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.

Zach Parise and Ryan Suter will both sign with Pittsburgh.  You heard it here first.

There are some great deals on golfnow.com.  I see Rebel Creek golf course for $35.00 including cart all the time on the website.

Are you a one-upper?  Are you a person that always has a story or talent that is just a little bit better then the story or talent that is currently being talked about?  Stop doing this if you say yes to these questions.

Two of my favorite people booked a trip to Iceland recently.  I love seeing people in their early twenties going to a country that isn't normally traveled to.  I don't know one person that gets excited when you tell them that you are going to the Dominican Republic.

These big wedding productions are becoming ridiculous.  When you have to spend $60,000 on one day of your life it will never live up to your expectations.

Remember when the Macbook Air came out a few years ago?  Well now PC's are releasing ultrabooks to compete with them.  PC always seems to be a few years behind.

I am not sure if Oliver Stone is a noteworthy director anymore.

Wes Anderson's new movie called Moonrise Kingdom has just been released and is getting rave reviews.  Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Bill Murray.  How can you go wrong with that cast?

I understand how my parents felt when I was listening to White Zombie and Korn by hearing any band that is screamo.  I need this music off as fast as possible.

Story:  a few years ago I was at a Jays game and the dude came over and asked if anybody wanted to do the happy dance (lotto 649 dance.)  As per usual I was thrown under the bus and told that I would do it.  We had just got there and I only started my first beer.  So when the dude came back I had to chug back a few beers before dancing.  I had to dance for eight minutes straight while the camera went to each person.  When the camera finally came to me I was doing the matrix dance dodging bullets and finished it off with the cookie bake off dance. I had to beat 3 older dudes with big beer guts that were doing the fat guy dance.  I won the contest and won 649 for a year and a Jays sweater.  649 for a year netted me a cool $25.00.

It's almost better that I have a bigger beer gut to do Mexican Batman this year.  Mexican Batman had too many tacos in the five years since he fought crime. 

Fish tacos are tasty, but they need to change the name to something else.  My brain goes else where when I hear the words Fish taco put together.

Keep your shirt on if you are a dude walking in downtown Kitchener please.  No one needs to see a shirtless man with a cigarette in his mouth walking on the sidewalk.

Women don't rock the suit enough.  There is nothing quite as gorgeous as a woman wearing a black suit with a bow-tie.

Natalie Portman or Mila Kunis?

I love having a smokey baritone voice. 

Was in the T dot for the past few days checking out all of the new technology for back to school.  Coolest thing I saw was a wireless usb flash drive.  Meaning you could put pictures or movies on it and access it from any computer.  You could be upstairs and access a movie from it, while your wife is accessing pictures from it.

One thing I don't understand is how a high end hotel can have such terrible food. 

Just finished watching Game of Thrones season 2.  I am not sure that TV can be any better then that.

Stage collapsed at the Radiohead concert as you probably know.  I could have picked twenty things that might have happened to prevent the concert rather then that.  Thom Yorke losing his voice from drinking too many Pabst Blue Ribbons was one of them.


I work in Cambridge, they are a lot of Portuguese people in Cambridge, they enjoy honking their horns when Portugal is victorious in Euro Cup.  What happened to going to a bar and having a round of beers that you cheers to?

I have never seen anything like the Jays went through last week with losing three starting pitchers due to injury within the game. 

There are rumors of the Jays going after Jeremy Guthrie.  If you know anything about Jeremy Guthrie he is about as average as Kings of Leon are as a band.

Learn how to spell, it's a very useful talent.  It can make you look intelligent even if you are not.

LPGA is currently in Waterloo at Grey Silo for a tournament.  This is one of two sports that I would go watch female athletes play and have an interest in it.  The other would be tennis.

There would be nothing worse for me then having to go through a museum full of art and have to describe each painting.

Exotic Marigold Hotel (this in not an adult movie)  8.1/10

I miss Blind Melon, they were an underrated band that had a wicked jam feel when the world was ruled by grunge.  They did their own thing, and the albums that they put together were under appreciated.  Skip over No Rain and listen to everything else you 102.1 Edge Monkey's.

