That is what I am of "ch" starting words to do journal entries with. Anyway, Katie and I are going to some college debate tournament to pick up some extra cash for the weekend. Even though it is a long drive and involves me judging like 8 ish rounds of what I am sure will be fucking awful debate, it will give Katie the oppotunity to get out of Buffalo (which she needs much more than me, now that I have someone else to hang out with the lameness isn't quite so overwhelming) and we could make up to a couple hundred bucks in profit (over and above our hotel food and gas). Apparently New York State is lovely this time of year. I will let you know if that is correct.
I realized I don't have anything snappy or witty to say this time around, but pretend I saved something from the last time I was funny. How 'bout this: two people were driving through Western New York, one of them was Claire Daines. So the person who isn't Claire Daines looks over and says "Hey Claire Daines, if I had to beat the fuck out of one person named Claire Daines, I would be put in quite a conundrum." Well, Claire Daines, replies, "Why would you be in a conundrum." "You see," says the other person, "I don't know anyone named Claire Daines." "Um" said Claire Daines, "you know me." "Holy Shit! You are Claire Daines!!" said the other person, and commenced beating the fuck out of Claire Daines.
The point of all this of course is that the worst case scenario for the weekend is that Katie and I beat the fuck out of Claire Daines. And if when you come back from a weekend at a debate tournament you can say "well the worst thing that happened this weekend is that me and my fiance beat the fuck out of Claire Daines" then you have had a pretty good weekend. HOLLA!!
Peace,
MB-K
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Chicka-Chicka-Slim-Shady!
That was the last one I could come up with. I don't even know that it counts since it seems to me like "chicka-chicka" is really just a badly pronounced version of "check" which, you will note has been previously used. Regardless, I will have to give up on it soon if not immediately. Just so you know, I have no plans to further mention slim shady or eminem or marshall mathers further in this thingy here. Returning to subject matter at hand devoid of first consonant sound.
Good day in at least one front today, Katie and I set a date for the old nuptuals that have been so much on everyone's mind. We nailed down the chapel at Macalester College for a June 26th wedding, so absent some disaster that is the day. We have two (well technically three, but for all practical purposes two) possible reception sites still in play and all of them are available on our date. I think the issue will probably end up being cost but they are all hotels and we are strongly in favor of either one. It is truly a no lose situaiton which kicks ass to an extreme degree. Its pretty sweet to actually move on some of this nonsense, it makes the whole situation seem much more real and shit. I think Katie is already overwhelmed, which in many ways is a very bad sign. I am sure she will catch her breath, but it is quite impressive that we went from nothing to date, to ceremony site, to almost reception site over the course of about 4 days.
I have determined that there are a bunch of jobs that I would really like more than the job I have or, more accurately, will hopefully someday have. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like teaching and I don't think it will ever be that hard and does have the slight potential to pay me enough to at least live off of. Nonetheless, if I could do it I would rather manage a sweet bar or restaurant or own a sweet bar or restaurant. I would rather be in charge of a sweet ass Las Vegas casino. I would rather be a sportscenter anchor or commentator. I would rather write for Sports Illustrated or write a TV column or steal Dara Moskowitz' job. Here is the deal though, I am not confident I could.
I have said some of this before, but think about it. If I am a techer and I fuck up and suck and I end up working at some crappy community college for the rest of my life (not to imply that these people may not be good teachers, its just not really what I am looking to do) at leat I am still just teaching. My job isn't too difficult or stressful and I know I can tolerate showing up at work everyday. Maybe not loving it, but not loathing it either. Lets say I went to UNLV for their Hotel and Restaurant Management program intending to become the head concierge at the Belagio (inspired by tonight's premiere of the new NBC series Las Vegas, which I will get to below). I think I would be one of the more intelligent people in that program, I think I would be capable of anything most people there are. Nonetheless, lets say I fuck up. I end up managing the airport Holiday Inn in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and my life blows a goat cock the size of James Gandolfini's colon for 50 years.
I get up every day and work my balls off in a job which probably requires some actual effort, don't get paid much, and am bored shitless. I don't get the fun and power of comping people and shit that I do in Vegas. I mean, I can let you take an extra USA Today on your way to catch the red-eye to Cleveland or give you a VIP pass to the Rice Krispies dispenser in the Continental Breakfast lounge but that is about it. You can make the same extapolations about the Pierre, North Dakota Sizzler if you wish, but it just gets depressing. Whatever, until future notice its not an issue.
The issue that brought me here was of course, Josh Duhamel's new series Las Vegas. As a sidenote to this sidenote Josh Duhamel's last name makes me think of a British candy bar. Anyway, this show is fucking atrocious, I mean incredibly bad. They have Nikki Cox attempting legitimate performances. Lets recap Ms. Cox's curriculum vitae for a moment. There is only one notable moment and that is of course, Unhappily Ever After. To put this in Jeff Foxworthy terms "If you exchanged witty banter with a rabbit puppet voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait, you might be a bad actress." She is literally playing the hooker with a heart of gold in this show and wow is she awful. Josh "Cadbury" is no Sidney Poirtier either notably. The whole show is set with his Ferris Bueller style voiceover and he sounds like the world's biggest wad. There are only 2 redeeming things about this show at this point
1) the breasts-opening shot of the program has a topless Molly Sims riding Joshie and in the mirrored window in front of her you can see what appears to be a reflection of her, how should I put this, her tya-tyas, her gazoombas-now, this may have been my and katie's eyes playing tricks on us and maybe they edited it out and we were just filling it in ( I mean, how can you miss this) or whatever, but it looked like a straight up upper body nudity shot-it was cool
2) the establishing shots and discussion of Vegas-I fucking love that town. I really would love that dude's job, even though I have no experience in security, and certainly am way too much of a risk in that department. I think I would be hella good hospitality style though, give me authority and a billion dollar resort and I would fucking roll.
Beyond that I have little to say. I made some no bake cookies earlier and I think they are edible now, so I will check you.
Peace,
MB-K
Good day in at least one front today, Katie and I set a date for the old nuptuals that have been so much on everyone's mind. We nailed down the chapel at Macalester College for a June 26th wedding, so absent some disaster that is the day. We have two (well technically three, but for all practical purposes two) possible reception sites still in play and all of them are available on our date. I think the issue will probably end up being cost but they are all hotels and we are strongly in favor of either one. It is truly a no lose situaiton which kicks ass to an extreme degree. Its pretty sweet to actually move on some of this nonsense, it makes the whole situation seem much more real and shit. I think Katie is already overwhelmed, which in many ways is a very bad sign. I am sure she will catch her breath, but it is quite impressive that we went from nothing to date, to ceremony site, to almost reception site over the course of about 4 days.
I have determined that there are a bunch of jobs that I would really like more than the job I have or, more accurately, will hopefully someday have. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like teaching and I don't think it will ever be that hard and does have the slight potential to pay me enough to at least live off of. Nonetheless, if I could do it I would rather manage a sweet bar or restaurant or own a sweet bar or restaurant. I would rather be in charge of a sweet ass Las Vegas casino. I would rather be a sportscenter anchor or commentator. I would rather write for Sports Illustrated or write a TV column or steal Dara Moskowitz' job. Here is the deal though, I am not confident I could.
I have said some of this before, but think about it. If I am a techer and I fuck up and suck and I end up working at some crappy community college for the rest of my life (not to imply that these people may not be good teachers, its just not really what I am looking to do) at leat I am still just teaching. My job isn't too difficult or stressful and I know I can tolerate showing up at work everyday. Maybe not loving it, but not loathing it either. Lets say I went to UNLV for their Hotel and Restaurant Management program intending to become the head concierge at the Belagio (inspired by tonight's premiere of the new NBC series Las Vegas, which I will get to below). I think I would be one of the more intelligent people in that program, I think I would be capable of anything most people there are. Nonetheless, lets say I fuck up. I end up managing the airport Holiday Inn in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and my life blows a goat cock the size of James Gandolfini's colon for 50 years.
I get up every day and work my balls off in a job which probably requires some actual effort, don't get paid much, and am bored shitless. I don't get the fun and power of comping people and shit that I do in Vegas. I mean, I can let you take an extra USA Today on your way to catch the red-eye to Cleveland or give you a VIP pass to the Rice Krispies dispenser in the Continental Breakfast lounge but that is about it. You can make the same extapolations about the Pierre, North Dakota Sizzler if you wish, but it just gets depressing. Whatever, until future notice its not an issue.
The issue that brought me here was of course, Josh Duhamel's new series Las Vegas. As a sidenote to this sidenote Josh Duhamel's last name makes me think of a British candy bar. Anyway, this show is fucking atrocious, I mean incredibly bad. They have Nikki Cox attempting legitimate performances. Lets recap Ms. Cox's curriculum vitae for a moment. There is only one notable moment and that is of course, Unhappily Ever After. To put this in Jeff Foxworthy terms "If you exchanged witty banter with a rabbit puppet voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait, you might be a bad actress." She is literally playing the hooker with a heart of gold in this show and wow is she awful. Josh "Cadbury" is no Sidney Poirtier either notably. The whole show is set with his Ferris Bueller style voiceover and he sounds like the world's biggest wad. There are only 2 redeeming things about this show at this point
1) the breasts-opening shot of the program has a topless Molly Sims riding Joshie and in the mirrored window in front of her you can see what appears to be a reflection of her, how should I put this, her tya-tyas, her gazoombas-now, this may have been my and katie's eyes playing tricks on us and maybe they edited it out and we were just filling it in ( I mean, how can you miss this) or whatever, but it looked like a straight up upper body nudity shot-it was cool
2) the establishing shots and discussion of Vegas-I fucking love that town. I really would love that dude's job, even though I have no experience in security, and certainly am way too much of a risk in that department. I think I would be hella good hospitality style though, give me authority and a billion dollar resort and I would fucking roll.
Beyond that I have little to say. I made some no bake cookies earlier and I think they are edible now, so I will check you.
Peace,
MB-K
Monday, September 22, 2003
Green Bay Weekend
So I flew out to Milwaukeee on Saturday. I actually flew through Cleveland and let me tell you that the Cleveland airport is kinda lame. I got to Milwaukee and read some Heidegger in the airport waiting for mi padre to show up. I got in the car and we drove up to see my Grandmother. We stopped along the way for some solid fucking butterburger action. We added some cheesecurds on top of that, but my dad only had like 2, so I got most of a whole fucking order. It rocked.
We hung out with my Grandmother the rest of Saturday, we took her to mass (which incidentally, was said by the most Irish person I have ever seen, he talked really fast and you could only understand like every third word) and then out to dinner at some decent brew-pub place that happens to be right be her place. My grandmother is doing alright, I think, at least as well as anyone that old who has pretty severe Parkinsons. She is confused about things and can hardly move, but you know. She is still able to read (she was halfway through Hillary's book) and she enjoys reading about the Packers, she is from Green Bay after all.
It is kind of sad, however, that she doesn't know anything about my parents' situation. I agree with my dad's basic reasoning, there is no reason that she needs to know, so why bother telling her. Still, its sad to hear her refer to my Grandmother refer to "Jacquie" as if she were still around and stuff. My dad even referred to having "two closings" (oh yeah, my Grandma is selling her house, or more accurately, my dad is selling my grandma's house) but I don't think she caught it at all.
More importantly, we got up early on Sunday morning, had a small breakfast at Julie's and saw my grandmother for a few more minutes. After that, it was off to Mecca. Let me tell you, though I am sure you heard it many times on the broadcast of the game, New Lambeau is just fucking incredible. Absolutely unbelievable. Blows my fucking mind. You will never believe this place. I mean whoa. The exterior is breathtaking. It preserves the simplicity that characterized Lambeau field, but more importantly, makes it classier, and more useful. We stood outside the gates and waited amongst the tailgaters. We got some programs, which are commemorative and totally sweet. Just before 10 they pulled down the "keep out" tape and let us towards the gates. I moved quickly up the stairs and was the first person through the second to last turnstyle on the right at the Oneida gate. I will always, enter Lambeau Field through that point. I will be able to tell my kids someday, I was the first person ever to enter a Packers game through that point. My dad was right behind me, we were 1 and 2 on the dial there.
