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Guitarist attempts an epic guitar swing…and fails

2012-01-26T16:45:00.000-06:00

This is hilarious!

Warning: Turn your speakers down.

Mitt and Paul: Cagematch!

2012-01-26T15:54:00.001-06:00

I realize this post will come off as a bit hypocritical, but I really needed to get this off of my chest.

Also, this post is NOT directed at any one person. One look at my timeline and you will understand.

Why, oh why, do people feel the need to air their personal political and religious views? Why do people spend time and energy telling others who they are going to vote for and why?

Why do people feel like their political view is going to make me change mine?

If you go back to your Facebook posts from 4 years ago, you will probably see the exact same crap that is floating around as there is now. How this person is the antichrist and this person is the savior...How God wants this person to be President, and Satan wants this person to be President.

If baffles me to think that anyone gives a flying shit. The only people who are going to respond to you are the people you are calling batshit crazy yourself! Do you REALLY think that the person in charge of this country should have upstanding christian values? Last time I checked, we have about 100+ different religions in this country, and the President has to represent them all.

This is what really gets me: Has ONE person, in the history of time, ever changed their political view because someone else told them to? Do people who stand on the proverbial rooftops EVER sway another person?

If you fill my timeline with neverending swill, all that will do is make me want to listen to you LESS.

Ok, rant over. My point is that politics and religion are PERSONAL and should be kept so. The louder you are about those views, the less normal people are going to listen. Please continue calling Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity....I don't have to listen to them. All I want to be is left alone when it comes to politics and religion.

What if The Beatles had been Irish

2012-01-23T09:53:00.000-06:00

What if The Beatles had been Irish:

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2012-01-20T08:25:00.003-06:00

Flashback to 1990, if you will. I believe I was a sophomore in high school. The Stars hadn't moved to Dallas yet, so I hadn't started my hockey phase...so my friends and I had other things to do to occupy our time. ONe of our past times was to make sketch comedy videos. We thought we were hilarious. Sometimes we were, most of the time, we were not.

One of the reasons we wanted to do sketch comedy so bad was because we had discovered, deep in the night on HBO, this obsecure Canadian troupe called Kids in the Hall. I am sure that there are some of you out there who have heard of them, but I am still surprised that people have no idea who they are. It was a group of 5 guys who started being funny, and didn't stop. Probably the most well known of the group would be Dave Foley, who starred in the sitcom NewsRadio and was the main ant in Pixar's A Bug's Life.

We LOVED these guys. Watching KITH was a can't miss opportunity, even if it came on at midnight on Saturday. They epitomized everything we wanted to be as a sketch comedy group. I have fond memories of gathering around my friend's TV (he was the only one with HBO) and breathlessly waiting for our Kids to make us laugh.

Flash forward to 2012. With the new onset of digital streaming devices, we now have a Logitech Revue with GoogleTV in the bedroom. This allows me to watch Netflix streaming, which gives access to an endless amount of entertainment. This includes access to every single Kids in the Hall episode made. So, as the days go by, I have been progressing at a clip about one episode per day. I just started season 3.

I still have my favorites:

The Eradicator

Sarcasm

You Need a Mortician!

Having said that, I do need to get to the overall point of this post: There were some PHENOMENALLY bad sketches mixed in. Stuff that would make you scratch your head and wonder how an idea like that ever got legs, let alone make it on the show. It wasn't just unfunny...it was uncomfortable with how bad it was. Weird thing is, I don't remember it at all. The good sketches tend to stick with you, and I guess you just forget about the bad ones. If you have Netflix, watch pretty much any episode from Season 2 and you will see what I am talking about. The shows were downright terrible. I guess they can't all be hits, but I was surprised at how bad most of the sketches were. I think it gets better...maybe they just had a sophomore slump they had to break out of. Writing and performing a weekly sketch comedy show can be incredibly taxing, and maybe that just caught up with them.

And if you were wondering, my favorite has always been Kevin McDonald. I wish he had gone on to do better things. I loved him.

Largest star ever discovered, compared to our Sun

2012-01-19T08:15:00.000-06:00

Ok, this kind of stuff makes my head hurt. Not because it is hard to understand, but because the scale of the universe is beyond what any person can comprehend.

