So the New York Rangers got Rick Nash for basically nothing.  Who is running the Columbus Blue Jackets?  John Ferguson Jr?

Watching the best fails on youtube, I have to wonder what would make people even attempt to do any of these things?  I am going to attempt to jump from the roof of my house and land into a garbage container.   The best that happens from this is that you land in the garbage container.  That's awfully low on the gratification scale.

Story:   When I was growing up we did quite a few questionable things.  We had all jumped into a buddies car.  He was the only person with a driver license of course.  We decided that we should smash some mail boxes off of a local side road.  There were six people in the car and one of the people noticed a very easy to smash wooden mailbox coming up.  We stopped and checked it out.  The driver piped up and said that he would like to give this one a shot.  Little did we know that some of the mailboxes had now been made to look like wood, but were actually steel.  He wound up with a aluminum bat and attempted to smash it.  The bat ricocheted off of the mailbox and smashed him in the back of the head.  It had knocked him unconscious for a short time.  None of us had our driver licenses and we had all been drinking.  One of the buddies was brave enough to attempt the tour back to town with the concussed driver passed out laying over three girls in the back seat.

The openings of the Olympics weren't half bad this year.  It was nice to see the Brits focus on the music side of things.  Seeing the Arctic Monkey's play live in front of the Queen was priceless.

VIP sale on August 23rd if I haven't already mentioned it.  Let me know if you need anything within the FS town limits.

Still haven't seen Batman.  I love Batman, don't love sitting in any theater for 2:45 minutes plus eight hours of commercials and previews.

I am not very good at the jumbled face coming together quiz in the theater.

If you had to fight one of these two men in a fight to the death who would it be?   Jean Claude Van Damme from Bloodsport or Liam Neeson from Taken?

I hate the feeling of knowing you made a mistake instantly, but there is no way to scramble out from under it.

Started watching Farscape recently.  It is the most out there, odd, what the f*** am I watching, mesmerizing shows that I have ever seen.  8.5/10

Playing Mystic this coming Wednesday.  Mystic is a gorgeous golf course just outside of KW that was attempted to be made into a PGA tour type course, but the builder ran out of money and it's so out in the boonies that they can't get power out there.

Attempted to go running yesterday.  Am I doing it wrong?   It's so bloody boring.

Jimmy Kimmel has a segment that has celebrities reading angry tweets from people that are writing about the celebrity.  It's pretty good if you haven't seen it before.

There was something magical about the sweep of the NY Yankees by the Oakland Athletics.  It's the old adage of David versus Goliath.  It's the first time in forty years that the A's were able to sweep a four game series of the Yankees.  There is something magical about this Oakland team.  They seem to be able to get timely hits when needed most and are able to get steady pitching each and every game.  They have an old man starter in Bartolo Colon and and a bunch of kids to go with him.  If they were able to get one more bat that might put them over the top to snag one of the two wild card spots. 

Have you ever smelt a bottle of Colt 45 that has been sitting out for a couple of hours?  It's toxic, and not in a Britney Spears circa '03 way.

Our co-ed slopitch team won our second game of the season.  The other teams first baseman came up to bat and gave me the hand up time symbol after being down 12-2.  It felt good to strike her out.  This isn't fastball or hardball it's slopitch.  You don't call for time while you get your feet planted for a lob ball that's coming in.

If you think you know the Beastie Boys, you don't.  Check out In Sounds From The Way Out.

No one likes the credit card dudes that come up to you in Zehrs.  I feel bad for these people.  This is one of the worst jobs.

Top 3 Worst Jobs

3. Cold Calling Anyone
2. Door to Door Sales
1. In the 1800's people had to wear a suit covered in honey.  They were there to attract all the bugs so that they wouldn't bother the guests.

Black Dynamite is now an animated show.  The first episode was fantastic.  It's about Michael Jackson being an alien that beats his family because they aren't talented enough.

Going to see the Jays/A's this coming Thursday.  Not sure who I am going to cheer for since they are my two favorite teams. 

The Flyers signed Shea Weber to an offer sheet this past week.  Nashville has seven days to match it.  Here's the details you need to know about it.  14 years/110 million, 26 million is possible in the first year if he maxes out all of the bonuses.  Nashville is a small budget team that would have a hard time generating 26 million.  They can't trade him for one year if they match the offer.  Basically the Flyers have put a gun to their head and said make a decision.

Chernobyl Diaries - 4.2/10

Zombie run is in Sept or Oct near Toronto this year.  It's a 5km run that has zombies popping out trying to eat you and have to avoid them.  Sounds like a great time, might make this the first run that I do.