Immediately inside the East gate is the entrance to the Atrium. It is wild, I mean, something you would never imagine seeing at Lambeau field. Its huge, like four stories high, with the Packer Hall of Fame, the Packer executive offices, and Curly's Place (a big ass sports bar, which, unfortunately, we didnt have time to get into). They are making it available for like weddings and events and shit, which in Green Bay will be big fucking biznuts I am sure. Who wouldn't want to say they got married at the Frozen Tundra (the answer, in case you are wondering, is Katie).
We walked the whole way around the stadium. It has come a long long way. We had a couple bratwurst at the excessive concession stands which now line the halls. There are probably twice as many as there have ever been before. With the exception of halftime (when you could have a billion stands and still a line at every one) there was never a significant line. At one point I ran up to the stands and got my dad a coke and myself a beer during the Viking's failed challenge and made it back to section 137, row 16, seat 3, before they were done reviewing the play. There are also fuckloads of bathrooms. It still takes a couple minutes but especially for the ladies things are much better.
I already explained that the Pack did not play well. Brett was bad, he didnt hit his spots, he was behind receivers, he was slow in the pocket, overall quite bad. I mean, that happens, but it doesnt happen to Brett Favre very often anymore. The rest of the team was not exactly up to snuff either, the o-line should be solid, having Tauscher and Clifton back, but they weren't run blocking extraordinarily well. For the most part the Viking pass rush was not a factor, only once was there significant pressure. That stupid little Hovan fuck was a non-factor and even though Brett is right that the media has blown that out of proportion. He is a dick though. If I were Mike Tice, I would be all over him. Acting like a gigantic moron in that fashion is distracting to your team and simply disgusting. It doesnt help you win the football game. Shut up and play. You are an average defensive tackle (not the world's sexiest position you Warren Sapp asslicker) on a subpar defense, very subpar. Keep running your mouth and watch the first in-sync offense you face roll up and down the field. Maybe I am wrong and you can have a winning team when Corey Chavous is the second best player on one side of the ball, but I doubt it.
The Packers defense is bad and I knew it was going to be bad, but me and my dad have determined that it may be worse than we thought. The corners are good, legitimately good. The problem, of course, is that the linebackers are awful. I mean, really fucking bad. Darren Sharper has the same skills as always, but we are hurting at strong safety too. In case you were wondering, being in a bad shape at the four positions in your defense that make the most tackles is a huge problem. On paper at least, we have a solid defensive line, or a potentially solid one. Joe Johnson, assuming he stays healthy, should be good, and the Gravedigger still rocks. Unfortunately, however, having the best run stopping noseguard in the world won't help you much if your interior backers can't make a fucking hit. Gilbert's responsibiluty is to occupy a couple blockers and fill the hole, make sure they can't get to Nick Barnett (the kid out of Oregon) and allow him to fill the B gap and stop the run where it starts. KGB is still solid, I would rank him as one of the top 5 pass rushing DEs in the league, but that is still a niche market when you don't have anyone to make regular tackles.
The comeback was nice at the end, even though we weren't really imagining that they would pull it off. At the point they failed to make a significant stand at the end of the 3rd quarter the game was over. It was still fun to watch. I could go into more specifics about the line, but I will save it for later. Suffice to say that it is always fun to have my dad buy me a couple bratwurst and a bunch of beer. I love watching football games there. I get all tingly every time I walk into Lambeau field and I would imagine that all the times I have spent in Lambeau field with my dad are among the best times anyone ever spends with their father.
Overall, it was very solid, I like going to Green Bay. It may be a tough year for Packer fans, but they have a beautiful place to watch a tough year. Oot.
Peace,
MB-K
We hung out with my Grandmother the rest of Saturday, we took her to mass (which incidentally, was said by the most Irish person I have ever seen, he talked really fast and you could only understand like every third word) and then out to dinner at some decent brew-pub place that happens to be right be her place. My grandmother is doing alright, I think, at least as well as anyone that old who has pretty severe Parkinsons. She is confused about things and can hardly move, but you know. She is still able to read (she was halfway through Hillary's book) and she enjoys reading about the Packers, she is from Green Bay after all.
It is kind of sad, however, that she doesn't know anything about my parents' situation. I agree with my dad's basic reasoning, there is no reason that she needs to know, so why bother telling her. Still, its sad to hear her refer to my Grandmother refer to "Jacquie" as if she were still around and stuff. My dad even referred to having "two closings" (oh yeah, my Grandma is selling her house, or more accurately, my dad is selling my grandma's house) but I don't think she caught it at all.
More importantly, we got up early on Sunday morning, had a small breakfast at Julie's and saw my grandmother for a few more minutes. After that, it was off to Mecca. Let me tell you, though I am sure you heard it many times on the broadcast of the game, New Lambeau is just fucking incredible. Absolutely unbelievable. Blows my fucking mind. You will never believe this place. I mean whoa. The exterior is breathtaking. It preserves the simplicity that characterized Lambeau field, but more importantly, makes it classier, and more useful. We stood outside the gates and waited amongst the tailgaters. We got some programs, which are commemorative and totally sweet. Just before 10 they pulled down the "keep out" tape and let us towards the gates. I moved quickly up the stairs and was the first person through the second to last turnstyle on the right at the Oneida gate. I will always, enter Lambeau Field through that point. I will be able to tell my kids someday, I was the first person ever to enter a Packers game through that point. My dad was right behind me, we were 1 and 2 on the dial there.
Immediately inside the East gate is the entrance to the Atrium. It is wild, I mean, something you would never imagine seeing at Lambeau field. Its huge, like four stories high, with the Packer Hall of Fame, the Packer executive offices, and Curly's Place (a big ass sports bar, which, unfortunately, we didnt have time to get into). They are making it available for like weddings and events and shit, which in Green Bay will be big fucking biznuts I am sure. Who wouldn't want to say they got married at the Frozen Tundra (the answer, in case you are wondering, is Katie).
We walked the whole way around the stadium. It has come a long long way. We had a couple bratwurst at the excessive concession stands which now line the halls. There are probably twice as many as there have ever been before. With the exception of halftime (when you could have a billion stands and still a line at every one) there was never a significant line. At one point I ran up to the stands and got my dad a coke and myself a beer during the Viking's failed challenge and made it back to section 137, row 16, seat 3, before they were done reviewing the play. There are also fuckloads of bathrooms. It still takes a couple minutes but especially for the ladies things are much better.
I already explained that the Pack did not play well. Brett was bad, he didnt hit his spots, he was behind receivers, he was slow in the pocket, overall quite bad. I mean, that happens, but it doesnt happen to Brett Favre very often anymore. The rest of the team was not exactly up to snuff either, the o-line should be solid, having Tauscher and Clifton back, but they weren't run blocking extraordinarily well. For the most part the Viking pass rush was not a factor, only once was there significant pressure. That stupid little Hovan fuck was a non-factor and even though Brett is right that the media has blown that out of proportion. He is a dick though. If I were Mike Tice, I would be all over him. Acting like a gigantic moron in that fashion is distracting to your team and simply disgusting. It doesnt help you win the football game. Shut up and play. You are an average defensive tackle (not the world's sexiest position you Warren Sapp asslicker) on a subpar defense, very subpar. Keep running your mouth and watch the first in-sync offense you face roll up and down the field. Maybe I am wrong and you can have a winning team when Corey Chavous is the second best player on one side of the ball, but I doubt it.
The Packers defense is bad and I knew it was going to be bad, but me and my dad have determined that it may be worse than we thought. The corners are good, legitimately good. The problem, of course, is that the linebackers are awful. I mean, really fucking bad. Darren Sharper has the same skills as always, but we are hurting at strong safety too. In case you were wondering, being in a bad shape at the four positions in your defense that make the most tackles is a huge problem. On paper at least, we have a solid defensive line, or a potentially solid one. Joe Johnson, assuming he stays healthy, should be good, and the Gravedigger still rocks. Unfortunately, however, having the best run stopping noseguard in the world won't help you much if your interior backers can't make a fucking hit. Gilbert's responsibiluty is to occupy a couple blockers and fill the hole, make sure they can't get to Nick Barnett (the kid out of Oregon) and allow him to fill the B gap and stop the run where it starts. KGB is still solid, I would rank him as one of the top 5 pass rushing DEs in the league, but that is still a niche market when you don't have anyone to make regular tackles.
The comeback was nice at the end, even though we weren't really imagining that they would pull it off. At the point they failed to make a significant stand at the end of the 3rd quarter the game was over. It was still fun to watch. I could go into more specifics about the line, but I will save it for later. Suffice to say that it is always fun to have my dad buy me a couple bratwurst and a bunch of beer. I love watching football games there. I get all tingly every time I walk into Lambeau field and I would imagine that all the times I have spent in Lambeau field with my dad are among the best times anyone ever spends with their father.
Overall, it was very solid, I like going to Green Bay. It may be a tough year for Packer fans, but they have a beautiful place to watch a tough year. Oot.
Peace,
MB-K
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Chickie-Chickie-Boom-Boom!!
I am running very low on repetitive "ch"s. I will have to give up this whole endeavor in the very near future.
Katie and I just returned from Damon's where we watched the Pack suck a nut this weekend. By all accounts we should have demolished this Arizona team, but we played badly from start to finish today. The primary thing I have learned from this weekend's disaster is that you cannot learn anything about the Packers' opponents from how they play the Packers. When they play well this team has just enough talent so as to be alright. They can never be much beyond alright, but they could have been a 10-6 team or so in a conference which is pretty fucking sub par in the first place. However, when they play badly they just play really fucking badly. It appears from the other two weeks of the season that Arizona is legitimately bad and so is Detroit. Regardless, no one looked their best. After an appalling first quarter Brett came out and looked as if he would actually return to Favre-like form, but then collapsed in the second half. The defense really hurt us as they couldn't get off the field to save their lives. I think we ran like 9 total plays in the third quarter and had the ball for like 3 minutes. Atrocious. I know we aren't that good, but its frustrating when we don't even play up to our potential, however low that is.
The Vikings look like they might be legit, although they haven't played anyone worth writing home about either. They have beaten up on the rest of the conference, less on Detroit than I think they should have, but we will see how it goes next weekend when they play a team which presents a challenge to their defense. I haven't seen the Niners yet this fall but the numbers they have put up make it a game.
Katie and I have been going over some of the creative ways to personalize your wedding ideas that she gets in all these random wedding magazines. Most of them I think are crap. I have no desire to write stupid personalized vows, I am not reciting poetry or singing a song we wrote together. I don't know exactly what we will end up doing in this respect, but the only idea we both agree isn't completely awful is to name the tables things besides the numbers 1-X. We made a couple possible lists: important foods seems in some ways too tacky. We were going to do favorite foods and put recipes for them on the table-cards, which would have been cool, but eventually we ran out of good things to use and it seemed weird to mention alot of foods which weren't being served at the reception.
One of the big suggestions is that you name them after important places in your lives. We went through a number of them but none of them seemed especially interesting. I mean, we had addresses and stuff, probably enough of them in fact. Still, we were just listing our homes and our parents homes and some random hotel rooms from Harvard and Blake and stuff. Katie has some other ideas which we may end up going for, but I will save those until we get closer to the actual situation. We have actually moved nearer to setting some dates and nailing things down. It is possible that tomorrow we will know exactly when and where, but more likely it will be a couple days until that information is publically available. We have several reception places which are all open on the day we want, but I am not sure if we will find a ceremony site that will work then as well.
