Drive-by Humor

I was out with the wifie and kids earlier in the week and I noticed something that was a little odd on a particular object of my affection.  A pool table (or billiard table for those that want to be snobby) at a local Goodwill.  It would draw any normal red-blooded man to its attention.  I wanted it but knew two things: 1) I didn't have $130 to spend and 2) I don't have the space for a pool table.  I would still want to look at it.  But something caught my eye about the table.  It didn't make it a valuable table but it did make it one thing that I do love.  It made it a fail.  And I love fails.  So I posted a video about it to my Youtube account.  Worse case scenerio, it gave me practice on using the camcorder on my mobile to do it right next time.  Here it is...

And trust me, this is just the first of many more videos to come.

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WTF PEOPLE!?! Superbowl XLV

I know I'm a little late on the whole posting and stuff, lots of personal and professional stuff but that's not the reason for this.  Hell, this posting is a little late on the fact that Superbowl was 3 days ago as well as I'm writing this.  The thing is, this was probably the first Superbowl that I could remember that I wasn't able to watch due to other commitments (in this case, work: but it was well worth it.)  I actually watched it over the past few days little by little to compose what my thoughts of this year's, um... how should I put this, DEBAUCHERY stood as far as my expectations and addressing my concerns with from my Superbowl memories.  Oh, where do I begin,

First let me compare to what I normally analyze during a Superbowl.  It's generally a trifecta of things that have to go right to make a Superbowl a Superbowl.  There's the game itself, the commercials, and the halftime show; and in my opinion Superbowl XLV dropped the bomb for the most part on two if not all three of these factors.  I'll try to analyze them all the best I can being that this is the day after for me watching it all, just be glad that I took some time to let it all simmer otherwise it would've been a no-holdsbarred bitchfest which wouldn't have been productive for anyone.

One of the factors that concerned me was the game itself.  Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE FOOTBALL!!!  It's the pinnacle American sport.  It shows off brute force with smart sly decision making and the occasion slight of hand that makes you go WTF!?!  And for something like a performance of what happened this year just gets to me.  I was pissed to hear that Green Bay won for two reasons.  One of which that they manage to just barely get by my Eagles during the first round of the playoffs (I'm still po'ed about that one), and the second is of course the W over the Steelers (the wifie's team).  I was all set for them to take a 7th title and the I try to support the wifie in her  fanfare towards her team.  There were calls that should've have been made, there were passes that should've have been intercepted, and most of all, the two minute drill that never-friggin-happened!!!  That just urks me, it was supposed to be the turning point in the game to make it exciting to watch and then BAM  stonewalled by an interception and the that's all for the record books.  Another thing is that I personally didn't get a chance to see the game live for like the first time ever.  No biggie but it's kind of a symbolism to be a man, watch the game with beer and chips in hand cussing out the refs on the TV if you couldn't make it to the game; and then those poor bastards that couldn't get into Cowboy Stadium because of the weather.  Sure they're reimbursed 3x face value and have tickets to XLVI, but is it really worth it for them to shell out more money for room and board and travel among all the other crap to make up for what they burned from this years event?!?  Ahh NFL, sometimes I wonder about you.

The other aspect that was a downer for me was the halftime show.  It was just horrible for most people, hell it was for me too...   First I like to say that the Black Eyed Peas are great on the radio, I never seen them live, and after watching the halftime show, I can honest say that I'm blessed that I haven't seen them live prior.  It was bad, really bad.  I mean when the highlight of the show was the extras dancing on the field beats out band themselves and even the most flametastic getup that I've seen Slash had the misfortune of wearing, that says a lot.  It sucked, badly.  Oh, and don't think that I've forgot the shittastic version of the National Anthem.  Seriously, how friggin' dumb do you have to be to screw up the Star-Spangled Banner!?!   So I say Christina Aguilera, how much bleach soaked threw your hair to your brain to possibly F this up so badly?!?  It makes me sick.  It almost makes me wish Roseanne sang it again...  It was God-awful, but at least she didn't make it Sunday Night at the Improv.

But to a lighter note, the commercials were hit, and miss.  The obvious heavy hitters who never let anyone down were GoDaddy.com and Doritos making me wanna go Cool Ranch all over registering a new .co domain.  But some of the commercials were just a straight facepalm of disgrace.  I'm talking about you Kia, WTF were you thinking with that?!?  It was all over the place and just a big bottle of crap in my opinion.  This also apply to the new Transformers movie (Michael Bay, please don't shit on this one like you did to Rise of the Fallen.)  Some commercials were kinda kool, mainly the two spots featuring Eminem (The Sprite commercial left me in tears of hilarity and the Chrysler 200 commercial left me in tears of joy for the love someone could have for a town that have been to hell and back.)  Also some of the movie trailers left me wanting to hit the theaters in 2011 such as Kung Fu Panda 2, Thor, and Captain America.  Those to me so wreaked of awesome.  Let me tell you, I'll be definitely watching them and giving my thoughts later in the year on them.  So I leave you with just as I said, a hit and miss.  Maybe next year.


But all in all, the only thing that I can take from missing this years Superbowl was the first hand experience of such.  It's kinda like second-hand smoke, it kills me more waiting for the wins and the fails than making fun of it the first time around.  Ah, the hell with it, now it's time to focus on the 2011 Draft picks and rooting for my Eagles in Superbowl XLVI.


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All of Live's Best Laid Plans

I sometime don't know what stuff I try to get myself into at times. I try to start up something (this blog for instance,) and when other things in life takes priority or if there is a sudden change of lifestyle, crap starts to hit the fan.

During the past few months I've been trying to do other things on the side. And when I mean on the side, I mean other stuff outside of my family, work, and this blog. One of which was another project with a friend of mine to review all things that makes us tick. We were going to put on a weekly commentary on weird shit from the Generation-X one off made for TV movie to the correlation of all the different gameshows that are on air or previously were. Needless to say, it's still haven't made the light of day and I still want to try it sometime. The thing is I have no time. Literally the way we have our schedules are so out of wack it's not even funny. It sucks, because I really thought that it would take off on the shear originality and randomnisity of it all. But alas, I suppose it was just never meant to be.

Another thing that came to my attention in recent weeks is that I was 'invited' to be part of a band that some of my co-workers wanted my talents for. They found out I've played bass (albeit I no longer have them) and they were in need of a bassist. I know, I know, that would've been sweet, but how are you gonna play without a bass. Two kickers here people. Number one, they had a bass for me to play and were willing to let me use it while playing. Number two, we have the same days off and the lieu of a schedule mishap was throw out of the window. The only problem is, there's no communication on when the practice is so for the past three weeks, there hasn't been jack on any practice time so yet another thing thrown out the window.

I mean, c'mon man... I just don't get it. It's hard enough to try to keep up with this (and trust me I am going to try to keep up on this more,) but to add on more crap to the picture?!? It's just insanity in my picture.

So this is my rant on some of the things (not all of them) that what I've been trying to do beyond all the other things I'm already doing, and the lack of time and/or communication on trying to get it done. The burden of trying to spread myself too thin. Don't get me wrong I'm great at multitasking, but when it requires a near act of God to try to get things moving... It's pretty damn hard. Yeah, why couldn't I've just said that in the beginning and it would've saved me some time and headache: 'it's pretty damn hard.'

Simplicity is bliss...

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