Thursday, December 09, 2004
5-8, 13 to go
5) This is a sad one. Maybe you heard about it. Some mother, who works in a bar, makes Jell-O shots at home and brings them to work to sell, apparently instructed her 4th grade daughter to bring the shots to school to sell them to other kids to raise money for Christmas this year. The girl only had about 30 and was to sell them 3-for-a-dollar. Shit, lady, if you need 10 bucks that bad, I will mail you a fuckin' check. What are the odds she's in a trailer park, smokes cigs, and has a secret crush on Maurey Povich? The girl got suspended for nine days. Wrong. Don't penalize the girl. Toss the mother in a ditch in the middle of Montana or something, but don't penalize the daughter like that. How do people treat their kids like that? I don't like the idea of taking kids from their birth parents, but get that girl the hell out. Wow. Society today.
6) A Linguist at the U of Pitt has published a study on the use of the word "Dude." I read an article about it on cnn.com. It's pretty interesting stuff. He calls use of the word, "Cool Solidarity." In other words, it's guys who are friends, but want it to be clear that they are just friends, who use the word Dude. Check it out.
7) I think every guy out there has one girl in his life who he most likely to wake up to standing over his with a gun pointed at him. I'm not saying girls would do this, but one has to be most likely to. Think about it. It's fun for me to think about, concerning myself and my friends. She is a probably a girl who has stalker-tendencies and becomes jealous quite easily and often for no reason. I'm sure the same is true when genders are reversed. Who is it for you?!? Watch your back.
8) I also think every guy has their "Amy." Everybody is always Chasing Amy. If you haven't seen the movie, chasing Amy is about chasing a girl who you let get away and can't get back for the time being. I think their are other kinds of chasing too, chasing a girl who you know you can't have, chasing a girl who you know you shouldn't have, chasing a girl who your friends know you shouldn't have, chasing a girl who you don't want to have, chasing a girl you have zero chance with, and chasing a girl who you know wants you and that is the only reason you chase her. Think about who these people are for you.
6) A Linguist at the U of Pitt has published a study on the use of the word "Dude." I read an article about it on cnn.com. It's pretty interesting stuff. He calls use of the word, "Cool Solidarity." In other words, it's guys who are friends, but want it to be clear that they are just friends, who use the word Dude. Check it out.
7) I think every guy out there has one girl in his life who he most likely to wake up to standing over his with a gun pointed at him. I'm not saying girls would do this, but one has to be most likely to. Think about it. It's fun for me to think about, concerning myself and my friends. She is a probably a girl who has stalker-tendencies and becomes jealous quite easily and often for no reason. I'm sure the same is true when genders are reversed. Who is it for you?!? Watch your back.
8) I also think every guy has their "Amy." Everybody is always Chasing Amy. If you haven't seen the movie, chasing Amy is about chasing a girl who you let get away and can't get back for the time being. I think their are other kinds of chasing too, chasing a girl who you know you can't have, chasing a girl who you know you shouldn't have, chasing a girl who your friends know you shouldn't have, chasing a girl who you don't want to have, chasing a girl you have zero chance with, and chasing a girl who you know wants you and that is the only reason you chase her. Think about who these people are for you.
Thursday Night TV Report
Thursday Night TV Report:
The O.C. -
This episode was sort of blah and sacrificed the witty, smart dialogue we are used to getting to make way for furthering several plot lines in an efficient manner. But this doesn't bother me because it needed to be done. We needed answers so we didn't have to hagle over pressing plot cliffhangers over the Holiday episodes. There were still enough good OC moments to make it a good episode.
Before I get to specifics from the episode, I need to dress two commercials.
First, are the Old Navy commercials not the most annoything things on TV, besides Pimp My Ride and Date My Mom?
Second, I want to be sure that the whole world knows that I am claiming Scarlett Johansson as "My Girl." It is common knowledge that The Rizz has more than several female celebs marked as "His Girls." Scarlett is mine. Did you see her in those Calvin Klein commercials? Not to mention Lost in Translation, Ghost World, and The Man Who Wasn't There. Love her.
