"Buy the Rights"
I hate most movies based on Old Shows. I think the creative team behind Charlies Angels should die. Yeah you get flicks like the Fugiative come along. However most movies based on sitcoms are bad. Does anyone actually remember Car 54 Where ARe You the movie? Awful. The Brady Bunch Movies were okay, but they were parodies. I am usually not a big fan of that which is why I hated the Scooby Movie.
However I saw one of the greatest shows ever on the DISH at my work the other day. Mr. ED. In the one scene I saw Mr. ED was wearing over sized glasses and made a phone call. Horses just aren't supposed to do that! It was funny.
When someone finally comes to their senses and puts Mr. Ed on the big screen I will be there opening night with a ticket in my hand. Thats all I am saying.
Friday, October 17, 2003
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
"Drew's Remarks"
If you haven't ready my article "Creepy American" than you should before you read this because it won't make all that much sense. Drew the author of TERMINUS has released the following statement. Since I don't have a comments sections (although another feble attempt was made this past weekend) I figured I would let him speak his mind. Here is what I feel was the most important part of the eamil.
"As you don't have comments on your blog, I would
appreciate it if you would make clear to your readers
that I took no part in the burning of the Bible, and
our family, at that time, regularly and lawfully
burned all of our combustible trash as a way of
heating our home, and that this particular Bible was
useless. It couldn't be read. The pages were so
brittle that you couldn't even open it, from what I
remember. You should also mention that this was done
when we were moving out of the house, and trying to
throw away as much stuff as we could, to avoid having
to move it. And, despite his fact, my dad, a
Bible-burning atheist, brought about six Bibles from
the old house to the new house, along with a quite a
few Christian books."
He went on to say.
"You make it sound like my Dad and I get off on burning
Bibles, which is just SLIGHT misrepresentation of the
facts. "
I used that story to make my point that people are going to disagree with you sometimes in masses no matter what. So now that story is more clear to both of my readers.
If you haven't ready my article "Creepy American" than you should before you read this because it won't make all that much sense. Drew the author of TERMINUS has released the following statement. Since I don't have a comments sections (although another feble attempt was made this past weekend) I figured I would let him speak his mind. Here is what I feel was the most important part of the eamil.
"As you don't have comments on your blog, I would
appreciate it if you would make clear to your readers
that I took no part in the burning of the Bible, and
our family, at that time, regularly and lawfully
burned all of our combustible trash as a way of
heating our home, and that this particular Bible was
useless. It couldn't be read. The pages were so
brittle that you couldn't even open it, from what I
remember. You should also mention that this was done
when we were moving out of the house, and trying to
throw away as much stuff as we could, to avoid having
to move it. And, despite his fact, my dad, a
Bible-burning atheist, brought about six Bibles from
the old house to the new house, along with a quite a
few Christian books."
He went on to say.
"You make it sound like my Dad and I get off on burning
Bibles, which is just SLIGHT misrepresentation of the
facts. "
I used that story to make my point that people are going to disagree with you sometimes in masses no matter what. So now that story is more clear to both of my readers.
"Creepy American"
My longtime friend Drew and I don’t always see eye to eye on things. I actually grew up with Drew for the most part and first met him through my family church. Drew has obviously veered from that ideology drastically. Not that this is really news to anyone who knows him. I don’t fault him for that its important for each person to form their own values so if anything he deserves props. It isn’t easy to challenge your own beliefs to end up at a polar opposite must have been a scary journey. I have flipped on some beliefs in my life time granted not as drastic as Drew who is now an Avid Atheist.
Drew often speaks his mind and one of his pet peeves is when he is labeled “a trader” or “communist”. This reached its peak I think a week after 9/11 at the time Drew had a message board and while people were still frantically looking for loved ones Drew stopped short of saying that we had it coming. He sort of listed an incident that he witnessed on CNN with someone of Arabic decent showing a part of a missile (sent by Israel I believe) that said made in the USA. This got Drew pretty choked up from what I understand. Drew even went as far as to debate if the events of 9/11 were "evil" or not. Lets just say he was called a lot more than “a trader” by various message board posters.
Check out TEMINUS and read the article “Oh Boy Here It Comes” Drew is blogging today about his disgust for the pledge of allegiance. Sure its surrounding by a few facts and valid points, but it’s a fine example of how he rubs many people the wrong way. First off I do recall how almost no one in high school actually said the Pledge they just stood there and mumbled at best. People in the music homeroom didn’t even have the pledge on the intercom, but that is not surprising since Music people are usually not interested in politics or current events. I would hope to God (sorry for offending anyone) that has changed a bit since 9/11 but given the attention span of a student I doubt it.
Anyway in TERMINUS fashion I am going to put parts of what he said and try to over analyze it to the point that you wonder if I have too much free time on my hands. First off I can see where people can debate the UNDER GOD part of the pledge which wasn’t added until the mid 1950s. I actually always took it as representing “the supreme being” when I was young, using God as generic term saying that the country is blessed under God (Christianity) Allah (Islam which pretty much means GOD), Buddha etc. However since I am older now I do know it was added by Christians. I would think that some people would just take a different impetration of “God” to mean what they want, since many Christians themselves debate the true sense of the word. However that would exclude people like Drew who think that we just formed out of no where. However I don’t quite see what is so bad about asking children to recite the pledge. I don’t even see why they cant’ require them since they are in a public school which is pretty much a product of the government.
Making kids pledge allegiance to this country is really f---ing creepy. It's a loyalty oath, for f--'s sake… So, my gut feeling is that in any dispute, I'm anti-Pledge, because it's creepy, and non-conformists get hit by a load of shitstorm.
SO basically since you don’t like it when you people disagree with what you say “aka shitstorm” is unleashed among these non-conformists (he might refer to as the “real patriots”.)
Well first off it is more TEACHING about our country than FORCING THEM to become mindless slaves. It making them know damn right well what this country stands for by the time they finnish their higher education. I honestly wish I learned more about our country during my time in highschool. We never really got past the Industrial Revolution once the next year we would start all over again or study world history. It’s a shame. But at least we were taught the pledge and hopefully had an idea what the country was based on. Maybe he can shed some light on the subject about the whole oaths thing since he is a law student. Don’t we take “oaths” (a declaration or promise) in the courts? What if people just decided to start lying because they didn’t believe in the “oaths” they had to take?
Anyway Drew goes on to stumble upon his own irony in this article.
“Their was a college basketball player in the Philly area a year ago, I think, and she got hit with the load of shitstorm big time. That's not right. Everyone says "She has the right not to salute the flag( actually she turned her back to the flag), but we have the right to hit her with a load of shitstorm," which is perfectly true, but it kinda sends the wrong message about freedom and American values, don't you think?”
Now the message that should be sent is everyone is allowed to speak their mind in this country. People got angry because they were legitimately pissed that she would do something like that. Maybe some of those people were war veterans that lost friends in war or were hurt protecting our country that don’t quite understand why it is such a “burden” to take 30 seconds out of your day to honor your country. So everyone should revoke their freedom of speech in regards to this matter in fear of hurting someone’s feelings. Maybe they want to make her realize what the country means to them, or that the pledge isn’t as “Creepy” as people say it is. So all the children that want to recite the pledge should be silenced if they wanted to voice their opinion in class? Last time I checked America wasn’t about not being able to give let us say Drew Vogel “a shitstorm” about what he has to say.
Drew seems to be under the impression that only he gets slammed for his views. Please. Most of my friends are either “Athists” totally apathetic or even as minority of a religion as Wiccan. I honestly get hit by “shitstorms” by Drew and Lima Beanz about Christianity some fall under blanket statements and usually come off as “hateful”. Drew once practically bragged to me about the time his father and him burned up a Bible. I imagine he said something like this to get a ride out of me or something and to be honest I did get pissed at time. However I distanced myself from it and said he can do what he wants even if he is an asshole about it. Inretrospect perhaps he did mean to "offend" me he was just stating something he felt, that was totally against something I belive in. This results in an uneasy feeling. But that is life.
Even the most generic statement about my religion will result in Drew rolling his eyes. It seems that most my generation doesn’t really believe in God, so I take a lot of flack about my religious beliefs which I don’t feel the need to slam down peoples throats.
Let us say hypothetically Drew and I were at the first Atlanta Thrashers game after the death of Dan Snyder, and one of the players asked the people in the stands to pray for the Heatly and Snyder family I can almost guarantee Drew would have been “”offended” and maybe even gripped about all the people whose feelings might have been hurt that don’t think that we are a creation from God. It perfectly okay for him to say "offenseive" about Christans (he often makes them quite cartoonish on this blog and thinks they all agree with Pat Robertson). The same guy that doesnt like to sterotype any collection of people. But thats Drew for you.
Maybe the Philly girl was taught the lesson that people aren’t always going to agree with you deal with it than it was a good lesson. Should she have been suspended ? I guess not? Suspended by the team? Only if there is a rule in the league about it but if the coach wanted to bench her I wouldn’t blame him. BUT THE POINT IS THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT WHEN YOU SPEAK YOUR MIND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE FREE TO SPEAK THEIR MIND WILL DO SO. WRONG MESSAGE MY HAIRY BUTT.
