So I'm in Hartford, Connecticut and I swear it was 58 and sunny today. If I didn't have such loyalties to Pittsburgh I would move up here in a heartbeat. Let's take a look at the pros and cons.
Postives:
1.) Gorgeous mild days like today all spring and beautiful summer days.
2.) Sea side towns.
3.) Cheap sea food.
4.) Small towns where cross walks mean something.
5.) Small town restaurants that are little hole in the wall dives.
6.) Clean air ... sort of.
Negatives:
1.) The dude he keeps going "sniff sniff" twice in a row with the EXACT SAME FREAKING CADENCE AND REGULARITY. My communist hotel is trying to charge me 10 dollars a day for internet, so I'm using their "business center." There's a dude in wind pants who has gone "sniff sniff" at least 14 times since I've started this blog. I never want to be that guy, go get an effing tissue.
2.) Horrible winters ... I get them now, might as well ratchet them up a notch.
3.) Sea side sea gull crap.
4.) Raging Liberals.
5.) Living in a raging Liberal blue state (except for New Hampshire are you aware their license plate says "Live Free or Die" I almost wept the first time I read it and still tear up each time a car with it passes by.)
6.) Raging Liberal cars. I drove pass one today that had a Kerry - Edwards sticker on it (what a joke let's give everyone health care so when someone has cancer it takes them five months to see a doctor i.e. Canada and their horrible dollar pretzels) A Clinton - Gore '96 sticker on it. A Gore - Lieberman Sticker on it. And a no W bumper sticker. I'm glad that person loves paying more taxes in a state or area of the country where all the prices are inflated to begin with.
Beautiful area though. Love it otherwise. This guy has no clue that he keeps sniffing. He continues with reckless abandon. I seriously want to throw my cell phone at him. Anyway, he's driving me nuts, I can't even continue typing, so that's going to have to be it for now, before I kill him and get tried for homicide with some tree hugging judge presiding who would think it was this kid's right to sniffle.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Two Great Cigar Recs
Hey people here are two recommendations for cigars that you should smoke within the week. Now these bad boys are a little more on the expensive side, so if you value money and don't have much of it to value, like myself, you should seek out these cigars sparingly. However, they will stinking knock your socks off!
1) Diamond Crown Maduro (figurado): Pow party in your mouf! I can think of fewer cigars which have such a remarkably pleasing effect on the palate. If you're down for a full bodied smoke with notes of coffee, earthiness, vanilla extract, and burnt toast (yeah I'm that cigar snob, people) get a DCM. The wrapper is a dark espresso color yet the ash contrasts wonderfully as snowy white (no dwarves here, though) and firm. Take a few hours out of your day for this bad boy-don't rush through it. I'd also recommend a snifter of Chivas or The Glenlivet with your smoke too...but don't drink and drive!!! At $20 a stick this sucker is going t cost you, but if you don't go get one it's also going to cost you a quick slap to the face from the backside of my hand! Get right!
2) Padron 1964 Aniversary (torpedo): This cigar packs a punch and a half. Chaney told me that the thing was mellower (yeah that's a word) than it came off on the palate. It was definitely a kick in the mouth! The thing was so peppery and full bodied that I had to take it slooooooowly. This was one of those cigars that if you smoke after anything less than a fatty fat filet, you're going to wind up hugging a toilet somewhere. That's just plain embarassing, so get a steak to compliment your Padron. As far as drinks go, you go out and get yourself 750 ml's of Bulls Blood with that biftec. Bulls blood is a dark red wine which tastes oddly enough like it gushed forth from some angry bull's jugular. I know it sounds gross, but with a steak and a meaty cigar you'd be in heaven. The recipe then is Steak + Bulls Blood = Goodness! For about $50 bucks you could have a little piece of heaven (yeah, the cigar is $15, $10 for the sangre de toros, and $25 for a good steak at, say, Ruth's Chris). Step Correct!!!
Ok kids let me know how your experiences are with the cigars. I want a full report soon. And to my NY friends out there who I KNOW are reading this, you should try it too. I think the Four Seasons still allows smoking if you know the right people. Try it.
1) Diamond Crown Maduro (figurado): Pow party in your mouf! I can think of fewer cigars which have such a remarkably pleasing effect on the palate. If you're down for a full bodied smoke with notes of coffee, earthiness, vanilla extract, and burnt toast (yeah I'm that cigar snob, people) get a DCM. The wrapper is a dark espresso color yet the ash contrasts wonderfully as snowy white (no dwarves here, though) and firm. Take a few hours out of your day for this bad boy-don't rush through it. I'd also recommend a snifter of Chivas or The Glenlivet with your smoke too...but don't drink and drive!!! At $20 a stick this sucker is going t cost you, but if you don't go get one it's also going to cost you a quick slap to the face from the backside of my hand! Get right!
2) Padron 1964 Aniversary (torpedo): This cigar packs a punch and a half. Chaney told me that the thing was mellower (yeah that's a word) than it came off on the palate. It was definitely a kick in the mouth! The thing was so peppery and full bodied that I had to take it slooooooowly. This was one of those cigars that if you smoke after anything less than a fatty fat filet, you're going to wind up hugging a toilet somewhere. That's just plain embarassing, so get a steak to compliment your Padron. As far as drinks go, you go out and get yourself 750 ml's of Bulls Blood with that biftec. Bulls blood is a dark red wine which tastes oddly enough like it gushed forth from some angry bull's jugular. I know it sounds gross, but with a steak and a meaty cigar you'd be in heaven. The recipe then is Steak + Bulls Blood = Goodness! For about $50 bucks you could have a little piece of heaven (yeah, the cigar is $15, $10 for the sangre de toros, and $25 for a good steak at, say, Ruth's Chris). Step Correct!!!
Ok kids let me know how your experiences are with the cigars. I want a full report soon. And to my NY friends out there who I KNOW are reading this, you should try it too. I think the Four Seasons still allows smoking if you know the right people. Try it.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
1 2 3
1) Too much Tony Campolo for you, Amanda. Only the most ardent hardheaded softies could take a discussion about the death penalty and turn it into a diatribe about how America ruins foreign nations. Give me a break.And yes it does inconvenience my march madness watching.
2) Electricians and even lawn care professionals die on a day to day basis. They're innocent workers but die anyway. That's life. Maybe, I've got a great idea. Maybe we can set up an appeals process, funded of course by your tax dollars and mine, where electricians can appeal the mandate to go up the ladder and fix power lines. God forbid people die in innocent situations. People die, you need to break eggs to make an omelette and yes I know that's callous. Speaking of callous, though, maybe we should talk to the Lundsford family who had their 7 year old daughter molested and killed to see if they think the death penalty is a ridiculous punishment. You go first. If a disproportionately low number of innocent people die in order to prevent depraved people like Jessica Lundsford's killer from roaming my neighborhood, I gonna let them die. It's civic duty.
3) MorOn...I have to point it out only because I've been called out too on crap like that. Haha.
2) Electricians and even lawn care professionals die on a day to day basis. They're innocent workers but die anyway. That's life. Maybe, I've got a great idea. Maybe we can set up an appeals process, funded of course by your tax dollars and mine, where electricians can appeal the mandate to go up the ladder and fix power lines. God forbid people die in innocent situations. People die, you need to break eggs to make an omelette and yes I know that's callous. Speaking of callous, though, maybe we should talk to the Lundsford family who had their 7 year old daughter molested and killed to see if they think the death penalty is a ridiculous punishment. You go first. If a disproportionately low number of innocent people die in order to prevent depraved people like Jessica Lundsford's killer from roaming my neighborhood, I gonna let them die. It's civic duty.
3) MorOn...I have to point it out only because I've been called out too on crap like that. Haha.
Friday, March 18, 2005
Interesting Post
Wow, I'm glad Andrew has posted 3 times and I haven't posted in ages. I want to commend Andrew on an excellent post and couldn't agree more. I totally agree with the fact that we need to utilize the death penalty. There is no death penalty now it's a glorified slap on the wrist. I read musicruby's comments and I don't know who she is, but I think she's missing the point. Of course it's all about money. People are generally sinful and greedy people so therefore money is always an issue. Having more money also enables people to keep it instead of wasting it on waste of space criminals and keeping them alive. And when people have more money in their pocket the economy is better. So a person keeps his cash, he spends stuff, the business man gets richer, and he spends it, and the stock market goes up and people make money, and wages are raised for the little man and everyone's quality of life is increased. All without raising taxes. Imagine that you democrats. It's trickle down economics baby. Let me hear ya' hollar one time for Ronald Reagan! Anyway I got off on a bit of a tangent.
So musicruby says it costs just as much money to keep people alive as it does to kill them. Not if we don't let them appeal again and again and again. I say we give the person their fair and honest trial and then if they're given the death penalty, kill them. Within a week. It doesn't need to be a long drawn out process that wastes everyone's money and resources. They don't need to read every book in the prison library and learn how to make bombs and modified rifles. And they certainly don't need to have a man named Sue make love to them.
As for deterent any more deterent than we have now is better. If we even keep one more psycho from killing eighteen people or another sick man from molesting children then some good has been done. I'm not sure death is intriguing to them. They may be fascinated by killing people, but deep down people are afraid of their own death. Especially people who have no hope of an afterlife. So these people don't want to die, but whatever psychotic state they may be in, they can't see they may have to face their own death. You know what makes them face their own death? Seeing others just like them get axed, whether through the electric chair, lovely lethal injection, or something even more harsh and gruesome (all in favor say I). You don't deter anyone by showing them life in jail where they pay for nothing and live until the age of a normal man even if only a few years fewer.
Just some thoughts about the death penalty. I'm always in favor of being harsher to others. Most likely because I'm an elitist and I think I'm better than other people. Maybe even if I have no reason to be. But that's really all I have to write about for now. I'm off to watch more March Madness and get up tomorrow morning to buy some U2 tickets for their show in Pittsburgh. Yeah that's right, I'm going to see them a second time ... greatest band ever. Oh yeah, Andrew's list of stuff that incenses me is also dead on. I hate all that stuff completely. And as for that U2 site Bill, I'm not even commenting on it. It's completely bogus and I don't even want to lower myself to commenting on it.
Night all
So musicruby says it costs just as much money to keep people alive as it does to kill them. Not if we don't let them appeal again and again and again. I say we give the person their fair and honest trial and then if they're given the death penalty, kill them. Within a week. It doesn't need to be a long drawn out process that wastes everyone's money and resources. They don't need to read every book in the prison library and learn how to make bombs and modified rifles. And they certainly don't need to have a man named Sue make love to them.
As for deterent any more deterent than we have now is better. If we even keep one more psycho from killing eighteen people or another sick man from molesting children then some good has been done. I'm not sure death is intriguing to them. They may be fascinated by killing people, but deep down people are afraid of their own death. Especially people who have no hope of an afterlife. So these people don't want to die, but whatever psychotic state they may be in, they can't see they may have to face their own death. You know what makes them face their own death? Seeing others just like them get axed, whether through the electric chair, lovely lethal injection, or something even more harsh and gruesome (all in favor say I). You don't deter anyone by showing them life in jail where they pay for nothing and live until the age of a normal man even if only a few years fewer.
Just some thoughts about the death penalty. I'm always in favor of being harsher to others. Most likely because I'm an elitist and I think I'm better than other people. Maybe even if I have no reason to be. But that's really all I have to write about for now. I'm off to watch more March Madness and get up tomorrow morning to buy some U2 tickets for their show in Pittsburgh. Yeah that's right, I'm going to see them a second time ... greatest band ever. Oh yeah, Andrew's list of stuff that incenses me is also dead on. I hate all that stuff completely. And as for that U2 site Bill, I'm not even commenting on it. It's completely bogus and I don't even want to lower myself to commenting on it.
Night all
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Death and Taxes
I was reading the internet today, and was reading an article about how Scott Peterson is not going to get a retrial. First of all, I'm not here to comment about SP's trial and the fiasco that it devolved into. The man was sentenced to death, that's the final word. Or is it!?
We all know the death penalty is an ineffective deterrent for most of us common lawbreakers in America. We all know full well that Scott is going to sit in a cell in California for a good 20 years before he tastes death. We also all know that Scott is going to be mooching off of our tax dollars, because in order to keep him alive for 20 years in order to put him to death, we need to give him food, water, hire guards to watch him, get him some awesome Tropicana fatigues, juice, books, etc. The death penalty is so screwed up that way. I know people have problems with the death penalty because it killlllssss people. Waa waa waaaaaaaa!!
I was reading this article online about how people don't 'believe' in the death penalty anymore. People the death penalty exists, so believe in it. "A majority" of Americans apparently think that the penalty is ineffective for dissuading criminals, and that it's mean, and that it would be better for a first degree murderer to rot in jail than be put to death forcibly. The way the penalty is set up now, a lot of people on death row have basically a life with no parole term....they're going to die in their cells before dying on a gurney with needled poking out of their forearm.
The death penalty sucks, and people don't believe in the death penalty, beacuse it's not grisly enough. The death penalty would be a much better deterrent if it were swift and sufficinet to meet the crime. Picture the scene: After the appeal process is done for SP's trial, the shackle him up, drive him to jail, go out in the courtyard of the jail, and put bullets into his head. That's a horrible thought, and that's just the reason why the death penalty needs to be disgusting. The carnage deters people. Sitting in jail for 20 years only to be put in a chemically enduced coma at the end of your term would actually be probably more of a release and reward than a punishment! I bet old people would kill to be able to die in their sleep, and not from cancer or tumors and whatnot. If people could see that the most heinous criminals were punished in the most heinous way, would that not deter them from committing such atrocities? We'll never be able to know because everybody is too busy getting their panties in a twist thinking about a man who committed a double murder having Jesus juice and dying peacefully. That's messed up. We'd save so much money! We'd save so much useless babble on MSNBC from Chris Matthews. We'd have a much greater appreciation for the life that we are able to lead. Two slugs to the back of a criminal's head seems a perfect ending (and cheaper ending) for the person who willingly takes others' lives. I know you all agree with me here.
We all know the death penalty is an ineffective deterrent for most of us common lawbreakers in America. We all know full well that Scott is going to sit in a cell in California for a good 20 years before he tastes death. We also all know that Scott is going to be mooching off of our tax dollars, because in order to keep him alive for 20 years in order to put him to death, we need to give him food, water, hire guards to watch him, get him some awesome Tropicana fatigues, juice, books, etc. The death penalty is so screwed up that way. I know people have problems with the death penalty because it killlllssss people. Waa waa waaaaaaaa!!
I was reading this article online about how people don't 'believe' in the death penalty anymore. People the death penalty exists, so believe in it. "A majority" of Americans apparently think that the penalty is ineffective for dissuading criminals, and that it's mean, and that it would be better for a first degree murderer to rot in jail than be put to death forcibly. The way the penalty is set up now, a lot of people on death row have basically a life with no parole term....they're going to die in their cells before dying on a gurney with needled poking out of their forearm.
The death penalty sucks, and people don't believe in the death penalty, beacuse it's not grisly enough. The death penalty would be a much better deterrent if it were swift and sufficinet to meet the crime. Picture the scene: After the appeal process is done for SP's trial, the shackle him up, drive him to jail, go out in the courtyard of the jail, and put bullets into his head. That's a horrible thought, and that's just the reason why the death penalty needs to be disgusting. The carnage deters people. Sitting in jail for 20 years only to be put in a chemically enduced coma at the end of your term would actually be probably more of a release and reward than a punishment! I bet old people would kill to be able to die in their sleep, and not from cancer or tumors and whatnot. If people could see that the most heinous criminals were punished in the most heinous way, would that not deter them from committing such atrocities? We'll never be able to know because everybody is too busy getting their panties in a twist thinking about a man who committed a double murder having Jesus juice and dying peacefully. That's messed up. We'd save so much money! We'd save so much useless babble on MSNBC from Chris Matthews. We'd have a much greater appreciation for the life that we are able to lead. Two slugs to the back of a criminal's head seems a perfect ending (and cheaper ending) for the person who willingly takes others' lives. I know you all agree with me here.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
I think I know well enough...
...what puts Keith at risk for having a brain anyeriuszm (I'm not going to take the time to spell check that one in MSWord, ok?). Here are a few of them (keith you can corroborate or disagree):
1) Tie Stealing
2) homeschoolers' mothers
3) The Steelers losing either lots of games, or losing one pivotal game.
4) J.J. Reddick
5) Democrats, really liberal democrats.
6) Websites that make fun of U2. Granted I read the site and thought it was funny, but Keith likes U2...a lot more than the average U2 fan. I'll be interested to see how he reacts to that one haha!
1) Tie Stealing
2) homeschoolers' mothers
3) The Steelers losing either lots of games, or losing one pivotal game.
4) J.J. Reddick
5) Democrats, really liberal democrats.
6) Websites that make fun of U2. Granted I read the site and thought it was funny, but Keith likes U2...a lot more than the average U2 fan. I'll be interested to see how he reacts to that one haha!
Monday, March 14, 2005
That's where knowing your band comes in
311 have been around for 20 years, that means circa 1985 311 started churning out music. Some musicians make music for music's sake, not for album accumulation. I restate that 311 has been making music for around 20 years.
As for stealing ties, think of it this way. Your friend goes out with this hot girl who is great to make out with. So say that your friend and his girl break up, and he has no ties to her at all...pun intended. Wouldn't you want to date that girl? Yes you would, and then you would try to date her. The same is true for tie stealing. You see a nice tie that you covet in your heart, and then fortune smiles on you and you have the opportunity to take the tie and make it your own. So you do. Keith you shut up.