I like John Ritter, alright, I thought he was funny on Three's Company and the episode of Buffy that he did in season 1 (Ted) is actually kind of a classic epsiode for how formulaic it is. The point is not that it is not sad that John Ritter died or that John Ritter's life was not as important as anyone elses, but rather simply that to assign him these tributes as if he were Tom Hanks might be a little premature. Apparently this 8 Simple Rules show is popular and kind of good, I don't know, I never watched it. So he's got a got 6 year sitcom to start the career and one decent season of a sitcom to finish it off with an episode of Buffy in between. Have we forgotten the Problem Child series folks. When your best jokes are vomit-related and you can't even claim to make the best vomit-related jokes in the biznuts, something is wrong.
Katie is telling me that alot of people are so sad about John Ritter because he was apparently really really nice. I don't know the guy, but I would certainly imagine that he was hella nice. I mean, why wouldn't he be, he pretended to be gay before pretending to be gay was hip. Overall John Ritter is sweet. Don't get me wrong. I don't want people to think that I am an anti-Ritt-ite or whatever. Nonetheless, its a little much isn't it. I guess if you die at the right time before the Emmies, they will hooks you up fat. John Ritter, may he rest in peace.
So on a lighter note, Jon Stewart was funny as hell. He did a little fake awards to news outlets things. I hope he wins the Emmy which is coming up shortly. I am constantly amazed at how well done that show is and also blown away by the fact that major celebrites of some sort, be they political or entertainment based. It may be a sad statement about society that in my world Sportscenter and The Daily Show are the most important news programs. As far as I am concerned nothing important can happen on Saturdays.
Alright, I will sign off after this, here is the award for the best individual performance in a variety show: Jon Stewart did not win. In a completely and totally limp move the Emmy goes to Wayne Brady for Whose Line is it Anyway. Limp, totally fucking limp. You were in like 5th place as far as I was concerned. Without question Robin Williams was ahead of you. This shouldn't have been close. Whatever, Jon Stewart is number one in my book.
Peace,
MB-K
Katie and I just returned from Damon's where we watched the Pack suck a nut this weekend. By all accounts we should have demolished this Arizona team, but we played badly from start to finish today. The primary thing I have learned from this weekend's disaster is that you cannot learn anything about the Packers' opponents from how they play the Packers. When they play well this team has just enough talent so as to be alright. They can never be much beyond alright, but they could have been a 10-6 team or so in a conference which is pretty fucking sub par in the first place. However, when they play badly they just play really fucking badly. It appears from the other two weeks of the season that Arizona is legitimately bad and so is Detroit. Regardless, no one looked their best. After an appalling first quarter Brett came out and looked as if he would actually return to Favre-like form, but then collapsed in the second half. The defense really hurt us as they couldn't get off the field to save their lives. I think we ran like 9 total plays in the third quarter and had the ball for like 3 minutes. Atrocious. I know we aren't that good, but its frustrating when we don't even play up to our potential, however low that is.
The Vikings look like they might be legit, although they haven't played anyone worth writing home about either. They have beaten up on the rest of the conference, less on Detroit than I think they should have, but we will see how it goes next weekend when they play a team which presents a challenge to their defense. I haven't seen the Niners yet this fall but the numbers they have put up make it a game.
Katie and I have been going over some of the creative ways to personalize your wedding ideas that she gets in all these random wedding magazines. Most of them I think are crap. I have no desire to write stupid personalized vows, I am not reciting poetry or singing a song we wrote together. I don't know exactly what we will end up doing in this respect, but the only idea we both agree isn't completely awful is to name the tables things besides the numbers 1-X. We made a couple possible lists: important foods seems in some ways too tacky. We were going to do favorite foods and put recipes for them on the table-cards, which would have been cool, but eventually we ran out of good things to use and it seemed weird to mention alot of foods which weren't being served at the reception.
One of the big suggestions is that you name them after important places in your lives. We went through a number of them but none of them seemed especially interesting. I mean, we had addresses and stuff, probably enough of them in fact. Still, we were just listing our homes and our parents homes and some random hotel rooms from Harvard and Blake and stuff. Katie has some other ideas which we may end up going for, but I will save those until we get closer to the actual situation. We have actually moved nearer to setting some dates and nailing things down. It is possible that tomorrow we will know exactly when and where, but more likely it will be a couple days until that information is publically available. We have several reception places which are all open on the day we want, but I am not sure if we will find a ceremony site that will work then as well.
I like John Ritter, alright, I thought he was funny on Three's Company and the episode of Buffy that he did in season 1 (Ted) is actually kind of a classic epsiode for how formulaic it is. The point is not that it is not sad that John Ritter died or that John Ritter's life was not as important as anyone elses, but rather simply that to assign him these tributes as if he were Tom Hanks might be a little premature. Apparently this 8 Simple Rules show is popular and kind of good, I don't know, I never watched it. So he's got a got 6 year sitcom to start the career and one decent season of a sitcom to finish it off with an episode of Buffy in between. Have we forgotten the Problem Child series folks. When your best jokes are vomit-related and you can't even claim to make the best vomit-related jokes in the biznuts, something is wrong.
Katie is telling me that alot of people are so sad about John Ritter because he was apparently really really nice. I don't know the guy, but I would certainly imagine that he was hella nice. I mean, why wouldn't he be, he pretended to be gay before pretending to be gay was hip. Overall John Ritter is sweet. Don't get me wrong. I don't want people to think that I am an anti-Ritt-ite or whatever. Nonetheless, its a little much isn't it. I guess if you die at the right time before the Emmies, they will hooks you up fat. John Ritter, may he rest in peace.
So on a lighter note, Jon Stewart was funny as hell. He did a little fake awards to news outlets things. I hope he wins the Emmy which is coming up shortly. I am constantly amazed at how well done that show is and also blown away by the fact that major celebrites of some sort, be they political or entertainment based. It may be a sad statement about society that in my world Sportscenter and The Daily Show are the most important news programs. As far as I am concerned nothing important can happen on Saturdays.
Alright, I will sign off after this, here is the award for the best individual performance in a variety show: Jon Stewart did not win. In a completely and totally limp move the Emmy goes to Wayne Brady for Whose Line is it Anyway. Limp, totally fucking limp. You were in like 5th place as far as I was concerned. Without question Robin Williams was ahead of you. This shouldn't have been close. Whatever, Jon Stewart is number one in my book.
Peace,
MB-K
Friday, September 19, 2003
Ch-Chimichanga-Ch-Chimichanga!!!
I can imagine that this title is created only because we made enchiladas the other day. I mean, the "we" is a very royal "we" a Queen Elizabethian "we" if you will. Katie made the enchiladas while I shredded the cheese. Admittedly, we went a little overboard on the amount of cheese with which we topped the enchiladas, but they were hella sweet. While I totally like the enchiladas that we made and will likely enjoy some of the leftovers tomorrow I do have a question as to how they are technically enchiladas. My understanding of enchiladas was that they included enchilada sauce. You know what I am talking bout here right dawg. Its the somewhat spicy gravy like red sauce often flavored with adobo and beans and stuff. Regardless, I like enchiladas. As much as I like enchiladas I may even like saying the word enchiladas more than the actual echiladas themselves. Try saying it but make sure the "i" sounds like the "i"s in "tiki" or the second "i" in "chili". Enchiladas!! It can even just be like an exclamation.
Enchiladas always make me think of chimichangas and I fucking love chimichangas. What a great fucking idea, deep frying either a burrito or an enchilada. Fantasgreat! I haven't had a chimichanga in a long time, especially since I just don't really go to Mexican restaurants much out here. I don't even know where the good ones even are. I mean, there are a couple Don Pablos and they actually have pretty good chimichangas and fucking excellent margaritas, but I don't really feel like heading there often. As good a place as it may be its no La Cucaracha, which I have always felt is simpy good fucking eats.
Speaking of slogans like "good eats" the restaurant up the street, Anderson's Frozen Custard (whose custard is both overpriced and not even the best within a half mile radius, talk about coming motherfucking weak as shit) has entirely ripped off Dairy Queen on their sign, which literally reads "Hot Eats, Cool Treats." I mean, I aint no lawyer judge, but that shit ain't right. I am fairly certain that using someone else's slogan on your sign, especially when the both of you serve frozen dairy products and cheeseburgers, that you have violated at the very least, the letter of the law. More importantly your custard sucks and just because you have a Sponge Bob themed bouncey thing at your restaurant one day a week doesn't mean you can steal the customers of a reputable establishment who fucking came up with the blizzard.
Its weird ain't it, nowadays the idea of swirling your ice cream with oreo cookies in a big ass little blender thingy is just second nature. But when DQ rolled that shit we were all blown the fuck away. Oreos, Nerds, Butterfinger, and Snickers, those were pretty much how it started. I mean, wow, you are a fucking stud if you came up with the Blizzard aren't you. It reminds me of Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion where they claim to have invented Post-Its. How fucking cool would it be if you could say you invented the Blizzard. I mean, I have no need to pick up chicas no mas, but if I wasn't with the lovely Ms. Kauf and had invented the Blizzard I would have a shirt made that said "Whats up Honeys. I invented the Blizzard, take your panties off." How much action could you get if you invented the Blizzard. That is a great fucking story on either side of the equation. "Dude, check this out I slept with the dude-or-dudette who invented the Blizzard" or "Another one for me, that makes 4987 this year as a result of my inventing the Blizzard."
I think at somepoint earlier in this here blog I made some comments about chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream and how that now seems normal even though, at some point, the idea of putting raw chocolate chip cookie dough in vanilla ice cream was like fucked up to the MAX!! (as a tangent, I think any time you refer to something as to the MAX!!! you should put MAX!!! in that style so as to indicate that, were you talking, you would be blasting the word MAX!! in a fashion which is itself to the MAX!!!) Refer to that entry if you have more questions about the radicality of the Blizzard flavor treat.
They revealed the concept for the new Joe Millionaire tonight on Fox. The promotions people at the Fox network came very strong and lured me and Katie in by promising to show us the new dude if we watched their Friday lineups. The first show we skipped, I am just not a Wanda Sykes fan and we were watching Reba, a show which shockingly grows on me every week. More on that some other time. We watched Luis, which was alright, and then Boston Public. Midway through the show they were just like, BAM the next Joe Millionaire is a Texas cowboy dude and the women are all foreign!!! Can you believe this! We took a concept which was questionably unethical in the first place and added some xenophobia to it! I love reality TV, this show is gonna fucking rock. If it is possible to beat Joe Millionaire 1 this will do it. Plus what better way to endear us to the world post Iraq then taking women from their countries, tricking them into thinking they are trying to date a rich guy, and then making fun of their ogling a Texas good-ole-boy. Yee-haw!!!
Peace,
MB-K
Enchiladas always make me think of chimichangas and I fucking love chimichangas. What a great fucking idea, deep frying either a burrito or an enchilada. Fantasgreat! I haven't had a chimichanga in a long time, especially since I just don't really go to Mexican restaurants much out here. I don't even know where the good ones even are. I mean, there are a couple Don Pablos and they actually have pretty good chimichangas and fucking excellent margaritas, but I don't really feel like heading there often. As good a place as it may be its no La Cucaracha, which I have always felt is simpy good fucking eats.
Speaking of slogans like "good eats" the restaurant up the street, Anderson's Frozen Custard (whose custard is both overpriced and not even the best within a half mile radius, talk about coming motherfucking weak as shit) has entirely ripped off Dairy Queen on their sign, which literally reads "Hot Eats, Cool Treats." I mean, I aint no lawyer judge, but that shit ain't right. I am fairly certain that using someone else's slogan on your sign, especially when the both of you serve frozen dairy products and cheeseburgers, that you have violated at the very least, the letter of the law. More importantly your custard sucks and just because you have a Sponge Bob themed bouncey thing at your restaurant one day a week doesn't mean you can steal the customers of a reputable establishment who fucking came up with the blizzard.
