Mr. Ponchot

Check out link at bottom (above my mohawk) of my good friend and artist Michael Ponchot. His Haloween party is where I met my wife and the best haloween party you'll ever attend. He is a great local artist who's work is phenominal. I enjoy his love for doing portraits of Lennon, Hendrix etc etc..... So click the link and check him out, you won't regret it.

Summer Colds, buddy?, and futbol v soccer.

Haven’t ‘blogged’ in awhile, sure my throngs of fans are on the edge waiting in desperation – maybe not? :-) Anyway, once more into the breach my dear friends……

Summer Colds bite arse, need I say more? (Of course it’s narcism.com aka a personal blog) A summer cold is theft, in the winter who cares? Its F-in cold I’ll stay inside and watch a few movies and chill, in the summer even my fat ass wants to be outside enjoying the sun and trying to be a little active. It was going around and I washed my hands and blah blah blah, it got me, snipered a la the slackman (charlotte 06). This brings me to ‘buddy’. In an already irritable state I had to go to the gas station and it happened to be a Kroger gas station where they have the little monkey in a cage sideshow helper who is never in a good mood. First why is the inside lane prepay for cash, is captain America to slow to snag my license plate from 4ft, come on ‘buddy’ do your job! Second, last, and ‘buddy’ – just because you’re around my age and pissed about working at Kroger fuel doesn’t mean I need your shite snarky ‘buddy’ comments. Call me sir like the guy before me and the guy after me or F off! I’m not your buddy and if you have a problem serving me cause you fill unappreciated and your dueche bag kings of leon cover band hasn’t ‘made it’ yet, NOT MY PROBLEM. Sir or Mr. or nothing at all (aka just sit there quiet like the tard you are) are acceptable, other wise quit and let a Mexican have your job. Say what you want, but if we could get the Mexicans to speak perfect English (and maybe use birth control, but they are catholic) or get poor white/black Americans to have the work ethic of the Mexicans - things would be better. Never gonna happen because our welfare class has a sense of entitlement to the government teet that is quite scary, you can thank FDR for that brilliant idea. Oh yeah, and do we expect the Mexicans to learn English when a good portion of teenagers don’t? (That last line brought to you, uphill both ways, by the AARP) Finally, for now, Futbol v Soccer – I grew up playing soccer it was my first love before Football and I still enjoy watching, especially Brazil!! But forget it being main stream until (if ever) we have a Pele or Ronaldo or Messi cause loosing is un-American, just a fact. If we can’t win it all at least once it might as well be international applebag punching! So to rest of the world, this evil American says listen ‘buddy’ is it Football season yet?

It's not nice to say I told ya....(aka thesaurus test)

You could chronicle, depict and Portray,

You can divulge, express, impart and even proclaim,

You will advise, apprise, get serious and confess,

You might mention, utter, reveal in an attempt to relate,

Speak – Say your peace

They must discern, appreciate, and experience alone,

They will perceive, absorb, and digest,

They then will fathom, grasp and surmise the knowledge,

We have.

b e a uitiful

Today the US open starts at the most beautiful course in the world - Pebble Beach. Only comes around every 8-10 years and is a place where the real greats shine. Jacks won there tiger had the greatest blowout in golf history winning by 15 strokes over the field (thats like 3 more strokes than he's had mistress come forward!!) in the last open at Pebble. I was lucky enough to go there in the fall of 2000 month's after tiger's win. If you are ever lucky enough to go, even if you hate golf, go. It is one of the most breath taking places to visit, the 17 mile drive is outstanding, it is south of the main earthquake zones of SanFran and way north of smoggy LA. If I ever get Eastwood rich i'll move there, but until then another visit would be nice. So if you do like golf, watch and imagine a 107 yd hole where depending on the ocean breaze the best players in the world will play anywhere from a half wedge to a 3 iron!! wow!

