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  • THESE REAL ESTATE REPORTS CAME WITHIN24 HOURS OF EACH OTHER - WHICH ONE DO YOU BELIEVE?The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS (the people who actually sell the houses) reported a record drop in home prices in October, and …

  • HI FROM LOS ANGELES, BYE KELOWNAWe just got back, and we won't be returning to Kelowna until mid December. It was snowing at the ranch, and it was so beautiful. I took this photo of the barn this morning. Also, the dr…

  • CALVIN HAYES IS RECOVERING FROM HIS KIDNEY TRANSPLANT(Prayer Request)_ Sorry for this being the only photo I have of my dear friend Calvin Hayes. I tried to get one off his website and there wasn't one, and I had this o…

  • YES I DID GET FIRED FROM EIGHT JOBS. (these stories are pretty hilarious)Job 1: I was a busboy at "New Corral" restaurant on Manchester Blvd in Westchester. It was a buffet style restaurant and when I first got the job…

  • THE ENEMY WITHINI was watching Oprah interviewing Terrence Howard, and she asked him what the secret to his success was... and he said the minute he got out of his own way, things started happening.She said that the same…

  • OPENING DAY AT BIG WHITE PLUS:JOSH "SNOW" BOARD GETS HIS FIRST SNOWBOARDING LESSONI'm impressed. On his 2nd day Josh was able to ski to the top of the mountain, but today he crashed and really messed his knee up, so he …

  • MY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PIANOI haven't played the piano in years. Melissa would always say, how come you don't ever play the piano? I have pianos gathering dust at Woodlake, Marina Del Rey and Disco Bay, untouched for…

  • POSITION AVAILABLE IN LOS ANGELES OR SEATTLEKeats needs more help! Our amazing assistant Tracy has a busy school schedule and has slightly fewer hours for us meanwhile, we are growing fast. Duties would be working the …

  • HOW DID I DO THAT VIDEO?Janey said she wants to do one, so I'll teach you:Equipment needed: 1) Mac with an "isight" camera2) "Photobooth" software - both included on any new macbook3) Ambrosia Software's "Snapz2 - with …

  • HOW IS IT I KEEP MY FRIENDS?Jess is going to kill me. I just went on her BLOG and she has discovered (oh NO!) doing videos with her point-and-shoot and putting them on the internet!Crafty little girl! She saw my videoe…

  • HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I just had leftover turkey (pictured here). I think I like cold turkey leftovers than anything in the world. Oh and a jar of mayo. Normally, I have a Thanksgiving one-day sale on the e-store, but w…

  • EVER GOOGLE SOMEONE IN THE PAST JUST TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE UP TO?I FOUND OUT ONE OF MY MENTORS IS AREGISTERED SEX OFFENDERIt's 4:15am and I just woke up at the White Crystal Hotel. It is pre-season at the ski resort and n…

  • HI FROM BIG WHITE SKI RESORT We're up here early to be in the snow. The season is scheduled to start on Thursday (America's Thanksgiving) and we could use a little more snow, but there is a storm coming in and there's s…

  • THANKSGIVING VIDEO - FROM CANADA!Hi everybody - we had an early Thanksgiving on Sunday because our new assistant and chef Corine Martin was going to be gone on Thursday night and not only that but Thanksgiving in Canada …

  • HANDWRITING FONT SERVICE! GREAT IDEA!I have been using a custom handwriting font for years. It's awesome! You sample your handwriting by writing words on a sheet, fax it into this service and they create a truetype f…

  • WHAT HAVE I DONE I was looking at this rare color Ferrari spider in Dallas, and without thinking, I put an offer on it. The reason the colors are super rare is because this car as Jaguar's racing green. They are rivals…

  • HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENTClick on the icon to read a holiday announcement from Gary Fong, Inc. Thank you!

  • INCREDIBLEI cannot believe they would show this on the internet and it is not yet available. Arrrgh! This would be SO AWESOME. CLICK HERE FOR THE WEBSITE

  • JOSH'S BIRTHDAY PARTY PHOTOS!!! CLICK HERE!Yesterday was Josh's birthday. Josh is my future brother in law, and he is here in Canada working on my ranch. In the short amount of time, he has made so many friends - he h…

  • Note: the "motorboat sound" you'll hear is Nicole flapping her lips...

  • WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT ASSEMBLING YOUR OWN DRESSER: We needed a new dresser for Discovery Bay so my assistant Corine got us one, but I had to assemble it. Well I've learned in my wisdom of years to 1) follow the instructi…

  • WE ARE DOWN TO THE LAST 14 COPIES, AND THAT'S IT FOREVERIt was a great run. 2,000 of these DVD sets have been sold worldwide, and we are down to the last 15 units (actually, 14 because I'm keeping one for me as a souven…

  • I GOT THE NEW FUJI S3 INFRARED - HERE'S WHYI'm a nut for infrared photography. It is so fun and makes the best fine art prints. The only thing is there were some big limitations before. Either you shoot like a Fuji S…

  • SAFARI IS NOW MUCH FASTER THAN FIREFOX I was a big fan of the Firefox browser, and I updated to version 2.0, and it's slower than Safari. I really liked Firefox because it had "tabbed" browsing, which is a HUGE timesav…

