Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year to all the people that read this blog.  If you generally don't read this blog then you should feel ashamed.  Now do 3 shots of tequila.  I do realize that it's 9:49AM.  It's New Years!

If you need to tell somebody that you were just joking after you say something. One of two following things have happened.  You crossed the line and the person is kind of upset. Or what you said isn't funny.  Either way you're a dick.

Keep an eye out on your Facebook for a Rum Runners pub event.  I am going to put something together.  I am not sure what it's going to be yet.  For those that have any ideas I would love to hear them as well.

It was sad to see some of the seasonal associates go at FS this week.  It's nice to see people that love their job and want to do anything to stick around.  There is so much negativity for most jobs that it's wicked to see this happen every once in a while.

The Hobbit - 8.1/10
Breaking Bad as a whole - 9.9/10

Also witnessed the Breaking Bad series finale.  Here is how I compare the Breaking Bad series finale to the Dexter series finale.  Are you watching the Spengler Cup or the World Juniors?

Sara sometimes can't watch sports with me.  There was a lot of the following while watching the Green Bay/Chicago game.  Throwing pillows, getting up/sitting down, drinking, yelling, high pitched voices, swearing, drinking again, and then celebrating....

Boxing Day has come and gone.  Every Boxing Day that a person works in retail takes three years off of their life.  It's a fact.  Since I was going to live till 140 we are good.

Top 3 actresses that were the most downloaded pictures during the days of dial up?  Receiving one bar of picture every few seconds was absolute torture for all teenage boys.

3 - Courtney Cox
2 - Cameron Diaz
1 - Jennifer Aniston

Dion Phaneuf for 7 years at 49 million.  Wonder if his agent had to do the math for him?  The way I look at his contract.  Would you consider someone that is making 7 million a year to be a consideration for Team Canada?  Is Dion Phaneuf a consideration for Team Canada?

When I was a young lad I really disliked receiving gift cards of any sort at Christmas time.  Now there is nothing better.  Also socks and underwear use to be a death sentence.  Now, you will never see a man eyes light up more than getting socks.  This might be an overstatement, but it's still a great gift.

We had to sneak in a couple of pops into the theater recently.  Whenever I am going to have a drink of something that I have had to sneak into a place the taste of Mountain Dew is not the taste that I want.  I feel like a pimply faced boy.  I guess I was at the Hobbit so it's not that far fetched.

I am one of ten jury members that will be allowed to kick five people off of television for good.  They will also receive a wedgie and a swirly as well.  Miley Cyrus why don't you lick a pole outside in Northern Saskatchewan for your New Years resolution?  Also put your tongue back in your mouth.  Unless you have black and white make up on you are not allowed to do this.

Everybody be safe tonight.  I hope you accomplished everything that you thought you would this past year.  If not, well champagne is still being sold and it's a new year starting tomorrow.

Happy New Year from Hosehead.


Friday, December 27, 2013

Hope everybody had a great Christmas.  Now let's get down to the brass tax.   Always wanted to say that and I don't even know if that's the correct saying.

Rum Runners pub will be closing down in March.  The Walper Terrace hotel is doing renovations and upped Rum Runners rent.  This place has been a staple of downtown Kitchener for years and will be sorely missed.  I  have heard that they are going to try to open up somewhere else in the downtown area.  Hopefully this is true.  I will shed a Guinness tear when this place closes. 

Boxing Day was yesterday at work.  As per usual it was absolute chaos.  Have you ever had a dream that you were standing at a desk while doing something and there were multiple people staring at you with either hatred or puppy dog eyes?  This was every minute of yesterday.  My brain is still spinning.  While walking to the lunch room you had to put your head down.  If you made eye contact with the beast, it attacked.

I have talked about Kurt Vile I am sure over the years in my blog.  Sometimes I go back and revisit an album to see how I feel about it on a different day.

