out the razor and turned on the faucet my beard muttered ” Greg what are you doing?, without you where shall I go, what shall I do?” and I responded exactly like this :Greg’s Responce to his beard (watch the clip as if I am Clark Gable and my beard is Vivien Leigh)
Ok so maybe I called this blog entry in a bit, or maybe your eyes that are reading this and your brain processing it called it in! Maybe you didn’t try hard enough to like it! Oh all the sudden you changed your mind and now you really liked this blog cause I flipped the script on the reader! Yeah that was my plan the whole time
Peace I’m out
- G
Album Covers That Scared The Shit Out Of Me As A Child
When someone asks me ” Hey Greg, are you a music lover ?” I usually respond to them by saying something like “Guilty As charged!” with a tiny smile and a slight giggle afterwards for good measure. Now I know your asking yourself ” Greg , what’s your point?” My point is that that when I was a child there were a few CD covers here and there that just scared the shit out of me . Without further ado I proudly present :
ALBUMS COVERS THAT SCARED ME AS CHILD!
1) Radio head – “The Bends” (1995)

I was 10 when this CD came out, and I absolutely loved the song “Just“, the video creeped me out a bit but I wanted this CD anyway, Once I started listening to it though it was a bit over my head and the album cover just really freaked me out. It still freaks me out a little bit , really what is that a picture of ? I thought the picture on the cover was an alien, then I though everyone in Radiohead were aliens because they use some pretty out there sounds and lyrics on this album .I guess I just wasn’t ready for Radiohead yet or as I used to reffer to them as “ The Radioheads” because I really thought that was the name of the band, why did I think that? Man I must have been the coolest 10 year old ever listening to “The Radioheads” when everyone else was still listening to Oasis‘ “Whats the Story Morning Glory”. Take that Oasis!
2)The Tripping Daises – “I am an Elastic Fire Cracker” (1995)

I guess 1995 was the premiere year for creepy CD covers. Now a-lot of you people out there probably have no idea who the “Tripping Daisies” are so let me tell you a little something about them. They had a brief radio hit in the mid 1990′s called “I got a girl“ apparently no one ever heard it on the radio but me because no one ever knows what band or song I am talking about when I mention it. A few years later they broke up after one of the members of the band died. The remainder of the band formed the “Polyphonic Spree” you probably know them from the song ”Night and Day“ it was inEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .
Anyway back to The Tripping Daisies. Look at that CD Cover ,I know I did! When I got the album I thought to myself , “Gee golly gosh these guys must be aliens or something,” like really what is that old man in the picture covered in? Is that even an old man? maybe it’s a young alien? Why are his hands two different colors, or is that someone else’s’ green hand? Who is the guy with the green hand? Is the guy with the green hand an alien? Is anyone going to give me some answers? I think I’m going to go back to listening to the hit Oasis album ” What’s the story morning glory” , cause all these 1995 albums are really freaking me out.
3) The Beatles – “Magical Mystery Tour” (1967)

My dad used to play this record for me and my brother when we were kids, particularly I remember listening to it when I was in kindergarten one time before I went to bed, which back then was probably in the wee hours of the 8pm. This album cover combined with the song that states ” The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you away” really scared the shit out of me. I would stay up in bed waiting for The Beatlesdressed in those weird costumes to come into my window and just take me away! Deep down even my kindergarten self knew that underneath those masks they were just this regular band that made “A Hard Days Night” but then I thought “What if they went crazy? What if they turned into aliens? What if they did take me away? and then if they did where would they bring me?” I figured such a transformation from clean cut suit wearing mop tops to wearing freaky costumes had to be some sort of alien abduction /going crazy related occurrence then when I grew up I realized it was just good old fashioned psychedelic drug use that did that to them .
Now that I’m 24 and working in ” The Real World”(The actual thing not the MTV show that everyone stopped caring about after the season in Hawaii the featured Tec Money.. Shout out to Tec Money! .. Where are you these days? Are you in danger cause I haven’t seen you around. Should I send out a search party?)I secretly wish The Beatleswould come take me away . It would probably be sick to hang with the 67Beatles instead of going through “The Grind” everyday ( The actual grind of working not the hit MTV dance show of the 1990′s…Shout out the Grind). So I guess what I am asking is the following : Is it to late to cash in on that offer Beatles? If not when can you come get me? I have work until 5pm today then I am planning on going to the gym around 7:30pm so maybe you can give me like ten minutes to shower and some time to eat dinner then you can be at my house by like 9pm? Sound like a plan? Fantastic I’ll see ya then!!…..
P.S : I understand you Beatles are probably either busy or half dead so if you can’t make it you can just send Oasis instead, did I ever mention how much I love the CD by them called ” What’s the story morning glory”?
Celebritra Obscura
When I was about 18 years old I realized that I legit have a love for every single one of Pauly Shore’s live action movies (“A Very Goofy Movie” Excluded on account of cartoonity.) I can’t fight it, I try to reason with myself and come to a conclusion of why I am perfectly content with his nonsensical movies, but I’ve realized that trying to figure out what I like about Pauly Shore is one of life’s great mysteries,kinda like how regular hair turns into dread locks or what the meaning of yogurt is. So really I guess what I am saying is that there is a perfectly good scientific explanation for my love of Pauly Shore but I’m to dumb to realize what it is.

