Monday, April 24, 2006
Ummm
I was sent this this morning. Someone tell me who made this...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
FUCK YOU!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoLu_HvbbwMy heart is officially broken into 1 trillion pieces.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Seats You Can't Buy
Yesterday a friend of ours gave us tickets to the game and said, "Yeah these are pretty good seats I think." I looked at them and they said Section 30 Row XXX Price $0.00. Now I know XXX is the first row and I know that when a ticket has no price they come from the front office. What I didn't know is that they were Cal Ripken's seats.
My friend Mike and I walked down to the seats and I was looking at where they might be and I was awed (yes - - awed - - that's what life has become) by the seats I was going to be sat in. The seats were in the first row behind home plate next to the dugout. And I don't mean behind the dugout or next to the side of the dugout. I'm saying that I was 5 feet from the Orioles and sitting in the dugout for all good intentions. Sitting me next to the dugout by the way, is a risky proposition. I'm a yeller. I was actually jittery when I sat down. I looked to my right and Miguel Tejada was 3 feet from me. I could have poked my finger out and flicked his ear.
Sitting in these seats you get to see so many things. I got to see that Javy was dogging it and Matos was a cry baby. David Nehwan made a diving play in left field and I looked in the dugout and screamed at manager Sam Perlozzo "SEE - THAT GUY WANTS TO PLAY!" He was not amused, but I had his ear either way. I congratualted players on nice plays and they looked back and winked or nodded as they looked straight forward. And lucky for us yesterday's game was a spirited one with arguments and homeruns. I'll never forget Section 30 row XXX. Cheers to all involved.
Friday, April 14, 2006
Coming Back Strong
The year was 1997. And everyone was doing their best Cartman impersonation on a daily basis. Comedy Central was being birthed in stardom and nobody knew what to make of 4 crude mouthed little cartoon kids from some place called South Park.
The year is 2006 and the show is much better now than it ever was then. South Park has elevated itself, maybe via the boredom of Stone and Parker (their creators) to a level of social awareness that grabs my attention. Gone are the fart jokes, kids cursing, T+P moments, Jew jokes etc... Even though those still exist in a background light, the show has meaningfully started to capture and expose some of our country's bigger issues and bring them down to trailer trash level understanding (which, frankly, is exactly what we need).
I commend South Park on it's 10th year anniversary, whenever that is, and I'm glad that they keep putting out TV that is fucking hilarious and rather cutting against social issue at the same time.
I have a link below to their recently uncensored episode clip that was banned by the FCC/Comedy Central. It is the image of Muhammad, and while Muslims and others may find it offensive to push the limits of someone's religious beliefs by degradation of their God in cartoon form, I need to kindly remind them that here in America we don't live in a Church or a Mosque or a Temple. We live in a country made out of an idea, and that idea is fueled by inalienable rights such as free speech. However offended someone may become because of this image, the much larger offense is the banning of it from the eyes of the people protected by the doctrines this country claims it instills.
This is the 15 second cutout clip from South Park.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Headshake
What does this news headline read like to you?
British man accused of killing wife and baby pleads not guiltyThat is one hardcore baby. I hope he's a first time offender.
Question
Let me ask everyone out there a question. What would you do if you found out that someone you know had inoperable (terminal) cancer? Let's say this person wanted to take you on trips and spend their money with you because they think you are their friend. Let's say they cry in your arms. What do you do? How do you feel? What could you possibly say? I said something I have never said before:
"I'm going home and for the first time since I was 12, I'm going to pray for someone."
I cried thinking about it.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Biting My Nails All Morning
Italy's new Prime Minsiter President Chancellor Ruler King is - -
Every morning I come to work and listen to the news (wait let me update that statement - I listen to the BBC World news). So I listen to real news and not fuckin, whatever news we have about babies eating tires and old people dying of heat exhaust, or whatever opEd trivial human interest shittastic story that is going on in Iowa today.
For example, this morning jas and I were driving to work and there was this horrible story about a
6 year calling 911 to say that his Mom had fallen and gone to sleep. The operator then told the child to stop playing on the phone and the woman died due to lack of response time. While this is an interesting piece of interest it is no where near as important as other things that go on under our noses and over our headds on a daily basis. Basically, we have no interest in the things we can't change, don't want to know about, or feel are too big for our little minds. We would much rather talk about a dead woman in Kentucky and the human error factor that caused it. There is nothing wrong with this state of mind to a degree, but there is definitely something wrong with the way our news is delivered. Anyway...
But today and all last week I caught myself really interested in the Italian Prime Minister race. I have been hearing about both candidates and following their views and values and today I actually couldn't wait to tune in and see who won. And then i stopped and said "What the fuck am I doing?"
I need a life.