The Show. I hope other people have noticed that Seth's and Ryan's plot lines are running parallel to each other.
At the beginning, both are courting women. The both get denied, Seth by Alex and Ryan by Lindsay. They both seem to nearly be rekindling things with their old flames, Summer and Marissa. Then, they both end up with the girl they began the show chasing. As soon as Lindsay entered the poolhouse, you knew Alex would reappear with Seth. Something will be mentioned on the show about this, or it will have some impact in the future. Watch.
Back to Seth and Alex. When Seth quit his job at The Baitshop, which should have happened long ago, did anyone else feel like they were their little cousin playing Nintendo watching him leave? Here is what I mean. You know when a beginning video game player, I say that as if I play a lot; I never play, is trying to steer a character on the screen and they are turning the entire controller as if that will help them move the character on screen, as opposed to just using the joystick, or sometimes they may use body language too. That is how the living room at The 213 was when Seth was leaving. We were urging the exit to continue, a turn-around would have been disasterous.
A few lines:
Julie Cooper, walking in on Marissa and DJ: "Marissa! The yard guy?!?"
Seth Coen, after Alex-diss: "You just kissed the beer guy..."
Now for a really good OC moment. Seth is on the couch, not getting ready for the dance. Sandy and Kirsten, being the parents they are, were not about to let this happen. They sat on either side of him and asked questions about the Kung Fu movie that was on. Excellent, excellent, stuff.
A line. Summer, at the dance, Seth wants to dance: "Fine, but no tongue."
And playing at the dance? Bob Dylan's "Lay, Lady, Lay." Does that make sense? No. But it's a good song.
Ryan and Lindsay. It was never a question of if, just a question of when.
Another good OC thing, Lindsay's Freud slippers. Funny, for geeks. I'm a self-admitting Geek. Capital "G."
Zach ordered Yoohoo at The Baitshop. One more time. Zach ordered a Yoohoo. What???
Then he returned to the "SnO.C. Winter Wank off" to deliver a really lame punch to the face on Seth. Comedic though. "I've never hit anyone before."
Alex cleans Seth up, much to Summer's dismay, and says, "I can take it from here."
Zach is combo of Luke and Seth. He is taking Luke's place in the plot lines, and delivering some Seth-like lines. The lines gotta go, give him his own thing, but the characer is needed.
A line. Seth, back at the The Baitshop, post punch: "I was about ready to bring the hurt."
Lindsay, rambling, red dots, slipper, talking to much, kissing, video games, soda, kissing, Ryan.
Jimmy and Julie kissing? What the fuck. This we didn't need. If Marissa sees this she is going off the pier wearing cement blocks for shoes.
And, of course, to make perfect "OC Sense," Rachel Wheeler is Lindsay's mom. I can honestly say this surprised me, but it really shouldn't have. All the characters are connected somehow right now, except for Zach and DJ, which leads me to believe they won't be around real long.
I am predicting not this episode but the next one is the Marissa's lesbian side's debut. I'm looking forward to it, are you?
CSI:
CSI: was excellent tonight. But Heed brought up a good point, they left two murders unsolved. And where was Grissom the whole time? When are they re-uniting as one shift? I like the Greg Sanders character more every week.
Not only is CSI the best show on TV, it also has to be the hardest one to write, bar none. Great shit.
Until Later.
The O.C. -
This episode was sort of blah and sacrificed the witty, smart dialogue we are used to getting to make way for furthering several plot lines in an efficient manner. But this doesn't bother me because it needed to be done. We needed answers so we didn't have to hagle over pressing plot cliffhangers over the Holiday episodes. There were still enough good OC moments to make it a good episode.
Before I get to specifics from the episode, I need to dress two commercials.
First, are the Old Navy commercials not the most annoything things on TV, besides Pimp My Ride and Date My Mom?