Back to 311. If you know 311 then you know that they have some beautiful lyrics. Granted a lot of them are about smoking pot, but every musician needs a muse. See 'uncalm' and 'don't dwell' and 'champagne' and '8:16 AM' for references about what to whisper in girls ears. Again with knowing your bands' history.
Back to U2...they are awesome no doubt. Awesome.
Back to Mt. Ranier, I almost died taking a picture of it. Take that Mt. Ranier!!
Back to why PA sucks. Listen I just came back from the west coast, and she wanted me to tell you something: Life outside of W. PA is awesome. Dont' settle. Again with the girl analogy, if you had a chance of dating penelope cruz, but had a sure fire date with, say, Drew Berrymore, wouldn't it behoove you to try to at least get a date with penelope? Sure drew is aight, but penelope cruz is...well, penelope cruz. Go for it, leave western pa while you still can. Dmac I know you can relate because you're from cali soca (another 311 jam worth checking out).
Plus, 311 covers sublime on their bsides with an a capela version of 'What I got'. It's so cool.
PS: I'm in West Coast mode right now. It's technically only 9:00 in my mind, but work comes at me too fast on East Coast Time, so I need to get to bed. Don't do drugs.
As for stealing ties, think of it this way. Your friend goes out with this hot girl who is great to make out with. So say that your friend and his girl break up, and he has no ties to her at all...pun intended. Wouldn't you want to date that girl? Yes you would, and then you would try to date her. The same is true for tie stealing. You see a nice tie that you covet in your heart, and then fortune smiles on you and you have the opportunity to take the tie and make it your own. So you do. Keith you shut up.
Back to 311. If you know 311 then you know that they have some beautiful lyrics. Granted a lot of them are about smoking pot, but every musician needs a muse. See 'uncalm' and 'don't dwell' and 'champagne' and '8:16 AM' for references about what to whisper in girls ears. Again with knowing your bands' history.
Back to U2...they are awesome no doubt. Awesome.
Back to Mt. Ranier, I almost died taking a picture of it. Take that Mt. Ranier!!
Back to why PA sucks. Listen I just came back from the west coast, and she wanted me to tell you something: Life outside of W. PA is awesome. Dont' settle. Again with the girl analogy, if you had a chance of dating penelope cruz, but had a sure fire date with, say, Drew Berrymore, wouldn't it behoove you to try to at least get a date with penelope? Sure drew is aight, but penelope cruz is...well, penelope cruz. Go for it, leave western pa while you still can. Dmac I know you can relate because you're from cali soca (another 311 jam worth checking out).
Plus, 311 covers sublime on their bsides with an a capela version of 'What I got'. It's so cool.
PS: I'm in West Coast mode right now. It's technically only 9:00 in my mind, but work comes at me too fast on East Coast Time, so I need to get to bed. Don't do drugs.
Let it be known ...
Andrew says 311 has been around about 20 years ... I'm talking about albums released. They released theirs, or so I found in internet research, in 1993 ... roughly 10. U2 first album was released 1980 ... if you go back as far as they were together it's much farther.
U2 RULES!!!!
U2 RULES!!!!
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Andrew Sucks
For stealing my tie. That's really all there is too it. I'm glad that none of our faithful readers have commented on this. Let me ask it from point blank range. IS IT A PARTY FOUL FOR ONE DUDE TO BUY A TIE THAT ANOTHER DUDE ALREADY OWNS? IS IT A PARTY FOUL FOR ONE DUDE TO BUY ANOTHER PIECE OF CLOTING THAT ANOTHER DUDE OWNS (I.E. HAT OR SHIRT)? Someone answer the question for goodness sake.
So Andrew wanted me to blog even though it's Sunday and I typically don't blog on weekends. So here I am blogging. See the rift between us ... I do. I finished my U2 journey this weekend that I blogged about on Friday. It was a total bonus. Andrew mentioned that he likes U2 since no one has ripped their style and it's a totally distinct style. To this I would say two things:
1.) 311 sucks so no one has tried to rip their style off. Since U2 is so good bands have tried to imitate their sound so they too will be successful. No one tries to imitate 311 since even if they do it perfectly they will be ... marginally successful.
2.) U2 has been mimicked several times since they're been around since oh ... 1977. Oh yeah it's a long time. 311 is how old Andrew? Oh yeah not that old. Plus no one can mimick their sound since it's all over the map?
Being mimicked is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. U2 is killer and their rock sound is beautiful. If you listen to their career, they've reinvented themselves 5 - 6 times, depends on how you break it up. 1) Early years 2) Joshua Tree 3) Achtung Baby 4) Zooropa / Pop 5) All That You Can't Leave Behind 6) How to Dismantle ... U2 rules!
Those are my thoughts for tonight. I'm goin to hit the hay because tomorrow I'm up at 7:00 to drive to Grand Rapids, MI. I'm currently in Cincinnati, OH and it's about a 7 hour drive which really means 6 in terms of real drive time. So answer the dang question!!!!
So Andrew wanted me to blog even though it's Sunday and I typically don't blog on weekends. So here I am blogging. See the rift between us ... I do. I finished my U2 journey this weekend that I blogged about on Friday. It was a total bonus. Andrew mentioned that he likes U2 since no one has ripped their style and it's a totally distinct style. To this I would say two things:
1.) 311 sucks so no one has tried to rip their style off. Since U2 is so good bands have tried to imitate their sound so they too will be successful. No one tries to imitate 311 since even if they do it perfectly they will be ... marginally successful.
2.) U2 has been mimicked several times since they're been around since oh ... 1977. Oh yeah it's a long time. 311 is how old Andrew? Oh yeah not that old. Plus no one can mimick their sound since it's all over the map?
Being mimicked is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. U2 is killer and their rock sound is beautiful. If you listen to their career, they've reinvented themselves 5 - 6 times, depends on how you break it up. 1) Early years 2) Joshua Tree 3) Achtung Baby 4) Zooropa / Pop 5) All That You Can't Leave Behind 6) How to Dismantle ... U2 rules!
Those are my thoughts for tonight. I'm goin to hit the hay because tomorrow I'm up at 7:00 to drive to Grand Rapids, MI. I'm currently in Cincinnati, OH and it's about a 7 hour drive which really means 6 in terms of real drive time. So answer the dang question!!!!
What I learned today
Today I learned a number of valuable life lessons. I'm going to share them with you, in no particular order, in hopes that I can enrich all of your lives:
1) Next time you go to a restaurant and the server asks you what you want, tell them this: "Go back, ask the chef what (s)he wants to make, and I'll have that". I did that tonight and got an awesome southwestern shrimp scampi with pasta type deal. The chef was happy, the waitress was intrigued, and I was the talk of the restaurant (plus everyone kept oogling my food and being like "Dang that looks good. He never makes that for us!"). Do stuff to it.
2) Downtown Portland looks like downtown Pittsburgh, but automatically cooler than pittsburgh.
3) Speaking of the Pacific Northwest, I learned today that the lanes on the road have nothing to do with how fast you want to travel. People here drive willy nilly whatever speed they want, wait, whatever SLOW speed they want. You can get in the left lane to pass, but some old crotch is going to be there going 34 mph just because he feels like he should. While this is incredibly frustrating, it does present the driver with a new, more fun game: How much can I weave in and out of traffic without getting into an accident and without getting mothereffed up and down by all these dang hippies. You should try it.
4) I found out today that nice guys finish last. Not new right? Right, big deal. What I did learn is that whereas nice guys do finish last (me being a nice guy, I'm used to it), there are still people who appreciate the nice guy. If you're going to stay with the race metaphor, even when nice guys finish last there are always those people at the end of the race, still cheering you on, still telling you that you're an awesome runner, and who still maintain that you are the best person in the race. That's a comforting feeling, and I had the distict pleasure of having someone in my corner for a change today. Hang in there kids.
5) I got yelled at by a homeless guy today who told me to hug my friend Amanda. He was like "HEY!! HEEEYYYYY!!!" so I look over and then he points with his mangled dirty finger and says "GIVE HER A HUG!!!". So I did. I'm not one to make a bum cross. Bum cross hahahaha
6) Mt. Rainier hates me. I drive around for a good 45 minutes today JUST trying to get a good photo of Mt. Ranier, but everywhere I went the view sucked. What I came to realize was actually that Mt. Ranier was playing hide and seek with me. Yeah, you heard me right. Mt. Ranier kept eluding me, I kid you not! I could not find a good place to stop and take a picture where the mountain was in plain sight! I finally just gave up and started to drive home. As I was driving down interstate 5, I caught a glimpse in my rear view mirror of Mt. Ranier laughing at me, because he thought that he had won the hide and seek game. Well guess what? HE DIDN'T!! I pulled over on the side of this 5 lane highway to snap a pic of stupid Mt. Ranier and I WON! It's actally an awesome picture, too bad I almost died getting it. What did I learn? I'm better at hide and seek than the biggest mountain in America!!!
1) Next time you go to a restaurant and the server asks you what you want, tell them this: "Go back, ask the chef what (s)he wants to make, and I'll have that". I did that tonight and got an awesome southwestern shrimp scampi with pasta type deal. The chef was happy, the waitress was intrigued, and I was the talk of the restaurant (plus everyone kept oogling my food and being like "Dang that looks good. He never makes that for us!"). Do stuff to it.
2) Downtown Portland looks like downtown Pittsburgh, but automatically cooler than pittsburgh.
3) Speaking of the Pacific Northwest, I learned today that the lanes on the road have nothing to do with how fast you want to travel. People here drive willy nilly whatever speed they want, wait, whatever SLOW speed they want. You can get in the left lane to pass, but some old crotch is going to be there going 34 mph just because he feels like he should. While this is incredibly frustrating, it does present the driver with a new, more fun game: How much can I weave in and out of traffic without getting into an accident and without getting mothereffed up and down by all these dang hippies. You should try it.
4) I found out today that nice guys finish last. Not new right? Right, big deal. What I did learn is that whereas nice guys do finish last (me being a nice guy, I'm used to it), there are still people who appreciate the nice guy. If you're going to stay with the race metaphor, even when nice guys finish last there are always those people at the end of the race, still cheering you on, still telling you that you're an awesome runner, and who still maintain that you are the best person in the race. That's a comforting feeling, and I had the distict pleasure of having someone in my corner for a change today. Hang in there kids.
5) I got yelled at by a homeless guy today who told me to hug my friend Amanda. He was like "HEY!! HEEEYYYYY!!!" so I look over and then he points with his mangled dirty finger and says "GIVE HER A HUG!!!". So I did. I'm not one to make a bum cross. Bum cross hahahaha
6) Mt. Rainier hates me. I drive around for a good 45 minutes today JUST trying to get a good photo of Mt. Ranier, but everywhere I went the view sucked. What I came to realize was actually that Mt. Ranier was playing hide and seek with me. Yeah, you heard me right. Mt. Ranier kept eluding me, I kid you not! I could not find a good place to stop and take a picture where the mountain was in plain sight! I finally just gave up and started to drive home. As I was driving down interstate 5, I caught a glimpse in my rear view mirror of Mt. Ranier laughing at me, because he thought that he had won the hide and seek game. Well guess what? HE DIDN'T!! I pulled over on the side of this 5 lane highway to snap a pic of stupid Mt. Ranier and I WON! It's actally an awesome picture, too bad I almost died getting it. What did I learn? I'm better at hide and seek than the biggest mountain in America!!!
Friday, March 11, 2005
FrTomI ChaEos
I second Keith's CD idea. As you all know, one of my favorite tie stealing bands is 311. I have almost all of their albums, and today is also 3-11, so I'm going to talk about them. No one gives 311 the credit they deserve for having a sound unreplicated by any other mainstream band out there. U2 is awesome, but people bite their style (Nu Radicals, Travis, to name 2) and hence while they have their own style, you can still confuse them at first with Keane if you don't hear the song right. Now 311...there's a style you know. You hear that piccolo snare and catchy reggae dancehall funk beats and before you know it, your head is nodding and you're thinking to yourself "Man this 311 band rules something fierce!" But I highly enjoy listening to the progression of their music from 88-2005...truly radical, not newly radical like the NU Radicals.
But you out there in blogland (who at this point is Dmac...way to hang in their brother, and Seattle Rules! It's warm, I can see Mt. Ranier, the women are hot and trendy [if they're not the granola crunching tree hugging bra burning leg hair growing tie stealing nappy hair pejuli oil smelling type. There are a few of them around too, but you instantly know to stay away from them because they have flies nesting in their hairy armpits], and the seafood is so, so, so good. I ate sushi here last night and actually had to pause in the middle of my meal to comprehend the goodnes in my mouth!) should let us know which band's discology you could listen to uniterrupted!
I also realize that Keith may have steam coming out of his ears because in a way I kind of said that 311 was better than U2, in a tangential tie stealing way. But U2 is awesome.
Third Off! Tie stealing is ok. If you stole my Xavier hat, I would not care. I would even wear it when you did because I am confident in my ability to wear the hat. But then again, Jess gave me that hat, I didn't purchase it myself. So I guess there's not the same emotional bond there. Hmm
LAST OFF!!! I'm going to take a Keith perspective on an issue. Almonds are a HUGELY underrated snack food!! I got some yesterday from a kisok in the aeropuerto and have been munching on them ever since. I LOVE almonds and these are by far the best I've ever had. So good for you, and so filling, and so satisfyingly crunchy. Now if they could only cross breed gummi bears and almonds...
Ok Penisimuses, I'm going to go get in my hot tub. Watch out for the Haunting, too.
But you out there in blogland (who at this point is Dmac...way to hang in their brother, and Seattle Rules! It's warm, I can see Mt. Ranier, the women are hot and trendy [if they're not the granola crunching tree hugging bra burning leg hair growing tie stealing nappy hair pejuli oil smelling type. There are a few of them around too, but you instantly know to stay away from them because they have flies nesting in their hairy armpits], and the seafood is so, so, so good. I ate sushi here last night and actually had to pause in the middle of my meal to comprehend the goodnes in my mouth!) should let us know which band's discology you could listen to uniterrupted!
I also realize that Keith may have steam coming out of his ears because in a way I kind of said that 311 was better than U2, in a tangential tie stealing way. But U2 is awesome.
Third Off! Tie stealing is ok. If you stole my Xavier hat, I would not care. I would even wear it when you did because I am confident in my ability to wear the hat. But then again, Jess gave me that hat, I didn't purchase it myself. So I guess there's not the same emotional bond there. Hmm
LAST OFF!!! I'm going to take a Keith perspective on an issue. Almonds are a HUGELY underrated snack food!! I got some yesterday from a kisok in the aeropuerto and have been munching on them ever since. I LOVE almonds and these are by far the best I've ever had. So good for you, and so filling, and so satisfyingly crunchy. Now if they could only cross breed gummi bears and almonds...
Ok Penisimuses, I'm going to go get in my hot tub. Watch out for the Haunting, too.
Zooropa
Yes I'm referring to the title of U2's bastard album. The one most people refuse to acknowledge exists. Why you ask? Let me tell you. While driving around Ohio / Michigan / 4.7 miles into Kentucky over the last week and well into what will be next Wednesday I decided to take up a project. I decided to listen to every U2 song ever put on an album. From song one of Boy to song last of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (that's I Will Follow all the way to Yahweh.) If you doubt me, see for yourself http://www.u2.com/music/ I actually decided I will end with their bonus 12th track on that album Fast Cars, but who really cares right. Currently I just finished Zooropa. This leaves me with five small CDs left: Pop, All That You Can't Leave Behind, Disc 1 and 2 of their 2nd greatest hits CD, and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. I'm pretty pumped and it's neat to follow your all-time favorite band's journey without skipping a song. Of course there are lows, I mean A Cat in Dubh off Boy was a PAINFUL WAY to start this project, but there are unreal highs too. Not only do you hear the great songs you know and love, but you find the ones you had forgotten or maybe never knew about. You also get to hear the band grow, progress, and learn. I highly recommend this, unless of course your favorite band blows and has like two albums, then it's worthless. U2 is so sweet.
Second reason I'm blogging, Andrew is a tie stealer, is to let you know that I am currently in Detroit. Sorry Trey and Lillet if you still even read this rag, I am not in Brooklyn so I can't visit you guys :( But I wanted to let everyone know that in Detroit you can get your car washed for $2.00 FREAKING DOLLARS. It's unreal! No they don't steal your stereo at the end or take a chunk of the paint either, they just give you a car wash for two bucks. I'm astonished at home it's at least something gay like $8.50. I didn't know this phenomenon existed and I may wash my cars like 4 times before I return home. Alright, that's all for now kids. Keep your nose clean and don't steal your best friend's mojo by purchasing the same tie he already owns. It's a real jag off move.
Second reason I'm blogging, Andrew is a tie stealer, is to let you know that I am currently in Detroit. Sorry Trey and Lillet if you still even read this rag, I am not in Brooklyn so I can't visit you guys :( But I wanted to let everyone know that in Detroit you can get your car washed for $2.00 FREAKING DOLLARS. It's unreal! No they don't steal your stereo at the end or take a chunk of the paint either, they just give you a car wash for two bucks. I'm astonished at home it's at least something gay like $8.50. I didn't know this phenomenon existed and I may wash my cars like 4 times before I return home. Alright, that's all for now kids. Keep your nose clean and don't steal your best friend's mojo by purchasing the same tie he already owns. It's a real jag off move.
Briefness part Thrice
Tie stealer I am!!
