The Story of James Robinson

McDonald’s or KFC

See no Pizza!

James

Why do non US athletes or non US Olympians, especially the ones whom won their event/s or other 2 medialists?

Yeah Mom,

Beyonce is a partner in a restaurant in Hollywood with several other artists – It’s called Blacksteel.

But relax, like most folks that use their name to partner in a restaurant, the chance of you seeing her there are the same as the chance that she is your long lost daughter.

I manage a group of restaurants here in Southern California that are “owned” by professional ball players. In the 5 years that I have been with them, we have yet to see any of the owners – just their accountants — occasionally.

Hey, Magic Johnson has a group of movie theaters in LA….

James

Hey Good,

Involve an entire industry! For Many years I was involved with a group called Ordinary Miracles. It started as the Bartenders Holiday Fundraiser about 1997. A bunch of us bartenders got together and decided that on One day during the month of December of that year, we would donate 1/2 of our tips for that shift to a fund. The proceeds of that fund would go to several causes. We got free advertising for our event and that first year raised about $26,000 . We continued this for the next few years, eventually adding servers, hairstylists, Coffee shops and other business. In the last few years there were cruises, silent auctions and comedy shows. The last year that I was involved we raised something like $126,000. The project was the brain child of; Nigel Mayer, Mike Phillips with Fernando Lara and Mike Lunsford.

A fundraiser that I started in Long Beach, CA was known as the Bartenders Pub Crawl – It involved Bartenders going from Bar to Bar, Dressed in Thrift Store clothes, begging for Drinks and Tips that would go to a Holiday Charity. It’s later incarnation is the Annual Red Dress Run. The Red Dress Run is now in 35 cities across the USA.

My favorite was a fundraiser in Los Angeles, CA. We were trying to raise funds during the early AIDS crisis. We were able to secure the use of Harold Lloyds old estate in Hollywood. We had received donations of Fine China, Silver serving platters and Chafing dishes from some of Hollywood’s best hotels and caterers. We had volunteer performers and had received many donated items for a silent auction. We had bartenders selling tickets to this event but realized that we had one problem. We weren’t getting donations for food. So we took our own money and went out and bought Hot Dogs, Tortillas, Nacho Cheese, those stupid little cocktail weenies and a ton of other Finger type foods. We snuck booze into the Estate (we weren’t supposed to because we had no booze permit) – and had a GREAT TIME! That first year we raised $38,000. The event was called “An Affair” – it is now the main fundraiser for One, Inc. in Long Beach.

If you want to know of other fundraisers that don’t involve selling things – contact the Old Mission Bay Athletic Club (OMBAC) These are the fine folks that hold the Over The Line tournament in Mission Beach every summer. They have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to non-profits around the San Diego area.

Any fundraiser that you endeavor will only succeed if you are willing to have fun with it! If you don’t have fun, nobody else will.

I have done; Variety Shows, All you can eat buffets, Spaghetti Dinners, Paper Christmas Decorations (Like the Shamrocks that you see during St. Patrick’s Day) and something called the Bobby Bodin Memorial Classic – which was nothing more than a White Elephant Auction. Don’t forget about Charity Softball Games, Fake Ballet (with coaches, principals and awkward males, dressed in a tutu) and backyard carnivals.

Something that I’ve always wanted to try would be a Donate your Vacation Pay. Many people don’t take all of their vacation pay and their employers let them store it up. I wanted to do a “Day for the Dogs” or a “Day for the Kids” as fundraisers for animal shelters or for Children’s causes. It works out well because they person donating the vacation pay would get a receipt for the non-profit.

Whatever you do — Make sure that there is no way that you can profit from the fundraiser! I have seen too many fundraisers that the “Chair” took money for gas, mileage, supplies, or other “Reimbursements” that will doom the “Chair” and cause the fundraiser to flop.

Hope that this helps!

