Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Quebec City is this coming weekend with Sara.  Just a reminder that I won the trip all expenses paid in case you forgot.

Congrats to the couple in my hometown that had quadruplets this past week.  You now have almost a starting lineup for the Lords.  Yes! it's Lords, not the stupid Lightning.  What a terrible name that is.

Top 3 Blue Jays that could fall off of the face of the earth.

3.  Jose Bautista (stop your whining, you are not even the best player on the team)
2. Melky Cabrera (Welcome back to earth)
1. John Gibbons (You could put a can of Guinness there and it would do a better job, yes there is a can of Guinness on my table.)

The Vine is a social media site that only has 6 seconds of video.  It's very entertaining and very strange.  I really enjoy it, and know that a few people in particular on my twitter really enjoy my vines.  So you are welcome for that.

CD's are now retro in my opinion.  We still sell them at work, but when I look at one I only see old technology.

Bands are crying the blues about all the pirating that's going on.  Easy solution, tax all storage devices heavily and give the bands royalties for the downloads that they are losing out on.  You need to have storage for all the illegal music you are getting.  Pretty simple to me.

Worst thing that has happened to me this morning is rolling over on my pillow and putting my face in my own drool.  Did not like that.

The Purge - 7.2/10

Quick synopsis - 10 years in the future people are allowed to take all their aggression out in one 12 hour period.  There is no law and no repercussion for any of your actions.  

Played baseball without a hat this past weekend.   It's very strange running the bases with my hair flowing.  I am not sure if I feel faster or just more free.  I think if I timed myself both ways that I could run faster without a hat.

What the hell is there to do in Kansas City?  The National and Tame Impala are playing together there in October.  Why couldn't they be playing somewhere cool like Detroit?

Using hiking poles with a giant flower hat to walk around town is a bold move.

I was recently sent a link to buy sleeping gloves on the Amazon.ca website.  What does a sleeping glove do for you?  I really wanted a description, but Amazon failed me in this regard.  All it says is "good for sleeping."

 TSN should have a check off of getting Toronto Maple Leafs news as an update.  Mark Fraser signs a 1 year deal for 1.275 million is the update I got.  I want that 3 seconds back.

Made a bet with somebody recently that we would both do an amateur night in the next four months.  We are not sure on the date yet, but will let everyone know.  Comedy Club amateur night you perverts.

Putting your head through a wall while partying is something that I see in movies.  It seems as though I should like this, but I don't think I would.  Automatic assumption, this person is going to be a handful later.  I am out of here.






Tuesday, July 23, 2013

You know your golf technique is not down yet when you strain your forearm and hurt your pinky finger from swinging the golf club too hard.

Witnessed a man cutting his grass by just sitting on the grass with no shirt on and pulling it out with his hands.
He was putting the grass in a coffee tin, and had one of those almost passed out looks on his face.

Oblivion - 6.4/10

Pretty movie, but there are way too many American cliches and the story line just takes pieces from multiple scifi movies.  Do they have a hard time finding women that are shorter than Tom Cruise to play leading ladies.  He just looks ridiculous when trying to look deep into the eyes of a taller woman.

Sara made me lasagne last night from scratch.  It was a fantastic surprise.  I now have quite a bit more respect for people that make lasagne from scratch.  There are a lot of steps that you have to worry about.  One of the steps is answering multiple times from the guy on the couch doing nothing if it's done yet.

Retro websites are going to become a thing.  You heard it here first.  If you don't believe me have a look at this site.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Ribfest -  This is an event where the best rib makers and micro breweries come out in full force.  The idea is great, but the execution wasn't quite where I needed it to be.  Beers were too small, and lineups were too long.  Where did all these people come from?  At one point  I was in line waiting for a beer, a good ten minutes goes past, and I realize that I am in the line for coolers instead of beer.  I had to make a decision.  Mike's hard lemonade which doesn't go well with ribs or go to a different line.  Choose your own adventure?

Luigi Alegini - Best Italian name of all time? 

Have you ever had a conversation with someone that was so boring that you felt yourself falling asleep standing up?   Your eyes begin to glaze over, and even your constant yawning doesn't make them shut up.  The last resort that you have it just to fall down face first on cement.  Seems extreme, but sometimes the most extreme action is the most necessary action.