Seriously though, the tie is sweet. And I pose the question to all of those hypothetical people in blog land as well: If you found an awesome article of clothing that your good friend owned, wouldn't you also buy it? I see those heads nodding! Honestly, you should just start wearing the tie again. Try it on the road just to get used to it, and then bam it will come back again like it was never gone. I know that if you came across my tie (which you won't, because it was a seasonal tie!!) you'd buy it and I would be flattered that someone went to such extremes because they were inspired by my fashion taste. This segment of the blog is called Andrew goes Metro.
On a more lighthearted note, I'm in Seattle Washington. I think I'm found another city, outside of Miami, FL where I would be comfortable living all year round. I think the suckiest thing about Seattle is that it's not near anything good, save California with it's robotic, eye lazer shooting, cigar smoking governor!! WOOOOOO! But think about it, to the west is ocean. To the north is Canada (we're NOT revisiting Canada EVER!!) to the South is Das Kalifornia, and to the East is...the entire contiguous United States of America. Right now if I hop in a car I can hit probably a dozen major cities within an 8 mile driving radius. In Seattle, 50% of the time if you drive 8 hours you wind up in the ocean flirting with Narwals ("Bye Buddy...I hope you find your dad!") and exploring Davy Jones' locker. The town of Seattle is sweet though, and I can see Mt. Ranier from my hotel. I just hope that Mt. St. Helens doesn't blow up while I'm here, again.
Hey, who wants to hear a funny story?
Seriously though, the tie is sweet. And I pose the question to all of those hypothetical people in blog land as well: If you found an awesome article of clothing that your good friend owned, wouldn't you also buy it? I see those heads nodding! Honestly, you should just start wearing the tie again. Try it on the road just to get used to it, and then bam it will come back again like it was never gone. I know that if you came across my tie (which you won't, because it was a seasonal tie!!) you'd buy it and I would be flattered that someone went to such extremes because they were inspired by my fashion taste. This segment of the blog is called Andrew goes Metro.
On a more lighthearted note, I'm in Seattle Washington. I think I'm found another city, outside of Miami, FL where I would be comfortable living all year round. I think the suckiest thing about Seattle is that it's not near anything good, save California with it's robotic, eye lazer shooting, cigar smoking governor!! WOOOOOO! But think about it, to the west is ocean. To the north is Canada (we're NOT revisiting Canada EVER!!) to the South is Das Kalifornia, and to the East is...the entire contiguous United States of America. Right now if I hop in a car I can hit probably a dozen major cities within an 8 mile driving radius. In Seattle, 50% of the time if you drive 8 hours you wind up in the ocean flirting with Narwals ("Bye Buddy...I hope you find your dad!") and exploring Davy Jones' locker. The town of Seattle is sweet though, and I can see Mt. Ranier from my hotel. I just hope that Mt. St. Helens doesn't blow up while I'm here, again.
Hey, who wants to hear a funny story?
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Briefness Part 2
I got 3 comments on my last blog, which is more than all the other comments I've received combined. It's either A) Pity comments or B) I was witty ... I'm guessing A.
Drew, I think that you're somewhat right.
1.) It's free to drive across California cause it blows. Frankly I'm surprised all the tree hugging liberals haven't found another way to make people pay more money. But do you really want to live with all those left-wing fruit and grain eating nut jobs? Didn't think so ...
2.) Not a lot happens in Toledo that you have to leave here. That's my hope, that by giving it that slogan that people will do some things that need to stay here. So instead of just go to the zoo, people will go to the zoo, have sex in the aquarium with their girlfriend, and then get lit on the way home. NOW THAT would make Toledo a lot sweeter.
Andrew, you stole my tie, and for that I hate you. You own the same tie that I do. That's so jag off. It's like a girl buying the same outfit as another girl - nay buying the same prom dress - NAY I SAY WEDDING DRESS! I haven't been able to wear that tie since you bought it. Not out of fear we'll wear it the same day, I mean we are roommates, I can see what you wearing, but it's like you stole my mojo. You took my sweetest tie and now you own it. I don't know if I'll ever learn to trust you again. It sucks a lot and now I feel cheated by you. I hate you Andrew I hate you. This may make me leave the blog and start my own.
Drew, I think that you're somewhat right.
1.) It's free to drive across California cause it blows. Frankly I'm surprised all the tree hugging liberals haven't found another way to make people pay more money. But do you really want to live with all those left-wing fruit and grain eating nut jobs? Didn't think so ...
2.) Not a lot happens in Toledo that you have to leave here. That's my hope, that by giving it that slogan that people will do some things that need to stay here. So instead of just go to the zoo, people will go to the zoo, have sex in the aquarium with their girlfriend, and then get lit on the way home. NOW THAT would make Toledo a lot sweeter.
Andrew, you stole my tie, and for that I hate you. You own the same tie that I do. That's so jag off. It's like a girl buying the same outfit as another girl - nay buying the same prom dress - NAY I SAY WEDDING DRESS! I haven't been able to wear that tie since you bought it. Not out of fear we'll wear it the same day, I mean we are roommates, I can see what you wearing, but it's like you stole my mojo. You took my sweetest tie and now you own it. I don't know if I'll ever learn to trust you again. It sucks a lot and now I feel cheated by you. I hate you Andrew I hate you. This may make me leave the blog and start my own.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Brief Post
So I realized that Andrew is the only person who has people comment on our blog. This clearly means one of several things:
1.) Andrew is a better blogger.
2.) Andrew cares more about out blog and puts in more effort than I do.
3.) Andrew has better friends.
4.) I suck at blogging (very similar to point 1)
5.) My blogs are too long and rambling.
This blog is therefore short to see if I can rule that one off the list. I'm in Toledo, OH this week. Two points of interest:
1.) It costs roughly $8 to get across the state of Ohio in terms of tolls and roughly $17 to get across PA ... that's gay.
2.) I think Toledo needs a bit of a face lift. I think they should adopt the Vegas slogan, "What happens in Toledo stays in Toledo."
Any thoughts ...
1.) Andrew is a better blogger.
2.) Andrew cares more about out blog and puts in more effort than I do.
3.) Andrew has better friends.
4.) I suck at blogging (very similar to point 1)
5.) My blogs are too long and rambling.
This blog is therefore short to see if I can rule that one off the list. I'm in Toledo, OH this week. Two points of interest:
1.) It costs roughly $8 to get across the state of Ohio in terms of tolls and roughly $17 to get across PA ... that's gay.
2.) I think Toledo needs a bit of a face lift. I think they should adopt the Vegas slogan, "What happens in Toledo stays in Toledo."
Any thoughts ...
Friday, March 04, 2005
The Haunting
I'm sitting here in my office, listening to the Juliana Theory. I know, I know have a good laugh. Now let's get serious. I listened to the first JT album, 'Understand this is a Dream', a TON when I was in high school.
As I'm sitting here listening to Juliana Theory for probably the first time since high school, a slide show is beginning to unfold in my mind. It's a picture show of sounds, images, and moments from high school on through college. As this music meanders through my office, I'm caught off guard by how it triggers memories and emotions that I had just completely forgotten about. I'm not going to lie, this is sort of disconcerting. The music keeps playing and this slideshow only intensifies: people, friends, girlfriends, experiences, places, and old thoughts appear in my mind now, only as shades of what they used to be. Though their memories are real and so disarmingly sanguine, their ghost reminds me that the days are gone and not returning. All the joy encapsulated in my ignorant youth was spent, and the empty casing is left to recount where the time went. This is the Haunting-the selfsame desire to relive better days (even if only in thought), and regret that those days have no more life left in them.
The Haunting is described so eloquently by John Eldridge in "The Sacred Romance". I would argue that "The Sacred Romance" is worth reading if the only thing you get out of it is an understanding of how the Haunting works: The Haunting catches you off guard, and disarms you. The Haunting catches you when you're at work, listening to Juliana Theory, and possesses you for short periods of time. The Haunting intoxicates you when you pass that girl on the street who you swear looks like that girl you used to date in your junior year in high school. The Haunting deafens with ghostly boasts as you as you walk down the halls of your old dorm room; it laughs a hollow, spectral laugh as you pause to remember when you were young and thought you knew everything.
I just wanted you all to know that I came face to face with a ghost a few minutes ago, and it kind of shook me up. But ghosts aren't tangible, kids, so don't carry it with you all the time.
musical reference, hopesfall: " 'This wasn't my intention!' is now a Haunting: the ghost of whispering thoughts..."
As I'm sitting here listening to Juliana Theory for probably the first time since high school, a slide show is beginning to unfold in my mind. It's a picture show of sounds, images, and moments from high school on through college. As this music meanders through my office, I'm caught off guard by how it triggers memories and emotions that I had just completely forgotten about. I'm not going to lie, this is sort of disconcerting. The music keeps playing and this slideshow only intensifies: people, friends, girlfriends, experiences, places, and old thoughts appear in my mind now, only as shades of what they used to be. Though their memories are real and so disarmingly sanguine, their ghost reminds me that the days are gone and not returning. All the joy encapsulated in my ignorant youth was spent, and the empty casing is left to recount where the time went. This is the Haunting-the selfsame desire to relive better days (even if only in thought), and regret that those days have no more life left in them.
The Haunting is described so eloquently by John Eldridge in "The Sacred Romance". I would argue that "The Sacred Romance" is worth reading if the only thing you get out of it is an understanding of how the Haunting works: The Haunting catches you off guard, and disarms you. The Haunting catches you when you're at work, listening to Juliana Theory, and possesses you for short periods of time. The Haunting intoxicates you when you pass that girl on the street who you swear looks like that girl you used to date in your junior year in high school. The Haunting deafens with ghostly boasts as you as you walk down the halls of your old dorm room; it laughs a hollow, spectral laugh as you pause to remember when you were young and thought you knew everything.
I just wanted you all to know that I came face to face with a ghost a few minutes ago, and it kind of shook me up. But ghosts aren't tangible, kids, so don't carry it with you all the time.
musical reference, hopesfall: " 'This wasn't my intention!' is now a Haunting: the ghost of whispering thoughts..."
Vices and Bisquick
Quick response to Andrew's question and then some random musings of the Friday type. I believe it's better to be over-competitive. I feel like when you're over-compassionate you do only hurt yourself (good insight musicruby), but I also feel you can't control that. I feel like I am someone who is over the top competitive, but there are still times I can control that in order not to piss people off. I REALLY WANT to do better than everyone on the test, but in order not to be a huge jag off (jerk for all of you not from Pittsburgh) about it, I don't brag about how I did better. So you can at times control your competitive drive, which makes it better in my mind. Plus it pushes you to do well, so that's key. There are my thoughts. Oh yeah, way to comment your thoughts Fowler ...
Random Friday Musings:
1.) Andrew and I made the cheeseburger pie / casserole recipe on the Bisquick box last night. Let me make a couple of subpoints:
a.) Add cayenne pepper to the beef when you're cooking it.
b.) Add beer to the pan when cooking, it's so good, plus you're like the man in the Miller High Life commercial.
c.) It takes a little longer than 25 minutes to cook ... or our oven sucks ... but it took us like 50 minutes. This is plenty of time to smoke a good pipe, as we did.
d.) Don't drink before dinner. It's a bad thing to do, you have NO FOOD in your stomach.
e.) Bisquick is PHENOMENAL. It takes a pile of beef and onions and makes a whole stinking casserole, and it's like 3 dollars for a whole box of it or something. It's so key. I love Bisquick.
2.) So yeah Bisquick is huge.
3.) Giant Eagle, local Western PA grocery store for those of you not of the area, had a sale on cereal this week. You can get 5 boxes of General Mills cereal for $10! Guess what cereals this kid got at the store yesterday: Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Multi-grain Cheerios, Rice Chex, Honey Nut Chex, Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Oh man, so good.
4.) Think about cereal at 2 dollars a box, such a steal.
5.) The Steelers area about to lose my favorite player on their team in free agency. I may enter a slight stage of depression again for a week or two.
6.) March Madness is starting here soon, I love filling out brackets and the whole tournament time rules. If you want sports coverage www.youvegottalovesports.com is a good place for it.
7.) I played twenty-three hours and fifty-two hours of Ninja Gaiden in roughly a week. 1/7th of my week was lost on that game.
8.) The new 50 Cent CD is kind of good. Give it a shot if you're a rap fan.
9.) Download it illegally if you hate the fact he's ignorant and a flaming lib. (Everyone trying to nail me out there, too bad, I just got the legal download off iTunes woooooooo).
10.) It was 5 degrees this morning, and in an effort to make our gas bill lower, we put the heat on 60 last night. You try to guess how sweet it was to get out from under the covers last night. Yeah not good at all.
11.) It's Friday and I'm so stoked for the weekend. The weekend takes on a whole new meaning when you get a job. I find out about my LSAT scores on Monday so stay tuned for that ... if you care.
12.) I'm off to eat lunch. I'm going to eat some meat because animals were made to be eaten. I hate P.E.T.A. Animals don't need ethical treatment, they're food for goodness sake. By having to house them in nice areas before we slaughter them we drive up the price of meat. It's so gay.
13.) In the Andrew way, I leave a question if you've read this far. Would you rather, if you had to pick one, be blind or deaf? Why do you choose the one you do? Let me know. Talk stuff to it.
Random Friday Musings:
1.) Andrew and I made the cheeseburger pie / casserole recipe on the Bisquick box last night. Let me make a couple of subpoints:
a.) Add cayenne pepper to the beef when you're cooking it.
b.) Add beer to the pan when cooking, it's so good, plus you're like the man in the Miller High Life commercial.
c.) It takes a little longer than 25 minutes to cook ... or our oven sucks ... but it took us like 50 minutes. This is plenty of time to smoke a good pipe, as we did.
d.) Don't drink before dinner. It's a bad thing to do, you have NO FOOD in your stomach.
e.) Bisquick is PHENOMENAL. It takes a pile of beef and onions and makes a whole stinking casserole, and it's like 3 dollars for a whole box of it or something. It's so key. I love Bisquick.
2.) So yeah Bisquick is huge.
3.) Giant Eagle, local Western PA grocery store for those of you not of the area, had a sale on cereal this week. You can get 5 boxes of General Mills cereal for $10! Guess what cereals this kid got at the store yesterday: Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Multi-grain Cheerios, Rice Chex, Honey Nut Chex, Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Oh man, so good.
4.) Think about cereal at 2 dollars a box, such a steal.
5.) The Steelers area about to lose my favorite player on their team in free agency. I may enter a slight stage of depression again for a week or two.
6.) March Madness is starting here soon, I love filling out brackets and the whole tournament time rules. If you want sports coverage www.youvegottalovesports.com is a good place for it.
7.) I played twenty-three hours and fifty-two hours of Ninja Gaiden in roughly a week. 1/7th of my week was lost on that game.
8.) The new 50 Cent CD is kind of good. Give it a shot if you're a rap fan.
9.) Download it illegally if you hate the fact he's ignorant and a flaming lib. (Everyone trying to nail me out there, too bad, I just got the legal download off iTunes woooooooo).
10.) It was 5 degrees this morning, and in an effort to make our gas bill lower, we put the heat on 60 last night. You try to guess how sweet it was to get out from under the covers last night. Yeah not good at all.
11.) It's Friday and I'm so stoked for the weekend. The weekend takes on a whole new meaning when you get a job. I find out about my LSAT scores on Monday so stay tuned for that ... if you care.
12.) I'm off to eat lunch. I'm going to eat some meat because animals were made to be eaten. I hate P.E.T.A. Animals don't need ethical treatment, they're food for goodness sake. By having to house them in nice areas before we slaughter them we drive up the price of meat. It's so gay.
13.) In the Andrew way, I leave a question if you've read this far. Would you rather, if you had to pick one, be blind or deaf? Why do you choose the one you do? Let me know. Talk stuff to it.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Which is the greater vice?
This is a thought provoking question, and I want you all to chime in on it. I was thinking about my life today, and realized that I'm not naturally a competitive person. Competition is not something I think about on a day to day basis. I don't make work, activities, etc into competitions for fun. I will be competitive only in situations where I'm pushed to be competitive. Now, if I'm engaged in a raquetball game, or in XBox Boxing games (which I HATE to lose in) I will be so overly competitive that you will not want to even play with me. But on a consistent, day to day basis, I'm not possessed by an innate drive to be 'better than' someone else in some area of my life. It's kind of like Fitty would say, "Me I'm no hustler, me I'm no gangster, me I'm no wankster-me, I'm just me!" and me is not inherently competitive.
While I do lack a competitive gene, if you will, I definitely feel that I am a more compassionate dude. I'm not tooting my horn here or anything, because being compassionate is certainly nothing huge to celebrate. But I feel like I'm more compassionate than competitive, no doubt about it. I know what you're thinking: "Andrew, are you going anywhere with this? I could think or more pressing things to be doing than reading about your personality...like watching grass grow". I'm rapidly approaching my point of discussion. Both competition and compassion are good in and of themselves, but which is it worse to be: overly competitive, or overly compassionate? Both can be HUGE personality flaws, but if you had to be one, which would it be and why? I'll tell you what I think (I hear those groans out there, so SHUT IT!!) after I hear what you all think. COMMENT!
While I do lack a competitive gene, if you will, I definitely feel that I am a more compassionate dude. I'm not tooting my horn here or anything, because being compassionate is certainly nothing huge to celebrate. But I feel like I'm more compassionate than competitive, no doubt about it. I know what you're thinking: "Andrew, are you going anywhere with this? I could think or more pressing things to be doing than reading about your personality...like watching grass grow". I'm rapidly approaching my point of discussion. Both competition and compassion are good in and of themselves, but which is it worse to be: overly competitive, or overly compassionate? Both can be HUGE personality flaws, but if you had to be one, which would it be and why? I'll tell you what I think (I hear those groans out there, so SHUT IT!!) after I hear what you all think. COMMENT!