Second, I want to be sure that the whole world knows that I am claiming Scarlett Johansson as "My Girl." It is common knowledge that The Rizz has more than several female celebs marked as "His Girls." Scarlett is mine. Did you see her in those Calvin Klein commercials? Not to mention Lost in Translation, Ghost World, and The Man Who Wasn't There. Love her.
The Show. I hope other people have noticed that Seth's and Ryan's plot lines are running parallel to each other.
At the beginning, both are courting women. The both get denied, Seth by Alex and Ryan by Lindsay. They both seem to nearly be rekindling things with their old flames, Summer and Marissa. Then, they both end up with the girl they began the show chasing. As soon as Lindsay entered the poolhouse, you knew Alex would reappear with Seth. Something will be mentioned on the show about this, or it will have some impact in the future. Watch.
Back to Seth and Alex. When Seth quit his job at The Baitshop, which should have happened long ago, did anyone else feel like they were their little cousin playing Nintendo watching him leave? Here is what I mean. You know when a beginning video game player, I say that as if I play a lot; I never play, is trying to steer a character on the screen and they are turning the entire controller as if that will help them move the character on screen, as opposed to just using the joystick, or sometimes they may use body language too. That is how the living room at The 213 was when Seth was leaving. We were urging the exit to continue, a turn-around would have been disasterous.
A few lines:
Julie Cooper, walking in on Marissa and DJ: "Marissa! The yard guy?!?"
Seth Coen, after Alex-diss: "You just kissed the beer guy..."
Now for a really good OC moment. Seth is on the couch, not getting ready for the dance. Sandy and Kirsten, being the parents they are, were not about to let this happen. They sat on either side of him and asked questions about the Kung Fu movie that was on. Excellent, excellent, stuff.
A line. Summer, at the dance, Seth wants to dance: "Fine, but no tongue."
And playing at the dance? Bob Dylan's "Lay, Lady, Lay." Does that make sense? No. But it's a good song.
Ryan and Lindsay. It was never a question of if, just a question of when.
Another good OC thing, Lindsay's Freud slippers. Funny, for geeks. I'm a self-admitting Geek. Capital "G."
Zach ordered Yoohoo at The Baitshop. One more time. Zach ordered a Yoohoo. What???
Then he returned to the "SnO.C. Winter Wank off" to deliver a really lame punch to the face on Seth. Comedic though. "I've never hit anyone before."
Alex cleans Seth up, much to Summer's dismay, and says, "I can take it from here."
Zach is combo of Luke and Seth. He is taking Luke's place in the plot lines, and delivering some Seth-like lines. The lines gotta go, give him his own thing, but the characer is needed.
A line. Seth, back at the The Baitshop, post punch: "I was about ready to bring the hurt."
Lindsay, rambling, red dots, slipper, talking to much, kissing, video games, soda, kissing, Ryan.
Jimmy and Julie kissing? What the fuck. This we didn't need. If Marissa sees this she is going off the pier wearing cement blocks for shoes.
And, of course, to make perfect "OC Sense," Rachel Wheeler is Lindsay's mom. I can honestly say this surprised me, but it really shouldn't have. All the characters are connected somehow right now, except for Zach and DJ, which leads me to believe they won't be around real long.
I am predicting not this episode but the next one is the Marissa's lesbian side's debut. I'm looking forward to it, are you?
CSI:
CSI: was excellent tonight. But Heed brought up a good point, they left two murders unsolved. And where was Grissom the whole time? When are they re-uniting as one shift? I like the Greg Sanders character more every week.
Not only is CSI the best show on TV, it also has to be the hardest one to write, bar none. Great shit.
Until Later.