Its weird ain't it, nowadays the idea of swirling your ice cream with oreo cookies in a big ass little blender thingy is just second nature. But when DQ rolled that shit we were all blown the fuck away. Oreos, Nerds, Butterfinger, and Snickers, those were pretty much how it started. I mean, wow, you are a fucking stud if you came up with the Blizzard aren't you. It reminds me of Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion where they claim to have invented Post-Its. How fucking cool would it be if you could say you invented the Blizzard. I mean, I have no need to pick up chicas no mas, but if I wasn't with the lovely Ms. Kauf and had invented the Blizzard I would have a shirt made that said "Whats up Honeys. I invented the Blizzard, take your panties off." How much action could you get if you invented the Blizzard. That is a great fucking story on either side of the equation. "Dude, check this out I slept with the dude-or-dudette who invented the Blizzard" or "Another one for me, that makes 4987 this year as a result of my inventing the Blizzard."
I think at somepoint earlier in this here blog I made some comments about chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream and how that now seems normal even though, at some point, the idea of putting raw chocolate chip cookie dough in vanilla ice cream was like fucked up to the MAX!! (as a tangent, I think any time you refer to something as to the MAX!!! you should put MAX!!! in that style so as to indicate that, were you talking, you would be blasting the word MAX!! in a fashion which is itself to the MAX!!!) Refer to that entry if you have more questions about the radicality of the Blizzard flavor treat.
They revealed the concept for the new Joe Millionaire tonight on Fox. The promotions people at the Fox network came very strong and lured me and Katie in by promising to show us the new dude if we watched their Friday lineups. The first show we skipped, I am just not a Wanda Sykes fan and we were watching Reba, a show which shockingly grows on me every week. More on that some other time. We watched Luis, which was alright, and then Boston Public. Midway through the show they were just like, BAM the next Joe Millionaire is a Texas cowboy dude and the women are all foreign!!! Can you believe this! We took a concept which was questionably unethical in the first place and added some xenophobia to it! I love reality TV, this show is gonna fucking rock. If it is possible to beat Joe Millionaire 1 this will do it. Plus what better way to endear us to the world post Iraq then taking women from their countries, tricking them into thinking they are trying to date a rich guy, and then making fun of their ogling a Texas good-ole-boy. Yee-haw!!!
Peace,
MB-K
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Ch-Ch-Chilis Babyback Ribs
I don't actually have anything to say about Chili's babyback ribs, or anyone else's babyback ribs for that matter. I am just really searching for repetitive "ch" sounds to keep it going and I remember one Chili's commercial where they stuttered the Chilis. Its not even one of the uber-famous commercials but it still fucking counts. The only other thing I could really think of might not even count and I have no idea how to spell it. We shall just see then, shant we.
I guess if I needed to tie things into babyback ribs I would do so by mentioning that some guy outside of my apartment building was barbe-ma-quing today. It smelled really fucking good. I don't have a grilll primarily because I don't really have any place that I would like to use to barbecue. I mean, there are people who just leave their grills outside, but I am not so comfortable with that. I would totally have one if I had a patio or whatev, but until then I will survive with just my George Foreman model. It is all pretty and blue, even if it can't smoke a rack o' ribs.
Anyway, school has been going full nut for several weeks now. I am reading some Heidegger and some Kant as well as re-reading some Lacan and some Badiou at the moment. Hopefully Heidegger and Kant will be finished soon, enabling me to move on to Joan's new book and then maybe read Zizek's On Belief, which I picked up a while ago and haven't even opened yet.
On Monday we decided to order pizza, which was totally sweet as always, since I really like pizza, and it doesn't require us to cook. We even made the decision to add on the Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks, which are shockingly good. It really sucks that the Western New York area, Lockport specifically, is so lacking in national pizza chains and hence makes it very difficult for me to actually perform the experiment I had planned on to determine the world's best cinnamon pizza-dough dessert product. I have not had Papa John's and I haven't tried the newest version from Godfather's. I do love the Cinnamon Streusel dessert pizza and if I decided that it would be included in this category I think it would win by a landslide. Having only really compared the Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks and the Dominos Cinna-Stix and Cinna-Dots I vote overwhelmingly for Cinna-Stix style. They are buttery and delicious without lacking cinammon, dripping, or being obviously pizza dough.
Anyway, we ordered our pizza and sat around watching some random shit while we waited for it to show up. It was Monday Night Football time so I wouldnt have been surprised if it were a little late. Nonetheless, our doorbell rings and I bring the dude a check and he hands me the pizza. I say, the rest is for you, and right as I am about to close the door, he is like "Shit, we don't take personal checks."
Katie and I are like, "Um, you used to take personal checks. Like, a week and a half ago when we ordered a pizza from you, you took our personal check. Your website didn't say anything about taking a check, nor did they tell me on the phone." Regardless, he said they didnt take personal checks. I searched my wallet, Katie checked her purse, we looked in the bill area and on the desk and shit, but we both knew we had no cash. I never have cash and Katie wouldn't have written a check if she did. I told the dude, look I can give you a credit card number or call your place and give it to them or whatever, but he wasn't interested. He told me just to keep the za. I tried to talk him out of it but he was insistent. Eventually I gave in. We fished up a couple silver dollars to give the guy as a tip and he gave us our check back. Dude didn't even want to take it back and try. He wanted us to keep the pizza and the sticks, so we did. Overall it rocked. I would like to say that I would order from Pizza Hut all the time now, but I never have cash on me, so the chance is very low that this will be the case. Katie really digs the stuffed crust pizza but I am a big fan of Papa Leo's up the street.
Now that you are aware of my pizza preferences let me tell you a little something about the Zelnorm commercials that are all the rage these days. Okay, so the commercial shows all these women lifting up their shirts and it turns out that they have statsitics about Zelnorm written on their stomachs. It is clear, at the end of the add at least, that all these women are not especially attractive. I mean, some of them are damn hot and shit, but some are like really old. I should also note that Zelnorm has something to do with irregularities in the digestive track, not exactly the world's hottest illness. I am not sure what the world's hottest illness is but I am sure it doesn't involve the butt in any way. I mean, the butt is often very hot, but not when it is working irregularly. The irregular functions of the butt are never good. The regular functions of the butt aren't especially great either. Look, I know this isn't so clear but even if you are an ass-person you must understand what I mean here. Fuck you.
The point is that despite these facts which should make the commercial very unfun, I think its kinda hot. I don't know if it is that the women have something written on their stomachs or what. I mean, I am certainly not alone in the argument that the stomach is a very sexy area of a woman's body, but usually I would say that it is beaten by, I don't know, the legs, ass, breasts, and face. Since there are all sorts of commercials which feature these body parts that aren't as cool as the Zelnorm ad it must be something else. I mean, its not out of control or anything, but when I see it I think "that is pretty cute." Good job Zelnorm, you have successfully reached the exact opposite of your target audience.
Peace,
MB-K
I guess if I needed to tie things into babyback ribs I would do so by mentioning that some guy outside of my apartment building was barbe-ma-quing today. It smelled really fucking good. I don't have a grilll primarily because I don't really have any place that I would like to use to barbecue. I mean, there are people who just leave their grills outside, but I am not so comfortable with that. I would totally have one if I had a patio or whatev, but until then I will survive with just my George Foreman model. It is all pretty and blue, even if it can't smoke a rack o' ribs.
Anyway, school has been going full nut for several weeks now. I am reading some Heidegger and some Kant as well as re-reading some Lacan and some Badiou at the moment. Hopefully Heidegger and Kant will be finished soon, enabling me to move on to Joan's new book and then maybe read Zizek's On Belief, which I picked up a while ago and haven't even opened yet.
On Monday we decided to order pizza, which was totally sweet as always, since I really like pizza, and it doesn't require us to cook. We even made the decision to add on the Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks, which are shockingly good. It really sucks that the Western New York area, Lockport specifically, is so lacking in national pizza chains and hence makes it very difficult for me to actually perform the experiment I had planned on to determine the world's best cinnamon pizza-dough dessert product. I have not had Papa John's and I haven't tried the newest version from Godfather's. I do love the Cinnamon Streusel dessert pizza and if I decided that it would be included in this category I think it would win by a landslide. Having only really compared the Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks and the Dominos Cinna-Stix and Cinna-Dots I vote overwhelmingly for Cinna-Stix style. They are buttery and delicious without lacking cinammon, dripping, or being obviously pizza dough.
Anyway, we ordered our pizza and sat around watching some random shit while we waited for it to show up. It was Monday Night Football time so I wouldnt have been surprised if it were a little late. Nonetheless, our doorbell rings and I bring the dude a check and he hands me the pizza. I say, the rest is for you, and right as I am about to close the door, he is like "Shit, we don't take personal checks."
Katie and I are like, "Um, you used to take personal checks. Like, a week and a half ago when we ordered a pizza from you, you took our personal check. Your website didn't say anything about taking a check, nor did they tell me on the phone." Regardless, he said they didnt take personal checks. I searched my wallet, Katie checked her purse, we looked in the bill area and on the desk and shit, but we both knew we had no cash. I never have cash and Katie wouldn't have written a check if she did. I told the dude, look I can give you a credit card number or call your place and give it to them or whatever, but he wasn't interested. He told me just to keep the za. I tried to talk him out of it but he was insistent. Eventually I gave in. We fished up a couple silver dollars to give the guy as a tip and he gave us our check back. Dude didn't even want to take it back and try. He wanted us to keep the pizza and the sticks, so we did. Overall it rocked. I would like to say that I would order from Pizza Hut all the time now, but I never have cash on me, so the chance is very low that this will be the case. Katie really digs the stuffed crust pizza but I am a big fan of Papa Leo's up the street.
Now that you are aware of my pizza preferences let me tell you a little something about the Zelnorm commercials that are all the rage these days. Okay, so the commercial shows all these women lifting up their shirts and it turns out that they have statsitics about Zelnorm written on their stomachs. It is clear, at the end of the add at least, that all these women are not especially attractive. I mean, some of them are damn hot and shit, but some are like really old. I should also note that Zelnorm has something to do with irregularities in the digestive track, not exactly the world's hottest illness. I am not sure what the world's hottest illness is but I am sure it doesn't involve the butt in any way. I mean, the butt is often very hot, but not when it is working irregularly. The irregular functions of the butt are never good. The regular functions of the butt aren't especially great either. Look, I know this isn't so clear but even if you are an ass-person you must understand what I mean here. Fuck you.
The point is that despite these facts which should make the commercial very unfun, I think its kinda hot. I don't know if it is that the women have something written on their stomachs or what. I mean, I am certainly not alone in the argument that the stomach is a very sexy area of a woman's body, but usually I would say that it is beaten by, I don't know, the legs, ass, breasts, and face. Since there are all sorts of commercials which feature these body parts that aren't as cool as the Zelnorm ad it must be something else. I mean, its not out of control or anything, but when I see it I think "that is pretty cute." Good job Zelnorm, you have successfully reached the exact opposite of your target audience.
Peace,
MB-K
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers!!!
Hopefully some of you will remember the theme song from one of the pioneering shows on the groundbreaking Disney Afternoon. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers featured, beyond the title chipmunks of course, a big mouse like guy whose name I don't remember and a little fly dude named Zipp I believe. I am not certain of it, but I think that the big guy had an Australian accent. Anywho, it was a great show, which I believe followed the even more classic DuckTales. There was also Tailspin and Darkwing Duck and some other various shows at various times, but these were the big two to open up with.