James in San Diego

Hey Stefani,

While you are driving past Car Repair or Engine Rebuilding places and you see the white Snap-On tool trucks, pull over and ask for the Snap-On guy/gal. They carry it on their trucks and are able to do cash sales. If they don’t have any, they will give you a card and make arrangements to send some to you!

Hope that I helped,

James in San Diego

Italian restaurant with real Italian food?

Hey Jowie,

Stay off the Internet!

Even the most innocent programs will probe your computer to see what else you are interested in (Spy-Ware).

So if you stay off the Internet, there won’t be such things!

Problem solved!

James in San Diego

p.s. If you are worried about cost, there are FREE Anti-Virus and Firewall Software on the Internet!

Hey Babygurl,

I, as a guy, think that a great date would be with you! I might like to do the things that I like, but I would be more flattered if you did something special that we both would remember:

Maybe a night show at the local Planetarium followed by a dinner under the stars (outdoors at a decent restaurant – doesn’t have to be $$$ – You can even trade the stars for some Xmas style lights on their patio) – & cap it off with something warm (Thermos with warm Brandy, Kahlua and coffee or Hot Chocolate ) at the lake or looking over the city… The entire theme is stars!

OR

If you like football/basletball/baseball … Start at a Dave & Busters (or anything similar) with a sports theme going on. Order food for him that would have a sports night theme (Buffalo Wings, Quesadilla’s, Nacho’s) – Followed by a Football or Basketball game – Or you could do it with a Race car theme.

See my thoughts behind this is that when we were little, our families always through us themed birthday parties. Now that we are older, nobody does them anymore! We are really just big kids and would think that it was so sweet that you thought that much about us!

OR

Put out! Sorry, sometimes us guys will trade any good plans for a …..!

Well, I hope you and him have fun, whatever you do!

James in San Diego

Hey Cantoo,

People – Yup, It’s Billy!

Companies – Yup, It’s BP Amoco

Nations – Yup, per capita it’s Saudi Arabia

Banks – Yup, Chase

Cities – NOT A CLUE!

James in San Diego

If it were possible for anyone to buy a star (a real one) why would you buy one?

Hello Thomas,

I don’t know if you have asked the questions correctly.

The correct question is WHAT is Hugo Chavez and Why doesn’t anybody tell him to shut up?

Hugo Chavez is able to control nearly 25% of the worlds oil. Citgo is now owned by The Venezuelan National Oil Company.

More important, Why doesn’t anyone tell him to shut up (Even Bush) – Because they know that all he has to do is to have a little pow-wow with his friend, The President of IRAN and they can throw the world into another Oil Embargo as bad as the late 1970’s.

So Thomas, the “powers” that run this world know that in the event of an election in November, if you are waiting in lines to buy non-existent $5.50 per gallon gas, you may think differently about sending the same “powers” back to their cushy jobs in world capitols.

Just my thoughts,

James in San Diego

p.s. As much as I don’t like him, Venezuela has the highest per capita wages in South America. They also have MANDATORY education through our equivalent of High School and they have nationalized health care.

Hey Melly,

You might not understand this answer, but your mom will!

Tell your mom that your rabbit is pregnant….

When she says “How do you know…?”

Tell her “THE DOCTOR DIED!”

She will crack-up, unless she is not over 30 – then she’ll have you committed to a mental hospital!

James

Buying A Domain Name??

Well Derwood,

First, If the hen knows, if you know what I mean, save face! Tell her that you forgot your “Tiny”, “Little” boxing gloves in your glove box, next to your condoms.

Ask for her forgiveness, and tell her it won’t happen again!

If she doesn’t know remember next time to come prepared with Viagra and a “cockmanship” ring – Make sure it’s the right size!

Then all the men will know that you will never lapse again, all will laugh and you will again be the “Master” of your little, tiny “rooster”!

Hey, we’ve all done it at least once! Don’t be HARD on yourself!

James

(I am sorry, it was just to fun to pass up!)

have you ever had your goat sucked?