21, such a good number
Alright, I have 21 topics I listed for me to write about. Let's see what I can get to today:
1) We were sitting around the living room of The 213 the other day flipping through to music video channels on our extended cable package thing that we pay too much for, and Janet Jackson's video for "Again" came on. Two things about this video: 1) How hot is it when that dude pulls that chain that is wrapped around her waist out from under her jeans. I want to be under her jeans. And what do you call that thing? Not a necklace, not a bracelet or anklet. I think you have to go with waistlet. Does anyone know the answer? 2) The dude in the video is Gary Dourdan, who plays Warrick Brown on CSI. The realization of this was an excellent moment. Heed mentioned something about him looking familiar, so I redirected my attention away from Janet and put it on him and just as The Rizz was saying, "Yeah," I leaped up from a horizontal position to a position resembling the one that the Sphinx is in and exclaimed, "It's fucking Warrick Brown!" Those are great moments.
2) We have some former Minnesota Twins news. Not the good kind, not the bad kind, but the entertaining kind. Pitcher Denny Neagle, who signed a 5 year, 51 million dollar deal with the Colorado Rockies in 2000, was picked up for soliticiting oral sex from a prostitute. Okay, that was formal newspaper language, here's what happened: he wanted head from a slut so he picked up a hooker and tried to give her forty bucks for it, but got pulled over instead and was arrested. Here's the kicker, the Rockies were able to void his contract. He was guarenteed 10 million this year and 12.5 if the team picked up his option in '06, if not, he would still get a 9 million dollar buy out. So basically, he just gave up 10 million for a blow job he never got. And there is no way a 36 year old pitcher with injury and legal problems is getting anywhere near 10 million. I wouldn't give him 2 million.
3) Latrell Sprewell yelled something vulgar at a female fan who yelled something at him. The NBA gave him a 1 game suspension. It's fucking ridiculous. How many times has he done that in his career and not been suspended? What if a dude yelled the same thing at him and he yelled something similar back? Would he be suspended? Doubtful. The NBA is going to pussyfoot around for awhile I guess now.
4) Grammy Talk. The nominations are out. Let's go through the categories and discuss who will win, who should win, and who wasn't nominated that should have been.
Record of the Year:
Nominees:
"Let's Get it Started" The Black Eyed Peas
"Here We Go Again" Ray Charles and Norah Jones
"American Idiot" Green Day
"Heaven" Los Lonely Boys
"Yeah!" Usher, feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris
Who Will Win? "Here We Go Again" Ray Charles and Norah Jones
Why? Because Ray Charles died this year, so he will win everything. This is how it works folks. Luther Vandross had a stroke and won a bunch of shit and Johnny Cash and his wife died and then won a bunch of shit. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, I'm just saying that death your ticket to winning a Grammy. I don't know why people vote for them. Do you feel bad for them 'cause they're dead? They are dead, they don't give a shit. If you believe in an after-life, I'm sure their after-life is much more kick-ass and important than a Grammy presented to them by Danny Bonaduce.
Who Should Win? "American Idiot" Green Day - It is time that something politically or socially aware won something. Don't Night Club and Pussy aware bands and songs win shit all the time? Plus Green Day is the only good band on the list (Ray Charles is not a band).
Who wins the Deets Award in this category? "Let Them Eat War" Bad Religion. No explanation needed.
Album of the Year:
Nominees:
Genius Loves Company, Ray Charles and Various Artists
American Idiot, Green DayThe Diary of Alicia Keys, Alica Keys
Confessions, Usher, featuring every R&B, hip-hop, and rap artist still living, produced by a small army of people wearing tilted baseball hats and throwback jerseys
The College Dropout, Kanye West
Who Will Win? Ray Charles. Why? He died.
Who Should Win? Green Day. Why? See above.
I will get on Alica Keys's bandwagon when she quits writing lazy, cliche lyrics. Her music is great, she is uber-talented, but somebody find her a poet to write her lyrics. Hey, it worked for Sir Elton John.
I will get on Kanye West's bandwagon when ditto.
Usher's cd is basically a various artists cd. Scratched from consideration.