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
50 Cent
Ok so I know I posted today, but I stumbled across a hilarious story. 50 Cent was at a New York radio station the other day when a shooting occurred. Don't worry don't worry 50 is fine, but apparently someone who may be in his entourage (that's the preferred term these days no more using the word posse) was shot in the leg. If you want to read more about the story you can find it here in a VH1 Article.
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1497589/20050228/50_cent.jhtml?headlines=true
In the meantime here is an excerpt about 50's newest feud. It's actually with a member of G-Unit, his own rap group, known as "The Game." You may have heard his new song, but apparently The Game is being kicked out. I post this for multiple reasons:
1.) There is a rapper named The Game.
2.) 50 is getting a little too cocky for his level of fame I think.
3.) What's up with really hard tough black rappers arguing like old married Jewish couples? I'm baffled by this. Here is the section of the article from http://www.vh1.com/
On the radio Monday night, 50 — accompanied by G-Unit members Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks and Olivia — told Funkmaster Flex that the Game was being excommunicated from the G-Unit because he felt the West Coast MC was disloyal.50 told Flex he was disappointed with comments Game made on the station Saturday night, when Game revealed he would not be getting involved in the beefs 50 is stirring up with "Piggy Bank" (see "50 Cent's LP Pushed Up, Harsh 'Facts' Sound Like Disses On Leaked 'Piggy Bank'").
According to Flex, Game even said he was going to do a song with Nas. "He's gone," 50 scoffed. "He might as well make the record."50 also said Game should stop saying "G-Unit." "He thinks he's doing me a favor when he says that."
During his conversation with Flex, 50 claimed Interscope was going to drop the Game until 50 stepped in and got involved with The Documentary. 50 also insisted that he's making more money off The Documentary than Game is, and that he wrote more choruses than he's credited for.
Game was on Hot 97 earlier in the evening, talking to host Angie Martinez. When listeners called in to ask about his and 50's problems, Game simply said he was going to continue to make "good music."
Two nights prior, Game had said on-air that he and 50 did not have to be friends as long as they worked toward that same common goal: making good music.For weeks there'd been rumors of friction within the G-Unit camp, but they'd always downplayed or outright dismissed the talk, and they even held it together long enough to shoot a joint video for "Hate It or Love It," which debuted Monday on "TRL."
Unreal ...
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1497589/20050228/50_cent.jhtml?headlines=true
In the meantime here is an excerpt about 50's newest feud. It's actually with a member of G-Unit, his own rap group, known as "The Game." You may have heard his new song, but apparently The Game is being kicked out. I post this for multiple reasons:
1.) There is a rapper named The Game.
2.) 50 is getting a little too cocky for his level of fame I think.
3.) What's up with really hard tough black rappers arguing like old married Jewish couples? I'm baffled by this. Here is the section of the article from http://www.vh1.com/
On the radio Monday night, 50 — accompanied by G-Unit members Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks and Olivia — told Funkmaster Flex that the Game was being excommunicated from the G-Unit because he felt the West Coast MC was disloyal.50 told Flex he was disappointed with comments Game made on the station Saturday night, when Game revealed he would not be getting involved in the beefs 50 is stirring up with "Piggy Bank" (see "50 Cent's LP Pushed Up, Harsh 'Facts' Sound Like Disses On Leaked 'Piggy Bank'").
According to Flex, Game even said he was going to do a song with Nas. "He's gone," 50 scoffed. "He might as well make the record."50 also said Game should stop saying "G-Unit." "He thinks he's doing me a favor when he says that."
During his conversation with Flex, 50 claimed Interscope was going to drop the Game until 50 stepped in and got involved with The Documentary. 50 also insisted that he's making more money off The Documentary than Game is, and that he wrote more choruses than he's credited for.
Game was on Hot 97 earlier in the evening, talking to host Angie Martinez. When listeners called in to ask about his and 50's problems, Game simply said he was going to continue to make "good music."
Two nights prior, Game had said on-air that he and 50 did not have to be friends as long as they worked toward that same common goal: making good music.For weeks there'd been rumors of friction within the G-Unit camp, but they'd always downplayed or outright dismissed the talk, and they even held it together long enough to shoot a joint video for "Hate It or Love It," which debuted Monday on "TRL."
Unreal ...
Don't hate, pontificate!
I sense a lot of hostility from Keith. Granted the Oscars may be overrated, but geez. That's a lot of hate!
Let's talk about something in a similar, yet dissimilar vein. I have a good friend named Bill a.k.a OLMEC! You all remember OLMEC right? You're dang right you do! Well Bill and his computer programming friends made a website, and a rather comedic one at that. This may not be a blip on the radar screen of those NOT familiar with how ter-ble W. PA weather is. But to those of us who of our own free will subject ourself to this torture (see my rant in January, http://keithandandrew.blogspot.com/2005/01/hatred.html#comments) this site is great. If you are sick of Erie, PA or other horrible regions of the state log onto www.erie-tating.com I think it's a rather hilarious name! Rant and rave, wait, just rant about how horrible W. Pa is and how depressing it make you. E Plurabus Unum!
Some of you all may be wondering to themselves "Dang it, I've stopped reading Andrew's blogs because he never talks about waking up anymore! Why doesn't he do that?!?!?!" Ok, friends! For the past week or so, I've been listening to American Football's old CD...I don't even know what it's called. It is a great CD and is so relaxing. I would recommend listening to it if:
1) You are going to wake up early to go to work, and need a CD to put in your CD alarm clock
2) Smoking a La Gloria Cubana serie 'R'. Amazingly consistent cigar!
3) Smoking a Punch Gran Cru cigar. One of Andrew's favorites! If you ever want to know what it feels like to be me, go out, throw on American Football, get your Punch Gran Cru out and smoke away. This relaxing moment is my life.
4) You want to think of the Summer...Summer, why are you so far away?
Also, I went snowboarding with Huff this past weekend. I had a great day save for a few moments of carelessness where I stopped thinking. Whenever I stopped thinking, I fell...hard. My neck still hurts and I swear I lost my patella in the process (anatomy word! bonus!)
This may be the most incoherent blog I've written in a while, but how was Jennifer's bean recipe the other day? Did you know that Jennifer didn't come in to work today? Uh ohhhhh
Let's talk about something in a similar, yet dissimilar vein. I have a good friend named Bill a.k.a OLMEC! You all remember OLMEC right? You're dang right you do! Well Bill and his computer programming friends made a website, and a rather comedic one at that. This may not be a blip on the radar screen of those NOT familiar with how ter-ble W. PA weather is. But to those of us who of our own free will subject ourself to this torture (see my rant in January, http://keithandandrew.blogspot.com/2005/01/hatred.html#comments) this site is great. If you are sick of Erie, PA or other horrible regions of the state log onto www.erie-tating.com I think it's a rather hilarious name! Rant and rave, wait, just rant about how horrible W. Pa is and how depressing it make you. E Plurabus Unum!
Some of you all may be wondering to themselves "Dang it, I've stopped reading Andrew's blogs because he never talks about waking up anymore! Why doesn't he do that?!?!?!" Ok, friends! For the past week or so, I've been listening to American Football's old CD...I don't even know what it's called. It is a great CD and is so relaxing. I would recommend listening to it if:
1) You are going to wake up early to go to work, and need a CD to put in your CD alarm clock
2) Smoking a La Gloria Cubana serie 'R'. Amazingly consistent cigar!
3) Smoking a Punch Gran Cru cigar. One of Andrew's favorites! If you ever want to know what it feels like to be me, go out, throw on American Football, get your Punch Gran Cru out and smoke away. This relaxing moment is my life.
4) You want to think of the Summer...Summer, why are you so far away?
Also, I went snowboarding with Huff this past weekend. I had a great day save for a few moments of carelessness where I stopped thinking. Whenever I stopped thinking, I fell...hard. My neck still hurts and I swear I lost my patella in the process (anatomy word! bonus!)
This may be the most incoherent blog I've written in a while, but how was Jennifer's bean recipe the other day? Did you know that Jennifer didn't come in to work today? Uh ohhhhh
Overrated
Ok, work with me here, I'm about to go on a bit of a rant.
I HATE the Oscars. I can stand the Grammys. I can tolerate the Emmys. I can handle the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. But I abhor the Oscars. I hate the pre-show festivities. I hate the people that schmooze everyone on the red carpet. I hate the question, "Who are you wearing?" I hate the fact that these loaded Hollywood stars are given stuff for free to wear and show off so that other rich people can waste money on a dress they will wear only once. I abhor the fact that you hear the same campy "reporters" on the carpet each year saying horribly cheesy things like, "Oh she looks just stunning!" I hate that the crew of "reporters" is usually made up of two ladies and a gay male. I hate the fact that it's like a train wreck and EVERYONE watches and discusses it the next day (including myself).
I hate the fact that there are roughly a million awards that are given out that suck. I don't care about who was the Best Coffee Carrier On The Set Who Had An Opinion About A Movie Costume. I don't want to know the Best Adapted Screen Play That Hasn't Reached America Yet But Will In The Future and who wins that award. I don't want to hear raging liberal actors tell me how to think. I pay you money to act and entertain me for roughly 2 hours in a movie theater. I don't pay you to accept an award and tell me your beliefs. If I wanted to know what you thought, there'd be a TV show where you shared your beliefs. There currently are no shows like that. You know why? Know one gives a flip what you think about stem cell abortion, you're an actor! No one cares about how you voted because guess what ... you're an actor! No one wants to know how you feel about the war because you're an actor! You are not a Doctor, you're not a military man, you're not a politician, you are an actor. You get on camera and pretend that you are someone or something and you make me laugh or feel sad or whatever emotion you're trying to get me to emote for 2 hours. NO MORE NO LESS!
I hate the fact that Chris Rock, who is really funny, gets up there and talks about religion. You're a comedian! I hate that it's all one sided every time at the show. Of course you're a democrat, you're a comedian. Of course you hate Bush, you're a comedian. Of course you hate religion, it's an easy target to make fun of. I don't want to to friggin turn on an award show as a thinking American who has some different views and get made fun of for 3 and a half hours. I hate the fact that this show starts at 8:30 and goes till 11 ... right, it ended at 11:30. There's 4 hours of ugly exorbitantly (not a Microsoft thesaurus word one that I know althought noa big one) expensive dresses and bashing of beliefs that are different from Hollywood. It's so FREAKING LONG!
I hate the fact that movies up for Best Movie are never the movies everyone sees. Chris Rock did a spoof on this this year and it was funny. "Have you seen The Aviator?" "No." "Have you seen White Chicks?" "Yes" I did not see White Chicks, it looked HORRIBLE. But I did see iRobot. I saw 30 movies this calendar summer 30 MOVIES. Not one of which was nominated for Best Movie. I just hate how some elitist group of pompous people decides what is and what isn't a good movie. Yes there must be some discretion, because movies like White Chicks just can't win an Oscar can it? But I just think that movies that most people legitimately enjoy should be able to win an Oscar other than: Most Stuff Blown Up, Best Special Effects, Nicest Costumes, or Good Music. I think the Oscars are out of touch with America and I HATE IT!
Rant over ...
I HATE the Oscars. I can stand the Grammys. I can tolerate the Emmys. I can handle the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. But I abhor the Oscars. I hate the pre-show festivities. I hate the people that schmooze everyone on the red carpet. I hate the question, "Who are you wearing?" I hate the fact that these loaded Hollywood stars are given stuff for free to wear and show off so that other rich people can waste money on a dress they will wear only once. I abhor the fact that you hear the same campy "reporters" on the carpet each year saying horribly cheesy things like, "Oh she looks just stunning!" I hate that the crew of "reporters" is usually made up of two ladies and a gay male. I hate the fact that it's like a train wreck and EVERYONE watches and discusses it the next day (including myself).
I hate the fact that there are roughly a million awards that are given out that suck. I don't care about who was the Best Coffee Carrier On The Set Who Had An Opinion About A Movie Costume. I don't want to know the Best Adapted Screen Play That Hasn't Reached America Yet But Will In The Future and who wins that award. I don't want to hear raging liberal actors tell me how to think. I pay you money to act and entertain me for roughly 2 hours in a movie theater. I don't pay you to accept an award and tell me your beliefs. If I wanted to know what you thought, there'd be a TV show where you shared your beliefs. There currently are no shows like that. You know why? Know one gives a flip what you think about stem cell abortion, you're an actor! No one cares about how you voted because guess what ... you're an actor! No one wants to know how you feel about the war because you're an actor! You are not a Doctor, you're not a military man, you're not a politician, you are an actor. You get on camera and pretend that you are someone or something and you make me laugh or feel sad or whatever emotion you're trying to get me to emote for 2 hours. NO MORE NO LESS!
I hate the fact that Chris Rock, who is really funny, gets up there and talks about religion. You're a comedian! I hate that it's all one sided every time at the show. Of course you're a democrat, you're a comedian. Of course you hate Bush, you're a comedian. Of course you hate religion, it's an easy target to make fun of. I don't want to to friggin turn on an award show as a thinking American who has some different views and get made fun of for 3 and a half hours. I hate the fact that this show starts at 8:30 and goes till 11 ... right, it ended at 11:30. There's 4 hours of ugly exorbitantly (not a Microsoft thesaurus word one that I know althought noa big one) expensive dresses and bashing of beliefs that are different from Hollywood. It's so FREAKING LONG!
I hate the fact that movies up for Best Movie are never the movies everyone sees. Chris Rock did a spoof on this this year and it was funny. "Have you seen The Aviator?" "No." "Have you seen White Chicks?" "Yes" I did not see White Chicks, it looked HORRIBLE. But I did see iRobot. I saw 30 movies this calendar summer 30 MOVIES. Not one of which was nominated for Best Movie. I just hate how some elitist group of pompous people decides what is and what isn't a good movie. Yes there must be some discretion, because movies like White Chicks just can't win an Oscar can it? But I just think that movies that most people legitimately enjoy should be able to win an Oscar other than: Most Stuff Blown Up, Best Special Effects, Nicest Costumes, or Good Music. I think the Oscars are out of touch with America and I HATE IT!
Rant over ...
Monday, February 28, 2005
Kender is right
Che is blowy. New Jersey is blowy. AND! Boondock Saints is an awesome, awesome movie. I can tell you about that, Amanda, but not much more about Che.
Friday, February 25, 2005
This one is for the kids
Sweet and Sassy Bean Casserole:
1 Can Green Beans-drain
1 Can butter beans-drain
1 can wax beans-drain
1 can hot chili beans-don't drain
1 can pork and beans mixed
1 can tomato soup
1.5 lbs hot sausage, snouts and all
1 cup chopped onions
1 cup chopped celery
2 tsp mustard (add 1 tsp cayenne pepper powder for some extra kick!)
1 cup brown sugar (one of these things is not like the other...)
Brown hot sausage, and cook in onions and celery in a skillet. Add soup mustard and brown sugar all at once in the pan. Cook for an additional 15 minutes on medium heat. Too much heat makes it splatter all over the place, resulting in stained clothes and profanity coming from your mouth.
Pour mixture of goodness over all of the beans. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for an hour. Serve hot with beer.
thanks Jennifer! Feel free to try this one out...on the house. PEACE!!
1 Can Green Beans-drain
1 Can butter beans-drain
1 can wax beans-drain
1 can hot chili beans-don't drain
1 can pork and beans mixed
1 can tomato soup
1.5 lbs hot sausage, snouts and all
1 cup chopped onions
1 cup chopped celery
2 tsp mustard (add 1 tsp cayenne pepper powder for some extra kick!)
1 cup brown sugar (one of these things is not like the other...)
Brown hot sausage, and cook in onions and celery in a skillet. Add soup mustard and brown sugar all at once in the pan. Cook for an additional 15 minutes on medium heat. Too much heat makes it splatter all over the place, resulting in stained clothes and profanity coming from your mouth.
Pour mixture of goodness over all of the beans. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for an hour. Serve hot with beer.
thanks Jennifer! Feel free to try this one out...on the house. PEACE!!
Doo Doo Brown
I just got back from traveling to New Jersey and I realized several things while driving:
1.) My life may not be interesting for me to blog every single day. That's how you end up getting innane drivel from me like what I ate for Lunch. I just don't have enough insightful stuff to say that often.
2.) With the same conviction that I root for the Steelers and the same conviction that I believe in Jesus and the same passion I think the French government is worthless I now hold to the fact that I will NEVER EVER EVER live in New Jersey. What a depressed, ugly, boring, and confusingly lame state. I can't stand the whole place, maybe the worst state ever. Cleveland, Ohio sucks, and New Jersey is like one big Cleveland.
3.) Do you want to know why society is falling apart? No, it's not because of homosexuals (which I still haven't blogged about yet), or ESPN showing arm wrestling the other night, or even the fact that roughly something like 43% of America voted for John Kerry (TREATED!!!!) Society is falling apart thanks to songs like Doo Doo Brown from 2 Live Crew. Thanks to Andrew for introducing me to this song. It seems like their goal may have been to make the most horrible song possible in terms of words and morals ... and oh yeah, they succeeded.
4.) The show on MTV My Sweet 16 Party may be the other reason America is falling apart. Nothing like rich snotty parents throwing their kids roughly half million to million dollar SWEET 16 PARTIES FOR GOODNESS SAKE! These kids blatantly say, "I just want people to know who I am and to be popular." Way to put this kid on TV for goodness sake. They might as well say, "Yeah I'm a complete and total snot and I think it's totally cool for my parents to buy me popularity through a huge dance party where I kick out the 'inferior' kids who are A FLAMING YEAR YOUNGER THAN ME and I serve alcohol and have a body guard to keep kids wee wees off of me since Dad thinks I can't handle it and he's most likely right since he spoils me with money that he thinks is a good switch for love." Ok that's a bit absurd but the show really highlights some of the basic low lights of humanity and makes me ill.