I have this great discussion point I like to bring up with people because it gives me insight into their thought processes, so I will present it to you.

Imagine that the Earth was exactly the same. Same weather, same development, same continents, same everything...but it was the size of Jupiter. Would we have ever discovered other continents? How many satellites would it take to communicate around the world? How long would it take to fly to London? Weeks? Months? Would Columbus have ever even left land?

I love hypotheticals like this, because it really makes you think about scenarios and how things could be. Our Earth is SO huge, yet it is cosmically tiny. How could there not be life out there?

Worst Mom of the Year Toddlers And Tiaras star Alana Holler for a dollar

2012-01-17T08:44:00.000-06:00

This just makes me sad. These people do not realize that the whole world is making fun of them by being on this show. This poor girl has no idea how this video will haunt her for the rest of her life.

Sh*t Nobody Says

2012-01-11T11:26:00.000-06:00

This really made me laugh. There is one I would have to disagree with...

The "mmm...Captain D's". I say that ALL THE TIME. I love Captain D's. I used to look forward to going to the dentist because there was a Captain D's next door. I grew up down the street from a Captain D's, and it was the best. There are only a couple left in the metroplex, but I take advantage of being around them as much as possible.

Holy Crap!

2012-01-05T12:15:00.001-06:00

Jazz band uses an idling tractor engine for percussion

2012-01-02T11:02:00.000-06:00

Jazz band uses an idling tractor engine for percussion:

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So You Think You Can Stone Me and Spit In My Eye?

2011-12-29T11:24:00.000-06:00

So You Think You Can Stone Me and Spit In My Eye?:

Yep, this pretty much sums it up for me!

Comic by: Unknown

You can always depend on the kindness of strangers...

2011-12-22T16:43:00.002-06:00

Just got back from taking the ExplosiveDaughter and her best friend to the railroad tracks behind our house, hoping for some old fashioned fun "squishing pennies". We placed the pennies on the tracks, and waited. And Waited. And Waited...still nothing.

What was great about the situation is that a very nice guy from the adjoining plant pulled up in his truck and asked if we were broken down and needed some help. I told him what we were doing, and he smiled and told us to be careful.

It is nice to be reminded every once in a while that there are really, really nice people out there who still care that other people are helped if needed. I won't know who he is, but I certainly appreciate how willing he was to help take care of some people who might have been in need.

Watch the first minute...

2011-12-19T13:43:00.000-06:00

Hulu - Community: Regional Holiday Music - Watch the full episode now.

2011-12-14T09:06:00.000-06:00

Hulu - Community: Regional Holiday Music - Watch the full episode now.

If you like Glee, you really should watch the latest episode of Community. Then watch all of the other episodes of Community. They are worth it.

Cowboys Giants, Dec 11, 2011

2011-12-13T12:07:00.000-06:00

I had the distinct non-pleasure of attending the SNF game in Arlington, TX.

The Cowboys have now provided me with not one, not two, but three "once in a lifetime" losses that are somewhat akin to a rapidly moving foot to the groin.

Jets? Check.
Lions? Check.
Up by 12 with 5 to play against the Giants for a 2 game lead in the NFC East and lose? Check.

Grindy observations from the experience:

The "line" to get in. It really wasn't a line.

Me and T-Rex

Getting into the stadium took almost as long as the game itself. Horrible, horrible experience. Luckily, it wasn't too cold or raining. Not a very good system to get 95k people into that place.
Seats were very high up, but they weren't bad at all.
In the last row, there were about 10 Giants fans who were wearing Giants jerseys and Zubaz. Poor fashion choice...it looked like they had all lost a bet.
I sat next to an absolutely crazy person. Pretty sure she was a lesbian. When Dez Bryant scored in the 4th quarter, I raised my arms over my head and she started punching me in the gut like I was a slab of beef and she was Rocky.
Do not misconstrue what I am saying: I had a blast. She was fun. Just crazy.
I mean this with no disrespect, just a question. Do lesbians wear the wrist brace as some sort of code? I have seen too many of them wearing one to think that it is a coincidence. Help?
I participated in something I am ashamed of. If you know me, you know that I strongly believe in the karmic circle. What goes around comes around. If you f*ck with karma, it will get you right back. In the 4th quarter, the Giants fans referenced above decided to leave, and the whole section (myself included), taunted them and waved bye. The Cowboys proceeded to immediately lose the game. I hate myself.
Traffic was bad. And not in a "Wow, this is bad traffic" kind of way. There was no visible police presence to direct traffic and pedestrians. It was impossible to get anywhere. I know that it is tough getting 100k people out of one place, but I would have thought the police presence would have been much, much greater.
Cowboys fans suck. They are boring and lazy. But, I blame the video board for almost all of it. It is too easy to be suckered into just watching that and forgetting you are at the game. I couldn't talk the next day, and we were 15 rows from the top.
I have become convinced that Jerry Jones sold his soul to the devil for those three Super Bowl rings. I think he just missed the fine print that said he would never win another one.