Who should win this award? Bad Religion for "The Empire Strikes First"
Song of the Year:
"Daughters" John Mayer
"If I Ain't Got You" Alica Keys
"Jesus Walks" Kanye West
"Live Like You Were Dying" Tim McGraw
"The Reason" Hoobastank
Who Will Win? Mayer. Why? Process of elimination.
If Hoobastank wins, I'm coming to go put my car on the top of a hill and turn it on and aim in straight, them I'm going to run forward, ahead of the car, and lie in the middle of the road and wait for the car to run over my knee caps.
Who Should Win? Bad Religion. For anything on their new album, except for Another Abyss.
Best New Artist:
Nominees:
Los Lonely Boys (Is this reincarnation of OMC)
Maroon5
Joss Stone
Kanye West
Gretched Wilson
Who Wins? Maroon5 Why? Because they are actually musically capable of putting out quality songs.
Who Should Win? None More Black. Check 'em out on Fat Wreck Chords.
That's all I'm predicting. There 107 categories. The only other thing I can say is that I'm glad Usher isn't up for the Music Video award and "Comic the Insult Dog" is up for best comedy album.
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4 down 17 t0 go. I will get there folks. Time to settle down on the couch for two hours.
Until the Thursday Night TV Report.
1) We were sitting around the living room of The 213 the other day flipping through to music video channels on our extended cable package thing that we pay too much for, and Janet Jackson's video for "Again" came on. Two things about this video: 1) How hot is it when that dude pulls that chain that is wrapped around her waist out from under her jeans. I want to be under her jeans. And what do you call that thing? Not a necklace, not a bracelet or anklet. I think you have to go with waistlet. Does anyone know the answer? 2) The dude in the video is Gary Dourdan, who plays Warrick Brown on CSI. The realization of this was an excellent moment. Heed mentioned something about him looking familiar, so I redirected my attention away from Janet and put it on him and just as The Rizz was saying, "Yeah," I leaped up from a horizontal position to a position resembling the one that the Sphinx is in and exclaimed, "It's fucking Warrick Brown!" Those are great moments.
2) We have some former Minnesota Twins news. Not the good kind, not the bad kind, but the entertaining kind. Pitcher Denny Neagle, who signed a 5 year, 51 million dollar deal with the Colorado Rockies in 2000, was picked up for soliticiting oral sex from a prostitute. Okay, that was formal newspaper language, here's what happened: he wanted head from a slut so he picked up a hooker and tried to give her forty bucks for it, but got pulled over instead and was arrested. Here's the kicker, the Rockies were able to void his contract. He was guarenteed 10 million this year and 12.5 if the team picked up his option in '06, if not, he would still get a 9 million dollar buy out. So basically, he just gave up 10 million for a blow job he never got. And there is no way a 36 year old pitcher with injury and legal problems is getting anywhere near 10 million. I wouldn't give him 2 million.
3) Latrell Sprewell yelled something vulgar at a female fan who yelled something at him. The NBA gave him a 1 game suspension. It's fucking ridiculous. How many times has he done that in his career and not been suspended? What if a dude yelled the same thing at him and he yelled something similar back? Would he be suspended? Doubtful. The NBA is going to pussyfoot around for awhile I guess now.
4) Grammy Talk. The nominations are out. Let's go through the categories and discuss who will win, who should win, and who wasn't nominated that should have been.
Record of the Year:
Nominees:
"Let's Get it Started" The Black Eyed Peas
"Here We Go Again" Ray Charles and Norah Jones
"American Idiot" Green Day
"Heaven" Los Lonely Boys
"Yeah!" Usher, feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris
Who Will Win? "Here We Go Again" Ray Charles and Norah Jones
Why? Because Ray Charles died this year, so he will win everything. This is how it works folks. Luther Vandross had a stroke and won a bunch of shit and Johnny Cash and his wife died and then won a bunch of shit. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, I'm just saying that death your ticket to winning a Grammy. I don't know why people vote for them. Do you feel bad for them 'cause they're dead? They are dead, they don't give a shit. If you believe in an after-life, I'm sure their after-life is much more kick-ass and important than a Grammy presented to them by Danny Bonaduce.