I don’t mean to make this more about Drew than the pledge, but Drew has the tendency to come off very condescending when making his voice heard. This particular rant has an uncomfortable amount of bitterness or anger underlining in it. Drew hates Rush Limbaugh but at the same time he comes across as slamming people who don’t agree with him on regular basis. Do I let it bother me ? Not really it doesn’t “offend” me all that much. I know he manages to turn off the majority of the people I send his blog link to because of the tone of his writing. I actually think they should require the students to recite the pledge so that makes me “creepy” but if I differ on something Drew says “It is a shitstorm" that he undeserving of but when he tells me his opinion it is “The Way Things Ought to BE”
Now lets take a look at the pledge
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under (God),
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Okay omit the God part and what is so offensive? It just a reminder of what this country was based on when it was formed really. Allegiance is really just love and devotion. Drew tells me what a better American than he is on the blog than people who don’t question everything our government does. It could be argued that his campaign to get Bush out of the White House is out of his “love and devotion” to this “great nation”. Our country is actually a Republic not a Democracy if you want to split hairs, and I don’t see anything wrong with having some pride in our country with saying we are “indivisible” maybe Drew sees that as little imperialistic to other countries and could hurt their feelings. Liberty and Justice? That is what Drew fights for with every fiber of his bearded being even if it means some fat slob getting rich because he was too dumb to realize Big Macs are not healthy.
I think the Pledge is just a reminder about the country and how great it is and by having students recite it they come to realize it. I guess maybe they should stop because it hasn’t seemed to work. Too much of an inconvenience to come together and remember what this country was founded on I guess. Too much of hassle while people like Price put their lives on the line. Such a pain to get up at a sporting event and stand of the national anthem! A waste of time for a country, where millions get to express their views on blogs like this? I am sure Drew will slam me for this one and tell me how a better American would not want to say the pledge and that I am a sheep. He will list all these things he hates about this country in the following weeks. In the mean time I will be writing about my views and learning and reading about his and perhaps discussing various topics back and forth. Because that is what America is all about.
My longtime friend Drew and I don’t always see eye to eye on things. I actually grew up with Drew for the most part and first met him through my family church. Drew has obviously veered from that ideology drastically. Not that this is really news to anyone who knows him. I don’t fault him for that its important for each person to form their own values so if anything he deserves props. It isn’t easy to challenge your own beliefs to end up at a polar opposite must have been a scary journey. I have flipped on some beliefs in my life time granted not as drastic as Drew who is now an Avid Atheist.
Drew often speaks his mind and one of his pet peeves is when he is labeled “a trader” or “communist”. This reached its peak I think a week after 9/11 at the time Drew had a message board and while people were still frantically looking for loved ones Drew stopped short of saying that we had it coming. He sort of listed an incident that he witnessed on CNN with someone of Arabic decent showing a part of a missile (sent by Israel I believe) that said made in the USA. This got Drew pretty choked up from what I understand. Drew even went as far as to debate if the events of 9/11 were "evil" or not. Lets just say he was called a lot more than “a trader” by various message board posters.
Check out TEMINUS and read the article “Oh Boy Here It Comes” Drew is blogging today about his disgust for the pledge of allegiance. Sure its surrounding by a few facts and valid points, but it’s a fine example of how he rubs many people the wrong way. First off I do recall how almost no one in high school actually said the Pledge they just stood there and mumbled at best. People in the music homeroom didn’t even have the pledge on the intercom, but that is not surprising since Music people are usually not interested in politics or current events. I would hope to God (sorry for offending anyone) that has changed a bit since 9/11 but given the attention span of a student I doubt it.
Anyway in TERMINUS fashion I am going to put parts of what he said and try to over analyze it to the point that you wonder if I have too much free time on my hands. First off I can see where people can debate the UNDER GOD part of the pledge which wasn’t added until the mid 1950s. I actually always took it as representing “the supreme being” when I was young, using God as generic term saying that the country is blessed under God (Christianity) Allah (Islam which pretty much means GOD), Buddha etc. However since I am older now I do know it was added by Christians. I would think that some people would just take a different impetration of “God” to mean what they want, since many Christians themselves debate the true sense of the word. However that would exclude people like Drew who think that we just formed out of no where. However I don’t quite see what is so bad about asking children to recite the pledge. I don’t even see why they cant’ require them since they are in a public school which is pretty much a product of the government.
Making kids pledge allegiance to this country is really f---ing creepy. It's a loyalty oath, for f--'s sake… So, my gut feeling is that in any dispute, I'm anti-Pledge, because it's creepy, and non-conformists get hit by a load of shitstorm.
SO basically since you don’t like it when you people disagree with what you say “aka shitstorm” is unleashed among these non-conformists (he might refer to as the “real patriots”.)
Well first off it is more TEACHING about our country than FORCING THEM to become mindless slaves. It making them know damn right well what this country stands for by the time they finnish their higher education. I honestly wish I learned more about our country during my time in highschool. We never really got past the Industrial Revolution once the next year we would start all over again or study world history. It’s a shame. But at least we were taught the pledge and hopefully had an idea what the country was based on. Maybe he can shed some light on the subject about the whole oaths thing since he is a law student. Don’t we take “oaths” (a declaration or promise) in the courts? What if people just decided to start lying because they didn’t believe in the “oaths” they had to take?
Anyway Drew goes on to stumble upon his own irony in this article.
“Their was a college basketball player in the Philly area a year ago, I think, and she got hit with the load of shitstorm big time. That's not right. Everyone says "She has the right not to salute the flag( actually she turned her back to the flag), but we have the right to hit her with a load of shitstorm," which is perfectly true, but it kinda sends the wrong message about freedom and American values, don't you think?”
Now the message that should be sent is everyone is allowed to speak their mind in this country. People got angry because they were legitimately pissed that she would do something like that. Maybe some of those people were war veterans that lost friends in war or were hurt protecting our country that don’t quite understand why it is such a “burden” to take 30 seconds out of your day to honor your country. So everyone should revoke their freedom of speech in regards to this matter in fear of hurting someone’s feelings. Maybe they want to make her realize what the country means to them, or that the pledge isn’t as “Creepy” as people say it is. So all the children that want to recite the pledge should be silenced if they wanted to voice their opinion in class? Last time I checked America wasn’t about not being able to give let us say Drew Vogel “a shitstorm” about what he has to say.
Drew seems to be under the impression that only he gets slammed for his views. Please. Most of my friends are either “Athists” totally apathetic or even as minority of a religion as Wiccan. I honestly get hit by “shitstorms” by Drew and Lima Beanz about Christianity some fall under blanket statements and usually come off as “hateful”. Drew once practically bragged to me about the time his father and him burned up a Bible. I imagine he said something like this to get a ride out of me or something and to be honest I did get pissed at time. However I distanced myself from it and said he can do what he wants even if he is an asshole about it. Inretrospect perhaps he did mean to "offend" me he was just stating something he felt, that was totally against something I belive in. This results in an uneasy feeling. But that is life.
Even the most generic statement about my religion will result in Drew rolling his eyes. It seems that most my generation doesn’t really believe in God, so I take a lot of flack about my religious beliefs which I don’t feel the need to slam down peoples throats.
Let us say hypothetically Drew and I were at the first Atlanta Thrashers game after the death of Dan Snyder, and one of the players asked the people in the stands to pray for the Heatly and Snyder family I can almost guarantee Drew would have been “”offended” and maybe even gripped about all the people whose feelings might have been hurt that don’t think that we are a creation from God. It perfectly okay for him to say "offenseive" about Christans (he often makes them quite cartoonish on this blog and thinks they all agree with Pat Robertson). The same guy that doesnt like to sterotype any collection of people. But thats Drew for you.
Maybe the Philly girl was taught the lesson that people aren’t always going to agree with you deal with it than it was a good lesson. Should she have been suspended ? I guess not? Suspended by the team? Only if there is a rule in the league about it but if the coach wanted to bench her I wouldn’t blame him. BUT THE POINT IS THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS ALL ABOUT WHEN YOU SPEAK YOUR MIND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE FREE TO SPEAK THEIR MIND WILL DO SO. WRONG MESSAGE MY HAIRY BUTT.
I don’t mean to make this more about Drew than the pledge, but Drew has the tendency to come off very condescending when making his voice heard. This particular rant has an uncomfortable amount of bitterness or anger underlining in it. Drew hates Rush Limbaugh but at the same time he comes across as slamming people who don’t agree with him on regular basis. Do I let it bother me ? Not really it doesn’t “offend” me all that much. I know he manages to turn off the majority of the people I send his blog link to because of the tone of his writing. I actually think they should require the students to recite the pledge so that makes me “creepy” but if I differ on something Drew says “It is a shitstorm" that he undeserving of but when he tells me his opinion it is “The Way Things Ought to BE”
Now lets take a look at the pledge
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under (God),
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Okay omit the God part and what is so offensive? It just a reminder of what this country was based on when it was formed really. Allegiance is really just love and devotion. Drew tells me what a better American than he is on the blog than people who don’t question everything our government does. It could be argued that his campaign to get Bush out of the White House is out of his “love and devotion” to this “great nation”. Our country is actually a Republic not a Democracy if you want to split hairs, and I don’t see anything wrong with having some pride in our country with saying we are “indivisible” maybe Drew sees that as little imperialistic to other countries and could hurt their feelings. Liberty and Justice? That is what Drew fights for with every fiber of his bearded being even if it means some fat slob getting rich because he was too dumb to realize Big Macs are not healthy.