There was one really sweet episode of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers where they were fighting a group of rodents known as the Cola Cult. The Cola Cult was a diabolical group who occupied some area where there was a fountain soda machine which they dispensed and drank from thimbles and acorn halves etc. All the regular things that small cute like animals would normally drink out of, you get the point. Anyway, at one point they sing this song which is sort of a cult-like loyalty to their brand of soda, which, for the record is Coo-Coo Cola (pronounced to rhyme with a cow saying "moo") and the song really rocks hard: "Come along, you belong, Feel the Fizz of Coo-Coo Cola!! "
When the Disney Afternoon first came out my grandfather was still working and his firm was in charge of at least some if not all of Disney's finances. Regardless, he got us these really sweet posters that had all the characters from the Disney Afternoon on it, and we knew about it like 6 months before anyone else. I don't know if I still have that stuff or not, I should have kept it, but it was totally sweet. Scrooge McDuck was awesome in my world way before anyone else ever saw his money swimming antics.
Regardless, Katie and I rolled to Damon's this afternoon, and though our seats were a little too close to the television (I have a slight neckache) we were able to watch the game clearly. The Pack played fairly well today, the O line was on fire. They hit hard and really protected Favre. Apparently Marco Rivera was even hurt but you couldn't tell it by the way he pulled around to trap the middle linebacker setting up Ahman Green's breakout 65 yard touchdown run on the second play of the game. Ahman had quite an afternoon, even if it was against a pretty pathetic Lions defense. Brett was better, he only threw one pick and it wasn't nearly as flagrant as he was last week. Still, he didn't look like classic Brett Favre and certainly not the man whom Sporting News should have selected as the best player in the NFL for this year. His TD to interception ratio has improved, from last week's 1-4 to this week's 3-5. Hopefully things will continue to build in this direction.
The truly bright side to this week's win was not the offense though, it was the play of our linebackers. I mean, our secondary played pretty well too, but I expect that out of Al Harris, Mike McKenzie, and Darrin Sharper. But when Nick Barnett, an admittedly good looking rookie, but a rookie nonetheless, makes 12 tackles and a pick in his second home game, that is strong. The D-line played well, Gilbert Brown especially, and the Lions had no rushing game. The pass rush was actually much stronger than the stats would make it out to be, but Joey Harrington decided to react to that by throwing the ball. It wasn't a bad decision, unless of course your receivers suck, as the Lions' do, or the opposing defense is swarming well, as the Packers were.
Good day overall. I am going to watch the Carolina Tampa game. Its a doozy folks.
Peace,
MB-K
There was one really sweet episode of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers where they were fighting a group of rodents known as the Cola Cult. The Cola Cult was a diabolical group who occupied some area where there was a fountain soda machine which they dispensed and drank from thimbles and acorn halves etc. All the regular things that small cute like animals would normally drink out of, you get the point. Anyway, at one point they sing this song which is sort of a cult-like loyalty to their brand of soda, which, for the record is Coo-Coo Cola (pronounced to rhyme with a cow saying "moo") and the song really rocks hard: "Come along, you belong, Feel the Fizz of Coo-Coo Cola!! "
When the Disney Afternoon first came out my grandfather was still working and his firm was in charge of at least some if not all of Disney's finances. Regardless, he got us these really sweet posters that had all the characters from the Disney Afternoon on it, and we knew about it like 6 months before anyone else. I don't know if I still have that stuff or not, I should have kept it, but it was totally sweet. Scrooge McDuck was awesome in my world way before anyone else ever saw his money swimming antics.
Regardless, Katie and I rolled to Damon's this afternoon, and though our seats were a little too close to the television (I have a slight neckache) we were able to watch the game clearly. The Pack played fairly well today, the O line was on fire. They hit hard and really protected Favre. Apparently Marco Rivera was even hurt but you couldn't tell it by the way he pulled around to trap the middle linebacker setting up Ahman Green's breakout 65 yard touchdown run on the second play of the game. Ahman had quite an afternoon, even if it was against a pretty pathetic Lions defense. Brett was better, he only threw one pick and it wasn't nearly as flagrant as he was last week. Still, he didn't look like classic Brett Favre and certainly not the man whom Sporting News should have selected as the best player in the NFL for this year. His TD to interception ratio has improved, from last week's 1-4 to this week's 3-5. Hopefully things will continue to build in this direction.
The truly bright side to this week's win was not the offense though, it was the play of our linebackers. I mean, our secondary played pretty well too, but I expect that out of Al Harris, Mike McKenzie, and Darrin Sharper. But when Nick Barnett, an admittedly good looking rookie, but a rookie nonetheless, makes 12 tackles and a pick in his second home game, that is strong. The D-line played well, Gilbert Brown especially, and the Lions had no rushing game. The pass rush was actually much stronger than the stats would make it out to be, but Joey Harrington decided to react to that by throwing the ball. It wasn't a bad decision, unless of course your receivers suck, as the Lions' do, or the opposing defense is swarming well, as the Packers were.
Good day overall. I am going to watch the Carolina Tampa game. Its a doozy folks.
Peace,
MB-K
Saturday, September 13, 2003
Checka-Checka-Check It Out
I wonder how many title things I can actually pull out of repetitive words that begin with a "ch" sound. I mean, I can't even necessarily think of any more at the moment, but they have to be out there, don't they. You would think that they do, but I guess you never know until you try.
I am currently watching Miami take on the Pirates of East Carolina University. The Canes came out and did what they are supposed to do, the quick defense leaving the Pirates with a three and out. The offense ran two plays on the ground, getting about 5 a piece for a first down. Then Brock Berlin just opened it up with what ends up being a 50 yard TD strike. Its the way you like to see Miami play, true Gino Toretta-style. Speaking of football, I have been told by the Triple Siznan-Jizzle-Jay that Madden 2004 with this Playmaker feature (C) is apparently so fucking cool that it cannot be believed. You get to like control your blockers and put your receivers into spontaneous hot routes. I can't wait to see it. Unfortunately, it may be second in line, since I don't even have the Buffy game yet. Maybe at this point I can just wait it out and get one or both of them used. I even got a coupon in the mail the other day for 5 bucks off a used game at the old Hollywood Video, so we shall see.
I am going to try a little excercise which we in the writing business call "freewriting"-the basic concept of freewriting is of course to write freely, without any self censorship. Regardless, here we go:
I was watching this leopard chase a vaginal-beef stew out the terrycloth windowpane when two kangaroos called me a hobo. What, I asked them, why doth thou accuse me of this nonsensical happening. If anyone would know, it would be you, after all, back in our youth we partied together daily.
I remember fondly going up to the park, climbing on the monkey bars, and sitting down to watch the puppet show. Before your aunt could steal a minivan the skunks would climb from the secret compartments which covered the wagon and spray Lysol on the whole crowd. More!! They would scream, MORE!!! The little children delighted in the combination of stinging pain and lemony freshness. Only 15 years later would they truly learn that Orange flavored Pledge delivered all the freshness at half the chloro-flouro-carbons.
Aristophanes!! You have got to be kidding me. No one ever ate a peanut butter cookie under the stormy sky on a thursday morning. If you wanted to, you might as well just ride the Orient Express up to Sumatra before Marky Mark calls you a bunny rabbit.
**End Scene**
I have now adequately determined that freewriting in a blog is not funny. My aplogies to any unfortunate readers. On the bright side, I have learned a little something about me. Those skunks, for instance, aren't just puppets. They are the puppets I remember fondly from my youth, the chick was named Henrietta, I think, but that may just be because my grandparents' pool cleaning-machine was named Henrietta. I have always thought that was weird and it may just be the two people I happen to know who have pools, but there does seem to be a trend in the naming of pool cleaning devices.
I am not talking about the fucking vent things obviously, why would you name one of those, that doesn't make any fucking sense. I am talking about the things that look a little like those moving lawn sprinklers that are attached to a hose and they go around on the bottom of the pool and grab leaves and dirt and whatever and pump it out. The Davis' and my mom's parents were the only people I knew with pools and Henrietta and Dolly were thus my models for pool cleaning name accuracy.
Regardless, I also thought it was weird that the puppets were skunks. I don't believe I had actually encountered a real skunk at the point in my life that I was going up to the puppet shows in the park, but I knew enough about them that I can imagine they would bot be worthy of the hugs of little children were they to simply wonder out of the long grasses behind the playground. Now that I think about it, I don't know that I have ever seen a live skunk outside of a zoo in my life. I am happy to say that I have never encountered one in any threateningly close proximity, but I don't even think I saw one running accross the road or whatever. I think it would be disappointing to see one of them spray though. You would probably imagine that their spray would be green and a cloudy mist, like it is for Peppy Le Peu or any other random cartoon skunk, but if you sit and really think about it, the chances are pretty low that it is green.
On the bright side, I have seen a live fox in person and it exceeded all my expectations. It was way way back in the day, must have been my junior year at RHS. James Hart and I had recently discovered the West St. Paul B-Dubs. At this point, of course, it was not known as B-Dubs, but rather BW3 or Buffalo Wild Wings or whatever. Regardless, we started driving out there on Tuesdays for the 20 cent wing days. The NTN trivia grew on us and pretty soon we were there en masse all the time. Regardless, one night James and I were in his beat up old car and as we turned to park in the B-Dubs lot there appears, much to our surprise, in our headlights, a cute little red fox (I nominate that sentence for best use of a comma splice in a major motion picture, by the way). I am not sure if the fox noticed us, though it did seem to sort of freeze in the headlights. After a couple seconds though, it just went on its way. Thankfully, its way was about a foot to its left, where the bush it was standing near was located. I don't know that there was any food actually in the bush, but the fox determined that the potential for food in the bush warranted a couple solid minutes of exploration. As a result we got to watch it before another car scared it into the woods. The point is that the fox was really really cool. Foxes are hella cute, they are like dog-cats. They have the best combinations of cuteness and studliness of both cats and dogs, plus, the awesome auburn shade. All in all, I am pro-fox.
Peace,
MB-K
I am currently watching Miami take on the Pirates of East Carolina University. The Canes came out and did what they are supposed to do, the quick defense leaving the Pirates with a three and out. The offense ran two plays on the ground, getting about 5 a piece for a first down. Then Brock Berlin just opened it up with what ends up being a 50 yard TD strike. Its the way you like to see Miami play, true Gino Toretta-style. Speaking of football, I have been told by the Triple Siznan-Jizzle-Jay that Madden 2004 with this Playmaker feature (C) is apparently so fucking cool that it cannot be believed. You get to like control your blockers and put your receivers into spontaneous hot routes. I can't wait to see it. Unfortunately, it may be second in line, since I don't even have the Buffy game yet. Maybe at this point I can just wait it out and get one or both of them used. I even got a coupon in the mail the other day for 5 bucks off a used game at the old Hollywood Video, so we shall see.
I am going to try a little excercise which we in the writing business call "freewriting"-the basic concept of freewriting is of course to write freely, without any self censorship. Regardless, here we go:
I was watching this leopard chase a vaginal-beef stew out the terrycloth windowpane when two kangaroos called me a hobo. What, I asked them, why doth thou accuse me of this nonsensical happening. If anyone would know, it would be you, after all, back in our youth we partied together daily.
I remember fondly going up to the park, climbing on the monkey bars, and sitting down to watch the puppet show. Before your aunt could steal a minivan the skunks would climb from the secret compartments which covered the wagon and spray Lysol on the whole crowd. More!! They would scream, MORE!!! The little children delighted in the combination of stinging pain and lemony freshness. Only 15 years later would they truly learn that Orange flavored Pledge delivered all the freshness at half the chloro-flouro-carbons.
Aristophanes!! You have got to be kidding me. No one ever ate a peanut butter cookie under the stormy sky on a thursday morning. If you wanted to, you might as well just ride the Orient Express up to Sumatra before Marky Mark calls you a bunny rabbit.