Wakin' in a Pretty Daze - 8.6/10




I attempted to attach the Letterman version of this song.  They of course cut it down to 4 min from the original 9 min.  Sorry Letterman you get no love from me for this.  I am sure this will affect you ratings from here on out.

Craig Berube has the Flyers playing some great hockey.  There are quite a few people that say coaches are overrated.  I don't believe that for a second.  Have you seen the Phoenix Coyotes roster?

Currently I am possessing $225.00 in Ticketmaster gift cards.  For most people that would equal a few concerts.  For the bands that I see that's an infinite amount.  Junip was the same price as going to see Thor in 3D.

I don't know why anyone would hang out with Wolverine from the old X-Men animated series.  He's such a dick.

Witnessed the ever uncomfortable throwing something too hard at somebody by accident, and then realizing that you did this, and then the uncomfortable glance after yesterday.

Apparently I need to dress as an Indian gangster for a Bollywood party this coming weekend.  Sara gave me the "you know the Indian style gangster style."  Like I knew perfectly well what this was?

They are coming out with a Grumpy Cat movie.
What?
You heard me, they are coming out with a Grumpy Cat movie.
Why?
Who the hell would see this?
You know who you are.  Knitting and baking up a storm while multiple cats stare at you while you do this.  It ends with you throwing cats at people when they come to your house.  Be careful or else this could be you.

It's interesting seeing people's trying hard faces.  It's always a little different with each person.  If you would like to witness it make them open up a jar of pickles.  Or have sex with them. 

Must find significant other.  Must find significant other.  Must find significant other.  Must find significant other.  This is the chant of someone that completely turns off the opposite sex.

I own so many boxers that are ripped in weird areas.  Have you ever known somebody that worked so hard at everything that they ripped their boxers.  It might be that I just buy cheap boxers, but as you know I work hard at everything.  I am a Nike marketing commercial.

One of the best song lyrics of all time.  "No one wants to hear about your dream unless they are in it."  This might be the most truthful lyric of all time.

Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes have a new album out. Haven't downloaded it yet, but heard it's fantastic.   Yes, you are still reading my Blog and I did mean to say this.  Really enjoy Q-Tip's champagne flow.  Stole that from EW.

Jeff Dunham is a shitty comic and his puppets are also shitty.  There I said it.







Friday, December 20, 2013

President's Choice has decided to make a new type of pop.  The Decadent Chocolate Soda?  Nothing says Christmas like Chocolate soda.  This is such a terrible idea that I can't think of anything witty for the end of this segment.

Is anyone really shocked that the dude from Duck Dynasty made anti-gay remarks?  Tell us what you think about people that aren't Caucasian as well. 

Don Jon - 8.8/10
The Spectacular Now - 7.9/19

The Spectacular Now is a sometimes difficult to watch movie of a kid following the same path of his father.  It's a tough watch in certain parts, but good movie overall.  It's not a complete drama, it's got some humour to it as well.   Shailene Woodley is very good in it.

Christmas time is approaching steadily.  If you debate whether or not you say Merry Christmas.  I could really care less.   It doesn't really matter what your type of Christmas is.  Whether it's based on religion, family, holidays, or all of the above.  Just be good to people and yourself and it will be a successful day.

Sara wants to do a YouTube sketch of putting stuffed animals on my laptop when I am trying to make my lineup for fantasy sports.  I joked that it would upset me knowing that it wouldn't.  Then it really did upset me.  Stuffed animals wore thrown on the floor in anger while I tried to look up Matt Duchene stats.

Top 3 of things that would have me running to the hills if they turned on my significant other.

3 - Domination (I can barely handle a pin prick from a needle)
2 - Animals used in any sort.
1 - Furries - I don't get it and I will never get it.  And isn't it extremely hot inside that suit.

Apple Computers are not invincible in case you thought other wise.  They are not like Hercules standing on a Mount Olympus with a ring on, and lightning striking all around him.  They also aren't like Hulk Hogan shaking his head and walking around the ring with his head down, and then shaking his finger at you as well.