I think the Pledge is just a reminder about the country and how great it is and by having students recite it they come to realize it. I guess maybe they should stop because it hasn’t seemed to work. Too much of an inconvenience to come together and remember what this country was founded on I guess. Too much of hassle while people like Price put their lives on the line. Such a pain to get up at a sporting event and stand of the national anthem! A waste of time for a country, where millions get to express their views on blogs like this? I am sure Drew will slam me for this one and tell me how a better American would not want to say the pledge and that I am a sheep. He will list all these things he hates about this country in the following weeks. In the mean time I will be writing about my views and learning and reading about his and perhaps discussing various topics back and forth. Because that is what America is all about.
Monday, October 13, 2003
“24 Years and What Do You Get ?”
Well today I turn one year shy of a quarter of century old. Although 24 is not old by any sense of the imagination I certainly couldn’t wrap my mind around this age as child. It is certainly by many that year that is a watermark for the first year of being an actual adult. In today’s society 21-23 is still giving you a pass as being “college age” especially since people take far more than 4 years now to complete and education. So what is an adult anyway? Depends on the person I guess.
24 usually is the point where nights out looking for a good time are more a novelty than central point of your week and you have to start lining up all your ducks in a row to become more “stable” and “responsible”. Birthdays when you were young were a celebration that of reaching another milestone. You wanted to have a fun party so the kids at school would like you, you wanted to get a bike so you could ride around town, and as you got older you looked forward to freedoms like a driver’s license or being able to legally drink. However I think now that I can be considered by most people in my “mid” 20’s it’s a day of more reflection than anything. Trying to look back at what I have done with my life so far, also trying to measure myself up with expectations of myself and where I wanted to be at this point in the journey in life. Not that I didn’t have an awesome time on Saturday with Liza at the casinos (despite not becoming a millionaire).
The more you think of it though the more you realize something. That life isn’t done in scenes similar to a play or film. One part of your life ending certainly doesn’t necessarily open the next stage door. It is also true what they say that the years go by quicker as you get older. It makes me sound old to even agree with the adage. However I was talking to Dan K (on AIM Dan and I rarely have face to face conversations but a handful of times a year he hates daylight) and we couldn’t quite figure out how I got to 24. He seemed taken back when I told him I was 24 even though he will hit that mark in a few months too. We talked about schoolyard incidents that at times seem like they happened a few months ago.
My life has certainly changed in the past year. Being out of school is certainly a dose of reality and I am learning a lot of hard lessons about making your way in life. I don’t really expect to draw any sympathy by writing this article by any means. In the past year though I have learned how hard it is to cut your niche in the world. I saw many of my friends go through the same thing after college, and thought for some reason I could avoid this fate.
In some aspects its who you know to get you in with a good company. Part of me blames myself for not having a distinct “dream” like our society seemingly dedicates who should have. Sometimes I figure it to mean I am a bad person or am full of short comings. Than again who isn’t? I also think more “prestigious” colleges just mean you went to school for rich people supported by rich people so when you get out you get a job based only on the rich people that your rich family knows in good companies. That’s a bit overly simplified I am sure, but it seems to be a way lots of people get their break in a job. I certainly don’t want to come across as someone who has nothing but excuses for my situation.
Part of me gets sick at the prospect of spending my life working in a cubical. At the same time my current job seems to such more of the life out of me everyday single day. I know I deserve better than Sears. Sears makes me feel like I am in a deep pool with a brick tied to my foot. I am almost out of patience. People who have landed their ideal jobs ( I know very few of them) try to offer me all kinds of advice some of it is applicable and some of it seems too simplified at times even condescending. Of course I know that wasn’t the intention.
Looking back at the 23 year of my life will likely be thought of a year of transition. A year where things and other people went in different paths. I guess that makes me the center of everyone’s universe. Heck two of my friends have started a family together. Meanwhile Duke’s apartment thanks to his new gf is no longer a health hazard. Another close friend of mine ended a long lasting serious relationship, Steve started teaching, Price went to war and Dan decided to tie the knot.
To be honest I would still consider Ryan to be my closest friend. That might seem odd, and unfortunately relations with his girlfriend and me and friends of mine boiled over into quite an ugly situation this past summer. Most parties at this point agree that it just water under the bridge anymore though. Although Ryan is extremely busy with music obligations these days he seems to be with drawn a lot from everyone this past year. Do I expect to hear from him on my b-day or him to even read this? Not really. His withdrawal is some what particular and one has to wonder what really goes on in his head these days. I guess this stuff is goes hand in hand with an increased amount of b-days.
If you asked me on my 23 b-day if I would have met the right girl for me I doubt I would have said I would been lucky enough to find her. Well it was last November that I met Liza, and I certainly thought she was out of me league the first time I laid eyes on her. I always knew if a girl would have given me a chance I could prove that I was capable of managing a serious relationship. I met her at a time where she gives me seemingly endless source of strength to keep me from putting myself down too much and helps me through the frustrations of my current job situation. I am my own worst critic and she lets me know when I am simply being unreasonable about it. She has made me certainly a stronger person and had a positive impact on my life. I have better self esteem than I did a year ago. I no longer have to look at the bottom of a beer mug when I am soul searching not that I was ever a raging drunk or anything. It wasn’t like I got smashed every time I had a bad day she somehow (maybe without trying) made me realize how unimportant in order to be happy. The feeling of knowing that I can talk to her about anything in my life far exceeds being drunk in the back of someone’s car after a night out. It isn’t like she even cares if I get drunk as skunk, but I never thought I would be so content and happy with someone that I would not notice or care that I rarely get smashed anymore. I just have less of a need to get drunk. This being my first long term relationship I learned a lot about realationships.
I look around the world and read the papers. I certainly have it a lot better than a good part of the world’s population and I certainly have a lot of time to figure things out in my life. I am fortunate to have good friends and a good family and a great girl. So what this day will pass without tons of fanfare like when I was a kid. What I learned about myself and life since my b-day could fill a book. I guess that’s the perk that comes with b-days after you reach all the cool milestones. I still have tons to learn and plan to get out on my own before my next b-day so I am sure this year wil seem like peanuts to that. Is it too late for anyone to get apartment shopping for dummies or cooking for dummies for a present?
Well today I turn one year shy of a quarter of century old. Although 24 is not old by any sense of the imagination I certainly couldn’t wrap my mind around this age as child. It is certainly by many that year that is a watermark for the first year of being an actual adult. In today’s society 21-23 is still giving you a pass as being “college age” especially since people take far more than 4 years now to complete and education. So what is an adult anyway? Depends on the person I guess.
24 usually is the point where nights out looking for a good time are more a novelty than central point of your week and you have to start lining up all your ducks in a row to become more “stable” and “responsible”. Birthdays when you were young were a celebration that of reaching another milestone. You wanted to have a fun party so the kids at school would like you, you wanted to get a bike so you could ride around town, and as you got older you looked forward to freedoms like a driver’s license or being able to legally drink. However I think now that I can be considered by most people in my “mid” 20’s it’s a day of more reflection than anything. Trying to look back at what I have done with my life so far, also trying to measure myself up with expectations of myself and where I wanted to be at this point in the journey in life. Not that I didn’t have an awesome time on Saturday with Liza at the casinos (despite not becoming a millionaire).
The more you think of it though the more you realize something. That life isn’t done in scenes similar to a play or film. One part of your life ending certainly doesn’t necessarily open the next stage door. It is also true what they say that the years go by quicker as you get older. It makes me sound old to even agree with the adage. However I was talking to Dan K (on AIM Dan and I rarely have face to face conversations but a handful of times a year he hates daylight) and we couldn’t quite figure out how I got to 24. He seemed taken back when I told him I was 24 even though he will hit that mark in a few months too. We talked about schoolyard incidents that at times seem like they happened a few months ago.
My life has certainly changed in the past year. Being out of school is certainly a dose of reality and I am learning a lot of hard lessons about making your way in life. I don’t really expect to draw any sympathy by writing this article by any means. In the past year though I have learned how hard it is to cut your niche in the world. I saw many of my friends go through the same thing after college, and thought for some reason I could avoid this fate.
In some aspects its who you know to get you in with a good company. Part of me blames myself for not having a distinct “dream” like our society seemingly dedicates who should have. Sometimes I figure it to mean I am a bad person or am full of short comings. Than again who isn’t? I also think more “prestigious” colleges just mean you went to school for rich people supported by rich people so when you get out you get a job based only on the rich people that your rich family knows in good companies. That’s a bit overly simplified I am sure, but it seems to be a way lots of people get their break in a job. I certainly don’t want to come across as someone who has nothing but excuses for my situation.