So where does that leave me then? It leaves me breaking down some of Pauly Shore’s greatest movies in hopes that everyone who reads this will catch what I like to call ” PAULYSHORAITUS” also known as “Restless Pauly Shore Syndrome” or RPSS for short.

1)” Son in Law” ,more like a “Awesome in Law“am i right? This movie is the perfect fish out of water comedy in which a gnarly 1990′s style revival hippie goes to the country to rake hay as the poster gives away, but also there is this truly bodacious scene where Pauly Shore rides a pig(Was that the sound of you adding this to your Netflix queue that I just heard? yeah I think it was.) Throw in a guest appearance by Tiffani Amber Thiessen of “Saved by the Bell “ Kelly Kapowski fame and you have yourself a movie you want to order on pay per view from your set top cable box in 1993!

2) “Bio-Dome”: More Like “Awesome-Dome” am I right? This is the perfect fish out of water comedy where Pauly Shore plays a 1990′s grunge rocker type named Bud who only pretends to care about the enviorment to get laid ( don’t we all?) , but when he mistakes a Bio-dome for a new shopping mall hilarity insues! Don’t worry Stephen Baldwin( The Best Baldwin) is there to play a guy named Doyle to keep the movie grounded in reality. This is the perfect movie to order on pay per view from your slightly newer set top cable box in 1996. Bonus Alert: Tenacious D is in this movie for like 2 minutes playing some sort of college environmental event, too bad Jack Black’scareer never took off quite like Stephen Baldwins. Oh also ” Stop thinking locally and start thinking Globally~~~~~ If you watch the movie you’ll be saying that line for the next 13 years, trust me

3) “In the Army Now”: More like “In the Awesome Now”(who didn’t see that coming?)As you probably have not guessed this film is the perfect fish out of water story where a 1990′s style Pauly Shore type played by Pauly Shore stretches his acting chops to the limit and back for the sake of great cinema . In this film the one and only ” Weasely” finds himself in the army reserve only to be shipped off to Desert storm (damn you George Bush senior! Why would you send America’s National treasure to war?!!!)
This movie has a scene where a rag tag crew of misfits ( Any Dick) turn dirty water into clean drinking water and then as they celebrate in the desert they get shot at, or maybe I just made that last part up but I’m sure something similar to something like that happens. Save your $2.99 and do not order this movie from your 1994 set top cable box, instead order the free preview then immediately drive to Caldor or Bradlees or Nobody Beats the Wiz and buy your very own VHS copy, because you are going to want to keep this and save it in mint condition for your kids and future grand kids.
Other notable releases of Pauly Shore include “Jury Duty”, and “Encino Man”. For more information on Pauly Shore please visit your local library or write your local government representative.
No one wastes your time quite like me
-Gregory S. Russo
Famous Bears Watching Cinema
Remember all of those famous bears of our youth? I recently wondered what movies they would watch if they were real. Below are my predictions.
Teddy Ruxpin: Don’t let the cuddly exterior fool you. This bear likes when shit gets real. His favorite movie is Boyz in the Hood. Who would have thunk it?

The Berenstain Bears: These bears are extremely family oriented. They are very strict and only let their bear children watch movies that are rated PG-13. Their family favorite film is Weekend at Bernie’s 2.

Fozzie Bear: If there is one thing about Fozzie Bear that everyone knows as fact it’s that he has a thing for powerful women of Latino descent, so naturally his favorite film is anything with Jennifer Lopez in it. He recently stated during an interview with The Economist that if he had to choose just one Lopez film as his favorite he would go withMonster in Law.

So now you know what I think your bears are watching. Questions? Comments? Concerns?
Famous Beards of the Cinema
Over the last few months I’ve found myself shedding my winter coat and growing what I can only describe as a fierce spring beard. Often times when you first start growing a beard it’s hard to stick with it, your face feels itchy and it’s hard to find a comfortable spot on the pillow at night when your going to bed, but if you stick with it and get through the first 14 days which are in fact scientifically proven to be the hardest days of beard growing then you start to see the results and reap the benefits of being a bearded man or perhaps even a bearded woman if that’s your kind of thing.
Today I want to take a moment to stop and appreciate some famous beards of the cinema

The out of work beard

The Salma Hayek beard

The beard that could be described as Good, Bad, or even Ugly

The beard that will be back for a sequel
Do you have a favorite movie beard? I guess you probably never really thought about it before, but don’t you think it’s time you do so that next time someone asks you this same question you can be quick to respond with an answer.