5.) John Mayer blows. The song Daughters is a friggin joke.
6.) Eric Howard welcome to our blog and thanks for the first comment. Howard references a sports website in his comment that some of my friends recently started. People who graduated from Grove City and I have started a site, http://www.youvegottalovesports.com It's an actual website not a blog. We link some headlines from yahoo sports page and each write roughly two articles a week. We're trying to take down ESPN since they started showing crap that's not sports like: Dale Earnhardt made for TV movies, Poker dramas, freaking arm wrestling, far too much X-Games, things like Cold Pizza. We're getting back to sports hopefully with some humor and pop culture references along the way. It's definitely opinionated sports coverage. We just started it this week, so give it some time and check it out.
7.) Driving through the mountains in roughly 10 inches of snow is a bad thing.
8.) Truck drivers have a general disregard for life. Ok I'm painting in broad brush strokes again, I'm very guilty of this. But after being stuck in roughly 10 miles of traffic due to accidents on Interstate 80, the truck drive behind me informed me the reason we were stopped was, "There was a Fed Ex truck that flipped over and a couple of guys died. That's what's holding us up is they have to clean it all up." I was apalled, literally almost physically ill.
9.) Roy Rogers fast food sucks. If you've ever had it you know what I mean.
1.) My life may not be interesting for me to blog every single day. That's how you end up getting innane drivel from me like what I ate for Lunch. I just don't have enough insightful stuff to say that often.
2.) With the same conviction that I root for the Steelers and the same conviction that I believe in Jesus and the same passion I think the French government is worthless I now hold to the fact that I will NEVER EVER EVER live in New Jersey. What a depressed, ugly, boring, and confusingly lame state. I can't stand the whole place, maybe the worst state ever. Cleveland, Ohio sucks, and New Jersey is like one big Cleveland.
3.) Do you want to know why society is falling apart? No, it's not because of homosexuals (which I still haven't blogged about yet), or ESPN showing arm wrestling the other night, or even the fact that roughly something like 43% of America voted for John Kerry (TREATED!!!!) Society is falling apart thanks to songs like Doo Doo Brown from 2 Live Crew. Thanks to Andrew for introducing me to this song. It seems like their goal may have been to make the most horrible song possible in terms of words and morals ... and oh yeah, they succeeded.
4.) The show on MTV My Sweet 16 Party may be the other reason America is falling apart. Nothing like rich snotty parents throwing their kids roughly half million to million dollar SWEET 16 PARTIES FOR GOODNESS SAKE! These kids blatantly say, "I just want people to know who I am and to be popular." Way to put this kid on TV for goodness sake. They might as well say, "Yeah I'm a complete and total snot and I think it's totally cool for my parents to buy me popularity through a huge dance party where I kick out the 'inferior' kids who are A FLAMING YEAR YOUNGER THAN ME and I serve alcohol and have a body guard to keep kids wee wees off of me since Dad thinks I can't handle it and he's most likely right since he spoils me with money that he thinks is a good switch for love." Ok that's a bit absurd but the show really highlights some of the basic low lights of humanity and makes me ill.
5.) John Mayer blows. The song Daughters is a friggin joke.
6.) Eric Howard welcome to our blog and thanks for the first comment. Howard references a sports website in his comment that some of my friends recently started. People who graduated from Grove City and I have started a site, http://www.youvegottalovesports.com It's an actual website not a blog. We link some headlines from yahoo sports page and each write roughly two articles a week. We're trying to take down ESPN since they started showing crap that's not sports like: Dale Earnhardt made for TV movies, Poker dramas, freaking arm wrestling, far too much X-Games, things like Cold Pizza. We're getting back to sports hopefully with some humor and pop culture references along the way. It's definitely opinionated sports coverage. We just started it this week, so give it some time and check it out.
7.) Driving through the mountains in roughly 10 inches of snow is a bad thing.
8.) Truck drivers have a general disregard for life. Ok I'm painting in broad brush strokes again, I'm very guilty of this. But after being stuck in roughly 10 miles of traffic due to accidents on Interstate 80, the truck drive behind me informed me the reason we were stopped was, "There was a Fed Ex truck that flipped over and a couple of guys died. That's what's holding us up is they have to clean it all up." I was apalled, literally almost physically ill.
9.) Roy Rogers fast food sucks. If you've ever had it you know what I mean.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
This is me leaving...this is me leaving
Ok,
Amanda, What has France contributed to the global community in the past 200 years, outside of their philosophies and superior cheese? Nothing. NOTHING! I'm not going to hate on France, and I'm not going to say I hate French people...it's all a ploy to drag people to my blog with incendiary comments. France pillaged the world under Napoleon, got screwed over in a multiple World Wars, asked for our help (and got it) then shied away from global politics save to stand on the sideline and play Monday Morning Quarterback with world affairs. The French people may be great, but this deification of the Eurpoean, and more importantly French lifestyle and worldview is complete ignorance. France does not have the solution to the world's problems, and this isn't to turn around and say America has them all either. But as I survey the global landscape, take into consideration which countries are capable of making the world a better place it's clearly obvious that America is the only country in this entire world that gives a crap about anyone else. You can cynically look at that and call it greed, imperialism, racism, egocentrism, which undoubetedly you will. I see things differently, and would challenge you to take a break from your cyclical odious attitude towards America. That goes for all of you others out there as well!
With that said, I'm leaving the topic of France alone forever. Unless France, or French-inspired products like pretzels from Canada, or cigarette packs with dead babies on them ruin my day, I promise I won't talk about the dang country again. Jock Shirock is so sweet!
Amanda, What has France contributed to the global community in the past 200 years, outside of their philosophies and superior cheese? Nothing. NOTHING! I'm not going to hate on France, and I'm not going to say I hate French people...it's all a ploy to drag people to my blog with incendiary comments. France pillaged the world under Napoleon, got screwed over in a multiple World Wars, asked for our help (and got it) then shied away from global politics save to stand on the sideline and play Monday Morning Quarterback with world affairs. The French people may be great, but this deification of the Eurpoean, and more importantly French lifestyle and worldview is complete ignorance. France does not have the solution to the world's problems, and this isn't to turn around and say America has them all either. But as I survey the global landscape, take into consideration which countries are capable of making the world a better place it's clearly obvious that America is the only country in this entire world that gives a crap about anyone else. You can cynically look at that and call it greed, imperialism, racism, egocentrism, which undoubetedly you will. I see things differently, and would challenge you to take a break from your cyclical odious attitude towards America. That goes for all of you others out there as well!
With that said, I'm leaving the topic of France alone forever. Unless France, or French-inspired products like pretzels from Canada, or cigarette packs with dead babies on them ruin my day, I promise I won't talk about the dang country again. Jock Shirock is so sweet!
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
I know you love it!
Ok I'm back,
For the past week I've been completely sapped away from our blog because of my intense discussion with some tree hugging liberals in NYC who hate Christians and hate America. They may not agree with that last statement, but it's right.
So I know you have all been dying to know a lot of things, like:
1) Why did Fowler and Bailey stop blogging comments?
2) Who is OLMEC and how did he get on your site?
3) Has Andrew bought pretzels for the dollar store lately?
Well guess what kids? I have some answers for you!
1) Bailey and Fowler stopped commeting because they were raptured up to heaven. Chalk them up there with Elijah and Enoch as two who never tasted the bitter pill of death. We miss them commenting, but they are in a better place.
2) OLMEC, I hate to ruin the surprise, is Bill, my good friend from home. And if you all didn't know, Bill is Greek and ladies seriously litter themselves around the ground that he walks on. Litter!! I think Bill's dated 6 girls for every 1 girl I've dated in Western PA. He's the man and he can do some killer programming. Bill, if you send me a link to your website, I'll plug it all the time on my blog.
3) No I have not bought any, but I have had some other pretzels from the dollar store. Keith got some, and I tried them. Let me say first and foremost that they are good pretzels, all jokes aside. They are crunchy enough, salty enough, and just the right size for bite size snacking on the fly. The other stupid French Twists were in the shape of an elongated baguette (go figure) and had a blase taste as well (blase...typical French word to descibe typical french pretzels). And I KNOW that France is not the same as Canada, but Frenchies are the same the world over-they all blow. America clearly makes a superior pretzel, and the France should bow down. This reminds me of a flyer that Bill sent me...
http://www.protestwarrior.com/new_signs.php?sign=2
For the past week I've been completely sapped away from our blog because of my intense discussion with some tree hugging liberals in NYC who hate Christians and hate America. They may not agree with that last statement, but it's right.
So I know you have all been dying to know a lot of things, like:
1) Why did Fowler and Bailey stop blogging comments?
2) Who is OLMEC and how did he get on your site?
3) Has Andrew bought pretzels for the dollar store lately?
Well guess what kids? I have some answers for you!
1) Bailey and Fowler stopped commeting because they were raptured up to heaven. Chalk them up there with Elijah and Enoch as two who never tasted the bitter pill of death. We miss them commenting, but they are in a better place.
2) OLMEC, I hate to ruin the surprise, is Bill, my good friend from home. And if you all didn't know, Bill is Greek and ladies seriously litter themselves around the ground that he walks on. Litter!! I think Bill's dated 6 girls for every 1 girl I've dated in Western PA. He's the man and he can do some killer programming. Bill, if you send me a link to your website, I'll plug it all the time on my blog.
3) No I have not bought any, but I have had some other pretzels from the dollar store. Keith got some, and I tried them. Let me say first and foremost that they are good pretzels, all jokes aside. They are crunchy enough, salty enough, and just the right size for bite size snacking on the fly. The other stupid French Twists were in the shape of an elongated baguette (go figure) and had a blase taste as well (blase...typical French word to descibe typical french pretzels). And I KNOW that France is not the same as Canada, but Frenchies are the same the world over-they all blow. America clearly makes a superior pretzel, and the France should bow down. This reminds me of a flyer that Bill sent me...
http://www.protestwarrior.com/new_signs.php?sign=2
Sunday, February 20, 2005
I lied
Ok I lied. I said I was going to post this weekend why I believed homosexuality is wrong. But the weekend got ridiculously busy. I'll get on it soon, at a later time perhaps. I know, I'm a total slacker, but this is the stuff my life consists of.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Just for the record
In an effort
1) to get more people to read our blog
2) stimulate people's minds and
3) get another perspective on life
I am going to start officially plugging the blog of my friend Lillet's weblog. She's a smart cookie and has worldviews radically different than mine. She also hates me, I think. And Keith too. So in addition to posting banal stories on this weblog, I put serious intellectual power into my posts on her weblog. I don't know if she'll appreciate this reciprocity, but go check out what she has to say. It's kind of entertaining as well.
Check out stuff to it and watch Keith and I get torn up:http://whatdidweeverdotoyou.blogspot.com/
Later, ya weinas!!!!!!
1) to get more people to read our blog
2) stimulate people's minds and
3) get another perspective on life
I am going to start officially plugging the blog of my friend Lillet's weblog. She's a smart cookie and has worldviews radically different than mine. She also hates me, I think. And Keith too. So in addition to posting banal stories on this weblog, I put serious intellectual power into my posts on her weblog. I don't know if she'll appreciate this reciprocity, but go check out what she has to say. It's kind of entertaining as well.
Check out stuff to it and watch Keith and I get torn up:http://whatdidweeverdotoyou.blogspot.com/
Later, ya weinas!!!!!!
Another day in paradise
So it was freezing cold today on the way to work and it made me ask myself, "Why do I love Western, PA so much?" Clearly the only reason is because I've grown up here. There is no way in the world that I would desire or choose to live in this region, but then again no other region of the country appeals to me either. If you could live anywhere at all where would you live? Assuming that with this you have job security and are safe. I know gay question, but we're about to enter a busy day in our office and I don't have time to be creative today. I'm going to do something crazy this weekend either Saturday or Sunday and post on our blog. It's going to be a huge dissertation of sorts about why I believe homosexuality is wrong and a brief argument against it. We've gotten ourselves into a cross discussion with some people of another blog. So check back at some point this weekend for intellectual stimulation.
Well, I'm off to interview kids and talk to them about college and stuff. So everyone stay warm today and I'll catch you on the flip side.
Well, I'm off to interview kids and talk to them about college and stuff. So everyone stay warm today and I'll catch you on the flip side.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Tupac or not Tupac, that is the question.
Actually, I don't know how you could no Tupac!
Tupac was so money. His beats, his music, his passion was all so tangible. For example, Biggie sings a song about getting some from one of his groupies. You know that the sad, sordid tale is probably true just because of Biggie's status. But inevitably the question that should pop into your head is "Honestly Biggie was a fat sot. Did he really get any?". Now consider Tupac. You look at the dude and think to yourself automatically "I bet this dude got tons of hood rat chicks who only rock sneakers". There's no question about it! I think that type of undeiable and insurmoutable street cred typifies who Tupac was. Granted I'm a white dude from Suburbia, but that's the impression that I get and that's why I wish he was still around.
And I've got something else to mention...Ma$e is 20% retarded, literally. He's 75% retarded figuratively. Does his 20% legitimate retardation take away from his figurative retardation (figuring that maybe some of his figurative retardation could stem from his legitimate retardation) or does it compound his figurative retardation? A question for the ages, I know...
The City paper is so great.
I think next year I'm going to vote for Prince for President of the USA. Come on, chant with me me now... PRINCE! PRINCE! PRINCE!
Tupac was so money. His beats, his music, his passion was all so tangible. For example, Biggie sings a song about getting some from one of his groupies. You know that the sad, sordid tale is probably true just because of Biggie's status. But inevitably the question that should pop into your head is "Honestly Biggie was a fat sot. Did he really get any?". Now consider Tupac. You look at the dude and think to yourself automatically "I bet this dude got tons of hood rat chicks who only rock sneakers". There's no question about it! I think that type of undeiable and insurmoutable street cred typifies who Tupac was. Granted I'm a white dude from Suburbia, but that's the impression that I get and that's why I wish he was still around.
And I've got something else to mention...Ma$e is 20% retarded, literally. He's 75% retarded figuratively. Does his 20% legitimate retardation take away from his figurative retardation (figuring that maybe some of his figurative retardation could stem from his legitimate retardation) or does it compound his figurative retardation? A question for the ages, I know...
The City paper is so great.
I think next year I'm going to vote for Prince for President of the USA. Come on, chant with me me now... PRINCE! PRINCE! PRINCE!
Question
Two more questions for the day that just popped in my head:
1.) Have you ever wondered what life would be like if Tupac and Biggie were still alive?
2.) You have to choose one, who do you pick Tupac or Biggie? Which rapper is the one you keep?
I know it's almost heretical to say, but I choose Biggie, I just think I like more of his stuff. Tupac was definitely harder and cooler, but Biggie was so money. So stinking money.
1.) Have you ever wondered what life would be like if Tupac and Biggie were still alive?
2.) You have to choose one, who do you pick Tupac or Biggie? Which rapper is the one you keep?
I know it's almost heretical to say, but I choose Biggie, I just think I like more of his stuff. Tupac was definitely harder and cooler, but Biggie was so money. So stinking money.
Legends of the Hidden Temple
So this guy commented on our blog yesterday, but it's some dude who seems like he's just talking like the narrator from that old Nickelodeon show Legends of the hidden temple. Check it out, he commented on my short blog yesterday "Agree" It's totally from that show. Remember the teams they had, Blue Barracudas, Green Monkeys and I think the Purple Lizards were another. It was such a sweet show. In fact a lot of TV used to be sweeter. Think about the sweet shows Nick used to have between like Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare, Doug ... freakin Doug! Now they have gay stuff. Plus new Cartoon Network cartoons blow. I hate them so much. The Boomerang channel is so much sweeter that plays Jetsons and Flintstones. I'm just sick of network TV and other companies overdoing it. Like reality TV, it's gone WAY TO FAR. What's worse is we're stuck with it. You only have to pay little Susie off the street pocket change compared to real actors and comedians to do show. I hate that TV is slowly being ruined. Here's a good question do I hate TV because it's getting suckier, or do I hate it because I'm getting older and out of touch with society? I hope that it's not part of me being old and lame.
I tried to change my font for this blog, if it looks different that's why. I totally bought Ninja Gaiden last night for Xbox. Incredibly detailed and sweet game. As soon as I turned it on and picked up the controller it was like I entered some vortex where 2 hours of my life was just zapped away never to return. Really sweet game, so far fairly challenging also, I highly recommend it at this point.
In the new tradition of reporting good news, cause heaven knows we need more good news in the world, the guy at Lids last night (hat store in Ross Park mall) said since they were out of a hat, they would mail it to my house if I wanted to free of charge when they get it in. Now, this is really weak good news, but work with me. A company is not only trying to do their job, provide hats (their only item) but they are going the next step, and since they were out, offering to send it to my house free of charge. That is good customer service and I will now tell everyone how sweet the store Lids, sometimes known as Hat World, is to its customers. I highly recommend Lids to all of you.
Ok lastly for the day, if you like rap music, go listen to some of MA$E's old music. He's now a born again Christian and a pastor to boot, and he's making a rap comeback. He's doing it, but as a clean rapper, his new song is littered with quick little references such as, "I be like Moses and I bring you the law." That my friends is high comedy. So his new CD inspired me to listen to some of his old stuff. MA$E is so sweet. I'm sure he's not happy that I'm listening to his old dirty past life that he's trying to throw off, but you should all go listen to the stuff, it's fabulous. Some of his work whether his or a collaberation: Mo Money Mo Problems, Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Feel so Good, Take What's Yours, Been Around The World, I could keep going, but that's a few. Great music if you like rap. Oh yeah, the person that blasted Andrew for being angry about the gay pretzels, go read her blog, you can read her comment then click on her name and it takes you to her blog. She's quite the pretentious one. I'm out kids.