Thanks to my buddy Travis for taking me, and his vendor for getting us the tickets.

S**t Girls Say

2011-12-13T11:21:00.000-06:00

S**t Girls Say:

I found this to be quite entertaining....

RG3 The Dude has personality!!

2011-12-13T10:37:00.001-06:00

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Siskel and Ebert’s original reviews of 4 classic Christmas movies

2011-12-08T12:14:00.001-06:00

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Ad libbed stylings of a revolutionary voiceover artist

2011-10-17T12:29:00.001-05:00

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Camera ball takes a panoramic image with 36 cameras when you throw it

2011-10-17T10:05:00.001-05:00

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Grinding Away....

2011-09-19T08:56:00.001-05:00

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Went to lunch at Bobby V's yesterday. There was a large contingent of football fans, including one insufferable table of Packers' fans. Well, the table wasn't the problem, just one guy at the table. Every 5 yeard gain by the Panthers was the end of the season for Green Bay. Every completion was equal to winning the Super Bowl. There was a group of Steelers' fans at the back of the restaurant that would, as expected, cheer when the Steelers did something well. The Packers guy would jump up, hold up a one and a three, and yell (at the top of his lungs), "THIRTEEN!!!", which is apparently how many championships the Packers have won.

He would walk up to the TV every time something happened, almost like he wanted to fight the television. It was supremely annoying until we realized we should just sit back and enjoy the show. He gave us years of material to laugh about, because he was truly insane. It was also good because it gave my wife some perspective as to how there are people out there who are much crazier than I am.

Some grind-y thoughts:

Bobby V's has the best cheese sticks I have ever had. Seriously, they are worth the trip. It is off of 20 and Bowen in Arlington.
Bobby V's is a great place for a sports fan. A ton of memorabilia, cool magazine covers on the walls, etc...but it is a little dated. They probably need to renovate, but I am sure that is expensive.
I wonder if Bobby Valentine even has anything to do with that place anymore.
The place was obviously retrofitted with televisions, as they seem like they were crammed into every corner they could find.
Watched the movie Paul with Simon Pegg and Seth Rogen. Not funny. Not even a little. I was disappointed.
Who wants to get rid of Tony Romo now? Think Kitna would have made that pass to Holley?
Speaking of which, Jesse Holley is supremely lucky he didn't fumble that ball. That would have been Roy Williams-esque, wouldn't it?
Some great videos I found on YouTube called "Classic Albums". Watch this one and you will be hooked. Butch Vig discusses recording "Nevermind" with Nirvana, and has certain tracks isolated so you can hear the different dynamics that went into recording that record. Great, great stuff.
I am trying to grow my hair out. I figure that at some point, my hair is going to fall out, so I am going to take one last run at this. Who knows if it will work, but my hair looks like crap right now.

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Must-watch reckless driving PSA with a twist ending

2011-09-13T12:41:00.001-05:00

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You have to watch this...truly great!

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Amazon's ridiculous packing methods...

2011-09-12T16:16:00.001-05:00

If you have ever ordered anything from Amazon.com, you probably know that they aren't exactly judicious in how they attempt to save packing material. I have recieved some doozys before, but today's took the cake.

I ordered a new umpiring chest protector last week. It showed up on my doorstep.

I have included a shoe to show scale. I wear about a size 10.

Silly, right?

I open it up, and this is what I see:

I honestly couldn't believe that they had sent me this huge box for something that could have been easily rolled up into a small box. I am sure that they have been called to the carpet many times for this one, but I just can't seem to understand why they continue to do it!