Zoup - Is a Waterloo restaurant that is about the best lunch place I have been to.  Salad's, soups, and sandwiches.  If you are looking for a business to invest in, this place is packed everyday at lunch.

Bbq'ing and being in the middle of cooking a steak and running out of propane is the worst thing that can possibly happen to somebody in the middle of summer.  I have never said f*** so loud in my life.

First time at the cottage this year.  It was beautiful, parents got this new game that involves throwing a frisbee basically at something that is similar to a garbage can. You play in teams of two and you can deflect it into or off of the garbage can and receive points.  Sounds simple, come to the cottage and try it.  More difficult then it sounds.

Radiohead is this coming Saturday.  I am not a big fan of outdoor concerts, but I couldn't pass this one up.

Prometheus - 8.5/10

Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender are both spectacular in this movie.

True Blood is back, is there any character on the show that doesn't have some type of power? 

My parents almost named me Randy Smith, my life would have been completely different with the name Randy.  I would have a mini van of kids touring up to Grand Bend to watch the motor speedway.

Going through the Starbucks drive thru takes at least three to four points off of my toughness meter.


Is Vin Diesel intelligent?  Just the sound of his voice sounds like he is lifting weights while talking.

 The drugs that I need to take for Colitis cost $5,400 a dose, my benefits cover it, but if I didn't have benefits I would have to have surgery most likely.  I find this to be ludicrous that anyone can charge this much for medication.

Checking out some of the smoke packs lately (I don't smoke) the pictures are disturbing.  I guess this is the point, but I can't even look at them.

There has been points of this year that I haven't done something because of the price of gas.  This is the first time of my life that this has ever been a decision based upon this.

Extra lean ground beef, carmelized onion, tandoori spice, and a little bit of bread crumbs.  Try this for your next burger recipe. 

Stephen Strasburg pitches against the Jays in Toronto tomorrow at 12:30.  If you are going to go to any Jays game this might be the one to go to.  He's going to be the best pitcher in the world within two years and they also have Bryce Harper on this team.  Washington will be a team to be reckoned with for years.

There is a new drug that is similar to LSD that is making people want to chew on human flesh.  Is this a selling point for people?  This seems like the last thing I would want to do while high.

What is with white beers in the summer?  I just get an instant craving for it as soon as the weather hits 25 degrees.

3D still stinks, Prometheus was in 3D and it was useless.  3D should only be used in porn.

People looked a lot tougher in the 70's.  Just something about the hairstyles, beards, and mustaches that made them look tough as nails.

No I haven't seen the Avengers yet, and I don't want to talk about it.

DJ'd last night for a buck and doe.  Good times had by all, I can't believe how strict the Ag Hall is compared to what it used to be like.  You could walk in with a liquor bottle in a brown paper bag, with no pants on, and no one would bat an eye.

Is Jose Bautista's five o'clock shadow permanent?

Sara is at a authentic Italian restaurant in the city tonight.  Not even a free meal is incentive enough to venture into Toronto and cripple my afternoon of watching Bluejays baseball.

I find that people are giving the finger more and more when they are driving.  This is something that I have never done.  I have never been mad enough driving to flip someone off.

Story:  Girl comes up to me last night while we I am dj'ing.  She explains to me that people in the city have a different way of mixing things and that I should follow a certain pattern when playing music and flow into whatever the people are dancing to.  I sarcastically thank her for her advice, and ask her what city she is referring to thinking Toronto.  She tells me Kitchener and she then tells me that she is hitting the buck and doe circuit.  This blew my mind.

How much money would need to be offered to name your child Socrates?

Reading the Hunger Games right now.  It's an excellent book.  You only need to be concerned if I start reading Twilight.

Quibids - You have probably have seen the commercial of IMAC's going for $54.00 and all that nonsense.  Each bid that you have costs you .70.  So you could bid on an item 20 times and not get it.  It's just like gambling.  The old saying is true, if it looks like it's too good to be true, it probably is.

The show "Louie" is on FX, it's basically the life of Louis CK.  It's a very interesting show, part standup, and part simple life story.  It's like no other comedy on TV right now.

David Duchovny with the proper writer is brilliant. 

Sex addicts - Isn't this every man in the world.