I feel that men with hot tubs try to lure people into their hot tubs.  I don't get to use the word lure too often.  I guess it's only here and kids getting lured into vans.

Read an article about how Randy Carlyle job was completely safe.  I never really considered it to not be safe.  Living in a Maple Leaf society can make a man insane.  Oh by the way Joe Bowen.  I am not sure if you have professed your love for the Leafs quite enough yet?  Maybe you can teach Dion Phaneuf how to spell?

Betheny is a talk show about everything terrible.  There was a girl watching it in the lunch room.  It was about a website that men bribe women with gifts to go on dates with them.  This is everything wrong in the world on one website.  Women that just want to be trophy dates and receive stuff just for looking good.  Or men that need to bribe women so that they can have a hot woman by their side to either look good or have some confusing idea that this might actually work.  Sorry that I have wasted your time with this.  Might as well finish it with these thoughts.  Honey Boo Boo, Real Housewives, Kardassians, and Miley Cyrus.

There are some people that I know that have certain stances that look comfortable.  I try to emulate these stances and am not able to pull it off as well.  There should be a school for this.

Nothing better than seeing a man behind a sewing machine with pins in his mouth and pumping the peddle like a mad man.

If U2 came to Kitchener I don't think I would go.  They are the absolutely most overrated band in the history of the world.  I would see Weird Al before U2.

When I go out with certain friends I turn into the Funny One.  I prefer the hot one that's got it all going on, but sometimes I have to play second fiddle.

Almost finished Breaking Bad.  Bryan Cranston you are my everything.

Monday, December 16, 2013

How do you blow a 14 point lead with 8 minutes left in the 4th quarter?  Hire Jason Garrett as your coach and you will find out.  Murray was getting about 8 yards a pop, and you throw the ball constantly.  Even the Dez Bryant TD could have easily been an INT.  Terrible coaching, but I will take the win.  Go Pack Go! 

Also I should mention that I am a moron and if you read my blog a few weeks ago I said that Matt Flynn had a noodle for an arm.  Well he's led them to two victories in the past two weeks.  I will eat cheese for the next two weeks as punishment.

American Hustle, Anchoman 2, Hunger Games - Catching Fire, and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty.  Apparently pop corn, skittles, and nachos are my meals for the next couple of weeks.

There is a lot of snow,  the roads are bad, late for work, not feeling so good.  You may cut and paste these as you like for your status updates.

Oh just to let you guys know.  Elvis Stojko, Kurt Browning, and some other figure skater will be skating to Holly Cole music on CBC tonight.  I would break up with someone if they made me watch this.

Waking up sore is stupid.  I was laying down all night and that is all.  I don't care how stupid I slept there is no way I should wake up sore.

Pacific Rim - 8.8/10
Saving Mr. Banks - 8.0/10

Pacific Rim is terrific.  Especially if you miss the Power Rangers. 

It's funny listening to the older generation speak about buying stuff on the internet.  It's like they assume there is a guy that is in a car just outside of their house laughing hysterically when they punch in their credit card number.  "Oh you shouldn't have bought that Danielle Steele book on Amazon.  I have all of your information now.  Muuuuuaaaahaaaaahaaaaaa!"

Our mail person is ridiculous.  They dropped two packages on another tenant's lawn.  Not in their mailbox. on their lawn.  Not one package.  Two packages.

You know I watch too much Dr. Who when I tried multiple times to spell tenant/Tennant. I was starting to get mad at the computer.  "That is how you spell it you dumb PC.  Maybe I should get a MAC, they know how to spell.  And never get viruses."

Look for Sara and my picture in the Record.  We had to go down to Fiddleheads to  have our picture taken with the dude from the contest for the Cancun trip.  They flew him in from BC.  Let me repeat this. They flew a man in from BC to have a picture taken  This is the kind of job that I need.  We felt like Rockstars and Sara received a plaque for her win. 