Part of me gets sick at the prospect of spending my life working in a cubical. At the same time my current job seems to such more of the life out of me everyday single day. I know I deserve better than Sears. Sears makes me feel like I am in a deep pool with a brick tied to my foot. I am almost out of patience. People who have landed their ideal jobs ( I know very few of them) try to offer me all kinds of advice some of it is applicable and some of it seems too simplified at times even condescending. Of course I know that wasn’t the intention.
Looking back at the 23 year of my life will likely be thought of a year of transition. A year where things and other people went in different paths. I guess that makes me the center of everyone’s universe. Heck two of my friends have started a family together. Meanwhile Duke’s apartment thanks to his new gf is no longer a health hazard. Another close friend of mine ended a long lasting serious relationship, Steve started teaching, Price went to war and Dan decided to tie the knot.
To be honest I would still consider Ryan to be my closest friend. That might seem odd, and unfortunately relations with his girlfriend and me and friends of mine boiled over into quite an ugly situation this past summer. Most parties at this point agree that it just water under the bridge anymore though. Although Ryan is extremely busy with music obligations these days he seems to be with drawn a lot from everyone this past year. Do I expect to hear from him on my b-day or him to even read this? Not really. His withdrawal is some what particular and one has to wonder what really goes on in his head these days. I guess this stuff is goes hand in hand with an increased amount of b-days.
If you asked me on my 23 b-day if I would have met the right girl for me I doubt I would have said I would been lucky enough to find her. Well it was last November that I met Liza, and I certainly thought she was out of me league the first time I laid eyes on her. I always knew if a girl would have given me a chance I could prove that I was capable of managing a serious relationship. I met her at a time where she gives me seemingly endless source of strength to keep me from putting myself down too much and helps me through the frustrations of my current job situation. I am my own worst critic and she lets me know when I am simply being unreasonable about it. She has made me certainly a stronger person and had a positive impact on my life. I have better self esteem than I did a year ago. I no longer have to look at the bottom of a beer mug when I am soul searching not that I was ever a raging drunk or anything. It wasn’t like I got smashed every time I had a bad day she somehow (maybe without trying) made me realize how unimportant in order to be happy. The feeling of knowing that I can talk to her about anything in my life far exceeds being drunk in the back of someone’s car after a night out. It isn’t like she even cares if I get drunk as skunk, but I never thought I would be so content and happy with someone that I would not notice or care that I rarely get smashed anymore. I just have less of a need to get drunk. This being my first long term relationship I learned a lot about realationships.
I look around the world and read the papers. I certainly have it a lot better than a good part of the world’s population and I certainly have a lot of time to figure things out in my life. I am fortunate to have good friends and a good family and a great girl. So what this day will pass without tons of fanfare like when I was a kid. What I learned about myself and life since my b-day could fill a book. I guess that’s the perk that comes with b-days after you reach all the cool milestones. I still have tons to learn and plan to get out on my own before my next b-day so I am sure this year wil seem like peanuts to that. Is it too late for anyone to get apartment shopping for dummies or cooking for dummies for a present?
Saturday, October 11, 2003
"Heatley's Fate"
I found a really good article about Danny Heatly. I am going to cut and paste it..the URL might not work so just cut and paste if it doesnt.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=usatoday-jailwontbeheatleysworst&prov=usatoday&type=lgns
Thursday, October 09, 2003
"The Legend of Heat Lightning"
Right after Hurricane Isabel went through a co-worker and I talked about different elements of storms. She told me that she heard on NBC 10 that Heat Lightning was actually a myth. Now I have always been told that in the summer time since there is so much enery in the air "heat ligtning" is produced and bolts jump from cloud to could, and no thunder is produced. I whitnessed this one time for hours at my aunts house in Avalon. My cousin and I sat out and watched it over the ocean and it was quite dazzlying over the ocean. Well since I am a huge dork I decided to e-mail Fox 29 (WTXF) weatherman Rob Guarino who recently got back to me and he had this to say:
"Heat lightning is an urban legend so to
speak. Heat lighting is just lightining in the
distance with no thunder. People think it's because of
the heat and yeah it is, it's summer afterall when they
hit.
You cannot hear thunder if a storm is more than 15
miles away and sometimes in urban areas as little as 3
miles away. I hope this answers your question."
-Rob
Right after Hurricane Isabel went through a co-worker and I talked about different elements of storms. She told me that she heard on NBC 10 that Heat Lightning was actually a myth. Now I have always been told that in the summer time since there is so much enery in the air "heat ligtning" is produced and bolts jump from cloud to could, and no thunder is produced. I whitnessed this one time for hours at my aunts house in Avalon. My cousin and I sat out and watched it over the ocean and it was quite dazzlying over the ocean. Well since I am a huge dork I decided to e-mail Fox 29 (WTXF) weatherman Rob Guarino who recently got back to me and he had this to say:
"Heat lightning is an urban legend so to
speak. Heat lighting is just lightining in the
distance with no thunder. People think it's because of
the heat and yeah it is, it's summer afterall when they
hit.
You cannot hear thunder if a storm is more than 15
miles away and sometimes in urban areas as little as 3
miles away. I hope this answers your question."
-Rob
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
"Life Sucks Vote for Me!"
Well Arnold won the election. You would think that would tick off the liberal democrats. However I think this is very good for them. This election proved you can basically dodge the issues and just harp about how bad a job your opponent did. You just list obvious faults of the administration but offer nothing as far as solutions to the problems. Just remind people that things suck right now.
Maybe its just me, but I think all Arnold did was make puns about his movies, and told us Gray Davis sucked really bad and he made a mess of things. He got pretty cool sound bites out of this and imagine how much more effective the democrat’s sound bytes can be when its time to fight for the white house.
They will say stuff like about Bush’s missteps, but have no actual solutions. They will talk about the controversial war in Iraq. They will talk about the economy and blast the tax cut, but have no actual suggestions of their own. I just don’t think they really have any ideas (unless they plan to reveal them later but I doubt it) mainly because fixing the economy is a lot more difficult than people think. Do my liberal readers actually think Clinton in office would have kept the economy a float after the events of 9/11? Please. The market was changing just as Clinton was leaving office, and the terrorist attacks facilitated the process.
So my point is that is seems to me the general public will just rally behind whoever the democrats run for office just because he will shout about the jobless, and such. Bush a weak debater will have a lot harder time running from questions that his opponent will ask him. Like why did we go to Iraq? Where are the WMD? Think about it, when those debates come its going to be it for Bush. Bush stammered during this type of public address imagines such loaded acquisitions flying out him.
So basically this election shows that you don’t have to have good ideas or ways to fix problems just talk about what is wrong. Than after that you get 4 years in the White House to make it up as you go along
Well Arnold won the election. You would think that would tick off the liberal democrats. However I think this is very good for them. This election proved you can basically dodge the issues and just harp about how bad a job your opponent did. You just list obvious faults of the administration but offer nothing as far as solutions to the problems. Just remind people that things suck right now.
Maybe its just me, but I think all Arnold did was make puns about his movies, and told us Gray Davis sucked really bad and he made a mess of things. He got pretty cool sound bites out of this and imagine how much more effective the democrat’s sound bytes can be when its time to fight for the white house.
They will say stuff like about Bush’s missteps, but have no actual solutions. They will talk about the controversial war in Iraq. They will talk about the economy and blast the tax cut, but have no actual suggestions of their own. I just don’t think they really have any ideas (unless they plan to reveal them later but I doubt it) mainly because fixing the economy is a lot more difficult than people think. Do my liberal readers actually think Clinton in office would have kept the economy a float after the events of 9/11? Please. The market was changing just as Clinton was leaving office, and the terrorist attacks facilitated the process.
So my point is that is seems to me the general public will just rally behind whoever the democrats run for office just because he will shout about the jobless, and such. Bush a weak debater will have a lot harder time running from questions that his opponent will ask him. Like why did we go to Iraq? Where are the WMD? Think about it, when those debates come its going to be it for Bush. Bush stammered during this type of public address imagines such loaded acquisitions flying out him.
So basically this election shows that you don’t have to have good ideas or ways to fix problems just talk about what is wrong. Than after that you get 4 years in the White House to make it up as you go along
"JR & Hitch"
We all waited for it last year for JR and coach Hitchcock to have huge fight. Everyone sensed tension bettween the two since Hitch had reportedly sent Darren Hatcher to break JR's jaw in retaliation to a hit JR laid on Mike Modano. Last year came and went with out anything major happening between the two at least not in the open.
However there has been tensiion lately. Hitch slammed JR for being inconsistant in the preseason. He also said he needs to be a better leader. I guess it was a ploy to light a fire under him. Could have JR's been better last season? Sure. He did lead the team in points. However he certainly possesed good leadership skills. He sets a good example to the younger players on how to be fan friendly. I just dont get that. He is usually the last one off the ice and always talks to the media no matter how much they suck, and how much grilling they do to the players. What does he want?
Jr fired back that players that have been around as long as he has just aren't mentally there in the preseason. He clearly knows the difference. Hell he is the only one that gets excited it seems at times.
I usually side with the coach, but for Hitch to make a public comment no reason and with little to back up it seemed out of place. This came a week after JR grumbled Hitch dragging his feet trying to find a linemate, and refusing to let Recchi play on his line because of his plan to use the veterans less. If he plays well with Rex than what's the deal?