Falling down so hard that you get turf in the frame of your glasses is rare, but I have seen it a few times in my day.

Don't be one of  those people that pull the drop in move.  You know, come over unannounced.  There is nothing worse than not being prepared for a conversation. 

Story - Played golf recently.  It was a par four that was 312 yards, you couldn't see the green from the tee off.  I hammered a drive straight and ended up reaching the green.  Noticed while walking up there that there were people putting when the ball had rolled on to the green.  Meeting up the with the group on the tee off on the next hole.  The elder Scotsman, at least 75 years old yelled at me in a glorious Scottish accent  "You got no sense in that head?  You should be put into the looney bin."  Two facts I would like to state here.  I have never been told that I should be put into a looney bin.  And I wanted to tell everybody that I drove a par 4 green.

I am not as good at eating chips and dip as I use to be.

Top 3 bad decisions while drinking that I can remember.

3 - Challenging a stronger than she looked woman to an arm wrestle.
2 - Yes, we can fit 8 people in this car at Modeans.
1 - Challenging a person to a race in a dark park with raised sidewalks in Welland.

Boston Pizza just opened a restaurant with  a bowling alley attached to Bingeman's.  They have leather couches while you are waiting to shoot, and dozens of huge televisions with random sporting games on.  Beats Brunswick bowl where they have 20" tube TV's with McCain deep dish pizza's, and locals that are still wearing Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet t-shirts.

Do you know any person that would want a tail?  If you do, I would like you to share their story. 

Alright I like Sombersby.  I have been trying to deny it for a couple of summers.  And yes, I can fit a few of them in my purse.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

There are people that I know in this world that I think would be very good at naming porno renditions of already famous blockbuster movies. 

I have a much better tan this summer than usual.  Not really great for you I know, but it's better than looking like a frazzled magician coming off of a bender.

My You Tube channel has not lifted off of the ground yet.  Really hard to method act when you work as a salesman.  People just don't want to buy things from you when you are portraying an ex con with an addiction to love potions.

Do you think that the Hives song click, click, click Boom is actually about a hard drive in a computer?  Nerds get this joke.  Come on!

Had a dream recently that Nathan Fillion and I were having a drink together at a bar.  We had an awkward silence, he then looked at his watch and told me that he had to go.  I tried to find something to say to keep him there, but it was too late.  How do you let the coolest man in the scifi realm walk out of your life without just saying "Captain" with a nod.

Watched this clip on Fallon recently pretty good.  Matt Harvey interviewing people about Matt Harvey.



Montana's has so many good beers on tap.  Decent prices on appetizers, and enough TV's to keep me happy.  So why have I only been there once in the past year?  If you ever want me to avoid your establishment play country music.  When I put my finger next to my ear I noticed there was a tear that had formed on the outside of my ear 

Powerade, you are the terrible sister of the gorgeous Gatorade.

I was hit with a snowball this past Sunday.  My brain had a hard time registering how this had happened.  Two things here.  I haven't been hit by a snowball since 1949, and it was 40 degrees out.

Cows don't feel ice cubes when you hit them in the head with it.

Aaron Hernandez - There is a rumor that they enjoy tight ends in jail. 

I  have been losing weight recently.  It has gotten to the point of when I put my pants on without a belt that they just fall to the ground.  I feel like a character from Looney Tunes. 

Top 3 injuries that I had to shrug off to keep my manliness

3 - Too hard of a high five
2 - Kicking a soccer ball too hard (the goaltender caught it with such ease that made it worse)
1 - Coconut off of the shin from throwing it off of a step in Costa Rica.

A great job for me would be just to walk around the grocery store and grab things off of the top shelf for shorter people.  I always feel like their hero when I do it.

Trying to bring down my TV watching to a minimum.  Always feel like music and writing is a better way to keep my brain flowing. 

Always wanted to learn how to play bass just to develop a groovy 70's bass line that Shaft would be willing to walk out to.

When people pretend like they are riding a horse but aren't riding a horse.  I enjoy that.

Monday, July 15, 2013

If you really want to call somebody out on a performance call it pitiful.  Their reaction will be that of shame and shock.  Another one that works is that was disappointing, but not surprising. 

If I had an alter ego as a DJ.  My costume would never involve wearing a helmet that was probably super hot.  Maybe one of those cheesy eye coverups.  No one can tell who you are.  You are covering up three inches of your whole face.