Team Canada roster.  Each blog I will do a different position.  Today it's C.  Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews, Ryan Getzlaf, Patrice Bergeron, and John Tavares.  On the bubble sadly,  Claude Giroux.

After work this past Saturday I realized that I have a phobia of retail when I am not working.  We were at Giant Tiger and while I was walking through the store I felt as though people wanted to ask me questions about the products even though I didn't work there.  "I don't know when these banana's were brought in.  Doritos are good.  We don't sell Sony here only Sorny." 

If you are a single person on New Years please go out with single people.  There is nothing worse than being that person sitting there on his/her own while all the couple's are kissing at midnight.  Or embrace it.  Grab a bottle of Olde English and a cheap stinky cigar. Stand in the middle of the floor and light it up. 

White people that don't play basketball wearing a jersey of their favourite player look awkward.  Don't do it.  Unless you are a want to be thug.  Then you probably don't read blogs or anything for that matter.  Never mind this is going nowhere.




Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Stop posting cheesy family pictures.  If you can tell me one day when your family was playing in the snow.  Everyone laughing, chucking snowballs, peeking behind trees, wearing matching outfits.  These are not things that happen to even the most Flanders of families.  I would like to see realistic family photos.  Well maybe everybody looking at their smart phone, video game system, or laptop isn't that exciting.  At least it's realistic.

I am not sure why we even build robots.  According to every movie and TV show they are going to become aware and begin to enslave us or kill us all.  I don't think having a robot clean up my house is worth the world's destruction.

Insidious 2 - 6.2/10

Really need a streak of good movie watching.  I have been on a tapioca pudding streak of movie watching.  Mediocre even in an old folks home tense.

Really wanted to see Jerry Seinfeld in Kitchener.  Not $117.00 want to though.

Crazy weekend of football in the snow.  It was similar to watching your family play in the snow on Boxing Day.  Dad drops the ball in the snow.  Picks it up, and attempts to throw it to your brother.  The other brother hammers dad to the ground because he can't stop due to the icy conditions.  Dad is hurt on the ground.  Everybody is upset with the middle brother.  "He's a 54 year old man.  Jesus!"  Actually I don't know how that relates, but that's what I thought of.

There are some email's that I receive that I get so angry at.  "I put you in the spam folder.  How are you still getting through?  I don't remember signing up for a woman's clothing daily email."

Picked up Sara from the airport.  She was in Trinidad for the weekend if you didn't know already.  I received hot sauce and a giant Trinidad coffee mug.  There was also an uncalled for asking of "so what did you do this weekend?"  Knowing that I was working.

I am pretty sure that I know an alien.  He has just come to earth with the knowledge of nothing.  He finds something that you might be interested in and studies it till he knows just enough to have a small conversation about it.  If you ask a question that he might not have studied up on he is screwed.

You guys all know the routine in December.  Be nice to people in retail.  If we don't have the Ipad, PS4 or Xbox One in stock don't yell at us.  We don't make these products in the back.  We don't do the ordering.  And we are just as stressed out as you guys are.  If your child's Xmas is ruined because they didn't get one of these things then you're doing Xmas wrong.

Can someone please bring me a BBQ.  Build it outside, put a steak on it, and then ring the doorbell.  That would be a wonderful Xmas miracle.

Top 3 Scariest Horror Movies of all time.

3 - Paranormal Activity
2 - The Ring
1 - The Exorcist

For those that can't handle horror movies and still have nightmares.  Grow up! Watch the movies with a stuffed animal and a pillow in front of your face like a real man.

The first time that I went into the Vintages section in the LCBO it was very intimidating.  I felt like a fraud.  No idea really what I was looking at.  Now I have an idea what I am looking at.  I just can't afford any of them.

Even as a joke it's never funny to put a plastic bag over somebody's head.