Its going to be a long season. Sadly the locker room stories might be more memorable than what happens on the ice.
We all waited for it last year for JR and coach Hitchcock to have huge fight. Everyone sensed tension bettween the two since Hitch had reportedly sent Darren Hatcher to break JR's jaw in retaliation to a hit JR laid on Mike Modano. Last year came and went with out anything major happening between the two at least not in the open.
However there has been tensiion lately. Hitch slammed JR for being inconsistant in the preseason. He also said he needs to be a better leader. I guess it was a ploy to light a fire under him. Could have JR's been better last season? Sure. He did lead the team in points. However he certainly possesed good leadership skills. He sets a good example to the younger players on how to be fan friendly. I just dont get that. He is usually the last one off the ice and always talks to the media no matter how much they suck, and how much grilling they do to the players. What does he want?
Jr fired back that players that have been around as long as he has just aren't mentally there in the preseason. He clearly knows the difference. Hell he is the only one that gets excited it seems at times.
I usually side with the coach, but for Hitch to make a public comment no reason and with little to back up it seemed out of place. This came a week after JR grumbled Hitch dragging his feet trying to find a linemate, and refusing to let Recchi play on his line because of his plan to use the veterans less. If he plays well with Rex than what's the deal?
Its going to be a long season. Sadly the locker room stories might be more memorable than what happens on the ice.
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Saturday, October 04, 2003
"You Didn't Get the Memo?"
So long time Flyer d-man Chris Therein has been in Philly longer than any other current athelete. Think that would mean something right? Apperently not. Poor Chris was put on waivers this past Friday which means any team in the NHL can just call up the Flyers and claim him for nothing. Okay its cool they put him on waviers to make room for younger players, but they didn't bother calling him to tell him he was unprotected. He found out from the media.
Poor guy. He wasn't picked up by anyone which sucks, because now he is on a team that wants to use him as 7th D-man. I honestly would like to see him go the last few seasons have been pretty much a waste keeping him around. However wouldn't it be the right thing to do for Clarkie to call up Chris and inform him he might be moving to another city soon, instead of him hearing about it on 6 10 WIP? No class on the Flyers part. Guess Clarkie was either to busy throwing dars at a picture of 88, or kissing Ed Snider's ass.
I wish someone would have claimed him, and made a roster spot free. I guess he will have wear out his welcome with John Leclair.
Too make matters worse the Flyers just got their butts handed to them by their farm team the Phantoms. It is going to be a long season.
So long time Flyer d-man Chris Therein has been in Philly longer than any other current athelete. Think that would mean something right? Apperently not. Poor Chris was put on waivers this past Friday which means any team in the NHL can just call up the Flyers and claim him for nothing. Okay its cool they put him on waviers to make room for younger players, but they didn't bother calling him to tell him he was unprotected. He found out from the media.
Poor guy. He wasn't picked up by anyone which sucks, because now he is on a team that wants to use him as 7th D-man. I honestly would like to see him go the last few seasons have been pretty much a waste keeping him around. However wouldn't it be the right thing to do for Clarkie to call up Chris and inform him he might be moving to another city soon, instead of him hearing about it on 6 10 WIP? No class on the Flyers part. Guess Clarkie was either to busy throwing dars at a picture of 88, or kissing Ed Snider's ass.
I wish someone would have claimed him, and made a roster spot free. I guess he will have wear out his welcome with John Leclair.
Too make matters worse the Flyers just got their butts handed to them by their farm team the Phantoms. It is going to be a long season.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Oh I am sure your sick of it, but read my dear readers I have a different take on the whole thing, and have a good twist at the end of this one. Again before you read this I don't agree with what he said.
“Rush to Judgment”
Well Rush Limbaugh left ESPN and that is not a surprise since the story mushroomed to an enormous story line. All talk radio, newspapers, and news cable outlets have been going wall to wall with this story. If you were under a rock recently you might not have heard that Limbaugh made a comment on ESPN before the NFL Pregame show. Here is the quote about our own Donovan McNabb that finished Limbaugh’s career in sports where he got his start.
“The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well; I think there is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.”
When he said that I think every white person in the country looked at each other and said, “Is he allowed to say that?”. I stand by my earlier claim that ESPN was the wrong place to bring up this point. Especially since he has his own talk show syndicated in almost every market. With in 24 hours many sports writers ripped Rush on this “racially sensitive comment” and liberal bloogers have had seemingly 24 hour erections.
Well the coaches’ part might have some merit. Within the last few years lawyers have gone after the NFL because they don’t think that there are enough black coaches in the NFL. Does that mean the NFL coaches are being overrated? (Hmm). Lawyers using statistics from the past 15 years, the report said black coaches had been more successful than their white counterparts, but that they weren't hired commensurate with that success. So basically owners should feel obligated to check the NFL’s coaching list before hiring to make sure a good amount is on the payroll? This story was national news for months, but now seems to have been forgotten. Was it a stretch to say maybe the NFL is doing a PR type tactic to make average Joe see black man play good football. Average Joe thinks NFL Blackman good he plays football. No problem with lack of coaches.
So do I buy that in an underground headquarters of the NFL they plucked Philly’s quarter back to be an unwilling pawn in some sort of effort to persuade the general public that the NFL doesn’t give African-Americans a raw deal? NO! I honesty don’t buy that owners with huge amounts of money on the line don’t hire better coaches. Besides I don’t think he meant he didn’t earn his spot on the team, its just that he isn’t a big threat as people would have you think, and is very beatable.
Now I honestly think the comment blown out of proportion local newscasters started claiming that Rush personally attacked the Eagles Quarterback which was untrue. He attacked the NFL and media. Not him. I thought to myself one day a comment will be made that will be equal or worse by African American about “The White Man”. Well that day actually passed by over 15 years go.
Okay I promised I would take a different angle and make a point at the start of this article. Okay with all the out cry is pretty obvious that the general American public thinks that race relations shouldn’t be talked about with sports. Most people think Rush had very little evidence to back his claim. Just vaguely blaming the media wasn’t enough right without any evidence. I mean heck he was pro-bowler. What if I told you before the internet and blogging that a similar comment had been made in a different sport, but it was black person making a comment about a white person? Well here is an article cut and pasted.
“In 1987, after the Boston Celtics beat the Detroit Pistons in the 7-game East finals due to Larry Bird’s fantastic performance, Isiah Thomas remarked that, sure, Bird was good, but, “If Bird was Black, he’d be just another good guy.” He said this to confirm his then-teammate Dennis Rodman’s racist comments. Never one to miss out on media publicity, Rodman whined that Bird was “overrated” and received media praise and attention only “because he is white.” (Not apparently because Bird—with several MVP seasons and the first NBA player to shoot better than 50 percent from the field and 90 percent from the foul line for consecutive seasons--had just spanked Thomas and Rodman on the court.)".
Well back than I guess you could get away with comments like that in sports since neither player was fined or suspended. As long as you don’t call anyone a Monkey (like hockey player Chris Simon did and got suspended for) than you are okay. Do you think anyone’s feelings were hurt by that? What about all those white boys who go down to the courts every morning and dreamed of making the NBA? Do you think in the late 80s they all threw their basketballs in the trashcans and went and shoot up heroine insead of free throws.
“My dream was ruined, some guy said that white players can’t become stars on merit alone!”
Funny when you think of 1980-90s basketball Bird is the only icon player that is white. Michael Jorden, Dr. J, and Magic Johnson come to mind. Do you really think they weren’t marketed at all? Bird certainly had the track record to be hyped up that much. So you could argue that his statement had equal factual support that Rush’s did. But that’s not racism right? Do you know what if figured happened instead of a media blitz after that? A bunch of white people looked at the floor.
If that’s not bad enough there is the infamous incident when Charles Barkley snapped at a room of mostly white reporters who were questioning him. (gasp). “That’s what I hate about White People…” Oh really? All White reporters are like that? What a blanket statement there Sir Charles. You would think that someone who had a least one element of hatred towards a particular race could have other bits of racism in them, right? Well you would imagine that if a white person said that’s what the hate about black people in any capacity their ass would have been fined, canned or they would be ripped apart by the dare I say it media. Last I heard he was thinking about running for office.
So if you think about it this whole “topic” isn’t shockingly brand new. It just gets swept under the rug every few years and comes with a pretty clean looking double standard.
“Rush to Judgment”
Well Rush Limbaugh left ESPN and that is not a surprise since the story mushroomed to an enormous story line. All talk radio, newspapers, and news cable outlets have been going wall to wall with this story. If you were under a rock recently you might not have heard that Limbaugh made a comment on ESPN before the NFL Pregame show. Here is the quote about our own Donovan McNabb that finished Limbaugh’s career in sports where he got his start.
“The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well; I think there is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.”
When he said that I think every white person in the country looked at each other and said, “Is he allowed to say that?”. I stand by my earlier claim that ESPN was the wrong place to bring up this point. Especially since he has his own talk show syndicated in almost every market. With in 24 hours many sports writers ripped Rush on this “racially sensitive comment” and liberal bloogers have had seemingly 24 hour erections.
