Remembering Payne Stewart

Pinehurst, NC

I was just in Pinehurst, North Carolina for an appearance and book signing. It is the golf capitol of the East Coast.

I had to get a picture with my golf hero, Payne Stewart, who made one of the greatest putts ever on 18 at Pinehurst No. 2 to win the 1999 open. He was also a great dresser, like me!



Love, Penchant

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Penchant accosts Jim Cramer over penny stock investment

New York, NY

Penchant Lama accosted MSNBC money man Jim Cramer outside the company’s New York City studio this week. According to Irene Lansberg, who was in New York from Atlanta, GA to buy bagels for her family, Penchant hopped on Mr. Cramer’s shoulder and called him a “jerk.” Then he jabbered something about penny stocks and complained that he was broke.

“It was the strangest thing,” Lansberg said. “I’m in the NBC studio shopping store, and there’s Jim Cramer, and all of a sudden this little blue guy is slapping him in the face, asking for his money. It is New York, but that was weird.”

Penchant, fresh from a windfall he received when his close friend Koach Krafty sold his Vincent de Hugo original to Southeby’s for $11.3 million (Penchant received $1.3 million for helping to refurbish the piece), invested $100.00 with Mr. Cramer in an obscure mining company in Peru that specializes in refining the steel used on forklifts. The company’s penny stock plummeted after the AP reported that it was the company’s metal that was used on the forklift that was used to lift injured cattle in the Westland/Hallmark Meet Company in Chino, CA.

“It’s really not a good situation,” Penchant said, referring not to the recalled beef (Penchant is a vegetarian) but to his lost money. “Told Jim to get on some hot penny stocks. And he lost my jimmies.”



Penchant was in town for the 2008 International Toy Fair. He ran into Cramer after visiting the set of the Today show. Cramer didn’t give Penchant his money, but the tiny Mimjellian did earn a few dollars running security for the Naked Cowboy in Times Square. He would have earned more if he hadn’t been sweep away by the flowing sea of Kosovo Independence Day revelers.


Read Tinkering to learn about Penchant's arrival and his first adventure in America!

-TsungChi

Toy Fair 2008 News and Pictures

New York, NY

Here are some pictures from Toy Fair 2008. What an insane and crazy adventure! Above is Titan from American Gladiators. I showed Titan some of my crazy moves to help him in the next insane competitions. He was jacked but gentle with my baby sister!
This is Tsung-Chi and Jitsu and me getting ready to go to the Today Show. What an insane and crazy time that was. Stay tuned for some clips.
This is Jitsu, me and Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty was a bore!

Here are some pictures from Toy Fair 2008. What an adventure!

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-JitsuMu

Toy Fair 2008 - New York City - CRAZY?

New York, NY

Toy Fair 2008 was CRAZY!

Some great toys, some CRAZY toys and some interesting toys!

Penchant's Top FIVE toys:

Crazy pogo jumping! http://www.flybar.com/

Skateboarding to a new level- very insane! http://www.streetsurfing.com/

Magic movement - http://www.tryouttoys.com/

Made by kids and for kids - Creative! http://www.aminaldolls.com/

Videos and pictures of all this to come!

Love, Penchant Lama

"Team Rodeo" video blamed for Senator Clinton's poor showing in Potomac Primaries

Greensboro, NC

After running in front for the several months leading up to the Potomac Primaries, Senator Hillary Clinton has fallen behind Senator Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after being swept in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

A spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign blamed the senator's poor finish on a video that was posted just days before the mid-Atlantic primaries. The video, produced by Penchant Lama, Inc. depicts Hillary as a pony being ridden by various men in what is described by the video's star Penchant Lama as a "team rodeo." Although Penchant insists Hillary is "no pony," her dispirited rocking during the rodeo conveys a lack of strength and purpose, an image not lost on voters.

WATCH crazy video: http://www.penchantlama.com/pages/video-riding-hillary-clinton.html

"Obviously it was damaging," said former President Bill Clinton of the video, which is gaining popularity on sites such as YouTube and Metacafe. "That's not the Hillary I've experienced. I wish Penchant had invited me to his rodeo."

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Penchant claimed he did invite the former President, but that Clinton declined when he learned the name of the "bull" he would be riding.

"Bill's a sweet boy," Penchant said, "but he wanted a bull named Monica."

Bob Stout, a farmer from Staunton, VA, said: "I've seen dead rats in my barn move faster than Hillary." After seeing the video he decided to vote for Obama.

Penchant argued that he did try an assortment of "teams" on Hillary, but none could elicit the dynamic bucking he expected.

Hillary now will have to shake her image as a tepid pony as she looks toward key primaries in Texas and Ohio

"It's very disappointing," she said. "I think my ankles are too swollen to run from behind."

Ankles? What Hillary needs now is a large scooper to pick up the giant poops being dropped by the stallion now running ahead of her.


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-TsungChi