If you can't find information about something that you are doing with video editing on the internet.  You should come into FS and ask one of the associates in the video game department.  They have as much or more knowledge then all of the internet about your obscure video editing question.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Does there need to be anymore cooking reality shows?  We have just hooked up cable at work again and every minute of everyday it's a restaurant or bar owner being yelled at for not caring about his/her customers or his/her staff.  Why do we enjoy watching people get yelled at or people arguing?  What is wrong with us? "Would you serve this to your family?  Have you stopped caring?  You can't tell me what to do.  This is my place"  Did I cover everything here?  Now you don't need to watch people argue any longer

Our Xmas Party was this past weekend.  Ron Josol was absolutely on the money.  It helped that there was a guy there that was having the best night of his life there to rip on.  He really, really, really loved everybody this particular evening.

The Wolverine - 6.0/10  - I already forgot what happened
Ass Backwards - 2.9/10 - I can't believe I watched this thing. 

Why do they even have the warnings at the end of infomercials on XM?  I don't think that I caught one word that was said.  I didn't know people could even talk that fast without talking about micro machines. 

Another thing that I caught was that they were trying to sell you on having a mailing system in New York.  One of their selling tools was that you would have an impressive mailing address.  Sign me up.  310 Humphrey Bogart Lane, Kitchener ON.  "This guy knows what he's doing.  We should send him some money."

Listening to New York people whine about how Robinson Cano went to the place that offered him the most amount of money is pleasing.  "He obviously doesn't care about the pin stripe honor."  Yeah CC Sabathia, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Mark Teixeira really care about the honor there as well.  The Yankees throw money at every single high priced free agent there is on the market.  Some come and some don't.  Don't whine when one of your own guys goes somewhere else.

Was in Detroit this past weekend for the Thanksgiving game.  The time we spent there was enjoyable.  The beer and food were great.  We also had a picture with Santa.  I would rather not discuss the game.  Please don't make me think back to that game. 

Sara goes to Trinidad for the weekend.  This was another one of her online victories.  Apparently others have done this contest and have gone skydiving or drove a Lamborghini.  Sara goes to Trinidad.  Now if she drove a Lamborghini out of a plane in Trinidad that would be the ultimate one upper.

Found out that a dude didn't read the fine print in an ebay ad and received a picture of an XBOX One.

I have a phobia of going into a room, having multiple people sitting in a room talking quietly without any music playing.  How can you not have background music to everything?  Any time there is silence it's uncomfortable.  Put music on and all that goes away.

Was asked to DJ the Paddyfest Gala Dinner.  I didn't realize how prestigious this event was until my Mother raised her eyebrow and said they asked you?  Wow!  Yes Mom, they asked me.

As a grown man you must know when you have snot running down your nose.  Come on, clean yourself up.  Even while looking at gaming mousepads.  You heard me right.  Gaming mouse pads.

So you changed your name to Billy Ocean.  You could pick any name in the world and you chose Billy Ocean?

Watched this recently.  It's a long one, but it's gorgeous.  The drummer in the Adventure Guide shirt is my favorite.



Started watching the Wire recently.  Well I am screwed this winter.  Red Wine, slow cooker meals, and the Wire.  I am going to be a fat fu**.

Really enjoy when people get really angry and don't know how to fight.  They for some reason run at the person with their head down like a battering ram.  You can't see where you are going and you are off balance.  This is a terrible technique.

Top 3 old school wrestling moves

3 - Back Rake  (Everybody that didn't know how to wrestle properly)
2 - Headbutt (Junk Yard Dog)
1 - Bear Hug (Andre the Giant)

I would like to give a shout out to those that make it enjoyable to read Facebook updates.  The ones that write things that are interesting, funny, opinionated, and entertaining.  Ask yourself this when you are done writing your status update.  Would you want to read that?  If you feel your eyes glossing over after you wrote that Rob Ford recycled joke or that Let's go Leafs status update.  Just stop what you are doing.  Go to the corner store.  Chug down a 1litre jug of Chocolate Milk, and then think about what you have just done.