Turn 34 in the next couple of weeks.  When does my brain switch from an irresponsible young adult to a fully functional productive member of society?

People that come into the shop can't know that I am in my mid 30's.  They always ask me where I am going to school?  Or how I could possibly remember the time that everybody didn't have a computer to themselves.  I remember distinctly having to go to the LDSS library and having to sign out one of the four computers that they had in there to check my hotmail account.  It took 15 minutes to load for the one message that I received from the hotmail team.

That whole Batman shooting in Colorado is terrifying.  To know that this could happen to anyone at anytime is an awful feeling. 

I have dyed my hair blonde a couple of times over the years.  This is the second worst mistake that I have ever made.  The worst was still having a mullet when the first time I dyed my hair blonde.

Frank Ocean, I apologize for not giving you a chance earlier. 

Listening to 80's music for 24 hours straight will make you hallucinate something extremely powerful.

Had a dream last night that I was babysitting a kid, but had no idea who he was.  The end of the dream ended with me being in New York without the keys to my apartment and no wallet or phone.  Now that's a nightmare.

Big Brother is back.  There are no words to describe my love for this show. 

Grizzly Bear is coming to town soon.  Tickets are booked. 


Peach and Mango salsa.  According to Sara it's the bees knees.

When you hear the instrument the sitar.  Your brain instantly transforms you into a dude high on LSD in the back of a Volkswagon van with a women wearing a flowery dress shimmering in an odd manner that is both frightening and calming.

For my birthday weekend we will be attempting costumes from the website People of Walmart.  If you don't know what this is, Google it and have a disgusting laugh.  I was thinking of having a cabbage patch doll and hanging on to it only by it's foot upside down.

I am not sure why everyone of my costume ideas involves looking disgustingly awful.  See my attached Facebook profile pic for details.

Wes Anderson, the only director that I go to an art house theater to go see his movie.

Rum Runners Pub, my pub of choice.  I seem to prefer the dark,dank, downstairs feel of a pub versus the the upscale fakeness of a Boston Pizza or Charcoal group restaurant.  The beer on tap always seems to be better with more interesting people to talk to.

Again went to Yuk Yuks recently, another stellar comic.  There is nothing better then having your stomach hurt from laughing too much.

Steve Earle is gigantic now.  Copperhead Road must have too many McDonald's on it now.


Am I getting old or is American Apparel the loudest store of all time?  Sara needed to go there to pick up clothing and I felt like I was at a concert of every type of music that I hated right beside the speaker.

The marble rye bread that was on Seinfeld looked very appetizing.  I understood why George's father stole it back after the dinner party.

Disco Batman also had too many tacos over the past five years.

Wil Wheaton was a super nice guy, and was very entertaining on stage.  We had a photograph with him as a team of Mexican Superheroes.

Jeff, who lives at home - 8.6/10
Magic Mike - ?  Come on did you really think that would happen.

I used to really enjoy the commercials that didn't make any sense.  Old Spice made the best ones, but now every company seems to be doing weird commercials and jumping on the band wagon. Perrier has one and there is also a drink spray one as well, I can't think of the name of it, and searching drink spray weird commercial doesn't work in google.

People that don't enjoy trying new beers drive me crazy.  There were years when I was younger that I wouldn't try anything new, and now that I actually expanded my tastes the LCBO has completely opened up.

Daryl's helping people not to be creepy tip number 1 - Don't tell someone's wife how nice her body is when her husband is standing beside her.

If I was to open a bar I would call it a saloon.

Bottlecaps the candy, is one of my few weaknesses when it comes to candy.

Met a dude at the convention that had eyes like a direwolf.  If this dude came into work I think I would avoid him at all costs.

There is a new board game that is Game of Thrones, Risk style.  Great cottage board game I believe.

Finally doing some golfing this week, it's about time.

There is a convention in November in Guelph called Genrecon.  If you are looking to get your feet wet with a scifi convention this would be a great one to go to.  Fairly small, first year running, and near home.

Inspirational, religious, and family oriented quotes are three of the most useless things on Facebook.  I think my count of rolling my eyes while reading the updates rose above twenty in one day.

Rotten tomatoes has actually helped the quality of movies.  If the rating is in the rotten category they seem to have a hard time at the box office.  Somehow Transformers doesn't have this problem, but with everything else it seems to be helping the quality of the movies.

Does anybody want to see Moonrise Kingdom next week at the Princess in Waterloo?

There is a band out of Hamilton called Monster Truck, they have a rare hard rock sound to them.  Bands style is similar to Graveyard or in non indie music terms, heavy Stone Temple Pilots.