I tried to change my font for this blog, if it looks different that's why. I totally bought Ninja Gaiden last night for Xbox. Incredibly detailed and sweet game. As soon as I turned it on and picked up the controller it was like I entered some vortex where 2 hours of my life was just zapped away never to return. Really sweet game, so far fairly challenging also, I highly recommend it at this point.
In the new tradition of reporting good news, cause heaven knows we need more good news in the world, the guy at Lids last night (hat store in Ross Park mall) said since they were out of a hat, they would mail it to my house if I wanted to free of charge when they get it in. Now, this is really weak good news, but work with me. A company is not only trying to do their job, provide hats (their only item) but they are going the next step, and since they were out, offering to send it to my house free of charge. That is good customer service and I will now tell everyone how sweet the store Lids, sometimes known as Hat World, is to its customers. I highly recommend Lids to all of you.
Ok lastly for the day, if you like rap music, go listen to some of MA$E's old music. He's now a born again Christian and a pastor to boot, and he's making a rap comeback. He's doing it, but as a clean rapper, his new song is littered with quick little references such as, "I be like Moses and I bring you the law." That my friends is high comedy. So his new CD inspired me to listen to some of his old stuff. MA$E is so sweet. I'm sure he's not happy that I'm listening to his old dirty past life that he's trying to throw off, but you should all go listen to the stuff, it's fabulous. Some of his work whether his or a collaberation: Mo Money Mo Problems, Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Feel so Good, Take What's Yours, Been Around The World, I could keep going, but that's a few. Great music if you like rap. Oh yeah, the person that blasted Andrew for being angry about the gay pretzels, go read her blog, you can read her comment then click on her name and it takes you to her blog. She's quite the pretentious one. I'm out kids.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Agree
I didn't blog today. I actually got stuff done so I don't have a whole lot to say. I agree with Andrew. If you're selling your product in a foreign country or responding with someone, at least have a mastery of the language. When I go to Uganda I try to use the language well. I study it and I have a grasp of it at least. If I was going to do business in that country, the grace period passes and I make sure I have a mastery of it all so I don't offend them. French people suck, they try to befriend everyone and you can't do that in life. Way to try to side with the UN and then turn around and repair relations with the U.S. In life you have to take a stand, you can't be spineless and expect to get along with everyone, people will lose respect for you.
One quick point, I realize more and more every day that I am slowly becoming a typical guy. I like dude movies where stuff blows up, I become less observant and when home in the evening I am much less conversational. I don't know what to do about this. I always told myself I wouldn't be like that, but I have slowly become like that. How can one change who they are and become something a bit better? I don't know how to change for the better anymore. Any suggestions
One quick point, I realize more and more every day that I am slowly becoming a typical guy. I like dude movies where stuff blows up, I become less observant and when home in the evening I am much less conversational. I don't know what to do about this. I always told myself I wouldn't be like that, but I have slowly become like that. How can one change who they are and become something a bit better? I don't know how to change for the better anymore. Any suggestions
I dun't speek guhd
So I'm conflicted about Lillerty's comments. On the one hand, it means that people read our blog! Awesome. On the other hand, it means someone tore me a new one for relaying a hilarious story about silly French pretzels. I should probably not address the comments, as this blog is set up to stimulate dialogue and discourse between people across states and countries (excpet France, we don't need their opinion on anything). All I'll say is that I have mastered the art of incorporating irony and hyperbole into my weblogs. Read with opened eyes from now on.
And by the way: if you're the customer service rep for a French/Quebecian company with international operations in the United States, you better have dang good mastery of the English language. Granted the dollar store may not be the best place to get pretzels...
And by the way: if you're the customer service rep for a French/Quebecian company with international operations in the United States, you better have dang good mastery of the English language. Granted the dollar store may not be the best place to get pretzels...
Trivial
Hey I smoked Vanilla sheesha in our hookah last night for over 2 hours.
Also, thanks to Keith, you can read this article.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147713,00.html
Finally, in conclusion, I am the best Street Fighter 2 player in the Universe and don't you doubt it for a second.
Last-Off: I want some coffee but it's NOT because I'm addicted to it.
Also, thanks to Keith, you can read this article.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147713,00.html
Finally, in conclusion, I am the best Street Fighter 2 player in the Universe and don't you doubt it for a second.
Last-Off: I want some coffee but it's NOT because I'm addicted to it.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Customer Service
Good rant Andrew. A seriously good rant. Customer service is such a lost art anymore. People act like since they did their job that we should all bow down and thank them. No French people, we do not thank you for putting crappy pretzels in a bag, that is your job. We thank you when you make good pretzels or go above and beyond the call of duty to please people. No one should thank me for a basic tour I give. If I was particularly witty or insightful that day, then people should thank me. I hate how people think we owe them our first born child just since they completed a task.
Moving on ... in other news I've decided the media has an inherent bias against Pittsburgh. This is evidenced by the fact they beat Syracuse last night, the 5th ranked team in the nation, and for Sportscenter highlights they showed 8 syracuse highlights and 4 pitt highlights. PITT WON THE FREAKING GAME AND YOU SHOW HALF THE AMOUNT OF HIGHLIGHTS! Pundits never like Pitt, pundits never pick the Steelers, and God knows our city is never put on the weather channel for weather in certain cities. I hate the fact that the city of Pittsburgh gets dumped on and I'm tired of it.
Things I think I think:
1.) Massage chairs are amazing. Every home in America should be equipped with one.
2.) Butterfingers are an often forgotten about candy. I just got one from Courtney and I had forgotten how good they are. For some reason though, no one wants to buy one when they are thinking about buying a candy bar.
3.) SUVs are ENTIRELY overrated. I hate having to slam the pedal to the floor to get the thing to go, and they are entirely awkward to try and parallel park or see in blind spots. But if you're driving and you count the numbers of cars to SUVs there are now more SUVS on the road then cars.
4.) Vans do not count as anything when counting cars to SUV ratios. Vans are their own category of horribleness.
5.) Is there a better line of video game than the Zelda line that has been around since the beginning? I didn't think so.
Moving on ... in other news I've decided the media has an inherent bias against Pittsburgh. This is evidenced by the fact they beat Syracuse last night, the 5th ranked team in the nation, and for Sportscenter highlights they showed 8 syracuse highlights and 4 pitt highlights. PITT WON THE FREAKING GAME AND YOU SHOW HALF THE AMOUNT OF HIGHLIGHTS! Pundits never like Pitt, pundits never pick the Steelers, and God knows our city is never put on the weather channel for weather in certain cities. I hate the fact that the city of Pittsburgh gets dumped on and I'm tired of it.
Things I think I think:
1.) Massage chairs are amazing. Every home in America should be equipped with one.
2.) Butterfingers are an often forgotten about candy. I just got one from Courtney and I had forgotten how good they are. For some reason though, no one wants to buy one when they are thinking about buying a candy bar.
3.) SUVs are ENTIRELY overrated. I hate having to slam the pedal to the floor to get the thing to go, and they are entirely awkward to try and parallel park or see in blind spots. But if you're driving and you count the numbers of cars to SUVs there are now more SUVS on the road then cars.
4.) Vans do not count as anything when counting cars to SUV ratios. Vans are their own category of horribleness.
5.) Is there a better line of video game than the Zelda line that has been around since the beginning? I didn't think so.
Taking down the French!
Here's a little story for you all,
So last week Courtney comes into my office and is all like "Hey I got these crappy pretzels at the Dollar Store. They taste really bad". Now it may just be me, but whenever someone suggests that the food that they are eating or drink that they are drinking tastes bad, my first inclination is to say "Oh, let me try it!". So I did. I ate some of these Pretzels...or so they were called!! They were the crappiest excuse for pretzels that I've ever had. They tasted kind of like plaster, and had about the same consistency.
I was kind of upset that the pretzels were so bad (they are from the dollar store, what did I expect). What really irked me though is that they were made by French people in Canada!! CANADA!! Half of the bad was even in French! That was the last straw in my book. The French sit there, smoking their faggots, wearing berets, making sub-par pretzels and foisting them on the American public ALMOST as a slap in the face to our collective palate. It's as if the French are saying "Zeez Stupid Emiikans don't know good tazte...we'll give zhem deh, how do you say, crrrrrrrrappy pretzels ho ho hoooo viva la France!" I for one would not stand for it.
Being the quick action-taker that I am, I hopped on LeClerc (of course a French company name too)'s website to shoot them off a scathing email. This is what I said:
"Commentaires :
To Whom it May Concern,
I am now eating some of the LeClerc Classic Pretzel Twists. I must say, in my humble opinion, that these are the worst pretzels that I have ever eaten. Never distribute to Dollar Tree, or any store for that matter, again. I think making snack bars would be a better use of your employees' time. Thank you!
Andrew"
I of course was expecting nothing in return. What I got was a slap in the face from Veronique Fru Fru Frenchie:
Dear Mr. Andrew:
Following your email on our Web site, we would like to thank you for taking the time to write and tell us about our Pretzels.
Be assured that we do our utmost to offer the best quality products to our customers. If it is possible for you, we will very appreciate that you confirm the lot number that appears on the product that looks like : 03E230 11:22. This way we will be able to find out if something has been wronmg for that particular production.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Véronica Simard
Biscuits leclerc Ltd.
So many things wrong here:
1) She spelled 'wrong' wrong...a blantant slap in the face to the English launguage
2) She didn't even use proper sentence structuring ("we will very appreciate"? come on)
3) They don't apologize for the crap I ate!!! I ate crappy pretzels, and the company writes back to tell me "We make high quality products. Go back to the store, get the package number, and write us back"?!?! What happened to "We're sorry your pretzels sucked" or "Hey have a free bag on us". That's the American Way (along with touching the bonus, Mike and Colin I'm looking your direction)!! But I guess the French Way is "We're never wrong, we're just a bunch of stupid babies". Eat me, France...I'd probably taste better than your pretzels!
So last week Courtney comes into my office and is all like "Hey I got these crappy pretzels at the Dollar Store. They taste really bad". Now it may just be me, but whenever someone suggests that the food that they are eating or drink that they are drinking tastes bad, my first inclination is to say "Oh, let me try it!". So I did. I ate some of these Pretzels...or so they were called!! They were the crappiest excuse for pretzels that I've ever had. They tasted kind of like plaster, and had about the same consistency.
I was kind of upset that the pretzels were so bad (they are from the dollar store, what did I expect). What really irked me though is that they were made by French people in Canada!! CANADA!! Half of the bad was even in French! That was the last straw in my book. The French sit there, smoking their faggots, wearing berets, making sub-par pretzels and foisting them on the American public ALMOST as a slap in the face to our collective palate. It's as if the French are saying "Zeez Stupid Emiikans don't know good tazte...we'll give zhem deh, how do you say, crrrrrrrrappy pretzels ho ho hoooo viva la France!" I for one would not stand for it.
Being the quick action-taker that I am, I hopped on LeClerc (of course a French company name too)'s website to shoot them off a scathing email. This is what I said:
"Commentaires :
To Whom it May Concern,
I am now eating some of the LeClerc Classic Pretzel Twists. I must say, in my humble opinion, that these are the worst pretzels that I have ever eaten. Never distribute to Dollar Tree, or any store for that matter, again. I think making snack bars would be a better use of your employees' time. Thank you!
Andrew"
I of course was expecting nothing in return. What I got was a slap in the face from Veronique Fru Fru Frenchie:
Dear Mr. Andrew:
Following your email on our Web site, we would like to thank you for taking the time to write and tell us about our Pretzels.
Be assured that we do our utmost to offer the best quality products to our customers. If it is possible for you, we will very appreciate that you confirm the lot number that appears on the product that looks like : 03E230 11:22. This way we will be able to find out if something has been wronmg for that particular production.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Best regards,
Véronica Simard
Biscuits leclerc Ltd.
So many things wrong here:
1) She spelled 'wrong' wrong...a blantant slap in the face to the English launguage
2) She didn't even use proper sentence structuring ("we will very appreciate"? come on)
3) They don't apologize for the crap I ate!!! I ate crappy pretzels, and the company writes back to tell me "We make high quality products. Go back to the store, get the package number, and write us back"?!?! What happened to "We're sorry your pretzels sucked" or "Hey have a free bag on us". That's the American Way (along with touching the bonus, Mike and Colin I'm looking your direction)!! But I guess the French Way is "We're never wrong, we're just a bunch of stupid babies". Eat me, France...I'd probably taste better than your pretzels!
Monday, February 14, 2005
Officially
I have officially entered the realm of geeky nerds by downloading a program known as filetopia. I'm on a quest to find the full version of Kanye West at the Grammys last night. I think I'm close to finding it, but not quite there yet. Some guys say they should have it ripped and up by this afternoon, we'll see if they are correct or not. Grammys were alright. Good performance by U2 so that's sweet. But it makes me mad that Ray Charles won all those Grammys. Don't get me long, I love Ray. Georgia on my mind is in my top 50 songs most likely, but don't give a dude like 7 grammys cause he died. He's not even here to get them or enjoy them. I think it's bogus when people do stuff like that, way to ruin the Grammys voters, way to ruin the Grammys.
I'm going to also comment on Bailey's (a new reader woooooo) comment. I kind of agree. I like some of the stunts they do. But some of them are just flat out gay. I don't want to see people on dirt bikes go off a snow ramp and let go of the handlebars and then come back on the bike. They all practically do the same thing. I do want to see sweet jumps and ballsy things. A lot of them have huge stones ... and scars to show for it. Crazy. The X-games have an upside, but ESPN advertises them like they're friggin the NFL. Huge props to some X-gamers, no props to ESPN for continuing to: A.) overhype yourself, B.) show more drama a day than actual sports C.) continually jumping the shark and putting gay stuff on too many channels. They used to be sweet when there were like two sportscenters and stuff like ESPN 2 and ESPN News and ESPN Classic were all on one station. Too watered down and the X-games is part of that.
Valentines Day definitely sucks. I like to argue that it's gay for everyone, not just people who are single like myself and Andrew (ladies take note two eligible guys living in a crappy house are up for grabs.) I think it totally goes against a relationship, not that I've ever been in one. But shouldn't you do nice stuff for the person you're wif every day of the week or all the time, not just one day a year. Plus this day of the year crap costs more than usual, so you can't do nice stuff as often. You buy like one rose today and it costs roughly $26.73. When if you bought them other days of the year you could buy more and do sweeter stuff. Valentines Day blows, lets not all try to pretend it's sweet.
Took the LSAT this weekend. I'll let you know how it went March 7th when I get my results. It could have gone well, could have been horrible. All I know is that it was the most mentally exhausting thing I've ever done ... ever. A girl broke into tears halfway through the test during our break and I heard a guy fall to his knees and explain how badly the test ... ummm ... had it's way with him to put it mildly. It was unreal. I'm glad it's done and the stress is past. I also had the lovely experience of hearing the worst band I've ever heard. Three people, no bass player, and the singer was a horrible horrible girl. It sounded as if someone was pooping in my ear. Oh man, that bad. Anyone out there play Fable for Xbox? It ate away the rest of my weekend and is so totally sweet. My character is ultimate evil personified. I love that game. I'm out for now. Later dudes.
I'm going to also comment on Bailey's (a new reader woooooo) comment. I kind of agree. I like some of the stunts they do. But some of them are just flat out gay. I don't want to see people on dirt bikes go off a snow ramp and let go of the handlebars and then come back on the bike. They all practically do the same thing. I do want to see sweet jumps and ballsy things. A lot of them have huge stones ... and scars to show for it. Crazy. The X-games have an upside, but ESPN advertises them like they're friggin the NFL. Huge props to some X-gamers, no props to ESPN for continuing to: A.) overhype yourself, B.) show more drama a day than actual sports C.) continually jumping the shark and putting gay stuff on too many channels. They used to be sweet when there were like two sportscenters and stuff like ESPN 2 and ESPN News and ESPN Classic were all on one station. Too watered down and the X-games is part of that.
Valentines Day definitely sucks. I like to argue that it's gay for everyone, not just people who are single like myself and Andrew (ladies take note two eligible guys living in a crappy house are up for grabs.) I think it totally goes against a relationship, not that I've ever been in one. But shouldn't you do nice stuff for the person you're wif every day of the week or all the time, not just one day a year. Plus this day of the year crap costs more than usual, so you can't do nice stuff as often. You buy like one rose today and it costs roughly $26.73. When if you bought them other days of the year you could buy more and do sweeter stuff. Valentines Day blows, lets not all try to pretend it's sweet.
Took the LSAT this weekend. I'll let you know how it went March 7th when I get my results. It could have gone well, could have been horrible. All I know is that it was the most mentally exhausting thing I've ever done ... ever. A girl broke into tears halfway through the test during our break and I heard a guy fall to his knees and explain how badly the test ... ummm ... had it's way with him to put it mildly. It was unreal. I'm glad it's done and the stress is past. I also had the lovely experience of hearing the worst band I've ever heard. Three people, no bass player, and the singer was a horrible horrible girl. It sounded as if someone was pooping in my ear. Oh man, that bad. Anyone out there play Fable for Xbox? It ate away the rest of my weekend and is so totally sweet. My character is ultimate evil personified. I love that game. I'm out for now. Later dudes.