**End Scene**
I have now adequately determined that freewriting in a blog is not funny. My aplogies to any unfortunate readers. On the bright side, I have learned a little something about me. Those skunks, for instance, aren't just puppets. They are the puppets I remember fondly from my youth, the chick was named Henrietta, I think, but that may just be because my grandparents' pool cleaning-machine was named Henrietta. I have always thought that was weird and it may just be the two people I happen to know who have pools, but there does seem to be a trend in the naming of pool cleaning devices.
I am not talking about the fucking vent things obviously, why would you name one of those, that doesn't make any fucking sense. I am talking about the things that look a little like those moving lawn sprinklers that are attached to a hose and they go around on the bottom of the pool and grab leaves and dirt and whatever and pump it out. The Davis' and my mom's parents were the only people I knew with pools and Henrietta and Dolly were thus my models for pool cleaning name accuracy.
Regardless, I also thought it was weird that the puppets were skunks. I don't believe I had actually encountered a real skunk at the point in my life that I was going up to the puppet shows in the park, but I knew enough about them that I can imagine they would bot be worthy of the hugs of little children were they to simply wonder out of the long grasses behind the playground. Now that I think about it, I don't know that I have ever seen a live skunk outside of a zoo in my life. I am happy to say that I have never encountered one in any threateningly close proximity, but I don't even think I saw one running accross the road or whatever. I think it would be disappointing to see one of them spray though. You would probably imagine that their spray would be green and a cloudy mist, like it is for Peppy Le Peu or any other random cartoon skunk, but if you sit and really think about it, the chances are pretty low that it is green.
On the bright side, I have seen a live fox in person and it exceeded all my expectations. It was way way back in the day, must have been my junior year at RHS. James Hart and I had recently discovered the West St. Paul B-Dubs. At this point, of course, it was not known as B-Dubs, but rather BW3 or Buffalo Wild Wings or whatever. Regardless, we started driving out there on Tuesdays for the 20 cent wing days. The NTN trivia grew on us and pretty soon we were there en masse all the time. Regardless, one night James and I were in his beat up old car and as we turned to park in the B-Dubs lot there appears, much to our surprise, in our headlights, a cute little red fox (I nominate that sentence for best use of a comma splice in a major motion picture, by the way). I am not sure if the fox noticed us, though it did seem to sort of freeze in the headlights. After a couple seconds though, it just went on its way. Thankfully, its way was about a foot to its left, where the bush it was standing near was located. I don't know that there was any food actually in the bush, but the fox determined that the potential for food in the bush warranted a couple solid minutes of exploration. As a result we got to watch it before another car scared it into the woods. The point is that the fox was really really cool. Foxes are hella cute, they are like dog-cats. They have the best combinations of cuteness and studliness of both cats and dogs, plus, the awesome auburn shade. All in all, I am pro-fox.
Peace,
MB-K
Friday, September 12, 2003
Chim-Chiminee-Chim-Chiminee-Chim-Chim-Chimeroo
I know its misspelled, but that is how they say it for fucking ass dick sake. Alright, I admit it, I am slightly intoxicated. I have been drinking for a couple hours and although this gin and tonic is particularly flat, it still feels hella good. Regardless, you can just suck it if necessary, seriously. Put your mouth around it and suck like an anteater on a hot concrete sidewalk. Seriously.
So not much has been happening. I have done some reading and work and shit, finishing Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego and Kant's Critique of Practical Reason in the last two days. Right now Katie is watching What Not to Wear, which I fucking hate, like hate like a motherfucker, but she watches every week anyway. I guess that is legit, since I will force her to endure like a billion hours of football over the next several months, but nonetheless, I hate this show. Fucking TLC, Life Unscripted my ass. Unscript this you son or daughter of an asslickingasswhore.
It looks as though our wedding planning is actually beginning to come together, though I am not sure of anything more than I previously was. It looks like we will be able to have a sit down dinner at somewhere pretty nice and not absolutely destroy the bank. Many places are hotels, some are restaurants, and some are just neat places, like the zoo or something. I happen to particularly like the zoo, specifically the tropics area, since we could get married near the leopards and the tapir. It would be the Southeast Asian Tropics area, which has uber-cool animals. Fuck the dolphins, they are totally overrated. Plus it would be weird if we had tuna or something, we would have to explain to the dolphins why we were eating animals whose nets killed them all the time. I mean, we could pretend we were eating salmon or something. They may be the world's smartest fish but they are just fucking dolphins, if we tell them its salmon they won't know the difference. By the way, you assdick, I know that dolphins are not fish, but fuck you, they are like fish, they swim underwater and aren't turtles so they are fish. Bite me.
Finally, the other day, I was driving to school the other day and I looked in my rearview mirror to see something I expected I absolutely would not see. Its like that Lewis Black bit about not seeing a Starbucks when walking out of a Starbucks. Anyway, I slowed down and this car pulled up to me and fucking-A, it was a DeLorean. I mean, seriously, a DeLorean. I don't think the flux-capacitor was involved, but it was fucked up. I mean, it wasn't even like pimped out and totally rebuilt or anything. If you are going to have a DeLorean wouldn't you totally get it fixed up and add a leather interior and XM Satellite Radio or something. Those cars are worth something, if you ain't gonna do it to it then sell it and shit.
Peace,
MB-K
So not much has been happening. I have done some reading and work and shit, finishing Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego and Kant's Critique of Practical Reason in the last two days. Right now Katie is watching What Not to Wear, which I fucking hate, like hate like a motherfucker, but she watches every week anyway. I guess that is legit, since I will force her to endure like a billion hours of football over the next several months, but nonetheless, I hate this show. Fucking TLC, Life Unscripted my ass. Unscript this you son or daughter of an asslickingasswhore.
It looks as though our wedding planning is actually beginning to come together, though I am not sure of anything more than I previously was. It looks like we will be able to have a sit down dinner at somewhere pretty nice and not absolutely destroy the bank. Many places are hotels, some are restaurants, and some are just neat places, like the zoo or something. I happen to particularly like the zoo, specifically the tropics area, since we could get married near the leopards and the tapir. It would be the Southeast Asian Tropics area, which has uber-cool animals. Fuck the dolphins, they are totally overrated. Plus it would be weird if we had tuna or something, we would have to explain to the dolphins why we were eating animals whose nets killed them all the time. I mean, we could pretend we were eating salmon or something. They may be the world's smartest fish but they are just fucking dolphins, if we tell them its salmon they won't know the difference. By the way, you assdick, I know that dolphins are not fish, but fuck you, they are like fish, they swim underwater and aren't turtles so they are fish. Bite me.
Finally, the other day, I was driving to school the other day and I looked in my rearview mirror to see something I expected I absolutely would not see. Its like that Lewis Black bit about not seeing a Starbucks when walking out of a Starbucks. Anyway, I slowed down and this car pulled up to me and fucking-A, it was a DeLorean. I mean, seriously, a DeLorean. I don't think the flux-capacitor was involved, but it was fucked up. I mean, it wasn't even like pimped out and totally rebuilt or anything. If you are going to have a DeLorean wouldn't you totally get it fixed up and add a leather interior and XM Satellite Radio or something. Those cars are worth something, if you ain't gonna do it to it then sell it and shit.
Peace,
MB-K
Sunday, September 07, 2003
Brief Packer Summary
They sucked today. I didn't think they would be especially good in the first place but they, might be worse than I thought. I had said between 8-8 and 9-7, but they might be 7-9. If Brett Favre plays like he did today we won't win a game. Luckily, we know Brett, he has his off days, but he usually bounces back. You can never count yourself out when you have number 4 taking the snaps.
We lost, that sucks. The Pack didnt even play well, that sucked more. New Lambeau is awesome. Me and my dad had fun. Those parts were both cool. Fundamentally, watching the Packers lose at Lambeau field is only really beaten by watching the Packers win at Lambeau field. Either way, you are in the greatest place in the world, drinking beer, eating brats, and cheering for the Green and Gold.
More tomorrow, just wanted to say hey from Milwaukee, the Port Washington Comfort Inn to be more specific.
One last shout out to Katie. She came strong in locating this hotel for us and hooking us phat with a killer internet hot rate! Mad props. The woman has a keen ability to utilize the internet for travel resources. Rock on!!
Keep it real. From America's Dairyland, I am signing out.
Peace,
MB-K
We lost, that sucks. The Pack didnt even play well, that sucked more. New Lambeau is awesome. Me and my dad had fun. Those parts were both cool. Fundamentally, watching the Packers lose at Lambeau field is only really beaten by watching the Packers win at Lambeau field. Either way, you are in the greatest place in the world, drinking beer, eating brats, and cheering for the Green and Gold.
More tomorrow, just wanted to say hey from Milwaukee, the Port Washington Comfort Inn to be more specific.
One last shout out to Katie. She came strong in locating this hotel for us and hooking us phat with a killer internet hot rate! Mad props. The woman has a keen ability to utilize the internet for travel resources. Rock on!!
Keep it real. From America's Dairyland, I am signing out.
Peace,
MB-K
Friday, September 05, 2003
No Esta Mucho
So there is not much going on. I have been reading a bunch of stuff and writing some stuff and teaching some classes and stuff. I will mention the few things I can think to say:
-Katie had her first debate meeting last night, it went really really well. Not only is she just naturally gifted in front of crowds, but all these kids were really hanging off her every word, at least the parts I saw. The fact that she actually has a team, instead of just one dude, seems to be very energizing.
-I really like the trend in "hip hop" culture of saying "love that" so that it sounds exactly like "la-dat" or even "luddat." For example, see Puffy's verse in "Shake Ya Tailfeather"
-We are watching the Lavar Arrington edition of "While You Were Out"-it is pretty funny overall, to watch the relations between the design people and the football player, especially based on their misperceptions that every football player is a quarterback-furthermore, Lavar Arrington's brother has the same pillows that Katie and I do on our couch
-TLC has this new show called Resident Life which looks really lame, but it has this theme song which appears to be by They Might Be Giants, and the only real line you hear in the commercial is "Am I Awake" and it gets really annoying really quick. It is even more annoying because the skull moves back and forth while it sings-watch the commercial, this will make more sense
-I am flying to Milwaukee tomorrow and then my dad is picking me up for the drive up to Green Bay, we are gonna chill with my Grandma on Saturday then go see the Pack-I get to be the first person to sit in our seats in the new Lambeau-I hope we get in early enough so that we can walk around for a while and see all the new shit, plus we can obviously find more brats that way
-I will likely be ooc on the internet trip for the weekend, hope ya'll enjoy yourselves, Katie will be around in the apartment though, so feel free to say hi to her. She always enjoys talking, and stuff. To people, and stuff. You know, and stuff. Yeah, and stuff.
Peace,
MB-K
-Katie had her first debate meeting last night, it went really really well. Not only is she just naturally gifted in front of crowds, but all these kids were really hanging off her every word, at least the parts I saw. The fact that she actually has a team, instead of just one dude, seems to be very energizing.
-I really like the trend in "hip hop" culture of saying "love that" so that it sounds exactly like "la-dat" or even "luddat." For example, see Puffy's verse in "Shake Ya Tailfeather"
-We are watching the Lavar Arrington edition of "While You Were Out"-it is pretty funny overall, to watch the relations between the design people and the football player, especially based on their misperceptions that every football player is a quarterback-furthermore, Lavar Arrington's brother has the same pillows that Katie and I do on our couch
-TLC has this new show called Resident Life which looks really lame, but it has this theme song which appears to be by They Might Be Giants, and the only real line you hear in the commercial is "Am I Awake" and it gets really annoying really quick. It is even more annoying because the skull moves back and forth while it sings-watch the commercial, this will make more sense
-I am flying to Milwaukee tomorrow and then my dad is picking me up for the drive up to Green Bay, we are gonna chill with my Grandma on Saturday then go see the Pack-I get to be the first person to sit in our seats in the new Lambeau-I hope we get in early enough so that we can walk around for a while and see all the new shit, plus we can obviously find more brats that way
-I will likely be ooc on the internet trip for the weekend, hope ya'll enjoy yourselves, Katie will be around in the apartment though, so feel free to say hi to her. She always enjoys talking, and stuff. To people, and stuff. You know, and stuff. Yeah, and stuff.
