Griffey to the Whtie Sox

I have a feeling the Reds screwed this one up....

My Duel Day picks

Cheap post, I know. But hey, its about 12 times better than my posts last week!

*Zinger*

-Coke
-Pepsi products - Mt. Dew... duh...
-CD for ease of use... im not indie enough for vinyl
-roman numerals for tats, reg for anything else
-helvetica all the way
-plastic
-hotpad
-baths are much more relaxing, so in a vacum, i choose bath

-college, in everything except possibly basketball (lets see how both college and the NBA are next year without the diaper dandy/Celtics storylines)
-Order out... not to say i dont like home cooking, but usually a philly cheesesteak from penn station wins out
-other, windows media player, vlc, amarok if it ever comes to windows (please please please please)
-ive always been enticed by castro, hence this question. the commie for the win
-pac for the attitude, biggie for the rap ability. thats the most definite choice your will get from me, both are pioneers
-going with achilles on the pub/private thing. though p-town will always be close to my heart, more for the makeup of people than the way it's run

I really need to do something....

I will be on the homestead this week, vacation at one of America's beautiful natural wonders: Lake Erie for a week, then have a week to get stuff together for school.

So on top of being busy, I have that other problem where nothing really happens during the summer. Example: today I work until 4:15, at which point I will hate kids, be slightly closer to a skin cancer ridden body, and exponentially closer to hanging up the ole' whistle. Side effect: 0/10 motivation to type.

Here's a fun fact: I went to the Brickyard yesterday! NASCAR is still fun, so suck my toe and can the jokes. In no other sport can you bring a radio scanner (basically a high-class name for a portable CB radio) and really get into the strategy and action of the event, maybe even hear your favorite driver drop a few f-bombs and threaten to fire his entire crew.

insert terrible paragraph transition because I cannot write anymore....AH!!!

I went in not really having a favorite driver, but definitely left with a strong liking for Dale Jr. Mainly because I am a nerd who likes to know everything. In what seems fitting with the personalities of Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon, they kept radio chatter to a minimum, or just on a secure (i.e. I can't hear it) channel. No fun. Junior on the other hand was chatting it up the whole time with his crew talking about everything from the car "driving like a Cadillac" at the beginning of the race to, "how the hell did you guys fuck this thing up so bad?!" near the end.
To be honest, it wasn't even a primadona why isn't my car the shiznit type thing, but more of a, you guys are usually really good at this type of thing, what happened? type of thing.

Nearly 5 minutes after flipping shit, Junior would be right back on the radio talking about how, "fucking pumped up [he] is," and how," all this horseshit comes to this."

I love a guy that just tells it like it is.

Oh, and what the hell happened between him and Jeff Burton, because holy crap Junior really doesn't like him much.

And yes, the tire issue sucked major ballz.

Duel Day pt 2

- College football or pro
- Home cooking or order out
- iTunes or other
- G-dub or Castro
- Tupac or Biggie
- Public or Private (this one will be interesting... heh)

That's about all I can think of...

Duel Day(s)

I am about to head out so this one will be short but continued at a later time.

Pick your prefs.

1.) Coke or Pepsi
2.) Coke products or Pepsi products
3.) CD or Vinyl (sp? omg i forgot how to spell vinyl)
4.) Roman numerals or .... regular?
5.) Helvetica or Times New Roman
6.) Paper or plastic
7.) Ice or hotpad
8.) Shower or bath

To be continued...

Halloween in June

A costume up gathering of sorts, I am going with someone as Kriss Kross.

Educate yo'self fool


Jump




Wearing a hoodie in 90 degree weather is dumb.

Pictures later if someone takes them.

I hate my job.

I am sunburnt, tired of teaching kids how to swim and dive when I really am learning right along with them, tired of having a "routine" during the summer, and tired of being tired.

FEEL BAD FOR MEEEEEEEEEE :(

P.S. Nat Geo is the new Discovery HD. "Lockdown" and "Explorer" may be my new favs, with shows about John Gotti and Methamphetamines to boot! Discovery HD is too much car stuff and general boringness right now.

Top five movie characters I wish I could be:

5.) Batman, the Batman Begins one - All the other Batmans are too over-the-top comic-y. My alltime favorite comic book movie, but the comic aspect of it really ruins half the fun.

4.) George Jung, Blow - Just to feel what its like at the top, then have it all come crashing down (or would it!?!? if it were me, that is).

