Unexpected

I got a totally unexpected phone call today. Chris, a friend of mine since the 8th grade who I haven't seen since 2005 called to let me know he will be in town this weekend to attend a series of workshops. While he will be MIA Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we plan to get together early next week to catch up. Methinks he needs to be introduced to Thai Hummus.

What is even more of a shock than the sudden phone call, was the fact that he moved from New York City to an Albuquerque suburb. Seppy is the only other reader of this blog that can appreciate this revelation. Chris always denounced suburbia. He is now happier than he has ever been. Go figure.

Speaking of Seppy...

So the weather has been wonderful this past week. With that, the ladies make their bodies known leaving not a whole lot to the imagination. Now, before I say anymore and risk mutillation by way of Kristin's fury, I will get to the point. With the ladies out the way they are, it is a single man's dream. So Mike, please tell me why it is you are not here???

Lastly, I just though I would point out that the Dave Matthews Band and Maroon 5 are the most irritating, pretentious bands there ever were. Prove me wrong...

One Little Victory

Occasionally, the female throws me a bone without asking questions. Due to my persistent reminders, I have taken on the soubriquet "Way Cool, Jr." I even got my sister in law in Florida to address me as such.

For frequent readers of this blog, only Mike knows where I got the name. I will enlighten the rest of you to Ratt's song about me:

A song for every person

With Valentine's day tomorrow, it seems appropriate to put some sort of romantic, mushy love song in what I hope is the re-emergence of my weekly anthems. However, not everybody is as fortunate as I am, and many are alone. Well, there is a song for everyone as it turns out. Since I will never post love songs on this blog for anthems, I will post a few this week. So here ya go:

Do you have a massive crush on someone, but are too shy to ask him/her out. Well, Lionel Richie has that covered with "Hello":



Did you just realize that you may love the one you're with? Whitesnake understands in their song "Is This Love?"



Do you have that special relationship where you and your significant other love hinging to eachother? There are two songs for you. Lionel Richie (yes, again. I have been on a Lionel Richie kick lately) did one of the most popular duets with a then 243 year old Diana Ross called "Endless Love". Since I can't abide Diana Ross, I am putting a video he did with a much better British singer on some limey TV show:



Perhaps you are single and loving it. Perhaps you believe you can love yourself in a way no one else is capable of. Nothing wrong with that. Here is a song Billy Conolly wrote for you all:



Whatever your situation, I hope you have a happy Valentine's day. As for the wife and I...we don't celebrate it. It is almost as stupid as Halloween, but I won't stop you all from having fun.

Death To All But \m/

Before I begin, I would like to say to all you Obama lovers that I told you so. I understand you all love the cult of personality that singularly defines him rather than the man himself (you must - he hasn't actually done anything substantive in his political life, afterall), and I am glad you had your fun. You gave him what he wanted more than anything: power. Before I say more, I would like to point out that I haven't said word one about the guy since he took office because I wanted to see what he would do. Tonight, he explained to the public on prime time television how he is going to destroy our economy. I sincerely hope this "stimulus" thing does not pass a senate vote. He wants to spend all these hundreds of billions of dollars to create jobs. Ok...where is that money coming from? It can't come from the taxpayer...that money has been spent by our last administration in a wave of mismanagement and a different series of bailouts and stimuli. This money is obviously coming from nowhere. Near as I can tell, this money will come from nowhere and guess who gets to pick up the tab? Us. All of us. After everyone has jobs (if they have jobs), we will all have our taxes raised to pay for it. One thing to always remember is that Democrats believe 100% of the money you make is theirs. They just let you keep some of it.

Republicans are not much better. They believe that your money is yours, but you should let the government keep some of it. Too much of it if you ask me.

I can also say that the president is a bald-faced liar. He said there was no pork in his "stimulus" bill. Hmmm. Well, I suppose that when some of your allocations (in the $100's of millions) go to create a total of three (3) jobs, that can't possibly be pork. I mean, you can't put a price on someone being able to work and provide for their family, right? Lie number two came when he said that most of the money would be going to the private sector. He then went on to quantify that by including road, bridge, and levee construction/repair. There are a couple things wrong with his assessment. First off, when the government subsidises a private industry, said industry is no longer private. Public money makes it said company public. Secondly (and really to piggy-back on the last point) if you are a contractor doing work for the government on behalf of a "private" company for the government, you are essentially an employee (slave if you ask me) of the government.

Anyway, after tonight, I know my "Buck Farack" t-shirt line should sell well. I need to patent the line, methinks. A lot of people are pissed. Good job, Mr. President! You managed to screw up even quicker than Bush did. Less than a month must be some kind of record!

Moving on to other subjects, I finally watched the Rainn Wilson movie, "The Rocker". I have miced feelings about the movie. On one hand, it was about never being too old to live out the rock star fantasy, but on the other hand, it tried to make being in a ghey emo(ish) band cool. It is worth checking out. Jason Sudeikis' character was classic. The movie did make me really miss the bygone days where it was okay to write songs about whatever (love, having fun, being the second person in your family being named "Way Cool"). Nowadays, rock music almost has to be made about cutting (ie ADD from the movie) or some depressing crap like that to be marketable.

Then, hope in music is restored...

Every now and again I stumble upon a rock and/or roll gem. Tonight as I was driving home, I actually wondered what was on the radio. In a surprise that just about caused an accident, KUPD had a band called Steel Panther. They are relatively new. I believe they used to go by the name "Metal Skool". Before I post this video (which is not the song "Death to all but Metal". Look it up for yourself.), I would like to say that his band is a comedy act, but they do clearly love the genre they play. Their subject matter is about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Well, not the drugs so much. And only sometimes rock and roll. Hmm. I will let you decide. This week's tune (not for people who are not comfortable with adult language) is called "Fat Girl (Thar She Blows)". It is clearly influenced by Whitesnake. Enjoy it!

They are who we thought they were...

...and we let 'em off the hook. Crown them if you will. Savor the flavor, Pittsburg fans - even though your team barely won (as it was looking like AZ would have done), a "W" is a "W".

Both teams played an amazing game. As a fan of football, it had all the "edge of your seats" content that makes the game so great. Though I am not at all happy that the Steelers won the game, I am proud of how the Cardinals performed. Pittsburg had to earn this win. Many Cardinal nay-sayers thought it would be no contest. Well, at least that ridiculous notion was put to rest.

That being said, I am also disappointed in how the Cardinals represented themselves in the penalty category. This cost them the game. Not until late in the game did they finally stop, but by then, the Steelers had too many points on the board. The game was low on turnovers, but the turnovers the Cardinals did allow resulted in a Steeler defensive touchdown and of course ending the game altogether.

As I lament the loss of the Cardinals, I will have to find silver lining in the fact that they are the best team in the NFC, they made it to the Superbowl, and they have proven themselves as worthy adversaries to the NFL's "toughest defense". The Cardinals are still my boys, and I look forward to an excellent 2009 season with them. They have surpassed my wildest expectations (and I think everybody's) this year.