Peace,
MB-K
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Mikey Bustos: Bringing Society Down From the Inside or Canadian Bacon Pt 2
I have, in the course of the past two days, witnessed two of the worst examples of the entertainment industry that currently exist.
The first was sandwiched in between two very very good films which Katie and I saw yesterday. We hit up the Transit Drive-In down the street to take in the labor day threeway, the last big weekend of the year. The Disney ads that have been so popular on TV over the past several weeks were showing together, Finding Nemo, Freaky Friday, and Pirates of the Carribean. We hadnt seen any of these films. I have wanted to see Nemo since the days I saw the advertisements in the first place. I really enjoy these Pixar films and cute animals don't hurt. The only good non eating fish is an animated fish, so it was really my cup of tea.
It was really quite funny and I would imagine that I will have it on DVD at some point. If you get the chance to watch Nemo, I recommend it. If you hated Monsters Inc and-or Toy Story, leave it alone, but also, get a fucking heart you soul-less prick. Elen Degeneres as Dori (sic) redeems her entire career in my mind as the ambitious fish who has lost her short term memory and the dude from Everybody Loves Raymond is solid as the aquarium bound puffer fish.
Freaky Friday was among the worst films of all time. Seriously, it was without question the worst film I have ever seen on the big screen. I would imagine that I have, very late on Cinemax or in my renting awful horror films with Matt B. phase, seen worse films, but never have I seen one in the theater. Admittedly, the Drive-In is a special form of the theater, its not like we paid just to see Jamie Lee Curtis (whom I like ever so much when she is acting like a dual-gendered adult) badly impersonate a teenager in the body of an adult. Nonetheless, it wasn't like renting it. It was just fucking bad. My statement last night to Katie was that “Freaky Friday was the worst movie I have ever seen in the theater, and I saw Super Mario Bros. on opening night.”
Pirates of the Caribbean is awesome. I fucking love Johnny Depp, he and Brad Pitt have arguably the sexiest and overall highest quality voices of all time. The special effects are really good and it may simply be that I like the aesthetics of pirate times. The music is good, the whole swashbuckling motif, its all sweet. You should definitely see this movie. Take the example of the people in the car next to us. Get ripped, see Finding Nemo, spend the entirety of Freaky Friday outside your car getting stoned, then rock out with hottie extraordinaire Johnny Depp as he plays Captain John Sparrow.
The second is likely unavailable to most people reading as I found it only due to my proximity to the great state (by which I mean awful country) of Canadia (Katie tribeuce). Actually, I did not even technically find this example, Katie herself did. It is, and I shit you not, I can provide internet based support, Canadian Idol. Canadian Idol, as you might have gathered, is the Canadian version of American Idol. You might think that it would simply be a little more lame than American Idol, especially because it is a rip off. I mean, the judges will be different and it would simply be a copy.
You would be right of course, it is a lame copy. But that is not all. Keep in mind that Canada is a big fucking country. I mean geographically its fucking huge and population wise its not much smaller than the US. Maybe I am wrong about that, but I think it is close to accurate. You would think then, that there would be at least a couple of decently talented people in Canada and maybe they would audition for Canadian Idol. Now, I cannot, of course, categorically reject the position that Canada has talented people. I can however, demonstrate that they did not make it to the final four contestants on Canadian Idol.
Seriously check out this website (www.idol.ctv.ca). Look at some of the contestants, for instance the last three. There are a couple things you should note:
1) They are not attractive-have you seen Billy Klippert, did you even look at him. Fucking look at Billy Clippert. He is fucking bald. He is not even like a cute prematurely balding guy. I am not even saying that bald people can’t be attractive or can’t be the Canadian Idol or that going prematurely bald is bad. Billy Kilppert, however, is not an attractive bald. He is going bald in the same way the guy you knew in high school who started working at the bowling alley his junior year and is still working at the bowling alley today is going bald. The bleached blonde balding look was never really cool. Its like he was a poseur when he took the night off from City Limits to go see Rancid at First Ave and he is still a poseur today, only now he is trying to use that “punk rock” image to make his “I don’t want to miss a thing” cover look cool.Don’t get me wrong, I have some problems with the basic idea of poseur-dom. I don’t think you should have to safety pin an Op-Ivy thing to your jean jacket and tattoo a bar code on your neck to like punk music. I don’t own an outfit which wasn’t purchased at Daytons but I’ve spent many a night in the clown lounge and I don’t think I was too out of place. Nonetheless, I think there is some difference between me and Billy. Maybe I will talk more about it later. Its not like Gary or Ryan (or whatever their fucking names are) are much better. I mean, they aren’t as nasty as Billy, but they suck. They aren’t even really like not great looking people whom fill a niche-you’ve got Ruben, the big teddy bear fat guy-you’ve got Clay as the dorky guy who is all hot underneath. Ryan isn’t the hot dork, he is just a fucking dork. A big fucking stupid dork with bad glasses. They are not attractive, not really at all.
2) They cannot fucking sing-listen to them. You can get steaming video clips about everyone. Make sure you check out Billy Klippert, dude is bad. After that head to Jenny Gear. She was eliminated before Billy, and rightfully so, but oh my god she is so fucking bad. There is no way someone like that wouldn’t even make the first cut on American Idol. I don’t know that any of these people would make the trip to LA, Katie thinks a couple might. There is no question that none of them would make the top 10. DO NOT LEAVE THIS SITE WITHOUT CHECKING OUT MIKEY BUSTOS!!! He is the inspiration for this post obviously, and he just rocks. He isn’t quite extreme as Billy Klippert but wow, he is weird looking and he fucking blows. Like, he blows hard. And what a great name, Mikey Bustos. Say the last name a couple times. You will love it.
3) The judges are very very cheap ripoffs of American Idols. There names are even rip offs of American Idol judges and they have no edge at all. I mean, Randy’s “yo dawg yo dawg yo yo yo yo dawg” is fucking Cosmo Kramer in relation to this shit. Their Simon is like a really really flaming British hairdresser. Laughable.
Anyway, that is all. Canadian Idol is hilarious. For your reference, the hot chick got kicked off tonight. Billy Klippert was not even in the bottom 2. I am cheering for this tool.
Peace,
MB-K
The first was sandwiched in between two very very good films which Katie and I saw yesterday. We hit up the Transit Drive-In down the street to take in the labor day threeway, the last big weekend of the year. The Disney ads that have been so popular on TV over the past several weeks were showing together, Finding Nemo, Freaky Friday, and Pirates of the Carribean. We hadnt seen any of these films. I have wanted to see Nemo since the days I saw the advertisements in the first place. I really enjoy these Pixar films and cute animals don't hurt. The only good non eating fish is an animated fish, so it was really my cup of tea.
It was really quite funny and I would imagine that I will have it on DVD at some point. If you get the chance to watch Nemo, I recommend it. If you hated Monsters Inc and-or Toy Story, leave it alone, but also, get a fucking heart you soul-less prick. Elen Degeneres as Dori (sic) redeems her entire career in my mind as the ambitious fish who has lost her short term memory and the dude from Everybody Loves Raymond is solid as the aquarium bound puffer fish.
Freaky Friday was among the worst films of all time. Seriously, it was without question the worst film I have ever seen on the big screen. I would imagine that I have, very late on Cinemax or in my renting awful horror films with Matt B. phase, seen worse films, but never have I seen one in the theater. Admittedly, the Drive-In is a special form of the theater, its not like we paid just to see Jamie Lee Curtis (whom I like ever so much when she is acting like a dual-gendered adult) badly impersonate a teenager in the body of an adult. Nonetheless, it wasn't like renting it. It was just fucking bad. My statement last night to Katie was that “Freaky Friday was the worst movie I have ever seen in the theater, and I saw Super Mario Bros. on opening night.”
Pirates of the Caribbean is awesome. I fucking love Johnny Depp, he and Brad Pitt have arguably the sexiest and overall highest quality voices of all time. The special effects are really good and it may simply be that I like the aesthetics of pirate times. The music is good, the whole swashbuckling motif, its all sweet. You should definitely see this movie. Take the example of the people in the car next to us. Get ripped, see Finding Nemo, spend the entirety of Freaky Friday outside your car getting stoned, then rock out with hottie extraordinaire Johnny Depp as he plays Captain John Sparrow.
The second is likely unavailable to most people reading as I found it only due to my proximity to the great state (by which I mean awful country) of Canadia (Katie tribeuce). Actually, I did not even technically find this example, Katie herself did. It is, and I shit you not, I can provide internet based support, Canadian Idol. Canadian Idol, as you might have gathered, is the Canadian version of American Idol. You might think that it would simply be a little more lame than American Idol, especially because it is a rip off. I mean, the judges will be different and it would simply be a copy.
You would be right of course, it is a lame copy. But that is not all. Keep in mind that Canada is a big fucking country. I mean geographically its fucking huge and population wise its not much smaller than the US. Maybe I am wrong about that, but I think it is close to accurate. You would think then, that there would be at least a couple of decently talented people in Canada and maybe they would audition for Canadian Idol. Now, I cannot, of course, categorically reject the position that Canada has talented people. I can however, demonstrate that they did not make it to the final four contestants on Canadian Idol.
Seriously check out this website (www.idol.ctv.ca). Look at some of the contestants, for instance the last three. There are a couple things you should note:
1) They are not attractive-have you seen Billy Klippert, did you even look at him. Fucking look at Billy Clippert. He is fucking bald. He is not even like a cute prematurely balding guy. I am not even saying that bald people can’t be attractive or can’t be the Canadian Idol or that going prematurely bald is bad. Billy Kilppert, however, is not an attractive bald. He is going bald in the same way the guy you knew in high school who started working at the bowling alley his junior year and is still working at the bowling alley today is going bald. The bleached blonde balding look was never really cool. Its like he was a poseur when he took the night off from City Limits to go see Rancid at First Ave and he is still a poseur today, only now he is trying to use that “punk rock” image to make his “I don’t want to miss a thing” cover look cool.Don’t get me wrong, I have some problems with the basic idea of poseur-dom. I don’t think you should have to safety pin an Op-Ivy thing to your jean jacket and tattoo a bar code on your neck to like punk music. I don’t own an outfit which wasn’t purchased at Daytons but I’ve spent many a night in the clown lounge and I don’t think I was too out of place. Nonetheless, I think there is some difference between me and Billy. Maybe I will talk more about it later. Its not like Gary or Ryan (or whatever their fucking names are) are much better. I mean, they aren’t as nasty as Billy, but they suck. They aren’t even really like not great looking people whom fill a niche-you’ve got Ruben, the big teddy bear fat guy-you’ve got Clay as the dorky guy who is all hot underneath. Ryan isn’t the hot dork, he is just a fucking dork. A big fucking stupid dork with bad glasses. They are not attractive, not really at all.
2) They cannot fucking sing-listen to them. You can get steaming video clips about everyone. Make sure you check out Billy Klippert, dude is bad. After that head to Jenny Gear. She was eliminated before Billy, and rightfully so, but oh my god she is so fucking bad. There is no way someone like that wouldn’t even make the first cut on American Idol. I don’t know that any of these people would make the trip to LA, Katie thinks a couple might. There is no question that none of them would make the top 10. DO NOT LEAVE THIS SITE WITHOUT CHECKING OUT MIKEY BUSTOS!!! He is the inspiration for this post obviously, and he just rocks. He isn’t quite extreme as Billy Klippert but wow, he is weird looking and he fucking blows. Like, he blows hard. And what a great name, Mikey Bustos. Say the last name a couple times. You will love it.
