Time for the Funny Funday Picture of the Week. I think it's obvious that both men are thinking, "I love a good sandwich, so if you have a sandwich, come rolllll with me." But I really don't have any time for politics. I should really get back to work. So this is the last you will hear from me until my sadly blunderous run for a New Castle County Council seat in 2012.

You have to be fuckin' kidding me.

Since when do people care. Is it that obvious how different a person looks without their helmet? Is everyone a businessman? The last time I checked, Plummer doesn't wear a fucking suit when he works. I don't understand this fascination with out-of-the-ordinary hair. And no, do not mention my laziness in cutting my own. If Jake Plummer's beard bothered him, he would shave it. I honestly do not think he is doing it just because he is trying to be different. Oh New York Times! I understand the attempt to use a little humor. I realize the face of mass media has become ever so violent, but this is useless American tripe. This fascination with Troy Polamalu's hair, does it really matter? It is not as if it slows him down. You look at him on the football field and he could still outrun your whole family and has more energy than a stampede. Remember Scot Pollard's chops when he first came into the NBA. They were ridiculous and everyone was terrified/humored until it got really old. No one cared towards the end. Now Chris Kaman, Troy Hudson, Ben Wallace on occasion, sport fashionable (whether ugly or not) haircuts. It does not stop them from jumping or guarding their man. And the Rocky Mountain News sporting a wonderful photo essay of the progression of Jake Plummer's beard is outrageous! Its hair! It fucking grows! Look at your gall-darned cranium. Oh man, this has got me worked up in a nice little late-night rant. Who am I? Dennis Miller? Sorry.


...Raskolnikov...

Adam, I beg to differ. I find Crime and Punishment to be better than The Brothers Karamazov. Let's debate!

MLK JR DAY '06 MLK JR DAY '06 (x4 faster)

I've always liked Ed Ruscha. I always thought I understood his humor. But now I understand his humor even more. Empty parking lots in Los Angeles!!!! Are you kidding? No. He is not kidding. Of course, that was back in the 70's or 80's. I have never heard of Los Angeles until the early 90's and then I really did not understand until this past summer. So this is my home? Empty parking lots? I guess.

For the last three or so weeks, I guess whenever I returned from "Home for the Holy-days '05", is when I became inundated with The Lonely Island. Then Lauren came and we all watched "Lazy Sunday" for days straight and even started a drinking game about Mark Pierce because of it, although we never actually played. This is kind of what I aspire to be--these dudes. But of course, it takes some skill and luck, which I seem to have none considering I haven't worked in almost two months, despite booking a job for the end of the month for five days total. (Thanks to Caroline for hooking me up)

Lauren left on a plane to foggy London town this evening. She is probably still in the air. I hear you can drink on planes that fly across the Atlantic. Craig told me a story about how "hammered" him and Cosens were on their way to visit Ben in Spain.

Bill reminded me of the crazy new game these days last.fm. Little do Bill, Adam, and Matt know, I have been following their musical journeys on the Internet since the beginning, but have been reluctant to join due to humiliation from my peers outside of this realm. After 'facebook' and 'myspace' I do not think I can handle another, albeit musically oriented, cataloguing of my thoughts and listens. As a hypocrite I would like everyone to know that I am currently listening to Odd Nosdam's "Burner". Intriguing as it may be to catalogue what I have been listening to, I do not think I am ready just yet. But of course, it is an alternate world. The cyber-net has imposed on me questions of reality and life. My responsibility does not lie with what comments I receive or if I continue to 'blog' or not. But it does offer a chance to get out, to kill time, to waste away and not eat or drink, and to fulfill my information quota for the day if I do not feel like reading a book or watching The Colbert Report. Plus, how else would I know if Henrik Zetterberg scored a goal for the Wings or if the Pistons continued to dominate the National Basketball Association. Its an old Joseph Heller novel--I googled my name and I connected myself with myself.




Likes of early '06: Firefox tabs, Netflix, RSS headlines, Pizza Hut/Wing Street
Dislikes of early '06: Jobs, My hair, Basketball skills on/off the court

I think it's maybe slighly pathetic that the highlight of my Sunday night will be the weekly tabulation of my last.fm statistics. No, I won't be watching '24' even though I know I'll be out of the loop for many lunches to come. That's OK though, because instead I can make sure that the Sense song coming out of my laptop speakers right now is accurately being represented as the 4,714th song I have listened to since installing last's Audioscrobbler plugin a few months ago.

Good, it is. "Elran" has been listened to by 52 other people recently. Suprisingly, this only represents 3.3% of total Sense listeners. I did not know that his real name is Adam M. Raisbeck.

I've noticed that since a public record of my listening statistics has been made available, I find myself almost obsessively trying to avoid faux pas like playing the same song back to back or listening to Saves the Day. Glancing at last week's Weekly Top Artists shows that I failed to avoid at least one of those. I can't make any promises though about the twice-in-a-row thing.

The recommendations component of the site has yet to win me over, though. Right now, several of the bands last.fm has recommended for me are on old mix CDs I made in 1999 or have since recently broken up (get up kids, the anniversary, further seems forever, the unicorns) or have really lame names that do not interest me at this moment in time (oktober skyline, clem snide a.k.a CMJ buzz band '03, blame game). I really hope it's not me and my personal tastes that are dropping the ball in the recommendations department. How embarassing if that is the case!

Man, Adam's top 10 has been compiled. I see he's listened to the new Prefuse about one and a half times this week. And some Jason Molina, which I can only assume he puts on before bed. If I'm wrong, maybe I should be paying better attention to someone else's stats other than my own. Right.

...page france is the new jim guthrie...

...mining accidents are the new footballers rage...says bbc

...pravda admits yushenko's near-death experience not related...

wired magazine has a cover of einstein's head on a robot...

i read in the watchmen a quote exclaiming he would have rather been a watchmaker...



...christianity is the new black!

Baseball The most important part is at the bottom under 'Runs and Records'. This mother fucker is doing it without the steroids! Sorry for the profanity and subsequent exclamation.