Mama's House

Mama’s House Correspondent: So Moses what do you have to say to those critics who say your performances are all style and no substance? That in effect, although your stage performance is amazing, your actual vocals suck.

Moses: For those that have seen the webcasts, will come to realize that it's not all about the vocals. It's about grace and the show. Let's take the wonderfully talented and beautiful Britney Spears. She has the best show on earth, like the past VMA performance. Her vocals may not have been all there... but the dance moves were amazing and thus put on a great show.

Mama’s House Correspondent: But because of your vocals, could the Squishies and The Prophets ever put out a quality album or is Squishie and The Prophets meant to be experienced live in concert only?

Moses: That's a good question, and even though the raw vocals may not be of the bestest quality, a studio re-edit of the raw data will fix the extremely minute imperfections in the vocal quality of the performance.

Mama’s House Correspondent: Fair enough. Why, if you're the band leader and lead vocalist, is the band called Squishie and The Prophets and not Moses and The Prophets?

Moses: In coming up with the band name, I was extremely intoxicated. Thus the decision was not made with a sane state of mind. I think this was done on purpose as Moses would not have agreed to such ludacrious bull shit. Squishies as a ho. No one likes her... she's like the anti-Gweyn Stefani

Mama’s House Correspondent: On that note, two questions remain. Any truth to the rumors that Metatron is being replaced as drummer for the band?

Moses: yes. First of all Metatron... what kind of bullshit name is that. It's like someone got hammered and couldn't full come up with the name of Megatron. Second of all, Metatron has no stage presence. Third, he may be the worst band name. Fourth, W-T-F kind of name is Metatron? ... seriously

Tropical Goodies or Goody or wahtever his name is... now that's a fucking name

Mama’s House Correspondent: Ok last question in three parts. All the fans of Squishie and The Prophets want to know if you're thinking of starting another band? Whether Squishie and The Prophets will ever perform together again? And if you should ever start a new band, why should current fans of Squishie and The Prophets come out to see the new band?

Moses: Yes, there is a new band being formed that is more Moses-centric becauses Moses knows what all the Moses groupies want ... and that's more Moses. As for whether or not squishie and the prophets performing again... we'll have to wait for Squishie and get back to me and whether or not she will stop hogging the stage and open it up for The Moses to rock out. Now as for the current fans of squishie.... We'll see more of Moses and Moses will be more drunk singing the tunes that squishie fans have come to expects.

Mama’s House Correspondent: Thanks for the time Moses. Any last words you would like to share?

Moses: no thank you, Mama's-fonaciers.blogspot.com has always been nice to Moses and has given Moses his first strike at fame

yaz: parents are weird and so damn overprotective
Bruin7089: yours are?
Bruin7089: or in general?
yaz: Not mine
yaz: New parents
Bruin7089: do you care to tell me why you're thinking this?
yaz: I am not saying anyone in specific
yaz: But they freak out abuot germs and shit
yaz: like my brother
yaz: if someone coughs it is like they go all michael jackson on the kids
yaz: Fucknig masks, sequester the kids
Bruin7089: maybe it's just one of those things we can't understand because we're not in that role
yaz: Bubble kids
yaz: Fuck that
yaz: I hope my kid gets every illness, besides the ones that kill you
yaz: Makes them stronger
yaz: we are really breading a generation of pussy ass kids
Bruin7089: well that's the thing
Bruin7089: how do you know it's not the illness that will kill the kid?
yaz: Seriously, it is getting out of hand
Bruin7089: it's your first kid
Bruin7089: i bet if your brother has a second kid
Bruin7089: He'll be less overbearing
Bruin7089: or protective
yaz: he has one
yaz: same damn thing
yaz: It is ridiculous
yaz: Has to be complete silence and darkness for the kids to sleep
yaz: I mean come on
Bruin7089: are you mad because you couldn't watch tv with them in the next room?
yaz: I want my kids to be able to sleep through a fucking train wreck
Bruin7089: did they interrupt your Gossip Girl time?
yaz: I am pissed because this country is going to hell in a pussy ass hand bag full of pussy ass kids
yaz: No spanking, organic baby food, no germs, no playing in the dirt, no getting sick, no going out in the rain, here's a fucking trophy when you lose
yaz: Dont run up the score, it hurts kids feelings
yaz: No strikeouts in baseball
Bruin7089: jesus
yaz: Rewards for doing what you are supossed to do
yaz: No chatter on the baseball diamond
Bruin7089: why don't you just go over to your brother's and hit the kid
yaz: My kids are going to hate me
Bruin7089: yeah right
Bruin7089: you talk tough now
yaz: My wife will divorce me for being mentally abusive to my kids
Bruin7089: she's supposed to divorce you because you're spending too much time at work alone with the hot secretary
yaz: Well that too
yaz: I hope
Bruin7089: so you're getting divorced on more than one ground
Bruin7089: nice
yaz: Well I mean if you are going to go, go big right?
Bruin7089: A future husband and father of the year in the making
yaz: I try my best

Feel free to discuss. I'm particularly interested in knowing if any of the youngin's in our family is in danger of becoming one of these "pussy ass kids."

As you may or may not all know, I'm a bit of a political nerd - which happens to be just one type of nerd I am. So being the political nerd that I am the following strikes me as particularly amusing.

One of the few stories about Papa and Mama that will always stay with me is how they happened to choose their political affiliations here in the US. As some of you may not have known, Papa was a registered republican and Mama is a registered democrat. Having became aware of that fact I asked how that came to be. I don't know if it was the idealist or the romantic in me, but I more than expected a tale of passionate, intelligent political discourse followed by an agreement to respect one another's beliefs as they went their separate ways when registering to vote; and despite diverse political ideologies they were able to maintain a committed loving relationship. So that's what I wanted to believe.

Well here's the truth. I was told that they were at Fedco when they saw a pair of lines to register to vote. I don't know if they thought it was their duty as American citizens to register or what but they decided to get in line. Of course, in true filipino style, they decided to each go into separate lines to make the process of getting registered quicker. Turned out that the lines were distinctly separated for purposes of registering republicans in one line and registering democrats in the other line. So without giving a thought about their political beliefs and which party best represented those beliefs they got into separate lines hoping that the lines moved fast so that they could finally get out of Fedco.

So that is the tale of how Papa came to be a republican and how Mama came to be a democrat.

As requested by Uncle Arthur on the thread on Geni (yes I do read it)...

Here is a link to some Family Reunion pictures, some of which I took on my camera, and some that Lindsey or Austin took.

click me to see the pics

p.s. Please disregard the pictures from the L.A. County Fair at the end of the album haha

p.p.s. I also posted a link to Thanksgiving pictures in the comments section of an earlier post.