For comparison, this is the chest protector on top of the box, to show wasted space.

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A country legend

2011-09-03T09:58:00.001-05:00

Right around the time my wife and I got married, she started mentioning to me that she has always loved country music legend Steve Wariner. Honestly, I had never heard of the guy, but she had a very deep and very long-standing love of his music. Turns out, I knew a few of his songs, but only by proxy. I can't stand country music, so that didn't surprise me.

Well, through the magic of the internet, we found out that good ol' boy Steve was playing at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, OK. We bought our tickets, and went last night.

That dude is GOOD.

Sure, his songs are super sappy. Imagine all of the bad poems you tried to write when you were a kid....cheesy rhymes, drippy love notes, all of that...but somehow, he takes those cheesy-ass lyrics and turns them into a great, great song. Plus, he can play the hell out of a guitar. He had a very simple setup: him, a bass player (who played a gorgeous 5-string Fender), a drummer and a piano/keyboardist. It is hard to enjoy a concert when you only know 3-4 of the songs, but he definitely made it very fun. He told a lot of stories, which really made it interesting.

One story he told I thought was great. He recalled writing and recording a song in 1977 on his very first album, and it didn't do anything. In 2006, he pitched the same song to the guys at Capitol records, and they said, "Hey! You should record that!". So he didn't say anything, re-recorded the song, and it was a big hit. I love stuff like that.

Overall, we had a wonderful time and we definitely got to cross a major item off of my wife's bucket list. She jumped up, screaming and clapping for every single song. I really don't recall seeing her enjoy herself as much as she did. The best part was that the tickets were only $25 and we got to sit 5th row. Watching a concert from that close is great no matter who you are seeing, so I know that she had the time of her life.

On a side note, I have a few "sarcastic bastard" observations that I would like to share:

Why in God's name would you go to a concert, and spend the ENTIRE show watching it through your iPhone's screen? Put the effing camera down and enjoy the performance. Your crappy pictures aren't going to be worth anything anyway. (The pictures above were the only two that I took the whole show, smartass).
I sat next to a gaggle of drunk hens. They were not fun. They would sing the chorus of the song (I have no problem with that), but after singing, they would immediately start talking to one another, loudly. They also smelled like whiskey. Pretty sure that had something to do with the talking. They weren't rude, but they WOULDN'T SHUT UP!
If you are going to take pictures at a concert with your normal camera, here is a tip. Your flash doesn't do you any good unless you are less than 10-15 feet from the subject. Most flashes in regular cameras aren't going to do anything but illuminate the heads in front of you, so turn it off. Especially that stupid red-eye reduction. If you don't know how to turn off your flash, learn. It will make your concert pictures much better, and the people in the audience will thank you because you don't have to see a million flashes every time you want a picture. Same thing goes for sporting events. Your flash isn't going to illuminate Tony Romo from 800 feet. It is just simple physics.
Choctaw's concert hall is very small, very intimate. There were probably only 600-700 people there, which made it even more fun. If you have a chance to see a concert there, you won't regret it because the worst seat in the house is better than the best seat anywhere else.
Steve Wariner looks like Wade Phillips, if he lost about 75 pounds.

Selfless act of the year?

2011-08-29T11:18:00.001-05:00

Wow...this is incredible. I bet that was a hard decision to make.

School superintendent gives up $800,000 in pay

August 29th, 2011 | Author: Geeding

Some people give back to their community. Then there’s Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who’s really giving back. As in $800,000 — what would have been his compensation for the next three years.

Until his term expires in 2015, Powell will run 325 schools and 35 school districts with 195,000 students, all for less than a starting California teacher earns.

“How much do we need to keep accumulating?” asks Powell, 63. “There’s no reason for me to keep stockpiling money.”

Powell’s generosity is more than just a gesture in a region with some of the nation’s highest rates of unemployment. As he prepares for retirement, he wants to ensure that his pet projects survive California budget cuts. And the man who started his career as a high school civics teacher, who has made anti-bullying his mission, hopes his act of generosity will help restore faith in the government he once taught students to respect.

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U2 > A Fan Joins The Band > U2 360° Tour 2011

2011-07-06T10:48:00.001-05:00

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This is pretty sweet. Bono brings a blind fan up on stage to play a song with U2, and lets him keep the guitar afterwards.

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