Have you ever witnessed anyone actually shaking in their boots?  I have, and it was fairly impressive.

As we speak I own one poster.  When I was a teenager I had many of posters.  White Zombie, Black Sabbath, Korn, Soulfly, Jenny McCarthy, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin to name a few.  I now own one poster and it's of the movie Tron.  I will let you decide whether this is cool or not.

There is a person at work that has never seen any movie with Daniel Day Lewis.  You just want to take this person by the hand and tell them everything is going to be OK.  We are now going to watch Gangs of New York and you will understand the true love of a great man with only a left foot.

Played co-ed slopitch yesterday.  Really had to layer up out there.  Cool evening!  I had the look of a person that had just run a marathon.  And I had only run from first to third.

Bit my lip yesterday eating.  By now you would think I would know the dimensions of my own mouth, and not make a mistake like this.

Really want a chance to sing a song at somebody's wedding.  Bride's are hard to convince.  Grooms not as difficult.  Unfortunately it doesn't really matter what the Groom says.

Old men are good at euchre.  My little bro and I lost two games within about twenty minutes and I was out $5.00. 

Celebrity golf tournament is this coming weekend in Listowel.  My team won it years ago.  I won a Calgary Flames golf bag that I am currently still using.  I thought that I would have more people mistake me for a member of the Calgary Flames, but this rarely happens.

I am the same age as veteran pitcher Mark Beurhle.  I don't really feel like a veteran myself.  I have a plush orangutang that I sit up to watch sports highlights with me.  Don't think that's something a veteran would do.

Really like this song right now.  Nothing quite like the new National album, but I have to start somewhere.  




Seeing a person react to a golf ball hitting their moving vehicle.  The best thing about it was that it's exactly how I would have reacted. Arms to the sky talking to yourself. "What the f***, what's the f*****g chances?  F***."

 My hair grows quickly.  The haircuts that should never come back?  The bowl cut and the rat tail.  Both of these were damned to people in certain areas of Cambridge. 

Noticed recently that a few people are chewing tobacco again.  Tried it once when I was playing golf in Listowel.  Screwed it up, and it got all over my mouth.  I had to play the last three holes with this black stuff all over my mouth and trying not to barf.

Don't really like anything to do with traveling fairs.  One thing that I would like is if it was like it was in the early 1900's with strong men and freak shows.  Rather than Carnies taking my money and up selling me on the dart balloon game.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Entertainment Weekly came out with their best 100 of everything.  Usually this magazine doesn't always see eye to eye on everything with me.  They ranked The Beatles, Revolver as number one.  I wouldn't rank this number one, but I think it's the best Beatles album.  Good work EW!

It's challenging talking to someone when they interrupt you every time that you attempt to speak.  It's great practice for patience though.  Sometimes I play a game with myself where I try to see how many words I can get in before I am interrupted.

Sara is back now.  I will steal a little bit of her thunder.  There is a drink at a local bar in Dawson City called the sourtoe cocktail.  It has severed toes in it from people that have lost their toes because of frost bite.  You must drink the cocktail with the toe in your drink, and the toe must touch your lip.  Dig it!

Evil Dead - 7.5/10


Building a snowman is something that I miss, but it looks very strange having a couple of grown men making a snowman.  People will generally assume that you have a learning disability if there isn't a child present.  Also getting into a snowball fight with your buddy will look strange.

Andrea Bargnani is no longer a Toronto Raptor and according to the highlights on TSN he never made a shot in his career.

I would still like to try contacts out.  It's going to be amusing for everyone to watch me put something in my eye. The concentration faces that I make are out of the ordinary.  My face kind of looks like the guy from the Goonies when I try hard.

Picked up the book called the 5th wave the other day.  It sounds very similar to the Hunger Games.  Oh, and yes I do like to shop in the young adult section when it comes to books.  Frakkin' George R.R. Martin books require me to look at the legend too often.  "Who is this guy?  What family is he from?  Is he from Winterfell?  My brain hurts."

When two adults race, and haven't ran for years.  It's exciting and frightening all at once.  Usually somebody hurts themselves at some point, and it's never worth it for anyone.

I have no problem with people walking through the drive thru at fast food restaurants after it closes.  This should be allowed.  If they want two soft tacos at 2am, you better damn well give them two soft tacos.