Who Should Win? "American Idiot" Green Day - It is time that something politically or socially aware won something. Don't Night Club and Pussy aware bands and songs win shit all the time? Plus Green Day is the only good band on the list (Ray Charles is not a band).
Who wins the Deets Award in this category? "Let Them Eat War" Bad Religion. No explanation needed.
Album of the Year:
Nominees:
Genius Loves Company, Ray Charles and Various Artists
American Idiot, Green DayThe Diary of Alicia Keys, Alica Keys
Confessions, Usher, featuring every R&B, hip-hop, and rap artist still living, produced by a small army of people wearing tilted baseball hats and throwback jerseys
The College Dropout, Kanye West
Who Will Win? Ray Charles. Why? He died.
Who Should Win? Green Day. Why? See above.
I will get on Alica Keys's bandwagon when she quits writing lazy, cliche lyrics. Her music is great, she is uber-talented, but somebody find her a poet to write her lyrics. Hey, it worked for Sir Elton John.
I will get on Kanye West's bandwagon when ditto.
Usher's cd is basically a various artists cd. Scratched from consideration.
Who should win this award? Bad Religion for "The Empire Strikes First"
Song of the Year:
"Daughters" John Mayer
"If I Ain't Got You" Alica Keys
"Jesus Walks" Kanye West
"Live Like You Were Dying" Tim McGraw
"The Reason" Hoobastank
Who Will Win? Mayer. Why? Process of elimination.
If Hoobastank wins, I'm coming to go put my car on the top of a hill and turn it on and aim in straight, them I'm going to run forward, ahead of the car, and lie in the middle of the road and wait for the car to run over my knee caps.
Who Should Win? Bad Religion. For anything on their new album, except for Another Abyss.
Best New Artist:
Nominees:
Los Lonely Boys (Is this reincarnation of OMC)
Maroon5
Joss Stone
Kanye West
Gretched Wilson
Who Wins? Maroon5 Why? Because they are actually musically capable of putting out quality songs.
Who Should Win? None More Black. Check 'em out on Fat Wreck Chords.
That's all I'm predicting. There 107 categories. The only other thing I can say is that I'm glad Usher isn't up for the Music Video award and "Comic the Insult Dog" is up for best comedy album.
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4 down 17 t0 go. I will get there folks. Time to settle down on the couch for two hours.
Until the Thursday Night TV Report.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
The OC Gone Gay
So The Rizz and I are sitting in the living room at The 213. He is channel surfing; I am procrastinating. He stops on E! or some shit, some Hollywood News show. Misha Barton's face pops up on the screen besides the host and she says that Marissa on The OC is getting a new love interest, a female love interest. The host cited out.com as the source, a gay culture website to which creator Josh Schwartz gave an interview.
So Marissa is exploring her lesbian side a little bit... My thoughts? I echo The Rizz, "They had to do something." And they did, anything, and I like this one. Her character was stale, did I not write about this in last week's Thursday Night TV Report?
The OC, dipping in ratings after a very mild season, needed to schock people again. And what better way to do it than with teenage sexual expiramentation?
This will be intriguing. And I'm not buying this as some scam to get people to watch. This could be a legitimate plot line, depending on how they go about it. Studies have shown 1 in 10 people to be gay, so why not a rich hottie living in paradise?
24:15 until Marissa creeps out the closet.
Until Then.
So Marissa is exploring her lesbian side a little bit... My thoughts? I echo The Rizz, "They had to do something." And they did, anything, and I like this one. Her character was stale, did I not write about this in last week's Thursday Night TV Report?
The OC, dipping in ratings after a very mild season, needed to schock people again. And what better way to do it than with teenage sexual expiramentation?
This will be intriguing. And I'm not buying this as some scam to get people to watch. This could be a legitimate plot line, depending on how they go about it. Studies have shown 1 in 10 people to be gay, so why not a rich hottie living in paradise?