3) The judges are very very cheap ripoffs of American Idols. There names are even rip offs of American Idol judges and they have no edge at all. I mean, Randy’s “yo dawg yo dawg yo yo yo yo dawg” is fucking Cosmo Kramer in relation to this shit. Their Simon is like a really really flaming British hairdresser. Laughable.
Anyway, that is all. Canadian Idol is hilarious. For your reference, the hot chick got kicked off tonight. Billy Klippert was not even in the bottom 2. I am cheering for this tool.
Peace,
MB-K
Monday, September 01, 2003
Katie's Birthday
So a public belated Happy Birthday to Ms. Katie Kauf, whom turned 23 years young this past Saturday. It was a very nice occassion enjoyed intensely by all who celebrate it around the world. As an interesting sidenote, Katie shares her birthday with, among others, the lovely Cameron Diaz of Charlie's Angels FULL THROTTLE fame.
So Friday night began Katie's birthday at approximately 12:01 eastern time. For a sane person a 23rd birthday wouldn't really begin until the next day, like the actual birthday. I mean, on your 21st birthday you get the power hour thing going on and I can follow you there. It makes sense, you go out, get wasted in like 45 minutes as a warm up to the next night. But when you are 23 it hardly seems like a big deal. I mean, I know I attach less importance to birthdays then most people, but I really do think Katie enjoys her birthday more than the average folk (not that there's anything wrong with that). So because she had done "such a good job" not opening her presents during the week, she got to open my present to her that night.
I had gotten her a KitchenAid Artisan 5 Quart Stand Mixer in grape, a very good purple color. It really is the best mixer in the world, literally, everyone uses it, and I know Katie wanted it, but I wasn't sure that it was really a legitimate birthday present. I mean, I know she likes to make cookies and stuff, but I felt bad that it wasn't a surprise and stuff. So I added to that a J Crew sweater of her choice as a legitimate surprise. We went to sleep shortly after she tried out her mixer. We woke up early, way way too early, on Saturday and Katie opened the remainder of her presents. There were a couple cookbooks and some tank tops and some cookie sheets. A very good package overall that provides recipes for the cookies, a place to mix them, and something to bake them on.
We made crepes for Katie's b-day breakfast and got to utilize the KitchenAid mixer to make the whipped cream. You know a breakfast is solid when it necessitates making whipped cream. I mean, I like the idea of some waffles, some crepes, an omelette, some hashed browns (doubled covered and smothered of course), and a wee bit of bacon or sausage or whatev. Throw a bowl of whipped cream in the middle of that buffet style brunch and you are fucking set. Maybe some cheese sauce too and a basket of hot soft Philly style pretzels. I have never been to Philadelphia, but from the things I know them as famous for (cheeseteaks and pretzels) I think we would get along very well. I wonder if anyone in Philly has ever combined those foods, because a cheesesteak served inside a pretzel is a good fucking idea, especially if both the components are legit, not fucking frozen superpretzels from the supermarchet. The point from this was that the KitchenAid mixer was incredible on the whipped cream. You would expect a good 3-4 minutes of whipping from a hand mixer, but the KitchenAid knocked it out in easily under a minute with no effort on my behalf. It rocked.
After that tasty breakfast we headed to J. Crew and got Katie a ribbed sweater that was all cottony and nice and blue and shit. I am sure you could find it on their website, as she did the other day, if you are really interested in Katie's recent sweater-torial acquisitions. I was glad that Katie enjoyed her present, but the real highlight of that mall experience was the fact that there were these people from some sort of nature preserve hanging around in there and they had these two birds, one was a hawk and the other was an owl. Both of them were really fucking cool and pretty, but the owl rocked really fucking hard. I think owls are awesome in general, but I love it when you can get all up close to them and see their big eyes and watch them do the weird neck turny thing. I don't think owls can really turn their heads all the way around, but they come pretty close and they do it really quickly and overall they rock. I got to watch the owl for a little bit and then we were off to enjoy the Masterworks from the Phillips Collection at the Albright-Knox art gallery.
The collection really was quite incredible and I am very pleased Katie got to see it. I really enjoyed both of my trips but it was nice to go back after having already surveyed the area once. The Renoir painting that highlighted the collection, Luncheon of the Boating Party, is really amazing in person, though not so much in any representation I have ever seen. The colors and the crystalline appearance is overwhelming and not a single print of it even approximates those elements. On the lighter side of all the VanGogh's that close out the exhibition and the suicidal note that it ends on, the audio tour of the Phillips Masterworks Exhibition is narrated by Buffalo institutions The Goo Goo Dolls. Katie broke out laughing on at least one occassion when the Boy Named Goo described Picasso's differing monochromatic periods. It was pretty funny, but overall a very cool thing. It was a brilliant Buffalo afternoon so we walked to and from a nice free parking space and enjoyed one of the few bright but cool moments of a Western New York summer.
We decided that all parts of the day outside of the visit to the art museum would be dominated by food. We came home and began that by enjoying a simple hors d'oerve of summer sausage and cheese and crackers. At the same time I prepared Katie's birthday dinner, chicken and dumplings. In case you are wondering or are not aware, chicken and dumplings is a food which is primarily tasty in its blandness. I like it and all, but it is not exactly a diverse cornucopia of competing flavors. I heartily respect Katie's right to whatever birthday dinner she desires (I mean, there were years where I rolled hamburgers or shephard's pie or bratwurst or whatever) but I am not sure balls of dough floating in a stew served over mashed potatoes is hot August afternoon food. Regardless, I think I did an okay job on my first attempt at Katie's favorite meal.
While some of that was cooking I worked on Katie's birthday cake. It was a new recipe that we decided to try, borrowed from a Cooking Pleasures magazine. It is a chocolate almond mocha torte cake which was composed, essentially, of chocolate, rum, almonds, sugar, espresso, butter, and egg whites. I mean, there was a little flour mixed in with the ground almonds and some corn syrup or whatever, but it was pretty dense. People think that egg whites will make a cake or simething all light, like a souffle is just air bubbles, but especially a torte like this (one which is essentially a collapsing souffle) is pretty tightly packed. I glazed that motherfucker after dinner and we enjoyed a slice late that night. I actually think it tastes better after having a day to set, but it was very good even that night.
I am a day behind or so on this journal, so there may be more to come tonight. Nonetheless, I am starving, all I have eaten today is a salad, some cookies, and a piece of delicious torte cake.
Peace,
MB-K
So Friday night began Katie's birthday at approximately 12:01 eastern time. For a sane person a 23rd birthday wouldn't really begin until the next day, like the actual birthday. I mean, on your 21st birthday you get the power hour thing going on and I can follow you there. It makes sense, you go out, get wasted in like 45 minutes as a warm up to the next night. But when you are 23 it hardly seems like a big deal. I mean, I know I attach less importance to birthdays then most people, but I really do think Katie enjoys her birthday more than the average folk (not that there's anything wrong with that). So because she had done "such a good job" not opening her presents during the week, she got to open my present to her that night.
I had gotten her a KitchenAid Artisan 5 Quart Stand Mixer in grape, a very good purple color. It really is the best mixer in the world, literally, everyone uses it, and I know Katie wanted it, but I wasn't sure that it was really a legitimate birthday present. I mean, I know she likes to make cookies and stuff, but I felt bad that it wasn't a surprise and stuff. So I added to that a J Crew sweater of her choice as a legitimate surprise. We went to sleep shortly after she tried out her mixer. We woke up early, way way too early, on Saturday and Katie opened the remainder of her presents. There were a couple cookbooks and some tank tops and some cookie sheets. A very good package overall that provides recipes for the cookies, a place to mix them, and something to bake them on.
We made crepes for Katie's b-day breakfast and got to utilize the KitchenAid mixer to make the whipped cream. You know a breakfast is solid when it necessitates making whipped cream. I mean, I like the idea of some waffles, some crepes, an omelette, some hashed browns (doubled covered and smothered of course), and a wee bit of bacon or sausage or whatev. Throw a bowl of whipped cream in the middle of that buffet style brunch and you are fucking set. Maybe some cheese sauce too and a basket of hot soft Philly style pretzels. I have never been to Philadelphia, but from the things I know them as famous for (cheeseteaks and pretzels) I think we would get along very well. I wonder if anyone in Philly has ever combined those foods, because a cheesesteak served inside a pretzel is a good fucking idea, especially if both the components are legit, not fucking frozen superpretzels from the supermarchet. The point from this was that the KitchenAid mixer was incredible on the whipped cream. You would expect a good 3-4 minutes of whipping from a hand mixer, but the KitchenAid knocked it out in easily under a minute with no effort on my behalf. It rocked.
After that tasty breakfast we headed to J. Crew and got Katie a ribbed sweater that was all cottony and nice and blue and shit. I am sure you could find it on their website, as she did the other day, if you are really interested in Katie's recent sweater-torial acquisitions. I was glad that Katie enjoyed her present, but the real highlight of that mall experience was the fact that there were these people from some sort of nature preserve hanging around in there and they had these two birds, one was a hawk and the other was an owl. Both of them were really fucking cool and pretty, but the owl rocked really fucking hard. I think owls are awesome in general, but I love it when you can get all up close to them and see their big eyes and watch them do the weird neck turny thing. I don't think owls can really turn their heads all the way around, but they come pretty close and they do it really quickly and overall they rock. I got to watch the owl for a little bit and then we were off to enjoy the Masterworks from the Phillips Collection at the Albright-Knox art gallery.
The collection really was quite incredible and I am very pleased Katie got to see it. I really enjoyed both of my trips but it was nice to go back after having already surveyed the area once. The Renoir painting that highlighted the collection, Luncheon of the Boating Party, is really amazing in person, though not so much in any representation I have ever seen. The colors and the crystalline appearance is overwhelming and not a single print of it even approximates those elements. On the lighter side of all the VanGogh's that close out the exhibition and the suicidal note that it ends on, the audio tour of the Phillips Masterworks Exhibition is narrated by Buffalo institutions The Goo Goo Dolls. Katie broke out laughing on at least one occassion when the Boy Named Goo described Picasso's differing monochromatic periods. It was pretty funny, but overall a very cool thing. It was a brilliant Buffalo afternoon so we walked to and from a nice free parking space and enjoyed one of the few bright but cool moments of a Western New York summer.
We decided that all parts of the day outside of the visit to the art museum would be dominated by food. We came home and began that by enjoying a simple hors d'oerve of summer sausage and cheese and crackers. At the same time I prepared Katie's birthday dinner, chicken and dumplings. In case you are wondering or are not aware, chicken and dumplings is a food which is primarily tasty in its blandness. I like it and all, but it is not exactly a diverse cornucopia of competing flavors. I heartily respect Katie's right to whatever birthday dinner she desires (I mean, there were years where I rolled hamburgers or shephard's pie or bratwurst or whatever) but I am not sure balls of dough floating in a stew served over mashed potatoes is hot August afternoon food. Regardless, I think I did an okay job on my first attempt at Katie's favorite meal.
While some of that was cooking I worked on Katie's birthday cake. It was a new recipe that we decided to try, borrowed from a Cooking Pleasures magazine. It is a chocolate almond mocha torte cake which was composed, essentially, of chocolate, rum, almonds, sugar, espresso, butter, and egg whites. I mean, there was a little flour mixed in with the ground almonds and some corn syrup or whatever, but it was pretty dense. People think that egg whites will make a cake or simething all light, like a souffle is just air bubbles, but especially a torte like this (one which is essentially a collapsing souffle) is pretty tightly packed. I glazed that motherfucker after dinner and we enjoyed a slice late that night. I actually think it tastes better after having a day to set, but it was very good even that night.
I am a day behind or so on this journal, so there may be more to come tonight. Nonetheless, I am starving, all I have eaten today is a salad, some cookies, and a piece of delicious torte cake.
Peace,
MB-K
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