People getting stuck in a barb wire fence always ends with no injuries, but with ripped clothing.

Top 3 worst things that happened this past Monday.

3 - Toronto Flooding
2 - Having to listen to a dude complain about how the cup at the airport was not big enough for his dog to drink out of.
1 - Having to eat black pepper peanuts for dinner. 

Tim Horton's was an option, but was an hour and a half wait.  If I ever wait for a shitty turkey sandwich and large double double coffee for an hour and a half, stop reading my blog.

Water noises in songs are always successful.  Just ask Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

I enjoy playing golf with older people.  It always makes me feel stronger than I actually am.  Great way to boost your confidence.

Meanwhile in Japan - When we arrived there we went to a restaurant to get something to eat.  The deal is that they have pictures of the food, and you grab a little slip from the picture that you want.  It is very difficult to distinguish the difference between noodles and intestines in pictures.  It was always a game of Russian Roulette every time we ordered.  I shot myself a couple of times.

I am not exactly sure why I loved wrestlers so much as a child.  My grandpa made me a wicked homemade wrestling ring and I use to plan out these extravagant Saturday Night Main Events out.  In the end it was always the Ultimate Warrior that won.  He always looked the strongest as a rubber doll.

Here's an idea for my next party.  Homemade robot costumes from cardboard and other random materials that I have lying around the house.  I get to get rid of a lot of my useless crap, and you get to dress as a robot.  Everybody wins!

Saturday, July 6, 2013

July 6th

Hockey free agency started.  Is there a rule that all players must sign the first day of the free agent signing period?


Reading over my blogs of the past I noticed that every time I try to write use to I write used to.  I need an editor for this thing.

Also the blog that I wrote a few days ago is now deleted.  The internet likes to eat my stuff. 

There would be no way that I could last more then 2 weeks living in a tent. 

Horse heads and unicorn heads are a terrific new fad.  Nothing better then seeing a horse head at a sporting event or at a rave. 

I have been to one rave in my life.  It was in a farmers field just outside of my hometown.  Nothing weirder then seeing people that have no idea how to dance to rave music.  Raving in a field with livestock within a shouting distance away.  Cows were upset for weeks.

Bob Marley should only be allowed to come on the Ipod when I am outdoors in the sun with a refreshing beverage.  In my living room with a Tim Horton's coffee writing my blog doesn't cut it. 

What about music that automatically makes you stoned, drunk, sad, or happy.  "I have to go to work.  I can't have Metallica come on, and me slammed on Jack Daniels." 

Ran into an issue the other night.  Would love to go to a pub, but the pub is too far away and I had been drinking.  Cab was going to cost anywhere from 40 to 50 dollars.  Not paying that and no one could drive.  If you want to have people not drink and drive, go out and support local bars.  Government should cover part of the cost of cabs or you should make them cheaper.  Here's news for you.  No one has  a good time being the DD. 

Paper route as a child.  Talk about child labor.  I was paid $9.00 a week.  It took me two and half hours to do the paper route. 

There is no good way to warn somebody if you passed gas.  You just let them figure it out.  The look on their face is still priceless when they go through the danger zone.

I would last 4 months if I lived in the time of Cavemen. 

David Clarkson for 7 years eh?  You realize that he has scored more than 17 goals once?  You are paying him how much?  Great contract for a mediocre second liner.

Ilya Bryzgalov for how much, and how many years?  You know he's never won a playoff series, right?  Oh, and you traded your captain and best scorer to free up the room to get him?  Nice, can't see how this can go wrong?

If you ask someone to help you move here's the etiquette.

- Buy good beer
- Make them dinner if you have time. 
- Steak or burgers (not the burgers that are no name, that are hockey pucks when you are done cooking them.)
- Never ask more then once for each person
- And never ask me.

This is currently my favourite new song from the National
 



It's hard to turn down a cupcake.  It doesn't matter the situation.

Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love has really thrown me off my game here.  I have deleted the last three things I have written.

There is nothing more uncomfortable than watching somebody with absolutely no game trying to flirt with a waitress.  I was trying to decide what I wanted to eat and saw him struggling.  Instead of helping him out I decided to prolong the pain, and just made hmmm noises similar to the ones where you can tell someone is close to a decision so you can't leave, but they are not quite there yet.  I am a good friend.