Get It? Your-Anus!

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I got to meet up with my brother and his wife at my parents house in Tucson, AZ for the holiday festivities. We watched some football, some movies, and went to Tombstone, AZ to see a reanactment of the shootout at the O.K. Corral. It was a little cheesy, but whatever. One of the nights we drove out to this place called Kit Peak. It's a mountain peak out in the dessert on an Indian reservation that is home to a bunch of those high-tech telescopes. We got a tour of a the place and got to look out of one of them. One of the things we looked at was the planet Uranus. Makes me wish they had t-shirts at the gift shop that say, "I saw Uranus at Kit Peak" Shit, I'd buy it!

The picture is a scorpion we found in my parents' kitchen sink. We saw one out on the patio too.

On The Eighth Day...

I call it, Creation of Oranda

New Flava from New Flavamakers

Here is a goodie I found on my WXRT sampler CD. This band, The Redwalls, is made up of four Chicago boys who are suprisingly younger than I am. "Build A Bridge" was released on their second album "De Nova" which was released just this summer. If you're trying to find out what to get me for Christmas I have it on my amazon.com wish list.
*wink wink*

The Redwalls - Build A Bridge

Mount Twoohonemore

Glorious

There Were Nine Innings in the Ballgame!

I've been meaning to write a post to finish off the baseball season, but I've been putting it off for some time. Especially seeing as how even the post-season is over and my precious Cubbies ended their season a month ago, I'm definitely a little late. This year I made it to only 10 games while my goal was 15. Regardless, 10 is pretty awesome. I would have gone to more, but with the combination of an ENORMOUS eye doctor bill and a horribly dissapointing Cubs team I passed on a few chances towards the end of the season.

At the beginning of the season, I honestly was pretty confident about their chances this year. However, it just didn't happen because of injured (as usual) pitching, Derrek Lee's broken wrist, and inconsistent playing by the rest of the team, they ended the season absolutely horribly. On top of that all, they traded away Todd Walker and Greg Maddux. Todd wasn't the best defensive player, but still had one of the best bats on the team not to mention a great attitude.

As for Greg, well this one hurt. He is my favorite all time Cub and we just let him go not just once, but twice in his career. I feel he's given the Cubs organization a lot with his great arm, great mental skill, and even greater team oriented and humble personality. In return, the Cubs let him go not once, but twice in his career. News of his trade to the Dodgers made me feel awful, like someone just ran over my dog. On behalf of Cubs fans everywhere Greg Maddux, I'm sorry, and we love you.

In 2004 the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. It was the mentality that they were our friends in the other league. They had the other historic ballpark, and the other world series curse just like us. However that year they won it all and Cubs fans were happy for them, because we felt their pain of a long World Series drought. However, our friends in dissapointment had made it, and we were left alone.

In 2005 the Chicago White Sox won it all. Our cross-town rivals. At first, I was happy for them until I realized that many Sox fans here in Chicago seemed to be more excited that the Cubs didn't win, as oppposed to the Sox winning. Like I said, at first I was happy for them, but now I hate them, and I hate Ozzie Guillen for talking shit about Wrigley.

Now, in 2006 the S. Louis Cardinals won. Our biggest rival, in one of the oldest rivalries in professional sports. Cardinals fans hate the Cubs and take every opportunity to rub their sucess in our face. Fuck them too.

It's a dark dark time to be a Cubs fan, but I'm still here, and I still hope to be at my sanctuary on opening day April 9th, 2007. In order to be a true Cubs fan, you need a bad short-term memory.

The Gods of Music are Angry

Dear Fergie,

You fucking suck. I heard a sample of your song "Fergilicious" and it is revolting. You remind me of Gillete (see side picture) the exception being Gillette is hilarious, and you're not. Also, the fact that this song is #3 on iTunes Top Songs makes me lose all hope in humanity. You fucking suck.

Love,
Brad