Well the coaches’ part might have some merit. Within the last few years lawyers have gone after the NFL because they don’t think that there are enough black coaches in the NFL. Does that mean the NFL coaches are being overrated? (Hmm). Lawyers using statistics from the past 15 years, the report said black coaches had been more successful than their white counterparts, but that they weren't hired commensurate with that success. So basically owners should feel obligated to check the NFL’s coaching list before hiring to make sure a good amount is on the payroll? This story was national news for months, but now seems to have been forgotten. Was it a stretch to say maybe the NFL is doing a PR type tactic to make average Joe see black man play good football. Average Joe thinks NFL Blackman good he plays football. No problem with lack of coaches.
So do I buy that in an underground headquarters of the NFL they plucked Philly’s quarter back to be an unwilling pawn in some sort of effort to persuade the general public that the NFL doesn’t give African-Americans a raw deal? NO! I honesty don’t buy that owners with huge amounts of money on the line don’t hire better coaches. Besides I don’t think he meant he didn’t earn his spot on the team, its just that he isn’t a big threat as people would have you think, and is very beatable.
Now I honestly think the comment blown out of proportion local newscasters started claiming that Rush personally attacked the Eagles Quarterback which was untrue. He attacked the NFL and media. Not him. I thought to myself one day a comment will be made that will be equal or worse by African American about “The White Man”. Well that day actually passed by over 15 years go.
Okay I promised I would take a different angle and make a point at the start of this article. Okay with all the out cry is pretty obvious that the general American public thinks that race relations shouldn’t be talked about with sports. Most people think Rush had very little evidence to back his claim. Just vaguely blaming the media wasn’t enough right without any evidence. I mean heck he was pro-bowler. What if I told you before the internet and blogging that a similar comment had been made in a different sport, but it was black person making a comment about a white person? Well here is an article cut and pasted.
“In 1987, after the Boston Celtics beat the Detroit Pistons in the 7-game East finals due to Larry Bird’s fantastic performance, Isiah Thomas remarked that, sure, Bird was good, but, “If Bird was Black, he’d be just another good guy.” He said this to confirm his then-teammate Dennis Rodman’s racist comments. Never one to miss out on media publicity, Rodman whined that Bird was “overrated” and received media praise and attention only “because he is white.” (Not apparently because Bird—with several MVP seasons and the first NBA player to shoot better than 50 percent from the field and 90 percent from the foul line for consecutive seasons--had just spanked Thomas and Rodman on the court.)".
Well back than I guess you could get away with comments like that in sports since neither player was fined or suspended. As long as you don’t call anyone a Monkey (like hockey player Chris Simon did and got suspended for) than you are okay. Do you think anyone’s feelings were hurt by that? What about all those white boys who go down to the courts every morning and dreamed of making the NBA? Do you think in the late 80s they all threw their basketballs in the trashcans and went and shoot up heroine insead of free throws.
“My dream was ruined, some guy said that white players can’t become stars on merit alone!”
Funny when you think of 1980-90s basketball Bird is the only icon player that is white. Michael Jorden, Dr. J, and Magic Johnson come to mind. Do you really think they weren’t marketed at all? Bird certainly had the track record to be hyped up that much. So you could argue that his statement had equal factual support that Rush’s did. But that’s not racism right? Do you know what if figured happened instead of a media blitz after that? A bunch of white people looked at the floor.
If that’s not bad enough there is the infamous incident when Charles Barkley snapped at a room of mostly white reporters who were questioning him. (gasp). “That’s what I hate about White People…” Oh really? All White reporters are like that? What a blanket statement there Sir Charles. You would think that someone who had a least one element of hatred towards a particular race could have other bits of racism in them, right? Well you would imagine that if a white person said that’s what the hate about black people in any capacity their ass would have been fined, canned or they would be ripped apart by the dare I say it media. Last I heard he was thinking about running for office.
So if you think about it this whole “topic” isn’t shockingly brand new. It just gets swept under the rug every few years and comes with a pretty clean looking double standard.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
"The Great Black Hype"
So Rush Limbaugh is in hotter water than ballpark frank over a comment he made on ESPN earlier this week in which he stated Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because he was black and the media wanted to hype him up for the NFL, because apperently there are not a lot of black quarterbacks in the NFL.
Although I am open minded enough (is that irony?) to consider the possiblity that the NFL would want to try to show how diverse they are by trumping up a minority player in wake of all the PC stuff that goes around the country these days I don't agree with the claim. First off there are enough black players in the NFL as it is and black fans. Although I am no NFL expert, and only skim Eagles coverage and watch fragments of games I never really saw any evidence of the media giving this guy a pass. The Philly media pans anyone that underperforms all the time. I don't know about the national media.
Since I am not a hard core fan I have no idea if he is even over-rated. Jenna recently said she wanted to write and Eagles a letter about how much he sucked. My mom likes that AJ guy better. Does that count as anything? Perhaps the NFL did over-hype him, but I don't think it had anything to do with his skin color. The NHL does that constantly, does anyone actually think Jamie Storr, Eric Lindros or Alexander Daigle are future hall of famers? You might have by reading PR the NHL spewed out a few years ago about these busts. I do think the league might tell commentors ("The Media in this case I guess) to hype up players to make stars out of them. Either the NHL did that with Lindros or Bill Clement has some sort of homoerotic relationship with the Big E, who he will hype even if he spends the entire game wipping sweat off his brow with a dazed look on his face. Perhaps its the same in the NFL I wouldn't know. The local media certainly doesn't give anyone a pass and in sports I think thats the best way to get our coverage on a certain team.
I wonder if ESPN got what they wished, everyone is talking about the NFL pregame show. I honestly wouldnt have a problem if Rush had mentioned this "black card" theory on his syndicated radio show. Let me just clear this up I am not a ditto head. I know people might not buy into that statement since I am still trying to convince people I am not in love with Jenna. However that is his soapbox, I would have no problem if he did that on his show. You don't have to listen to him. I think Howard Eskin is a ten times larger asshole than Rush, so I rarely listen to him. I admit I tune in on occassion and I do admit to agreeing on what he says about some political issues but I certainly am about as far away as a philly team winning a championship to him when it comes to social vaulues such as race and gay marraiges.
I feel bad for Donovan a bit, despite playing awful the first two weeks. I think he is a classy and well spoken guy who needs this like a new Mathew Perry Movie.
Man what a great week for liberal bloogers Drew's "traffic" is going off the chart. Speaking of the l would like to address my traffic today. I would like to thank both my readers who check this web blog every two weeks. I would also like appoligize to the reader who thought he was reading the life and time of Darcey Tucker. Oh yeah we have a back up on 295 south bound too, which means it must be ending in Y.
So Rush Limbaugh is in hotter water than ballpark frank over a comment he made on ESPN earlier this week in which he stated Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because he was black and the media wanted to hype him up for the NFL, because apperently there are not a lot of black quarterbacks in the NFL.
Although I am open minded enough (is that irony?) to consider the possiblity that the NFL would want to try to show how diverse they are by trumping up a minority player in wake of all the PC stuff that goes around the country these days I don't agree with the claim. First off there are enough black players in the NFL as it is and black fans. Although I am no NFL expert, and only skim Eagles coverage and watch fragments of games I never really saw any evidence of the media giving this guy a pass. The Philly media pans anyone that underperforms all the time. I don't know about the national media.
Since I am not a hard core fan I have no idea if he is even over-rated. Jenna recently said she wanted to write and Eagles a letter about how much he sucked. My mom likes that AJ guy better. Does that count as anything? Perhaps the NFL did over-hype him, but I don't think it had anything to do with his skin color. The NHL does that constantly, does anyone actually think Jamie Storr, Eric Lindros or Alexander Daigle are future hall of famers? You might have by reading PR the NHL spewed out a few years ago about these busts. I do think the league might tell commentors ("The Media in this case I guess) to hype up players to make stars out of them. Either the NHL did that with Lindros or Bill Clement has some sort of homoerotic relationship with the Big E, who he will hype even if he spends the entire game wipping sweat off his brow with a dazed look on his face. Perhaps its the same in the NFL I wouldn't know. The local media certainly doesn't give anyone a pass and in sports I think thats the best way to get our coverage on a certain team.
I wonder if ESPN got what they wished, everyone is talking about the NFL pregame show. I honestly wouldnt have a problem if Rush had mentioned this "black card" theory on his syndicated radio show. Let me just clear this up I am not a ditto head. I know people might not buy into that statement since I am still trying to convince people I am not in love with Jenna. However that is his soapbox, I would have no problem if he did that on his show. You don't have to listen to him. I think Howard Eskin is a ten times larger asshole than Rush, so I rarely listen to him. I admit I tune in on occassion and I do admit to agreeing on what he says about some political issues but I certainly am about as far away as a philly team winning a championship to him when it comes to social vaulues such as race and gay marraiges.
I feel bad for Donovan a bit, despite playing awful the first two weeks. I think he is a classy and well spoken guy who needs this like a new Mathew Perry Movie.