Valentines Day pt. II
Or part DIEUX as the French would say. The French also say other stuff like "I like to smoke faggots!" and "Give me a baguette to eat while I wear my black and white striped shirt!" and "I have a beret!". But we're not here to discuss the French, we're here to talk about Vday again really quickly.
For as much as I knock V-day today, Courtney did get me some sweet Valentines day presents. She also got me a new cell phone which works REALLY well. And also, I don't think I've gotten as many Valentines from one person, at one time, ever! Thanks Courtney, you sure know how to make a guy feel special!
Does anyone have a full length clip of Kanye at the Grammys?
For as much as I knock V-day today, Courtney did get me some sweet Valentines day presents. She also got me a new cell phone which works REALLY well. And also, I don't think I've gotten as many Valentines from one person, at one time, ever! Thanks Courtney, you sure know how to make a guy feel special!
Does anyone have a full length clip of Kanye at the Grammys?
Valentines Day
Does everybody know what today is? That's right you do: it's Valentines Day, ho faces. Valentines Day. What a misnomer. They make it sound all fluffy and fruity but it's really not. It's about some dude who got kilt (short for 'killed') for trying to marry people, apparently. That's what I think happened, but you can read it for yourself here:
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
This delightfully gay website will break down:
1) what valentine's day is about,
2) who saint valentine was, and
3) some valentines day customs.
What this website doesn't tell you is:
1) How Cabbage Patch kids got into the V-day mix
2) Why you get valentines from ugly girls in elementary school
3) How many brain cells you will lose reading this short history of V-day.
So check this website out, because I don't have the energy to make cynical comments about valentines day all day...all valentines day. Unless you have someone to fawn over, I say Valentines day is a waste of time.
I seriously have to stop being negative, maybe some coffee will make my face happy!!
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
This delightfully gay website will break down:
1) what valentine's day is about,
2) who saint valentine was, and
3) some valentines day customs.
What this website doesn't tell you is:
1) How Cabbage Patch kids got into the V-day mix
2) Why you get valentines from ugly girls in elementary school
3) How many brain cells you will lose reading this short history of V-day.
So check this website out, because I don't have the energy to make cynical comments about valentines day all day...all valentines day. Unless you have someone to fawn over, I say Valentines day is a waste of time.
I seriously have to stop being negative, maybe some coffee will make my face happy!!
Friday, February 11, 2005
I KNOW THE ANSWERS!
1) Ska never dies, it's still around. It's just under the surface of unpopular music. If you want to revive ska I'll help you...listen to Catch 22 and Less Than Jake again. I still get pumped up listening to that. Oh and Hey! Ska byt the suidice machines is still such an awesome song, JSO RULES!
2) The Lemon Jolly Rancher is inferior to: 1) the strawberry, grape, and watermelon ranchers in that order. It's no wonder it's not around any more because it had only a niche market. However, if you had to get rid of a Rancher, I think the cinnamon ones should go. They blow hard.
3) Write blogs and sports web pages...OR play Fable all day like Chaney (don't think I didn't see you at 3:00AM this morning rotting your brain out).
4) Teleporting would be so incredibly great. Here are the problems with teleporting that I see: a) What if you and someone teleport to the same place at the same time? You get a mess. b) What if someone teleports into your bathroom while you taking a long call? You get embarassed. c) What happens if someone teleports into space? They die. Too many variables with teleporting. Now time travel, I've already looked into that for myself...
5) I have no idea and for one and irate that Arrested Development is being canceled. That was the only show worth watching or blogging about on TV!!! How who will I have inside jokes with?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?! DIE FOX DIE!
6) The Xgames are sweet and take great athletic prowess to pull off. I like to snowboard a lot, so I will say that Xgames have pertinance to my life.
7) It would't be cool because knowing you you'd use your powers for evil!!!! Xray vision in the girls locker room AGAIN Keith?!
Here's a question: How sweet is 311 honestly? And how sweet is it that my little brother's goal for the year is to get down to New Orleans on March 11 for the Annual 3-11 day concert with 311?! I've succeeded as a big brother I think.
2) The Lemon Jolly Rancher is inferior to: 1) the strawberry, grape, and watermelon ranchers in that order. It's no wonder it's not around any more because it had only a niche market. However, if you had to get rid of a Rancher, I think the cinnamon ones should go. They blow hard.
3) Write blogs and sports web pages...OR play Fable all day like Chaney (don't think I didn't see you at 3:00AM this morning rotting your brain out).
4) Teleporting would be so incredibly great. Here are the problems with teleporting that I see: a) What if you and someone teleport to the same place at the same time? You get a mess. b) What if someone teleports into your bathroom while you taking a long call? You get embarassed. c) What happens if someone teleports into space? They die. Too many variables with teleporting. Now time travel, I've already looked into that for myself...
5) I have no idea and for one and irate that Arrested Development is being canceled. That was the only show worth watching or blogging about on TV!!! How who will I have inside jokes with?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?! DIE FOX DIE!
6) The Xgames are sweet and take great athletic prowess to pull off. I like to snowboard a lot, so I will say that Xgames have pertinance to my life.
7) It would't be cool because knowing you you'd use your powers for evil!!!! Xray vision in the girls locker room AGAIN Keith?!
Here's a question: How sweet is 311 honestly? And how sweet is it that my little brother's goal for the year is to get down to New Orleans on March 11 for the Annual 3-11 day concert with 311?! I've succeeded as a big brother I think.
Yeah blogger
So I'm getting pumped about our blog a little more now that I know Andrew isn't the only person to read it. I found out of course this week that Fowler reads it, but also that Laura Thomas and Kyle Scarbro read it. Notice the shout out to our faithful readers here with us since the beginning. When our blog reaches critically massive levels of success we will remember you ... most likely. You can just be assured that we won't pass you on the street and forget to say hello at least. Speaking of Laura, I'm going to continue in my tradition of mentioning good news in my blog. Last night Laura came over to our hopping bachelor pad, and out of the goodness of her heart, made us dinner last night. Don't blush Laura, just making sure you get mad props. We are totally appreciative of her doing so, especially when our apartment is in its early stages of being put together. It's not really sweet yet, and we don't have all the fun stuff put together, but she came over and made us sweet food. Way to be a servant Laura, way to be.
Questions I would like to have answered in my life:
1.) What the heck happened to ska?
2.) Why did they get rid of the lemon jolly rancher? It was by far my favorite. You can't just take away something that's been a staple of your product and not offer it anymore. You have to at least offer it in some way. I may never buy jolly ranchers again?
3.) What am I supposed to do now that there is no football on?
4.) Do you think there is any way to teleport ever?
5.) Why are they cancelling Arrested Development? Will reality TV ever end? Why must the state of TV suck so bad currently? Woof.
That's about it for now. I'm going to avoid / move on from Andrew and I's (you like that Drew) argument regarding God making every decision about your life and everything here on his green earf. He and I will respectfully agree to disagree on a matter with no true answer. My last assertion is that I believe God is sovereign and infallible, but somehow there is a gray area where we have the ability to make the decisions for sweet things. Like surely God didn't come up with the Winter X Games. It has to be some idiot dudes idea to turn halfpipe into a snowboarding event and suck at it a lot. Winter X Games blow.
6.) When will ESPN stop showing TV shows and gay things like X Games and start showing more sports shows?
My last point, some of my friends and I are starting a sports website. On this website we will write a couple articles a week. It'll be informal sports talk filled with analysis, wit, and insight. If you like that kind of stuff, I'll be giving you the website here when we get it started. I'll be writing roughly two articles a week for it. It's not every day thoughts like my blog, but stuff with more thought put into it so it should be even better. Alright, I'm off to go interview kids ... I hope they're not gay.
7.) How sweet would it be if I was a super hero?
Questions I would like to have answered in my life:
1.) What the heck happened to ska?
2.) Why did they get rid of the lemon jolly rancher? It was by far my favorite. You can't just take away something that's been a staple of your product and not offer it anymore. You have to at least offer it in some way. I may never buy jolly ranchers again?
3.) What am I supposed to do now that there is no football on?
4.) Do you think there is any way to teleport ever?
5.) Why are they cancelling Arrested Development? Will reality TV ever end? Why must the state of TV suck so bad currently? Woof.
That's about it for now. I'm going to avoid / move on from Andrew and I's (you like that Drew) argument regarding God making every decision about your life and everything here on his green earf. He and I will respectfully agree to disagree on a matter with no true answer. My last assertion is that I believe God is sovereign and infallible, but somehow there is a gray area where we have the ability to make the decisions for sweet things. Like surely God didn't come up with the Winter X Games. It has to be some idiot dudes idea to turn halfpipe into a snowboarding event and suck at it a lot. Winter X Games blow.
6.) When will ESPN stop showing TV shows and gay things like X Games and start showing more sports shows?
My last point, some of my friends and I are starting a sports website. On this website we will write a couple articles a week. It'll be informal sports talk filled with analysis, wit, and insight. If you like that kind of stuff, I'll be giving you the website here when we get it started. I'll be writing roughly two articles a week for it. It's not every day thoughts like my blog, but stuff with more thought put into it so it should be even better. Alright, I'm off to go interview kids ... I hope they're not gay.
7.) How sweet would it be if I was a super hero?
Thursday, February 10, 2005
God planned for you to blog that...
Let me say a couple of things here. First, how pumped am I that Fowler keeps putting his 2 cents into the comment section of our blog? I am so excited to have a regular contributor. And no I'm not a cynical dude to begin with, I just like to front to see how people respond. But I am serious about the Soverrignty of God. Fowler brings up a good point which leads me to point 2) I don't think Keith or I's point will ever be reconciled...yeah I just say I's. It's late and I's tired so I'm not going to speak good stuff to it. But the Truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, though I agree with Fowler about his 1st and 2nd paragraph in his comment on the last blog. I think everyone should read it. Good work my man.
If our Blog is gospel truth, is Fowler's commentary the Apocypha? And am I a heretic for putting my words on the same level as the Gospel? Clearly someone is tired in this equation, and it isn't the Holy Spirit. Bed is talking some serious trash...
If our Blog is gospel truth, is Fowler's commentary the Apocypha? And am I a heretic for putting my words on the same level as the Gospel? Clearly someone is tired in this equation, and it isn't the Holy Spirit. Bed is talking some serious trash...
Calvin and Hobbes
I disagree with Andrew's logic. I think he just attributed a thing to God because it's good. Nowhere in Genesis does it say, "On the 10th day God created the electoral college. After that he appointed a president of the land via this electoral system." I think Andrew is just saying that democracy is of God because it's a good thing. Why then does he not think communism is of God ... because it's bad? You can't just go around attributing things that are good to God. I tend to be less of a hard-line determinist type person than Andrew. I think man has free will and can come up with the construct of government. Since man came up with this construct, it is inevitably flawed (i.e. democratic party ... just kidding). It's the best that we have to work with at this point, but obviously not the best.
Sorry Drew, but I don't think the same way. I guess that's the point of a web blog. I don't believe we own our own salvation or anything, but I believe that we can do other things, that are flawed, but lasting, in this life. Just a thought, no real humor in this post, let me know your thoughts.
Sorry Drew, but I don't think the same way. I guess that's the point of a web blog. I don't believe we own our own salvation or anything, but I believe that we can do other things, that are flawed, but lasting, in this life. Just a thought, no real humor in this post, let me know your thoughts.
Ok I'll tip my hat now
Alright kids here is some more comentary on being a contributor to society.
And this is also where I tip my hat and, Fowler, I can owe it all to you. I was going to be all sneaky and try to mask my true feelings about improving the world but I will say that I think humans can have a great impact on the world. "Wait wait wait Andrew you can't go changing your position all willy nilly like that? I hate you!!" you might say to me. BUT WAIT! Hear me out here. If you read my argument carefully you will see that I only mention 'humans' contributing to the world and I believe that human endeavor, based soley on human motivations and human drives and human means will ultimately pass away. The temporal creates the temporal and cannot do otherwise. It's not in man's nature to be able to create change or establish anything outside himself that won't pass away.
So where does the change come? How can man be an agent of change if it's not in his nature to change? I'll tell you how! With the aid of the supernatural, i.e. God! Granted I'm taking an admittedly Christian perspective here, so if you're not under the persuasion that Christ gives meaning and purpose to all activity you may find my argument stupid. But I think that all goodness and all integrity and all positivity flows from Christ. What good we can impart on society comes from the goodness of God himself. Government (particularly a democratic one), Fowler argues, is a manmade insitution. I purport that it's a divine institution given to man by one outside of time and outside of the temporal. I think socialism is a perversion of a democratic government. Where has it succeeded? Where has it positively impacted those subjected to it? Guess what? It hasn't. Man made-communism. God breathed-democracy. I know someone out there is probably cringing at my notion, but that's my idea and I'm sticking to it.
Man is the vessel and all good comes from God. Even the good deeds that we do, I believe don't ultimately stem from humans but stem from God. I can't go into a diatribe right now and break down my argument to every minute point because Keith is whistling and talking loudly like a jag-off and disrupting any semblence of concentration I can muster. But the point being What man does passes away. You put man's works and a holy motivation behind it? I think that impacts people. The impact of the spiritual on the temporal produces lasting change. So if you want to go out and make a positive change in this world, do it for Christ. the witness you becomes, the lives you touch, the things you make, the instituions you establish, the papers you write will all be infused with that timeless spiritual nature that breathes into them life beyond our years and impact beyond what we can ever see with our cloudy, finite eyes. There I'm done.
And this is also where I tip my hat and, Fowler, I can owe it all to you. I was going to be all sneaky and try to mask my true feelings about improving the world but I will say that I think humans can have a great impact on the world. "Wait wait wait Andrew you can't go changing your position all willy nilly like that? I hate you!!" you might say to me. BUT WAIT! Hear me out here. If you read my argument carefully you will see that I only mention 'humans' contributing to the world and I believe that human endeavor, based soley on human motivations and human drives and human means will ultimately pass away. The temporal creates the temporal and cannot do otherwise. It's not in man's nature to be able to create change or establish anything outside himself that won't pass away.
So where does the change come? How can man be an agent of change if it's not in his nature to change? I'll tell you how! With the aid of the supernatural, i.e. God! Granted I'm taking an admittedly Christian perspective here, so if you're not under the persuasion that Christ gives meaning and purpose to all activity you may find my argument stupid. But I think that all goodness and all integrity and all positivity flows from Christ. What good we can impart on society comes from the goodness of God himself. Government (particularly a democratic one), Fowler argues, is a manmade insitution. I purport that it's a divine institution given to man by one outside of time and outside of the temporal. I think socialism is a perversion of a democratic government. Where has it succeeded? Where has it positively impacted those subjected to it? Guess what? It hasn't. Man made-communism. God breathed-democracy. I know someone out there is probably cringing at my notion, but that's my idea and I'm sticking to it.
Man is the vessel and all good comes from God. Even the good deeds that we do, I believe don't ultimately stem from humans but stem from God. I can't go into a diatribe right now and break down my argument to every minute point because Keith is whistling and talking loudly like a jag-off and disrupting any semblence of concentration I can muster. But the point being What man does passes away. You put man's works and a holy motivation behind it? I think that impacts people. The impact of the spiritual on the temporal produces lasting change. So if you want to go out and make a positive change in this world, do it for Christ. the witness you becomes, the lives you touch, the things you make, the instituions you establish, the papers you write will all be infused with that timeless spiritual nature that breathes into them life beyond our years and impact beyond what we can ever see with our cloudy, finite eyes. There I'm done.
LSAT Horribleness
I am taking the LSATs this Saturday as I mentioned yesterday. My walls are starting to close in around me now. I see the test coming and last night instead of hard core studying I watched Duke vs. UNC and played a lot of Fable. I really wish I had studied more. I'll never make it in law school, I don't have the study ethics (if that makes sense). So I guess I'm not really sure why I'm taking the LSATs. Part of it I think is my desire yesterday to make an impact and I see that as the best way. Molding the laws of the land, going into politics and making a difference, or just being a fricking sweet lawyer. I don't think that I have the type of personality for it though or the drive to do it. This is kind of making me think the LSATs are less important. Basically I'm screwed.
On a more happy note yesterday I purchased some of the Sweet Tart Sweet Hearts from Walmart. They're so undeniably sweet. Little heart phrases (Be Mine, True Love, I'm Yours minus the gay ones on the old school chalky hearts IM Me, Fax Me, TXT Me) and they taste like little tiny sweet tarts. Unreal food item, right up there with the best seasonal food items. The top seasonal food item has to be the Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights. They taste like cinnamon pumpkin cakes of goodness. Really, come Fall you HAVE TO GET SOME!
So Courtney just came into my office and said that I gained street cred. this fall. Somehow I don't think she has the correct definition of Street cred. Street cred for all you crackers out there is street credibility a.k.a. how well you carry yoursefl on the street and appear as credible and hard. DMX defines street cred, great point Andrew about DMX having pit bulls, he's just hard as nails. You don't hear him slamming G-Unit or siding with the Terror Squad (great post 9-11 name by the way) he just comes to peoples aid and rolls with EFFING DOGS! So tough right now, if I could be any man in a fight, I'd be DMX. Thanks for the compliment Courtney, we love ya' round here, but I'm not sure I have much street cred.
Big shout out to our man Fowler, who if he keeps this up may become an honorary contributing member of the blog. He's smoking anyone out there who is reading this. For goodness sake just comment once in a while, we are giving you GOLD HERE friggin GOLD! Anyway, I'm off to Taco Bell for a little bit of lunch. Grilled Stuffed Chicken Burrito is phenomenal. Then I'll slog through work this afternoon, followed inevitably by studying for something I'm not cut out to do, and then hopefully some Fable before bed. Well dudes stay cool and try not to suck like North Korea ... way to be communist and make nukes have fun being in power for a few more months.