24:15 until Marissa creeps out the closet.
Until Then.
Monday, December 06, 2004
I Bit Myself in the Ass
Today I nearly had a poker-related disaster.
And the poker that caused the near disaster happened on Sunday.
I was playing $3/$6 limit and I got my straight sitting in the small blind on the turn. 30 dollars later, I found myself beaten by a full house on the river. Shitty.
Then, a few hands later, I was sitting in late position with pocket queens. We capped it before the flop, which was good for me, a bunch of low cards. I continued to bet, he just called on the flop, turn, and river - before turning over pocket Aces.
So, in the span of five hands, I lost about 75 bucks, nearly half my bankroll at the time.
But that is not the disaster. Here is what followed:
After I saw I was beaten by Aces, I grabbed my bottle of Extra Strength Tylonel and put it in flight at a very high rate of speed. After two high-impact collisions with two different walls, it came to a stop somewhere on the floor of my already messy bedroom.
Then we had some weekend company and one of my buddy's crashed in my bed as I was busy passing out in various other locations of the house, such as the living room floor. But I had my shoes off, so I couldn't be shamed. To get to my bed, my buddy had to put a bunch clothes on the floor, burrying my Tylonel, which I take only in cases of bad head aches. It's a thing I have, head aches only when it comes to Advil, Tylonel, and the like. So, today, of course, monster head ache. One of those ones where you can't bend down or let the top of your head get below the bottom of your head, if that makes sense. So I had to scramble for the relief, which of course was on the floor, forcing me to drop my head and endure shitty pain. And it was all because I couldn't control my temper when I lost a poker hand.
Until I Grow Up.
And the poker that caused the near disaster happened on Sunday.
I was playing $3/$6 limit and I got my straight sitting in the small blind on the turn. 30 dollars later, I found myself beaten by a full house on the river. Shitty.
Then, a few hands later, I was sitting in late position with pocket queens. We capped it before the flop, which was good for me, a bunch of low cards. I continued to bet, he just called on the flop, turn, and river - before turning over pocket Aces.
So, in the span of five hands, I lost about 75 bucks, nearly half my bankroll at the time.
But that is not the disaster. Here is what followed:
After I saw I was beaten by Aces, I grabbed my bottle of Extra Strength Tylonel and put it in flight at a very high rate of speed. After two high-impact collisions with two different walls, it came to a stop somewhere on the floor of my already messy bedroom.
Then we had some weekend company and one of my buddy's crashed in my bed as I was busy passing out in various other locations of the house, such as the living room floor. But I had my shoes off, so I couldn't be shamed. To get to my bed, my buddy had to put a bunch clothes on the floor, burrying my Tylonel, which I take only in cases of bad head aches. It's a thing I have, head aches only when it comes to Advil, Tylonel, and the like. So, today, of course, monster head ache. One of those ones where you can't bend down or let the top of your head get below the bottom of your head, if that makes sense. So I had to scramble for the relief, which of course was on the floor, forcing me to drop my head and endure shitty pain. And it was all because I couldn't control my temper when I lost a poker hand.
Until I Grow Up.
I Miss Baseball
Don't think I haven't been keeping up-to-date on the MLB steroid debacle, I have, I am just pretending it isn't happening.
I just want to love the game of baseball. Baseball is the sport that has been able to revive itself as America's pastime after such events as the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, the 1994 strike, Pete Rose, the all-star game that ended in a tie, multiple bat corking episodes... and now it has this. This could be the on to topple the game. It puts into question not only ever record of the past ten years, but also every game, every World Series, every award handed out. It scars the integrity of
I just hope it goes away. I can't read and listen to trial reports for the next 6 months. I miss the season already and I can't be having my game highlights and player reports interrupted with BALCO bullshit.
And, as far as I'm concerned, take the asterisk keys off the keyboards, 'cause they shouldn't be used.
Until Later.