  • WOW I THOUGHT WE DID GREAT WHEN WE GOT $35 MILLION for Pictage, but we kind of wanted more. So when I found out that homeaway.com just raised $160,000,000 to purchase VRBO.COM - I was like... "jealous"?If you go to vrbo…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!My dad is a very happy, cheerful guy who loves to talk about the economy. I guess that's where I got it. He also is great at telling funny stories about his past. Whenever me and Mel are in L.A. we …

  • CANADAMy friend Shelly sent me these images of Canada. When I first visited Kelowna, it was complete love at first sight. I think I knew right then that it would become my permanent home. Anyway, my Canadian friends k…

  • WALK AROUND MY RANCH WITH ME :)There is SO much going on at the ranch right now. This thing has been under construction for about six months now and you'd never know it, would you?We keep adding and changing specs. Thi…

  • EAIR!!!! Did you see Oprah yesterday? They had this lady on who decoded the "secret language of babies" and it was AMAZING! They had videotapes of hundreds of babies and kind of like how dolphin people try to decode do…

  • NICE REVIEW ON IMAGING-RESOURCE.COM!

  • WOW! WE JUST PASSED JESSICASIMPSON.COM IN TRAFFIC Today we jumped up almost 174,000 websites in the last 3 months to put this site in the top 100,000 in the world, allowing our traffic trends to be visible on alexa.com.…

  • APPLE'S IPHOTO NOW ROCKS! I used to make it a habit to always get rid of "iphoto" as soon as I could because the earlier versions were really awful. But now, it's absolutely delightful and super useful. I love it. Her…

  • BIG WHITE WEBCAM IMAGE FROM TODAYsee my ski resort website by clicking HERE There has been a LOT of snow lately here in the mountain above Kelowna, and the ski season starts in just a few weeks! We won't be here! We've…

  • THE MORE I EMPOWERED OTHERS, THE MORE POWERFUL I BECAMELast night two things happened that really resonated - after I saw Bill Clinton's speech, I read a post on David Jay's blog. The message was the inherent power of e…

  • BILL CLINTON WAS SPEAKING DOWN THE STREET My super cool real estate attorney is Kevin Kingston. His new law firm, Petroiria, Langford and Rush sponsored Bill Clinton to come to Kelowna to give a speech, and we got ticke…

  • MASSIVE PROGRESS AT THE RANCH!!!! CLICK HERE!!! I think Melissa said it best yesterday. She said, "I feel like jumping up and down and doing cartwheels". For the first time ever, we had a glimpse of what life is going…

  • I GOT THIS LETTER FROM MY REAL ESTATE AGENTSince I am never in Los Angeles, I thought I would try to sell the condo. I thought the market was ridiculously overheated, so even though I really like how I decorated it and …

  • ON MY 10/5 BLOG POST, I SAID BUY GOLDLOOK WHAT HAPPENEDGold was selling for $573.70. A South African Krugerrand is now selling for $643.50. That is a 12% increase in one month. But this is just the beginning. It hasn…

  • WOW!!!!I got the new ipod shuffle and I AM SURE TO LOSE IT! It is so small, it's like the size of the head of a key. In fact, I was going to measure it, but I can't find it!But the sound quality was really good - while…

  • WE'VE STARTED WEARING PAJAMAS A LOT LATELY

  • BORAT There is one scene in the movie that is so insanely funny that Melissa had to cover my mouth because I was screaming so loudly. I won't tell you what it is because it has to be seen. It is the funniest, most outr…

  • WOW!!!!!!!!!!! I have been in search of good stereo earphones for a long time and I got a pair of the $599 Shure E5-C headphones (and the E4 and E3's) because they were supposed to be the best... the Shure's have two dr…

  • hi i just voted

    i am on my cellphone. it felt so good to vote. what an awesome country where we can fire our leadership if we dont like it. everybody has been trying to get your attention with costly campaigns... you can make the cal…

  • IT'S ELECTION DAY! I flew in to Seattle to cast my vote - it's important!

  • WE ARE BACK IN SEATTLE! We are back at our home in Seattle. I flew in here to vote, and then we are off to Canada to see the progress on the ranch. I kept having dreams about the ranch... that it was done, that I was r…

  • DJ YOU ARE A RIOTMy voice is totally gone, not from barking at the trade show booth, but from laughing my ass off last night at dinner.We had a celebration dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak house where I sent my steak back (w…

  • TUESDAY IS ELECTION DAY!I'm Gary Fong and I approved this message because at GaryFongEstore.com, we now have UPS Next Day Air Shipping.

  • WELL WE SOLD OUT!Thank you everybody! We sold out of our Chrome Dome and Amberdome inventory at 2pm Saturday, so we headed home early. As of 3pm the gang was still selling the regular product items at a la carte prices…

  • THANK YOU EVERYBODY! DAY TWO IS OVER!The officials at Photo East came by today and asked us to try to control the crowd because we were blocking the entire aisle, but there's plenty of room to walk around in the aisle b…

  • SUPER MAJOR THANK-YOUThis is the first time we've done a booth at PhotoEast, and it was an insane, runaway success - and I will not accept any credit for it, because all i did was show up.Keats Elliott spent many a count…

  • HI FROM TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK! The weather is nice here! We just got in, but I heard the booth is really looking awesome! Come by and see us at Javits Center! The Chromedomes are HERE!

  • THE FLIGHT WAS REALLY BORING, CAN YOU TELL?

  • PACKING FOR NEW YORK CITY Yech. It's midnight and we have an 8:30am flight tomorrow for New York. And though it is a five day trip only, we have to pack pack because after that we are going to Seattle, then Kelowna and…

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