central gov't

Well with the world cup beginning alot of my friends have been giving Ian (our soccer expert friend) alot of shite about being a commie and loving the futbol..... then tonight I get to watch (before hell's kitchen) the prez tuff talk about BP and blah blah blah.... now I used to be a registered republican, but recently I've become a registered theyallsuckican. One group wants to control your money and all aspects of govt and the other says they want capital/free markets and limited govt but if truth be told a scary large amount of them would be closer to Islamic social laws than the bill of rights. If given their way they'd be allowed to control what we can and can't do with our bodies/minds/beliefs etc etc etc............... The thing that bothers me is President Obama is the speaking antithesis of W. He may be the best speaking president ever or at least close to JFK, yet he is blowing more smoke (Marlboro is his fav I've heard) up our ass about doing this an this an this than even free (haha if you think it'll be free) healthcare can cure. Problem is the things they should be doing (i.e. - not taking bribes from BP and actually enacting good regulations) don't get done because, well it's the government or the very definition of inefficiency. The only think government does well is spend spend spend. I don't have answers cause their probably aren't any, and with all the problems somehow there is a strange yo yo like functionality to our system. In the bad times we are usually a little to far left or right and in the good times we are somewhere closer to balanced or just lucky F if I know. Anyway, don't buy or worry about Domesday propaganda, if it does happen were all screwed anyhow - most likely a new invention or idea will come around (in spite of the gov't) from the private sector and things will look up. President Bush wasn't Hitler and President Obama isn't the anti-Christ and in 2-6 years we will have some other pinhead (bought and paid for by a lobbyist or multiple lobbyist) to run off to the next disaster and get right in the middle of things to figure out whom to appoint for what panel that will create what report that we can study to figure out at the meeting when we can get together and discuss what to do....... And when they have a solution it will be fixed by Kevin F-ing Costner!!! Are you kidding me?!!! "if you siphon it, they will love you" Didn't he just barely survive a Tiger Woods like scandal with his 'massage therapist' like 2 years ago? Amazing, can't wait till we have a leak from a chemical dumping ground in Montana explode in 20 years to find out the fate of our land rests in the hands of Christian Bale, he's a calm level headed person not prone to outburst or irrational emotional responses!! I really hope Callie's class is over soon so I can start the show on DVR cause I lost my train of thought like 3 minutes ago and I'm not even sure what I've been rambling about or if it makes sense since something about JFK. I guess lastly remember when all else fails laugh, laugh so loud and often that they won't be able to tell when it's all gotten to you and you really have gone crazy.

names, erie and other ramblings

Funny how hearing a song can lead to a thought and then in my case that thought can lead to another and another and then I’m not even sure where I started or where I’m going. Its kind of like a drunk Mr. Miagi trying to catch meth-head fly’s with wet noodles he thinks are chopsticks cause Danielson switched his saki with tequila. Anyway, I was thinking about my nephew (Jack) which made me think about my grandpa (John/Jack) which made me think of Erie and how I haven’t even talked to (or seen) in too long my PA family. My grandpa’s brother Denny is great (like all the Joint’s) and we are long over due for a night of drinking and conversation. You will never meet people whom you can have a better conversation with fewer words, it’s hard to explain other than to say the quality is way better than quantity so don’t miss a word, they are all gems.

Funny story on names, like a lot of families we just keep using the same names in different combinations over and over and over…. David, John, Charles….. Well my brother is John, my grandpa was frickin Grandpa - still can’t see why everyone did just call him that (since he was like the best grandpa ever!!) but most called him John, except his immediate family called him Jack (Cause his Dad was John, what is Paul or George really that awful? I’m mean I like Lennon but it’s not like i'm asking you to use Ringo!!) So my brother is perpetuating this confusion with naming his kid John David and calling him Jack. If I had a daughter I might be compelled to call her Jackie, then Callie would kill me and I’m not really up for getting killed. It’s just a mess. I wonder how you say John in Morse code. I could name my kid - - .. … -!! Ehh, my grandpa would laugh at that and then we’d have Ice Cream, I miss that……

anderson's

Went to Anderson's general store today and would like (cause I'm sure their PR department will read this) to give them an TV ad idea. - Pan to the saddest most miserable face of a beaten miserable man, then show a grill packed with the most mouth watering steaks, burgers, pork chops etc etc you can imagine. - Then cut to a big smiling BBQ plastered face of same man. Then fade to black with Anderson's logo and a voice that says "our meat is so good you'll suffer shopping at our store" end commercial - Now they might not like focusing on what a hemorrhoid cushion experience it is to shop at Anderson's, but if they really care they'd hire someone to re-organize their store in something that resembles a rational thought process.... aka a plan-o-gram. Every other store seems to figure it out and i don't think target or walmart is run by a team of Mensa members!!! ahhhh i feel better now that I've said that, now seriously try their Angus cheddar burgers, phenomenal!! If you've never been and want to prepare for the experience, watch 'One flew over the coo coos nest' it's about the same.

is that gonna help

Have you seen the shoes that are supposed to sculpt your butt? Ok, getting in shape is great and if you want some shoes to make your glutes great then more power to ya, but they are now making a flip-flop version! WTF? Really, give your arse a day off. The perfect backside is unattainable for the simple reason it's sole purpose will always be to evacuate feces. Sorry if that's to graphic, but you can kiss my sketcher sculpted backside!! And this is not fat guy jealousy, more a problem with mixing leisure stuff with exercise stuff. I.e. - power walking, just run already you look ridiculous.

their goes my cherry

I have been thinking about blogging and have put it off for a long time, always with some excuse or distraction. I often will hear something on radio (sirius) or in news that i'd think I have a thought on that and until tonight only my friends (via email) or my poor wife must suffer thru. Hopefully now she'll get a break and I get to vent on this silly blog. The top photo is one of my favorite pictures (which i don't say often cause i don't enjoy having my pic taken) of us on a trip out west. The picture at the bottom is what happens when you let your wife cut your hair to save money and she has (almost) as weird a sence of humor as I do. I will post more as current events irritate me and I feel a need to well............ you'll see.....