Man what a great week for liberal bloogers Drew's "traffic" is going off the chart. Speaking of the l would like to address my traffic today. I would like to thank both my readers who check this web blog every two weeks. I would also like appoligize to the reader who thought he was reading the life and time of Darcey Tucker. Oh yeah we have a back up on 295 south bound too, which means it must be ending in Y.
Sunday, September 28, 2003
"The Vet"
Well the Vet is now just another abandoned building in Philly. This past Sunday the last Phillies game and last event EVER was there. This week the building will start being gutted.
A good deal was mentioned about the stadium recently. The place had a pretty bad rap, with the awful playing surface and the dirty sections of the stadium. I watched a news report when the guy said it might not have been a great stadium, but when you mention the VET everyone knows what you are talking about.
I think what he ment to say, was that despite the buildings short comings thousands and thousands of people in this area have a story about an experience they had there. If it was a father who brought their son, or a couple who met there, or a memorable game. A million memories are there.
For me it wasnt the games so much as sitting there in the environment. My most memorable game I went to was the game I went to just after 9/11 with Lima Beanz and Ryan. I will never forget that strange feeling that was in the air that night. It was the first night that Baseball had returned after the attacks. I can't even explain the feeling it was a once in a life time feeling.
I am not even sure if they won or not to be honest with you. The building will be imploded in Feb. so now it just sits waiting its demise.
Well the Vet is now just another abandoned building in Philly. This past Sunday the last Phillies game and last event EVER was there. This week the building will start being gutted.
A good deal was mentioned about the stadium recently. The place had a pretty bad rap, with the awful playing surface and the dirty sections of the stadium. I watched a news report when the guy said it might not have been a great stadium, but when you mention the VET everyone knows what you are talking about.
I think what he ment to say, was that despite the buildings short comings thousands and thousands of people in this area have a story about an experience they had there. If it was a father who brought their son, or a couple who met there, or a memorable game. A million memories are there.
For me it wasnt the games so much as sitting there in the environment. My most memorable game I went to was the game I went to just after 9/11 with Lima Beanz and Ryan. I will never forget that strange feeling that was in the air that night. It was the first night that Baseball had returned after the attacks. I can't even explain the feeling it was a once in a life time feeling.
I am not even sure if they won or not to be honest with you. The building will be imploded in Feb. so now it just sits waiting its demise.
Saturday, September 27, 2003
"Clean Slate"
Well more details are coming into Tucker's World about the birth of Jay and Jenna's baby.
Here are some stats. cut and pasted from the proud pappy.
Hunter Steven Volosin born at 11:45 AM on Friday
September 26th 2003.
7 lbs 14 ozs, 21 inches
Jenna will stay in the hospital until Sunday. She released a statment earlier today saying that the experience was trying but she was happy to finally see what the kid looked liked. Much to her dissappointment the child has Jay's ears.
Well this birth has gotten a lot of coverage on my blog. Sometimes Lima Beanz has come under fire, and there have been some damaging reports. However things arent doomed just because the situation is a bit akward. There is still time to change the situation for the better which for the most part is the money aspect.
Luckily for Hunter I will no longer have to refer to him as "it" or "Baby Beanzie". You have to be a bit jealous of the child who has a clean slate. Nothing has been set in stone and he has his whole life ahead of him. Who wouldn't want a clean slate like that?
Well more details are coming into Tucker's World about the birth of Jay and Jenna's baby.
Here are some stats. cut and pasted from the proud pappy.
Hunter Steven Volosin born at 11:45 AM on Friday
September 26th 2003.
7 lbs 14 ozs, 21 inches
Jenna will stay in the hospital until Sunday. She released a statment earlier today saying that the experience was trying but she was happy to finally see what the kid looked liked. Much to her dissappointment the child has Jay's ears.
Well this birth has gotten a lot of coverage on my blog. Sometimes Lima Beanz has come under fire, and there have been some damaging reports. However things arent doomed just because the situation is a bit akward. There is still time to change the situation for the better which for the most part is the money aspect.
Luckily for Hunter I will no longer have to refer to him as "it" or "Baby Beanzie". You have to be a bit jealous of the child who has a clean slate. Nothing has been set in stone and he has his whole life ahead of him. Who wouldn't want a clean slate like that?
Friday, September 26, 2003
"The Arrivial"
Lima Beanz and Jenna are now parents. As of sometime this morning. I missed the call from Jay but the voice mail said that they are now proud parents of a bouncing baby boy. It is unconfirmed at this point wheather or not that Hunter is actually the boy's name.
Tucker's World has not yet learned the actual weight of their child, but there is no reason to think that the birth didn't go smoothly. It is also unclear at this point if Jenna was staying the night in the hospitial.
The contest has already started and already have one winner. Tucker's World plans interview Jenna on here, but it might be hard what with all the poop and screaming and all.
Congrats. the two of you welcome the wonderful world of parenthood. Now the real challenge has started which will last the rest of their lives.
Tucker's World will keep you up to date this weekend
developing.....
Lima Beanz and Jenna are now parents. As of sometime this morning. I missed the call from Jay but the voice mail said that they are now proud parents of a bouncing baby boy. It is unconfirmed at this point wheather or not that Hunter is actually the boy's name.
Tucker's World has not yet learned the actual weight of their child, but there is no reason to think that the birth didn't go smoothly. It is also unclear at this point if Jenna was staying the night in the hospitial.
The contest has already started and already have one winner. Tucker's World plans interview Jenna on here, but it might be hard what with all the poop and screaming and all.
Congrats. the two of you welcome the wonderful world of parenthood. Now the real challenge has started which will last the rest of their lives.
Tucker's World will keep you up to date this weekend
developing.....
"Lesbian Roast"
So out of the blue Ryan and are invited to a former classmate’s surprise 24th b-day party by her girlfriend (not that there is anything wrong with that). It just seems a little strange mainly since Ryan has seen her very few times since we graduated highschool back in 1998. DAMN WE ARE OLD.
Anyway I wouldn’t know the girlfriend who is organizing the event if I ran her over with my 1991 Ford Tempo. So I take it she got my address from an old year book. Now I have seen the guest of honor some what recently. I see her maybe 4 times a year, but that is only because I happen to be at Starview or the same bar as her. I did see more of her since the end of Sterling since we both went to CCC. She didn’t change much still had all kinds of drama going on from what I gathered.
Anyway the party is a “roast” kind of like the things you see on Comedy Central. In addition it is a fundraiser. They are raising money so she gets a car for her 24th b-day. Now keep in mind she wasn’t in some sort of accident or anything. In fact just a week ago I saw her at Somerdale and the Pike at a red light. Her car was nicer than mine! It was kind of old, but I guess could use anew one. Yet the invitation suggests donations from 20-75 to the get her a car fund.
The invitation claims how proud we are all of her recent accomplishments. The last time I saw her was at the diner almost 4 months ago, and I at the time was only working one day a week so I thought I was going to need another job and she offered me a part time job for the summer chich was nice (that only lasted two weeks or so for those of you that still think I work one day a week) . She told me she was working for some movie company or owned some company that does props work for movies when they are shot here. Apparently its not going to well if she can not afford a car of her own. I havent talked to her since.
Now what I don’t get am I obligated to donate the 20 bucks to get in? I don’t spend that much on a friend let alone a casual acquaintance. I mean my car is older and has been around since I was still at Parkview Elementary for Gods sakes. When are people going to raise money for me? We are allowed to make jokes I think. The only one I could think of is that she got more girls in highschool than I did.
The only thing I can think is that they are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel when they got to me. I only hung out with the girl through other people. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against her or her lifestyle but I have not been invited to people’s wedding who I considered myself closer with at some point let alone some friend of mutual friends fundraising b-day.
I can’t figure out if this was a really ballsy unique move, or plan out weird.
Surprise Roast Fundraiser, eh? ((stroking chin))
::: picturing a fundraiser for baby beanzie::
Oh wait, Jenna hated all the girls in high school and broke too many of the guys hearts, and no one remembers who Jay is. Eh, ain’t my kid.
Although If Dan K decides to have a bachelor party(assuming I am invited to his wedding.) I better start making a mental guest list. Even though his party will likely be in a chatroom. Here is what I have so far.
Dan Pike
Jim Amlio
Ray Shawn “The Chief” Hall
Andrew “Vegal,Andy, Drew, Puma, Destro, Uncle Drew,”Vogel.
Lima Beanz
Ed
Matt Owens (perhaps a rematch of the famous St. Luke’s Showdown?)
Old Mantis
Jaun Rios
Jason Kennedy
Jon Shane
Steve Libby
Jason Good
So what did we learn from this article? Well I guess sometimes it is better for me to go up and make a bologna sandwich and go to bed instead of writing for Tucker's World.
For the record I don't see myself making the event.
So out of the blue Ryan and are invited to a former classmate’s surprise 24th b-day party by her girlfriend (not that there is anything wrong with that). It just seems a little strange mainly since Ryan has seen her very few times since we graduated highschool back in 1998. DAMN WE ARE OLD.
Anyway I wouldn’t know the girlfriend who is organizing the event if I ran her over with my 1991 Ford Tempo. So I take it she got my address from an old year book. Now I have seen the guest of honor some what recently. I see her maybe 4 times a year, but that is only because I happen to be at Starview or the same bar as her. I did see more of her since the end of Sterling since we both went to CCC. She didn’t change much still had all kinds of drama going on from what I gathered.