3.) Frank Abagnale Jr., Catch Me If You Can - Just to be able to pull off the stunts he does would be great.

2.) Jack Sparrow - Things we have in common: love of ships, pirating, girls, and rum. The whole dreds thing and braided goat (which I would so do if I had the patience) top it off.

[Big gap]

1.) One of the McManus brothers in The Boondock Saints - Irish, badass, and the best tats EVER. I get hyped everytime I watch it.

Tiger Woods is the most impressive pro athlete of my time

The fact that he took a sport as boring and lacking a fun fanbase as golf and made it into this:



is testament to that.

Complain about the "death of the modest golf clap" all you want, I like this better.

Top 5 reasons to stop by at your local festival

No particular order on this one

1.) Its like a high school reunion, but with gambling and its much easier to avoid the creepers
2.) There is no such thing as too many bratts, metts, or italian sausages.
3.) Blackjack is a great time waster.
4.) Funnel cake.
5.) ....Honestly I can't think of a fifth reason. Let's be honest, for the most part festivals suck bunghole and the only reason people go are to enjoy the wonderful vices of life. Irony at its best....

...just don't puke in the pews!! :)

Allegory, Alliteration, Symbolism, Imagery, Irony, Meter, Rhyme.

common elements of poetry; See:



Parental Advisory be damned (see: using the 1st Amendment to the fullest), Tha Carter III is talent. "Lollipop" (that song that you hear about 4 times/hour on the radio) could arguably be the worst song on the album.

I challenge anyone to argue that hip-hop is not in many ways a sub-genre of poetry.

Fun Fact about me:

Whenever I create myself in any baseball videogames, I have always used "Griffey" as my batting stance.

Cheers to the most beautiful swing in the game.

Cicadas suck.

That is all.

Power outages are fun!

Until you try to get online or get hungry and realize nothing can be cooked
and oh yea your last bag of chips is down to the crumblies
that cannot ever be used to dip into your favorite salsa
and oh now you have to pee
BUT WAIT there is no light and
grrrrreeeeeeaaaatttt the sun has since set
so you are using your bat senses to keep from hitting the side
because if a girly is the next to go
and the power is still out
she will undoubtedly sit in your liquids,
bringing about certain death.



But yea, mainly no internetz. That sucked.

The power was out for seven hours and all I got was this shitty free-verse.

"Chad Who?"

It looks like there is a new Cincinnati favorite arising, and to my shock and surprise, he doesn't don the orange and black.

I may not be ordering a jersey yet, but I'd be lying if I tried to act like I haven't checked the price...

Sure, Bruce is not the savior of the franchise. He is a piece, though. Maybe the sudden rise of Volquez (a true talent at SP for once?!!?!) is more reason to be excited, but hitting fills the seats. Just that has happened since Bruce has arrived, too. For the Pirates series, in which Bruce made his MLB debut, attendance was hovering right around 17,000, excluding the always popular Indians series.

For the 3-game series against the Braves (admittedly, a team that probably has a higher draw anyways), attendance more than doubled to an average of 37,181. Barring a terrible away stretch, I imagine those numbers are going to continue for at least the next few home games.

I know I plan on making a game, before I wake up...

Good news and bad news...

The bad news is that this is the most boring sports period of the entire year. No football (even off-season stuff) until August or so, baseball means nothing until the All-Star Break and (usually) the NBA could dissolve tomorrow and I wouldn't know about it for 12 years.

The good news is that this year the most boring sports period is actually being quite entertaining.

For some odd reason I haven't quite grasped yet, the Celtics are really starting to draw me into the NBA a little bit. I've grown up under a household where the belief is that organized basketball ceases to exist after the college level, and the NBA simply represents a bastardized shoot-till-ya-miss version of the game. While that still basically holds true, at least now there are some storylines. You have the ongoing saga of Prince/King James - depending on where your allegiances lie -, good Kobe (the team player who has never gotten a break until the overdue MVP this year)/bad Kobe (the convicted rapist ballhog), and now the "dynasty in the making" Celtics. It's all good stuff and has kept me interested in what is usually the playoffs that just won't end.

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Then there are the surging Redlegs which, dare I say, have looked like a solid all-around baseball team lately, let the knocking on wood commence. For the first time in years, the pitching rotation shows signs of not being finalists for the MVP award of opposing teams, there is some homegrown youth that is making a definite impact, and the team doesn't look like it is just going through the motions everyday.

