Pennant Fever

So when the blog template got messed up I lost a bit of motivation.  However, I'm going to try and be better with posting and hopefully fixing up the template.  Moving on now...

Tonight the Cubs beat the Phillies in the bottom of the ninth with a stolen home plate to win the game 5-4.  Nearly just as important the Mets beat the Brewers 8-5.  This puts the Cubs tied for the division with the Brewers, and gives millions of Cubs fans something we often never have in August.  Hope.

 After the game a lot of people, myself included stood inside the ballpark waiting for them to raise the "W" flag and change the pennants to put the Cubs at the top of the NL Central.  That's it on the left, except now the blue Cubs pennant sits at the peak.  Let's do it again tomorrow!

The Hell?

My blog template got all screwed up somehow.  Unfortunately its gonna have to look like this for a few days until I find the motivation to fix it.

Motivation has been pretty scarce for me lately for a lot of things.

Let's Go Crazy

There's this dude in my neighborhood whom I have now seen twice walking down the street, get this...backwards.  The first time I saw him he had a bicycle tire hanging from his left elbow and in his right hand was a smooth gray stone that had written on it the roman numeral 3.  I have no idea what his story is, but I'm incredible curious.  As a bonus to his crazy creditials, he looked suspiciously like Prince.

5 Beer Rating?

There's this store I like to go to, I guess its a liquor store, but whatever.  I like going there and buying a 6-pack of something I've never had before. It's a risk, but its also an adventure. Most of the time I'm happy with my purchase. Every once in a while I get something I don't dig too much, but its good enough for me to finish off the 6-pack. At my last visit I overheard the following conversation;

Customer: Blue Moon is made in Belgium right?
Employee: That garbage is made in Canada.

Yeah, if you want a belgian style wheat ale pick up Hoegarrden. Hands down better.

Dome Piece

I've always wondered why, when a bottle of shampoo + conditioner is the same price as a bottle of just shampoo or just conditioner, anyone would not buy the shampoo + conditioner?  How can you go wrong?  They're both obviously good for your hair so why skip out on one?

Life is full of perplexing questions.

Knuckleheads

For several days I found myself in the dark cave that is life without the internet.  My computer decided to get all Terry Schiavo on me, and instead of trying to fix a problem I imagine I could fix with enough time I just went ahead and dropped a bucket of cash on a sexy new machine.  Don't think of it as a thoughtless spending splurge, my old computer was purchased in May of 2001 so it was time for a new unit.

I'm diggin' all 20 inches of this widescreen.

Album Reviews

I've bought a few new albums recently. Here are my brief reviews.

Jonah Smith, Jonah Smith: Awesome first major release.
So Much More, Brett Dennen: Thumbs down
Awake Is The New Sleep, Ben Lee: Thumbs downer
Pick A Bigger Weapon, The Coup: A gamble purchase, has a couple hot tracks.
The Stranger, Billy Joel: Cornhole Rockin!
Fear of Music, Talking Heads: Dudes are strange, but its growing on me.

And Wilco's new album Sky Blue Sky is on its way via UPS.

Turkey Gives Me Gas

So apparently on May 15th nobody is supposed to purchase gas. This ridiculous and pointless gesture is some people's way of stickin' it to Big Oil. That shouldn't be a problem for me. I haven't bought gas in almost a year and half.

If you want to stick it to the oil companies then buy a Hybrid car.

Bitches Ain't Shit

So there's this commercial I keep seeing on TV for "What Will It Take" which is some kind of Chicago organization that's trying to end abuse of women. In this commercial they go from person to person going over what it will take to end the abuse. One guy, with his kid on his lap says, "teaching my son that a woman will never be called bitch." Whuh?! Did they just say that on TV? Apparently so.

On My Voicemail...

"...(pause)...(pause)...chiiiicks with diiiiiicks" (hangs up)
-Charlie