Anyway the party is a “roast” kind of like the things you see on Comedy Central. In addition it is a fundraiser. They are raising money so she gets a car for her 24th b-day. Now keep in mind she wasn’t in some sort of accident or anything. In fact just a week ago I saw her at Somerdale and the Pike at a red light. Her car was nicer than mine! It was kind of old, but I guess could use anew one. Yet the invitation suggests donations from 20-75 to the get her a car fund.
The invitation claims how proud we are all of her recent accomplishments. The last time I saw her was at the diner almost 4 months ago, and I at the time was only working one day a week so I thought I was going to need another job and she offered me a part time job for the summer chich was nice (that only lasted two weeks or so for those of you that still think I work one day a week) . She told me she was working for some movie company or owned some company that does props work for movies when they are shot here. Apparently its not going to well if she can not afford a car of her own. I havent talked to her since.
Now what I don’t get am I obligated to donate the 20 bucks to get in? I don’t spend that much on a friend let alone a casual acquaintance. I mean my car is older and has been around since I was still at Parkview Elementary for Gods sakes. When are people going to raise money for me? We are allowed to make jokes I think. The only one I could think of is that she got more girls in highschool than I did.
The only thing I can think is that they are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel when they got to me. I only hung out with the girl through other people. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against her or her lifestyle but I have not been invited to people’s wedding who I considered myself closer with at some point let alone some friend of mutual friends fundraising b-day.
I can’t figure out if this was a really ballsy unique move, or plan out weird.
Surprise Roast Fundraiser, eh? ((stroking chin))
::: picturing a fundraiser for baby beanzie::
Oh wait, Jenna hated all the girls in high school and broke too many of the guys hearts, and no one remembers who Jay is. Eh, ain’t my kid.
Although If Dan K decides to have a bachelor party(assuming I am invited to his wedding.) I better start making a mental guest list. Even though his party will likely be in a chatroom. Here is what I have so far.
Dan Pike
Jim Amlio
Ray Shawn “The Chief” Hall
Andrew “Vegal,Andy, Drew, Puma, Destro, Uncle Drew,”Vogel.
Lima Beanz
Ed
Matt Owens (perhaps a rematch of the famous St. Luke’s Showdown?)
Old Mantis
Jaun Rios
Jason Kennedy
Jon Shane
Steve Libby
Jason Good
So what did we learn from this article? Well I guess sometimes it is better for me to go up and make a bologna sandwich and go to bed instead of writing for Tucker's World.
For the record I don't see myself making the event.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
“Baby Later”
Well unless victim of a prank Jenna didn’t not give birth to first born son of Jay tonight like I predicted. So it looks as though this contest results in no one winning again. So I am going to spice things up a bit, and expand the contest to the whole gender thing.
If LIMA BEANZ and JENNA give birth to a bouncing baby boy than the first two people to email me TUCKERS WORLD ROCKS! will get a prize from yours truly. I will post on here as soon as humanly possible after word of the birth of “Baby Beanzie” reaches me. Given the fact that my cell phone provider sucks big time I might not get the message until sometime around 2004.
Oh I would also like to propose that if the boy is born the same day that Conan O’brien’s kid is born that the kid is named after the Late Night talk show host.
Well unless victim of a prank Jenna didn’t not give birth to first born son of Jay tonight like I predicted. So it looks as though this contest results in no one winning again. So I am going to spice things up a bit, and expand the contest to the whole gender thing.
If LIMA BEANZ and JENNA give birth to a bouncing baby boy than the first two people to email me TUCKERS WORLD ROCKS! will get a prize from yours truly. I will post on here as soon as humanly possible after word of the birth of “Baby Beanzie” reaches me. Given the fact that my cell phone provider sucks big time I might not get the message until sometime around 2004.
Oh I would also like to propose that if the boy is born the same day that Conan O’brien’s kid is born that the kid is named after the Late Night talk show host.
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
My entry today was originally going to be valid points against the theory that my friends hold about Clinton being the best President ever, but my mind got side tracked. Enjoy these two little nuggets of joy insead.
“Killer Rats”
Okay if it isn’t bad enough that there are genetically altered featherless chickens out there, trolls lurking on the sides of the Garden State Park Way and Homosexual sheep out there now if you couldn’t tell by the title of this article you have a killer rats to look out for.
An unusual breed of rats is inflicting damage on Kyrgyzstan's Dzhalal-Abad region (apparently a place in Europe). These pesky little rats can climb trees ( a bit more nimble than their South Jersey/Philly distant cousins I presume) and are destroying produce.
If rats chomping on Apples doesn’t freak you out they seem more aggressive in nature. They have reportedly been attacking the good people of the Kyrgyzstan's Dzhalal-Abad region and their small children are feared to be a bigger risk of becoming a buffet for a swarm of killer rats. Maybe we can unleash some of these violent natured rodents at my work when the children misbehave.
Scientists and people who are smarter than me theorize that this mutant or killer rats are a cross between muskrats and city rats. Apparently this results in an evil hybrid of blood thirsty rodents. Who would have thought messing around with nature would result in this? I’d imagine that people are trying to shoot this little buggers, and theorize their dead bodies might be made into McDonalds Cheesesteaks.
“Killer Rats”
Okay if it isn’t bad enough that there are genetically altered featherless chickens out there, trolls lurking on the sides of the Garden State Park Way and Homosexual sheep out there now if you couldn’t tell by the title of this article you have a killer rats to look out for.
An unusual breed of rats is inflicting damage on Kyrgyzstan's Dzhalal-Abad region (apparently a place in Europe). These pesky little rats can climb trees ( a bit more nimble than their South Jersey/Philly distant cousins I presume) and are destroying produce.
If rats chomping on Apples doesn’t freak you out they seem more aggressive in nature. They have reportedly been attacking the good people of the Kyrgyzstan's Dzhalal-Abad region and their small children are feared to be a bigger risk of becoming a buffet for a swarm of killer rats. Maybe we can unleash some of these violent natured rodents at my work when the children misbehave.
Scientists and people who are smarter than me theorize that this mutant or killer rats are a cross between muskrats and city rats. Apparently this results in an evil hybrid of blood thirsty rodents. Who would have thought messing around with nature would result in this? I’d imagine that people are trying to shoot this little buggers, and theorize their dead bodies might be made into McDonalds Cheesesteaks.
"You Have Reached the United States of America Sorry We Didn't Get your Call"
So I keep hearing about this national deficit. Maybe I am stupid, but I don’t know how we owe this money to countries? Other people tell me its actually money we owe ourselves. If that is the case than who cares? What are we going to do kick our own asses if we don’t pay?
I learned anything the past few years it is you don’t HAVE to pay your bills. Lima Beanz left his car idle outside my house years ago and missed a few payments on it because he was out of work. Now he drives around a much nicer car than he did before. So who is the fool? Jokes on the collections office.
Why don’t we just pull an LB and not pay off the bills? If it’s the other countries that we owe money the solution is simple. Just don’t pay them back. They never pay us back for anything. In fact when we get other countries out of a jam we usually end up paying them or rebuilding their country.
Is Italy calling us up right now? ::Italian accent:: HEY AMERICA WHEN ARE GONNNA GET ME THE MONEY? I HAVE NO MONEY TO MAKE MY BIG A PIZZA PIES! GIME ME THE MONEY WE NEED A THE BIILLION DOLLARS.
What is even better if these countries are really calling us. Why not help the unemployment situation our country is suffering and hire people to make lame excuses when people start asking us if we are going to get around to paying them. Here are a few good ones. Have them tell the countries looking for their cash that the we are at the guy in charge of treasury fund is at the gym. Maybe we can just put them all on the national no call list .
So I keep hearing about this national deficit. Maybe I am stupid, but I don’t know how we owe this money to countries? Other people tell me its actually money we owe ourselves. If that is the case than who cares? What are we going to do kick our own asses if we don’t pay?
I learned anything the past few years it is you don’t HAVE to pay your bills. Lima Beanz left his car idle outside my house years ago and missed a few payments on it because he was out of work. Now he drives around a much nicer car than he did before. So who is the fool? Jokes on the collections office.
Why don’t we just pull an LB and not pay off the bills? If it’s the other countries that we owe money the solution is simple. Just don’t pay them back. They never pay us back for anything. In fact when we get other countries out of a jam we usually end up paying them or rebuilding their country.
Is Italy calling us up right now? ::Italian accent:: HEY AMERICA WHEN ARE GONNNA GET ME THE MONEY? I HAVE NO MONEY TO MAKE MY BIG A PIZZA PIES! GIME ME THE MONEY WE NEED A THE BIILLION DOLLARS.
What is even better if these countries are really calling us. Why not help the unemployment situation our country is suffering and hire people to make lame excuses when people start asking us if we are going to get around to paying them. Here are a few good ones. Have them tell the countries looking for their cash that the we are at the guy in charge of treasury fund is at the gym. Maybe we can just put them all on the national no call list .
Thursday, September 18, 2003
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