Maybe all those years of crap are starting to pay off, in the form of the crazy-high draft picks we garnered. It's still far too early to tell, but Jay Bruce has adjusted favorably to the MLB. At least one of Bob Castellini's questionable trades has paid off in the form of a previously unproven pitcher by the name of Edison Volquez. Maybe getting rid of Hamilton rather than say Dunn, or even Griffey wasn't the best move for the future, but realistically I doubt the Rangers would have even been interested in either or both of them.

Needless to say at this point, for the first time in my life I have reminded myself of when the Red's are on TV, made an effort to watch them, and planned at least a few nights in the bleacher seats because, let's be honest, I'm still a poor college student. This isn't the first time the Red's have had an early season boom, but it is the first time that it feels like it may not be completely smoke and mirrors or plain dumb luck. I'll be the first to admit my baseball wisdom is lacking in all areas, but it just feels different, if nothing else.

Here's to optimism.

$129,000 is the new $50,000

I love Time. I used to read it a lot when I had a study hall and could just go to the library and, well, read Time. Not so much anymore though.

The love is still there, as shown through this pretty cool article on essentially international health care, something I honestly care little about (I know I'm a terrible person). However, good writing can make me want to read just about anything.

Basically, some Stanford economists have gone back and looked at the price insurance companies are willing to pay for "quality life" for one year (currently $50,000), and discovered that with basically inflation, the true number should be nearly three times that.

My take: it would be greta if every single man, woman, and child in the world could somehow be promised $132,000 in health care, if the need arose. Probably not so feasible though.

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In related news, NPR just did a segment on "This I Believe," called "What is the True Value of a Human Life?" They interview Kenneth Feinberg, who had to decide the amount of monetary compensation families of 9/11 victims and the Virginia Tech shooting victims would recieve. Pretty thought provoking stuff.


Overall Conclusion: [Yakov Smirnoff] In Capitalist America, money own you! [/Yakov] No but forrealsies, it is scary to think that the government can use money you don't have to control your healthcare, quality of life post-retirement, and most outlandishly, your grieving process.

The conversation went something like this

In fye (holy crap so expensive), Stinky and I, talking about music.

Me - "Eliminate one of these three" Holding out Stevie Ray Vaughan's Greatest Hits, Garth Brook's Greatest Hits (his new 2 CD/DVD one), and Tool's Schism DVD

Stinky - "I dunno... they all kinda suck."

"Ok. I guess I'll put Stevie Ray Vaughan back" It was the most expensive one, I was trying to stay under my gift card limit "You at least respect him as a musican though, right?"

"Eh, can't say I like him."

"Yea, sure, but I mean, you respect him, right? He is like one of the greatest guitarists of all time..."

"Eh, not really."

"Seriously?"

"Yep."

At this point I stomp back, grab the SRV album, throw Garth in some random area. I think I may have made a small scene.


"Never say you know anything about music again."


Moral of the story, never tell your girlfriend that she should never speak of a topic again. If you do, don't expect her to hold your hand. Corrollary: I probably should have just put the Schism DVD back. Yea... that was dumb...

Until then though, suck on this:

SeeqPod - Playable Search

Disclaimer: Stinky really does have a good music taste and stuff for the most part. Hopefully either a) She stopped reading this months ago or b) She will take this well :)

Another side of me

No, not in the creepy kind of way.

I have a little side hobby in digital art and post some of my work over on a little website called Deviant Art. It's a fun little site where anyone of varying skill levels, from honestly pretty crappy to professional can post some of their work and recieve some good encouragement, constructive criticism, or just the pleasure of anonymously (well, as much as the internetz offers at least) presenting a different side of them.

I tend towards the "honestly pretty crappy" and "pleasure of presenting (relatively) anonymously" side of things. But hey, it's still fun.

Some of the stuff has already been posted here, some of it a few of you will recognize from a certain school publication, other of it just plain sucks. Even a blind squirrel strikes oil sometimes though (or finds a nut, whichever comes first), so check it out maybe.

I'll tack it to the good ole' sidebar from now on so as to ease the hassle of stalking.

When you see it, you'll shit bricks. (idk... some internet mimi, like the chick in the drew carrey show. yes. that scary...

I got a car (again) today...

Some youtubes to commemorate the occasion