On a more happy note yesterday I purchased some of the Sweet Tart Sweet Hearts from Walmart. They're so undeniably sweet. Little heart phrases (Be Mine, True Love, I'm Yours minus the gay ones on the old school chalky hearts IM Me, Fax Me, TXT Me) and they taste like little tiny sweet tarts. Unreal food item, right up there with the best seasonal food items. The top seasonal food item has to be the Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights. They taste like cinnamon pumpkin cakes of goodness. Really, come Fall you HAVE TO GET SOME!
So Courtney just came into my office and said that I gained street cred. this fall. Somehow I don't think she has the correct definition of Street cred. Street cred for all you crackers out there is street credibility a.k.a. how well you carry yoursefl on the street and appear as credible and hard. DMX defines street cred, great point Andrew about DMX having pit bulls, he's just hard as nails. You don't hear him slamming G-Unit or siding with the Terror Squad (great post 9-11 name by the way) he just comes to peoples aid and rolls with EFFING DOGS! So tough right now, if I could be any man in a fight, I'd be DMX. Thanks for the compliment Courtney, we love ya' round here, but I'm not sure I have much street cred.
Big shout out to our man Fowler, who if he keeps this up may become an honorary contributing member of the blog. He's smoking anyone out there who is reading this. For goodness sake just comment once in a while, we are giving you GOLD HERE friggin GOLD! Anyway, I'm off to Taco Bell for a little bit of lunch. Grilled Stuffed Chicken Burrito is phenomenal. Then I'll slog through work this afternoon, followed inevitably by studying for something I'm not cut out to do, and then hopefully some Fable before bed. Well dudes stay cool and try not to suck like North Korea ... way to be communist and make nukes have fun being in power for a few more months.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Music for Keith
First off, let me say that yes DMX may be the hardest rapper out there. The dude travels not with rough looking thugs who would curse you out and say something derrogatory about your mom. DMX rolls with freaking pit bulls who bite you unmercifully. I'll take a mf over a b-i-t-e any day!
And as for music that Keith should listen to (sans deathmetal, which really does get a bad rap):
1) Brand New-really mellow kind of whiny rock
2)The Chemical Brothers
3) Taking Back Sunday
4) The Strokes
5) 311...of course
And don't be cynical, and I'll tell you why later. Stay baffled and rock out.
And as for music that Keith should listen to (sans deathmetal, which really does get a bad rap):
1) Brand New-really mellow kind of whiny rock
2)The Chemical Brothers
3) Taking Back Sunday
4) The Strokes
5) 311...of course
And don't be cynical, and I'll tell you why later. Stay baffled and rock out.
DMX
I think my blog is a good place to reassert what I have always felt. If I saw DMX in the street, I think he would stab me in the chest, laugh, and then leave. He has to be the hardest rapper. He's be all like, "Whaaaaaat! You just been stabbed ho!" Then I'd be left there bleeding and he'd go rap some more. DMX is so tough.
Cynicism abounds ...
Wow ... Andrew ... way to destroy the next 50 years of my life in a few swift key strokes. Here's the sad part, I typically on a daily basis think like he does. I tell myself, there's no way I'll ever make a lasting impact or ever contribute something positive and worthwhile to society. I mean I'm not going to ever make America anything sweeter than company rooted in free market ideas, Christian values, and republican. I'm never going to be known as Ronald Reagan who did great things for America and was a huge part of the Berlin wall falling. I know that I'm not going to be creating any stinking light bulbs. There has to be something though, something I can do to make an impact and shape the world. I can't let this cynicism overtake me, or I will just stay here and be an admissions counselor for the rest of my life. What's the purpose of living if men don't strive to do great things?
I don't know if this is unreasonable of me to desire or what. I don't even know if there is anyway I can get on the life track to do great things. I guess I'm just destined to be a fish in a bowl impacting only my little circle of influence with base comments, pieces of humor, and little to no insight. I just feel like as it is now, I can't live the rest of my life. I feel as though I'm influencing people, but only on a small level. Our entire lives people tell us we will do great things and we can do anything we want to do. Is this a lie?
Anyway, I'm going to try to get back into the tradition of sharing good news with you who read our blog. As of now I know this is Joel and Jeff Fowler. Seriously, mad props to Fowler for commenting, even if it's about his pathetic life as a married person and "the obvious" part of being married. Way to chime and Fowler, and keep enjoying being married and all the perks. Come out to Pittsburgh, I know it's an economically depressed city, but there are tons of jobs, I promise ... sort of ... I have no good news today, but I'll start again soon.
Things I think I know:
1.) We're getting digital cable so we can get more sweet channels. We're going to get the boomerang channel, it's the one with all the old cartoons like Flinstones, GI Joe, and Super Friends. It's so sweet.
2.) We cooked last night, well Jordan did. Cooking is going to suck and I'm going to lose roughly 40 pounds I bet.
3.) U2 is such a sweet band. I am going to see them in 87 days. Not that I'm counting, but I seriously can't wait.
4.) The LSATs are this Saturday that I'm taking and I don't think I'm ready for them. Oh well not much I can do now is there.
5.) Nelly is pretty sweet.
6.) Any music out there you guys think I should try and listen too? Please no death metal or country. Thanks for the input.
I'm out.
I don't know if this is unreasonable of me to desire or what. I don't even know if there is anyway I can get on the life track to do great things. I guess I'm just destined to be a fish in a bowl impacting only my little circle of influence with base comments, pieces of humor, and little to no insight. I just feel like as it is now, I can't live the rest of my life. I feel as though I'm influencing people, but only on a small level. Our entire lives people tell us we will do great things and we can do anything we want to do. Is this a lie?
Anyway, I'm going to try to get back into the tradition of sharing good news with you who read our blog. As of now I know this is Joel and Jeff Fowler. Seriously, mad props to Fowler for commenting, even if it's about his pathetic life as a married person and "the obvious" part of being married. Way to chime and Fowler, and keep enjoying being married and all the perks. Come out to Pittsburgh, I know it's an economically depressed city, but there are tons of jobs, I promise ... sort of ... I have no good news today, but I'll start again soon.
Things I think I know:
1.) We're getting digital cable so we can get more sweet channels. We're going to get the boomerang channel, it's the one with all the old cartoons like Flinstones, GI Joe, and Super Friends. It's so sweet.
2.) We cooked last night, well Jordan did. Cooking is going to suck and I'm going to lose roughly 40 pounds I bet.
3.) U2 is such a sweet band. I am going to see them in 87 days. Not that I'm counting, but I seriously can't wait.
4.) The LSATs are this Saturday that I'm taking and I don't think I'm ready for them. Oh well not much I can do now is there.
5.) Nelly is pretty sweet.
6.) Any music out there you guys think I should try and listen too? Please no death metal or country. Thanks for the input.
I'm out.
The Contribution
I agree with Keith, that we need to impact our culture. It can be debated by some that we will never be able to make a real contribution to society. "Andrew what are you talking about? You're crazy! Of COURSE we can give back to our culture! Stop talking that gibberish" Pish posh I say to you. This is where I transform into a cynic beyond belief! BLAO POOF!!
What can we give back to society? A fist full of nothing!! What good can you do as a human? What tangible contribution will you give to society that won't, at one point or another, pass away and be reuced to meaninglessness? The biggest philanthropist, the most generous compassion worker, the most ardent business person or lawyer- what do they all have in common? Their ambition ultimately ends in an attempt at social improvement, they make some small change, they die, they are forgotten, and then things that they worked for die eventually with them. Name one thing on this earth that man has made, or a way that man has improved society which will last forever? I'll give you a buck if you think of one thing. It all passes away, only to surface again where? On an eloquent epitaph. My cannons of cynicism and doubt are blazing and you just got hit with a rocket of angst.
"But Andrew" you inquire, "I thought you were a happy, optimistic dude who loved the Lord? Why you talkin' this jive?!". That, my friends in blog land, is a discussion for another day. Stay posted, like Fowler! Wooo!
What can we give back to society? A fist full of nothing!! What good can you do as a human? What tangible contribution will you give to society that won't, at one point or another, pass away and be reuced to meaninglessness? The biggest philanthropist, the most generous compassion worker, the most ardent business person or lawyer- what do they all have in common? Their ambition ultimately ends in an attempt at social improvement, they make some small change, they die, they are forgotten, and then things that they worked for die eventually with them. Name one thing on this earth that man has made, or a way that man has improved society which will last forever? I'll give you a buck if you think of one thing. It all passes away, only to surface again where? On an eloquent epitaph. My cannons of cynicism and doubt are blazing and you just got hit with a rocket of angst.
"But Andrew" you inquire, "I thought you were a happy, optimistic dude who loved the Lord? Why you talkin' this jive?!". That, my friends in blog land, is a discussion for another day. Stay posted, like Fowler! Wooo!
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Blao!
It's like blao! That's what the rappers say at least. I don't have a whole lot to say at this late hour other than what Andrew said. We are in our apartment and things are starting to shape up. My quality of life has definitely dropped a good thousand points, but at the same time, it's improving. I have my own space again, which I haven't been able to say for roughly a year. I got cable and internet today so I again have access to the outside world. Just a taste of things that you take for granted until they return: I was watching Hannity and Colmes tonight while hanging up pictures. Once Colmes sufficiently pissed me off with his raging liberalism I turned on the U2 concert from Slane Castle in Ireland. Either way it's sweet, it's like having a large single in college, but only I can put nails in the walls. All in all, not a bad gig. I can look up and see myself surrounded by my shrine to U2.
The only thing that is yet to be put up is my Steelers neon sign and I may just wait to do that. It's a heavy piece of stuff and I want to make sure that I do it correctly. But just having it on in my room on some boxes is considerably lifting my moods. The room has a ton of my flavor but in a bachelor kind of way really. I have all my posters up on the wall just kind of hanging with duct tape or poster putty. It's a far cry from my office where everything is framed and matching. Here is home and home is all the things you enjoy: Steelers, U2, and the Boston Celtics ... most likely in that order.
Question to ponder on a serious level for the day - Do you ever wonder if we will ever make an impact in this world? I'm talking real impact not something like a great epitaph and tons of people saying, "He was a great guy, truly good guy." I'm talking like Brad Pitt lines in the movie Troy. When the messenger boy says, "The Thessalonian you're fighting, he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him." Brad Pitt, Achilles, just responds simply, "That is why no one will remember your name." So hard right now.
I have a desire to leave a mark. I'm assuming all of us do, and currently these are motives that I have to keep from being my sole drive and motivation. These are ok things to desire, ambitions to strive for, but they shouldn't dictate life decisions. I really want to be sure that God is driving decisions that I make, not just the desire to be as sweet as Brad Pitt. I know my blogs are usually light hearted and I hope humorous but this is something that has been driving me of late. How can one do something that is so great everyone will remember him. If only I had created Gummy Bears ... then people would never forget my name.
The only thing that is yet to be put up is my Steelers neon sign and I may just wait to do that. It's a heavy piece of stuff and I want to make sure that I do it correctly. But just having it on in my room on some boxes is considerably lifting my moods. The room has a ton of my flavor but in a bachelor kind of way really. I have all my posters up on the wall just kind of hanging with duct tape or poster putty. It's a far cry from my office where everything is framed and matching. Here is home and home is all the things you enjoy: Steelers, U2, and the Boston Celtics ... most likely in that order.
Question to ponder on a serious level for the day - Do you ever wonder if we will ever make an impact in this world? I'm talking real impact not something like a great epitaph and tons of people saying, "He was a great guy, truly good guy." I'm talking like Brad Pitt lines in the movie Troy. When the messenger boy says, "The Thessalonian you're fighting, he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him." Brad Pitt, Achilles, just responds simply, "That is why no one will remember your name." So hard right now.
I have a desire to leave a mark. I'm assuming all of us do, and currently these are motives that I have to keep from being my sole drive and motivation. These are ok things to desire, ambitions to strive for, but they shouldn't dictate life decisions. I really want to be sure that God is driving decisions that I make, not just the desire to be as sweet as Brad Pitt. I know my blogs are usually light hearted and I hope humorous but this is something that has been driving me of late. How can one do something that is so great everyone will remember him. If only I had created Gummy Bears ... then people would never forget my name.
Boof!
Pow I'm blogging from my new apartment and I feel like I'm just on vacation. That's kind of a cool feeling. I am kind of in limbo between being responsible and being a fat lazy sot! I think a heavy dose of Street Fighter 2, and a lack of nutritious eating may do me in before my time, however. Peace out from the Nightmare
Monday, February 07, 2005
Crap
I forgot to talk about my favorite SNL skit. I think for my money you have to go with Will Ferrell and one of his skits. All the Celebrity Jeopardy skits get an honorable mention with the Keanu Reeves one getting top billing. I think I have to go with the skit where Will Ferrell is Robert Gouleat (I'm not even sure that's spelled correctly). He's absolutely hysterical when he sings all the rap songs in a crooner voice, plus he gets in a staring contest with a deer. Enough said.
Depression
So this is the first time I've blogged in quite some time, and I can't promise that I'll be regular with the blogging either. I'm still fairly depressed from the Steeler game. I watched the Super Bowl last night and couldn't help but think, "The Steelers beat both these team this year." Oh well, I guess sports involves putting it together at the right time as well. On the good news front I went from the basic stage of depression to stage one. The difference with this stage is that I know longer constantly avoid sports or thinking about sports. I have begun to function in that realm of life with some sense of normality. The first stage of depression usually lasts another two weeks. It tends to take me a good month to recover if the Steelers lose in the playoff. The next stage enables me to be interested in the Steelers again. It's like trusting a person after they deeply hurt you. If your girlfriend calls you a fat pig, slaps you in the face, rips your heart out, and darkens your soul - It's going to take some time to trust again and invest. This is what the Steelers have done to me, but in another two weeks I'll go bounding back to our abusive relationship and begin to think who they're going to pick in the draft.
So on a more positive note; Andrew is right, we did move up to Grove City. Our place is a bit of a dump, but as we add personal touches to it it has become much nicer. Andrew is right, we do own a hookah and smoking apple flavored stuff is PHENOMENAL! Onto things I think I think:
1.) My sister and I are going to see U2 in Chicago May 7th. It's now three months until that day, join the countdown with me. I've never been to Chicago and I FRICKIN' LOVE U2. I will be so stoked that week.
2.) Bar-B-Que Fritos need to begin being sold in a bigger bag. They're a great snack food, but only come in that personal sized like kind of party bag. What the heck, I can buy Fritos in a bag large enough to clog my heart, but I can only get a mini-bag of their better version of snack food?!?
3.) Video games are so cool. I don't see how girls can't play them for hours on end.
4.) Owning your own apartment, although apparently sweet, kind of blows. I really have ZERO desire to cook and you have to buy all kinds of gay stuff.
5.) Monday nights at Elephant and Castle anyone? $2 bottle night is back.
6.) LSATs are this Saturday ... I'm kind of screwed.
I'm out you homos.
So on a more positive note; Andrew is right, we did move up to Grove City. Our place is a bit of a dump, but as we add personal touches to it it has become much nicer. Andrew is right, we do own a hookah and smoking apple flavored stuff is PHENOMENAL! Onto things I think I think:
1.) My sister and I are going to see U2 in Chicago May 7th. It's now three months until that day, join the countdown with me. I've never been to Chicago and I FRICKIN' LOVE U2. I will be so stoked that week.
2.) Bar-B-Que Fritos need to begin being sold in a bigger bag. They're a great snack food, but only come in that personal sized like kind of party bag. What the heck, I can buy Fritos in a bag large enough to clog my heart, but I can only get a mini-bag of their better version of snack food?!?
3.) Video games are so cool. I don't see how girls can't play them for hours on end.
4.) Owning your own apartment, although apparently sweet, kind of blows. I really have ZERO desire to cook and you have to buy all kinds of gay stuff.
5.) Monday nights at Elephant and Castle anyone? $2 bottle night is back.
6.) LSATs are this Saturday ... I'm kind of screwed.
I'm out you homos.
Who else you know....
Can take one week off, come back cold turkey and blog lids off? So other than the terrible transformation of Ma$e's verse in the Lean Back remix, nothing new is going down in W. PA. I'm also officially dead tired, so here is a short and concise blog to make everyone happy.
1) The Patriots are horrible (despite Super Bowl 39 evidence to the contrary).
2) I moved into a new apartment. I know no one cares, but I don't care that you don't care so bam.
3) I own a hookah, which happens to be an ultra sweet purchase. I have tubs of sheesha open in my room and it is making it smell awesome.
4) When Courtney says "I will kick you in the throat!!" in a threatening way, it makes me bust up laughing. Haha just thinking about it is funny.
5) Here's a thought provoker which I know Keith might take exception to. The question is: What has been the best SNL sketch of the last 10 years? I say Brian Fellow's Safari Planet. And I am right.
I'm going to go drink coffee and change out of my grumpy pants, maybe.
1) The Patriots are horrible (despite Super Bowl 39 evidence to the contrary).
2) I moved into a new apartment. I know no one cares, but I don't care that you don't care so bam.
3) I own a hookah, which happens to be an ultra sweet purchase. I have tubs of sheesha open in my room and it is making it smell awesome.
4) When Courtney says "I will kick you in the throat!!" in a threatening way, it makes me bust up laughing. Haha just thinking about it is funny.
5) Here's a thought provoker which I know Keith might take exception to. The question is: What has been the best SNL sketch of the last 10 years? I say Brian Fellow's Safari Planet. And I am right.
I'm going to go drink coffee and change out of my grumpy pants, maybe.
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